90's jrock at its best...haha...

MY PARENTS. DID NOT LET ME GO TO SEE SUGIZO TODAY. T____T AFTER 3 HOURS OF ARGUING WITH THEM, THEIR RESPONCE WAS "BECUASE I SAY SO." WHY?! SO I BLASTED SCREAMO EMO JROCK FOR 2 HOURS AT THEM. TAKE THAT MOM AND DADDDDDDD.



/sob

EVEN MORE SKETCHES.



































OK That's all the sketches...for NOW hahahaha...


Muy Desk...RELATIVELY neat today...it's usually alot messier ahhahaha





Figurine shelvesssss, I really really want the rovoltech Yoko that's coming out in October, but I don't know if I have enough room hahahahah....

....That's all for today, have to get back to SAT/PSAT prep! T__T

OHMYGOD.

"This is a very belated message, but you guys are winners of Otaku USA's cosplay contest at Anime Expo this year. Congratulations! We meant to have it announced in the magazine, but we were late getting that issue off to press and someone literally forgot to put it in. By the time I found out and reminded them, the magazine was already being printed and it was too late! As it is, you can still see the feature on Anime Expo in the October issue of the magazine (it has a Naruto cover, again) but it has no victory anouncements."



OHMYGODWE'RE IN. A. PUBLISHED. MAGAZINE?! BUAAAAAAHHHHH

So, Suigizo and Juno Reactor are going to San Francisco's Japantown for a meet and greet...AND MY MOM SAID I COULD GO....So I hope Dad dosen't stop me from going haha. I'm so excited buahahahha.

I had an epithany today when reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Nature"... It's the best piece of writing I've read in the last five years...Read if you want to read something beautiful and appreciate the world/nature around you much much more.

Hrmmmmm, just got back from Long's Drugs to buy pentel erasers. They make me...really happy...hahahaha I haven't been using any big erasers for a while, so drawing BIG has been pretty hard for me cuz I tend to erase alot, and I don't want to use up my skinny push erasers so quickly and they aren't that great for erasing large areas cleanly.



Ah, having a blog is useful, eh? Here, I can finally post up all my sketches that aren't nearly polished enough to upload to deviantART, but stuff I wanna show people anyway buahhaahaa~ But I'll upload a few pages/spreads a day or blog entry over time, cuz I have too many photos in this entry already hahahaha~

Cover! I drew this directly with my inking pen while watching the opening ceremonies live for the Beijing Olympics. I got kinda bored looking at all the countries' athletes coming out and walking, so I started drawing haha.


First Page, June 20, 2008


Second Spread, June 22-23, 2008


That's it for sketches for now!

But a few days ago, I took some more practice photos in the backyard with Olivia~

Entire set: http://flickr.com/photos/bubydub/sets/72157607332040412/





















...and took the last photo during the nighttime haha.

And I should get back to studying chinese lol, I'm like 6 chapters behind becuase I skipped ahead into Chinese 3 and they've learned half of the book more than I did hahaha.... I HAVE TO LEARN ALL OF THESE FLASHCARD TERMS. BY MONDAY. WHYYYY

I can't stop listening to Big Bang's new album STAND UP, especially to Haru Haru. SUCH a good song and this parody of it makes it that much better...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XawZiPC9JOk

The rest of the family went to go eat dimsum and visit my grandma in the hospital for most of the day and I had resolved to finish my homework so I could play on Sunday...But I wasted all my time on the internet and now I have to do all my homework gahha;sdlfkasfj But yeah, went around the house singing Big Bang songs at the top of my lungs because I was home alone....and webcamming with Jin...where I cosplayed LORD GENOME and Kittan from Gurren Lagann, kinda epic ahhahahaha.

So Victoria came over on friday, just like any other friday night... But that night...I BECAME LEERON. Used too-pale L'oreal true match for the foundation, L'oreal bronzer for cheekbones, mystery eyebrow pencil from china for those halfbrow things, and the my mom's mystery blue and pink eyeshaow. I looked like a clown...BUT IT WAS SO FUN. It was hella hard to wash off though, I tried using just water, and it just smudged a bit, so I used my heavy duty makeup removing pads hahahah. I webcammed to everyone on my msn and yahoo lists and V took photos of me TO RECORD THE FABULOUSNESS THAT IS LEERON'S FACE. We also played .hack//GU (first volume) for a while cuz it just came in the mail.

Right now...I don't want to study for my history quiz...or prepare for my chinese speech...gahhh I WANT TO DRAW.










WHAT IS THAT THING BEHIND ME?!

