Sweet Lolita!

This fashion spread is all about the pride of Harajuku, most famously known as lolita fashion! There's all kinds of lolita - two of the most common being gothic lolita and sweet lolita! Others include classic and punk lolita. The Lolita look consists primarily of a knee length skirt or dress, headdress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings or high heeled/platform shoes. I'm just gonna go for the sweet instead for now! I love both kinds tho, don't get me wrong!
Anyways, more info on sweet lolita! It's called ama-loli (甘ロリ ama rori) in Japanese and it uses lighter pastels and childlike fantasy themes in its designs. Popular themes in the sweet Lolita are references to Alice in Wonderland, fruits, sweets and classic fairy tales.  Headdresses and bows are a popular hair accessory to the sweet Lolita look. Sweet lolita is heavily influenced by Rococo styles as well as Victorian and Edwardian clothing. All right, enough of the boring ol' information for now! 

A classic look as to how sweet Lolita styles go!

Amazingly detailed graphics here!

I just HAD to put this in here! A hamster being stroked by a sweet Lolita! Gotta love her complex nails.

Nice photography. Wait - why am I thinking about that here?! Love her lolita headband!

Whoa! Pink overload? I wish I was as fearless as them to dye my hair entirely pink!

Great style here. Would be even prettier if she wasn't riding an ol' rusty bike!

Wow, look at that. Candycane-striped tights and a cake for a mini-hat. She just oozes Christmas!

Fearlessly sweet on the streets of Nippon!

Omgosh, this is one of my fave pictures of all 'em lolitas! Not really feelin' that dress tho!

Finally, I thought I'd never see blue hair after all this time rummaging the net for lolita snaps! Cute bunny hat.

Much too childlike for moi. Loooove the pink boots and bonnet tho!

I'm thinking this is a girl group of some sort in Tokyo. Cute!

Cute lolita platform heels! Digging the black ones!

All right, I thought this looked vintage enough! Love the criss-crosses running through the tights!

And this is it for my fashion spread! While I was looking through these pictures, I was deadly wishing I'd bought more of such lolita clothes while in Harajuku, Tokyo just few months ago! All I got was a knitted beret and a white coat with cat ears attached to the hood and a tail to go along at the bottom of the coat from their cosplay stores. Bah. 

All credits goes to wiki and Kyandi!

"Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night."  

- Terri Guillemets

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Zac Efron's Head's on Squirrel

Check out the promo for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards below. Do you think Zac Efron has a funny streak in him? Especially when he said "my head's on squirrel?" Still, squirrels waterskiing is much too funny enough.

"2010 MTV Movie Awards" - Squirrel Promo (:30) from FanscapeTelevision on Vimeo.
Bought a new ceramic house for my hamsters, Mochi & Pudding! Too cute!

Went to a seaside chalet today! It was pretty near the airport, so we could see planes departing! Pretty cool. The sunset was pretty magnifique as well!

The chalet had waaay too many stray cats too! There were like 3 kittens! Guess the parents couldn't resist. I stroked two! Their heads were SO FRAGILE. I just wish i could bring home the strays. I particularly liked a caramel colored tabby. See below.

Another one purred at my cuz and I at a lone table. It was a much older cat! Then it leaped on the bench seats. Dang.

Tried my first tacos yesterday at chilis! It was sorta like at a family diner/bar. Pretty cool ambience there. Read about Menu Psychology just earlier on before I went to eat there, and it mentioned menu prices doing without the dollar signs so people won't be reminded of the fact they're spending! It works all right. chilis didn't put dollar signs in their menus either. Dish below with tacos, a little rice and summat. Bad lighting!

I finally passed my cuz the suh-weet dress I got in a cosplay store in Harajuku, Tokyo! It fit her well. Loved the ruffles and the lace at the back! Full-view of the dress below!

