Photography Session Around Perth

I haven't been updating in a while and I'm sorry but here's a short one before I go on holidays. So I've been taking photos of places I've been to in the past month or so and well, I just thought I'd share some. Bare in mind that this is photography of an amateur with a really nice camera LOL.

Subiaco Food Festival
Margaret River Chocolate Company
Christmas Dinner

Subiaco Food Festival

A Japanese food store

Different cuisines on one street

A crazy-ass ice cream van

Outside the ol' Subi Markets

A long street full of stands plus a random lady

Deep fried potato swirl

Delicious pizzas

Some Moroccan dish I don't remember but was delish

The interior of a crepe store

Savoury ham crepe

Chocolate crepe that deserves two uploaded photos

Margaret River Chocolate Company

(Swan Valley Store)

A bunch of random chocolates that cost a lot

More ice cream

Christmas gifts at the ready

Fondue kit anyone?

The dessert section

The lunch (?) section

More chocolates

Christmas chocolates

Christmas Dinner

The Christmas Ham plus some side dishes

Haha, only one of the Christmas dinner before everything was consumed. Well, there's still ham since only eight people were there but still. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed those photos and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year~! I'll be back later in January to blog about my lovely holiday but for now, goodbye :D

Lee Taemin "Everybody" Fanart + Merry Christmas

HEY THERE EVERYBODY. OMG. IT'S BEEN AGES. I'M TERRIBLY SORRY. BUT MERRY CHRISTMAS. HERE'S A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YOU.

Part 2 of the SHINee "Everybody" Collection :3 I really love this one because, well, I added some colour to it. I think the face was really well done compared to Jonghyun's so hurray~ Here's a comparison shot to the original:

Sorry for that weird blue line. I didn't know how to get rid of it so I left it. I didn't want to take apart the layers like I did for Jonghyun's drawing because I erased some of the lines on the sketch layer and it looked funny so I didn't bother. That anchor on his hat was quite a bother but hey, turned out nicer than expected.

The next one I'm working on is Key's but right now I found something else to draw so I'm putting that one on hold for now. My friend told me about this challenge on DeviantArt where you had to draw something using only the five colours given. There are a total of six blank "canvases" and all you have to do is draw! Decided to do some portraits and I've currently done 2 out of the 6. Slowly getting there. Hopefully I can finish that before I go on holidays on Tuesday but my days till then are pretty packed so I'm not sure whether I can.

Anyway, a happy Merry Christmas to everyone out there and enjoy the rest of 2013! Hope you guys accomplished any resolutions you made at the start of the year and if you didn't make any, make some for the upcoming 2014 :) 

Best wishes, Melissa.

SHINee's Comeback [Everybody] + Kim Jonghyun Fanart

WHOOO SHINEE'S COMEBACK IS SOON. I forgot which date though...well. I guess I'm not as excited since they already came back with 'Dream Girl' and 'Why So Serious' so I'm not particularly screaming with joy. Plus, the teaser pictures weren't exactly the most attractive in my opinion. I mean, look at those hats .__.

But I have to admit, they all looked stunning in the pilot uniforms. Minus Minho. His outfit looked like dress. 

Anyway, to commemorate SHINee's upcoming release I drew a picture of Jonghyun ^^ It's a little different from my usual style but I've done it before (like, last year?) and well, I'm really proud of it!

It looks like the actual picture with a funny outline :') I decided to keep the outline, just because I did it last time and I thought it'd look really 'sketchy'. The creases came out really well and I'm really proud of what I've done. In total, it took me less than a day but I spanned it out over two days. Oh man, last night I spent up to 1.30am just to get this finished >__<

I also put together the different individual layers so you know that I actually painted it LOL.

So the left is the reference picture which I turned to black and white (the very original one was coloured). Middle is obviously the outline layer where I traced the reference picture (call it cheating but I wanted to get the exact shape and whatnot). And lastly, the painting layer! The colours aren't as bold as the original but oh well. Couldn't be bothered fixing it.

