Green Summer.

Hello babes! I'm trying to update more here and be a better blogger but I got sicked yesterday. T_____T Summer in Shanghai is crazy. The sun has no mercy and the ground is boiling hot you feel like you're walking on hot coals!!! I'll get all sweaty after getting out for 5 minutes and when I got back to my room it's too cold! So the extreme change of temperature knocked me down. :'(

Anyway now I feel better after sleeping for a whole day yesterday. :) Going to update about the casual photoshoot I did with my baby girl, Astghik(Xing Xing) a few days ago! :) Huge thanks to our awesome photographer, Oliver! :) He's very professional and patient. :)))) I can act naturally in front of him so I really love the photos this time! Very candid and natural! :))))) I used to hate those photoshoot pictures that are like too posey. You get what I mean? Like you look at the picture and you feel like it's all a made-up picture. Not moments. :/ 

Now let's check out the pictures! :DDDDD

Btw I almost got my bum burned sitting on this. Hahaha it was noon time!!!

Really love this picture! :) Xing Xing was trying to talk to me and get me to relax. I think she said something funny and made me laughed! Haha!

When I start thinking about life. LOL. 

Trying to find the prettiest leaf to pluck. Hahahaha!

Requested Oliver to take this pic so I can update my facebook cover picture, but that guy in white shirt ruined it. =.=

Sorry. I have no image when it comes to laughing. HAHAHAHAHHA!

Okay let's think about life again. *serious-faced*

Keep calm and smell a lavender. (Is it a lavender???)

Jump! Sometimes I'm curious why only Chinese rocks look like that ar? I mean we always saw that kinda rocks in Chinese paintings right? :D 

Plucking leaves again hahahahaha. The park manager must hate me. LOL.

Here's our superstar! :)))) She looks amazing as usual. :))) She got a lot of nice pictures too but I'll let her update herself in her fb. :)

Heyyy Oliver! :)))))

We were trying to take candid pictures so Xing Xing asked us to talk. And I suddenly came up with the idea of dancing. Hahahahha crazyyyy! XDDDDDD

Anyway it worked. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAA! Love this pic!

Next it's our turn! LOL.

We started with "I dunno what we should talk about?" LOL!

And ended up like this. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAA!!!!!!

Ignore my retarded face hahahaha! I think Xing Xing looks sooooo cute here I have to post this! :D

After staying in the park for like 2 hours. We decided to go back and we walked around the area for a bit and found this huge mansion!

*knock knock* Anyone home?

Btw we also found this pretty cool antique store! It was totally hidden. I just accidentally stumbled upon it and we decided to check it out. :) So many old stuff and the music there is old too! Really cool! :DDDD

So much fun! I love photoshoot! :)))

The Liebster Award

Thank you my baby Fion for tagging me in this Liebster Award thing! :) It gets me thinking about some random facts about myself, and there are a lot of things that I actually didn't notice until I come to think of it! :DDD

So here goes, let's get to know what is The Liebster Award?

The Rules are : 

♣Post 11 random facts about yourself. 

♣Answer the 11 questions the awarding blogger has posted for you. 

♣Nominate 11 bloggers (with less than 200 followers ) for the award and link them in your post. 

♣Let the bloggers you have nominated know they are nominated. 

♣No tag backs.

11 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME:

1) I used to think teddy bears are the knights that are created to protect children in their sleep. So every night I sleep I hug my teddy bear and cover my head in the blanket even though I feel suffocated because it makes me feel safe and protected. LOL. Now when I think about it it's kinda stupid. Still, if I watch any horror movies these day, I'll still cling on to the soft toys on my bed. (Yes I have like 7 to 8 softtoys on my bed now in Shanghai, all presents from my friends hahahaha no place to sleep already.)

2) I like to watch inspiring videos to motivate myself. And touching real-life story videos that makes me cry. Most of the books I read is life-related or touching ones. I don't like romantic novels though. Sometimes it's okay, but I think it's too far-fetched from the reality. So I prefer reading/watching something more realistic and moving. :) They give me a heartache feeling and make me appreciate my life and what I have.

3) I couldn't say NO if you ask nicely, but that's also my main weak point because people tend to manipulate that. :( They would ask me to do a lot of stuff for them or take my things away etc. Sometimes it went too overboard. Anyway, I'm trying to change this bad habit and now I will speak up if I don't want to do anything/give anything away. I guess this thing is both ways. You can't blame people acting that way to you, because you didn't do anything to defend yourself! Life has got so much to learn.

