4 | Changing Hair Colour

Hahahha I place in all the photos first and it make me feel like this is all about qilian-ing....
But the aim is not my face but my hair...
Lets start wayyy back.
About May 2 years ago, I wanted to go crazy with my hair color. But after bleaching it, I was kinda grooving being 'kinda' a blondy. I do miss those days... So anybody who tried to lighten their hair by more than 2-3 shades, you would understand the issue of ROOTS!hHAhahaa so I got fed up with touching up my roots so I decided to buy hair dye with a shade between my blonde and black locks resulting in the ombre effect(On a side note I have been dying and bleaching my hair by my lonesome, other than the original one which my sister helped and the pink one which my mom got her saloon friends to dye - but I bought the dye)....

I let that grow for a about a year and the half. And thus we're at the first photo. That's Christmas 2014
By about that time I was totally in loved with ombre hair! They are so low maintainance, hahaha and I'm a low maintaince kinda girl



But I was getting bored with my hair color and since I was graduating later in 2015, I decided I should dye my hair some funky colour before graduating. That resulted in the 2nd photo! Me rocking out pinkish-purplish hair... which now that I stare at it, I'm missing. Hahah I bought kinda wrong colors but they look okay and cool[:

The next pic shows my hair as the color begin to fade....So sad right?Hahaha so it faded to a more orangey kinda tone as you can see, basically not some bright color...
Then 1 fine friday night coming home from prayer meet, I decided it was time for a change. By this point i already had ( blue, maroon, violet dyes and bleach prep at home. [: )

SO I bleached my hair again -.-


But to make the ombre effect stay, I spammed a lot more bleach on the ends. And i obviouly started around the area that my hair was already coloured...
Resulting in this photo.. At the end of the process I was loving the almost plat tips i had, so i kept this supposed inbetween hair for 2 weeks.....
At which point i decided let's go ahead with the plan ! Originally i wanted to do a blue to purple fade, but i got lazy. so i took the blue dye and just dyed my hair....

Resulting in the mermaid-ie green blue effect...
Hahaha it's mainly becaused of my more yellow hair (you can see the previous shot) that resulted in this green-ish effect.
Soo overall that is the journey my hair have taken over the past 4 months or so...

And now into what really got me into this post.
So when i first wanted to dye my hair, I bought some La Riche Direction color protecting shampoo. Which I'm totally amazed by. Why?
On my first wash after dying i used this shampoo and everything was normal, the foam was white. The next time i washed my hair, i was a bit lazy and i used my normal shampoo. Guesses what the foam was blue! So the color protecting shampoo do work.
I think this is especially important to note when you're dying your hair with dye that are blue based, because our hairs' natural pigments are yellow...
thats why people always say blue and purple dye last the shortest amount of time....
So yeah just wanted to talk about the color protecting shampoo. and it was kinda nice to see the progression of my hair in a list like this[:


and to end off some of these shots in my #hairchangefriday insta [:
https://instagram.com/p/1lWVTYvZ3p/?taken-by=fsmnt
https://instagram.com/p/1lUEJLPZzn/?taken-by=fsmnt

3 | One Too Many Romance Stories

Honestly I love to read books (that are easy to read [: I call them dumb books, cause they exist purely for entertainment-at least for me). Although I started this whole reading thing with fantasy and adventure, romance has become quite a staple in my diet.

Romance book does not make me idealise guys or relationships (I'm not ready for one so let's leave that at that) but as a younger girl it did make me curious. About the one thing that is not so explicit in my foray in the romance world, sex. Believe it or not that's where my downward spiral with regards to purity and all started. Simply romance books that hinted but did not say, the human curiosity is a really powerful thing. We search and we foray till we find what we want, answers.

So today I'm not writing to rant about reading actually but writing. I'm not exactly the best english writer and I'll probably never be, but reading have always sparked an interest in me to write. Yet my boring and sedate live do not exactly give me materials to write. And if I were to adapt stories I read aren't I creating the problem I so despise -writing love as if sex is a given. I have been at this stalemate for quite some time. How do I write a story where there is no sexual tension?

Ironically the answer just came to me, don't write a romance. Write about adventures and new worlds but what's scary is that would mean creating a new world. One based on fantasy, wait romance are based on those too...
Should I start writing then?

2 | Daredevil!!

