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.. AND I HAVE PASSED ALL MY EXAMS!!!!

I NOW HAVE CONFIRMATION THAT I WILL BE GRADUATING IN APRIL! YAYYYY!!!

Hooray! It was the Super Duper BMU Ride Day Weekend! Two days of awesome riding in Canberra with even better company. I had a great time despite coming home sunburnt, sore and with a leaky nose. Surprisingly, my legs were fine, it was my upper body that was aching. Can’t wait to do it again, though! Thanks a bazillion to Jing who organised the whole thing and put us into some really nice apartments

David, Wilson and I thought it would be a good idea to hire a van for a weekend which would’ve worked out easier and cheaper than taking two/three cars down. It was a great idea, I loved just chucking stuff in the back and not worrying about the car.

Our trusty rental van! Nice and reliable but we would probably get something with a bit more power next time. This thing was one slow mover!

Six bikes in the back, fuck yeah!

05.12.09 – Sparrow Hill & Saturday Night Shenanigans

Sparrow was just absolutely amazing! It is by far the best trail I’ve ridden so far. Flowy single track that undulates up and down, winding through a picturesque pine forest. It was so lovely and peaceful in there, I’m sure I could’ve just enjoyed walking through it and admiring its fragrance… Which is what we did when David’s leg seized up in a monstrous cramp, poor thing! Wilson and I limped back with him to the fire road that took us back to the entrance.

(Credit: Jing) Heading Out

(Credit: Jing) Through the Forest

(Credit: Jing) Pine Trees!

After a well-earned dinner at the Kingston Hotel, we returned to our apartments where I dozed off into a food-induced coma that I was later woken from by cries of agony that sounded something like “Ughhh, fuckkk! My leg! It’s crampeddddd! It hurtssss!”. I entered the lounge area to find this:

(Credit: Justin) Timmy writhing around on the ground!

What happened, you ask?

(Credit: Justin) Timmy + A jug of vodka and pineapple juice = Sixty dorra and…

(Credit: Justin) Timmy trying to crawling back to his sofa, LOL!

Stacks on… Cliffy!!!

There is no such thing as buying one bottle at a time for me anymore…

Beginning of November

OPI – Pamplona Purple; My Private Jet (non-holo); Bright Lights, Big Color; You Don’t Know Jacques

China Glaze – Rodeo Diva, Bare if You Dare, Calypso Blue

23.11.09

OPI – We’ll Always Have Paris, Green-wich Village, China Glaze – Wagon Trail, Flying Dragon and OPI – Man of La Mancha

26.11.09

Loreal Jet Set Lacquer – 650 ($2 at The Reject Shop! A woop here!) and Rimmel – Pompous, Green With Envy, Blue Me Away (3 for 2 special at Priceline! And a  woop here!)

27.11.09

Versace – V2077, V2045, V2056 and Jordana – Fuchsia Foil

02.12.09

OPI – At Your Quebec and Call, Flashbulb Fuchsia, All A-Bordeaux the Sled!, China Glaze – Blk-Bila-Bong and OPI – Glove You So Much

China Glaze – X, OPI – Purple with a Purpose, Holiday Glow and China Glaze – Watermelon Rind

Stash at 02.12.09

School’s been out for some time and I figured that I needed to keep myself busy somehow. <Enter the idea of cataloging my entire stash on ‘nail popsicles’>. This was inspired by one of the girls on the MUA nail board – Michelyne at Enamel Coated. I hope she doesn’t mind that I did it with my collection as well! The majority of this was done during those two killer weeks of hot weather. I couldn’t help thinking of this little project as a factory churning out popsicles in heaps of  different flavours.

The end result

The raw materials

The assembly line

Intermediate stages of production

Ready for some flavour!

A progress pic

This was a pretty good exercise considering over three quarters of my stash is comprised of polishes that I haven’t gotten around to trying yet. I just can’t wear them in time and this was a good way to try them all.  Not only this but I made a few useful observations along the way:

• Color Club polishes applied very well. They’re an awesome bang for buck lacquer and I could like them just as much as my OPIs.  I just wish my source had more of the colours. I think I mentioned somewhere that the majority of the ones on display tend to be on the safe side. This being said though, I still managed to pick up a bunch of really cool colours… I just want access to more of them!

• Throughout the project I learnt what effect the glass bottle has on a polish. I think I can say that I now have a pretty good idea of  how a colour is going to look like on the nail.

• I also have a feel for each different brush now and I just have to say it… I love the OPI ProWide! What can I say? I’m just a part of the new generation!

• OPI – Here Today… Aragon Tomorrow reminded me of mum’s pandan food colouring. It smelt sooo good, if only the polish smelt that way too! I just loved the way it looked at one coat – all jelly…  and green… Hmm, I think I may be talking Nars Zulu here! But let’s not go there… I have some how managed to resist the lemming of this colour and would prefer to keep it that way considering how elusive it is!

• China Glaze – Flying Dragon dries matte… WTF! Maybe this is old news but it was an interesting learning curve for me! I’ve only ever seen pictures of it with a glossy finish. Welcome, Flying Dragon,  to my collection as my first neon ever.

• I keep my nails short because I like the way they look and generally because they stay out of the way. Not only this, but this exercise has made me realise how much more effort painting longer nails requires – as you can see in the pics, the false nails I used were looooonnnng. There was just so much more to contend with like drag and having to load the brush up with alot more polish. Nubbins for me, for life, YO!

I also got around to doing some comparison wheels:

Blues and Reds. Damn it, I have too many similar dark blues!! … and reds. I have to admit, this exercise was just to reassure myself that the colours are different! “There is justification for owning all of them!”.

27.11.09 -    Catch up with the C.U Girls

After sitting in my car for ten minutes while my parking spot transitioned from a loading zone into a 4P spot,  I met up with the girls for dinner at Wagaya (I seem to end up there alot don’t I?) followed by sticker photos at Capitol Square and karaoke. We thought it would be fun to relive our high school days in the photo booth. I forgot how hectic it was, changing poses every 10 seconds and how hot and stuffy it is in there with all those bright lights! One thing I did remember though, was that sticker photos were only $10 max a sheet. We paid a whopping $18!!! WTF! Surely inflation hasn’t increased that much since 2003? But anyway, it was lovely to catch up with the ladies and to meet a new face! Wagaya wasn’t so bad, either – I figure it’s better value for money when you go with a group of girls instead of a bunch of hungry guys (!!).