shad haul

Double post cause tomorrow is reserved for report card xD

Went shopping with Mel for some last minute items for shad:

Cosmetics in the upper left corner: Urban Decay Primer Potion, Hoola bronzer (sample underneath the udpp), Lush Dirty Tooth Tabs (for camping conveniences), and Philosophy Purity cleanser.

Pastel teal shorts from Aritzia (twins with Mel ;D) and floral sleeping bra from Aerie. I seriously cannot be the only one that's paranoid about sleeping outside of home without a layer between my chest and a tshirt e_e"

Gots to start packing, my current list seems waaaay too massive and yet I can't really take any items off. Hope everything can fit into my little black suitcase @_@

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Dinner from a while ago, uploaded now since I just got the camera back:

Macaroni with squash sauce and pecans.

Last minute improvisation while trying to clean fridge out before camping. Normally it's made with sage and pine nuts I believe? First time incorporating nuts into pasta, can't believe I didn't do so earlier, sooo yummy. And an easy over egg always makes a dish better :]

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Camping was equal parts fun and cold.

It was a gruesome 5km walk from the Go Bus station to our campsite, luckily Mara drove the heavy equipment there beforehand. Unluckily we had to carry it back by ourselves. Think that was enough exercise for the entire month @_@"


Kitty insisted on the scenic (and longer) route walking back. T'was pretty indeed.

Everything was quickly set-up thanks to Billy's expertise, group was being loud and playing random games until dinner time. Actually, most of the time we were being loud and playing random games. Mafia took insanely long to explain the rules, the rounds were hilarious though. Roy and Justin would vote for Jason every single time.

Onto dinner, for which Kitty made fried noodles. All the meals were quite good, of course since I planned them /kidding. Mara was awesome and bought a s'mores kit ;D

om nom nom

and what's a summer event without watermelon

Kitty and I took on half of the entire melon, was way too filling e_e"

Night time was as cold as...worse than Gritaly cold? Had 4 layers with a scarf near the camp fire and was still shivering like mad. Barely got any sleep due to the cold, sighhh. Still don't feel like I've caught up on sleep despite a 12 hour rest the day I came back.

Second day was mainly spent at the beach.


People threw each other in the water, played our neighbouring campsite at volleyball (we soooo crushed them, and I'm only good at serving ._.), and this:

It's a Tapang mermaid lololol! ;D

Returned here at night for some star gazing, which unfortunately didn't look as amazing as I hoped. Found the Little Dipper though, grade 9 astronomy ftw XD

Overall it was quite a fun experience, got to know my friends wee bit better :] Lesson to be learned is to bring warmer clothing <_<"

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image via abduzeedo.com

My hopes of a scene like this is partially ruined by the rain on Saturday. All hopes on sunday night!

sleepover productivity

From last week:

Vanilla...soon-to-be ice cream


Chicken ceaser sliders

Janice and I are only over productive when it comes to food and tv at her house XD

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lazy lazy summer days <3

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Excuse me for the few days of my summer while I slave away on Demon's Soul e_e"

edit: hey look, I finally uploaded all the gritaly photos. Only what, 3 month late? ;D


k back to soul farming.

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Balthier x Fran ftw.
Ashe...is the best with Rasler xD

Finally finished ffxii, took even longer than KH2 @_@" There are just so many side quests and it's so integrated into the game that even a non completionist like me want to finish them all. Needless to say that didn't happen.

I initially disliked the battle system, but it makes grinding and farming so much easier. Set gambits, move analog stick & chill. Though I'd still enjoy a more 'action' styled combat (cough like xiii versus cough). The bazaar system is pretty cool, sell lots of junk and get awesome weapons back*. Didn't really like the treasure chests though, first they only spawn a fraction of the time, and second there's different contents with each their own percentages of appearing. Makes for lots of frustrating experiences running to chests, opening, disappointment, and reloading the game; rinse and repeat for like an hour.
*well for the truely awesome weapons replace junk with fricking rare loot e_e

The story is good. Love some of Balthier's line, and Fran and his final exchange xD I feel that Vaan's only tagging along because he was in the right place at the right time. Larsa and Al-Cid are both pretty cool, they'd both make better rulers than Ashe.

I just wish that there is more cinematic cut scenes T_T The graphics looks ridiculously nice during those, though the normal graphics are impressive for a ps2 game. The city designs are AMAZING as well, too bad there isn't an aerial zoom option.

Overall it was an enjoyable play, just need lots of hours invested in it for the side quests :]
(moogles)

on another note: done math exam, aka done grade 11! whooooo~