Am I the only person watching Marvel's Daredevil? Well I know I am not, but within my circle I probably am, considering the mountain of work I'm supposed to be doing.
<I wanted to insert screen caps but I can't seem to decide from which episode-.->

In the end this is what I decide on... 
hope they are representative of the whole mood of the show 
and each episodes[:

There's been a lot of reviews saying that this would be Marvel's version of Arrow, in some sense it is. There's the dark and gritty part of a society festering with social ills, but I would not say the manage the same kind of feel. I join the Arrow team relatively late, probably late last year when the Flash started up. After watching the Flash, Arrow had this realistic quality its not just darkness and grit but there is still humor and hope. Watching the first 4 episode of Daredevil the darkness and quest seems to exist but I would say that overall it is even darker. Maybe its the brutality that Kingpin embodies, all the blood and gore. However even more than that there seems to be no real character that is not tainted by the darkness. Thus giving that sense of hopelessness. I'm not giving up yet, but I doubt this version of Hell Kitchen would get to be a bit more happier. Oh gosh, this have inspired me to re-watch bits of Arrow, and I was comparing their flashback scenes. Oliver's flashback are by no means happy but there is a brightness to the feel, generally the landscape is not too gloomy. On the other hand Matt Murdoch childhood seems to be tainted with blood and gore. How the heck did he become so balanced? Charlie Cox really did a great job in the portrayal[:

Ps. The dark tones plus Karen [ Jessica from true blood] and the opening sequence just reminds me of True Blood..... Or maybe its just the whole red opening sequence.

1 | Singapore University of Technology and Design - SUTD

I was thinking about what my first real post was going to be about. I toyed with the idea of starting on beauty or photography or something. Seems like showing favoritism though :/ Then it came to me, what is the one thing that is taking over my life right now?

The answer is really simple, its up there in the title, its school. I've been a SUTDent for close to 3 years. Time have flied by so fast! Sitting at this moment in time I wondered whether I made the right decision.

I always tell people that I'm in SUTD because after JC I wanted to study overseas (would have happily took a gap year to apply) but my family weren't exactly doing really well financially, so SUTD seems to be the right fit. Its local with international aspirations, no in terms that you'll get to go overseas but simply get a non-singaporean experience.

In many ways, true to form I managed to get that. Only with an overseas experience would I have gotten the changce to share a flat with strangers(who became friends). I studied and learnt in a more practical way. I did tons of projects that had real world purpose. I looked beyond this tiny campus in a tiny dot to see a world that could become so much more.
I did not get a chance to go overseas on exchanges(I was to lazy/scared to apply) but I heard so much from friends and got a tiny slice right in the center of our campus.

So did I make the right choice?
The fact of the matter is there is no definitive answer. As the pioneer batch of SUTDent we were used as a guinea pigs, we tested what works and what doesn't (and there were many). Yet at the same times this failures showed us that everything is a design process. Things hardly (dare I say never?) ever start perfect, its a journey of discovery and adaptation that brings us to where we are. However it does not stop there, the process continue, keep moving forward.

I can only say this place have made me a better person. It is not just a matter of the school(what you learn) but a matter of the environment. I would not trade this experience for anything else.

On another note I feel assured this is the right choice for me, because I know God have called me here. Called me to make a difference in the lives of engineers and designers, people who shape how we live our lives on a day to day basis.

Ps. Kudos if you caught the Meet the Robbinsons quote[: Love that show!

Someday I Might Delete This

Hello World.
Over the pass year or so, since I've jump into the whole beauty bandwagon, I realised I've been spending an increasing amount of time is blogs, vlogs, youtube beauty guru and stuff. Sadly, personally I'm still leaning to a more american and british content. Basically because of their abundance and quality (they did start this whole thing earlier). Yet at the same time I've had this feeling that these things are not exactly my things. I mean they talk about products that I can't seem to get my hands on or experiences that does not make sense to me. Moreover I'm just a different person, my asian eyes with all its problems and flaws is so uniquely me.
On top of that with thinking about what I want to be remembered as in my yearbook I realised I am no way normal. I love beauty, I wear makeup, but I an engineering student, I ride a motorbike[:
I'm different.
Today I read jemma's post from http://jemmawei.com/2015/04/06/1924-learning-to-love-yourself/ . The past few weeks I've been playing around the idea of producing youtube content O.0 which seems odd to me. What would I talk about? Who would hear me? What would it be for?
But after reading her post, I realised if I do this I do this for me, for the things that I find worth it. I choose what I spent my time on and I define how valuable the things I do are and finally judgers will judge.
So why is this post titled <Someday I Might Delete This>? The simple answer is I'm being honest. At this point of time, I think this might be a worthwhile endeavor, but who is to say what I will think tomorrow, next week, next month or next year? So I'm being honest, I dunno what will come next but I'm not letting the thought of what is to come stop me from giving it a try ( Never let the fear of striking out stops you from playing the game. - Cinderella Story).