HI hi HI hi HI!!

Havent blogged in months!! >.< and ive been back from shanghai since end of may! ive just been chilling, chilling and chilling!!... and now its summer project time again!! i remember last year this time i was so busy on the magazine! Well this year its not so painful have to produce a sketchbook that includes a body of research on a garment. Iv chosen to do the Sari, a type of garment the indians wear. Need to dig deep on research yet... not really done much only just decided what garment to do.

Well anyway placement was amazing!! huge inspiration and experience!! only thing i got stuck on was communication i couldnt understand the people. It would be so much easier if i have a english face people would talk to me or try to talk to me in english but being chinese alot of the people expect me to KNOW Manderin!... i got the placement last min and had to jet of for it as soon as my last deadline was handed in. The company i worked for is called Peony Rice check them out it was the most perfect work experience i could ever dream for!!...

i must admit though nearer to the time of leaving i was so happy to leave because of being away from friends, family, tom and internet communcation wasnt good at all. sometimes i felt alone not having someone i knew around me. But at least Pauline the Founder of Peony Rice was really nice and chatty. Even though i only just met her she made me feel welcome and was like a big sister to me :) i do miss it but i dont know if i could cope any longer >.< im so weak!!

Hey!! im weak but im such a brave one :) haha i had to lie to my dad that i was travelling from HK to SH by plane and with Pauline, just so he doesnt get worried... lol but really I travelled on a coach from HK to Shenzhen, then shenzhen airport to shanghai airport on my OWN, not knowing what the hell people are saying because they spoke Mandarin... then i returned the same way... my mum knew but had to keep it quite from dad...until i got back haha.. he didnt agree to me going to shanghai for the placement at ALL!! never mind knowing that i was goin all by myself... but when he found out he was saying im not scared at all and dearing.. i dear to do alot of things and that he wouldnt even dare him self even though he is almost 50 and a GUY!! lol haha

well since i been back i havnt done much at all just CHILLED!! went to toms grad and beckys grad. wore both of there hats :p i graduated twice this yr already :p haha just waiting for Po's :p

Toms Graduation <3
Beckys Graduation :)

hmmm i done a carboot sale ON MY OWN again!! mum and dad same again saying im not scared and brave. :p haha i do realise i am really independant, everytime theres a next step in life i tend to move away from all the people i know and make new friends... :) in a way its good to get to know new people but then i end up loosing contact or not speaking to the close ones.

hmmm well lately people have asked me what i wanna do after i graduate.. like find a job, carry on studying, where or what area job... i dont have a clue i just reply i will live back at home and sponge of my mum :p haha she even agreed lol :p

well i think i should get back to my project >.< enough blogging for now...

mwah x

short update...

well... im on placement!! in SHANGHAI!!! blogger doesnt work properly in china neither does facebook or google >.< so im just here doing a quick update just to say im in shanghai at the moment. :):) woop ill give a full update when i get back! i promise :) got lots to fill in :) love u all mwah xxx

Valentine...

Today i left doncaster to go to Sheffield to give a surprise to tom after he finished his exam i took him to a spa :):):) loved it so much it was so relaxing and pretty cheap too...£45 per person and get two treatments done we both had massage and facial then you could spend the whole day there in the sauna, swimming pool, jacuzzi or gym with a lunch too :)

after the spa we was meant to go for a movie and meal but because Tom had not slept much from revising for his exam we scraped the movie and went home to sleep lol...

we went to Fridays for dinner was so gooooood :):):)
we celebrated valentines day early because next week we will both be busy at work and uni..and coincidence we both got work of this weekend :) mine for CNY and his for exam...


us in our gowns at the spa :)

Happy Chinese New Year....!!!

The year of the rabbit!! wish everyone health and wealth :)

going to go back to doncaster and surprise my family today :)
went to grandmas last nite for new year dinner...big feast, the actual traditional way is to celebrate the new year with a big feast on new years eve. As new year day we are meant to be a vegetarian and give up meat for the day. But now people just celebrate like any normal new year!... just being greeding having two new years and celebrating it the same way now =.=

Also the night before new years day we are ment to have cleansed ourselves from head to toe and get into clean fresh bedding and new underwear and pj's...i totally forgot and did it all last min!! thank god for haveing 24 hr supermarkets...did so much running around tho, asda and tesco to find the cheapest place for stuff... i wanted new bedding too so all together i spent about £35-£40.. im skinted!!!...normally have the mother sort everything but too bad im on my own...:( well hopefully i will recieve sum red pockets so i dont feel too poor :):)

February already...where did January go?...

