it's sem break! day 23

oh dear! look at how the time flies! my new semester will resume next week, and i still have so much things i want to do! and look! i'm so hyped up i cannot stop typing exclamation marks! today! tomorrow!

oh, before i go on, an announcement:

this is a scheduled post written in advance of published time~

because i was afraid i might be so tired and forgot to update my blog for today, i decided to schedule one. why tired? well, i am busy tonight. why busy? i am at an event tonight. what event?

Arthur's Day in Malaysia!

it's sem break! day 22

happy mid-autumn festival~ it is sometimes shortened to "lantern festival" or "mooncake festival" etcetera. where do these people get their ideas. tsktsk. anyway, the actual festival was yesterday, but i was busy eating mooncake, so i am sharing the home-made snowskin mooncakes i mentioned here today.

home-made pandan snowskin mooncakes with white lotus paste filling~

these few were dotted to separate them from the ones with fillings mixed with kuaci seeds. yes, i wanted the plain filling all to myself. hahaha~ of course, i am only joking - you know that, right?

a day in september seems to be incomplete without a parcel from somewhere. so click the jump to continue reading if you have not tired from my month-long shopping craze. includes something from AFAX too~

it's sem break! day 21

one more parcel~ today's delivered item was a disappointment i must say. well, it is after all a very suspicious item to spend one's money on. but for the sake of experiment, here we go...

do you want to take a guess what is inside? it is described as "electronic" on the customs declaration slip but i think it is the wrong label. it is NOT an electronic item. hint: its is a small handheld machine (that's why i placed my hand in the pic to show the size).

it's sem break! day 20

more incoming parcels! i think the postmen assigned to my area must be royally annoyed, wondering how many are being sent to my address. just today, they took 3-4 trips to my home for delivery! (yes, i lost count.) could they just send everything in one go? apparently there must be a glitch in the system today. XD

more delivery for today~

i took a photo of these two before i received yet another delivery from the next postman. one was ordered from cosplay.com and one from taobao.com - can you guess which?

it's sem break! day 19

potatoes and parcels!

okay, i am cheating. the potatoes were made yesterday, but that doesn't mean i cannot blog about it today. haha~ remember my Potatoes recipe book which i bought from the recent Book Fest? yesterday i took note of two recipes and tried them for dinner. here are the results!

baked potato chips and potato croquettes - yummy!

it's sem break! day 18

i have returned to browsing archived pages from Bodyline once again. yes, that means i was spending too much time online than i should be. here are some old tote bags which were available on Bodyline site in the past:

this bloody Alice print tote must be around 2 years old.

it's sem break! day 17

lazy day!

there was not much done today, but tomorrow i will be helping mummy to make snowskin mooncakes for this week's mid-autumn festival. snowskin mooncakes are no-bake mooncakes which are simply chilled after removed from the mooncake mould. not only they are delicious, you can save a lot with home-made ones because confectioneries sell them quite expensive due to high demand.

later at night, i was blog hopping. i was reading several lolita blogs at one time including blogs by Caro-chan and Victoria Suzanne. suddenly, one of the articles made me realise something about Bodyline fabric/print. for the past couple months, i have been browsing many, many local fabric blogshops. one of the print from Bodyline in 2008 matched a print i found sold in the blogshops!

the Bodyline JSK+headdress and tote bag print in white.

it's sem break! day 16

a date with the tailor!

it's sem break! day 8

it's meet-high-school-friends day! well, it only involved mine and nquowei's own cliques, but there could have been others who happen to be doing the same thing today. might you have planned the same too?

in the morning, i was at the post office to send several parcels at the post office. then kilmenyanne drove us to minori's place to fetch her, as we were carpooling to IOI mall. we met up with tharani, and then contemplated which movies to watch in replacement of the cancelled Expendables 12noon slot. we decided to skip it and went straight to the next agenda on today's to-do list: lunch!

