Photo Challenge - 28, 29, 30/30

A Photo Of:

What You Ate Today

Someone You Find Attractive/A Photo Of You When You Were Happy

As usual Blogger is weird and doesn't rotate some photos. Wonder why? Anyway this wasn't today and both occasions were different ones but both were at the beach and with Scott. I thought this would be the perfect photos to end my challenge.

If you want to do the 30 day photo challenge here are the challenges:
1. your facebook profile photo
2. a photo of yourself a year ago
3. a photo that makes you happy
4. a photo of the last place you went on holiday
5. a photo of you
6. a photo that makes you laugh
7. a photo of someone you love
8. a photo of your favorite band/musician
9. a photo of your family
10. a photo of you as a baby
11. a photo of your favorite film(s)
12. a photo of you
13. a photo of your best friend(s)
14. a photo of one of your favorite family members
15. a photo of you and someone you love
16. a photo of you at the last party you went to
17. a drunk photo of you
18. a photo of one of your classes
19. a photo of you on a school trip
20. a photo of something you enjoy doing
21. a photo of you standing up
22. a photo of your town
23. a photo of your friend as a baby
24. a photo of you that your hair looks nice in
25. a photo of a night you loved
26. a photo of your favorite weekend
27. a photo of last summer
28. a photo of what you ate today
29. a photo of someone you find attractive
30. a photo of you when you were happy

In Between: The Last Of Adelaide (For Now)

Just a little filler, just whiling away my days

I guess this is going to be a summary of the past few weeks as well as a sort of end of the year post summarizing life in Adelaide...not that I'm leaving for good, I'll definitely be returning (January 4th 2011 at 7:15am-ish!). Where to start and what to say? This year has been a great one and I've experienced so much and been more open to having fun and not taking life (or myself) so seriously. I can't take all the credit for becoming a more easygoing person and honestly, sappy enough as some people might say it is, it really is Scott who has gotten me more out there. He is my boyfriend and he is my best friend and I'm beyond grateful I have him by my side.

Last month my college had it's big end of year event, the Valedictory Dinner or as it's more affectionately known, VD. What usually occurs is the entire college dresses up outrageously keeping costumes a secret until the actual day and then we have dinner in a formal style...and proceed to get drunk out of our minds. That's usual life at my college! Anyway, my group of friends and I decided to dress up as characters from the Greek legend "The Judgment of Paris" (which, if you know your Greek myths, is what started the war over Helen of Troy).

From left to right: Alex as Aphrodite, me as Hera, Darci as Athena and Arbaaz as Paris and of course, the Apple of Discord with the inscription 'To The Fairest'

I think we did a good job pulling it off and we certainly looked like a Greek mythology with a twist! It was a fun night and it was great seeing what everyone else came as. To name a few (sorry, I don't really want to post up photos!), a group came as a game of tetris while another came as a game of pac-man, there were crayons and army combat figurines, a group came as the full cast of Wizard of Oz (my friend Sophia was the Yellow Brick Road! So creative!), there were Johnnie Walkers and life guards and so many more!

Scott, being a tutor, dressed up with the other tutors along to a fairytale theme. His character? Oh...

...well, he was the forever young! Haha, Peter Pan of course! Too bad he didn't have a Tinkerbell to dust on people to make them fly - I know I would've loved to fly off to Never Never Land with him!

Overall it was such a great night! I'm not sure if my make up is too visible but here's a better shot of it - well, better than the other photos anyway! I really ought to have gotten a clearer shot but oh well.

 

For inspiration, I used Doe Doeere's ice queen look. I didn't do a green lid or "wings" but I did the dots and it looked all right. I was aiming for a peacock style for my eyes and I think what I did was reasonable enough considering my bangs were covering my eyes most of the night anyway. As long as I had the "dark" look of Hera I was content.

The weekend before last (what a tongue twister...), Scott and I went to his Aunt's wedding and boy was that an experience of a lifetime! It definitely was not your usual conventional wedding but I quite liked the fact that it was so relaxed and casual! In the photo we're with Scott's cousin, Nathan, and...er, Nathan's date. I think her name was Stacey? Can't remember for the life of me, I was blown away by her stunning good looks...

Other than that I've been studying for exams, I only have two this semester but I'm not taking it lightly. I finished my psychology exam last Saturday and now I'm preparing for my philosophy exam this Friday. And then I fly back home to Sri Lanka on Saturday, whew! What with all the drama of Qantas flights, I sure hope I don't get too agitated when flying...

