Who's recently gotten back into learning Japanese dances? Me xD I spent a lot of today watching the dances from the Haruhi Suzumiya Wii game, and some of them look like so much fun to learn so I've gotten back into learning dances :'D As well as Miku's Love & Joy dance, just because I did start learning it many months ago but forgot about it after that... So I want to finish it off now :'D

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Anyway, enough of the video spam!

I've been doing some work on my Seth cosplay lately, not sure if this is worth a CosplayIsland journal entry or not so I shall post here instead :'D (I want to finish off the whole green dress before posting on there)
Someone asked me how long it was till London Expo. I said 3 months, then immediately went "OH SHOOT *works like a madman*"
This is taking me ages to make but on the bright side, I'm getting better at making fitted clothes! *____* I've never been so happy, it's a really big achievement for me! I've got all the seams in the right place, got it to fit me nicely (a bit TOO nicely, I need to buy a zip for it, seriously xD; ) and I'm just really pleased with it thus far. Maybe I don't need to buy a pattern when I come to make my Shirley uniform afterall <3333 (I spent ages pencilling where all the seams should go and how much I need to take each seam in to make it fitted, might just use the same technique for Shirley instead of buying a pattern ROFL *cheapstake*)
This is the first time anyone has seen my bodice armour nice and painted as well, I need to make a new one though because it got a bit crushed when I shoved it behind the piano for many months X_x; Note to self, find a better storing place for craft foam armour



Yes I did make the dress a -little- too low cut X_x; I'm glad that bodice armour is there... And the frilly neck thing she has.
And that white skirt is just a tempt skirt, I need more fabric for the proper skirt! (The one in the photo is my Kahoko skirt!)

Woah, I haven't posted a cosplay progress photo in a journal in ages!

 I HAVE BOOKED THE HOTEL FOR LONDON MCM EXPO IN MAY. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? NOW TO RETURN THE FAVOUR YOU MUST AID ME IN BUGGING ANNIE TO COME WITH US KKTHXBAI 8D We want Annie ;_;
And also, dear Izzy, why are you never online when I am? It makes getting hold of you difficult, so instead I hope you read my LiveJournal message that is just for you <3

I think Petra needs to get LiveJournal as well so I can bug her and she can also see that I have booked it~
I also need to remember to ask dear Annie about what her name on LiveJournal is because I have terrible memory but know she has it :| Then she can see that I want her to come with us!

And to the rest of LiveJournal, the 5-6 of us are officially going to London Expo together and are very much looking forward to it! First time I've ever stayed at a hotel for the Expo! So glad we no longer need to worry about the mad rush to get out of London to avoid traffic straight after Expo has finished. Being able to stay the weekends means that I can hang out with people longer and bug people for pretty sunset shoots 8D. I'm looking at you, pretty cosplayers.

It was noted that you would be able to see the planet Mars at 9pm on 29th January next to the full moon.
...
And I'm not quite sure if this is Mars or not?
I was a bit disappointed at first, but I've only just managed to get back on the computer, and looking over the photos now I see a red dot right next to the full moon, now I wonder, is this really Mars?

The moon and clouds seemed to be travelling at a faster rate than normal and by putting my camera on a low shutter speed I managed to capture this movement. Unfortunately, it made the moon look like a shooting star so those photos won't be posted here. I did however, manage to capture the glow and sheer brightness of the moon, it was so clear outside and so I stayed outside despite not being able to see Mars (At the time). Froze my feet off (Couldn't be bothered to put shoes on), ran around trying to set up the tripod because I have very unsteady hands and captured a few good photos~



It's not very clear because I've resized it, but directly to the left of the moon, which I thought was just your average star, seems to actually be Mars because of the red tint to it!



And here's a photo using a lower shutter speed, you can see the stars moving and proof of Mars being there is that it's leaving a red light trail behind rather than a blue one like the other stars.

