Fairy Dust

Monochrome rainbow

Jolene Cynthia — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:51:15 GMT

Your rainbow is shaded black and gray.

What is says about you: You are a powerful person. You appreciate tradition and wisdom that comes with age. You may meet people who are afraid of you. You depend on modern technology and may feel uncomfortable without it.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Okay.

A letter to me, aged 14.

Jolene Cynthia — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:14:51 GMT

Hi there. How are you? How is school? Not too hard? Good, good. Hmm, what is that? No, nothing bad is happening to you this year. In fact, I promise you a magical birthday month. You'll see.

Have anyone ever told you you have pretty eyes? Don't go screw them up now - and don't listen to mom. She doesn't know what she's talking about. Eyes that can see in perfect darkness is pretty awesome, hey? Keep it up.

Worried about Math...simultaneous equations? Hmm...oh yeah. That looks pretty hard. I'd tell you to stick to substitution method, but you need to try elimination sometimes too. Don't give me that look. You're going to need to know how to use that damn method too, trust me.

Hey...where are you looking...oh. Oh. OHHH. He is cute, isn't he. Stop staring at him, that's creepy haha. You silly girl. Hmm? Oh...he'll treat you well, he will. Just not in the way you expect it.

Yeah...I'm wearing makeup. Pretty neat huh. You'll wear it in a few years' time, I assure you. Not ever? Forget about that time in Form 1 haha. Yes, the guys' reactions were disgusting, but still. Don't worry about those things too much haha. It's not time yet. Relax.

Advice? Oh, just take it easy. PMB isn't that hard, trust me. You'll do great. Just do what you think is right. Ah, that's right. Don't agree to go to Lily's birthday party. It's not going to be pretty. You'll hear some pretty interesting things afterwards, tho.

I need to run now, but you be a good girl, aye? You future is going to be awesome. Trust me, I know.

See you in a few years' time :)

KPOP vs IPOP? Don't make me laugh...

Jolene Cynthia — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:55:29 GMT

This morning I was amused to see KPOP vs IPOP trending worldwide on Twitter, so I went and find out what this mysterious IPOP thing is.

Turns out it means Indonesian Pop.

Now, I don't have a thing against Indonesians in general, but the fact that this is trending WORLDWIDE on Twitter...have they no shame?

I quote one ashamed person who may or may not be Indonesian:

Everybody Stop TWEETING about KPOP vs IPOP ,please !It's so embarrased, seriously.

- Heri Achsan Husaeri (@djachsan) February 11, 2012

So I went ahead and expressed my dismay (for the good of the beautiful Indonesians).

KPOP vs IPOP...if you know what that "I" stands for you will vomit poop LOL

- Jolene Cynthia ▪ 황은해 (@xinping2016) February 11, 2012

I stand my ground, the good IPOP bands had gone and fucked themselves up so there is no IPOP to speak of and so make it an invalid term.

- Jolene Cynthia ▪ 황은해 (@xinping2016) February 11, 2012

You don't call yourself _POP unless that music has been known worldwide. CPOP and JPOP had their turn, it's now KPOP's shining glory time.

- Jolene Cynthia ▪ 황은해 (@xinping2016) February 11, 2012

So that person who came up with IPOP can go hide in a cave in shame now.

- Jolene Cynthia ▪ 황은해 (@xinping2016) February 11, 2012

As I say, for the good of the Indonesians...but apparently not.

Ehmm, Indonesian here.. RT @xinping2016: KPOP vs IPOP...if you know what that "I" stands for you will vomit poop LOL

— Antin Yulisa (@AntinYoung) February 11, 2012

i think you're have a wise opinion. But really.. RT @xinping2016: @AntinYoung feel free to unfollow ♥

— Antin Yulisa (@AntinYoung) February 11, 2012

My good intentions have been thrown out of the window, but at least I have been appreciated, right?

Lah orang BRUNEI yang negaranya segede kutil aja sombong...

— Antin Yulisa (@AntinYoung) February 11, 2012

Maybe not.

It's been lovely talking to you, I understand that by the way ♥ RT @AntinYoung: Lah orang BRUNEI yang negaranya segede kutil aja sombong...

— Jolene Cynthia ▪ 황은해 (@xinping2016) February 11, 2012

Final kill. Nuf said.

UPDATE:
Oh, and just to rub more salt into the wound...

Malu woy trendingnya kpop vs ipop

— Istri Sah GongChan (@kuraonta_anyaa) February 11, 2012

KPOP vs IPOP ? errr next jokes please.....we all know IPoop oh sorry i mean IPOP is kinda unoriginal,i'm indonesian but yeah -.-'

— One Direction Fans (@1DirectionIndo) February 11, 2012

KPOP vs IPOP is trending. And everyone is asking what is IPOP. ._. Embarrassing much.

