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sakura photos

so it's spring again, which means more sakura photos of my photogenic friends

photos from my long holiday

14-17 dec alone in tokyo:

long holiday in japan/korea + oorsg 2018

14-17 dec: tokyo

17-23 dec: chiba

23 dec-05 jan: seoul

20 jan: oorsg

had a language immersion programme in chiba so i decided to turn it into an extended holiday with some of my friends.

afa 2017

we all turned up in kigurumi and squished around in the convention hall. i forgot how many of us there were?? needless to say kigurumi is hardly convenient for dslrs, so no photos. 

charaexpo 2017

i went to charaexpo for NTU VAS

#throwback photoshoot with tam

had a photoshoot with tamara in 2015 march, but i don't seem to have done anything with it. so here's a throwback post for july, since i'm going to have another photoshoot tomorrow. for the camp committee though, nothing too wild. 

went to beijing for a bit

i was back in beijing from 10-20 june and... well, i ate a lot.

sakura ✿✿

i went to the sakura exhibit

sakura don't grow here normally, because this goddamned place is too hot all year-round to have any cool seasonal flowers like sakura

:(

afa2016

afa2016 was nice

hello i got a tattoo

im not kidding, i actually went and got a tattoo.

went to japan again

i was in japan from 4th to 8th august

because i heard about the marisou solo concert, so i booked the tickets the very night the show was announced lol

anyway, we did lots of stuff

content cut again because lots of pictures

i went to japan

i was in japan from 23rd march to 4th april. basically it was fucking awesome and now i am having withdrawal, as if anyone didn't expect that.

(using a cut for the first time on this blog bc the post has a lot of picture and is really fucking long

cosfest2015 and cats

cosfest2015 was a special kind of disappointment. the cosplay was subpar. the stage events were non-existent. and the merchandise was all touken ranbu. fml.

i brought my 50mm 1.8 lens because that was the lightest i had, but it turns out 50mm is hell for events because i am always. always too close.

my bus card also died on me that day so i'd say it was a pretty shitty day overall.

i didn't bother to edit any of the photos because there's nothing to edit anyway.

by the way, the kid cosplayer is the one that keeps showing up at events with his mom. i'd like to think i made friends with his mom, but she probably just thinks im creepy af. 

the highlight of the day were the pictures of the cats i took on my way home.

on a related note i went to senpai's house a few days ago to see her 3 months old kitten. she tells me it's a bobcat and that it's called "lucky". i think it should be called "biting monster" because it kept fucking biting me. 

i love it very much and it loves me very much so i think i'll go back to senpai's house soon.

what i did in recent months (the last few months of 2014)

*bc i was lazy so this is late

after school ends i actually get kind of busy. yes i actually get a life. so here are a list of things that i did (voluntarily!! kind of) after school ended. i mean, after projectwork ended. goddamn i hated projectwork.

1. i volunteered for some marathon!! ok dont drop dead of shock. i didnt run a marathon. i'd probably die before ever running a marathon of my own free will so. i actually volunteered to help out with a marathon (because there was a volunteer allowance and also for community involvement hours).

it drizzled the whole fucking night and tam was so miserable but i was pretty okay? we were supposed to be stationed by the road and make sure no one died or anything. guess where we were stationed. no prizes or anything lol.

we were stationed outside some hip, cool club for young people. and from 3 in the morning all the way to 5 or 6 people came out smoking and smelling like alcohol and generally being drunk. i think this woman was puking. and i saw someone in cool dominatrix sexywear and stuff but i have no idea if this someone was male or female or anything (i just wanted there to be a dick involved because that person would deserve an award for stuffing a dick in those tiny tiny tight latex shorts)

tam was a bit scared haha and i think someone tried to hit on her. but i was just like "im tired. and i'll fuck up anyone who pisses me off" and that's basically me when tired. i was like giving off "i'll stomp on your fucking dick dont touch me" vibes i think

tam in a trashy raincoat looking good

im just trash
a head attached to legs

2. i went for a law internship!! ok so it wasn't, like, a real internship. i mean, it was legit and everything, organised by some law association and it was actually a pretty prestigious thing for a high schooler to attend. but!! we have zero law training or knowledge, basically. we can't help much and most cases are pretty confidential so.