Here are some photos from yesterday (Sunday). I got the opportunity to work with an amazing make up artist, Kirsty and photographer, Carla.

  

Kirsty is sooo good at what she does and it was really exciting getting to be her "canvas" for the day!

 

The other model, Carla W., and I. I quite like the look of this shot, I wonder how it'll turn out...

In between shots, the very pale in comparison Scott and I (I look absolutely bronzed to the max! Scott had no chance at competing with my color!)

From left to right: Carla (photographer), Jamie (reflector girl), Kirsty (MUA), Carla W. and me.

Here is a sneak peek of the shots to come - I love Kirsty and Carla's work! They make such a great team and I definitely look forward to working with them again. Yesterday was too much fun, from falling in between rocks to getting sand everywhere and getting abused by the ocean!

And I leave you here dear readers, with some shots of the crabs from today. I've moved them temporarily to their traveling tank as I gave their main tank a good clean out. At first they were a little unhappy over being moved but now they've settled in and are quite content. 

 

 

Trent in a tree, hehe.

And contemplative Jackson, just whiling away his day. 

Photo Challenge - 26/30

A Photo Of Your Favorite Weekend

On a personal note, it is Scott and my anniversary today which made me think back two months ago when we went to the zoo to feed the sun bears (Akbar and Manji! For more information on them, go here) on our anniversary then. Definitely my favorite weekend this year I reckon.

Happy Anniversary Scooter, I love you (: ♥

Photo Challenge - 24/30

A Photo In Which Your Hair Looks Nice

 

 

My hair looked pretty decent at the annual college ball so I suppose this counts!

In Between: Epic Weekend

Just a little filler, just whiling away my days

 

Wow, so I have literally never had such an exhausting but fun-filled weekend! Being a university student is definitely a wild life but when you are also part of a residential college (as I am) it is intense. However, the nice part about my weekend was that a lot of what I did had absolutely nothing to do with college aside from the fact that two very special people from college invited me along - my boyfriend, Scott and my best friend, Alex (who no longer resides at college though).

On Friday, I accompanied Scott to his Mining Engineering pub crawl in return for him having attended my Psychology pub crawl a few months ago. I was curious to know what "his crowd" at university was like and in all honesty? I thought mining engineers would be dreadfully dull but I was so wrong! They are actually the greatest bunch of people to go on a pub crawl with seeing as out of all the pub crawls I have been on this year (and trust me, I have been on a lot) this was the first one I survived till the end. I cannot help but feel slightly proud of myself...even if it meant Scott and I got back home at about 2am and I had to leave for Mildura at 6am!

So at 6am, I somehow was still awake and ready to head off to Mildura with Alex. It was a four hour drive and was a typical road trip! We went for a Pink Ball which was to raise awareness and funds for cancer. It was a great night and I'm disappointed I couldn't stay more awake during the latter part of the ball when everyone was busting out moves to the 20's inspired music. Oh! That was the theme of the ball, the Roaring Twenties. I had a theme-ish dress for it but last minute decided to dress out of theme due to comfort. Alex went as Betty Boop and looked fantastic!

All in all I got about eight hours of sleep! Somehow I'm thinking this will take a toll on me later on but I'm glad I had some time off from all the stress and chore of university work. It's back to work for me this week as I have a 40% History essay due on Friday. Wish me luck, I have yet another epic week what with college awards night on Thursday and valedictory dinner on Saturday (for which we have to dress up!). Hope everyone else has a good week!

In Between: Backyardsenfest and Updates

Just a little filler, just whiling away my days

Whoa. So my blogger only just converted to the "new" posting scheme and it's a bit trippy, I can see why everyone was complaining. Why is it that you cannot rotate pictures nor do they upload as they are originally?! That is, the right way around! I'm sorry if you have to incline your head for the picture above, I tried my best to get it the right way around but I guess this is a glitch blogger needs to work on.


Last Sunday there was a massive college event called Marksenfest that I boycotted (I didn't think paying AUS$60 just to drink the whole day away was worthwhile), instead of selling my soul I decided to go to a friend's place instead for what we all called "Backyardsenfest". And that was A LOT more fun and relaxed and we even had the same things Marksenfest apparently had - wading pool, face painting (hence the picture above, I got a dragon on my chest! The artist is AMAZING and I'm actually going to pay her to paint a picture for me), drinks...but we also had a slushie machine, popcorn, Bathurst, Guitar Hero and a very good crowd of people. All in all it was a great day and I'm glad I had some time off from all the stress of university and other things.

