Long overdue post of my face(s)

Hello!

Just got around to edit my pictures and looooong overdue sets of photos from CNY 2012!
I've been on 10 days term-break and now classes are starting.

And here's how I look on the first day of school:

NO LAH, here's how I actually look like.

So yeah, Chinese New Year. Mum, Aunt, Uncle and I went out for two days straight of gastronomical delights. I'm truly pigging! 

Did my nails myself! Red with black leopard printed tip. I'm super proud of myself huahaha.

Mum always cook meesua on special ocassions like birthdays and new years! It's soooo goood.

There are three dogs in this picture.

Went down the dining table because I wanted to get Juno's picture and he went and act 'no paparazzi please' 

Red ribbon for the little one! :3

Vanilla fruitcake from Harvest and my hongbaos! Both very yum ahahaha

Wore yellow that day. Yellow = gold = more fortune? heheh.

One-legged outfit photo. Asked mum to take my picture, and out of seven or so shots, this is the only one not blurry. The lighting at the mall is quite bad.

Had dinner at Ni Hao Restaurant in Alam Sutera's Flavor Bliss. Came like around 4 and got a nice table because the early diners went home already hahaha

Yes, that's my mother. No, we don't look alike. *eyeroll*

Major guilt. .____. I'm hoping they're fake shark fins. But they're so good.. 

Haagen Dazs ice cream for desert! Asked for choco-raspberry. I'm drooling just remembering how nice it tasted. Choco sweetness and Raspberry sour-sweetness...

That was my Chinese New Year! I'm half Chinese despite not looking too Chinese and people somehow mistaken me for Japanese -.- so sometimes when I speak Chinese my friends were majorly shocked.

Me: *speaks Chinese*
Friend: WHAT? Say again?
Me: *repeats*
Friend: Huh you can speak Chinese? You're not Chinese, are you?!
Me: ...no, I'm African.

Spent half of the holidays rehearsing and MC-ing the Breaking Announcement of my English Club's event, The 2012 Asian English Olympics : Inspiring Asia. *cue applause* MC must be precise, no? :P
Every time I'm going out or doing something, I always plan the outfit beforehand and if I can't plan any outfit, I usually ended up not being able to go/not wanting to go/the trip busted. So this convo happened:

Me: What should I wear to MC?
Committee: Umm, semi-formal will be fine. Like a nice top with leggings...
Me: That's not semi-formal. I'm wearing a dress.
Committee: ...

You can never be over-dressed. *cue devil laughter* Went full on with the make-up but it didn't look too much on camera, apparently.

With one of my friends, the Event Division Committee. And no, that's not what I'm wearing to the stage.

Wore a green and black Biyan dress instead. In this photo I was in 12cm heels and these guys are still taller than me! I'm originally 171cm so that made me 183 cm okay! They're mad tall! On my right is my 'manager' and my partner's on my left :)

So that was how I spend my holidays. Mundane school week coming up!
See you cool kitkats later!

Love, Noirette.

Exams Are Fun.

I'm being sarcastic on the titling, if it's not obvious enough.
Anyway, yeah, I've been studying for exams, getting out of things I shouldn't be doing in the first place, and getting my life back in track. Haven't blogged or facebooked the CNY photos yet because I'm THAT busy. *flips hair*

So much has happened these past few weeks. Some good, some could be better.

Irrelevant to how my weeks had gone by, here are some instagram-like/instagram-wannabe shots. (Were i to have an iPhone)

My M3 simcard broke the other day! I was studying at Starbucks TA with a friend and the boyfriend and suddenly my phone started going 'Simcard Not Allowed'.
We were busy teaching my friend so I paid very little attention to it, and just restarted the phone. When it still displayed the same writing, I ignored it. We studied for 5 and a half hours probably? It was soooo tiring and had it been me I'd never would study that hard.
Super tired, Boyfriend and I went back to his place and I swapped my simcard with his. His worked fine in my phone, so I figured it must be the simcard itself. I then called the customer service.
The first call was interrupted and got cut off by itself, FML.
The second call was picked up by someone who sounded like he was still in-training or something.

