You Need to be Nicer

Sit. Good dog. Stay. Bad dog. Down. Roll over.

Well here's a good man and a pretty young girl
Trying to play together somehow
I'm wasting my life, you're changing the world
I get drunk and watch your head grow

It's the good times that we shared
And the bad times that we'll have
It's the good times
And the bad times that we've had

Well it's been a long, slow collision
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times and the bad times
That we'll have

Sometimes we talk over dinner like old friends
Till I go and kill the bottle
I go off over any old thing
Break your heart and raise a glass or ten

To the good times that we shared
And the bad times that we'll have
To the good times
And the bad times that we've had

Well it's been a long, slow collision
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times and the bad times
We know will come, yeah

I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer
You need to be nicer, you need

For the good times and the bad times that we had
Sit

Good times, bad times
Sweet wine, bad wine
Good cop, bad cop
Lapdog, bad dog
Sit

("I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer" - The Cardigans)

Vice Versa

"We live in a world where I see guys walking around with makeup,

and girls walking around in boys' clothes."

--Marc Jacobs (in an interview with NYLON magazine)

Thanks, Mr. Jacobs, for now I have a legitimate reason 

to obsess over my boyfriend's sweaters.

Teenage Invasion

Another 16-year-old, another catchy tunes.

Watch your back, Lorde.

All for One and One for All

So, I stumbled upon BuzzFeed (as always) last night & my attention was drawn to this article I could not help but read. 

Anyways, this movie starts with the reuniting group of four girls (Samantha, Roberta, Teeny, and Chrissy) in their hometown of Shelby, Indiana, in 1995 (the 'now' part, as they were already grown-ups at that moment). And then there goes the flashback to the summer of 1970, when the four girls were 12. With all its bicycling, Red Rover game, tarot reading, library hopping, and seances, this is a good movie to tell what it was like being adolescents and how to spend summer before the years of video game and internet invasion.

I almost forgot how much I was obsessed with this movie when I was 8. (Yes, I watched it the first time when I was 8, which was around 4 years late since the movie came out in 1995) I'd watched it, like, 2 or 3 years ago on YouTube that I should jump from one part to another & the buffering lost my concentration so it kinda didn't do for me at the time. I thought my obsession was over, until I watched it again for the first time in years. The full part of the movie.

It turned out that some scenes still get me. Like, the scene when Sam almost drowned that night in the storm drain right after Teeny gave her a friendship bracelet, and Teeny couldn't do anything but crying, and then Crazy Pete came out of nowhere to save her. Or when Sam finally found out that Crazy Pete was Dear Johnny's father and being told a lesson that would've taken him a lifetime to learn. (I admit I'm a sucker for lonely old men) Or that time when Roberta got into a fight with some scumbag at the softball field and Sam did a heroic action. (That little guy screaming 'FIIIIIIGHT' was the highlight, though) Or the scene when they stole away the Wormers' clothes and left them chasing around naked. Or when Roberta was hysterically angry at Sam's grandma's attic finding out that some people might have died in pain, and the girls finally learned that the town they lived in was not as safe as they thought it always was. Or Teeny's room. Or the seances. Or Chrissy's OCD mother. (Seriously, a little dust on the gramophone and facing-upward cap is not okay?) Well, pretty much every single scene still gets me.

It's such a heartbreaker though finding out some of the girls' casts didn't grow up as expected. The girl who played pre-teen Chrissy, Ashleigh Aston Moore, even already passed away in 2007 with unconfirmed cause of death. (Some said pneumonia, some said heroin overdose) Well, after all, this is truly a movie a girl (or woman), regardless of her age, if you have bestfriends, should watch. Just like the tagline: "In every woman, there is the girl she left behind".

"C: I say  we make a pact. Here and now. We're here for each other, always, 
no matter what happens in life. If Teeny goes off to Hollywood or I marry a rich doctor,
 we remember this day and this pact. Whenever we need a friend, we're here for each other. 
We can count on it. Always. No matter what.

S: It's a pact.

C: All for one...

C, S, T, R: And one for all."

Instant, Removable Beauty

(First post ever about make up)

Decided to unpack my mini makeup bag.

And this is what I found.

(Quite strange when you're 22 and surrounded by people who consume makeup on daily basis yet this is all you got. Pft.)

Clockwise:

Nivea Essential Care lip balm

(I use it daily)

The Body Shop lipstick

(in a very natural color)

 Make Up For Ever lipstick

(again, in a very natural color)

 Vaseline Pure Petroleum Jelly 

(not really a makeup, it just happens to be inside the makeup bag. 

I use it overnight everyday)

(Messed-up) Clockwise:

Make Up For Ever 24S Blush Brush

 Revlon The Remover

The Body Shop Camomile Gentle Eye Make-Up Remover 

(can also be used to remove light makeup, such as BB cream)

Revlon ColorStay Aqua Mineral Makeup

(nevermind the name, it's just a shimmering powder foundation after all.

I usually use it as a regular powder)

Revlon CustomEyes Waterproof Mascara

The Face Shop Power Perfection BB Cream

Make Up For Ever Powder Blush

(in a very neutral shade)

Maybelline The Falsies Waterproof Mascara

Make Up For Ever Eyeshadow

(again, in a very neutral shade)

unbranded eyelash curler

Revlon Liquid Eyeliner

Yves Saint Laurent Eyeliner Effet Faux Cils

(excuse the name, it's just an eyeliner pen to be exact)

Revlon Eyeliner Pencil

(been buying this since highschool,comes with a built-in smudger)

Make Up For Ever Sculpting Blush

(you name it; in a very, very natural shade)

Not pictured: 

Make Up For Ever Eye Prime

Most of them are left unused in my makeup bag most of the time cause I only use BB cream, mascara (and sometimes a little bit of eyeliner), lipbalm (with sometimes a little touch of lipstick) for daily use. I don't even apply powder. (And I don't even have one!)

The most expensive makeup I got here is the YSL eyeliner one. I got it for AU$ 65 at Myer dept. store in Melbourne (now they sell it for AU$ 59 online), while at Sephora.com they sell it for only US$ 32. And in an Indonesian online makeup store they sell it for IDR 450k.
Yes, God can be unfair sometimes.. Especially for the makeup rookie.

Dear Daddy

It's hard when you set your Dad as a standard

when measuring men's qualities cause

they just simply can't compete.

Not even close.

"When you're looking for a husband, look for someone who can make money
without any help from his parents.
Don't ever marry Mommy's little boy. They're cowards." --Dad

To A 9-years-and-still-counting Friendship

"It's been said that everlasting friends go long periods of time
without speaking and never question their friendship.

These friends pick up phones like they just spoke yesterday,

regardless of how long it has been or how far away they live,

and they don't hold grudges.

They understand that life is busy and you will

always love them."

--A friend's post on Path