Thus ends my Physics/Photography geekery. I have to leave now anyway for a piano lesson :| *runs*

This is what happens when I own too many pairs of glasses and I finally get to cosplay a character with glasses :|
{Warning, I have a dirty mirror...}

( I am such a spazzface )

Thus ends my face spackery. I have more glasses... I forgot about them when I had the camera out though... Will post more pictures... Some other time 8D

Apparently, this is where we'll be staying when we go to Holland in July!!
I'm very excited now, looks like it's in a quiet rural area once again. It looks kind of small as well, then again the trees are framing the photo so you can't be too certain, there's around 100 people in our orchestra so I do wonder if this teeny tiny place and hold us all and most importantly feed us (Trust me to think about food xD)

So, does anyone speak Dutch and is willing to teach me? : D

Guess who got a Merit in my Grade 6 ballet and Silver Award Jazz exam? : D ME! Yeeees!!
I got the mark sheet back for my SIlver Award, got 75/100 so I was 5 marks off a distinction. I dropped the most marks on Technique and Style and line. Technique I thought I did pretty well on but oh well, Merit, woohoo!
For ballet I only know the grade, teacher said it was a "Good Merit" so I'm wondering how many marks off a Distinction I was off. We probably won't actually find out till around February/March time but hey, I look forward to knowing! 

My mind is now at peace knowing I got good marks.

Oh oh oh, and I've been learning how to do Soutenue en tournant in ballet and with practise I may just be able to do it en pointe as well, here comes another pose I can hopefully do come Minami when I cosplay Princess Tutu 8D

Woah-ho, a decent resolution that doesn't involve less procrastinating? Woah there! Okay maybe it does involve procrastination a bit, because I never do what I'm suppose to do on the piano... Shhh!
This is the result of not wanting to revise for my Physics ISA, it makes me look up videos on YouTube! And I've heard these players a zillion times before but I listened to it again today and thought "Hey, I want to play that piece as well!" and found the sheet music <3

I love the way how 2 different piano players, can play the same piece with the same sheet music (I checked both ahaha) yet it sounds amazing and unique in their own way.

( The inspiration )

This year, I want to learn how to play Melodies of Life on the piano myself. Over the years I've always been moaning about how much I want to play it, I find variations of the sheet music, start it, but never actually learn it all the way through (Though I have learnt a FFIX piece before! I learnt how to play Eternal Harvest way back :'D It was fun but I couldn't play the second half because I was only around Grade 4 back then??). So this year I figured, hey, why not make it a resolution? Then perhaps I'll actually stick to a resolution!

The piece does have quite a few of my worst enemies in piano music - ACCIDENTALS. I'm an idiot and get confused and often miss out accidentals or faff about with them, and in the middle section there's quite a few dotted about! At least it's a natural accidental rather than a flat/sharp accidental, I can't cope with flat/shart accidentals xDD
It also has a lot of triplets, but nothing is worst than Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu so I can't whine that much about it *shudders at Chopin piece*, hardest piece I've encountered EVER. (Sadly no, I have not completed that piece. I got to 8 bars and gave up xD)

And for another musical resolution but on the violin which is my main instrument... I hope to learn Bleach's Never Meant to Belong. Inspired by Ben-Chan! It sounds pretty and shifting up different positions of the violin is fun in my opinion! (however vibrato is not, maybe this piece will finally make me learn to use vibrato... Naaaah :'D This does mean I can't play the piece nearly as well though orz, darn my pathetic excuse of a vibrato)

( Woah there, double stops hell D: (second video) )

And since I'm in a music mood, here's a quick moan!
Ahhhh I haven't practise the violin nor piano AT ALL over the holidays and both my teachers are expecting me to have perfect my scales and pieces DDD8 CRAAAAM!!!! (Can someone take my exam for me? Lolol)
Now I must take my leave and do some more ISA revision 8D; Toodles!

And one more resolution: I hope to stop procrastinating in everything I do *shot*

I will one day stop procrastinating so much and do some God damn work. But for now, have more scenic photos I took yesterday :'D (Yes I had to edit these slightly in photoshop because they all came out really dull, so I upped the brightness and fiddled around with the hue and contrast)
I took these on the way to izzymott 's house because I knew I hadn't taken any scenic photos in ages so thought the walk to her house was the perfect opportunity to do so :D

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Today I had another day off, and what did I do? Procrastinate for the whole day and whined about my bad back LOLL. Oh man, I suck, seriously. I did however take Garnet photos to shut myself up to do some form of activity (I also played the piano, and can play 10 more bars of the Maple Leaf Rag, that's good for me xD). Will go off and take a shower now then do some Maths revision =__=;;

Yeaaah! We made a snow sofa, it was rather... cold. But still super awesome 8D


We also made a snow family <3
I am next to Goliath, the women has boobs as you can see is next to it and my the baby is the little one in the middle 8D
We were smarter this year and used a wheelbarrow (last year we used pure muscle power to lift the middle and head sections up! NEVER AGAIN! Although with Goliath the middle part split in two so we could lift it up... We were kicking it because we gave up on trying to lift it and wanted to use it for the sofa but thought lets take it back to Goliath :'D We only learnt to use the wheelbarrow when making the wife LOL).

( Cut for moooore and pictures galore! (Hey that rhymed!) )

Best thing is that there's no college tomorrow either! 8DDD Here's hoping for a hat trick! (Although tomorrow I'm probably going to be boring and stay at home and revise rather than go out again... Exams next week afterall >_<)

The first two days of college... Have been so fun! 8D
The lessons itself I've been all "let me out. let me out. let me out. let me out" but hanging out with friends again it's all "Wheeee! 8D"
I am too tired and worn out for proper adjectives I'm afraid ahaha xD;

Really excited about the snow as well! Here's hoping rumours about the 3am snowstorm will come true even for Taunton and we'll make yet another epic Odin >8D (If it comes true, you'll know who Odin afterwards ohohohoho)
We've had a fair bit, enough to blanket the grounds but unsure whether it would be enough to cancel college tomorrow >_<;

Yes photo is photoshopped slightly, it looked a bit meh so I added a blue tint to it, along with fiddling with contrasts to make the trees blend more.

Will be an amazing start to the year if college really is cancelled due to snow tomorrow <3333

LJ cut seems to hate me orz =o=

I was writing up a Persona 4 review because I finished the game yesterday, buut it's not ready yet so lets do my first meme of the year ahaha~
You don't have to do it, I'm just really bored and procrastinating :'D
Oooh and I was going to start Project 365 but completely forgot! Fifi is a failure ;_; Ah well, will try again next year!

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Oh my gosh, I am such a procrastinator. I have no willpower to do any work at all and I can't use the excuse of being tired this time either because I haven't done anything LOL! (Apart from watch Doctor Who, Confidential and Greatest Moments - good TV right there!)
But hey, rather than twiddle my thumbs thinking about work... I'll write in my LiveJournal 8D *shot*
I have a few New Years Resolution, lets write them down and look back at them in 2011 and laugh at myself for not keeping to them |D
- To procrastinate less
- Do productive work more than procrastinate
- To get better at revision lolol
- Practise instruments more
- Lose weight
- Actually stretch more (I want to be able to do the splits again but can never be bothered to stretch >_>;; )
- Get better at time management.
- Spend less time on the computer procrastinating

I wonder what I need to do less of eh? ;P
... Like I'll ever do any of those |D One can hope though~ (I never do really serious ones anyway loool)

Looking forward to 2010, but also so not looking forward to it. Mainly because of AS and A levels! Aaack! *taking Maths a year early to do Further* I'm also taking quite a few dance and music exams, as well as doing a show! (Okay the dance related stuff I'm looking forward to, music exams however are HARD - I don't muck up as much in dance exams!)
Buuut, it will be a year full of fun times and I get to go to Holland <3333 *loves travelling with SCYO* Not to mention I finally get to go to my first Minamicon! Mega excited! 8D Also get to participate in a Full Moon and Gentlemen's Alliance group next year, dream cosplay groups anyone? I also get to look forward visiting universities, which is partially scary but I look forward to it at the same time *and also super nervous*.

Here's to 2010!

HAPPY NEW YEAR~~~
May 2010 be a good one~

And I've totally done no revision today, oh my gosh this is depressing - Need to reviseeee!

I get to open my shiny new Nightmare Before Christmas calendar now 8D <3333

I d'aww'd so much ;w; It's such a happy type of d'aww!
... Yeah that's about all I have to say on this matter :'D

And before I take my leave - I've finally managed to hear a few of Gumi's songs. Her voice is so pretty~~ Definitely the most realistic voice I've heard out of all the vocaloids!

I hope everyone has had a fantastic Christmas. I personally had a much more chilled Christmas than previous years which made a nice change, I am now fighting my way through all the choccies and other sweet things and gaining quite the tummy (Like Rin in the video above!). I am also fighting my way through the revision and homework I never did in the first half of the holiday ;____; Bawww!

And have a Happy New Year!
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Hope 2009 was a good year for you all and here's hoping 2010 will be even better!

I'd give you a Christmas rhyme but now's not the time,
Instead I shall talk like this and hope this achieves bliss.
Let us all eat lots of turkey meat
Unless you are vegetarian, in which case what I just said was barbarian.
Enjoy your presents and and family presence
I probably don't make sense but in my defence;
I do not major in literacy, but in numeracy.

Seven lines is all I can handle, so I think it's time to blow out the candle.

Merry Christmas LiveJournal!

This pretty much gave us many lols last Thursday in our triple Music lesson:

Quoted from Mozart's Wikipedia page.

Whoever's poking fun at Mozart sure did it in a humorous way :'D We were all wondering if it was true or not till our teacher spoiled our fun lolol. There's even a page about the so called "Leck mich im Arsch"!? XD This is why I recommend AS Music to people for the fun times!
We are so mature........

... For CHRISTMAS!

Awwwww man, this is the happiest I've been all term, seriously :'D It's been a very stressful term although with dropping Computing I feel so much more free with less revision to do *O* *happy daaays*
I'm not actually in a festive mood though, probably because I still haven't seen the Coca Cola advert on TV yet. THIS IS SAD TIMES I TELL YOU, SAD TIMES!

There's actually still college tomorrow. But Maths enrichment is cancelled and so's choir althought there's a Xmas party happening for those who have lessons in the first two periods or for those who happen to be in college that day - won't be going sadly and will be missing karaoke but I think I need the good lie in because I'll be at SCYO from Saturday-Wednesday X_X; Oh and college finishes at 12.35 so no triple Maths for me, get in there! My Friday will be my weekend <3

My aim is to do 20-30mins of revision for each subject including violin and piano practise a day, doubt I will but hey ho it's worth a shot :'D

Rest of it I will be having fun playing video games and working on cosplay! I've missed thee!! Will probably just do basic sewing to get the skeleton of costumes done because I want to do stressless activities not nitty gritty stuff over my holiday!
Also need to sort out Tsubasa skit, I haven't forgotten about it, I promise! I've just been so busy that I haven't had any time for myself to carry on with much planning ;_; I have discussed it with those on my MSN though and they seem to like my new proposals providing we can get this organized correctly so yeah, fingers crossed!

Life is suddenly awesome again now that college is out :'D

Who needs to revise for Physics and Maths when you're incredibly behind with Xmas presents and only have one day to go eh?

It was fun making these and eating the deformed cookies for myself or "taste testing" them ;D So I found instructions on how to make funky anime cookies also known as Battenburg cookies:

And decided it would make the cutest Xmas presents for people ever! I really recommend that recipe, it's good : D It was actually pretty simple - it was the same way as making normal cookies only with adding cocoa powder to one half and then mixing them together, if I knew it was that simple I would have made them donkey's years ago 8D But here, have some progress pictures:

( Lalala I like baking cookies~ )

And here's the final result! Of 1/5 of them anyway, Jesus Christ I wish I had less friends at college to bake for D; I should've just gone for buying little trinkets for people! The temptation to eat them all up myself is too much damnit ;o;

Next up is to put them in little bags and wrap it with purdy ribbon I bought today~ No pictures of that though, my dad needs to bring some bags over from the shop and hasn't done so yet X_x; Ahhh well they're not done baking anyway! *made looooooads!!!!! And I still need to make another batch for the ones that don't go to my college xD*

Oooh yes, I'm still plodding along with P4! I'm up to the 10th floor in Heaven and err... Just got killed by the boss there =_=;; It took long enough just to get his health down to 75%! Jesus Christ, I've figured out the pattern though. But he kept getting me with his Mazioyne and I didn't have any personas with any Lightning abilities on hand *was using black frost to protect self from ice and fire because he previously used mabufudyne* so errr... I figured out his pattern to the atmopshere change a little -too- late xD; WILL TRY AGAIN SOON... WHEN I'VE FINISHED REVISION @_@

Have to say this game is addictive, not once have I wanted to put it down - the characters are really lovable too and it's fun building up Social Links to see what will happen with the characters (Though I've only maxed out 3 characters >_<; 2-3 of them are at Level 9 though so it won't take long to max them out as well! Just been busy saving Nanako and have had no time faffing about with Social Links!). I love all the little twists and the quirks in the story as well (particularly the gang getting drunk on non-alcoholic drinks and the cross-dressing pageant!).

On other news, I bought myself a long blue wig the other day! Alto/Naoto/Simon will be coming to a convention near you in the future ;D
And I still want an orange, short blonde and new red wig but I can't afford it orz. This is why a lot of my cosplays involve using old wigs. Slightly limited cosplay wise until I can afford new wigs ;_;

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You can totally tell I'm a bit bored right now and not in the mood for Physics loool.

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