4) I don't usually wear high heels because I fell down once and I got high-heel-phobia already hahahahaha. I feel more comfortable wearing flats. Though if I'm going out with my girlfriends for some partytime I'll force myself to wear heels and walk like a robot, looking at the ground all the time just in case I fall again. T____T

5) I have the ability to forget things really fast. No matter how sad the thing is, or how big the problem is, I will kinda forget about the bad feeling the next day. It's kinda magical, I just can't remember why I feel so bad. I mean, I still remember what happened, but the awful feeling just disappear out of the blue. :) I guess that's a real blessing. Well, most of the problems can go that way, only some major events like breaking-up or death of somebody I know. Those don't go away easily. :'(

6) I'm a very lazy kind of person. I don't usually contact people voluntarily unless they contact me, even though you're my best friends. I think friendship is there no matter what you do. You don't need to push yourself to keep in touch with everyone as long as you truly care about him/her. I mean, I need friends who'll say "hell yeah I'll be there in a second" when I ask for their help even though I didn't contact them for ages, rather than friends who I chat with everyday but ignore my phone calls when I'm in trouble. You get what I mean?

7) I used to cry myself to sleep when I was like 4 to 5 years old when I thought that one day my parents will die and leave me. It's kinda funny because I already learnt how to cry silently at that age, trying not to wake my parents (I'm sleeping with them). Though there was one day I sobbed too loudly and my mom woke up and asked me what's wrong with me. And I just shake my head and say nothing. I guess it was after a few years that I was brave enough to discuss this with my dad. I said, "Dad, are you afraid of dying?" And he surprised me with, "Of course no. Everyone will die someday!" The way he said it was like it was not a big deal and it made me relaxed about this whole idea of death. I guess yeah, everyone will die one day, imagine a world when nobody is dying! You won't appreciate your elders anymore and the world will be too over-populated! LOL. 

8) I have the habit of hand-picking my nails because I don't like them to grow too long. So my nails are really ugly when I was a kid. I recalled a time I was picking my nails in the class when I was 7, because the class was pretty boring and I wasn't paying attention. Suddenly the teacher pointed and me and said, "WEN XI WHAT'RE YOU DOING? SHOW ME WHAT'S IN YOUR HAND?" And I stood up and said, "Sorry teacher I was just picking my nails." Hahahahaha wth. XDDD Anyway nowadays I just use nailclipper but I still like my nails to be really short because I need to play violin and piano.

9) I like my room to be messy. I think it's not a room if it's too tidy, it'll be more like a hotel room already! No cosy feeling! My roommate knows about this LOL! Miki and Tuya! :DDDD They're always like *shake heads*: Seriously you don't want to tidy up your room? And I'll just be like *stuff all the clothes to the corner* and said Voila! I just did! Sorry roommates! Hahahaha!!!

10) Dislike everything that has an alcoholic taste. LOL. I really tried to drink beer/wine before and tried my best to like them... and failed. :( I just dislike bitter taste I guess. I don't even like coffee. XDDD






11) I used to say hi to random people in school because I think if a person looks at you, the polite way is to smile and him/her and say hi. I still do that sometimes now hahahaha and I think I scare a lot of people in my conservatory, because Chinese people they're not used to it. They don't do that to strangers so they probably think I'm crazy at first. XDDDDDDD Heyyyy I'm just trying to be polite and friendly???










OMG I've typed so much. It's just really fun to think about random facts of myself. :) And when I started I couldn't stop! :) Alright now I'll have to answer the 11 questions Fion has got for me! :)



FION'S QUESTIONS FOR ME!

1) What is/are your favourite cartoon character(s)? 
- Uhm this is a hard one, because I don't really get crazy over a certain people/cartoon. LOL. So I'll probably say...... Tweety Bird? Because a lot of people used to say I look like it. =.=






2) What is/are your favourite accesory(accessories)? 
- I like bracelets and rings. I wear necklaces sometimes too but it's kinda troublesome because it might scratch my violin when I play it. So usually I'll just wear bracelets and rings. Now I'm thinking should I get ear piercings too but I'm afraid of pain. T_____T






3) What is on your wishlist right now? 
- I want to go travel to some beautiful places in China! :) Like Xin Jiang, Tibet, Yunnan and Shangrila. Have to work hard to earn money! :)







4) Name your favourite country & why? 
- Greece, because I love blue colour and the sunset there is so beautiful.







5) Who is your biggest celebrity crush? One female and One male. 
- Again... I don't really have a certain celebrity that I'm too crazy about. I'll just pick randomly then. Male: Johnny Depp Female: Natalie Portman







6) If you could have a time machine, which year would you want to go back to? Why? 
- I would like to go back to 5 years ago. I miss my high school friends. :)







7) What is your favourite movie AND favourite TV series?
- Leon The Professional. Game of Thrones. :)







 8) Who is/are your favourite blogger(s)? 
-I have a huge list of this. Haha. For fashion bloggers I love Camille Co, Chiara Feragni and Song of Style. For lengthy adorable posts I love Cheesie, Qiu Qiu, Xia Xue and Fion! :)))








9) What is your worst habit that you wish to get rid of? 
- Feel responsible to do things for people when they ask me to, even though they're not worth it. 