Time to start actually updating this thing regularily yeah? ahahha Yeah,I created this blog to use as a journal so I could reflect and remember back on my life and stuff...but I kept on getting either too lazy or afraid of saying dumb stuff in my entries...But now I don't care what others think or if others even read this, cuz this is just a personal journal blog thing, ya? Hahaha... So today my grandma broke her hip...yeah...

So. Didn’t write about my summer very much while it was still summertime. That was verrrrry stupid of me, because I kind of have school right now, haha…

So I stayed in Humen for most of my time in the south of China, but there wasn’t much to do except go shopping and to the salon. Since I promised to write about my “adventures in China” (it’s not that exciting lol…) to my classmates, here it is~


This is where I get all my fabric hahaha, it’s super wholesale here and the selection is really big, although I haven’t found any pleather yet ahahah…


Some market thing


Downtown Humen.




SO SHAMELESS.


Hotel where we eat dimsum.


Stuff made to order in the dimsum restaurant!






WHOA LOOK AT THAT SHARKS FIN


Best place to get French food…is in China…




…Jay Chou potato chips…tomato flavored…


Outside our house at night!




HYUK HYUK ITS 25 LOLLOLOLOL ><



…HAHAHAHAHA….
(He’s my hair-salon guy lololol…)

ANYWAY. We also went to Hong Kong for a day.


The torch!


Ate at a hella tiny restaurant…beef noodles I think?







Went to the peak…AND SAW MAGICAL NOODLES AND JACKIE CHAN.






JACKIE CHAN. KAT. BEIJING HUAN YING NIIIIIIIII




SO MUCH STUFF.


HARRO KITTAY


LOVERELY LITTLE SISTER KNOWS HOW TO OPERATE THEM SUBWAY TICKET THINGS~!

So yeah…Hong Kong for one day only… Stayed in Humen for a bit longer (playing in the hair salon mostly haha) and then my parents shipped me off to Beijing with my grandparents by train. 19 hour ride…it’s a lot better than airplanes though hahahaha~


HAI GRANNY. JIN THIS IS MY MANTIS GRANDMA. AND THE MAID. WHO WANTS TO KILL ME.


In a taxi on the way home! Streets are hella clean in Beijing hahaha


Started raining really hard as we got to the apartment, view from the top of the stairs ahahahhahaah. Looks kinda ghetto lolll


In Haidian district at night, walking home from eating at a restaurant. (I don’t like peking duck. ._. )

So, by myself in Beijing, I walked to the subway everyday and explored the city alone ahahhaha.


A LOVERLY DAY TO GO EXPLORING!

SUMMER PALACE~!









And more photos at my flickr account!

XIDAN~
My favorite shopping district in Beijing! Best place to bargain and get fob clothes LOL hahaha


SUBWAY. ABOVE THE GROUND?!


77 shopping center! GO HERE IF YOU WANNA GET CLOTHES WOOOHOO


Inside 77, it’s underground!

3.3 shopping center! The super “hip” place to go LOL, but the clothes there were all american brands that were more expensive in china than in america, so I didn’t buy anything hahah





AND THEN MY PARENTS DECIDED TO COME. AND TAKE ME TO THE OLYMPICS. KINDA EPIC LOL. We saw the prelims of tennis with a lot of famous people playing a;slkdfasl;kfd


HAHAHAHA SCALPERS.


YEAH I KNOW MY SMILE IS SEXY.


TENNIS STADIUM A;S.KDLFJAS;F


VENUS WILLIAMS


A;SLKFDAKSL



BELINDA

OK SO. BELINDA IS LIKE MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND FROM AMERICA. WE WENT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TOGETHER AND CARPOOLED ALL THE TIME RIGHT?! AND AND WE RAN INTO THEM AT THE OLYMPICS! TOTALLY UNPLANNED. BUT AMAZING A;SLKDFAJSF



OK SO, I WENT AGAIN TO SEE TRAMPOLINE. KINDA EPIC TOO.


THE SKY IS BLUE


MY TICKET


WHOA COOL BUILDING


MORE BUILDINGS


BIRDS NEST A;SKLDFJAS;.FKL


WATER CUBE.