ok but i think it's mostly because i was assigned to a pretty big law firm, rodyk and davidson. it's the oldest law firm actually. wow!! they have a library of (totally dry) law books and references, and i saw a nautical law book over a hundred years old. and it was all crinkly and going transparent and wow so rad!!

people who got assigned to smaller firms got a lot of stuff to do. i basically did some basic (like i mean really basic) research for my mentor, and spent most of my time reading those law books. i have gained new appreciation for lawyers!! it's damned bloody hard to become a lawyer. those books are actually killer, and i consider myself a pretty tough reader.

3. went for my dad's company's family day. so basically we went to adventure cove and i snorkelled and touched some fish. the snorkel water was so salty and cold like holy shit. i've never snorkelled before so i had no idea what to do. but i just shoved the tube in my mouth like what could go wrong right?? they have lifeguards on standby and the water isn't even deep.

well i was kind of wrong because when i looked down it was terrifying?? im actually scared of heights. it was like i was standing on nothing and i panicked a bit. quietly. and i forgot to breathe through my mouth lmao so that's how i know the water is salty as fuck. i probably swallowed fish shit. anyway i got on with it bc it would be so weird to back off when im already in the water.

and then afterwards i went to snorkel again because apparently i am a glutton for punishment lmao no im joking. i just like cool things enough to disregard my caveman tendencies to be safe. i do things like go on roller coasters precisely because im fucking terrified of them. like. i am an adrenaline junkie or something.

here are some photos. the some of them were taken with an underwater camera. cool huh.

[ugh lazy to upload]

4. i photographed for prom!! again. yeah i did prom last year too. this year was less traumatising and scary. 

but still a pain in the ass because of all the different lighting and shit. anyway i worry less about the details now. or maybe i just worry less. anyway the photography club has dulled my sensibilities and now i am no longer offended by things that are sucky. or, to be more specific, if my photos are sucky. i know they're not shitty. but they might be sucky. but i dont have enough attention to spare about suckiness because.......

5. afa14!!!!!!!!!! this year's anime festival asia has a nico nico kunikaigi stage and if you want to read about my uncontrollable fangirling or see the awesome rad photos i took, you can go to the post here.

6. i volunteered at famfiesta!! okay so im not actually hyped about it. it was some family-bonding thing camp whatever, and i only agreed to go because my friend asked me to go, and i am shitty at rejecting things that i am totally allowed to reject. but i got community involvement hours for it, and it counts towards next year's hours, and im trying to rack up triple digits without trying next year. looks good on the portfolio.

it was kinda okay and i had to talk to kids and stuff. and kids, predictably, were annoying and spoiled and attention-seeking and totally not worth it dont have kids. however i am pretty much a master of pretending to be nice (lol) im joking i just dont want kids to cry on me or anywhere near me in general.

7. probably going out with the german group again. yay. did not go out with the german group bc i was lazy and stuffs and no one could make it bc they were doing homework and stuff. the last time we went to gladys' house and drank lots of varied and good alcohol and sat up until 3 in the morning waiting for people to get drunk but nobody did. and i got the best sleep of my life that night wow alcohol is good for sleep. (and then i truly understood "beer is shit")

7. went to gabrielle's house for gift exchange and her mother cooked awesome food again!! yay. i got jiayi's present, which was weird as hell and totally nsfw. it was some shoujo manga and on the cover there's this girl being held down by a guy and her shirt was open and her rainbow bra was visible and it says on the cover "not suitable for children".

