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Whatever happens... Believe in you, believe in life, believe in tomorrow, believe in everything you do, any time.

The Girlzx

She's a January Baby. Going through life the best she can. Little anecdotes of life as she takes another breath for another day.



Events
- AFA'14
- Christmas Cosfest' 14
- J-Obsession 2015
- Charaexpo 2015
- Cosfest 2015
- EOY 2015
- STGCC 2015
- Sports Fest 2015
- Gamestart 2015
- Anime Festival Asia 2015
- Christmas Cosfest 2015
- J-Obsession 2016
- Doujima 2016
- Charaexpo 2016
- Cosfest 2016
- STGCC 2016
- Sports Fest 2016
- GameStart 2016
- Costime! Aeon Mall, Johor
- Idolicious 2016
- Anime Festival Asia 2016
- EOY 2016
- Tampines Youth Fest 2016
- Comic Fiesta 2016
- Cosfest 2017
- Doujima 2017 - PowerUp 2017
- Yuri On Ice-only event 2017
- STGCC 2017
- Charaexpo 2017
- GameStart 2017
- Idolicious 2017
- AFA 2017

She Loves Her "ABoyFriends"!
~Inuyasha~
~Yugioh(cute Yugi & HanSome Yugi)~
~Yuu Kanda~D.Gray-Man
~Uchiha Itachi~Naruto
~Gaara of the sand~Naruto
~Neji~Naruto
~Tieria Erde~Gundam00
~Casshern~CasshernSINS
~Cloud~FinalFantasy7
~Noctis Lucis Calum~FinalFantasy15
~Lelouch~CodeGreass
~Shun~Bakugan
~Zuko~Avatar the last airbender
~Yzak Joule~GundamSeed
~Zeheart~Gundam AGE
~Levi Ackerman~Attack On Titan
~KagamiTaiga~Kuroko No Basuke
~Frau~07-Ghost
~HaradaSanosuke~Hakuoki
But to be honest I'd rather see my boys being together. :D


She Has Her BIASES
♥Tokio Hotel
Bill Kaulitz . Tom Kaulitz . Gustav Schafer . Georg Listing
♥The WANTED
Tom Parker . Max George . Siva Kaneswaran . Jay McGuiness . Nathan Sykes♥
♥ One Direction
Louis Tomlinson♥ . Zayn Malik . Liam Payne . Niall Horan . Harry Styles
♥District 3
Dan Ferrari-Lane . Michael Parsons♥ . Greg West
♥Palaye Royale
Sebestian♥ . Remington . Emerson
♥JEdward
♥Ed Sheeran
♥SHINee
Lee JinKi . Kim JongHyun♥ . Choi MinHo . Kim KiBum . Lee TaeMin
♥B.A.P.
Bang YongGuk . Kim HimChan♥ . Jung DaeHyun . Yoo YoungJae . Moon JongUp♥ . Choi JunHong ZELO
♥NU'EST
Aron Kwak . Kim JongHyun JR . Kang DongHo BaekHo♥ . Hwang MinHyun . Choi MinKi Ren
♥B1A4
Jung Jinyoung . Shin Dongwoo CNU . Lee Junghwan Sandeul . Cha Sunwoo Baro . Gong ChanSik ♥
♥SEVENTEEN
Choi SeungCheol . Jang DoYoon . Yoon Junghan . Hong Jisoo . Wen JunHui . Kwon SoonYoung . Jeon WonWoo . Lee JiHoon . Yao MingMing . Lee SeokMin . Kim MinGyu . Boo SeungKwan . Chwe Hansol . Lee Chan . Shin DongJin . Samuel .
♥5SecondsOfSummer
Ashton Irwin . Michael Clifford . Calum Hood . Luke Hemmings
♥TheVamps
♥Boyce Avenue
♥The Script
weeee
Monday, September 21, 2015
Jiki's Whip

21 September 2015

Second post of the day!
This time it's on how I made Jiki's weapon, his whip.

Watch me whip

Watch me nae nae

The first ship fighters are badass, aren't they? Don't mess with us yo.

I looked up for some tutorial online and on youtube, there are quite a number of good ones! But (being the cheap cosplayer I am haha) I came up with my own way hahaha..