— 박진성 | Park Jinsung (@parkjs94) February 11, 2012

Disappearing act.

Jolene Cynthia — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:46:52 GMT

Recently Tiger has been disappearing, often for hours, off to god-knows-where. Nobody let him (her?) out, but he will just disappear. Like he's somewhere in the house, but nobody knows where. My housemates and I looked for him everywhere, then he would suddenly show up and no one'll know where he has been.

I like to think he's been to Narnia, where he's probably better fed than he is here. By better fed I mean more rats to catch. Of course, there are no rats for him to catch here, so he's probably happier there.

Then he has to come back to this really boring place where the weather is bipolar and no rats run around in swarms. He meow at me, probably missing the place. So I put my iPod on speaker, and he went off to dreamland on my duvet.

Terms starts tomorrow. I'm just really bored right now.

Finding peace with self.

Jolene Cynthia — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:25:52 GMT

My friend got me figured out. He said that I would usually post twice on my blog each month, and last month's only post left him worried. He thought I might have gone and off myself, a theory that is funny to me. Anyway, this post is to assure I have no intention to cut off my breath before my time on this planet is up.

I haven't been posting much personal things because, to be frank, I was a mess. I would have wrote some really embarassing things, which I will come to regret later, so I stay away from blogging for a while. Now that I have picked myself up properly, let's discuss how messy I was and hopefully you will laugh along with me.

13th December 2011. Cardiff was exceptionally cold that day. I nearly forgot my umbrella, but got it and went to campus. I had an open book test that day: it wasn't difficult, but it wasn't easy either. There was another lecture after the test, and coming out from my campus building at last we found out it has been hailing.

Of course, it was a tiring day and a particularly bad one. I had no idea it was about to get a lot worse. On the way back home I sent a photo of Cardiff after rain to my then boyfriend. We hadn't talk for a few days before that, because I was busy studying for the test and we had a fight and I thought it would be best we cool down for a bit. I got back home, sent another two photos, then he confronted me and...I was suddenly single. It was frightening.

I make no secret about this, but for a while after that, if I was left completely on my own, I broke down. I wasn't proud of it. I tried hanging out as much as possible with my friends to keep myself sane. I spent two weeks in London, then a week in South Korea. It was great but something felt missing. Then I got back to Cardiff, and I broke down again. I absolutely did not adore the state I was in. I phoned him and...nothing was left. I called mom afterwards. She was sympathetic, but she also annoyingly implied "I told you so". She does like him tho, she thinks he is honest.

I fell asleep after ending the call. It was dreamless, the first time in weeks. Upon waking, I clean my room for a bit, ate breakfast and did a bit of work. It was strangely calm, peaceful, something I haven't felt for quite a while.

I was happy with him, that I cannot deny. For a while, I couldn't fanthom the idea of letting him go, because he was so much a part of my life. It was frightening, scary and it just hurts really badly. It still does hurt, but I can deal with it now. I'm not bitter anymore.

This post is, to sum it up comically, about a socially awkward penguin watching a koala float away from Antartica on an ice. Away...and never looking back.

This is for the best.

South Korea trip! PART 1

Jolene Cynthia — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:18:43 GMT

Hello! If you haven't already know this, I went to South Korea for vacation! I was only there for a week, but I think I manage to cram a lot of things in! I didn't visit any of the historical places because that will take another week. I went with Liz, whose motto is, admirably, One chance! She thinks that given the opportunity, we should go if we can because, what if that is the only chance?

The main theme for the vacation is shopping and K-Pop, and we mostly wander around in the 서울 [Seoul] area.

The first evening I was there, we stay at a nice hotel in 운서 [Unseo]. As there was supposed to be the three of us (including Adri), we had a room with three single beds. Liz and I took a bed and the third was taken up by our luggage bags. I didn't pack much, somehow I manage to fit 13kg in? Liz took 15kg. After settling in the room, we went out to explore! We noted the way to the subway station, wander around for a bit, got food for the evening as well as cutleries at Lotte Mart, T-money card (for the subway) and went back. Unfortunately Liz had a stomachache - probably because her stomach haven't adjust to the spicy food? Or was it because of plane food? Liz said she has never seen so much neon lights! I think if she goes to Tokyo she'll be dazzled. While eating we watch TV. Korean TV shows are weird, and the ads even weirder!

Me in 운서!!

