Gaming

Forsaken World.

As I stated on my first entry, I will be blogging about games too, namely Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (aka mmorpg). I have always been obsessed with gaming regardless of platform, however I am not one of those conventional gamers who always get the latest releases from the newest platforms and joins forums on detailing how great the game is, no. To be honest I am far more addicted to the game itself rather than to express about its game play, its pros or flaws.

A little summary on gaming for myself, I began playing yugioh cards (back when yugioh was all in the rage, in Grade 4-5 lol) 

My 'real' yugioh collection, I have another 3-4 stacks of fake cards which I started to buy for fun.

Used to have 5 Red Eyes black dragon, until they got stolen >..>

This little baby I won in my first battle for keeps duel, if I remember correctly, it was from a booster pack.

3 stacks of real yugioh cards, no wonder I couldn't save any money when I was little

then slowly moved onto computer games, when the internet was thriving with new mmos. I did have a try at runescape but I found the lack of pretty graphics and character customisation were rather unappealing to me (back then it was ugly). Maple story was another game I tried out as it was and still is a super popular game. It was fun when it lasted, however as I was late to catch on the game, everyone else was already near max level with super OP (overly powered) gears, which really put me off so I ended up going on acting like an idiot and logged off. 

Oh also my toon got a perma afro hair style which semi added to me leaving the game lol, it. was. ugly. Hilarious but I was waaaaaaaaaaaay too vain for that look lol looking back, I was one vain little teenager.

Of ALL the pretty hair styles I could have been given...

I ended up with this afro "Stella" hairstyle from the freebie stylist giveaway 

Forward a few years and along came Talisman Online, and I was hooked! Why? because back then my laptop was rather weak, graphics and processor wise added my net was limited to like 1gb or less lol therefore I couldn't afford to download games which would exceed the limit (My mom refused to get me internet because she was afraid I would use it to play games, but I knew a way around it LOL thank goodness for portable USB dongle net, yep I was a smart cookie). 

TalismanOnline fit nicely to the limitations I had back then, in 2009 their download size was around 200mb (tiny right??) It was also 3D! So it wasn't bad especially for a free to play mmo.TalismanOnlineMMOhutReview

Fast forward another year or two and I left that game in pursuit of another one (for reasons I may disclose later on). This time I stumbled across Forsaken World and Perfect World International respectively. Both from the Perfect World Entertainment company. ForsakenWorld Site

Pros: free to play, games are nice in terms of good decent graphics which are catered to weaker computers and smaller client download

Cons: Heavily cash shopped based if you want to be good (pvp wise) and have end game gearing

But honestly all the free to play are like that, and at least you can choose to either be good or just play for fun. 
Unlike pay to play games which whether you play or not you will need to do monthly payments for it. Lock in contracts are too much commitment for me LOL.

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Currently its been around 2 years now I've been on this mmo and although at first it really was heavily cash shopped due to other players wanting to be the best etc etc so they themselves heavily cash shopped which inflated prices, nowadays the game itself has made it rather easy for new players to catch up in terms of level and gearing which has brought the enjoyment back to the game.

My current character's class is a warrior, and within a few days (hopefully by tomorrow) I will be able to get a good near top tier gearing for my character :D

Meet my toon, CzarinaRose

Loving all the new fashions!

The large yellow gown to the left, is one of the two fashions which can be dyed in game to different colors!

My very own online Xena warrior princess haha

The caption in the photo was an accident, but I do love the latest patch, as it gave me that fashion *-*

The games gearing consist of (lowest to highest), grey, white, green, blue (decent), purple and lastly gold.
Gold currently is highly impossible to attain unless you either farm for a year for all the materials and that is IF you are lucky, or you buy it. But at prices such as 15diamond per 1 piece ( need 10), 1diamond roughly amounts to $5 USD, 15diamond per x10 cash value wise it is around $750, it is a lot but you will be surprised people DO pay so much for it, not all at once but bit by bit and everything adds up. 
Omg my super budget asian money gene haha, I swear I learn so much about market inflations and how to make the most out of my money through this game lol

The current arena gear is the purple grade which is second highest, and soon I'll be able to get that for my toon which is making me uber excited.

Downside is, to gain arena gear, we must participate in arena matches which are pvp (player versus player) 3v3 or 6v6 style. And of course winner gets the points and losers, lose their points. For me I already obtained the necessary points for purples which meant almost a month of waking up at 4:30am to participate in the matches (stupid international server time) for 1 hour and a bit more, two sessions a day (the other session is around 10am EST). 