Time flies so quick. Ive already been back to uni from the xmas hols, handed my last module in for semester 1, had a week of (reading week) i dont read tho. And now im starting semester 2 O.o

another update...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! welcome to 2011!!

its been a week since i last posted already...time flies so quick!!..doesnt feel like its 2011 >.< well not like i know what 2011 should feel like lol... But it doesnt feel like its the new year, or that its January already!... i only have 5 days left till im back at uni again!! i really dont want to go back! i havnt done any uni work, i havnt applied for any placements!! i feel tooo lazy i want to rest more!! >.< aiii...everyday i remind myself how much work i have to get done but then i think about the stress and the all nighters i will have to go through!! ahhhhhh!!! i just dont want to think no more!!

well anyway its been 5 days into the new year already...gone quick!! been quite busy actually...NYE was ment to go out into manchester for count down into the new year but i had work and was too late when we got out...couldnt decide what to do because toms friends couldnt come out so we decided to go home but then we decided to go back out to go tai wu just the two of us..had Lobster and a big meal was yummy... on new year day i didnt have work so went to toms...his family was preparing his sisters wedding :)
on the 2nd it was his sisters wedding... i was to help put her make up on and to do some tricks to the groom before taking the bride away :) he had to answer 9 questions and if he got it wrong we made his friends either drink soya sauce, vinegar, eat wasabi or do press ups... at the restaurant i met all of toms family!! was a lil scary didnt kno if i should follow him around greeting all the guests or just sit on my own haha...


3rd...Bank holiday monday luckily abakhan was open i finally got my fabric for my work and some wool need to do some knitting... then came back to doncaster...Today well yesturday seen as its passed 12 my mummy finally got my left wing mirror on Harry fixed...dont think i mentioned but whilst at work about a month or 2 ago someone snapped the whole wing mirror of on my car >.< iv had it selotaped for the past few months... Next i need to get my break light sorted one of them has gone... maybe when i get that week of in 2 weeks time (assesment week) i will come back again to get it sorted out :) NEED to SAVE up!!

ahh talking about money my loan is coming on monday I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!BUTTTTTTTT i do not want to go back to UNI!!!! :( :( so poor rite now that me and tom decided we wont get anything each other for christmas but to get a netbook to share when our loan comes through :) but it was christmas so jus got him somthing very little some gym gloves from tesco >.< and i only just got his 2 year anneversary present finally like a few weeks ago... haha got him some All Saints jeans :) i wanted to get him his own number plate!!! but he said he didnt want it bcz ther will be hassle if sold his car >.< oh well his lose lol :p

its been a while...

its been over 3 months...so sorry i havnt been updating...you guessd uni has taken over my life!!!

remember i said i was going to make some clothes the two weeks jus before i go back to uni and to fix my grandmas trousers...well didnt do any of tht...jus got lazy for two weeks and booom!! uni work jus took over... my timetable is crazy 9.30-4.30 everyday apart from friday...half day friday but i have work after uni... even though the timetable says we finish at 4.30 i still stayed in the studio workin till like 7 or half 7 most of the days...dont get home till 8!! that is how crazy it has been...

iv been eating crap n eating at dodgy times and sleeping dodgy times tht it has caused my health so messed up gained weight and unhealthy skin...i look dead lately. iv been doing all nighters doing my work, like every week i hav two a nighters...44 hrs awake my longest and do it almost every week...so many deadlines!! well its finally christmas holidays and i only have two weeks of..they say 3 weeks but they still wanted us to go in to uni last week. >.<

i was asked the other day design is so tough am i actually going to design after graduation?...i actually paused and thought >.< because of all the stress!! but then again all this hard work is not going down to waste!! one of the tutors made me feel like crap already she said i dont know how to draw and that i shouldnt be on the course...and askd did i come from foundation!! i was soo mad!! yes i came from foundation therfore i put alot of time, effort and money to get onto this course so this is what i want!! if this is not what i wanted i could of just easily down my degree at college or at sheffield hallam wer my friend is and my boyfriend being at sheffield uni >.< why waste an extra year in foundation just to get into salford...aiiii!!

anyway...its been a while...i made a few things in a few projects...have some images but should really get it taken as a photoshoot...

this was one of first had one week to design and make...i kind of rushed this as u can see the design is nothing special...at hand in we was told to lay all our work out and put the garment on a manequine then the tutors will look at everyones and put them in to individual groups n we will talk about the gud and bad...the groups are kind of like grades from A-D...A being the best and D very low...i thought i was definatly going in to D because the design is really boring!! but amazingly i was put in B thts like 2:1...it wasnt the final grade but it was to tell us what standard we are in i was so shocked!! the tutor told me tht it was a boring design simple and too short for a dress...(im short it was perfect length for me) lol but what made it a B is the bubble effects i did on it...to create the effect i used marbles tied them in to the fabric with elastic bands and steamed it. i had to use something from my magazine i did for the summer project as inspiration and i chose to use the egg puffs...

see the resemblance?... :p

ok second outfit was done in 2 weeks and had to include print and inspired by my favorite place...my favorite place obviously Hong Kong...i cudnt think of what to put as the print and even asked around what people would think of when they think of hk got lots of replies but mainly food or shopping..then i thought of chinese people the streets of hk is always packed out and over crowded of hk people...like day and night so i did a print of alot of chinese people... i called it "yellow people" lol

its a wierd combination the waistcoat and the baggy pants but i thought the pants wer cool and feel loose and free the tutors didnt like them >.< haha lol but not surprised it does look wierd. The lining in the waistcoat took me for ever!!!!! got so stressed out tht i didnt bother answering my mums calls and told her to leave me alone...felt bad afterwards though lol...

ahh got so much mre to show and tell...battery on laptop is dieing and its 5am goin to sleeeeeep update mre soon!!