One major advantage of baby sitting a booth for my friend

A teenage girl walked by and sat down next to me. She was the one who walked by the booth I baby sat at on Friday while I was convincing her friend to try out the maid contest. She told me that she hurt her ankle, and the showed me the wrap medical people did to her. I salute the medical people who stay up at night in order to treat all the crazy teenagers who hurt themselves for all sort of stupid reasons.

It was a short chat, but I enjoyed the human contact. Baby sitting a booth is so far the best way to meet new people as far as I tell, especially for me kind who rarely proactively talk to other people. When you are baby sitting a booth, you got a reason to lure people ton have conversation with you, and in a lot of cases, people came to talk to you instead.

Bubble

My friend said I am always living in a bubble, finding happiness in my own little world. While I admin that I indeed enjoying things in my own way, I also think that every single one of us are living in a bubble too. It's just that mostly of you guys live in the kind of bubble that shapes like the bubble you've seen from other people, while I tried to craft my bubble in my own way, and so far being successful. And for that, I have no regret ..... Well .... No regret so far.

Painting fingernail: still suck at it

Yesterday I suddenly had the mood to try painting my fingernails. I rarely do it because I suck at it, but of course you can argue that I suck it because I rarely do it. Anyway, I found that 5 out of 10 nails were done pretty ok, which is higher the success rate compare with the last time I did.

Let's see when I have mood to do it again.

Probably won't last for a few times

I really like the race queen costume I wore at anime matsuri yesterday. Sadly I found out that around the edge of the collar, some of the pattern already started fading. And that's when I realized that it was ruined by my sweat, which is something I cannot avoid since the whole purpose of getting this costume is to wear it.

Still, I think that's ok. After all, i did not pay a lot for this costume. So I think this costume is meant to be wear only a few times, and then put it in the storage as a memory.

By the way, I need to establish a system to separate clean (washed) costume and costume worn a few times, so that I know when to clean what costume.

Finally got some time to put some new photos online

Finally I got some time to put up some photos online. You can find them in this Flickr stream.

It's basically a showcase of some costumes I tailor made during my last trip to Hong Kong.

Among all the new costume, I like this blue auto show girl costume the most. I think I look reasonably good on it.

A costume I ordered 2 years ago

Here's a costume I ordered 2 years ago. Yeah, it's not the like awesome (I blame the lousy instruction I gave the tailor), and my make-up was kind of messy too, but at least I tried :-m .

Broken boots

Since I am about to go back to Hong Kong for a few weeks, I was wondering if I should exam my costume inventory, and the see what I should buy during the trip. That's when I realized how fragile a pair of Mongolian boot I brought 4 years ago was.

I picked up the boot, found the boot almost like new (since I almost never wore it). But the moment I touched the zip handle, the zip handle fell apart. You can see the result in the enclosed photo.

So basically, pissed, but then I didn't spend way a lot of money to get it, and I don't like the style anyway.