10) If you can have super power, what do you want it to be? (eg: flying, becoming invisible etc...) 
- The ability to walk pass walls so it's easier to get from one place to another. :DDDD






11) What is your favourite quote of all time? 
- That's no big deal! :D Don't worry be happy. :)



Now I'm going to tag 11 blogger friends! The thing is I don't really have much blogger friends oops. And most of them already did this award thing. So I'm going to tag some friends in Blog Lovers & Readers group who haven't do this yet yeah! :)

-Maple Shuh Hong
-Ivy Liew
-Lim Xiao Wen
-Nicole Chang
-Smiling Eyes
-Amenjah Dt
-Angeline Tang
-Ben Dan
-Miemie Loh
-Jowey Kong
-Shermin Lee

Tag me when you're done! LOL I know some of you we didn't really talk before but I've read your blogs and like it! :) So now hope we can be friends and enjoy this tag game! :)))) Till then babes!

How I Got Into A Beauty Contest.

Dearies, I'm back, after 1 and a half month. O___O

Didn't know I've gone for so long hahahahahahaaaa, you guys can blame my exam. Super tension one okay? Exam in Shanghai Conservatory of Music is no fun business.

Anywayyyy it's all done now and I'm happy with my results so I decided to go back into blogging business again. Resurrect my dead blog. *amen*

The first thing I want to blog about is this longggg overdued Thai Festival Beauty Contest back in May! :DDDD Crazy stuff but so much fun! Read on and you'll know how I got myself in this. LOL!

Sometime at the end of April I got a call from my Thai friend, Kloy. She told me about this Thai Festival in Donghua University that would be happening on 18th May. There'll be a lot of yummy Thai food (my ears pricked up at that) and a Miss Songkran Contest.

To be honest, I was attracted to the FOOD. My life is about FOOD, GOOD FOOD. So I imagine a fun carnival full of Thai goodies, tomyamkung for instance! And I got really excited.

Kloy continued to tell me about the Miss Songkran beauty contest stuff and I was like, you want me to go? You see, each school has to send out 2 contestants. And Kloy thought of me and Zoe. My mind is all about the food so I was like yeah I would love to go! So I went. 

We had a practice session in Fudan University a week before the contest where a group of super nice Thai girls taught us how to introduce ourselves in Thai. There would be 3 sessions in the contest. First, introduce yourself in Thai. Second, the talent show. And lastly the Miss Popular Vote. 

I tried to memorise as much Thai as I could. Lemme see, I only had like 3 Thai friends in my life. Tar, San and Kloy. And the only Thai I learnt from Tar was something like, "Raojipayihongnam" which means "I want to go to the washroom." =.=

And we got our Thai costume after a few days. Everyone has a different costume btw. Each one is from different area of Thailand!

Soon, it was the contest day! The weather was bad, and I felt sorry for the people who had worked hard to organise the event. It was raining so heavily! :(

There were altogether 12 contestants, from all around the world LOL LOL. Italy, Spain, USA, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Russia, Korea, Japan and China. Btw Zoe didn't join because she couldn't make it that day. So I was the only representative from my school. And I didn't really take this thing seriously. I mean, I just wanted to go and have fun and I was shy to ask my friends to come to support me because I felt ridiculous myself. 

So nobody knew about this whole thing and I went there alone. Other contestants had like a group of Thai friends helping them to dress up and practise their Thai introduction session while I sat there feeling helpless. 

I was really grateful with the organisers there! The Thai girls were AMAZING! Isaree is the first people I wanted to thank so badly. She brought me the costume all the way from her school (super far ok?) and on the contest day she helped me to put on the costume and a few other sweet Thai girl helped me to curl my hair. 

And this girl who has her back facing the camera is Preaw! Really love her! She's the best! She knew I didn't have anyone who came with me so she was by my side all the time. Teaching me how to speak Thai and everything. T_________T So gan dong omg!!!

That's my retarded face trying to learn Thai. Hahahah.

Other contestants getting ready. :)

L to R: Korea, China, Malaysia, Russia.

Before the contest started, there was this ceremony where we had to pour water on the judges palms, and they gave us their wishes. :)

Oops here goes.

I introduced myself as usual nothing special LOL.

The other contestants were more well prepared! They included dance, songs and Thai jokes inside their introduction and the crowd went crazy! So creative!!! They must have put a lot of effort into learning that! :) 

This pretty girl here is from Malaysia too! :) She has a very sweet smile and she can sing Thai and dance Thai dance. Very geng. :)

Here's the pretty contestant from Japan! :) She is also the winner of the Miss Popular Vote. We'll get to that later hahaha!

