GENERAL UPDATES


I'm sorry it took so long for me to update my journal again.

I've been quite busy. Recently I've been employed as a freelance artist by some of my dad's friends. I've been offered some other more permanent jobs but after what happened to me from my past work, I decided it'd be better to turn them down. Speaking of which, here's a little something I did from my old job --> (PROPERTY OF BREADTALK PHILIPPINES-PLZ. TO NOT BE STEALING).

I've also been organizing my parents' 25th wedding anniversary. They wanted to renew their vows, and being the only daughter, I had to be the one to prepare everything from the caterer to the invitations. I never realized planning a wedding was so hard... but then again, it's also quite touching to see the two people I love most in this world to be so happy. I hope I can one day be as lucky as them.

tagged me with this...

MY 8 RANDOM FACTS

1.) I have 165 books in my room. I have some more in the shelf downstairs and some that my friends borrowed and haven't yet returned _{(yeah, I'm looking at you Jin and Isa)}. I don't usually lend my books to just anyone since I want people to take care of them the way that I do. It's not new to hear from my friends that I'm too weird when it comes to my books since I make them read it in such a way that the spines won't get fold marks (which of course is easier said than done).

2.) Much of an avid reader that I am, I wouldn't call myself a genius. I only found out that "colonel" is read as "ker-nel" when I was in my 4th year of high school. Oh yeah, you read that right. I was hanging out with China in my house one day and I read a phrase out loud to her from a book I was reading that involved that particular word...and I read it as "ko-lo-nel". I swear I couldn't paint her face at that moment even if I wanted to. It looked like she was torn between disbelief and amusement when she told me I was doing it wrong. And of course my face was totally something on its own.


3.) My DA username came from my love of Faeries. It was a beautiful night and I was spacing out at my window. I do this a lot when I have nothing better to do (~DorkyDea has gotten a few late night messages from me demanding him to look at the moon). It looked so beautiful that I found myself wishing I could just float away into it's ethereal light. There are nights that sometimes just feel really magical and that night in particular left me hoping I would get abducted by faeries.

On a related note, I loved faeries so much, I used to wish I was a changeling when I was younger. I'd go up to my mom and show her my green hands and insist that she let me go back to the faerie realm (of course it didn't help that I had free reign over paint and colored chalk as a kid). Yup, I was a weird kid but then again, there are nights I wish I was a vampire too...

4.) I used to be part of the popular group in grade school and my early high school years. Naturally, Jin and China never pass up an opportunity to remind me of how much of a ditz I was. It was the cliché type of popular too. There were unwritten rules like how you can't talk to the 'nerdy kids' unless it involved them helping you out with your homework, or that you can only eat mojos (potato cuts from shakeys) with a knife and fork. Oh god! Seriously! I was so relieved when I had a fall out with them (because I made a snide comment about one of our friend's choice of outfit). And then, I met Jin, China and other high school friends who were total goof balls who weren't at all bothered about what other people said about them. They are the reason why I am the way I am today and why the Mojos tasted so much better when I ate them with my hands.

5.) I have 4 ear piercings and got a star-shaped tattoo when I was 16 that my parents still don't know about. I used to have a philosophy that pain would take the 'hurt' away. I think I was trying to rebel since my dad and I got into a fight and I felt like life wasn't fair at all. I may not look like it but I used to be emo. And since I had too much cuts on my arms at the moment, I decided that the pain of a tattoo would be much more appropriate. I was talking to Sandee (~littlesailboat) recently about this and she said she couldn't imagine me being anything other than my goofy, happy self so I shared something I wrote before with her...

"Loss is the dark underpinning of our lives. It has many aspects, its causes are legion and no one is immune. Loss is the tarnished trophy of a survivor, a hard won assertion of one that is most valuable...At the core lies death and bereavement, but the darkness is still not unrelieved. Surrounding us is a loss of liberty, it sits alongside our loneliness."
-"Blood Pours"

When I found my old notebooks that had all this pseudo-suicidal essays in them, I couldn't believe I wrote them at all. O_o Now I just LOL at myself for being a freak.

6.) I have an Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. Back in high school, I'd often get bitchy with China when she'd leave her messy backpack open and I'd proceed to tell her off while organizing her books by size. You'd often hear China and Jin calling me "Mother Nature" or "Mommy Kat" almost every time my OC-ness kicks in. It used to be pretty bad that I couldn't stand it when my pencils would be facing in different directions in my pencil case. But now, I've gotten to be just a little bit messier and I can leave my bag unorganized for more than a week. Oh who am I kidding, I still have my cds in alphabetical order! O_o

7.) I have about 5 unfinished paintings in my room right now. Some of which, I started when I was in my early college years. My dad has been asking me to finish them for months, oh no...years, but I can't seem to find the inspiration to keep working. It's annoying sometimes cause I keep explaining to him that I can't paint when I don't feel like it. If I try to force it out, the painting might not turn out the way I want it too. Although, when I get stressed out or cram a plate for school, I can finish a painting overnight but HE doesn't know that.

8.) I don't know how to ride a bike.


Whuuuuuuuuut? It's not my fault! My mom was very protective of me when I was a kid. She used to make me run around with knee pads on cause she feared I might trip and have scars on my legs for goodness sake. Hence the reason I never had the opportunity to learn how to ride a bike. Jin and China have been wanting to teach me how for the longest time but I'm too chicken shit to try. O_o

TUX TEAM ADVENTURES

We've been busy bees lately. We recently had an epic NaruHina shoot that involved about 13 people, only 5 of which modeled that day.

*edit: Jin just posted a new OMAKE JOURNAL from that shoot, please check it out*

hahaha... As always, it's days like that I feel very blessed for having such wonderful friends like them.

And just last night we had another shoot. It's very different from our usual cosplay shoots, I won't say just yet what it was but you'll soon find out.
*Hint: It is not something for the faint-of-heart.

That's all for now.
Much love, everyone!