Some things I am (currently and forever) obsessed with/addicted to :

(No surprise.) Having my nails polished. I’ve said this once before. I always have nail polish on my fingernails and toenails. I either wear a color or a nail strengthener. Type of colors I mainly wear: blues, purples, nudes, sheer pinky whites, pinky-corals, greens, and grays.
I am also very picky with how my polish looks. When I do have another nail tech polish my nails, I point out spots they missed. I know it annoys them, but that just how I am. A pet peeve is when the second coat goes on and there’s like a dip (where you can see my natural nail) near the cuticle from the brush being brushed on too hard. That’s a reason why I like to wear three coats most of the time. I like my nails to be completely covered..cleanly, of course. >:)
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YouTube Videos. I’m pretty much on Youtube everyday. I mainly watch videos of people singing (people doing cover songs), dancing, artist’s live performance (to see how good they really are), video game gameplay (to cheat =X or to preview a game before I purchase), and makeup gurus. I love reading the comments too. Some people can be very ridiculous and some people are just right on.

My fav Youtubers with a video I like»

Music»
Erin Paula – Shontelle “Impossible” Cover

Erika David – Katy Perry “Thinkin’ Of You” Cover & Beyonce “EGO” Cover

Roxanne – Musiq Soulchild “Don’t Change” Cover

Jayne – Alicia Keys “Unthinkable” ft Summerbreeze Acoustic Cover. This is one of my favorite covers. I actually like this better than the original (and I hardly ever say that). Sorry Keys. :P

Marie Digby – “Feel” Live in Studio & Love with a Stranger. These songs are originals of hers. (I think mixed babies/people are so pretty. She’s half Japanese and Irish.)
All of her cover songs are great. She really makes them her own:
Britney Spears “Gimme More” Cover
Lady Gaga “Telephone” Cover

Esmee Denters – Showcase: “Admit it”, “Love Dealer”, Just Can’t Have It”, “Outta Here”. She’s a YouTube star, signed under Justin Timberlake. In this video, Jayne (mentioned above) is a back up singer. Her voice is so unique to me.

Beauty Gurus»

My favorite is Pixiwoo. Sisters, Samantha & Nicola. Both professional makeup artists with 15+ years of experience.
Pixiwoo has a personal Youtube channel as well: PixiwooMadness
Nicola:
Deep Purple New Years Party Look
Raquel Welsh makeup
Summer Evening Smokey Purple
Summer Pastel
Drag Queen Makeup

Samantha:
Dark Glossy Eyes
Modern Gothic
Beth Ditto ‘creative liner’
Ramble Ramble love this video. Watch it. I think every woman/lady/girl should watch this.
Simple Makeup really cool false lashes

Ma-chin/binosusume. Really great hair tutorials, mainly up-dos: Hair Bow

Queenie Chan. So pretty. I mainly watch her for her travelling, beauty treatments, eating, and shopping. She has some good makeup ones too. She’s just really entertaining to me, even though I don’t understand what she is saying. She has English text though. She has a lot going on: artist, beauty guru, flight attendant, model, tv presenter, beauty columnist, cookbook writer…I also like seeing her culture. I believe she lives in Hong Kong. I would love to go there…

AsianCookingMadeEasy. Learn to make Chinese & Chinese-American dishes. Fortune cookies, Har Gow (dim sum), Pork Buns, etc. I’ve tried the Honey Walnut Shrimp. I did a post about it before. Yummy!

TranCanCook. Learn to make Vietnamese dishes!! Yummy. I’m happy about this channel. I watched my dad cook all the time when I was young, but I never re-created the dishes myself. I hope they make alot of videos. Lol.
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Games. This makes me a real dork. I love playing the flash games on fb. Which ones are those? Playfish: Country Story, Hotel City, Restaurant City, and My Empire. And Zip Zap: Baking Life (a new one, which I’m loving). I can’t help it. I love the decorating/designing.

And I’m forever a gamer. Rented Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. I will have to purchase that one. I also want the Zelda: Spirit Tracks for DS. I saw on YouTube that the new Legend Zelda: Skyward Sword for Wii will be coming out in 2011. I think the graphics are phony for the Wii because Zelda: Twilight Princess were amazing for Zelda. TPrincess was more dark and mysterious. SSword will be more cartoony/colorful like how Spirit Tracks and Phantom of the Hourglass (DS). I still want it though. I love Zelda.

