A Photo Tour of Vancouver

I’ve been lacking inspiration lately so here are some pretty photos of Vancouver to make everyone reminiscence about summer… I took these photos when my friend Sara was visiting from Toronto during a very beautiful week here.

Fisherman’s Wharf in Steveston, Richmond BC

English Bay

Stanley Park looking over Downtown Vancouver

The apartments on West Georgia near Stanley Park… where I’ve wanted to live since forever but will probably never afford to o___O

Pretty, no?

Anyways, I’m stepping into “real life” starting this week so I’m both nervous and excited. I have no idea what the future holds for me but I’m eager to try my best to make the most out of it. Wish me luck!

 

 

Calgary!

I was in Calgary last week to make my final presentation to a client and also to meet up with some girls. It snowed the day I arrived, which kind of sucked because it was SO beautiful that day in Kingston and Toronto.

Here are just some random photos from my trip…

The 36 oz steak that Justine, Christine and I finished together.

A group photo of me, Eva, Tammy and Tammy’s friend Natalia… (photo is from Tammy’s camera, taken by some random stranger in the mall XD)

The only 2 things I bought on this trip. The lipstick was “purchased” using a Sephora gift card, so that didn’t really count.

And finally, my amazing team who have been working with me on this project since September.

Only a week and a bit left before I graduate!

Another end-of-year, another banquet. P.S. I’m done 3rd year uni!

Pictures of the year-end banquet from Friday, March 26, 2010. I’m so glad it was sunny that day, and sorta warm-ish with lots of wind. Pictures generally turned out well.

It was a masquerade so I bought a £10 mask off eBay. It was all good =D Here is me with my friend Cece with our masks on. I think we were the only people who took “masquerade” seriously, other people either did not bring a mask or had paper masks…

Me and Sichen! She is so gorgeous.

Me with Cece again =)

Me with Yuan.

This is me with Ally, who is my roommate. It was really nice to have her as my roommate, we didn’t have any problems or anything throughout the term, and we had pretty similar sleep schedules and stuff, so it all worked out well.

Me with Lizzy. Someone commented that we look like we’re on a movie set because the coats that we’re wearing don’t really match our dresses, LOL.

The banquet set up. It was set up like a banquet, complete with wine and stuff, but it was still caf style. We had to go get our own food on trays and stuff, and the food was still typical caf food.

This is Cece and me with Laura, one of the Assistant Student Service Managers. She is one of the sweetest people I’ve met at the castle.

This is my makeup for the night. I did a neutral smokey eye with bright red lips and glowy cheeks.

I know it doesn’t look very smokey in pictures. Jess and I were talking about how the camera really washes out colour in makeup. This was actually quite smokey but you can’t tell through pictures… *sigh*

Products I used:

Face: Guerlain Parure Extreme foundation in 02 and Diorblush in 839 Vintage Pink (Spring 2010).

Eyes: Guerlain Ombre Eclat 4 Couleurs in 407 Bal de Minuit (Winter 2009), Bobbi Brown Gel Liner in Ink, Anna Sui Super Long Lash Mascara

Lips: Chanel Rouge Allure Laque in 75 Dragon

This was how it looked after dinner. Even though I ate and drank, the lip colour was still very much intact. I didn’t even use lip liner. You can see that the Guerlain foundation is really glowy. I love this foundation, its my HG even though its quite expensive at $60CAD for 30mL.

This was the makeup after about 6 hours of wear. It is still relatively fresh looking, I felt. There was just a little shine, but looked radiant and lip colour was still sorta there.

This was the dress I wore tonight. It fit me just perfectly. I think if I gain a little weight it would probably not be able to zip up, so I have to be careful…

Last pic of myself…

Let’s end off with a silly picture. Here is me jokingly trying to push Yuan into the mote XD

That’s all, I hope you guys had a good week!

What do your hands say about you? And some random stuff about life.

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I was observing my hands yesterday, and I noticed something very peculiar about them. My left hand has much better skin, like it is smoother and has a more even skintone than my right hand. That made me wonder why that is.

You know when you go to a cosmetics counter and you try on the various creams? Well because I am right handed, I tend to spread the cream on my left hand with my right fingers. All those whitening creams and serums have really made a difference because my left hand looks spotless.

Of course I use hand cream normally (currently using Crabtree & Evelyn’s Rosewater Hand Therapy, my HG), its still not the same as when you’re smothering on some $200 or even $50 cream on your hand. I guess that just shows that whatever product(s) you’re trying on really works! Yay, lets go buy them all XD

BTW, if you’ve been following my Twitter, you might have noticed I disappeared in the middle of the day yesterday. No, I did not jump on a bus to London (I wish). Instead, our internet got cut off. Yes I know, it SUCKED. I’m here in the middle of nowhere, with nowhere to go, and no internet; can life get any worse? And it was cut off for a whole 24 hours too; we just got back online maybe 30 minutes ago and I’m here updating, aren’t I a good blogger, hehe.

But the good thing is I realized today that I am truly happy here. You see, back at Queen’s school started today, I know that if I were to be back there, I would be completely stressed out starting from day 1. But right now, I’m really enjoying simply living, and not just stressed about school work. I’m having good chats with my professors about anything without worrying that they don’t think I’m smart enough for them.

Last week I had a very good conversation with my geography prof about Canadian vs. American vs. British politics (you must be thinking ‘how is that fun??’ but I enjoyed it, haha). Then my finance prof said that he thought he knew me from somewhere, and then this grad student from Fudan University accurately predicted the characters in my Chinese name (wtf, right?). Hm… I guess the lesson learned is that life is kinda creepy here, but something I would choose over going back to Queen’s anytime =)

How was your weekend?


Oh btw, my blog has reached 20,000 clicks as of yesterday. Thank you to everyone for all of your support! Reading all of your nice comments really gives me that little push to write, so thank you very much!!