LOTD: Intimate Adventures of a Call Girl

When a lovely girl by the name of Magenta gave me 'The Secret Diary of a Call Girl' series, I went out and bought the book to see which I preferred - book or television series. This is a usual habit of mine. I am still reading the book (surprisingly; I usually finish books within a day but have little time for books these days sadly) and so far I feel perhaps the television adaptation is more fun whereas the novel (by Belle de Jour) is more "snippty-snip" and has too many shortened forms as characters that it is hard to follow. Perhaps that conveys the life of a call girl come to think about it but at the same time I have little patience for books that fail to captivate me. And this is about sex too, how shocking that it is dull! But enough about that, I will do a more detailed review later perhaps...

Ironically enough I happened to do a look that I later thought looked quite like 'The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl' book cover. Anyway I quite love this color combination but unfortunately I did this look using a Lancôme travel palette which makes me unhappy.

Lancôme used to be my favorite brand of all time but when I discovered they test on animals it killed all love I had for them. This turned out to be a conflict though as I have quite a few of their products - some I have given away to people who are not troubled by this sinister side of Lancôme and fair enough, if they can stomach it then I have no issues with them using Lancôme products. However in terms of other more used products I either threw them out (some people would kill me if they knew I threw out full Juicy Tubes) or left them to collect dust. However, with this travel palette I could not bring myself to do either as my father had bought it as a special present and so I brought it to Adelaide with me and have kept it in my make up collection fondly without throwing it aside.

I am a softie when it comes to my father, terrible I know.

Anyway I figured if I used this palette in a "I-could-not-care-less" attitude as I would with daily products then maybe it would be just in a way? Treating a high end brand as though it is merely a junk bin brand seems good enough punishment, no? Still, it disgusts me using Lancôme products now. Sigh. What a messy break up.

 

What I did for a day look was use a dark purple and a lighter gray-ish purple shade...

...and then for my night look - I was to go to the pub with some friends - I darkened the inner corners and left everything else the same.

I tossed on one of my favorite bracelets of all time: a friendship bracelet my best friend Kiwa and I made together. We bought the same bracelet and then bought numerous other bracelets, charms, etc. to add onto the bracelet making it a charm bracelet, just not really! You cannot see it in this photo but I have a lot of pendants on it too like one with a dolphin, etc.

Normally I go to the pub with Scott but seeing as he was not around I refused to wear my usual attire of a short dress and heels and went instead with a jean and tight top look. Plus heels, I can never not do heels for nights out, I say pfui to flats. If you are to go out at night then let the heels reign. That said, I am notorious for wearing heels during the day as well. Just not in Adelaide, you get into too much trouble for doing so.

And I finish with some gorgeous apricots the lovely girl by the name of Magenta gave me. So yummy and straight from her garden!

Suki's fond memories of 2010

What a year 2010 has been! I personally found it to be one of the happier years of my life: I finally went off to pursue a degree after years of waiting after graduating from high school, I discovered a quaint city I fell in love with upon arrival, I have met and gotten close to some very wonderful people who will most certainly be life-long friends, and most importantly I have been fortunate enough to find in Scott a soul-mate and best friend.

Life could not have been more perfect this year even with its downs (the amount of times I have been ill this year has been considerably fewer than other years but the severity of each bout of flu has been terrible!) and I am so grateful that my beautiful parents have provided me with the opportunity to further my education and have been so very supportive and loving at all costs and at every hour I have needed them.

I have lost two very cherished pets: Jodhaa (Jodi), my barely a year old guinea pig earlier in the year and Pebbles, my fourteen-year old cat just this month. However Scott and I have our two adorable hermit crabs, Jackson and Trent, while my parents still have our two remaining cats, Sydney and Prince as well as our beloved still-nameless tortoise. Pets are beautiful additions to a family and I have benefited from all of mine in so many ways and 2010 has taught me to cherish them that much more.

