I just love their ubercoolness. And their tucked in shirts and cute skirts!
So I am getting paid next week and of course I am putting majority of my money away into the bank, but I am at least leaving a couple bucks for myself to "reward" myself for my hard work. However, I am having a hard time deciding what I really need because I WANT a lot of things, even if I DONT NEED THEM. You know how that goes.
WHAT I DO NEED:
shoes but SHOES ARE EXPENSIVE. i want to buy a bunch of cheap cute sandals/flats. but can someone explain to me why those gladiator sandals are so popular? i am just not into them. but im not really into showing off my feet because i have huge ugly big feet (i am a size 8.5 in womens) so feet are gross to me.
shorts. i have a ton of skirts but i need some shorts. i really like tailored shorts or just regular jean shorts but i really want some pumpkin shorts!
WHAT I REALLY WANT:
dresses. it is summer and i really want a colorful and cute summer dress. or something very simple but still pretty.
The problem is that I don't really want to go splurging because I am really a cheapskate. So it is hard for me to go and spend like $20 bucks on a teeshirt. I am just not one of those people who can spend a couple hundred on really cool shoes, I just can't do it. I am really good at finding the right price so it will be quite an adventure when I go shopping next weekend. :]
But I really like these bows that they are selling online. They would be the cutest accesories for a simple outfit. So I think the whole "glow in the dark" and retro neon colors has spread to Korea. Influence from Kanye West? Maybe. But Koreans spin it their own way and it is still super cool.
definetly kanye west influenced idea in the glow in the dark shoes!
This post is probably going to be picture loaded because pictures = 100000 words. And yes I would like to talk about the The Other Boleyn Girl also. I read one of the books from the same other and Pachia recommended me The Other Boleyn Girl. And yes Pachia you do have my book. I forgot about that too. I did like the book (minus all the sex). We were only young little eighth graders and we read that book haha. I was really obsessed with Queen Elizabeth and her time period. I guess the part that King Henry VIII having so many wives was so fascinating. I read a bunch of books on his wives or his daughters at the time. I was obsessed with the story about when Elizabeth and Bloody Mary her sister were young . I didn't really like who they picked to be Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn because Scarlett Johannsan and Natalie Portman what I had pictured. Anne is supposed to have BLACK HAIR! And I didn't really see Mary with blonde hair. I think they should have switched the actresses but dyed their hair because Scarlett seems better as a more "evil" girl. But watching the trailer, Natalie is quite good as a Anne Boleyn but I don't think Scarlett suits as Mary.
I love the dresses they are wearing. It is so elegant and not too form fitting but gives them a nice figure. I really like the silver for Scarlett's dress. I was going to put these pictures back awhile ago but forgot but YES GOSSIP GIRL IS COMING BACK in April. Thank goodness the writer's strike is OVER!!!!!
What makes me laugh is that they did the photoshoot for a gay magazine. Haha. But man those guys are SEXY. Though I am totally not going for the scruffy look that Chace (Nate) is sporting.
So what I am really obsessed about and always will be is FOOD. The Food Network channel is on 24/7 for me. I love Dinner Impossible and Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives! My dream is to go on a road trip across America and stop at a diner in every state. Who wants to go? My dad gets disgusted by American food and he says it is too greasy but him and my mom always watch the Korean channel about food. That is good too. So Pachia and I alway had this little dream back in middle school that we would open up a little shop where people could read mangas (think of the Borders' manga section where all the kids are sitting and reading for free, but x100 bigger) and then a little bakery/cafe next door. We were really obsessed with reading mangas back then. But yeah I still keep that little business idea in the back of my head. We could always add a place to watch dramas too. :] But I get more inspired with these pictures of a cupcake place in Malaysia. IT IS SO CUTE! I remember back when I was watching Coffee Prince and it made me want to open a little coffee place. Not just a typical Starbucks but a really nice coffee place with REAL baristas with GOOD coffee all the time.
Isn't that the cutest thing ever? If only I could bake. Hah, I'll just hire Min because she makes the best cupcakes! Looking at little cute pictures like that make me happy. Oh so I go to a lot of fashion blogs and sites that are very eceltic and inspiring. I notice that a lot of them like to make inspiration boards which are always beautiful. Well I thought I didn't really have an "inspiration" board but last winter I did a fashion collage on my wall. My little sister helped me and it took like three nights to finish. I didn't do my whole room because that would have been too chaotic and it would hurt my eyes. It turned out pretty good but I kind of want to tear it down and put new ones. My sister copied my idea and tore out other pictures that I didn't tear out from our magazines and her wall looks more cuter than mine now because she spaced out her pictures! I wish I had a photo of it but I don't.
Here are some cute inspiration boards I found online:
Here is pictures of my collage on my walls:
Vogue has the best pictures to pull out of course. And no I did not just slap it together. I carefully picked out each picture and thought about where to place to make it fun but creative. The first day, I started in the middle and spanned out then went to bed. The next day, it was hard to start because I LOST INSPIRATION and then I started to slap it together kind of. It turned pretty well I guess. Later on I took a bunch of funny pictures from my childhood and our family photos and put them on the top because I had space on the top. I kind miss the days of regular cameras, not digital cameras. With the age of digital cameras and plastering your pictures online all the time, we tend to want to have pictures with perfection. Even if you are being silly, you are still trying to take "cool" pictures. I like the days of simple film where there were negatives. And looking back at those pictures, the negatives are the best pictures. The pictures where you look really dorky with your mouth open and your eyes close or when you are seen actually enjoying what you were doing when you were photographed. It is sad to say that a lot of people care about having fun just so they can show off online instead of actually enjoying what they are doing and not caring about pictures. I do it all the time and it gets tiring sometimes. Sigh the world of myspace and facebook and everyone aspiring to be photographers.
But I do have fun just taking silly pictures with my friends. I tend to like to take silly pictures instead of perfect pictures. I don't like taking pictures were we are all trying to look hot and sexy. I feel really uncomfortable because I am not photogenic at all. That is why I am not really into taking pictures of myself. By avoiding the camera and the mirror, I don't have to see my physical flaws. Haha. Silly me.
Oh so I cleaned the house this weekend so I can go to jr prom but my parents are still dangling the possiblity of me not going. Hah. I always go in the end so no worries. Well I actually have a dress now. Well actually my mom has had it for a couple years because she bought it for a wedding awhile back. I remember my mom not looking good in the dress (sorry mom) but I tried it on (without my mom not knowing heehee) and I actually LIKE IT. It is really nice. Though it wasn't what I pictured and it is a long dress. I actually don't look short and I actually look skinny. YEAHHH. It is similar to this. But I think the gold is a bit darker? and more shimmery. The v-cut is similar but it has straps instead. I like it a lot. AND I HAVE GOLD SHOES! But isn't gold and gold too much?
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry"Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" --THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERS
i love how mr. cosgrove can take simple things that sound like nothing, and fill it up with tons of emotion and meaning you never even knew existed within it. i enjoy his lectures in class a lot. although most of the time, i'm usually zoning out or watching other people fall asleep, for the most part i pay attention. and admire him a lot. if i could aspire to be anything when i grow up, i'd dream about being a mr. cosgrove. he's so cool. it's probably really weird that i'm a sixteen year old girl, writing about her literature teacher on her internet blog, but it's kind of amazing how much his class has affected my way of thining, and even my freaking life. if i could just sit all day and listen to mr. cosgrove go on about literature and all the deeper meanings behind it, i probably would. i'd rather do that then learn pre-calculus or physics : i mean, even if he's just another teacher lecturing about things that a million other teachers out there could be lecturing about as well, it's just amazing. i don't even know him, or have i ever even had a real conversatin with him like i have with other teachers... but i think i've fallen in love with his ideals. haah. whatever that means. he's such a cute old man (and most girls in my class agree with me on that too!). his class always makes me think outside the box. but it only works when i'm in his class. other than that, i'm pretty much blank. which is why now i'm going to write on and on about nothing romantic or transcendentalist at all!
lately i've been lurking around on soompi's beauty and fashion section a lot. i've become obsessed with "the official what did you wear today" thread. and my goodness, why do people dress so nice? i'm jealous. i have no money to buy cool fabric to cover my skin with. why's everyone so educated? i feel stupid. people in that section talk about this brand and that brand, and really, i'm just sitting there dumbfounded. i know nothing to that extent! i've become out of touch with music, fashion, ... culture... okay yeah i'm done with listing things. my point is, why don't i have an area that actually freaking interests me? i'm like, all around, everywhere, a big mess, that's kappooosh all over the walls, and floors, and dripping out the windows, i don't even know where i'm going. i like literature and writing, but heck no do i want to pursue a career in that. i'm not good enough at all. of course fashion has always interested me, buuuut, i'm not sure what i can do with that, or if i even want to go in that direction. and doing something humanitarian? i'm so out of touch with things that are going on in the world right now. do i even have the courage or the voice or the will to do anything? i'm disappointed. yeah i can be creative, but i'm probably not artsy, i havent really tried anything but photoshop and photography. and although i was good at photoshop, i guess my interest for it has faded away with the past summer... and i havent really even gotten serious with photography, so i wouldn't even really know if i'm interested in that at all. wow. i feel like, i need to get myself together... but then again i'm only sixteen years old... but then again, sixteen is almost eighteen years old. i just hope that i find a passion for something soon. do i even need to? as long as i'm happy everything will be okay. i dont know... i want to contribute to the world in some way.
anyways, i hope these soompier's don't mind me posting up their outfits on my blog. i'm sure they don't mind other people seeing it, since that's the whole idea behind posting it up. i'll just credit them with their username, so i'm giving them credit. there are these guys on soompi that dress whack! it's hot. i wish all guys dressed like them. nooo. then it wouldn't be special.
BeefOtoko
okay well, i was going to post more, but soompi has an ips error. so i guess that's all.
QUOTE (keirasketch @ Jan 25 2008, 07:38 AM) I think beefotoko, kerni, rich, & dachink should just create a thread D: so all other guys on soompi can dress sexy too. and again, I'm serious.
i bought that junior prom dress i was raving about on the post below. but it's giving me a headache. and i need to go read the great gatsby.
i am a very picky person! i probably spent over twelve hours shopping for my junior prom dress this weekend. all of the dresses i tried on were cute... but ehh, i guess i didnt really find one that blew my mind. well, my junior-prom-dress-excavation started out on saturday afternoon, when my aunt picked me up and took me to arden to go search for dresses at macy's. yeah, i know! that's probably the worst place to go if you don't want a dress that you know five other girls will be wearing at the dance... but they did have some cute stuff. i went through bascially all of the stores at arden, but couldn't really find anything. so when we went back to forever21 for the second time, i stumbled upon the cutest little thing! luckily they had one small left! but unfortunately when i tried it on, it was too big for me! not to mention the fabric on the back was a little scratched up as well. i was kinda bummed because it was only $30, but i actually considered buying it anyways! however... i knew i was gonna go to midtown the next day (today) to go check out the cute little boutiques, so i decided not to get it and just wait to see what other dresses would pop up. besides.. other girls could've possibly bought that same dress for jp as well. but i dont know.. do girls usually go to f21 to buy jp dresses? (other than me, of course. lol.) anyways.. after going through atleast five stores today i decided that i wanted to go back and buy the white dress from f21. however this time, i wanted to check out the downtown plaza and see if they had it because i knew arden wouldn't have it. but unfortunately they didn't and i was reaaaally bummed. i kinda had all of my hopes set on that freaking dress for a while. ahhh. it wasn't online either so the lady at the desk said that they probably weren't going to get in anymore shipments : ... whatever though. hehe, because i came home and checked online again, except this time in the "blouse" section and eyyyyyy, i found it :) now i'm super excited, and i'm going to call up f21 tomorrow to see where they have it in stock. i know what you're thinking. why not just order it online? well, i would... but then they're out of smalls online! so hopefully the stores will get smalls shipped in, and i can just buy it and go get $5 alterations at this place by my aunts house :) yayyyy. if that doesnt work... then i'm just going to have to throw all of my hopes and dreams for that dress away and try to find something else-- maybe something even better.
but yeah, that was my weekend. i'm just glad that finals are over, and now everything has started over fresh for school. i got really bad grades this semester... it was a really bad semester. i guess you can say that i was just really distracted and was going through a lot of weird emotional stuff that kept me from focusing on school. i'm really hoping and pushing myself to do better this semester though. junior year is serious stuff though, and i can't let my stupid junioritis get in the way of my futuuuuuuuure. lol. my grades were so bad, i'm not even going to say what they were. i'm disappointed in myself, but i deserve it. i did baaad. really bad. all i can do now, is work hard this semester and make up for it. hopefully i can do that.
tommy really likes this band.
aaand, this is about all of the time i have to blog. or, this is all i have to blog about.
I was watching something on tv and the song "way back into love" came on and I remembered how much I loved that song. When my sister and I watched Music and Lyrics, we obsessively always went back to the part where Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant were recording the "way back into love" song. I remember the last time I went to karaoke at ru-ru-la-la, Tiffany and I sang that song, it was fun.
"I’ve been watching but the stars refuse to shine I’ve been searching but I just don’t see the signs I know that it’s out there There’s got to be something for my soul somewhere"
I love the lyrics for this song. This song is just one of those songs where I was so obsessed, I sang it for days on end. Just like the song from HSM, what ive been looking for. i like the version where sharpay and ryan sing it best. that is the only scene i like to watch out of the whole movie. I think I am just a musical freak. So that is why I really should try out for the musical at school.
"I've never had someone that knows me like you do the way you do I've never had somone as good for me as you no one like you so lonely before i finally found what i've been looking for"
so more cute dresses?
So the yellow one is the one that Melanie liked and I like the one on the right. Seems like strapless is very in but I dont think I have the right shoulders to show it off. Dress shopping is freaking annoying. I'll just wear a really cool shirt and jeans? I'm sure my date will be chill about it. HAHA. :D
cool shoes that rock my socks.
So New Balance is creating a new line of kids' shoes with collaborating with Sesame Street. I think little kid shoes are the cutest and I always want to steal the little displays of kid shoes. It is amazing to see how tiny feet fit into such tiny shoes. When I see little kids who are like 2 years old, I think they look like mini-people. It is odd. I haven't been around toddlers in a LOOONG time and now one is coming in mi familia very soon. Scary. Tiny feet. Tiny hands. Tiny EVERYTHING.
Marc Jacobs and Cancer Awareness
So Marc Jacobs is making a bunch of t-shirts with naked celebrities on it to support cancer awareness cause. I mean good job to Marc Jacobs and helping the cause but I am kind of sick of celebrity philanthropy. Maybe I am just being pessimistic but I get sick of how some celebrities are awesomely praised by the "good works" they do. What about the people who are not famous but do equal and even more things to help others?
But I mean what can I say when I don't even do much for my community. I read about those kids who do things and start things and it makes me want to be one of them. I want to help out, not for myself but for others. But it is really hard to think HOW?HOW CAN I HELP?One step at a time I suppose. So that is why I am going to try and improve as a student mentor in our school's student mentoring program. This is the first year that us Link Crew kids are being mentors and it is really frustrating because a lot of us think it is unfair to us and the freshman we mentor. For one, we had to sacrifice our lunch every other week and so we are basically cranky without food. Then we barely have much to talk about except grades and that is not a way to connect with our freshman. It is really hard to connect with my freshman. I tried but I think I have started to give up and I am disappointed in myself. I want to be someone they can turn to and I want to be soemone they can see as a person they can easily say "hi" and I can say that I HAVE NOT been that person. I can say that instead of blaming myself, I have blamed the program and the people in it for the lack of enthusiasm I have felt. But after today's meeting with the counselors and other mentors, I think I have re-thought my purpose as a mentor. Hopefully by the end of the year, I will have helped these freshman just a little to realize that they do have a good future ahead of them and to take advantage while they can of their youth and their resources and help them survive a little bit better because of their WISE MENTOR :D
i have found my prom dress. however, unforutnate as it may be, i know i cannot have it! my mom refuses to buy it for me, because it's way overpriced and she doesn't like it : i can't argue with her though. it only started out as $10 on ebay, and freaking escalated to over $100 because of the same stupid bidder! ahhh. oh well, oh well, i will find another dress. besides, it will be much more fun going dress shopping in person with friends, instead of just buying a dress online. and i wouldn't have even gotten the chance to try it on either. well, here's a picture in honor of the memory of my could-be-prom-dress:
so my phone is worthless. it's died. not really though. the screen is just dead, and its kinda cracked open, so i can't really hear it ring or hear the person on the other line when i pick up the phone call. it's just lame, and i'm not sure when i'm going to get a new phone or if i'm going to get a new phone, but i don't think i'd mind what it is at all as long as i have a phone that works. wow. maybe phones just arent my thing. they always die on me and i'm always killing them! i'm such a murderer. but aside from that, i've realized that i really hate it when i call someone and they don't pick up. it's actually become a fear of mines. i always freak out if they don't pick up. things flash through my head like "they hate me now!" "oh my god, something's wrong!" "they must be mad or annoyed at me..." it's kinda ridiculous and crazy. but what can i say? it's just another one of my silly little nuisances. (if i even spelled that word right.) atleast i've realized i'm crazy... and i'm not in denial. then i'd really be crazy. but i know why i have that fear. i analyze myself a lot in the free time i have right before bed.
sometimes i read christina's posts on here, and wonder where she finds such interesting things to show off. all i do is post about my day. and since nothing ever happens, i usually just dont post! haah. but yeah, i have a lot of laundry to do. not to wash, but to fold. i get really lazy and just leave all of my washed laundry in the corner in my room, and never get to them. then i rummage through them like a maniac in the morning, looking for something to wear, and just leave an even bigger mess all over the floor. no matter, i still want to go shopping. everyone says their tired of shopping because over the winter break that's all they did! but i didnt even get to go shopping once over the winter break! and i need coats. however, my momma says we should be spending our money wisely, especially since our country is in a recession right now... so i'll just suck it up and wear that coat with the fur hoodie i've been wearing since last year, for this winter as well. besides, next year i'll be working and have money, so i'll just buy myself my own coat! how satisfying will that feeling be? i'm not so sure... because i've never actually bought myself a coat with my own hard-earned money before.
i've been listening to david choi. i don't know how special he may sound, but i really like him. i think him and his songs are cute!
here's a cover for my song of '07!
my favorite from him, so far!
the other day i read this article, and it made me really sad.
i don't understand why everyone have go to junior prom with a date. i mean, do you really have to? well yes, of course you "have" to, since its traditional... but you can always just go in a group, like what everyone always does with every other dance out there that isnt Junior Prom of Senior Ball. but, oh well. i know that i just don't truly fully understand, because i've already had my junior prom date set since halloween.
the other day i was watching PROJECT RUNWAY-- and it was the episode where the designers were assigned to sixteen/seventeen year olds who were going to their junior prom. (sometimes, i really just don't like the clothes project runway designers comes up with. but usually i do. i guess i just don't watch the show enough. although i do like victoria and that guy with the scenester-emo look, for some odd reason.) but yeah, victoria won the challenge. i liked her dress the most anyways. it's the first one that's blue. i thought it was super cute. and even though it was a pretty normal dress you could probably find at f21 or something, i thought it had a little pizazz the rest of the dresses didn't have!
i found this cute place where it shows you how to get the "winning look."
as for myself however... i have no idea what i want as a junior prom dress :[] i need to go shopping. but i wasn't really thinking about spending big bucks on anything. from the start, i was thinking about just doing some fancy thrifting around midtown or downtown, in little random shops. i'm not sure when i'm going to be able to get time to do that... so, i won't be surprised if i end up just buying a dress from the mall or something. but i don't think that's bad either. i just hate how freaking expensive all of this Junior Prom stuff is going to be. oh boy, let's just see how my parents are going to react.
i thought this dress was cute, but it's over $300. and i'm also very short, so i doubt long dresses will work for me :[] i don't really like the color either! i don't want a black dress for JP, unless it's super crazy and i love it. i was thinking something more like yellow... or pink.. or purple/blue, depending on the tones :) ahh, i'm just excited, really. i should go look for dresses online right now! but i actually have a lot of homework to do. and i shouldn't even be blogging right now! well, once i get my dress, i will post it up, of course! or maybe, i won't. i'll just save pictures for my actual PROM NIGHT!
Yes it is that time of the year, junior prom. It is the big event for a high school junior (especially the ladies). The number one thing that everyone stresses about is a date. Luckily Pachia and I have one by now and now we have to worry about the other things. Number two thing to stress about is the DRESS. So here are some dresses that I like:
I think a short dress would suit me because I am short and most long dresses would make me look like I am swimming in the material and make me look shorter than I am. A short dress would give me some length.
I like the styles of these kind of short dresses. I look bad in strapless because of my fatty arms.
I can't resist this cute dress but I don't think it is formal enough for prom. This is just a simple very "prom-ish" dress.
I also want to try the traditional kind of long dress but I want it to be more form fitting or flowy but still comfy to dance in. I am kind of into the plain dresses but with simple elegant touches.
I just need to find a dress that is cute enough for my price range. Most of the dresses I looked up were at least over $200++ WTF. What a ripoff. I think I am going to go the cheap route. It is just one night. I am definitely going to try and not go overboard with jr. prom but seems like my friends and I are going to with limo, dinner, and bowling afterwards. It is crazy. Well my prom isn't until March 8th so hopefully I don't end up spending like 300+.
PROM BUDGET
ticket: $35?
dress: less than $50 (hopefully)
limo: ???? (hopefully less than $35 per person)
dinner: no more than $10; i will eat salad if i have to
I just love their ubercoolness. And their tucked in shirts and cute skirts!
shorts. i have a ton of skirts but i need some shorts. i really like tailored shorts or just regular jean shorts but i really want some pumpkin shorts!
The problem is that I don't really want to go splurging because I am really a cheapskate. So it is hard for me to go and spend like $20 bucks on a teeshirt. I am just not one of those people who can spend a couple hundred on really cool shoes, I just can't do it. I am really good at finding the right price so it will be quite an adventure when I go shopping next weekend. :]
