2 Plugs

A new version of 'Karenai Hana' i first sang years back, from Fullmetal panic. this time without the annoying chorus. :)

And a 2nd cover of 'CAROLS', a ballad by Ayumi Hamasaki.

Both are recorded in 2008!

(here is van showing signs of life):


ahhh i want a change of blog layout! if not i'm not blogging. haha. don't feel like blogging in this "skin".



I recorded a short cover of the song "Doll" originally by Lia. It is from the anime 'Gunslinger girl'. To listen, go to my soundclick account @ www.soundclick.com/ayuria

Hoyu Hair Show - Colour Kaleidoscope 2008

D.A.Y (huiyi, xinhui and me) modeled as hair models for anthony hair salon at a hoyu hair colour show at the arena clarke quay on 15th July!

don't really have time to blog about it much so i shall just let the videos and photos speak for themselves. :) Basically it was an eye-opening experience to the modeling world. And, it is just not as glamorous as it looks really. but still fun in a way, after its over.

>> Click here to see video of the rehearsal! <<

My hair suffered alot of damage though. on the day before we went to he salon after school to cut and dye our hair. they first bleach our hair until it was stripped of all pigment and we look like lions. -.- (yes its the same colour as their fur) quite shocking and horrible. lucky they went on to apply a second layer of colouring. and a 3rd layer of highlights. xh had a very light blonde colour, hy is brown with platinum blonde fringe + my relatively normal looking ash brown colour at the top and lighter shade at the bottom.

on the day itself, there was waiting waiting and more waiting starting from 9am! there was makeup, rehearsal, hair styling where they keep spraying hair spray on you. their hair spray can is like half a metre long!? so there was alot of gunk to remove at the end of the day.

yep, and after that on wed, we went back after sch to redye our hair black. survived sch with alot of spray (again!) with black hair spray. >.<


p.s i actually wrote this very long ago. but realised i haven't published it only now. =.=

An update...

Hihi, just dropping by for an update! :)

DRAWINGS

i finished the NANA drawing already. (actually it was inspired by Reira from the anime NANA but oh well...)

It can be found at nasaki.deviantart.com too

And..in retrospect, the soft toy look like a cross between fried tofu with beach umbrella pattern and a rabbit
and pikachu. >.<

and...new songs! hmm..i think i improved since then? :)

'Ignited' from Gundam Seed
comments: its short (2mins +) and better in terms of vocals to the past songs. :] the bg music is a piano piece and it is played at a slower pace than the actual song. i tried to bring out the emotion as best as i could.

>listen<

'Anata ga ita mori' from fate/stay night
comments: it starts out nice but i dislike some of the notes that are abit jarring. i tried to mute it as much as i could.

>listen<

Edit: and, i found this cool new feature on soundclick. heres a player with all the songs i currently have on soundclick.

Back to Artistic Pursuits

ok, after a whole year of detraction from any art stuff due to me choosing not to join art club again, i'm back blogging! (writing is a literal art form right? i may be wrong).

erhem. anyway, the holidays have been pretty uneventful, consisting mainly of the primative living (eat, sleep, digest), training + para paraing at safra and occasional outings. since i have so much free time (which is actually a self illusion thingy cos as mr. low kindly made everysingle one of us say among our holiday plans, that we will study hard) I decided to paint!


theres this painting hanging behind my door for 2 years now which i until now haven't been able to finish it. my non existant knowledge of painting did not help at all because, the WHOLE time, i have absolutely NO IDEA what i was doing. its mostly slap one colour of choice. spread spread spread, blend abit here. and it looks horrible. like some first grader's painting. the best i could do is to blend more and more paint until it looks decent through trial and error. gah. thats why i keep putting it up. a few buildings that are like 3 cm by 3 cm takes me the whole afternoon.

this is work in progress. (actually its done le. >.<>and the finished product tada! its like my last connecting thread to rgs. supposed to be a piece for a environmental theme competition. but er, as you can see, it never made it, in all sense of the phrase. i think the concept is something like how the whole picture is very bright and cheery, but it is spoiled by the polluting factory right smack in the middle of it. yups.
direct shot.
right now i'm colouring 1 of the grand total of 2 pictures i drew this year. :) hope i won't screw it. :P Here's the lineart. was inspired by Reira from NANA. hence she's going to have pink hair! <3anyway, id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134579155598350306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_J3N0rd-0WNo/R0GwibCQl-I/AAAAAAAAAQA/rxTPZ4Ncbec/s400/NANA0100.JPG" border="0">
andd...i tried flower arranging too! muahaha. first try at it. my mum bought some lotus flowers and er...unidentified purple flowers. Its in the corner of my living room now. :)
haha, an attempt at a more artistic shot of the flowers. makes a nice postcard don't you think? :D
lalala. more flowers.

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anyway, an interesting side story. i was in the living room, when my bro exclaimed "why are there only 2 fishes left?" you see, we had 3 goldfishes, and there was only 2 left. at first we tot one was accidentally flushed down the toliet bowl while the tank was being clean. until my maid found: GRISLY LEFTOVERS OF MY FISH! there was fine, nearly invisible bones left at the bottom of the tank and one 1cm cube chunk of white coloured meat left. It was soo creepy!

apparently we all neglected the feeding of the fish and they turned carnivorous. *shudders*. its so gross can? they ate everything so cleanly that there was almost no evidence left! cannibals! >A< oh the horror!


morals of the story:
1. don't be the smallest in your group.
2. make allies
3. find a owner that feeds you and your gang regularly. especially your gang.

p.s blogger has the annoying habit of eating up my words. i apologised on their behalf if any sentences are prematurely truncated.

'Aftermath of July 8th :)'

Since the photos are taken with huiyi's camera and she has very nicely dedicated an entire post to it, I shall not replicate the same thing. :) so for an account and glimpse of what happened in the DAY (haha, a pun), proceed to : http://dustie-faerie.blogspot.com/2007/07/photos-on-vans-bday.html ! :)

After the wonderful afternoon, I met up with andra (who also went orchard shopping) and went to Np to meet my mum and bro. Then we went Sakae Sushi!

And then we got a black forest cake at bengawan solo! Andra has also very nicely personalized it with M&Ms! :D Its colourful and pretty too!

do you want a slice? haha. its gone. :P
yay! a nice picture to round off.
Thanks alot to all those who gave me birthday wishes! <3 you guys! :D And of course the many nice people who gave me presents too! :D :D Arigatou! I had a fun 17th birthday. :)

till next year! haha.

'July 8th'

i'm 17. :)