And there we have it ^^ I'm wondering what black and white painting I should do next so if you have a suggestion or a nice picture then pop the link in the comments and I'll check it out :) Alrighty, I hope this makes up for both the lack of art and lack of posts lately! 

XOXO Kim Jong Dae (Chen)

OMG IT'S BEEN TOO LONG SINCE I'VE DRAWN SOMETHING REALLY NICE.

If you didn't know, I took a break from drawing portraits because, well, I got a little restless. During my break, I've been observing other people's drawing process via "speed-drawing" (a drawing being sped up). The thing I needed to work on the most was the hair so that's where I put most of my focus on.

It's slightly more difficult to see, but the amount of detail I managed to put in the hair in this drawing was amazing. It took me a lot longer, but it was definitely worth spending so long on it. My shading improved a lot too. You have no idea how proud I am of this drawing. Planning to draw the rest of EXO from the XOXO poster but it might take a while...

Oh, just so you know, I am willing to sell this drawing. If you're interested, e-mail me at melissa_tan1@hotmail.com (no junk mail or spam please). It looks a lot better on paper as well. Trust me.

Popular Korean Diets

So...I was meant to blog about this a while back but for some reason I kept pushing it back. Well here it is, at last~!

I bet everyone's been wondering what sort of diets K-POP idols take to stay so skinny. Sure, there are a few people here and there practically starving themselves, but majority of the idols restrict the amount of food that they eat (not to an enormous extent). So in this post, I'm going to be listing a few of the diets I've heard some idols have or are currently 'on'. Now, enough of the intro. Let's go~

1. The Danish Diet

Day	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
1	A cup of coffee with sugar	Two boiled eggs, 400g (14 ounces) of spinach and a tomato	200g (7 ounces) of beef, green salad with oil and lemon juice
2	A cup of coffee with sugar	255g (9 ounces) of ham and yogurt	200g (7 ounces) of beef, green salad with oil and lemon juice
3	A cup of coffee with sugar and a slice of toast	Two boiled eggs, a slice of ham and green salad with oil and lemon juice	A boiled celery stick, a tomato and a fresh fruit
4	A cup of coffee and a slice of toast	A glass of orange juice and yogurt	A boiled egg, a carrot and 255g (9 ounces) of cottage cheese
5	A large carrot	200g (7 ounces) of boiled cod with lemon juice and a teaspoon of butter	200g (7 ounces) of beef and one celery stick
6	A cup of coffee with sugar and a slice of toast	Two boiled eggs and a large carrot	Half a chicken and green salad with oil and lemon juice
7	A cup of tea without sugar	A lot of water	200g (7 ounces) of lamb chops and an apple
8	A cup of coffee with sugar	Two boiled eggs, 400g (14 ounces) of spinach and a tomato	200g (7 ounces) of beef with a salad
9	A cup of coffee with sugar	255g (9 ounces) of ham and yogurt	255g (9 ounces) of beef and a salad with oil and lemon juice
10	A slice of toast and a cup of coffee	Two boiled eggs, a green salad and a slice of ham	A boiled celery stick, one fresh fruit and a tomato
11	A large carrot	200g (7 ounces) of boiled cod with lemon juice and a teaspoon of butter	255g (9 ounces) of beef and a celery stick
12	A large carrot	200g (7 ounces) of boiled cod with lemon juice and a teaspoon of butter	255g (9 ounces) of beef and a celery stick
13	A slice of toast and a cup of coffee	Two eggs and a large carrot	255g (9 ounces) of chicken with salad

Oh my gosh that took so long to type :< So that's basically the plan for the Danish Diet. To be honest I don't really like the sound of this diet because there's a lack of carbohydrates. I NEED MY RICE D: Without it I'm nothing </3

Next diet...lol.

2. Watermelon Diet

The name says it all. All you do is continuously eat watermelons. You still eat your normal meals, but most of those meals would contain watermelons. So what eating plenty of watermelons does is that it keeps you full for longer for lesser (or no) calories at all! It's amazing, I know. 

That's about it. A lot more simpler than the Danish Diet, that's for sure!