it's sem break! day 5

expectations! for those who are in the same college as i am, the gruelling exam weeks are over, and some of us are (some are not) looking forward to the exam results. what can i say about my exam? i have four subjects this semester, and i will optimistically say i can pass three of them. the first one i am pretty sure i flunked it (the momentum to study had not started yet when i was supposed to be studying).

moving on to more delightful expectations, i am waiting for a ton of parcels to come in and twice as much to send out to others in september. rough calculations came up with 3-4 shipments from DHL, 1 USPS, 1 china post, and several local ones. i will be receiving parcels from japan, america, china, and of course malaysia itself (hopefully one from singapore too). at least half of these do not belong to me, but the things that i actually bought for myself are at least half the original price. *wink*

it's sem break! day 4

i turned the clock backwards! nah, i just changed the time by two hours back for this post because i fell asleep after dinner and then woke up at 1am because i remembered to blog first. haha~ so today's post will be in reverse chronological order (so i can start with juicy stuff first, instead of the boring morning).

finally, here are the carousel print and removable bow!

before dinner, i was out to berjaya times square to pick up my Carousel JSK from my courier. STOP YOUR THOUGHTS THERE. no, i absolutely, definitely, 100%ly, do not buy Bodyline stuff from ISOCKS. (when i first went to ISOCKS, the only item that i fell in love with was a Bodyline bunny maid set RM350 or so, but if i order direct from Bodyline it will be just over RM100.) it was just a coincidence i was there to collect my stuff in the evening. i did not even get a chance to walk into their shops when i left BTS.

it's sem break! day 3

i made it! yayness for my continuous blogging. haha~ i realised i have so much time in this semester break. as usual, the more free time, the more busy i get. not in a socialite schedule kind of busy, but other things. oh, you know. XD

last night i did not sleep at all. i was waiting until midnight for people to make payment, but in the end there was no payment coming in. so i end up sitting online throughout the night while browsing ebay. then i stumbled upon a really cheap auction for something i need for a future costume. i was looking for a really cheap one because i will not be using it frequently. plus, the other parts of the costume already cost me a bomb. everything  else will be on a tight budget.

come 7am, i still had not have any sleep, yet i went out with kilmenyanne to college. luckily i managed to squeeze in a quick shower (bad idea because i would not be able to sleep in college later). at the LRT station, i opt for the RM10 one-day EZpass that RapidKL offered. however, the staff who updated my TnG card screwed up, SLOWLY processed the problem, and gave me a small grey paper as my one-day pass. never mind that because it allowed me to walk past the special gates, avoiding all queues. yay for one day.

it's sem break! day 2

it is embarassing to admit, but i honestly did not manage to do any sewing projects today. i was occupied online. very occupied. *serious face* *ter-laugh*

due to unstable server issues over at Bodyline's international site, they have announced an extension for the 50% off sale. there were a few latecomers who were interested to place an order for the sale period, so i arranged a second sale group order for them. (yay~ achieved productivity by one point here: customer service.)

somewhere in mid-day, i was bored and because i can, i went over to my domain DNS to mess around and *POOF* i have a new subdomain. you can view the new blog here: http://shop.akikowolf.com (it looks pretty but it's empty). i do not have an official purpose for it; i just wanted to made sure i had something productive done - learning to mess with DNS settings. (half point for effort here. haha~)

it's sem break! day 1

before i proceed with today, i want to make a vow - a vow to blog everyday about what i will be doing in this semester break! i want to be productive! wish me luck. XD

now, allow me to write start with yesterday. after the final morning exam, i went to Chinatown, also known as Petaling Street, to shop for materials for upcoming sewing projects! i brought just below RM50 that day, so after lunch and LRT ticket fares were deducted, i had enough to buy red cloth, black cloth, and some smaller stuff. but, i ran out of money to buy red thread (no more in the sewing room)! that means i will be able to sew the black cloth for now and going to KL to buy more thread.

red cotton, black cotton, D-rings, red gem button, elastic thread (i was winding it up with some pearl beads bought much earlier).