For now. [[Not on this blog]].

Cu-razy. Although a happy six month of blog-life ‘present’. =)

Glad if people get something from it too.

Maybe feeling a little pressurised to take them into higher consideration.

=O I think I’ll just keep doing what I do for now though, ha ha!

But thank you so much - so flattered, x. Even though 99% of you won’t read this.
I would’ve said it there so everyone could see it, but I just didn’t want to make a big deal out of it…

I used to LOVE Michael Jackson’s songs as a kid.

Most people who only knew me when I was very young mention this…

I even used to choreograph my own dance moveS to his songs, HA HA!! I was like… seven-years-old, so we can tell that was amazing.

But “Remember the Time” is definitely one of my favourites, if not THE favourite of mine from him. Having said that, not many people I speak to tend to know this song?! (WHY!!). But, can I also just say…

Iman looks amazing in this video. A-MAZ-ING.

When I found out, a couple of years later, that she was married to David Bowie (someone who I also thought looked fabulous, when I was a kid), I nearly exploded. The two people who I happened to think looked wonderful… are a couple?! Too much. ON TOP OF THAT, in their pictures together, they always look so happy. [Cries].

Back to the song though… Yes. (And Eddie Murphy… ahahaha).

Hello! (Ooh, and thank you!! x).

Yes~~ My curls were fine afterwards, but they are terrible now (wahhh~ well, they’re just really dry/brittle) because I re-dyed about four times, so do. not. do. that. =P Other than that, I didn’t really do anything differently to my hair.

I used ammonia-free hair dye too, and bleaching my hair… it was yellow. It was like it was impossible for it to go any lighter (unless maybe I left it in there for hours!!), so - maybe if you have hair like me - it might be hard to get it to a very light colour too?? I’m not sure how to help that though.

But yeah, I use a hair conditioner for dyed hair, but it’s for Caucasian hair, so I sort of swap between that and one for curly hair. The dye fades out so quickly though~~. Although I think pinks and reds are supposed to last longer, having said that.

Sorry I can’t be of much help. =( But I’m sure there are YouTube videos and things that might be a bit more helpful.

I’m afraid I’m replying to this when I’m very~ tired. So I’m pretty useless as it is. But if you want to know anything else or help finding any further information, I’ll be glad to help with that later. =)

“Summertime”. One of my favourite songs.

And, exceptionally, I don’t prefer the jazz versions of it.

icykynite:

blackinasia:

After years of people mis-pronouncing my Japanese last name in the States, I almost thought I would be out of the clear when I came here… Then it turns out, that my last name is read differently, depending on the Prefecture. *sigh*

Yeah, my name is initially mispronounced by most of the people I know (regardless of where they’re from). I can count the people who have pronounced it correctly first time ‘round on one hand. Honestly.

I get why, but… it’s still exhausting. What is most annoying about it though, is that 90% of the time, they say, “Oh, I’m sorry! I’m [insert ethnicity], so I can’t pronounce some names sometimes!”.

Maybe it shouldn’t annoy me as much as it does, but when no one gets your name right no matter where they are from, it just rubs me the wrong way to use this excuse. Ha ha, it’s not like I’m not sympathetic. I know why most people say it that way, because in most if not all languages, it would logically follow a different pattern of pronunciation. In fact, the spelling of my name features in several languages, all pronounced the same way but not like my name.

And, to be honest, I suck at pronouncing words I don’t know!!

So, you don’t need to make excuses. I understand. Just let me move on quickly because sometimes I have a temper about it. =P

-_- My law teacher nicknamed me, “Fiery” because of it. Ha ha

willy-i-am:

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We headed in to town fairly early to eat lunch at edamame, an amazing little Japanese restaurant tucked away in town that I’d been to a few months ago. The food there is well worth the wait and the queuing, and on my first bite of chicken karaage I thought I tasted a small slice of nirvana. I’d missed that food.

After that we went to Formo-san tea bar, also a lovely little Japanese establishment tucked away in town. They serve great tea, but after I got distracted and seared my tongue by taking a large swig of green tea with lemon, I wasn’t able to enjoy the lovely tea as much.  

In the evening, to carry on this Japanese theme that was running through our day, we went to Nila’s film night for the Japanese Society to watch 13 Assassins. Half the film was a massive battle, which was epic.

Need to get a bubble tea. Seriously though. Haven’t had one in so long.

I just… left it.

But then when James told me the answer, “国際人” (an international person), I despaired inside. I should’ve just guessed it would be that!!

I also realised that I think I had been getting the meaning of this word wrong for years now. I thought a “cosmopolitan city” just meant an ethnically and ‘culturally’ diverse city. However, I read that it means a city “that embraces its multicultural demographics”. But what does it mean by “embrace”? Like, is Birmingham a cosmopolitan city or not? Because I hear that racism is crazy up there.

Meh. Words confuse me. I think I probably look too deeply into it.

Because then a cosmopolitan person, I would’ve thought that meant either you have family from all over and/or have lived in a few countries so you are familiar with, to some degree, many different cultures.

But then I read that it means, “Having an exciting and glamorous character associated with travel and a mixture of cultures”. I didn’t realise you were an exciting person as well, hahaha.

Anyways, I gotta revise instead of thinking about all this nonsense I’ll probably feel embarrassed for later. Ciao, x.

cinemacap:

Tokyo Sonata (2008) Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

I love that, when people watched this scene… they thought of me.

HAHAHAHA

(But seriously, a good film. I recommend it).

Cannot wait.

Shannon and Tatiana before they’re off to Turkey! Careful out there, x. #friends #holiday

gr8okcool replied to your post: I’ve been feeling sick all day from a mild migraine.

you can do it nila!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you!! The first half was PAINFUL. My eyes hurt so bad when reading, but I guess the drugs kicked into full action an hour later because then I felt better enough for it to go all right after that. =D

Hopefully, I did okay. But I’m not sure. I kind of think I didn’t. =\

We’ll see. Reading & Writing II exam next up! Garghh

I have a two hour exam in an hour and I can barely look at my revision stuff without feeling terrible.

The sky outside is white too, which aggregates my headaches. So the walk there should be fun as well. Hoping Neurofen will save me, otherwise this is gonna go so horribly…

In Atlanta. “I don’t want to be around all black people 5 days a week”, ”these clubs are hood as fuck” and called all black people “ghetto”, etc.

She tried to play it like, “I’m a hippy, so I’m not being racist. If I were in a club with only white people, I’d be complaining too”. I highly doubt that situation, and being a hippy doesn’t mean you can’t make racist comments or be racist.

Some people need to be held more accountable for what they say.

It’s sad that no one really says anything.

I think, next time someone says something racist towards me, instead of holding my tongue as I have in the past, I’m gonna speak up.

Don’t care who it will be. Tired of it. And if they truly don’t want to be like that, they’ll appreciate me pointing out their ignorant stereotyping, etc.