YEAH FACIAL IMITATION NO JUTSU AT ITS FINEST


YEAH TRAMPOLINE WOOHOO


WEEEEE


HAPPY VOLUNTEERS




WATER CUBE AT NIGHT OHSNAP


TIANMEN


YEAH I’M NOT THAT NATIONALISTIC LOL

WANG FU JING SHOPPING DISTRICT






HAHAHA WTF IS THIS

OK OK SO BACK STORY TIME. MY FRIEND LUCY FROM HONG KONG USUALLY COMES TO MY HOUSE IN CHINA TO PLAY, BUT THIS YEAR SHE WAS HELLA BUSY WITH STUFF THE ENTIRE SUMEMR. BUT THE ONE DAY SHE GOES TO BEIJING, WE SEE HER IN WANGFUJING, AND WE’RE LIKE OHMYGOD ITS YOU AS;LKDFJAS;CKJSFLK YEAH OK I’M DONE.


OHMYGOD


YEAH KFC IS WHERE THE COOL KIDS EAT


HE’S SCRATCHING HIS BUTT. HAHAHA


CCTV ASSAULT!


GUAAAHH


LOLAXEL WIG?!


YUMYUMYUM….


SO TASTY

OK SO I RETURNED TO THE SOUTH. TO HAVE MY PHOTOSHOOT FOR LU XUN. BUT I WAS AN IDIOT AND KINDA FORGOT MY BOOTS. AND HIP BELT THING. DAMN. SO I HAVE FLOWER SANDAL FEET AHAHHAAHA. OK EXERPT FROM MY FLICKR SET DESCRIPTION CUZ I’M IN NO STATE OF MIND TO PROPERLY DESCRIBE THIS NOW AHHAHA

A photoshoot I had with my family in a big park in Dongguan, China (Near Guangzhou). The weather was really nice even though there was supposed to be a typhoon passing through the area that day. Because of that typhoon, the park was closed, but we got in through the guards becuase of our connections. XD We were shooting with the park to ourselves until other people started getting in. I got alot of stares ahahahah.... It was really fun though, and I'm glad that the rest of my family enjoyed that day too!

YEAH.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubydub/sets/72157607170782831/

THOSE ARE ALL THE PHOTOS. YEAH.

AHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI


DAD STOP TAKING PHOTOS OF ME


OH HAI MOM

OK THE END CUZ JEANINE WANTS ME TO WRITE ABOUT SAC ANIME. EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY TOLD HER ABOUT IT.

OK UM I THINK I’M DONE WITH MY CHINA ENTRY.

HIGHLIGHTS/MEMORIES OF MY SUMMER:
OLYMPEEKS
25
SHOPPING AND EXPLORING BY MESELF
EPIC CONVOS WITH TUX TEAM AS;LKDFAJS;CLFDKASF PWETPWETPWETPWETPWET

OK

NOW

TIME

FOR

SAC ANIME REPORT

~

SAC ANIME LALALALLALALALA


Duhh?


STOP TAKING PHOTOS OF ME DAMMIT


HEHEHE SECRET SYMBOL ONLY COOL KIDS KNOW


SO V AND I DECIDED TO GO TO SAC ANIME IN SACREMENTO SO WE COULD MEET UP WITH OUR FRIENDS JIMMY AND DUSTIN. WE WERE LIKE OH YEAH SAC ANIME BABAY SO WE DROVE UP WITH MAH MOTHAR. My sisters and my mom went shopping or something hahaha. We missed the place the first time and had to loop back, I saw the place first cuz I saw a NEON wig from afar ahahahah. There was some kinda bible class thing at the church next door….We got a lot of weird looks when driving through ahahahhahahahahha~ So we registered and stuff, entered my two pieces of shit (art) into the art competition, and we were like, OK LETS SURPRISE DUSTIN AND JIMMY BY FINDING THEM FIRST. So we tried to find them while exploring the very small venue…but we never found them ahahhaha. I decided to call them…and they were still in the hotel room working on costumes LOL. So we were like ok, lets DO A PHOTOSHOOT.



SO HAPPY

So we scouted for places…and couldn’t find any LOL. So I asked Bartboy where to take photos and he led us out of the con center and down by the river. Oh god, walking to that place was like…really bad… ahahhah It was super hot, and V and cosplaying as Kanda while I was Rukia… So we took some photos by the river…until I noticed a guy staring out at us from under the bridge….a really creepy stare too… So V and I agreed to walk as quickly back to the con center, scaring some bicylists on the trail on the way back. XD;;