Things we need:

  • Whip handle (some people used PVC pipe with the ring thingy to hold the strings, but I got my foam one from Daiso, it was actually nunchucks with its strings cut) $2
  • Cotton Strings $2
  • Chains of various thickness and density (alternatively you can layer your chain with various lengths over one another)
  • Insulation Tape (Or athletic tape, which works better, but it's expensive over here ((or I'm lazy to find *cough*)) so insulation tape works fine hahaha) $1.50
First up, prepare your handle.
Since the whole whip is basically black, I decided to wrap the handle with the black insulation tape as well.

Next, Prepare your chain! My chain was about 2m long in total. They were actually the various chains of my old necklaces hahaha.. The thinnest chain should be at the tip, and gradually thicker towards the handle.
Alternatively, you can layer the chains if you only have 1 type of chain by cutting 2m, 1,5m, 1m, 0,5m lengths and putting them together at the handle. Attach the chains to the handle. For me, I simply tied the rope from the nunchucks to the chain.  


Similar to the layering of the alternative chain, cut the cotton strings into various length, the longest length being slightly longer than the chain. Do many many layers, getting shorter and shorter to build a thick base and thin tip.
It should be something like this:


Arrange the cotton strings around the metal chain so that the chain is somewhat hidden. Wrap them all together with the insulation tape TIGHTLY.


 (optional: to keep the strings and the chain together, I used plumbing tape and wrapped the length to hold them together.)
After that, go crazy and wrap the whole bloody whip with the insulation tape at a constant angle perpendicularly to the whip so that the width of the tape covers the whip nicely throughout the whip. Sadly, it was a challenging task because I had one only a pair of arms and legs, not so very skilled to take picture while doing it. So, enjoy the end product instead ok hahaha




Photos by CHR Studios, Cosplayer: Kuroyori Haruka.


CAUTION. Please handle the whip with care and caution, do not hit anyone or anything with it. When in use, keep 3m radius from people and living things around you as it may cause damage and injuries. 
The whip actually works like a legit whip and it hURTS. It even makes a whip sound, I'm actually impressed. It would hurt more if you use athletic tape because its more flexible and stretchable than insulation tape, but since it is just a prop, don't. Hahahaha

Okies, I hope it somewhat helps if you are thinking of making a cheap as heck whip (the whip literally costed me SGD$5.50 hahaha) yeah! :>

See ya~

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Karneval Shoot

21 September 2015

Hello~
I've been wanting to post up my cosplay experience so far and I have a lot of backlogs hahaha...
So, let's start with my first group photo shoot!

Karneval!


The idea was brought forth by Tsuna-chan and I agreed~
Through Carousell, we went to find people who were interested in joining us.

Jiki is so hot sia, I mean;
Nerdy, but still hot
mmm
yeahhhh

Jiki and Kiichi are both the First Ship Fighters, with our captain, Tsukitachi, who wasn't in the shoot haha

The shoot was fun, it was my first cosplay shoot to be honest! I was so confused about photogs and venue for shoot. We kept changing the venue (because Tsuna-chan is fussy haha) but ended up doing at the boardwalk near Marina Bay Sands instead haha...
It raaaained really heavily but when we came it stopped hahaha... We couldn't have a full group shoot because Nai had to leave early and Hirato-san came later >< But nonetheless it was fun ^~^

Our photogs were Jaden from CHR Studios and WWSSC.
Here are some photos from the shoot, enjoy~~





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University life so far, Touken Ranbu & KanColle

20 September 2015

Hello~
So time flew really fast and it is already towards the end of September! It is now my Recess week for uni which is like between weeks 6 and 7. Recess week exactly because we have this break to consolidate our learning and also to do our project. omg you know, this semester I am taking exposure modules for Sociology, Malay Studies, Communications and New Media, Quantitative Analysis and Samurai, Geisha and Yakuza as Self and Other. ALL of them except Soci have group projects!! Well, while I admit it is good exposure for us so that we can also meet new people in school and make friends this way, there is so much to do! >< But what else can I do but to obey.... hahaha...

