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EOY Updates: Props #1

Monday, August 31, 2009 @ 2:01 AM


::30th Aug 09::

Had totally no plans for today, so I invited XueNi over to my house to start on the EOY props. I last minute sms-ed Puikwan, to ask whether she is free in the afternoon, and she was :) XueNi overslept and came late xD Even Puikwan came earlier than her!

I decided to start on my prop, the "Deer Hoof Gloves". Since Puikwan is here as well, so we started testing out how to turn our headsets we bought yesterday into a "Communication Earmuffs". It was really complicated, so we gave up after awhile xD More work needs to be done, together with ShunAn :) Puikwan's and my earmuffs will shaped of a panda, while ShunAn's will be a customised made "Mr. Bear" shaped xD

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Communication Earmuffs

We started by cutting off the wirings and stuff. Didn't know they were so bulky... Puikwan was reluctant to cut off at first because it will rendered a workable headset useless. But it's a must! We couldn't figure out other ways to hide the wiring :\

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Separated from the bulky wiring :\
Good bye to them!

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Cut strips of red felt to cover over the strap of the headset :)
And then we stopped...
Making the pandas at the side of the headset was very troublesome indeed.
Though, XueNi did experiment on one side xD testing, testing.

They stayed for dinner over at my place and Puikwan had to leave to find her mama after that :( So we started on my other prop, the "Deer Hoof Gloves".

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Had a terrible time trying to cut that piece of styrofoam! It's so thick and hard :\ XueNi got scared of me and moved further away from me because I was attacking the styrofoam violently with the penknife :X I'm also afraid that the penknife blade would break into many pieces and pierce me everywhere xD! I got my papa to help instead ^^'''

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All the materials are ready!
Brown and grey felt cloths and the Pacman-shaped styrofoam shape.

Next step, we cut the grey felt cloth to stick it to the styrofoam, making it grey. My UHU glue has ran out :( I squeezed it dry for this part of the step, because at the first place, I don't have very much of it left. Time to get a new one! After that, I have to sew the sleeve of the item, using brown felt cloth.

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I looked like a maid here!! :\

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Done :)
Time to attach them together~

This was the hardest part of this prop making. Thanks to XueNi for helping me sew them together!! :D Used up the very, very, very last bit of UHU glue to secure the parts. And it's COMPLETED! YAYNESS!~

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Trying it on :X
I WANT TO HIT MIKAN WITH IT!!!! :D
*Seriously, I looked like an unglam maid at home :\*

After that at around 11pm, XueNi had to go home, I sent her down and accompanied her until her bus arrived. And... I went home and waited for her to online :X So we can order our GoJane items!! MORE ONLINE PURCHASES!!! She also passed me some Photoshop effect guides to try. I tried them on my picture xD It was pretty fun and interesting to learn other tools in Photoshop.

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using =For-Certain's guide here.

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using XueNi's Black frame and Overlay guide here.

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I think I used desaturate tool here...
Actually I'm not sure! I just messed around with the tools there :\

...!!! Ray told me that the costumes will most likely to arrive next week! And my wig and the decal skins as well... Tomorrow I'll be collecting my boots because yes, I overslept on Saturday :\ I need to stop buying stuff online D: The shipping fees are killing me!!! D:


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--xoxo,
Akira Star

Gatherings :)

Friday, August 28, 2009 @ 11:23 PM


::23rd Aug 09::

Can you believe it? I even overslept for my primary school gathering!! xD Reached there 2hours later than the designated time, 12noon. Met them all at Vivo City. A lot of familiar faces... But I couldn't remember some of their names D: Went to Ben & Jerry's for ice cream, Merlionster, and then proceeded to Coffee Bean to chill and talk about stuff. However most of the time, there will be an really awkward silence... because there's really isn't much common topics to talk about! xD

And I also found out... that Shawn is the one who made my sticker books got confiscated!! I only remembered my sticker books got confiscated but can't remember the reason why... I cried really badly then. But now... I recalled what happened! Shawn took my sticker books and refused to return me. Teacher saw it and confiscated from him :\ I think I was primary 5 then...

