Going public

Okay, so recently I have decided to let the people from all over the internet to read my writings. Well, you know, my poems and stories. I've published them on FictionPress.com.

I don't know what I was thinking! Do you know how nerve-wracking it is every time I check on my stories' traffic stats?? If it's low, I'll feel down. If it's high, I'll feel anxious about what the readers think of my stories. Boring? Bad? Entertaining? Or worse, a Twilight material. It's even more so when I get quite an amount of hits on my stories but I get NO RESPONSE or comments from the readers! Does this mean they got bored with my stories and moved on to other writers?

Gah! I wish I could know what the readers are thinking.

New designs

I LOVE military-inspired fashion: military jackets, combat boots, gold/bronze buttons, accessories, etc. I was suddenly overwhelmed by the urge to draw and design, and the brown cropped jacket had been in my mind for a few days. I'm not drawing the back/side view, since I'm really gonna make them into real clothes (I wish I can, but unfortunately, I can't even make an ordinary T-shirt).

The dress, believe it or not, I wasn't really paying attention when I drew it. I was drawing for the sake of drawing. But it turned out great. It's my fave out of the four.

The one with pink blouse >> not exactly how I imagined it. I had wanted it to have more "attitude". I was my fave when I hadn't coloured it. Now it's my least fave after colouring.

And the last one, hmm....I was inspired by a girl I saw when I was waiting for the tram. She was clad in black: black tee, black boots, black pants, and yes, long black leather gloves. And she was walking with a black umbrella. An idea struck me >> a design that has a mix of military and 19th century fashion. And the umbrella turned into a gentleman walking stick.

I have another two designs on the way (still haven't coloured them) for men. I have to say, I'm really liking these designs (which is incredible to me because I usually don't like my designs much after finishing the sketch).

P.S. I know I have ridiculous hair here. LOL

Broken Arrow (Pixie Lott) - THE perfect song

I've just finished reading Beastly by Alex Flinn, seeing that how everyone commented (on the trailer on youtube) that the book is far better than the movie. The book was entertaining, but I don't exactly find it to be that awesome like some people said it is. Maybe it's because I'm beginning to grow out of YA novels.

NEway, after reading the book, I decided to watch the trailer again (to decide whether or not I'd check out the movie). And then, I just have a sudden love for the trailer's song -- Pixie Lott's Broken Arrow. (Yes, dumb me for not loving it the first time I saw the trailer).

As I was singing along (in my heart, of course) with the lyrics printed on my laptop's screen, I made a silent squeal. The lyrics...it's as if...it's written specially for the heroine in my new novel (title yet to be fixed)!! I don't think anyone would understand my excitement, though. Let's just say that I find my inspirations (mostly) from songs, and having a song that depicts EXACTLY the character in my novel, it helps me to focus (I always tend to "forget" about the character's personality/feelings). I've always been on the look out for songs like this. There were some that depicts 60-70% of my characters/story, but never 100%.

With this song, it's 100%. It's P-E-R-F-E-C-T.

The lines that best depict my heroine's feelings are these:

What do you do when your heart's in two places?
You feel great but you're torn inside.
You feel love but you just can't embrace it,
When you found the right one at the wrong time.

So, this should give you a hint on what's going on (generally) in my new novel. Have only finished 4 chapters so far. 4 short chapters. Another hint >> the story takes place after the events in Blood Moon (hopefully someone has been reading it *fingers crossed*), so you can say it's sort of like a sequel. Sort of.

Here's the official MV to Pixie Lott's song:

An owl in the making...

Nothing to post about lately. Well, not lately. It's been like this for a few months. Sorry for not updating more often guys.

An owl in the making...how? I'll tell you how - by sleeping at 6/7 am every day and wake up at 4pm.


Yes, that's what I'm doing. I simply don't know how to get back to being a normal HEALTHY human being =.=

Now I just feel like a zombie - moving and alive, but the mind is dead. Guess a human isn't supposed to become an owl.

Anyhow, that's all folks! See ya next time.

Love from Kay Al.

Lump-sum update...Again

All right. Time for me to blabber.

22/9/2010:

It was mooncake festival. But I still had classes T.T And for that reason, I couldn't go to the Titanic Exhibition with my CTG friends. But, oh well, I met up with them after class (well, after 3 hours of "lepak-ing" in the city to be exact. Bought 5 blouses from Supre!), and had Peking duck dinner with them. We had at least 12 mooncakes of different flavours -- there's apple, mango, laici, chocolate, green tea, strawberry, etc. Didn't do any thing wild or particularly fun but we hung out at the park beside the Yarra River and "appreciate" the moon (赏月) after the dinner and went back around 11pm. We were talking about our dreams and interest and stuff. It's really a relaxing and happy way to spend the mooncake festival's day.

23/9/2010:

Went to the Royal Melbourne Show with my CTG friends. Rode on a super scary ride in the theme park section. I don't even understand why I agreed to go the ride =.= I don't even have the guts to ride on roller coaster and yet I went for one of the scariest rides in the carnival. Genius. Period.

This is the ride that I went on. No, idiot. Not the ferris wheel. It's the one that looks like a claw. The ride it's called Hard Rock. And it couldn't be more suitable. The claw didn't only give us a 360-degree-rotation, the whole thing swung almost a whole 360 degree, too! Man, I screamed like I was gonna die and I even cried. TT.TT I swore to never ride on anything like that again. EVER.

And then, miraculously, I ate lunch, even though I still felt sick and dizzy after the ride. Anyway, we went for the animal section and played with the bunnies, dogs, cats, etc. I fell in love with a Samoyed!!! There were tons of them in the carnival but I fell in love with a particular one. It was so friendly and cute to us (licking us, giving us its hand/paw, taking pictures with us, etc). I really wanna just grab him/her and run away!!

We watched a local band's performance around 7 (it's called Royal Parade. I HIGHLY recommend this band! Their songs are awesome. They have a myspace and Facebook fan page so check them out!), and then we rode on the ferris wheel (exactly at 7.30pm) to watch the fireworks but didn't get to because for some reason there weren't any fireworks that time. However, the fireworks show started just when we were leaving. T.T But we still got to see some of the fireworks on the train while waiting for it to depart.

I went home around 9pm while the others had dinner at the city. I was so darn tired that I just wanted to skip classes the next day. Fortunately, I didn't give in to the little devil's voice in my head. XD

25/9/2010:

Went to Hollywood karaoke bar at 1pm. Sang for 5 hours before we left for tea. Hung out at Easy Cafe -- drinking bubble tea, talking about our love (and sex) experience (for some odd reason). Man, I think I'm the only virgin among them. LOL!

And then, it's dinner time. We had japanese cuisine and I tried Yukke for the first time. It's so addictive! Love it!

After that, I had another first -- had a drink with my girl friends at a bar (called Cho Gao). We talked about so many things when we were playing Truth or Dare (without the Dare). We left at around 12 midnight.


This is the interior of the bar/lounge. It's an Ancient-China-modern mix of style. Pretty cozy in there, too. You can literally fall asleep on the comfy cushioned chairs.

26/9/2010:

Had "Pan Mee" at my cousin's house. It was really an excuse to go to his house. The main reason was to see my newborn nephew. He was only approximately 2-week-old. He was so small and delicate and fragile-looking that I didn't have the guts to hold him. LOL! And he looked just like his older brother when he was around his age.

27/9/2010:

Went shopping at DFO with my sis for my CTG's PPP (Post Production Party) outfit. Shopped for a whole 5-hour and the result was >>> got 2 RipCurl bags, a present for my friend's birthday (which I entirely forgot until I bumped into a friend who reminded me of that), and 4 new blouses. BUT no PPP outfit.

And I'm still looking for it when PPP is this Friday. I'm so screwed.

That's the end of my lengthy post. See ya ^^