8. spent new year's eve staying up until 3am again...probably watching some sexy zone shit... i discovered sexy zone a few days before christmas, and oh god, my life is ruined. i struggled through 22 episodes of subless sexy zone channel the dedication is real. on a less important note i didnt do any of my homework

so that sums up my last month or two of 2014

as usual i was very lazy so this post is very late

afa2014

this isn't even going to be a cosplay post there is like NO cosplay pictures

basically this year's afa features a nico stage, the nico nico kunikaigi thing, and i just camped there for two days gaping at wonderful people

****amatsuki's and kashitaro's performances weren't streamed, also amatsuki said he doesn't want pictures of him online. idek about kashi but he was wearing a mask and seemed pretty willing to look into cameras lol. anyway dont upload amatsuki pictures. soraru made an upset post about it!!

okay so on saturday we planned on going in our kigurumis and walking around, but then jiayi was like "let's go to the kunikaigi stage" and after that i just found it so hard to leave bc utaites and odorites.

everyone was so awesome we saw gero, dasoku, arsmagna, hachiojiP, amatsuki, kashitaro, pcf, kozue, miume, root five, and yuyoyuppe. and the emcee ryouran was so cool too

wows. im still so shocked

seriously all the utaites sounded so perfect live, and the odorites are perf. just perf. and the djs are wonderful i love hachioji and yuyoyuppe.

saturday pictures are kind of from a weird angle because i was like behind two rows of tall people. some pictures also have like hands bc some people are tall.

i was going to type out all of what happened but when i think about it i start shaking a little im so happy

arsmagna is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i actually think, like, like i have issues i love hachiojiP so much he is so good 

awwww man yesss

im crying hachiojiP is perf

[insert amatsuki photo but ama's shy or something or has work idek
this boy is 10/10 all over
he has nothing to worry about
everyone will fall over themselves to make him happy]

and this is kashi, and jiayi is so crazy over him
actually i am too

so jiayi got to see his whole unobscured face in its entirety
bc she waited outside the holding room for him
an hour longer than the rest of us on sunday

she says he looks wonderful. i concur

mmmmmm

and this is tadanon wowee i rly love tadanon too ugh my life wow

and look at miume pls wow

wow

have u accepted miume as ur lord and saviour
bci have
miume step on me

/gross sobbing

/more gross sobbing

i cant even believe i got to see her in the flesh for two years running

and this is the root five segment
note pokota's hands
he is very touchy-feely i love it

he's a manly manly man 

when he doesn't smile he's so intimidating but when he smiles
my heart is like boomz bye

anyway so on sunday i went over like half an hour before the convention doors open, hoping to be one of the first ones in so that i can be at the very front

and guess what there was already a long line that stretched down to the floor below. incredible. and when we went over to the kunikaigi stage there was already a group of girls at the front. incredible!! it's like an hour before the first kunikaigi event wtf. anyway they were rly rude. but the group of people behind us were super polite they didnt push or anything they even left a space.

seriously like when mike left for a while (but her bag was there) i told them "you can just stand there i dont think she's coming back" and then afterwards they asked "is she back" and then when i nodded they just moved!! back!! wow!! so nice

im so excited about sunday. i bought like two litres of water. and went for one single toilet break lol. and all i ate was an onigiri. and i jumped around and waved my arms for the whole day basically and now my calves are killing me

but!!!!!! so worth it!!!!!!!!

i touched hachiojiP and bouto and tadanon and ryouran wow most of them really like this side of the stage it was awesome

and like they sometimes smile and cant stop smiling bc they're so happy and my heart is like BYE im gonna die. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

anyway afterwards i got a photo with yuyoyuppe and hachiojiP and miume and ryouran. and we waved to lots of them as they left wwww they're all so cute and nice. and i got hachiojiP to sign my ticket too im gonna keep it somewhere where no one can ever touch it 

yeah anyway they're all super nice 

yuyoyuppe and ryouran grasped the fans' hands with both hands lol and bowed and it was so nice and their hands were so warm omfg. and i kind of forgot to let go of yuyoyuppe's hand so of course he didnt let go either and we ended up bowing to each other like four five times lol. yuyoyuppe is SO nice seriously

i think im going to die of heart failure im so happy just thinking about it

jiayi got amatsuki and kashitaro to sign her phone lolololol

amatsuki was like "omg really but it's your phone?!" apparently. but like tons of other people have asked kashi to sign their phones so he was like "ok". and they're really nice too wwww

kill me omfg

anyway sunday pictures were taken from a better angle and with a better camera. i managed to be at the very front wwww but apparently the livestream camera caught us a lot of times holy shit how embarrassing

ok so the pics have inconsistent lighting because stage lights...i tried to correct them but i think i failed lol

ok so this is jiayi's phone with amatsuki's and kashi's signatures

and this is jiayi

and this is a picture of me and phoebs having fun at the photobooth lol

arsmagna signed this like it's literally their signatures not printed
if u dont believe me you can check their blogs and stuff

do you see that?? the camera?? that's the live videofeed and and
holy shit he keeps blocking my view smh
arsmagna is holy and all that so stop blocking me!!!!!!

this is me holding the ticket that hachiojiP just signed wwwww omfg

this is mike kissing the ticket that hachiojiP signed
by the way she was totally embarrassing she asked shuxien to teach her how to say
"please sign this" and shuxien was all "sign moratte ii?"
and mike said it REALLY Loudly to hachi sighs

im crying they are so perf

look at the shape of that ass
no wonder tatsuki is all dokidoki

and speaking of that tatsuki was so incredibly cute
kept waving and smiling and bowing to this side of the stage
i think he looked straight at me bc i was holding the huge ass camera
but i didn't manage to catch it bc i was too busy having eye contact with him lmao
im trash

and this is kozue! still awesome

there's michan and kettaro

kettaro became super manly with muscles wwww
but we know you're a big softie deep inside, kett-chan

and here is kashi wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

AND HE KEPT LOOKING OVER TOO
i think i might die

ikemen levels are so high nowadays

i dont think i can survive any more eye contact with this precious baby

ugh. unf. wow i want to touch him 

/gross sobbing
he kept smiling like he couldn't stop bc he was so happy and stuffs
which made me really happy
i was really dizzy when he was on stage bc i was a bit delirious with happiness
jiayi is even worse than me lololololol

[again i took away the amatsuki photo
but this was my original caption:
and this is amatsuki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this pretty boy makes me want to cry. like really

im so messed up inside because of him

he is ikemen so ikemen like level 999999 ikemen

he came so close /sobs]

this is hachiojiP
he stood on a table because he was excited and hyped
god he's so precious he must be protected

/gross sobbing hachiojiP is so good
and so cute

and he's having fun??? like
omfg so precious

anyway mike said he stood on the table because he felt the need to one-up yuyoyuppeP
yuyoyuppe did some dance thing earlier in the morning
lmao

hachi had a nyan craze and did the cat ears hand motion
bUT all my pictures were blurry bc like hell i would miss seeing it in high def with my own eyes
but im sure it's on youtube somewhere

oh miume. oh miume. 

aaaaaaaand miume is looking over here!! actually it's because there's a crazy fan behind us
who shouted "miume!!! miume" so she looked over
but inevitably her eyes were drawn to the huge ass camera

ugh miume step on me

and this is yuyoyuppe i never know how to pronounce his name
and he is INCREDIBLY NICE

heh and this is tadanon being a huge ass derp
no one knows what he's thinking when he has his sunglasses on but he's super cute without them
tandanon knelt on stage to receive a "moe moe kyun" power-up from a meido
i have never wanted to be someone else this badly

so that's the end of my afa14 post

i've been having withdrawal for the past however many days

other nico people i wish would attend afa next year:

mafumafu

isubokuro

melochin

slh family

i dont want to be greedy. but i am very greedy. and desperate

desperately waiting for next year's afa bye im trash

****if u are desperate for photos i can give u the link to download them

but u gotta give me your email
send me an ask on tumblr or something