Nail Appointments // Jamming // Strathfield Stroll

The early riser catches the worm! I woke up early this morning because I had an appointment with Clarissa. Lol. I used the word "appointment" to sound more professional and more of a business-woman type of aura. Anyway I was just trying to sound superior. Back to the point, she was coming for a nail-art sesh with me. I promised her to do her nails and also I forgot to give her bday card yesterday. 

mike wazowkiiii

and sullivan

monsters inc nail art <3

Santa came too that day. We jammed that day. We were so cool that we had to retake videos after videos. You know, I am being sarcastic right. It was incredibly fun. I would never thought jamming and making youtube videos would be this fun. And I kept my promise! I actually made youtube videos now! Go subscribe to my youtube channel if you haven't already. Crystal's Youtube Channel

At first we recorded a song by Kimberley Chen called "ai ni". It's a mandarin song. I love it! I don't even know the meaning to them though other than the words "ai ni". LOL. The only song that we completely made it through was actually for a Jamnomination reply that my friends tagged me ages ago : Grace and Bunga. I FINALLY MADE IT GUYS.

gahh, i really hate this thumbnail.

After we had finished jamming, I painted Santa's nails too but I forgot to take a photo of it. I hope they survive though (referring to the newly-painted nails, because they haven't dried up yet and she had to go).

For dinner, went to Strathfield for some korean cuisine! It was unbelievably hot, I even wore a sleeveless shirt.

Stra Pocha

this might look unappetising but it is SO GOOD

paying

dessert time! 

at first we thought we were just buying 2 large snow-boy shaved ice 

look how huge it is! 

but then 4 came out! apparently, 2 large equals 4 mediums. 

My stomach started to bloat! 

Googly Eyes

Another post about nail arts! YEY! Before starting on the nails, I would like to explain about what a lazy day today was been for me. Here we go... woot woot, a journal post :)

peace out <3 

The intention of swimming was blown away because I started to feel home sick. I only have at least a week left before I fly back to Sydney. The urge of spending more time at home empowered any motivations I had the previous night. I had a plan on what I should do today being nicely organised the previous night.

Anyway, later that morning, I had picked a book called The Search for Wondla and an Indonesian book called Silsilah Di Kitab Kejadian in which I had the motif on reading through them but after a few flip of pages, I tossed it to the side of the table and without hesitant reached out for my laptop.

Another "thing" happened today, I finally paid my overdue amount at University Terraces after receiving constant warning emails. I had mentioned to the guy that I would pay the overdue amount as soon as I got back to Sydney which was on the 27th of February (arrival date), however he didn't believe me and instead, warned me this would be reported to a debt collection agency and a bad record will be written under my name which will last at least for 7 years. Honestly, I was reluctant on paying something so huge of amount via internet especially to the insecurity of internet signals here in Indonesia, what if anything goes wrong when I was paying it online. I am not the most tech-savvy person and call me a caveman or anything for not relying the internet especially at this gadget age, I don't really care. I worry, okay!

I watched a lot of videos on youtube. A worm of curiosity grew inside of me and I watched how to read palms or fingers. It is pretty interesting how the three phalanges of the fingers depict different successes for each segment. Sort of a fortune-telling action that is and I had to stop before it went to far. You never knew how boredom could strike you to do stuffs you have never even thought of before.

Moving on, after lunch, I tried to clean up the cupboards in my dining room. It looked okay, I found new mugs and found tumblrs which I will bring to Sydney :)

Then, went for grocery shopping.

And, the highlight for today, nail paintings! Watched a video on how to make googly eyes nails <3 Super fun to make but you have to have sturdy hands while making the dots. Patience is definitely key and what makes waiting fun? Watching Conan O Brien's shows on youtube of course.

After the nails are done, I came to realise that these googly eyes look more like frog eggs... LOL 

Watching Miss Indo 2014 right now! Saw Diana Jo on TV! Super psyched! All the best, girl! Seems a bit bizarre watching someone familiar on tv; in a positive way of course.. HAHA 

Got mail?

The OPI nail polish Cim bought has finally arrived! I took a look at my mail box and found this Australian Post card relating about the deliverance of the nail polish! I had to take this card along with and redeem it in the Australian Post Office near Cim's new place. It was quite far away and fortunately Angelica was willing to show me the place and accompanied me there.

When I got the parcel, I could smell the nail polish odour so distinctly. It was as if one of the bottles was opened or something. However, I didn't straightly open the parcel in the post office. I still put it inside my bag and continued back to uni for my next lecture.