Soon one by one they left, Jesslyn, GeokLian, Wileen accompanied me for 30mins. Because it was too early for me to leave!! I have another appointment later at Clarke Quay MRT control station at 6pm.

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Merlionster!

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It's been such a long time... AND I'M STILL THE SHORTEST!!
ZETSUBOUSHITAAAA!~~~ I'M IN DESPAIR!~~

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I touched a $6,000 Chinese medicine cupboard at the National Geographic store!

Said my goodbyes and made my way down to Clarke Quay through the purple line. Planning to celebrate Sylvia's birthday at Settlers' Café :) Her plans kept changing!! From BBQ at Woodlands to something else at Cityhall and now finally settled on Settlers' Café. I was a tad early so I walk-walked at central© and bought a strawberry crêpe. Got a call from Audrey, asking me to come back :( Saw June and Clarissa on the way :D

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Crêpe!~ :P

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With Audrey and advance birthday girl, Sylvia :)

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Reached after walking for some distance :D

Most of us took the Happy Hour package, that consisted of main course (any at $9.50 and below), drink and playing of board games until... 9pm! xD After deciding on what food and drink, we began to play :) We played games like Pictionary, Saboteur, Taboo... anyway the last game we played was "You Must Be An Idiot!". It was really fun playing with people that I do not know xD The people who I only know were Audrey, Sylvia and Vanessa. Vanessa kept taking a lot of candid photos of us!! A lot of my unglam ones... She still uploaded them on Facebook D:

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Looking at the...

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Monopoly-looking Menu xD

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I chose this as my main course :D

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My drink, Red Dino.
Strawberry flavoured soda water.

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Singapore theme cards & General theme cards
We played the Singapore theme cards first xD

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Vanessa took a photo of me laughing madly at Sylvia!!
It was really really funny!!!!!

She did this...

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She read "MONEY FACE" as "MONKEY FACE".
And she drew a monkey and boxed up his face... No wonder we couldn't guess it right xD!

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A game that tests your IQ...
The questions on the cards are REALLY HARD!!! :\
We kept skipping cards most of the time :X

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If you get the "You're an IDIOT!" card, means you have to purposely answer the question wrongly, even if you knew the answer to it.

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The bill :X
I think Sylvia paid for it all!! Thank you :D

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A must for group picture.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SYLVIA on the 25th of AUGUST!

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I decided to post random stuff here as well (lazy to start another post).

Watched 3 movies on the 27th Aug!!
Final Destination 4
Where Got Ghost
Year 1
I watched the first two movies with my aunt at GV Grand and the last movie at GV Tiong Bahru with ShunAn, Edmund, Puikwan and XueNi. Year 1 was pretty lame with all those random inserts from the stories in the bible. It was funny at the beginning but then it gets kinda boring at the back. Don't watch it if you have to pay!!!! xD We smuggled food from the NTUC Fairprice in. Tried the sweetcorn at the Candybar. And later, we sat down at Burger King discussing about random stuff.

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Taken with XueNi's iPhone function, "Puripuri".

Ordered with XueNi decals from decalgirl.com. Thanks for tempting me!!! xD I bought a decalskin for my iPod and for my NDS as well :D Bank transferred $34.62 to her for them.
ZETSUBOUSHITAAA!~ Buying more stuffs online has left me in despair! D:

Finally worked at Gold Class today, it was fun at the beginning with WeeTong. But then when he ended work at 7pm, I was really bored. I wasn't very close with Din, LiWei and Roy. So I was hoping time would passed faster and I could leave at 10pm! Tick-tock, it's 10pm. I bid my goodbyes and quickly go down to get my clothes to change. WenHao's shift ended at 10pm as well. It's really nice of him to send me home on his new bike :) It has been a long time since I last ridden a motorbike! If I'm not wrong, the last time I have ridden on a bike was my papa's in secondary school. It was really scary at first but the fear gradually fade away leaving behind the excitement and fun xD Thanks again!

I got my "9" movie poster from Uncle Nick :) Yay!~ "9" by Tim Burton.
It will be out on 09.09.09 :)

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My mama went to dump the entire sweetcorn into Sky's cage...
Although sweetcorn is its favourite food, it is now terrified of the giant one :X

Koko is so cute right now! Kept wanting attention xD I put it down, walked few steps back and clapped my hands twice. Koko flew to me. Next I put it down again, walked few steps back, clapped my hands twice... AND STARTED RUNNING. Koko flew to chase me down xD It was really funny. Kept wanting me to rub its head as well... :\ It will put its head on my hand. If I didn't response, it will start making chirping sounds, until I start rubbing its head!

What other stuffs can I write about... Oh ya!
Tomorrow going to collect the boots from Telok Blangah East post office with Puikwan... Yes. Again, no one opened the door for the poor postman. So now poor me had to go down and collect it. And also... tomorrow is the HSBC TREETOP WALK hike! :) Can't wait! Need to sleep soon as well... Need to get up early :\

One more thing... CAN SHUN AN SURVIVE TOMORROW'S HIKE WITH HIS WEAK LEGS?!
Stay tune to find out ;)


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--xoxo,
Akira Star

!!Natsu Masuri!!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 @ 1:10 AM


::22th Aug 09::

This is actually the next part of EOY: Wig Cutting Session post.
Long post ahead *warning!* due to the massive amount of pictures :X


Stopped by McDonald's, because everyone was hungry xD!! I tried the Spicy Snack Wrap, it was alright. We left Tiong Bahru at 3.45pm or so and took the MRT to Simei. On the train, we immediately took out our NDS and played Mario Kart. Mario Kart is really not my forte :( ShunAn met someone he knew on the train. The rest of us thought that she was a friend and we made fun of ShunAn's NDS nick "Chuan", which is his sister's name. Little that we know... THAT PERSON WASN'T HIS FRIEND, BUT HIS SISTER... D: We all went into stun mode @_@...

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NDS
It's great that most of my friends have NDS :)

Alighted at Simei and transferred to bus5 there. We stopped playing as we were afraid that we might missed our stop :X Took all the way to Changi Japanese Primary School or in other words, The Japanese School.

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All the aliens were here!! :) Amazing, eh?
Some were missing a leg or two :X

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Toycon badges were all here too! xD

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Not forgetting a group picture on the bus :X

And finally... WE REACHED THE SCHOOL! Looked really huge from the outside... I stared at the building with amazement. Bigger than my own primary school!!! But when I looked at the queue... my eyes widen with further amazement... IT WAS EFFING LONG!!!!! Dx Like a snake queue with 4 curves... :( We started at the 4th curve, of course... UNDER THE SUN! D:

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Natsu Masuri banner~
(Natsu Masuri means Summer Festival)

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The awesome queue...

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Yay! Finally at the 3rd curve! :)
Lookie all those people in yukata!

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More people coming from the shuttle buses!!

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XueNi and I kept looking at this little boy here. So adorable!! :)

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Finally at the 1st curve :) Getting in soon!!

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3 of them played Mario Kart until they go into their NDS already D:
Too engrossed!

Anyway, after... approximately 1.5hours of queuing... WE WERE FINALLY IN!!!~ Bought the ticket at $2 and went in to look for the yukata renting room first.

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Sadly... All the yukata were rented out :(
We were too late. Later, we heard from XueNi's friend, Jasmine, that have to be there at least 3pm to be able to rent the yukata... That early! When the festival only starts at 5pm.
I think ShunAn was the most disappointed one :(

Gave our tickets at the entrance of the festival and gotten uchiwa fans instead xD They were proved to be really useful in this festival especially... We turned to the left building first, where all the food booths were located :P We queued up at "Amy Restuarant" first and bought the following.

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These fans are called Uchiwa!