I’m always playing a game. (I have too much free time :X). I play my fb games everyday. And when I go to bed, I’m on my phone playing puzzles. Pathetic!!
I think I have a problem.
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My skin. I don’t miss a day and night without cleansing my face. I have to wash my face every morning and night or else I’ll just feel soo dirty. I carry oil-blotting papers with me all the time during the day if I go anywhere. I hate that my t-zone areas are so oily. My skin produces excessive sebum, causing mainly my nose to be covered in comedones (learned that in school :P). Comedones is the technical term for blackheads/whiteheads. I saw a video from BeautyQQ (Youtube) where she gets hers lasered off. Queenie has gorgeous skin! When I’m back on my feet again with work, I would consider getting that done. Whiteheads are a huge and forever struggle of mine. The only way I can get rid of them is by extracting them myself after a steamy shower. I believe I will always have this problem because my face produces too much sebum/oil. *sigh. If I get the surgery, I will be sure to let ya guys know.
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Well, that’s all for now.

Finally, a new update!

^^ Sorry peeps. My blog has been down and I’ve been busy with the kids (my doggies), visiting back home to Michigan, school, games, and laziness. Ha.

Taking some time off of school. Thought I visit MI to see everyone and everything I missed, including food. :P

First thing I did when I got off the plane was visit one of my ex-co-worker/friend. It was her son’s birthday. My friend got me chopping up veggies & herbs for her. Lol. I got to eat some home cooked Asian food for once.

Noodles, pork meat, pork intestines (I think, not really my favorite, but I ate it), thai basil, cilantro, pork blood cubes, curry sauce/soap. It was sooo good.

I worked at my old job to help out for Memorial weekend and prom season. Yes, I worked on my vacation. Might as well, because almost everyone I wanted to visit does nails, so I either wait for ten hours for them to get off work, or I make myself useful.
It was real nice to see my old clients. ^^ They’re the best. It just so happens that my old client, Heather came without knowing I was there. I always hook her up with craziness. She got a pedicure with flowers on the two big toes, like the ones I did a tutorial for on here. And she got an acrylic fill with designs on all ten.

Saw Sex and the City 2 while I was up there. It didn’t wow me much. The first movie was better. Shoo…the television series are wayyy better. I highly recommend getting the dvds of all six seasons.

Stayed with one of my bffs the whole time I was there. Alex has a cat that’s as big as my older dog, Cooper. Twelve pounds. That cat scares me a little. Lol. When you’re wearing jeans, he thinks your leg is a scratching post. He nailed me one time with his claws. I bled a little. My friend later clipped the nails. Lol. He’s scary, but still real cute. He’s all gray so his name is Серый  (sye-riy). Means gray in Russian.

He’s cute, but I’m still a dog person. :P

Went to DEMF: Detroit Electronic Music Festival. It was fun. Alot of people were there. The music was good, but not great. Maybe I went on the wrong day/night. Lol. It was cool seeing people in their outfits. Saw lots of girls in like clubby-raverish-gothic-harajuku outfits. Some were really cute. I would have worn it if I was like thirty pounds lighter. Wish I would have taken more pictures. Saw some old friends that I went to elementary thru high school with in Hazel Park.
There were like four-five major stages. Pictures are with my roomies when I was up there. Alex and her hubby, Andrei.

I miss the restaurants in MI. First two pictures from Me’ne Sushi in West Bloomfield. Alex and I got sushi (Eel roll and salmon skin roll) and we each got bimbimbap. I always joke and say Alex is my Asian sister because she can eat like an Asian. She even likes stuff I wouldn’t eat, like Durian. Yuck. She was probably Asian in her past life. Lol. She’s clearly not Asian, she’s Amercian, French and Sicilian/Italian descent.
Third picture, I got some dim sum with my cousin Sandi at Shangri-la also in West Bloomfield. Chicken feet (pretty much as far as I go when eating weird stuff), baby octopus, black bean spare ribs, har gow (shrimp dumpling), shrimp balls, shu mai, fried taro balls, shrimp rice roll, chinese donut wrapped in rice roll, etc etc. I LOVE dim sum.
No pictures: I also went to my cousin, Sandi’s restaurant. If you live by Madison Heights in MI, go to Thuy Trang Restaurant 12.5 mile on John R for some badass Vietnamese food. And I’m not just saying it because they’re family to me. Sigh…I would love some goi cuon and pho right now.