A ton of dedication went into it haha which is rather silly since it is a game and all, but yeh once I get addicted, I am addicted.

What about you guys? Which games do you guys/girls play? And any recommendations for this addicted gamer (moi :3) ?

Will update more on my toon and about the game later, so much to talk about so little space...

PS I am LOVING Korean Straight brows! (ermahgerd, must blog about it later)

Heres a rando photo of my attempt on Korean Straight Brows just to finish this entry off

PPS, sorry for the slow updates, this entry was written a week ago but all the editing for text and photo took a week to do, 90% due to procrastination .... but hey its done!

Take care and until next time!!

xoxo M3

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UPDATE ENTRY!

For those who have seen/read my blog entries/tutorials/guides if you have any relevant material, extra tips or you'd like to correct or add on to what I have posted, feel free to use my comment section. All are welcomed to add links to their sites also if it is relevant to the topic at hand!

One thing I have noticed is that these days there are three types of bloggers, those who make money through sponsoring/adverts (whom go through heavy self promotion and "don't link your blogs on my comment box...", those who only own a blog to read others or those who put their own experiences.
Why not have the latter two join together? I'd much prefer to have people teach me and provide me with tips if they had some interesting ones, and I would definitely love to share anyone else's blog if I deem it to be helpful to the topic.

Blogs should be fun, interesting and most of all helpful, so I'd love it if you believe your entry has some good tips to just tell me about them through linking me on my comment sections!

:)

take care until next time

xoxo M3

Asian blonde! 

My definition: when you try to dye your hair blonde but unfortunately your hair is too damn resistant to go all the way to light, and there you get stuck with the 4-5 stages of awkward color!

Oddly enough though, as an Asian person, as our skins undertones are normally of a yellowish colour, not yellow yellow but most would know understand right? lol 

The yellowish orangey colour my hair ended up going in my honest opinion actually goes rather well and compliments my skin tone! Even my mother complimented on how much whiter my skin is and this coming from an Asian parent who was utterly against me dying my hair as it was "killing my hair" and that "all your hair would fall out and you'd be bold" Gotta love Asian parents! All their words of encouragement LOL

Now I would go on about skin tone, however I am ill equipped and even after doing "some" research, I am in no position to actually state much 'facts' about skin undertones other than from my own experience, therefore if you'd like to find out more, visit musicalhousesblog 's post on Asian skin undertones.

.... back to my hair LOL

So after seeing and knowing my friends got their hair done at the price of $200 I thought....why the heck would I pay someone $200 to bleach and kill my hair and then to dye it, when no offence to any hair dressers but I have seen and experienced some baaaaaaaaaaaad salon experience where the end result is far different than what I intended and worse off I had to pay for something I didn't even want.

Being the bargain hunting Asian I am, I went straight to the DIY hair dye option, hair bleaching.


Here is the current after photo of my hair

My what a hairy face I got

I had to do two sessions of bleaching as the first one turned semi disastrous due to the bleach bleaching too fast on one side (was old roots hair that had more dye on it therefore the  chemicals reacted to the bleach and it went yellow faster or something) where as the lower parts of my hair were still developing slowly, therefore when I washed it out...it turned into this..

mmm that orange

So hideous! -runs and hides-

horrible, ugly two toned extremely contrasting reverse ombre hair LOL (ombre is gorgeous, my hair, wasn't.)


Luckily I stupidly bought a hair colour dye which was in Ash blonde, so I quickly popped that on top of the too yellow too bleached hair and it softened it out a bit.

Just a cam-whoar taking selfies even with horrible hair LOL

I wasn't kidding when I wrote horribly contrasting >:

I had to go to work looking like that, needless to say I had tons of staring! -glares back-

Although it took a few days, I did end up liking it a bit as it was a tad different, however I have had light brown hair before, it wasn't a big deal and because this time I REALLY wanted something different, I plucked up the courage to go and purchase new bleach to re-do! 

Bottom was too dark for my liking

House lighting is yellow tinted, so hair looks more blondish lol

In semi natural white base lighting, look at those roots urgh >:

Prior to actually re-bleaching again, I had to do some research, not only to know how to do it properly BUT also to see and prepare myself for the worst. Whilst looking through google images for ombre hair/bleached Asian hair, I somehow stumbled across this girl, Wengie .

Turns out she's literally done what I had just did and then some more later on, which helps ALOT. There's nothing better than trying to find tutorials and then to actually find someone else's experience of the situation you are going through. It gives a really good in depth insight into (wew so much in's) the good and bad aspects of it and we can learn from it, before attempting it ourselves! Plus she's also another Aussie!