Customer Service: jadi tulisannya Simcard is Allowed ya mbak? (which he pronounced ah-lowd)
Me: bukan, Simcard NOT Allowed.
Customer Service: iya, simcard Neh-lawd.
Me: ...iya iya.

He told me I should go to the nearest Graha Indosat and bring my simcard to be replaced. The worse part is where he told me to bring the simcard itself along with an identity card, the simcard's case, and if I don't have it anymore, I should bring 5 top-up vouchers that I've used to fill the card, or 10 phone contacts in the card, and I should bring a letter with Rp 6.000,00 legal stamp on it and so on and so on. I didn't listen anymore because it's too much trouble, and because he sounded like he had a manual book opened up and he's just reading it aloud.

Hello? All you need to do is make sure the simcard has the same identity on it with what I bring along and done! Why on earth do I have to go through such trouble digging up my trash for my top-up vouchers! Afterall, it's YOUR fault my simcard is suddenly broken! I don't go around smashing my phone into things and suddenly it broke?! How on earth?

In the end I just figured I'd simply change my number and throw away the stupid M3 one. Why would I bother replacing the simcard if at my own home I couldn't get any signal?

Bought another number and what do you know? I got 49k price for the whole 3 months of full Blackberry Service (browsing, chatting, push mail)

Moral of the story: ditch M3.

ta.

Back to studying kanji.


**edit: Having a severe cough and flu really makes life three times worse.

Gay Marriage and The State of Iowa

The boyfriend finally saw my blog post on Gay Marriage and Christianity, and he told me he once saw this speech by a kid defending Gay Rights.

He led me to this link. So I watched it. I know it's dated waaaay back.

I LAUGHED non-stop during that stupid state rep's speech. 

I've quoted interesting ones for you lazy readers.

"Homosexual couples.. cannot produce children. Heterosexual couples CAN. THAT'S what marriage is!"

after that he proceeded into doing an odd set of movement which made me truly believe he's mentally retarded. Rich Anderson, get off the friggin podium before I throw rainbows at you.

a. yes, whatever happens to heterosexual couples who are infertile? 

b. What do you call couples having children outside marriage? MARRIAGE?

"We want to protect something called responsible procreation... We want to drive... *insert weird hand gestures* procreation into a stable... relationship-- and, and procreation only happens between... *gropes invisible bosoms* male and female. You see, a male and female can do something that a homosexual com-- couple cannot. They can create children... accidentally. It isn't about love, it isn't about romance.."

and the award for Most Stupid State Rep goes to..... MISTER RICH ANDERSON!

1. "we want to protect something called responsible procreation." and what do you know, a few sentence  later, he mentioned a flaw that homosexuals have and that heterosexuals don't: Heteros can create children accidentally. This is a lot more funnier than 9gag.

2. Apparently responsible procreation isn't about love and romance. Kids, listen to Rich and throw away all your fairy tales. It's not about love or romance. Never is in Iowa.

3. creating accidental children is apparently BETTER than homosexual marriage. WOW. Just wow. Go make babies now, at least it's better than being gay, according to Rich.

What I can't believe was that people listened more to this NONSENSICAL BABBLING IDIOT that is Rich Anderson rather than a real, mature, honest gentleman speaking from his own life, Zach Walsh.

"I guess the point is that our family isn't so different with any other Iowa family, you know, when I home we go to church together, we eat dinner, we go on vacations, uh, but we have our hard times to, we get in fights..."

 "but you know, we're Iowans, we don't expect anyone to solve our problems for us, we'll fight our own battles, we just hope for equal and fair treatment from our government."

"after all, your family doesn't derive its sense of worth from the being told by the state, 'you're married, congratulations!' No, the sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones that comes from the love that binds us. THAT's what makes a family."

"...because the sexual orientation of my parents has had ZERO effect of the content of my character."

I couldn't quote anymore, since i'm basically tearing.

So Iowa, why on EARTH did you still vote to discriminate REAL families? Has the world gone that mad for sane people to listen to babbling idiots? I have absolutely no idea.

Here you have living proof of a successful gay marriage, and you still feel like you should make these people a second class citizen because they just are different.

It's basically the same as not understanding English spoken by an Irish just because it's different. 

My faith in humanity just evaporated about 50%.