Her introduction was pretty funny because she got there late and she didn't memorise the Thai words so she copied the Thai words on her palm and looked at it when she introduced herself. Her palm is full of blue ink LOL.

There were like a group of Japanese guys down there who were screaming their heads off when she was on the stage hahahahhaa!! :DDDD One of them was like, "YOU ARE MY ANGEL!!!"

Can't blame them, she's really pretty! :))))

This is the contestant from Indonesia! She speaks such fluent Thai you would think she's a Thai herself! She got a hugeeeee group of Thai friend coming with her, like 20 ppl altogether!

She reminded me of Paulina because she sings soprano too! :) And she's pretty good at it! :) 

Well for the talent show. I played the violin.

What else can I do? LOL LOL. I can't sing, unless you guys want to listen to a kid's voice singing. XDDD

I played a traditional Thai song called ลาวดวงเดือน.

Don't ask me how to pronounce that. T_T

The other contestants sang and dance and one even acted out a scene from a horror movie! HAHAHAHAHAHA laugh die me. And one contestant had turned the stage into her own concert, she was like, "YOU READY PEOPLE?!?!??!!!! SING WITH ME!!!!!!!!"

Hahahhaa omg so damn crazy I couldn't stop laughing!!!!

Then here comes the scariest part in the whole beauty contest thing. The part when I really regretted NOT ASKING MY FRIENDS TO COME SUPPORT ME.

T_________________T

OH NO, 我错了...

This session is Miss Popular Vote. And the audience will have to buy the flowers and give to their favourite contestants. The one with the most flowers win.

And excuse me, the flowers are not cheap. RMB 10 each. Which was like RM 5 for 1 flower.

I think nobody will spend that much money just to buy a useless flower to give to a stranger. This is the part when the friend power come in useful! 

The other contestants brought SO MANY FRIENDSSSSS with them it was crazy. They all spent like RMB 100 buying 10 flowers and stuff them into their baskets.

Me? I just stand there feel like an abandoned child.

T____________T 

No one gimme flowers.

Here's a picture to show you the contrast of the abandoned child and the favourite child. LOLLLL.

Anywayyyy I'm amazed and grateful that some nice people actually gave me flowers too! :) In the end I got like 20 flowers from 20 different people that I don't know! Thank you so much! :)))))))

After that Miss Popular session, I thought the contest ended, and I was surprised to know that there was actually a last session, where the judges choose 4 people out as the winners!

GUESS WHAT. I actually got chosen! I was like SERIOUSLY??? BUT I JUST GOT 20 FLOWERS??????

I'm a happy kid. XD

We were the 4 chosen ones! 

Indonesia, Korea, China, Malaysia.

Then here comes the Q & A session!

The MC will ask us a question about Thailand and we will have to reply in 30 seconds.

The question I got was, What do you think about Songkran Festival and what's so special about it.

My mind was BLANK. I don't know shit about that festival except I heard some Thai friends talking about it last time, that it's very hot in April so the festival is for everyone to spray water at people on the street so they'll feel cooler under the sun and everyone's happy.

Something like that. So after 30 seconds, I started to talk crap about it and ended with "I would love to go to Songkran Festival in the future!".

Not very smart answer I'm afraid. LOL.

Other contestants answer really well. They included China-Thai relationship in their answer and ended their answer in a flourishing way I can't even! LOL!

Then I was amazed when the judges announced I got number 3!!!! Coz I thought I wouldn't get into first 3 places! :DDDDD 

Still don't really believe it. 

I get a cute elephant toy from NARAYA, they said it is a very famous brand in Thailand and you can only get it in Thailand! A nice bouquet of flowers, a red nice beauty pageant cloth that says Miss Songkran 2013........

And the most exciting part is THIS. T______T

RMB 300 voucher of Tai Cook!!!

It was a really good Thai restaurant in Hua Mu Road. T___________T

One that I'll never go if I don't get the voucher because it is expensiveeeee!

Decided to spend all the vouchers that day with Yiguo!

We ordered a lot of food. It was like RMB 540 for 2 person, crazyyy!!!

My fav, Tomyum kung!!!

BBQ Pork!

Fried prawn thingy :)

This one is the most expensive one but it is also the most blehhhh one.

It costed like RMB 200 but the taste wasn't as nice as we expected. :(

Sorry to say I don't like the desserts. :( Tastes kinda weird for me. LOL.

Bobochacha! Malaysians you should know this. :D

So yeah that's all about the beauty contest I joined. It was really fun and I'm really happy to meet all the nice people there who helped me so much and who had been soooo nice to me. Thank you to all of you! :))))) I had a great time!

Till the next post, ciaooo!