Following her steps, I separated my hair parts, to give it a good separation and it helped me to remember which section I had or have not put bleach on yet for the good overall coverage

Going from bottom then slowly working the way to the top, I was making sure the bottom be developed longer so it'll look a bit more even-ish compared to my yellow top half. 

If its your first time bleaching and your hair is completely virgin (no dyes no chemicals nothing) I would recommend you take a bit of bleach mixture, pull a strand of your hair and dump it in to see how long it'll roughly take to bleach and what colours you will get out of it. 

This is probably the safest way I can advice on testing bleach, because even though most say 30mins is good developing  time, everyone's hair is different, so you should make sure the bleach works for YOU.

The hotter your hair gets means the more the bleach is working its way through, so I popped on the spare shower cap to heat things up a bit faster ;D

Now after all my time, effort, sweat and tears, the end result was a nice strawberry blonde....a gentle way of saying orangey yellowy blonde! (^*-*^) Voilà! 

Unedited, no filter, just plain old Asian blonde

As you can see my hair, being the resistant bish it is, STILL has parts which are dark brownish but honestly I'm not too fussed anymore lol having a bit of different tones in your hair does make it look more alive anyway's AND when my roots grow out, it wouldn't be too contrasting as it'll match the not so bleached sections. (YES I AM BEING OPTIMISTIC, as someone told me, if you look confident, you can wear anything and be anyone ;D)  










Lastly, you all probably, semi maybe sort of been wondering how much did this actually cost me....well


These are the products I used on my first session of bleach, all from Priceline (*-* \/) because I am a member I get those member reward points!

Hi-Lift bleach powder $4.99/Innovative 20vol developer $6.99/sol-fine ash blonde $13.99/ Hair Coloring Set-Daiso $2.80

The hair colouring set, which includes x2 pairs of gloves, ear protectors, shower cap, cape and a brush was a god sent from Daiso for $2.80! I've never left my bathroom so clean after doing my hair LOL 
It was also essential when I had to re-do my hair a few days later.

These are for the second session.

from Left: Innovative 20vol developer $6.99/Edward Beau argan oil conditioner $9.99 (its on sale now for $7.99)/Hi-lift bleach powder tube (normal) $6.99/ EB hi-lite brite shampoo for blonde hair $9.99

If you are going to bleach your hair like mine, you are going to definitely need to invest on some good shampoo and conditioner. I chose EB Argan oil conditioner as it contained Argan oil, which in my honest opinion is some of the best stuff for your hair! It nourishes it, keeps it oily (not sticky just shiny healthy oily) and soft (great for dead ends) and the blonde shampoo is actually tinted blue, which states it keeps away the yellowness and brassiness (YAY) and lightens your blondes (dances)

On taking care of your hair, aside from Argan conditioner and shampoo, I was actually first introduced to Argan oil which is absolutely amazing for hair treatment, best yet its a light everyday treatment!

Short story on how I stumbled upon it, got my hair permed, not the pretty Japanese one but the original AFRO perm because I wanted a wave when it grew out (great planning ahead girl >.>), needless to say I fried my hair to a crisp and had an afro 1 hour before I had work ~.~  I quickly ducked into the nearest hair salon and was introduced to this baby which was ON SALE -dances-

NAK Aromas Argan Oil $39.99

My first and the best Argan oil treatment I've had on my hair. This bottle has lasted me for 2 years (yes I tend to keep things way beyond normal time frame LOL if it works it works!) Was from price attack, and it was the last set they had $39.99 including shampoo and conditioner, what a bargain!

PriceAttack <-- where you can purchase from

GetPrice <--- feel free to compare prices! Shop like a bargain hunter :) save money and be satisfied!

beautyheavenReview <-- other peoples reviews on the product


I for one LOVE bargains, so I do tend to search online and in-store quite a bit, I always wish someone else would do the work for me so I hope those sites end up helping someone else. :)

Ps: best thing is NAK is an ALL Aussie brand ;D gotta support the Aussies!

Pps: if you kept count, my total 2 sessions costed me around about $60 or so ;D I had full control over how I wanted to go about with my hair and ended up rather pleased.