Besides eating my face off and working, I visited family and went shopping. When I visited my dad at the salon he works at, I did a polish change to help out. Lol. Funny how I can just pop in out of nowhere in some lady’s salon I don’t know and help her out. Usually happens to me all the time. I visit a family or friend at their salon, I do a services. Fill here. Manicure there.

Visited my brother. Everytime we see each other, we mostly talk about music. “Have you heard of this, have you heard of that.” Almost like a music knowing battle. Lol. We have rock and indie music in common. I’ll have to share a playlist with ya later.

I went to Somerset alot. Love that mall. I had to stop by Urban Outfitters. The closest one to where I live in FL is an hour and a half away. Stuff that I got? I’ll do another post for that.

Think I’m gonna play some xbox now. I forgot how long blogging can be.
What game am I playing now? Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. I really like it. The only other Prince of Persia I’ve played was Prince of Persia 2008 on xbox360. I liked that game but I didn’t love it. Most of the time you just collect light seeds. I liked that part, but when it came to fighting, it was a little annoying. I wanted more free fighting. Only thing I did like about the fighting was Elika giving a helping hand.
The Forgotten Sands definitely has more action. I haven’t played the Sands of Time to compare it too, but from the looks of it on Youtube it’s pretty similar. Way better graphics. Puzzles are there. Signature jumping & running actions are all there. What’s really cool is his power to control the elements. For Prince to do his jumps and runs against walls, he needs the power to solidify water. Some mysterious magical woman gives him the power to do so. I think it’s pretty cool. Youtube the gameplay or just rent it and see for yourself. Good stuff.

I’m getting a little annoyed with people always comparing games to God of War now. I admit, I said it once about a game (Dante’s Inferno). I watched my brother play Dante’s Inferno and realized it didn’t look too bad of a game. I played the game for like an hour and quit because I was judgmental. Just because a game has energy/power orbs doesn’t mean its totally like God of War. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the God of War franchise. I’ve seen people comment on Youtube about Prince of Persia is like GoW just because of the orb collecting. Big whoop. Fable II has orb collecting….far from being like GoW. Sorry, I just let ignorant people’s comments on Youtube annoy me from on all kinds of videos. Beauty, music covers, etc.
Lol. Had to rant a smidge.

Her voice gives me the chills. I love her music. I may not understand most of it or did I try understanding it, but her voice just draws me in. I love to sing and when I hear singers really sing, I’m moved. She has one of my favorite voices. Plus, she’s a little on the weird side, which makes me love her so much more.

I would really love to take voice lessons. I listened to a song I sang for my dj friend, Priyonjoni, and I was a little disgusted with my voice. We recorded it like 5-6 years ago. I have to say I have a lot more control over my voice now. :] Listening to songs like this makes me want to improve so much more. I never belonged to a serious choir [just junior high and elementary]. I would love to learn proper terms, notes, breathing exercises, how to increase my octave range, etc.
Anyway…enough of me blabbing. Have a listen of Bjork [old songs].

Since I’m not working nor am I in beauty school yet, my sleeping schedule has been wack. Until Dec 14th [school], I have all the time in the world to do whatever I’ve been wanting to do.

Playing video games even longer [hours & hours of Rockband 2, WET, CODMF2, AC2].
Playing with Adobe Illustrator [made a design I pushed to the BF for his work, kids are gonna love it].
Playing with nail designs more.
Preparing more semi-homemade goods [gnocchi with a marinara sauce topped w/ basil, turkey & artichoke stuffed jumbo pasta shells w/ arrabbiata sauce topped with Italian cheeses].
Definitely baking more [meringue cookies, sugar cookies, chocolate marshmallow cookies, blueberry crumble bars, my own yellow sheet cake recipe, which turned out more like a chiffon cake...I didn't have butter or shortening so I messed around].
I’m surprised I didn’t gain any weight.