I have an assignment due every single Friday this October - no lie! - and it's definitely taking a toll on me. As two of my subjects depend entirely on assignments I'm a little stressed out about getting good grades. Two exams out of a potential four may sound like a blessing but truthfully I think I would have preferred tackling four! So I've been a little tied up with all of that along with some other personal issues but that's life for you.

I just thought I'd include a little snippet of my weekend and hopefully next week I'll have a bigger update. Hope everyone is having a good week, have a good weekend!

LOTD

This is how I intend to strut my stuff today

Well almost anyway. I changed into jeans last minute before heading off to lectures this afternoon and I'm glad I did because the wind was howling outside despite it being sunny and supposedly Spring! By the way, isn't that tan line on my legs insanely noticeable?! Would you believe my legs got tanned on a two-ish hour drive sitting in the front seat? How annoying, clothing tans are difficult to wear, no pun intended.


No shots with my eyes open because they are bloodshot and exhausted looking! I have pretty bloodshot eyes to begin with since my hard lenses make my eyes dry but today I looked like the living dead.

NYX 'Yellow Gold Pearl' Ultra Pearl Mania eyeshadow all over lid
She Space 'Shadows of Doubt' in crease
Fyrinnae 'Okapi' added for depth and liner
MAC 'Smolder' eyeliner

MAC 'Love Thing' mineralize blush
Fyrinnae 'Indies' lip lustre

In Between: September Update

Just a little filler, just whiling away my days

It has certainly been quite a while since I've written and that's because I've been on mid-semester break! Or rather, two weeks off from university but more or less two weeks to finish off assignments due in the first week back. Nevertheless, I had some time to enjoy life a little and of course what better way than spending it with Scott and friends?


Scott and I went to a Moon Lantern Festival at the beginning of our break which was rather interesting. Being Asian it was quite an experience going to something I had gone to all my life in a foreign country where these things are pretty alien to locals. It was great seeing as many Australians as Asians enjoying themselves though, it's amazing how things can bring people together despite the vast differences. I think Scott enjoyed it, I know for sure he enjoyed these...

Potato on a stick! They were sooo good! But enough about that, here's a peek at what we actually went to the festival for.

There were some extraordinary lanterns and the parade was truly beautiful. My personal favorite was the Japanese traditional fan, I'm due to get one of my own from my Grandmother soon so I guess that's why it was my favorite of the lot (:

Anyway, other than that what have I been up to? I did a photo shoot with a photographer I've been dying to work with: Tony. He's such a sweetheart and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to do a shoot with him. Here's one of my favorite "motion" shots (even though I look distracted!):

Scott was nice enough to take me back to his hometown, Millicent, for the holidays. I went with him earlier in the year so it was great being able to go back and see his parents and enjoy the quietness of Millicent. Being a city girl (that is, not that I prefer cities but just that I've grown up in cities), I love the country and South Australia has the best country side in my opinion.

We returned to Adelaide only to set off again to another town called Laura which was where Scott's best friend, Max, had his 21st birthday party. It was a good night and we all definitely had a blast. Admittedly though, I was quite exhausted by then and all I wanted to do (and still do!) was get a proper night's sleep.

Alex, or Lexi, and I (: She's one of the most amazing people you'll ever meet.

And that sums it up really. I will hopefully be able to post in the upcoming weeks even though I have an assignment due every single week this month and two exams next month to prepare for. But I return home to Sri Lanka on the 20th of November for the summer break so there won't be a shortage of posts then, promise!

Photo Challenge - 7/30

A Photo Of Someone You Love

I love my family (pets included!).

I love Scott, my boyfriend.

I love my friends.

Photo Challenge - 4/30

A Photo Of The Last Place You Went On Holiday

Seeing as I am on holiday right now and I'm in Sri Lanka I suppose it would count as the "last" place I went on holiday (I was at Mt. Lavinia beach in this photo). But in case it doesn't, here is another picture of the last place I went to during the holidays - this small town is definitely one of my favorite places on Earth. Where is it you ask? Scott's hometown, Millicent (: