Tokyo!!

Finally edited my tokyo photos!! There were 150 photos so I guess I'd split it into 2 entries...

People are always talking about how awesome Tokyo is and more often than not they come back speaking in Japanese -_- (which is quite annoying, please don't). However I've also heard that things are very expensive there and of course there is the language barrier - which is why I never went until this year!!

However, I'm a freaking convert now. I FUCKING LOVE TOKYO!!! The Japanese are so... evolved. I've never been to a country that made me feel like my own country is inadequately developed, not even NYC. But Japan made me feel that way!

There are literally no rude people there. Everyone is other-centred, quiet, polite, and ALWAYS SMILING WTF. Even in 40 degree c temperatures!! Gadgets there are way more advanced than any other place. Everyone and everything is optimized for efficiency. Everybody recycles! It's great for tourists to abuse =D

Products there are of really high quality... Toilets, electronics, clothes... especially FOOD! Everything is yummy! And expensive. But worth it!

OK enough yakking. Photos!!

Arrival at Narita airport greeted by a cute mascot as per Japanese norm.

We flew JAL. Pleasant enough but ironically the food is TERRIBLE! Worst food I've had in an airplane!

Weird or what considering Japanese cuisine is famous worldwide.

I've been pestering Ming to let Mike and I join him on a holiday in Tokyo coz his uncle has a place in Harajuku. Free accomodation plus awesome tour guide (Ming) who will confirm bring us to eat good food!! MUAHAHA

Just so happened the Jipaban team (including Tim) was going to go to Tokyo for an exhibition so Mike, Cheesie and I tagged along!

See I'm so clever I go to Japan with people who can speak Japanese (Cheesie) and people with accomodation (Ming). Muahaha!!!!

Took the Narita Express train to Shinjuku, and met up with the rest in time for dinner.

Say hi to Hachiko! If you watched the Richard Gere film of the same name (I did and I cried like MAD), you'd know Hachiko, a shiba inu doggie, is famous because it came to the same spot everyday to wait for its owner to come back from work. This would not have been amazing if not for the fact that after its owner died, Hachiko still went to the station everyday at precisely the same time... for NINE FREAKING YEARS!

Watch and learn nasty Pumpkin!!

A bronze statue of Hachiko is thus erected at Shibuya station!! The film protrayed the station as being very quiet and and kinda rural but in actual fact Shibuya is super crowded!

Tokyo streets

Day 2, back at Ming's uncle's apartment...

Jipaban girls getting ready to go

Tim and Ming

Cheesie and I!!

It was freaking 40 degree celcius or something so I HAD to tie up my hair. Sigh... I don't know how Cheesie managed to have her hair down. That's how vain she is.

The gang walking ahead... Poor Tim didn't bring shorts so he wore jeans everyday! Sweat must be dripping down his legs wtf.

Can you see why we are friends?

Our footwear. We were determined not to wear slippers (or wear as infrequently as possible) coz the fashionable Japanese girls are MAD and they've already start to wear fur, boots and nordic prints (the in things this autumn) even though it's fucking sweltering hot!

On our way to the famous Meiji temple we passed by Harajuku street, where we spotted old men in... G strings. Or sumo pants??

They are covered by the person in jeans but I assure you I saw their ass cheeks!

Since it was my first day there and I already saw weirdos I thought I'd see more outrageous dressing but to my disappointment most other people were normal-ish with the exception of some blue/purple/green hair. :(

One thing I hate about Tokyo is the walking.

Call me lazy but I can't stand walking 15 mins to the subway, taking the subway and walking another 20 mins to your final destination. ESPECIALLY IN BAD WEATHER.

Already so sweaty and gross and exhausted, how to enjoy whatever it is you are doing!!?

And yet in this 40 degree weather we walked about 40 mins to Meiji temple!!

There was a steep slope up and you wouldn't believe the amount I sweated. It wasn't pretty.

And with every dripping step I kept thinking to myself  "FUCK FUCK FUCK EVERY STEP I TAKE NOW MEANS I HAVE TO WALK THE SAME STEPS BACK OUT." :(

But finally we arrived

We saw a procession... 

They were walking very slowly and dressed in black so we didn't know... Was it a funeral or just that weddings are very serious there? Or is it something else?

If its a wedding I'd never have it in that weather man... Imagine how sweaty those men's balls are!!!

It's literally the temperature of a sauna!

Here's where people made wishes

Cheesie damn kiasee and wrote her wish in Japanese in case the Japanese Gods don't wanna read Chinese or English. LOL

I guess her wish is "I want a sponsorship from Liz Lisa and a handsome Disney prince to fall in love with me and to stay skinny forever. With current boob size. TYVM"

Ming and Tim writing their wishes. I guess Ming's wish is "WORLD DOMINATION!!!!1111 And a fighter jet." and Tim's is "Kitteh to love me 4eva".

But all these idiots forgot to read the instructions and put their wishes into the box with an envelope - but without donations!! MUAHAHAHA!

And this Mike lagi best, he put in his wish with money - but with no envelope!!!!

SO NOBODY'S WISHES WILL COME TRUE BUT MINE COZ I READ INSTRUCTIONS

After visiting the temple, we wanted to go walk around in Harajuku and have lunch.

Then I saw the one thing that made me believe in Japanese spirituality - they heard my whines afterall:

I saw a taxi. Someone took a taxi to the ulu temple and it was EMPTY. I RAN to the taxi and I yelled, "Who wants to cab with me???" Amazingly enough only Cheesie did. The rest didn't mind walking wtf???

I knew Japanese taxis were expensive but I didn't care anymore. $50, $100 - I'd pay it as long as I get out of the freaking scorching sun!!

It was BLISS!! Aircon!!!!! AND IT ONLY COST US $11sgd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best $11 I've EVER spent!!1111

When we reached Harajuku we were so ahead of the rest of the walking group we had time to shop...

Cheesie even bought some clothes

And eat a Harajuku crepe - the muthafucking best thing you can eat in summer!

Filled with cream, ice cream, and strawberries. 

Comes in many other flavours too. YUMS

Must... camwhore

Cheesie and I sat down on a bench nomming our delicious crepes and we sighed, thinking of the rest of them still walking.

They insisted that we missed out on their awesome therapeutic walk though, where they bonded and talked about concubines wtf. BUT CREPES AND AIRCON???

After joining the rest... Mike and I snapped a pic in the world famous street (thanks to Gwen Stefani). It is surprisingly small, like bugis street but not that many smaller streets and no upstairs level!!

And we go to a convenience store to get DISNEYLAND TICKETS for tomorrow!! (yes you can do that wtf)

Something that's in all the convenience stores

Everyone waiting for the tickets

In a store which sells socks and lingerie. You can see Cheesie's very interested in the furry bras.

I also liked them but I didn't buy coz I think it would cause sweaty boobs in SG weather. But Cheesie is irrational when it comes to shopping lol

My lunch: Pasta served Japanese style.

For some reason they only have westernized food in Harajuku.

Mike's seafood pasta.

Poor Cheesie had to translate what's what on the menu for everyone.

After this Cheesie and I went to Shibuya 109 while the rest of them went to visit our famous monuments... Due to our different flight timings we only had 2 days to shop together so we wanted to spend a day at Shibuya 109!!

Tadah!!

It's much smaller than I thought actually, only 8 floors and the mall is circular.

Here's the crowd going in...

Once you step in it's like going into a different world!!

All the clothes are kinda the same (they all look like the season's trends) but they are all so pretty!!!!!!! Most of the shoppers there are girls in their teens to late teens and they are all UBER FASHIONABLE!!! Amazing make up and accessories and shoes! Just looking at them is interesting enough but you also have all the merchandise to frazzle you. It was a glamourous confusion.

Especially the shoe shops are full of muthafucking chio boots you can't find anywhere else!! Fringe boots, fur boots, aviation boots... Madness!!

Think Liz Lisa has the prettiest clothes but all very expensive and... impractical so I didn't buy.

All the furry things I missed out on :( I NEED TO GO BACK

Cheesie posing at a Peach John store... I bought furry pink leg warmers there. Sigh... Being irrational again. No chance to wear them at all.

Last picture!

Ok on hindsight I shall split it into 3 posts.

Princesses VS Villains

Note: Post updated below

A blog reader showed me this forum page where people who hate Michelle (Phan) were gossiping about our collaboration video. (See previous post)

These people scruntinize her videos, take her ugly screenshots to use as avatars, use childish varieties of her name as their usernames, and criticize her every move every single fucking day!! It's the most motherfucking sad thing I've ever seen, and I've seen godawful photos of that woman crushing a kitten with her high heeled shoes. OK fine those photos are the saddest but man this ranks HIGH on the sad scale!

This is how I expect Cinderella's step sisters will write if they were real.

I've already seen the forum thanks to overzealous blog readers sending me links to read before I met Michelle in case I am taken in by her devious ways and unscrupulous trickery (THIS IS SARCASM). -_- Thanks for the concern.

But now they are talking about ME too!!

I must say I'm a little happy because BY GOD! Too many people like me nowadays! I mean the swishy hair, the righteous justice dished to the uglies, the oh-so-furry eyes... What's there not to like? I jest. But seriously, I was just complaining that nobody gossips about me anymore! I blame it on being married. "Who is she fucking now?" is the best gossip topic ever. Who am I fucking now? Oh, Mike again.

But although I crave attention at every moment, some of the comments were still bloody annoying!

These girls (I know they are girls coz men only go FAPFAPFAP) go after Michelle like sharks on a menstrating seal coz they know that Michelle is nice and unconfrontational like that. But I'm not gonna let them write shit about me like that without fighting back!

So here are some of the more ridiculous things that were said:

These losers were complaining about everything under the sun you can possibly think of: Our complexion, Michelle's voice, Michelle's editing, how act cute we were etc...

One of them decided to say the dumbest statement of them all:

Erm... Which of the Disney Princesses are "by Disney" then??? Is it Snow White? Mulan? Or Pocahontas, born 1595, who time traveled to Walt Disney's era to get him to do a movie on her?

Or is it...

The little mermaid?

Yeah I don't care if she edited her embarrassing mistake. People who are presumptous and dumb like that should not be allowed to express their opinions. Nobody wants to hear them.

Someone pointed out the obvious... And that's their answer: Spending the time to save the video AND reupload it.

That's already so sad I almost can't bear to make it sadder... :( But here it is:

When someone has 1 million views on each video, YOUR ONE VIEW IS INSIGNIFICANT. YOU are insignificant.

There, I just made it sadder.

WTF is this?? When did I say I'm Rapunzel? I was fucking mute in the whole video!!!!!!

But thanks for noticing I have long blonde hair!! I like to brush it to the tune of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight".

♫ She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair.

And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"

And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight." ♫♫

GOLLY! He is singing about me!

Just WOW. Listening to Michelle's video over and over to pick out her grammar mistakes (which were not really wrong in the first place)?

People are not gonna "jump your bones" for writing "colour" - People wanna rape you with a bayonet coz NOBODY LIKES GRAMMAR NAZIs. Especially the ones that aren't even accurate!

WTF is this? Edit my face, fine. Rude, yes mdm I am. But lying?

Please tell me one lie I told. It can't be a contradicting opinion like I said I hate blue then later said I like blue-green coz people can change their minds. It must be a straight-out lie like I said I have 13 inbred children who are all musically inclined but I don't.

If you can't find one, then don't yak rubbish.

And my scrunch face is cute!! Cmon, don't fight it. LOL!

Girls all like to take photos with their pretty purchases. If it's on someone you like, it's oh-so-stylish. If it's on someone you DON'T like, it's showing off. If it's on Dawn, it's because she has something to prove as she is trying to be in a caste tier she's not MUAHAHA.

Ok snide remarks aside.

I detest people calling me materialistic!! I take pride in shopping at This Fashion and don't even own a single branded bag (unless you count Juicy couture). Even my Reebonz Kate Spade bag I gave to my mom coz she liked it so much!

I did have a $2,800 dog though... Is that considered materialistic? OK I guess I AM materialistic then.

 

Talking about me

I really have to rant about this.

All these self-righteous MORONS all love to give fucking advice.

According to them, EVERYONE (except maybe Mother Teresa) should be less shallow/superficial, be less rude, do more charity, be less self-centered - and be "open" to their thinly-veiled criticism.

They claim to have all but good intentions and wish to sincerely change people to... better people. How kind!

As if they are all of those qualities, or everyone in their lives who might actually give a fuck about their opinions are already perfect.

All these do-gooder default qualities are preached over and over again to famous people. If someone is already all that, then they are said to be FAKE. Why? Because very rarely do people really put the world before themselves - and if they do, they are muthafucking boring and nobody gives a shit about them.

Yeah so you want me to listen to your dumbshit DEFAULT advice? Be "open" to criticism?

Sure I'd be less shallow and discuss quantum physics. You'd say I'm pretentious and boring.


Sure I'd do charity. You'd say I'd doing it for PR.


Sure I'd put others before me. Sorry then, I won't have time to update this blog, so who would you impose your opinions on then?

So I say, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE AND STOP TRYING TO CHANGE ME. It's not because I'm not open to your stupid criticism - it's because I've heard your suggestions so many times and it's DUMB. Don't think you are the only smart ass who ever asked me to stop swearing so much.

Don't be a hypocrite now. You asked me to be open to your criticism. How about YOU ANONYMOUS LOSERS be open to my criticism too? Here's what I think: Stop writing shit on forums!! Look at a puppy and cheer yourself up!

I may be a lot of things, but at least I'm not some advise-churning goody two shoes. I only give useful advice such as the above. With the exception of serial killers, rapists, smokers who smoke near to me and food vendors who insist on putting parsley in my food, I won't want anyone to change! Be shallow! Be superficial! Be selfish! You at least make the world interesting.

And how do you tell someone you are not in denial when you are denying that you are in denial? Tough one.

Yeah I've been trying to be Dawn Yang for a long time!! I'd love to have my blog readership go down 20 fold (Blogger queen? Pah! Titles), not be happily married anymore and have armpit stubble. :(

And for the last time although my nickname for Plasticzilla is as such, I dislike her NOT because she's plastic in the most unthinkable places (I am actually fascinated by this) but because she is a liar, a plagiarizer, and she tried to sue me. Don't know if you guys have been sued presented some sort of lawyer's letter before but it IS NOT NICE. Yeah yeah I started it. Whatever.

And the second part - just wow! If I ever get over my feud with PZ I'd ask her and Michelle and Arissa to do a drama serial!! These people should be scriptwriters!

Dude why am I suddenly the one who made everyone hate Dawn? Her plastic surgery expose in 2005 was not done by me ok! But what would this person know, she thinks PZ is the best "writer"!!! Aw, I'm sure her writing is fantabulous coz it's all copied from famous authors. :)

And an important question. WHO AMONG US IS REALLY EVIL????????

Yes. This forum hater sincerely thinks bloggers and youtube gurus are "evil", and it's very important to figure out which one of us is. LOL

Hide your kids hide your wife and hide your husband coz they rapin' everybody out here!

OEI! You can insult me but do not insult Japanese make up! Just coz you've never seen it done don't seem it's doesn't work! My make up skills are pretty damn good - it's just fucking hard to put on eyeliner by just looking at a camcorder's screen, ok? You fucking try it and show me how you do it much better then.

And I won't tell you my certified by Mensa IQ coz that'd further make you feel inadequate. AND my skin is pretty damn awesome wtf. *super defensive*

Don't know how Michelle can tolerate all these crazy sad fuckers. They say things like she faked her chicken pox (I saw her scars), that she did a nose job (she didn't, and trust me I should know) and even said she sent her pet bunny to be slaughtered! They can gabble away all day about Michelle's perceived flaws but they cannot deny how fucking sad it is that they are so obsessed with her.

You know how when you are masturbating someone who's been on your mind all day will suddenly pop up, just like Chandler Bing said (his phantom masturbating interrupter is his mom) in Friends?

Well enjoy masturbating tonight and having our faces pop up suddenly since you are so obsessed with us!! MUAAHAHAHA!!

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UPDATED!!!

After a good night's sleep I woke up to see that the losers have dedicated a thread to this blog post!! It's like they are trying so hard to prove me right or something???? Yabbering the same unfunny insults over and over again and agreeing with each other while thinking they are oh-so-clever. Hi-five!! Morons.

One of them were saying her IQ is 135 or whatever since she was 9 and that I can't possibly be accepted by Mensa?? IQ does not change with age honey, and 135? HAHAHA!

Don't need to guess if I'm lying, here's proof!

Crumply but still valid

Oh and also...

Number 1 most watched video on Youtube today. 

Your argument is invalid.

Hold on, I'm printing it on a real classy trophy and putting it on display beside my other multiple trophies. Thanks for making Michelle and I famous, haters!! =)

Disney Princesses

On my trip to Anaheim, California I filmed a video with THE Michelle Phan!! *deng deng deng* She's the 17th (last time I checked) most subscribed youtuber so it's a huge deal!!

Initially we would just reply each other on twitter sometimes but when she asked if I'd like to collaborate on a video with her I didn't even believe it was going to happen until the moment she reached my hotel room. I thought she'd cancel or something!! Don't blame me I've just met a lot of irresponsible people in life. But she didn't!! (I was in Disneyland for a press junket. Think I cannot say what yet. If you are smart you can probably guess? Pretty glaringly obvious lol)

I was apprehensive about meeting her (I'm always apprehensive about meeting people coz I rarely like people hahaha) but it turned out we got along so well and had so much in common so that was awesome!!

AND we had so much fun filming this video!!! We were Disney princesses - She's Ariel and I'm Rapunzel from the new Disney movie Tangled! (In Singapore the working title is Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale)

Check it out!



A lot of people seem to be confused about Rapunzel's make up since she is so new, so here are some pictures of the newest Disney princess. She's my VERY FAVOURITE.

So much blonde hair jealous max

Although her make up looks subtle it's actually not!! She has a golden tan, with ginormous green eyes framed by loads of lashes especially lower lashes! She has freckles, bushy brows, coral cheeks and just a hint of lip colour. She has cascading blonde hair and a damn cute chameleon as a pet too. Someone in the comments said "Rapunzel didn't have a frog". It's a chameleon!!!

Ahem. Back to the topic. How? Did Michelle do a good job duplicating the look or WHAT??

And don't forget to subscribe to Michelle's awesome make up tutorial videos here.

Weirdos

Typing this on my blackberry now (backdated 1 day ago) since I'm feeling bored on my LA-Narita flight back to Singapore.

On the ten hour flight from Tokyo to LA I actually got a 3 seat row all to myself coz the flight was so empty. Mother of all happiness! But for this flight, even though it's also relatively empty I got stuck sitting with an old Indian lady in a 3 seat row. I'm not being racist ok? I'm stating her race as a fact and as a description. Any stereotypes you have or presume I have just means YOU are the racist one.

She seems nice enough and we chatted for a bit before the flight took off.

Halfway through the flight though, she nudged me when I was watching a movie (Ip Man prelude).

I was quite annoyed coz I was rather enjoying the show and had to pause it (not to mention fumble with the remote lost in the tangle of blankets) PLUS remove my earphones just to hear what she had to say. Oh this better be important.

To my further annoyance she wanted a cup of water and asked me to flag down the next air stewardess who walks by to get her what she wants - since I was seated by the aisle and her, by the window.

Thinking she didn't know that you can press for service with the remote, I asked, "Why don't you just press for service?"

She replied, "Oh I don't like doing that because I think it irritates them."

Oh? It irritates them! What about irritating ME?

Forget it. Since she is generally nice and I'm generally nice (believe it or not), I did what she told me to and got her her stupid water via medieval flagging. I felt like I was using a black and white tv while rollerskating.

(On a side note for a long flight everyone should bring a water bottle which you can ask stewardesses to fill for you so you don't have to keep asking for puny cups of water)

Later, it was lunch-time and I had my mouth full of yaki-soba when I got that blessed nudge again. This time she wanted orange juice but seriously, at 8 hours into a 10 hour flight everyone's fucking grumpy already.

Get ya own damn juice!

I said nothing and just pressed the goddamn service button. In my mind a scene was playing where the engineer who designed the service button is yelling at her for pure pig-headedness. "Use the fucking button woman goddamn it, I got paid good money to invent it!" He's also smacking her with the inflight remote for good measure.

Flight attendant came within 10 seconds and she got her juice. I hope I made it clear I'm not going to fucking help her nudge and harass a passing attendant anymore just coz of her silly theory.

Which is more stupid? Interrupting me to ask me to actually spend time LOOKING OUT for a passing attendant for her (thus interrupting my movie), stop the attendant (so that I look like the troublesome one), belay her request... or her just pressing the button?

Instead of irritating two people, including an innocent passenger, she could just irritate one who's paid good money to be irritated.

And as I was thinking about it, if I were an air stewardess I'd much rather people just press the button instead of stop me when I'm, say, pushing a trolley full of fruits while pouring beer. That way the person who attends to my juice-drinking neighbour will be the next free attendant and not just a passing busy one!

Chao ah kua really damn annoying lah! I mean obviously she's a sweet old lady overall but why the FUCK on earth would anyone ask for a request like that??? Can someone explain her logic to me??

Maybe she has a fear of remote controls.

If she does she could have just said "I'm sorry, I have an irrational fear of remote controls, can you press the service button for me?"

And I would have gladly obliged.

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 Update: After the stopover in Narita a guy came onboard and he sat in between me and the Indian lady. He was very, erm, third world and had completely no sense of personal space so although he is quite skinny, he kept putting his elbow WAY over the arm rest in between us such that I had no choice but to have my arm touch his arm. GROSS! His feet were also open wide apart with his enormous backpack in between them so that it intruded into my leg room.

Cheebye! Lao niang paid the same price as him, why should I get less space??

After repeatedly asking him to tuck his damn elbows in, he still didn't do it so I moved to another seat. Give me the Indian old lady anytime!!!

Speaking of long-haul flights... I think I wouldn't mind them so much if they allow mahjong on them!!!