We walked around the dealers room, trying to find :devimari-chan: , and V saw her first ahahhaha. We ate lunch afterwards, chili cheese dogs and fries lol… There was this guy who took photos of us eating…it was kinda weird lol… and then a HUGE group of random cosplayers came out of no where and started dancing to random internet memes, right in front of us, and this one guy kept on shaking his bootay a lot…in my face… kinda distracting/irritating when I’m trying to eat without getting crap on my costume ahahhaha… We went to the front of the con center and kinda sat on the grass…for like 4 hours LOL. We entertained ourselves with making up some fan fiction between some people we know AHAHAHHA KAT AND JIN KNOW WHO WE’RE TALKIN’ ABOUT and watching the naruto cosplayers frolick around. I noticed that this con had a lot more young people (in my age group… orz) and a lot of immature people….unlike Fanime ahahahah. They did lots of dumb things that day, and made me kinda ashamed to be associated with fans like them gas;dflkasfjd. Well anyway, we took a lot of dumb photos while sitting outside…


YEAH I KNOW I’M SEXY. We put my camera on a bush and set it on an timer….we stood like that for like 20 seconds LOL


THE MYSTERIOUS HAND SYMBOL REAPPEARS


…


WHAT COULD THIS HAND SYMBOL EVER MEAN?!


CATBUS AFRO?!


…


YEAH SOME SEXY EYELASHES RIGHT THERE


Rukia approves of melon soda.


BUT KANDA APPROVES OF IT MORE


AHIIHHHI


Durr




SHIN CHAN COSPLAY


WHAT YOU SAY


So after a while, V and I were like…lets go back inside, so we did, and checked to see if I had won for the art contest. Turns out I won first place for both digital and traditional art! 8D ahahahhahaah oh hai thar prize moneyzzzz





V IS A NENJA PHOTOGRAPHER



Wooohoo, so I got a big certificate to spend moneyz at a store in the dealers room…and I got a buttload of figurines LOL. They were stacked up higher than my head when I carried them in my arms, so the guy gave me a BOX to carry them in….hahaha…So we traveled around carrying around that box…. BUT THEN, DUSTIN CALLED ME TO TELL US THAT HE GOT HERE! But Camille was the one who called me, BUT SHE SOUNDS LIKE JEANINE’S MOM LOL, I got so confused ahahha.

“the caller id says Dustin, but it sounds like Jeanine’s mom! D8 I’M SO CONFUSED”
So I was hello hello-ing for like 20 hellos until she gave the phone back to Dustin and we found them ahahah. When we first saw them, Camille ran towards me and was like, WHOAAA and I was like WHOAAA and we simultaneously fangirled over each other LOL. We were all kinda melting under the sun, so we decided to go back inside…and stand in a hallway for a bit…doing nothing LOL, until we decided to go to the courtyard, WHERE ME AND V SPENT THE BEST HOUR OF OUR LIVES AHAHHA.


DUSTIN AND CAMILLE SO AWESOME S:DFLKDSJ



HIS EYES


So pretty~





Oh my god, these two are the funniest people I know…we were laughing the entire hour we were together, at totally random stuff too, like our decomposing costumes… hahahaha THE GLOVES AND RIBBONS LOL

We were like…Let’s take epic action kicking and jumping poses…









WE GOT IT RIGHT EVENTUALLY.




Uh oh…buttons are coming off….


PANTS ARE COMING OFF TOO


STUPID GLOVES. THAT WERE PAINTED RUBBER GLOVES. STUPID BUTTONS. STUPID VINYL. (look at his pex…that’s sweat….hahahaha)


DAWG, THERES LIKE 20 DOLLARS WORTH OF RECYCLABLES IN THAT.


HOHOHO COSTUME SWAPPING

My MOM somehow found us in the midst of our spazzing and told me that we had to go…but I told her that I won prizes so she let me stay longer and she was nice enough to carry my figurines back into the car LOL

SO WE TOOK PHOTOS TOGETHER. THANK YOU RANDOM GUY WHO HELPED US TAKE PHOTOS! That’s Jen, who is also amazingly awesome, on the far right!




THE SWEAT JUST BLEW US AWAY


One last group photo! That Near or Mello or whatever looks really creepy coming out of the door like that ahahhaha

So we left the con center all together, cuz they had to go pick up Iris, and there was this really really gross and sweaty akatsuki cosplayer who wanted a hug from me…so I made a face at V and the rest hahahah… /A\ ß my face lololol So we drove to Vacaville to buy shoes for my sister and V and I just stayed in the car and took dumb photos LOL, and then we went to a buffet and a classmate and my driving instructor saw me there…in costume LOL. When V and I were in the bathroom, (she was in normal clothes I guess, dress shirt and dress pants?) there was this little girl who kept on staring at us…hahhahaha…

/Sac Anime Adventure

So…this is my most recent photospam …figurine photos…haha
For the complete photoset: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubydub/sets/72157607188172902/






















…ok I’m done…haha