The next day we got up at 11AM, then after checking out we took the subway to 검암 [Geomam], where we will stay for the remainder of the trip. Our hostel owner is Jin, he is about 28 and rather good-looking! He's tall too and he claims he works out. As for why he told us that nobody knows. He thinks BIGBANG is tiny, like smurfs, and G-Dragon is very mouse-like, forever spoil our idols for us lol. He gave us both Korean names - Liz is 쓰지 (Su-ji) and I am 은해 (Eun-hae). I'm bad at remembering names so I kept asking Liz what mine was.

We met up with Fanny, who took us to see the infamous YG Building. I don't have a good photo of it so here is one stolen from somewher else:

Very impressive building! Unfortunately this photo is deceiving because it makes it look like it's situated in the middle of nowhere. That is not true! It is surrounded by many buildings. There is even a GS25 (convenience store) across the road. Nevertheless it is still the most unique building in the area.

This is how the front of a typical GS25 looks like, Liz and I regard them as best friends because they sell ramen, our dinner!

Fanny took us to 홍대앞 [Hongdae] (short for 홍익대학교 [Hongik University]) for lunch at SE7EN's chicken stew restaurant, 열봉찜닭 [Yeolbong Jjimdak]. When ordering the waitress warned us it will be hot, but what she doesn't know is we expect hot. We ordered a medium-sized chicken stew:

It was delicious and wasn't hot at all! I had the hard-boiled egg seen in the photo because for some reason both Fanny and Liz didn't want it. It was cheap too. Everything in South Korea is cheap, like seriously.

We went back to the YG Building again. While there Fanny received a tip-off from Korean Blackjacks. 2NE1 was coming back from Japan that day and the Korean Blackjacks told us to go to Gimpo Airport - their flight was landing at 10.20PM. After some discussion, we decide to try our luck, so we went to Gimpo Airport. The Korean Blackjacks were already there and they have DSLRs o.o We waited, then at about 10.45PM, 2NE1 emerge from the Arrivals!

Shaky photo of 2NE1 by Liz.

I took a fancam but what I said in it was really embarassing, so I won't post it up here. I was really, really close to Park Bom and Minzy OMG. I notice a lot of people ignored Dara. CL was too quick for us so we didn't manage to see her much. Fanny got Bom's autograph.

Only the second day but we'd already met 2NE1! Wheee. After they left in their van, we thanked the Korean Blackjacks for the tip-off, then catch the subway back to 검암. We didn't sleep much that night because we were too excited!

Part 2 coming soon!

Caraphernelia. For real wtf.

Jolene Cynthia — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:17:40 GMT

Okay so definitions first. Caraphernelia is when someone abandons you but leave their belongings behind, which is a fucked up thing to do because it makes you be in pain for god-knows-how-long. And yes I've very recently contracted caraphernelia, but I think I am slowly recovering from it (judging by how many wtfs and fucks I give).

So I'm going to talk about all the things that is probably gonna worsen my case of caraphernelia for a bit, then throw them out/sell them/bunch them in a plastic bag then stick it in the back of the closet. Whatever's appropriate for that item la.

1. Limited Edition Beats headphones. Intended as a gift to him if we reach third anniversary. Now no idea what to do with it so it's just sitting on my shelf collecting dust wtf. Torn between selling it and keeping it so why won't someone make it easier for me and steal it fml. It's expensive stuff. That or I find new guy who broke headphones every few months. Oh wait.

2. His black oversized blazer. When I got it it was a musty, back-of-the-closet blob of thing that took me a while to wash and air-dry and iron wtf. All the trouble for an oversized thing I am never going to wear but stuck in front of the closet doors like a sort of voodoo genie bottle thing. I just realised I had said 'thing' like 3 times in two sentences. So now either I sell it to a charity shop or throw it away or stuff it in the back of the closet. But so sayang all the ironing. wtf.

3. A bunch load of accessories fit for a hippie and a surprisingly nice bow hair clip that is not hippie. Normally if I am given accessories that are not to my liking I will a) give it to someone else ASAP, b) throw it away ASAP, c) dump it in the drawer full of accessories given by other people that I am never, ever going to wear ASAP. Sometimes my mom looked through them and find something she likes. Anyway, I regress. When he gave me those accessories obviously I can't say I don't like them, he put his love in it and I can't throw them away/give them to someone else/dump it in the drawer fml. So I brought it along with me and I displayed it beside my makeup bag and only very occasionally wear that bow hair clip because it's hard to match it to my outfits fml. So that bow clip is the only one I'm keeping. The rest will go into the dump for being so hippie. I don't look that hippie wtf he chose hippie accessories fml.