2010 has taught me so much about myself and changed me in a lot of ways too. I was able to become a better person this year and most definitely a happier person for which I am most grateful for. Scott, my family and friends are an incredible support system in my life and they all are too amazing for words. It is them I thank for all the happiness and success I have gained this year.

Enough of me rambling away! I leave you with some photos of this year and a tale of each.

From the moment I arrived, fell in love with Adelaide and university and college life, 2010 has been amazing. I can only thank my parents for giving me this opportunity to study abroad and further my education and my life.

Life in Adelaide has been fun no matter what everyone has to say about the quaint, sometimes slow city. Trust me, after a 1am jaunt to Glenelg and getting a photo with a police jeep life is never unexciting unless you choose to be boring (:

The people I have memories with are ones I hope I know for life, because they are beautiful and like I did with Laura on the engineers pub crawl, there is always much fun to pursue and laughs to have.

Scott is the most amazing person in my life and probably the most important after my family. With him I have experienced so much and have yet to experience more with him. He is the one person I want to go through life with, he is my best friend as well as my boyfriend.

From wind farms...

...To caves (:

And not to forget, some very long car journeys together.

Our tradition is going to the zoos of SA and hopefully in the future we will be able to go to others.

My memories of this year show how much I have changed as a person - me stealing even a candle?! That was unheard of a mere few months prior to me moving to Adelaide!

I have kissed pandas...

...And gotten slushies from my boyfriend when I need them the most (:

I take myspace style photos unintentionally but love the people I take photos with.

My girlfriends are SO important to me...

...And we always get up to no good!

This year has been full of experiences...

And I cannot wait to go through it all over again with Lex as my partner in crime (:

I thank all the professionals I have gotten to work with this year and for the beautiful photos they have given me.

Let me know what your fond memories of this year have been!

In Between: My Final Night In Adelaide (Yay For No Rotation Photos!)

Just a little filler, just whiling away my days

My last night in Adelaide was also the day I finished exams and I thought I would do a typical night out at a pub with a friend but instead Scott claimed it from 6pm onwards. I had no idea what he had planned especially when he said we had to drive there. Exhausted, after a grueling exam and then a whole day of packing and moving my stuff down to storage, I sincerely hoped he wasn't taking us paint balling or something...

As it turned out, he took me to see the first part of the final Harry Potter! That was pretty neat, although admittedly my favorite part was us playing in the arcade before the movie...

...Somehow the movie didn't live up to my expectations (as usual) so I'm not going to rant or rave about it or risk spoiling it for others who have yet to see it. I'm a tricky customer to begin with when it comes to movies based off books so it wasn't surprisingly that I found it slightly offensive that they changed the way Hedwig died...

Wait, what? I said no spoilers. Oops...

Afterward, we headed back to college (only to encounter a disgusting cream colored spider on the college wall outside of the car park, eugh what a nightmare!) where Scott said he had another thing planned! Curious, I followed him down the street for quite a way before we came along to...

...A lovely little nook called 'Elephant Walk'. This place is renowned for it's pricey desserts but worthwhile cozy atmosphere so I was pretty excited to be able to try it out and with Scott no less.

We got ourselves an lemon iced tea, an iced chocolate and strawberry waffles. Boy was I glad I stuck with a light beverage because those waffles were pretty spectacular!

Overall the place was quite nice but I felt there could have been massive improvements on certain aspects of it but that's just me nitpicking. Definitely a great date place and I hope they expand in time to come.

So that was my final night (in very brief detail) in Adelaide. Scott drove me to the airport the day after and now here I am in Sri Lanka! Overall? The best final date of the year and I'm giving my boyfriend extra points for being so sweet and thoughtful!

LOTDs: Forgotten Looks

This is how I intend to strut my stuff today

Here are a bunch of looks that I had no time to post up before and during my exams and so are declared forgotten looks (hence they're edited because I can and like messing around with brightness and contrast). Most products used are Fyrinnae or Evil Shades.

 

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.