Back at home, after class, I opened the parcel, there was a pink bubble wrap protecting the 4 nail polishes from breakage. However, one of the nail polish got broken. Now that explains the extreme nail polish scent penetrating from the package. It was a red shatter OPI, and well, I told Cim about the broken nail polish, she emailed the person selling the nail polish. To our good luck, the seller is ready to refund 8$.

Later on that night! I quickly removed my pink metallic nails and switched it to this Shrek/Kermit-the-frog green nails! I freaking love it!

kyaa.. LOVE this green so much!!! 

Speaking of the Group Enzyme protocol project, I met up with one of my group mates that night. We did it together, and we were finally done with the project! PHEW. Thank God for that. At last, we are done with the first draft of the protocol that has to be submitted tomorrow during BABS lab.

Chinese New Year and Valentine Nails

I decided to paint my nails again ! This year is the year of the snake. But then, I was struggling in finding an easy way to create snake scales nail art. Anyway, I decided to do valentines nails instead. This is a great celebration to utilize the heart nail polish that Sheila and Willdy gave me last year :3.

Another difficult situation in this process is the drawing of the jigsaw puzzle using a toothpick. My hand was shaking terribly while doing my right nails.

my left 

my right

Oh yeah, I have been wanting to post about the most addicting ipad game ever called, Tapped Out. It's similar to The Sims but instead the characters are from cartoon The Simpsons. 

valentine theme tapped out

 The pictures below are random pictures I took..

my collection of nail polish! 

this is where i store them

my mini library. This shelf is actually from a parcel 

Can't wait for tomorrow! :3

Vampire Nails

I have informed you all about my obsession with vampires right due to the attachment I made with The Vampire Diaries series. Super awesome series! Therefore, I decided to do a vampire nails from a vampire nail tutorial from youtube.

the supplies

my left

my right

I'm absolutely super satisfied with the nails. However there are some messy parts but who cares. I finally got my vampire nails! YAY! 

Basically I spent today painting my nails while watching The Big Bang Theory. Season 5 marathon.

Sweet 17!

After days of trying to upload this post, all the error prompts, I eventually manage to get this post to be published! Sorry for the uber late date. 

Recently I celebrated my Sweet 17. Just a simple gathering with friends at the mall. Last day of hanging out with Clarein too. See her blog --> Clarein

Just letting you all know that I finally bought white nail polish! A rip off of OPI but who cares, it works just fine. A little too liquid-y. But still it works fine.

dropping paint nail art, fail attempt

Got a mini surprise from Cim, Vivi and Helen. Cim made birthday flapjacks! I would have never imagined I would get such surprise. I have never gotten a birthday surprise before. That is one of the disadvantage of having a birthday in holiday weeks.

the pancakes

I was still feeling sleepy

At around 10:30-ish, went to GI to meet up with Clarein, Dennise, Darren, Devan, and Evelyn. Bought tickets to the Rise of The Guardians! Pretty cool animation movie. Well duh, Dreamworks always creates unexpected movies. The crew there are so imaginative! 

After the movie,we were all feeling a bit hungry, and so we met up with Eve first, then headed to a restaurant called Sumpit which means Chopsticks in Indonesian language. It was my first time eating there. Unfortunately, not a big fan. LOL. 

the wonton sumpit noodles

Dennise's tomyam fried rice! This tastes better than my dish. I should have ordered that one instead of mine

 Furthermore, I did not know that the serving size would be so big. I was struggling trying to finish up my meal. I think I might be the last one to finish lunch compared to the others. It was so unlike me to finish last. weird.

Eve, clarein, devan

darren, dennise's bro

devan, clare's bro

Then we departed with Clarein! Last time seeing her around in Indonesia :( ! Good luck in Michigan clare! Don't freeze to death! Just kidding! HAHA..
Btw clare (if you're reading this), I can't seem to be able to post comments on your blog! whyyyyyy! the captcha thingy problem.
 
Afterwards, stopped by at T-Rex Karaoke. Sang stuffs there.

 Darren was awesome at Karaoke! He got really high scores! ckckck..

I tried a new bubble drink too from a new store called ComeBuy. I ordered the wrong menu again. I ordered green tea with bobba with less sugar. And it was ultimately bitter! ew! What was wrong with my head. Kept on ordering yucky food.

As I got home, there was a cake sent from the bank.

 I opened the present from Dennise too! Thank you Dennise! :3

Candies! really good!

memopad etude

and this. :3 beauty products

 The next day I got buns from my Mandarin Teacher! Simply delicious! haha..

buns :3

 Cim also prepared a birthday video for me. But unfortunately there was something wrong with the format. Hence I can't upload it to youtube and post it here. :(