Okay now that I mention it that doesn't seems like a lot. But then to be fair we were together 1.25yrs and only met like a few times in 3 months. Which is like, not very long considering I am a geologist and to me very long ago is 4.54 Ga yrs, which is when this planet Earth was formed. So thank god for that I guess.

I guess the only thing I can say for myself is I can't hold onto boyfriends, a totally fml fact considering I have so many friends who have been together with theirs for like a zillion years and I am always forever alone no matter how much effort I put in. I also tend to assume boyfriends will totally do a runner and find someone else, which *gasp* they always will. At some point. So I knida need lots of assurance and sense of security. And if your boyfriend keep taking photos being totally surrounded by girls which zomg is like saying see how popularrr I am, you will be insecure and jealous to the max too. So don't say I bring this breakup onto myself okay.

On a side note, I'm going to South Korea next week to open up the tiny slits that are my eyes a little, and if I'm lucky I'll bag myself a handsome oppa. I'm incredibly bad at fishing (geddit?) so most probably not, I need to be very, very, lucky for that. Meanwhile, I am okay with having a fake oppa who is in reality my step-brother. And also a grandpa who is not actually over 40 yet. I don't have that many guys in my life.

eBay horror stories

Jolene Cynthia — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:20:34 GMT

Before I start to relate my worst eBay experience, I want to make it clear that I always deliberately buy from eBay sellers with a high positive rating, so I count myself lucky; people actually had worser experience on eBay.

The most recent trouble I ran into on eBay is when I bought a pair of hair straightener/iron from a Singaporean seller. From my experience, Singaporean sellers are reliable, and usually don't mind pressing inquiries (I do this all the time). This seller was no different: she was helpful, and I say this because I sought her out first for the said product, and she dealt with me professionally, which is all very well. Soon after, I placed the order and she proceed to deliver it.

A few days after it has been marked as dispached, I tried the tracking code, but it does not work. This usually doesn't bother me, because tracking codes generally take a few days to update, but I was a bit nervous seeing as it is from Singapore, it should not take them that long. I waited another three days and tried again and again it did not work. Something's wrong.

I contacted the seller immediately and relayed my concern, and she got back to me pretty quickly and had a check at SingPost. From there on it's nightmare. I waited nervously for a week while she updated me, SingPost trying to trace it...then, BAM! Apparently it was lost somewhere in the Singaporean postal system.

Thank goodness she's a reasonable seller and told me she'll send me another one...directly from Hong Kong, using EMS as insuranced delivery. Actually, she's not just reasonable, she's pretty awesome to do so much!

She definitity will get 100% positive rating from me.

Another experience which left me feeling quite angry is a seller from Canada. I bought a concealer wheel from the said seller, but it was never marked as posted...until it landed on my doorstep.

I've always avoided buying from US/Canada sellers, because if they're not extremely helpful, they're extremely rude. Plus, I have no idea why shipping from across the world never have any problems (aside from the one mentioned above), but shipping from across the Atlantic is like shipping into the Bermuda Triangle. The item usually end up:

lost,
damaged, or
take ages to arrive in bad condition.

Seriously, I've only had one good experience with shipping across the Atlantic so far, so you should understand my standpoint.

I seek out the seller and relayed my concern. It's not taken very well and I received a very rude reply.

I gave him 80% negative rating.

Nowadays, I rarely buy from eBay but from smaller, more reliable self-run webstores.

Breaking: appearances are not everything.

Jolene Cynthia — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:51:12 GMT

I am, to put it very mildly, angry.

This anger has been building up for sometime, so I might be overreacting to a very small matter, but believe me, it is a very annoying matter and of very bad taste.

I am talking about the people who thinks trolling people with a website which does not exist is extremely funny.

Of course, their intention might not be to troll, but to look good. Or at least pretend to look good. Which, kinda ironically, only make them look even worse. I'm not going to point any fingers, but from where I come from this is such a common practice, people turn a blind eye.

I am annoyed because I actually started up websites from scratch, URLs, source codes, and all. I am no web designer, but at least I don't troll with a URL that seems nice but lead to nowhere (this is fairly recent, so the website is not down - there's no sign of source code, nada).

These are the people who spend money buying cars, gadgets, appliances to give the illusion they are well-to-do but actually are hitting rock bottom. It's a viscious cycle.

How on earth can people make progress with this type of behavior? I am so disgusted, it's not even funny.

Yumetenbo Wishlist~

Jolene Cynthia — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:45:18 GMT

夢展望 (Yumetenbo, translated as Dream Vision, also Dream-V) is a popular clothing store on 楽天市場 (Rakuten Marketplace, Japanese equivalent of eBay or Amazon) specialised in clothing and accessories. It is based in Ikeda, Osaka. (Source: Wikipedia)