Tonight…well, today [I woke up at 4:30pm yesterday, now it's close to 8am], I’ve been picking up my vexeling more. Remember that Natalie Portman vexel I was working on? I thought I start working on it again. I always do this, I’ll start a vexel, wait like half a year to come back to it. Lol. I’m so slow.

So here’s an update on it. [Click to enlarge]

And again…the original pick:

Gave her eye makeup a little more smokiness. :P And I gave it a watermark. Lol.
I don’t want to just leave it as is. I wanna turn it into something bigger. I’ll see. Gotta finish up the hair first. Kinda dreading it. Might even do something else with the hair.
I think my skills on vectoring/vexeling are improving a little bit.

Random »

Back in high school and when I would actually attend it, the subjects I loved were math, art, and writing. I’m not a great writer, but I’m not that bad either. I know in my blog, I have lots of punctuation errors, paragraphs errors, no indentations, and sentence fragments, but whatever. Currently, I like to use brackets as parentheses because I think they look cuter.
I didn’t make this blog to improve my writing skills. But even so, I can’t help but reread everything that I’ve typed to make sure it sounds good to me. Revising sucks. Hated that part of writing. Still though, can’t help it. I have to revise. Plus, I do want you guys to understand what I’m saying.
I feel like I’m just blabbing right now. [Editing right now.]

You want blabbing? I’ll give you blabbing.

Random thoughts in my head, due to lack of sleep »

I’m a Mac. I don’t think I’ll ever switch to a PC again.

I miss my long hair. I will never chop it off like that again. Only until I become a mom. Lol. Maybe not even then. My hair grows pretty fast, but not fast enough.

I’ve only worn makeup three times since I’ve moved down here to Florida. That was…Nov. 8th. My skin is getting a big break.

Did a little training with Cooper today. He has separation anxiety. He’s a lot better than a year ago. The BF went to pick up a vacuum cleaner and food. I took a break from vexeling. Grabbed my Nokia. Went in and outside the apartment three times. Each time increasing the amount of time I would stay out there. I googled alot about dogs with separation anxiety so I thought I try it.
First time, 30 seconds. No bark or whining.
Second time, one minute. Still no barking and whining.
Third time, I thought I’d be a bit more daring. Ten minutes! No barking or whining.
I think I could have stayed out longer, but I didn’t want to go that far. While I was waiting, I walked ninja-styled around to our patio area to peek through the window. Got him on camera for a few secs. of just laying in front of the door, waiting. Usually, he would be barking, whining, and scratching the door. So proud of him :]

I think Cooper needs a buddy.

I’m going to make biscuits and sausage gravy later. I love biscuits. Haven’t decided on making the biscuits homemade or not.

I enjoy waxing people’s eyebrows. I might have mentioned that before. I’m pretty damn good at it to. I have been told many times from men, women, and young girls, “You are so gentle.” Lol. Really? I do try to be.

I need to workout to get rid of my cellulite! Looks like I’m going to bust out with my Turbo Jam and Jackie Warner videos.

I wanna do yoga. I want to get my flexibility back. I can do the side splits right and left. Not so easily, but I can. I need to stretch more.

Geez…I’m going to be 25 in January. Weird…

I need more Havaiana flip-flops.

I haven’t sang in a long time. I mean, really sing. When I had a car, that’s where I sang the most. All out. Until I came to a red light and cars were around. I’d stop. Then I pick it back up when it’s green light. :P In community high school, the whole school [like 100ish ppl] went to the gym for a karaoke break. People would write in their requests and Mr. Rainwater would call ‘em up. We were all laughing and singing along. Then, to my surprise, he calls my name. What the heck? Who put my name in. My cousin, Sandi. I didn’t even know what song she picked out until it started playing. “I Turn To You,” by Christina Aguilera. I was gonna kill her. As I sang the song, I didn’t hear one word from the crowd. I stopped a little early, and the crowd roared. :] It was a great feeling. I never really talked in school, so it was a surprise to them. I would love to take voice lessons. I’m good, but I want to be great at singing.

blah. blah. blah…
Finally go to bed.

I made this video playlist at myflashfetish.com

I love Coldplay’s videos. I especially love this one! VERY creative. ^_^