Managed to get husband to join me this time to take cosplayer photos :D

I had an interesting experience which I want to take note here lol I wore a Yukata this year (despite the heat) and when I was sitting around waiting for my friends to come out from the Ball Jointed Doll panel/meet, a lady approached me and asked if I could help her put on her Yukata, so I did! ^o^ It took a while to adjust the yukata so at first my friends thought I was kidnapped LOL!  But I thought I finished it quite quickly already, I felt happy to be able to help ^o^ Small picture below because my hair looks bad :P LOL

I was carrying a doll, 2 bags, camera and sometimes an umbrella… so I did not take many cosplayer photos ^^; It was really cool to recognise characters from anime we watched before tho! ^o^!

Atsuii x_x

We got a surprise when we asked to take a photo of them, they standing at ease and then suddenly jumped into this pose XD

This year I wore a Yukata despite knowing the heat– mainly because I took the trouble to iron it the day before and felt also there’s not much chance for me to wear it other than events like this lol! Photo below by Lightningsabre ^^;

Photo below by my husband ^^/ The very convincing TK from Angel Beats is cleartranqil ^o^! Good to see him (and a few other peeps) again! :3

For more doll related photos here :) (past related posts 1/2/3 )

Wow… I really did not take too many photos lol! But I hope I’ll increase my experience points for next time :)

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I’m a plant killer so I tend not to have any plants at home :P I even asked my husband not to buy me flowers as it distressed me a bit to see them wilt ^^;

This is one of the rare times I don’t have a doll or 2 with me ^^; But it’s nice to focus on something other than dolls once in a while :D

Husband tend to call these weeds since they’re wild lol

A couple of our wedding photo was taken on a lawn with many wild daisies around us tho ;P These were however discovered near a carpark XD

On a slightly different note, husband’s last batch of Cherry blossom photos :3 I’m rather amused by his writings in it as it has very little to do with the subject of his photography :P

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Most of this set of photos was taken last week, during the one day when I go help at my friend’s shop in the mall.

It happened to turn out to be a fine day (which I’m not complaining at all). Usually in Winter it’s very cold, cloudy and rainy and a lot less daylight, from what I remember of previous few years I lived here. But last week on that day it was even a little warm, when the sun was out for a few hours, which was why I am able to share pictures like his, since I do not have to hold on to my umbrella, bag and fiddle with the camera all at once.

I find that sometimes there’s a stray/abandoned shopping cart around the area in general, which is a possible indication that a bum “parked” it there :P I remember that I was told sometimes bums would collect recycleable items to get some spare change (not all do that tho).

Sometimes I wait for the bus around here, if it takes too long I’ll start walking. Buses in Richmond seems to be quite notorious for coming as and when they like to. So I could miss my bus if it decided to come a fraction of a minute earlier even if I ran to the bus stop…

I was lucky, bus was on time that day! (picture of a bus across the road)

There’s another bus to take to get to the mall but I prefer walking what’s left of the distance to the Mall. The trees are now all bald after all the rain and wind…

For some reason, only parts of the path is swept? So the rest of the way I see piles of dead leaves… Maybe they want to use it as fertilizers?

Sometimes I walked through 2 different malls before I get to the actual mall I work at :P
This is a strange little fountain I see, normally they would be kinda spitting water into each other’s mouth/faces… They had turned off the fountain since during winter, if the water freezes the pipes would be damaged ^^;

See the track between the building? Well they’re not connected to the buildings but they’re the sky train tracks, I happened to see a sky train (doing a test round) on it but was too slow to take a picture when it was still in sight ^^;

This Giordano is a rather new branch, if I didn’t remember wrong it was only around for about a year or so? Prices seems to be about the same as in Asia. But the styles seems to be more limited.

When I walked in, I came across a school band getting ready for performance, I took advantage of going to lunch to take a video of a bit of their performance :P

While about to tuck into my lunch, I saw a group of little birds settling down on a bare tree. I recalled being super hungry that afternoon so I ordered a combo(click to view food photo) at the White spot stall at the food court. Didn’t finish all of it tho, it’s a bit ironic as, if I ordered a small fries and drinks it’d cost me more than if I ordered a regular combo ^^; so food is wasted from saving money :P

So after lunch, I would continue shop watching, so the day could be busy or slow, sometimes I do some sketching or hand sewing when it’s super slow :P And depending on if we were running low I may do some grocery shopping for fresh vegetables later in the afternoon.

After work around 8.20pm-ish, hubs took me to one of our favorite restaurant for late night sushi ^^; our 2nd order :P Late night sushi usually means the prices of the sushi pieces are slightly discounted, since raw fish cannot be kept for too long without going bad. Our total came to about $21 CAD included tips/taxes. Sometimes we go to have Pho, or if I cooked a lot the night before we’ll go home to eat. :)

After we get home, we usually have to do garbage — collect our trash of the last couple days in our home and put them into a larger bag and trash can that night. Garbage collectors usually come the next morning to collect the trash.

Since we own a fat cat (see above, take note: photo is deceiving) and 2 hamsters, I would clean the hamster’s cage and hubs will clean the cat’s litter box, it can be quite tiring to do so after a long day lol!

I remember in Singapore back at my parent’s apartment flat, there would be a rubbish chute in the kitchen under the sink, where people throw their tied up plastic bags of garbage down. But when the chute door is opened, we could smell garbage if the wind blows upwards (ew!)

I have another set of photos taken, but I’ll leave it for next time :) Hope you enjoyed this new segment! Meanwhile, if you like photos like this, you can check out my tumblr first, but be warned there’s PLENTY of food pictures on my tumblr ^^;
Thanks for looking!

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I know this doesn’t have much to do with my drawings so I will move this over to tumblr after the cute down is completed!
Uchi for Mayor! (or something) Watch cute with chris episode 158
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Thank you :)

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I was checking out some links I check every other day (Sometimes everyday or hour :P) and I noticed that Chris was doing a wrap up on his recent Live show. I watched it and felt like I was so moved I could cry. Chris owns cutewithchris.com on the internet and he posts movie clips he produces by himself every monday.

Chris’ regular weekly shows are not usually so “documentary”, they’re mostly entertaining and humorous in a slightly twisted manner, filled with cuteness and sometimes (if not all the time) drips with sarcasm and also includes a plastic horse or 2 for laughs ;D (okay and some hot people here and there too)

You probably would think that short clip each week is probably easy to make. But trust me it is not, having been in hours of recording to make 10 minutes clips before, I know Chris definitely puts effort to make it happen almost every monday possibly with his precious weekends, who knows possibly weekdays too, when a lot of people probably just want to relax and enjoy themselves.

I had the sheer luck to run into him in person May of 2007 when I was out on a small blythedoll meeting, and since he actually asked about our dolls that brave man (LOL)! I thought he looked familiar, and realized that he is Chris from cutewithchris.com (what a small world!) Funny thing was, I actually had came across his site ages ago when he (randomly?) added me on myspace — possibly kinda like “handing out free tickets” to watch his show. I guess his shows had made an impression because it was pretty quirky and unique and I tend to remember faces :P

The point of this post is? Go check out cutewithchris.com! I would like to help hand out some “free tickets” to his online shows!

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