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I bought the fried cheese fish ball xD

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Edmund bought this!!
I really regretted not buying it :(

Next, we went to queue at "Minasen". DAMN! Shouldn't have queue up for that booth!!! The queue time for this was really long! We queued for almost 2 hours to get our food D: Amazing, right? XueNi suddenly got stomach cramps while queuing. Poor her :(

When it's nearing to our turn, XueNi and I decided to look around for drinks and also to queue, in case the queue for it was very long too. We walked all the way to the inner left building, still couldn't find anything to drink except beer... ASAHI BEER! There's no ramune this year!! I'm like so disappointed :( We bought Apple Collagen juice instead at "Mt. Fuji Enterprise", and for the others, the raspberry one. The flavours kept changing because they were finishing fast. To raspberry, citrus vinegar, blackcurrant and so on xD

Anyway, when we finally got our food from the "Minasen" booth, we went to the back of the building to sit down and rest our spoilt legs :( Imagine we queued freaking long for just 4 panda-yaki and 1 takoyaki... And when we took a look at their leaflet, their shop is located at Anchor Point! LIKE SO NEAR AR! DON'T EVEN HAVE TO QUEUE UP! :\

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There were performances on stage in the middle of the field :)

After that, we got up and walked about randomly, until Edmund they all found seats at those booths which have already closed up. I met some of my anime friends there :D Was really glad to meet them after so long!~

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Interesting balloon sculpture she has on her head xD

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With Aim ;)

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With Jonathan and Aim :D

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With Eclair and Tsukikage :P

XueNi and I then proceeded to the building on the right for the games section. The others whose legs were spoilt beyond any recognition stayed seated there. We went to the ticket booth to purchase a game coupon at $2. We head for the "Yoyo Tsuri" game immediately xD Luckily the queue for it was short :D Exchanged our game coupons for a string with a "W"-shaped hook.

Didn't really know how to play it! I only know I have to use the hook to fish the water balloons in the kiddie pool. I didn't know that I'm not supposed to submerge the hook into the water as that will loosen the hook from the string and dropped into the pool :( So silly!! Anyway the woman there gave us a consolation yoyo balloon instead :) I wonder how those people are able to hook up so many balloons... They must have practiced a lot or maybe... just spent a lot of money on the game :\

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White for me, purple for XueNi.
She failed too! :X

On our way back to find the resting rest, I bought a $1 ice cream and 2 origami paper for $3!~ I also bought another ice cream before going home later. And... later, while Edmund and I were queuing up for the curry rice, I saw a Japanese guy with the name "Akira" Woot! I must take a picture with him! I stopped queuing because their curry rice was out of stock and I wanted to take a picture with Akira. Btw, Jun looked pretty handsome too :X But didn't manage to take a picture with him :( I still think caucasian guys are the best :X

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Cookies & Cream and Green Tea flavoured.

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My Pokémon and Dragonball Z origami papers :D

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Akira with Akira Star ;)

Later, we waited with XueNi for her friends, Jessie and Jasmine, to find her. And they took out their dolls!~ xD Met and took a picture with Jordan :) And we left the place at around 9pm+. Took bus5 back to Simei together and XueNi went off with her friends.

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Pretty faces ;)

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I want this Domo-kun bag!!
But it cost $30 :( The price dropped to $25 later though.
But I didn't bring enough money... I'll buy it next year then!

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Final group picture :)

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With Jordan.
GV GRAND TEAM! :X

Edmund, ShunAn, Puikwan and I decided to have our dinner there before going home. $1.80 chicken rice and $1.80 ice mountain water. That was when I realized I have lost my $10 note!!! I must have dropped it on the bus when taking out my ezlink card :( ShunAn and Edmund were very nice, they treated me dinner :D Thank you!!

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いただきます!!
(Itadakimasu!!)

We left the place at 10.30pm+ and took the train back to Tiong Bahru. It was a really interesting day :D Really glad I did go to this year's Natsu Masuri, will be going again next year!! Must reach there earlier in order to rent the yukata! ;)


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