3. The Paper Cup Diet

Okay, so basically, for each meal you have three paper cups (no you're not eating it =__=). One cup if filled with brown rice, one filled with side dishes and one filled with fruits. This diet is catered for mainly people who use Asian diets (not "losing weight diets", the other one) because the main food of each meal is the rice, not the vegetables or meat. Also, the side dishes being something healthy; not fried chicken or something LOL.

This diet is actually very basic, but the real challenge is whether you'll be able to withstand this amount of food, especially if you're a big eater- i.e. eating two big serves of rice or two steaks <-- don't know whether people eat two steaks since I don't eat them ._.

A bit brief, but that's the end of the post ^^ I know there wasn't much information but I was planning to be brief from the beginning (minus the Danish Diet). If you want to know more about the diets, I suggest you do some more research. Prior to writing this post, I researched a little information about each of the diets but the Watermelon Diet was the one with the least info, that's why I didn't write too much about it.

Something else I'd like to point out, taking up a particular diet is one thing, but having a healthy lifestyle is another. You might be following the Paper Cup Diet but eating like that may not be having much effect if you're just going to sit on the couch all day watching Korean dramas. You need exercise~ The standard amount of exercise is 30 minutes (half an hour) of physical activity everyday. I can confidently say that I don't do that. I tend to cram all my week's worth of physical activity into a couple of days. I'm pretty sure it's a bad thing for many different reasons that I can't list.

That aside, I hope this sort of gave you a basic outline of the popular diets in the K-POP industry. Or rather ones that I've heard of. Thank you for reading~ ^^

"She's My Lady."

I've been playing on Photoshop again~!

So today, I decided to test out a few brushes on Photoshop and I found one that was like a pencil texture. Then I decided to draw Kai dancing. Long story short, I was watching a rotoscope of one of Kai's debut teasers and dayum I was in awe. Got inspired, decided to try out rotoscoping the first of Kai's teasers when I have the time. This was more of a practice of the style I'm going to be doing. 

On the side note, I think today was the best day of the whole school term! My EXO posters arrived, I got to eat sushi in my Japanese class, and this guy on Deviantart called Ry-Spirit (superb artist)  accepted my friend request on Skype and he started talking to me and I'm starting to fangirl so I'll stop there. Oh man, I hope another day like this is going to come by soon. 

That's about it! Don't forget to visit my sites ;) While I've been away doing all sorts of stuff, I created a couple more sites so don't forget to check that out too.

Deviantart: ukissmecrazy.deviantart.com

Twitter (that I hardly use anymore): www.twitter.com/ukissmecrazy

Tumblr: ukissmecrazy.tumblr.com

Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/kayomori

Ask.fm: ask.fm/kayomori

Thanks guys <3

Kim Jong In.

Gahhhh forgot to post this D:

LOL At first, I thought Kai's face was SUPER chiselled but I realised that it wasn't... *disappointed* Another thing I realised, Kai's Korean name is quite similar to the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. I don't know, a bit of random stuff. Andd since I'm here I wanna talk about a few things.

If you haven't already noticed, Facebook has a hashtag system now. I don't know why, but it's annoying the heck out of me. I always believed that hashtag was meant for Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram but now it's on Facebook. Yay. WHY MUST THEY DO THIS TO MEEEE.

Next thing, I got Soundcloud even though I kept telling my friends I would never get it (same thing happened with Tumblr). Uploaded two covers already so if you want, you can go check it out!

https://soundcloud.com/kayomori

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

 Yeah, so apparently there ain't gonna be a Google Reader anymore, so my friend asked me to get something called Blog Lovin' which is like a substitute for Google Reader. I don't really know much about this but I got it, so yeah! Link's above (if you didn't already see) and thanks for like, following my blog? Lol I don't know...

"I'm Not a Dragon Anymore, I'm a Wolf."-Kris Wu

Ohoho I'm back with more drawings! So it's been a while since I've completed something and since there was a long weekend I decided to take this time to draw.

