Monday, January 23, 2012

Only through pain will you find beauty.

Only through suffering will you find peace.

Blerg. It's suppose to rain tomorrow. I don't like cold. Man, making videos is so time consuming but it's kind of fun at the same time. I need to get myself a quad core computer with like 8 gigs of RAM and like 5 terabytes of hard drive space to make it quicker. I missed a workout last night because I really wanted to get this video done. This will be another vlog + blog hybrid because I haven't really done much since last entry. I guess I'll throw some fashion week pictures too since I'm lacking that somethin' somethin'.


By the way, Happy Lunar New Years! It's the year of the dragon and apparently, it's the year where married couples try to have children because having kids within the year gives the child strength and something else...I can't remember.

You gotta give props to people like LuanLegacy who pretty much have unedited videos because mines are so damn choppy. I'm always wondering..."How many takes did he do because he's just continuously talking for 5 minutes...".
I watched the movie "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" (as mentioned in the video) and here's the movie poster for it.
I knew of the movie but I didn't really know much besides the title and the fact that it was a Chinese movie. I told Lisa and she was like "I wanted to watch that movie but my boyfriend said it had bad reviews so we didn't watch it". That kind of threw me off but I wanted to watch it anyway because I like Li Bing Bing and her interview on "The View" definitely sold me.

Here's the interview. The audio is sort of low so remember to turn the volume knob back down after watching haha.


In short, the movie was adapted from a book of the same title and it's about friendship/sisterhood. Doesn't that already just sound like a good movie already? The movie takes place in two times (ancient China and modern Shanghai) and this really beautiful story just unfolds since the beginning of it. I really liked the movie. I'm waiting for my mom to watch it too so I can ask her what she thought about it.
Here's the trailor.


And speaking of beautiful things, I was on YouTube today and saw this Gabby Giffords video up. I think it's kind of sad that I try to get it out there and no one really cares. She's an amazing woman! If you don't follow US politics, basically, Giffords was out at a market in Arizona meeting the public when someone came out shot multiple rounds. Giffords was one of the people shot and she was shot IN THE HEAD. She AMAZINGLY recovered and is still recuperating. For someone who was shot in the head and shows no anguish towards the person who shot her is SO admirable. She presents herself with gratefulness for being alive and still has passion towards helping the people of Arizona. She's genuinely thankful and happy for being alive. She's definitely up there on my list of people I admire.


She is stepping down but it's understandable. You'd think Arizona is full of crazy people because it's one of those super red states with anti-immigration politicians and stuff, but she's one of those outliers. She's so full of awesome. Hate it when people bitch about their lives. It's like...REALLY? HAVE YOU BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD AND STILL BE GLAD TO BE ALIVE? HAVE YOU FOUGHT TO LIVE LIKE GABBY HAS?

So anyway, it's been hours since I kept this tab opened and I have no recollection of what I wanted to say anymore.

I did get my Topman package and they did charge me for my purchase. I'm so annoyed that I didn't get that Mickey Mouse jumper I really wanted. They should've notified me and gave me an option to cancel rather than just shipping it, adjusting my total, and telling me it didn't ship with it. I was looking through their site again and I saw the say effing jumper so I quickly put it in my cart along with some other stuff in hopes that I'll actually get it this time. Am I fucking crazy or what? LOL :x If I don't get it shipped again, no more attempts... I'll probably do a video on all my Topman stuff since I never bought from them until now.

Okay! some quick pictures of looks I really liked and I need to eat and then sleep! got work and school to go to. I didn't even read. Shame. 
Thom Browne FW 2012
Totally had this Frankenstein, crazy house, mad scientist thing going on. I friggin' love it. I love all the details. The spikes, the patterns, sooooo rad, so so rad.
Hermes FW 2012
Totally digging the prints.
Lanvin FW 2012
Very safe looking? but I love the layering and the matching of everything.
photosource: hommemodel.blogspot.com and linked via tumblr.

6 comments:

  1. Multilingual skills, damn @___@ (applauds)!
    I'm glad to hear you've been learning to enjoy life more - it is really too short to ponder on such things :( Ah man, preach it - by the time people have stopped whinning, they might've done what started the rant. Oh, and nonsense, your vlogs are very entertaining :D I love how you randomly break out into Canto haha Hope you had a lovely start to the Lunar Year! Wow, Hermes's prints are so gorgeous *___* ... sorry for the essay of a comment LOL ...

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  2. Multilingual skills, damn @___@ (applauds)!
    I'm glad to hear you've been learning to enjoy life more - it is really too short to ponder on such things :( Ah man, preach it - by the time people have stopped whinning, they might've done what started the rant. Oh, and nonsense, your vlogs are very entertaining :D I love how you randomly break out into Canto haha Hope you had a lovely start to the Lunar Year! Wow, Hermes's prints are so gorgeous *___* ... sorry for the essay of a comment LOL ...

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  3. keke your video was cute, especially the part of you speaking in mandarin & Cantonese! ^^,

    I watched the trailer for that movie you posted and it looks really interesting! I'm curious to see how the movie transitions from ancient China to modern Shanghai. I have to admit I was a little bit surprised you wanted to watch a movie about friendship and sisterhood ~~ if I tried to get any of my guy friends to watch with me, they'd all ditch me within a second >< lol

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    1. it doesn't really transition to the time...it sort of "mirrors" it. i'm a chick flick guy...i'm like half girl...>_> *shifty eyes*

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  5. i love luanlegacy! he is too funnyy :D

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