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." 
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Human Tetris

So my teacher for this Idea Jumpstart lesson showed us this pretty awesome and funny video in class recently. The main topic was about 'Divergence Thinking'. But i don't understand how it applies to this video. Anyway, watch the Japanese game show below, as the participants stand on the edge of the water and awaits the big board with various shapes for them to attempt to pass through it without falling backwards into the water! Epic fails are too humorous to not laugh and cackle!!

"Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it." 
- Christine Frankland

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Letters to God - Hilarious ones!

PLUS! 6 Things to do in Tokyo
I found an article of the following title on the web. And since I couldn't find a way to share the entire thing on this blog, I'd cropped out the images and the list from the site! I didn't exactly manage to complete all 6 things while I was in Tokyo several days ago!

ABOVE: Nope, only had the usual udon and soba (buckwheat noodles) while there!

ABOVE: Thankfully, I did see the snow-capped mountain! But it was completely covered in snow, unlike this one.

ABOVE: Definitely not been there.

ABOVE: Went to an onsen and went back feeling pretty disgusted. Other than that, it was fun - all that Edo-era stuff.

The tour guide from our Mt. Fuji trip mentioned it as we cruised by in the bus. It was where much of the melodrama unfolded in the Hollywood hit 'Lost in Translation'. Didn't go to this tho...

ABOVE: Umm, duh! Who in the hell doesn't shop while on vaca?! Japanese goods are sooo kawaii, but not as affordable. I'd recommend Shinjuku and Harajuku Street, 'cos Shibuya and Ginza are much too fancy and exxy!

Anyway, travel aside, I came across this fun webpage where kids write their personal letters to God, albeit with some hard-to-read penmanship! Most of them just crack me up! Here are a few examples:

"If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?"

- C.S. Lewis

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Tokyo, Japan: Final Daaaay!! (Monday)

I'm currently on the plane (Delta Airlines) back home! It's gonna be a looong night! We've only just departed at 8:35PM Japan time! Anyways, our flight kept getting delayed and all like an hour or so... I'm sooo gonna miss Tokyo!!

We woke up pretty early in the hotel for our last day today! We checked out of the hotel early too - 'round 10++ so we could go shopping for a bit! I had insta-pasta for breakfast. It was hell good, but it's the soupy kind. I took ALL my energy (which wasn't that much in the morning) to lug my pink luggage down to the hotel lobby. Turns out it weighed 38kg. Goddarn it.

ABOVE: It's strange - the pix I took all seem orangey. Then again, it might be the lights in the room...

We walked even further to UniQlo in Shinjuku, which is this Japanese popular casual wear brand. The store boasted FIVE floors!! Got some suh-weet loot along the way - 'Alice in Wonderland' themed tights (I've got TWO now!) and shirt, an alphabetical grey leggings, fuschsia jeans and a tee or two. (BTW, if you plan to visit the store, it's near some exit from Shinjuku Stn. And beware, there're LOTS of exits from this station!)

We headed down to a drugstore next somewhere to get more plane snacks for later. They've a hell lot of drugstores in Japan! We ate our lunch at another noodle store for our final bowl of authentic udon (thank God I was getting sick of eating that almost every day!).

We then had to lug our luggage out in the drizzling, chilly outdoors to get to our airport limousine bus. My aunt was so worried we would miss it. Thankfully there were no traffic jams along the way that'd get us to the airport late.

ABOVE: There was a toilet at the back of the bus! Too bad we weren't allowed to use it.

While we were waiting around for our flight at Tokyo-Narita Airport just now, we went shopping duty-free and ate Macdonalds and went to this cool origami museum/shop. Here are the pictures I took in there! The origami-ers are just too talented!! However, on the whole, Narita Airport was kinda boring. Just sayin'!

ABOVE: This would give you the heebie-jeebies at night.

ABOVE: So's this one.

ABOVE: Umm.. men in weird hats?

ABOVE: This one is supposed to resemble a map of Japan! Pretty impressive!

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