I don't know why, but I drew two pictures; both being the wonderful Kris. Gosh, I spent all my time on tumblr (I got tumblr now~ link below) looking at EXO and U-KISS pictures that I got so distracted. I found an amazing amount of EXO gifs from the 'Wolf' MV so I decided to draw that. Then I found an amazing picture of Kris at an airport. DAYUM HE LOOKS SO SMEXY.

So yeah. Here you go.

My goodness. I swear my Chinese writing is getting worse. I think the last time I tried writing Chinese was two years ago...amazing. BUT! I tried my best since it was for a drawing and since I wanted to make Ben Ben proud ;) (That name's never going to get old in my books)

For the second picture, I took more effort but it came out looking a little worse than the first one. First on was just a sketch so nothing exciting about that. Second picture wasn't so much realistic but more "anime-fied" (obviously). I spent so much time trying to clean up the sketch lines it ended up looking a little funny when observed at a closer proximity ;__;

Lol anyway, I hope you like it though!

Oh yeah, tumblr URL:

ukissmecrazy.tumblr.com

^One day I'm going to look back and facepalm myself for making such a weird username.

One more thing! I forgot to mention that in the album Kris' nickname was Ben Ben no more. It was 'koala'. So much better... =___= <--you guys probably know that already since it was all over tumblr at some stage.

EXO Wolf (Korean ver.) Rom/Hangul lyrics

Hey Guys! EXO's comeback stage and Wolf MVs came out today, so I decided to put up the song's lyrics (from M!Countdown)~ The romanization is not exactly how it's meant to be. I typed it slightly differently so it's easier to read :) First romanized lyrics but I hope you like it ^O^ (Hangul lyrics are down the bottom!)

Romanization:

chogiwa danbeoneneugyeo

neolhanibe chijeuchereom

jibeoneo ulteda

hyang gilmatgo saega reumihago

wainboda uahage jabameogeulteda

ageureonde baltobe himibajyeo ibmatgaji 

eu obseojyeo

hoksi naega apeungeonda byeongirado geollin geoni

Yeah keunilnatji

Hey jeongsincharyeo

eojjeoda inganegema eumeul baetgyeo beoryeona

geunyeoneun hanibgeoli bunirago

*

Hey hwagmuleo

geudaum makmak heundeuleo jeongsinitge

Hey ja anhaehun seutairo

jeokeunboreumdari jigijeone haechiweora

**

geurae Wolf naega Wolf

ah saranghaeyo

nan neugdaego neonminyeo (x2)

geobuhalsu eobsigangryeolhan

ineugime bajyeobeoryeonareul nwasseo

nandansun hangejoah

naesogesumeo itdeongosi jigeumnundeosseo

Yeah geunyeoreul jombwa

gongpo ebajyeo

nunape Situation

ihae motae motae

jeodeoreoun neundaenomi

gyeolgugnalja bameoggetji

geuge aninde

sarangebajin geobnida 

neomu areumda areumda areumda un

geudae naenima naenima naenima Whoo

nareul dureoweo dureoweo dureoweo ma

naneun teukbyeolhan teukbyeolhan teukbyeolhan Wolf

geudae saranghan saranghan saranghan Wolf

nenunimeon nunimeon nunimeo Wolf

*

**

nalmotgeut gesseokunilnasseo (Oh~)

neolmotgeut gesseokunilnasseo (Yeah~)

jeonorandari nareulnollyeo

neolgajilsu obdago

nangeunyang geochinyasuinde

geuddanmalhal geomyeonggeojyeo

pilyeohada myunnalbakweo

geonyeoreuljeoldae bonaelsuga obseo

geobuhalsu eobsigangryeolhan

ineugime bajyeobeoryeonareul nwasseo

nandansun hangejoah

naesogesumeo itdeongosi jigeumnundeosseo

geobuhalsu eobsigangryeolhan (Hey hwagmuleo)

ineugime bajyeobeoryeonareul nwasseo (geudaum makmak heundeuleo jeongsinitge)

nandansun hangejoah (Hey ja anhaehun seutairo)

naesogesumeo itdeongosi jigeumnundeosseo

**

Hangul:

촉이와   단번에느껴

널한입에치즈처럼

집어넣을테다

향길맡고  색깔  음미하고

와인보다우아하게

잡아먹을테다

아그런데 발톱에힘이빠져

입맛까지 으없어져

혹시내가 아픈건가

병이라도 걸린거니

Yeah 큰일났지

Hey 정신차려

어쩌다 인간에게

마음을 뺏겨버렸나

그녀는한입 거리뿐이라고

Hey 확물어

그다음막막흔들어정신잃게

Hey 자안해본 스타일로

저큰보름달이 지기전에해치워라

그래 Wolf 내가 Wolf

아 사랑해요

난늑대고넌미녀 (2)

거부할수없이강렬한

이느낌에빠져버려나룰놨어

난단순한게좋아

내속에숨어있던것이 지금눈덨어

Yeah 그녀를좀봐

공포에빠져

눈앞의 situation

이해못해못해

저더러운 는대놈이 

결국날잡아먹겠지

그게아닌데

사랑에빠진겁니다

너무아름다  아름다  아름다운

그대내님아  내님아  내님아 Whoo

나를두려워  두려워  두려워마

나는특별한  특별한  특별한 Wolf

그대사랑한  사랑한  사랑한 Wolf

네눈이먼눈이  먼눈이  먼 Wolf

Hey 확물어

그다음막막흔들어정신잃게

Hey 자안해본 스타일로

저큰보름달이 지기전에해치워라

그래 Wolf 내가 Wolf

아 사랑해요

난늑대고넌미녀 (2)

날못끊겠어 큰일났어 (Oh~)

널못끊겠어 큰일났어 (Yeah~)

저노란달이 나를놀려

널가질수없다고

난그냥거친 야수인데

그딴말할거면꺼져

필요하다면 날바꿔

그녀를절대 보낼수가없어

거부할수없이강렬한

이느낌에빠져버려나룰놨어

난단순한게좋아

내속에숨어있던것이 지금눈덨어

거부할수없이강렬한 (Hey 확물어)

이느낌에빠져버려나룰놨어 (그다음막막흔들어정신잃게)

난단순한게좋아 (Hey 자안해본 스타일로)

내속에숨어있던것이 지금눈덨어

그래 Wolf 내가 Wolf

아 사랑해요

난늑대고넌미녀 (2)

Official EXO Teasers Released

OMG SOMEONE KILL ME NOW. SM ENT, THIS IS TOO MUCH.

Gull, I can't explain what I feel. Seriously though. Everyone looks so beautiful :') Minus Kai and his hair...Luhan looked, well, interesting. I loved the use of heavy guyliner in the teaser. It's just. Amazing.

Anyway, I'll update again when more teasers appear or when the MV is uploaded ;)

[28/5/13]

New teaser came out today~! OMG THIS IS SO AMAZING.

First one's the Korean version, the second one is obviously the Chinese version. THIS IS STARTING TO BECOME TOO MUCH FOR ME. Kai and his "kiss scene"? I was expecting a peck on the lips, in all honesty. I'll try not to spazz out too much now.

On the other hand, too many things are being leaked and it's annoying me. First the demo version of Wolf and 365, then a few scenes from the filming of the MV, now a FULL practice version of Wolf (probably still roaming around the internet if you keep searching) and the ENTIRE ALBUM.

I understand that some fans are beginning to get impatient, but the MV's coming out on Thursday 5pm KST. No need to spoil everything. Plus if the album is available for download online before it's release, well, EXO won't be selling as many albums. The profit that EXO makes has to be divided not only among the members, but the producers and other people as well. So support EXO and other groups! :D

Lol anyway I'll be back when the MV comes out~

The Long-awaited Comeback.

FINALLY. SM FINALLY RELEASED IT. EXO'S GROUP TEASER PICTURES HAVE FINALLY BEEN RELEASED. ASASDGKHG;JGH <3

Let me just say that I almost gave up in waiting for EXO's comeback, especially since SM Entertainment continued to delay their comeback date and the rumours that went around (if you were on tumblr a lot or you're on of those EXOtics who searched around for news about EXO), but it's finally here.