Yes I took a course from Japanese Studies! Well it is somewhat a core module so it is not really a Japanese-studies thing but I learnt so much about Japan than I ever thought I will need to. I learnt about the hierarchy structure of Japan(Emperor, Shogun, Samurai, peasants, ronins and others) and the history of Japan from the end of the warring state, to start of the Tokugawa Era, Edo Era, right to the Meiji Era. It was because we were learning about the Samurais and the applicability of them during the Tokugawa era because it was this era that Japan is truly at peace and there was no more major wars. The samurais turned from being warriors to mere bureaucrats, and they wanted a change... I also learnt about how Japan is so closed off to the rest of the world until the Meiji Restoration when the Americans forced their way with their machinery to empower the Samurais to restore power to their emperor and open Japan's doors to the rest of the world. I also got to know about Bushido and the debate on how Bushido is an invented tradition rather than something actual in the past. However, the main thing that I learnt was the binary concept of The Self and Other, and also about Orientalism, that is, how the west viewed the east (mainly how the colonial powers viewed Japan). There's a reading we were given, "Orientalism" by... It is confusing, but it is a good read to know about Orientalism. We had just completed the section on samurai and now we are starting on Geisha. From the first lecture, it was quite interesting to know about the Geishas which was a more modern thing that happened after the era of the samurais somewhat ended. Through learning about the history of Japan and their samurais, I more or less got to relate things more easily than before especially when I am watch historical anime and manga!
There is a new hype in town!! Touken Ranbu! It is an online strategy game on DMM.com set in the fantasy world that there are Kebishi(the enemies) that are set to change history and make sure that the samurais of the past will not exist. So the player(you) have the ability to bring forth the swords of these samurais and god knows where in the form of all-male humans with personalities influenced by their history and/or users. All the swords in the game are based on real history of japan, mind you, and you can gather as many swords as you can through smithing or through enemy drops. Right now, there are 47 swords including the new sword that just released yesterday hahaha... Touken Ranbu is said to be like the game aimed at females whereas Kantai Collection is the game aimed at males. KanColle is similar to TouRan but it is more modern because the characters are battleship girls instead of sword boys.
TouRan is actually the reason why I took that module to be honest. I wanted to know about the samurais and their past and WHY they ended. What happened back then because when I read the touken danshi's background histories, some of them were really sad and depressing but it was clear that most (not really all haha) of them swords were being held at high value (afterall, the swords in Japan have more sociological meaning than just a weapon of destruction. It was the symbol of honour and social class, and much more). Yeap, through that module, I learnt so much and could relate to the swords better. I could also relate to more anime that I have watched before and make better connections.
Not only that, through this module, I made a close friend! She's Pamela and she's a cosplayer too! I've yet to meet her when she is in costume but the first event we met was Sports Fest yesterday hhaha...
While I was almost regretting picking a totally random module, I feel glad I didn't change it last minute because the module is really interesting and I am enjoying it so far. :)

Besides that, I am quite disappointed that the Malay studies is in English and there is barely a literature section... I thought of minoring in Malay studies but there is no literature!! :( Might as well take sociology where it is more society in general rather than just the Malays... >< I am quite enjoying the modules this sem, I hope it will be like this for the rest of my uni life hahahahahaha......

However, one thing that I HAVE to rant is the travel time... really though, I took NUS because it is prestigious and is easier to commute than NTU which is true... but why do universities have to be at the other side of the country :') My travel time from home to NUS is 2hours. >1hour MRT ride and the buses can be asses sometimes,... well, most of the time. Oh, do you want to hear a frustrating story? NUS INTERNAL SHUTTLE BUS. YES. There is only one way to get to UTown fast from Kent Ridge MRT, that is, the D1 bus. Which is ALWAYS full and I can hardly get on. Late, yep, late. T__T I didn't get my licence so I can't drive so... but I'd rather public transport but STILL. T_____T ~4 years yea, :')

I thought of sharing about STGCC which was last week and Sport Fest which was yesterday but I still have some project stuff to do and I'm sleepy hahaha next time then! ^~^

Thought I'd share some pictures of KanColle and my sword husbands, TouRan, Most of them are fanarts though. Enjoy~






A really cool fanart of the TouRan danshis (-the new swords)~


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