So here's the teaser pictures~!

School themed photos are the best <3 I really loved the way Luhan had his hair styled in the second image. It makes him look so mature! Then there's Xiumin's middle parting...not my favourite but still looks alright.

I'm pretty sure their comeback's called 'Kiss & Hug' or rather has something to do with that (hence the XOXO stuff at the top of both pictures) which I think is quite cute but I would've preferred something a little more...masculine. If it turned out to be something full of cuteness and aegyo I'd cringe. It's too hard to imagine someone like Kris doing aegyo even if he did do it last year at a performance in the USA.

And I just found another picture that came out.

If you didn't notice, the shirts and caps all say 'Wolf' which was the title one of the songs that got leaked on the inter-ma-web sometime ago. I hope that song's not on the album because it was such a disappointment when I listened to it. EXO needs a song that showcases their talent and I felt like that song didn't do it for me. Neither did the other song ('365') that got leaked.

Well, I just hope the songs on this album would be even better than the one on the 'MAMA' album-and those songs were pretty damn good.

G-Dragon: Best and Worst Hair

Okay, I just finished watching G-Dragon's new mv '미치GO' (Michigo) and I have to say, I was so confused. It was as crazy as 'Crayon' and possible even more. I liked the song and everything, but one thing I absolutely loathed was the hairstyles. Throughout the mv G-D only had five hairstyles excluding the ones where there are hats covering his entire head.

I shall reveal the hairstyle that I actually loved in the mv but for now, let's go through the 'G-Dragon Hairstyle Timeline' (which shall not be in chronological order)! *Warning: this is image-heavy so it might slow down your internet*

So here are the ones I hated the most.

[2009]
He was quite chubby then xD 

[2011]
In all honesty, I don't mind shaved heads but because I was so used to seeing GD with hair it felt a little strange to me.

[2013]
This was in his mv '미치GO'  No matter what, I will always hate frizzy hair

[2013]
This was also in '미치GO' and this hairstyle just made him look like a shark...

[2013]
I have nothing to say about this. Nothing at all.

[2009]
Gah, this was terrible. I'm pretty sure this was during the time when Big Bang released 'Lies'.

Okay, those was most of the ones that I did not like on him. Now for the nice-but-not-the-best-ones~!

[2011]
GD looks so innocent in this~ I don't even remember seeing him with this hairstyle but it suits him ^^

[2012]
BOOM SHAKALAKA~!!! Even if people didn't like the seaweed hair, I personally quite liked it. Especially when he dyed it orange :D 

[2011]
I really liked this one but I guess I would've liked it more if his hair was a little longer :/

[2012]
I've seen this exact same picture a billion times already.

[2011]
I guess this wasn't my favourite, but it was nice :)

[2010]
Hehe, I love red hair <3

[2009]
I thought this looked really cool ^^

 Now, for the moment you've been waiting for, my favourite hairstyles of GD of ALL TIMEEEEE!

[2012]
He looked so good in 'Crayon', especially with all that guyliner xD 

[2009]
Best hairstyle is the blonde hair he had during his first solo ^_~

[2012]
Wah, I just had to put this one in because he's too cute when he's sleeping ;_;

[2008]
'Haru Haru'-that time where GD used to have a headband around his head :') 

[2012]
Those horns... *O*

[2009]
Seen this a billion times too but I can never get tired of that look.

[2010]
Screenshot taken from Big Bang's Japanese single 'Tell Me Goodbye' where GD was in a suit :D

[2009]
That time before he started murdering his hair.

[2012]
His pink hair~ <3 

No idea when this was but this was the hair style that I loved in '미치GO'. Similar but longer than his blonde bob in Big Bang's 'Monster'.

Don't judge that last one, I have a thing for bobs. 

So I hope you like my list of GD's hairstyles and I hope you agree ^^ If you haven't watched '미치GO' yet, go watch it. I can guarantee you'll either "lmao" or "wtf". Hope you guys liked this post; I'll be posting something like this maybe of different idols if they change their hairstyles/colours as often as our fashionista GD does :)