Before heading out

Over all in the end, I am loving my new hair, its something different and is super bright and cheerful colour, great for the cold dull Melbourne winter!!! (we don't even get snow ~.~)


With so much to say but so little time/space (and I rather not ramble on too much) hope everyone has enjoyed my journey to blondesville 

take care and until next time,

xoxo M3

July 19^th 2013

>>WARNING: this blog may contain severe cam-whoring: To take pictures of either yourself and/or with your friends excessively- urban dictionary<<

Being the cautious Scorpio as I am, upon reading my today’s horoscope, I thought it is about time I set aside my procrastinating gene and embark on my blogging journey! –insert upbeat poppy music-

Why blog? Well I am by far probably the worst messiest, laziest person I know. I have so much stuff like photographs and old old memory stuff (yep I am not the best with words) of which I have just laying around somewhere in my room or multiple spots in the house. And recently it hit me! What if one day when I clean my house (when I eventually get to it) that I accidentally throw away those precious irreplaceable memory items? What if that special photograph of my bestie and I were thrown to the trash and I will never get it back? Or simply what if I forget the moments I spent with the ones I treasure? With all these thoughts raging across in my mind I went on a search through google (good ol’ google) and came up with the best solution! BLOGGING! The platform where I can just

It is definitely by far not the most original concept, nor is it the newest and strangely enough even though I do religiously read through XiaXue  blogspot (after stumbling upon it last year, yeh I know I am a late bloomer LOL) I never really accepted the thought of blogging for myself until now! After all my hesitation and the constant little voice in my head saying “nah don’t do it, its too hard, too difficult too much work” todays horoscope really helped me to just say “screw it, I’ll do it”

One can never really succeed if they don’t try? Right?

If anyone’s interested, here’s what my horoscope told me on this one faithful day 19/7/2013:

“first of all, Scorpio (yes I am listening!), you need to know that a current worry will work out quite well for you. Because this is a kind of challenge that you have not faced before (bullseye, damn straight), you may be nervous about the outcome. But don’t waste your time worrying, pondering and wringing your hands, because that won’t do you any good and will only drive you into a deep state of anxiety (aaaaaah so its either I do it, or I go emo….. not much choice there lol).  Instead, you need to focus on the facts at hand, some research to uncover whatever you might be missing and then approach the matter logically and from a more distant perspective. It will turn out splendidly.”

WOOT!! Who doesn’t like seeing whatever the venture, it will turn out splendidly eeeey ;D

I have taken read and shall research more on how to blog because, frankly my mind and thoughts race so fast, it’s in one minute and out the next. I have so much to say to cover the 21 years I’ve been lurking around I better learn how to say it before dumping a huge load of stuff online LOL (one gotta be protective of oneself online la, never know what can go out and blown out of proportion)

A little summary of what I hope to blog about:

Ø  Gaming. I am, by far a HUGE ass gamer. No, not the gamer girl who are all pretty and conveniently have someone taking photos when I game, no I mean sitting on my ass for 14 hours + gearing up my toon, raging like a mad man when nubs do the stupidest things and mess up a run for you.

Ø  Makeup! I am a procrastinator but I will never, ever, EVER go out to an event and not do my makeup. I love to look good ok! Falsies, eyelid glue, all da Asian stuff! With that said, I will also blog about HOW to look fabulous without dumping a huge wade of cash, let’s be honest no one really has unlimited bank account and have like 10 hours to put on makeup and if you do, I am very very very envious of you and I hope you drown in your foundation! (jks, but seriously I hate you)

Ø  Relationship advice and issues! Oh dear I hope my bf doesn’t read this LOL but I would love to post about relationship advice and not just for the girls but also for the guys, because frankly if guys only listened to their buddies advice, unless your boy is born perfect, you will cringe so much at what they do! I know I do!

Ø  Day to day activities as a Melbournian gal. The BEST city in Australia, I don’t care what other travel agencies or polls say!

Ø  Uni- yep I am a student, last year of tertiary actually super excited but overly nervous

Ø  Career. One thing I find most blogs lack is the fact not everyone is lucky enough to be sponsored on blogs and in life and most would obviously need to make a living somewhere. As a young girl nearing the final stages of tertiary I would love to give any advice I may have or will come across and hope to help others in finding the right career!

Ø  BARGAIN HUNTING: for fashion, makeup etc! There’s nothing more I love than looking just as nice as someone else but spending 70% less :p sorry but I pride myself in bargain hunting 

Ø  Miscellaneous stuff. Reason why I am the MelbMissMisc.

mis·cel·la·ne·ous  

/ˌmisəˈlānēəs/

Adjective 1.      (of items or people gathered or considered together) Of various types or from different sources. 2.      (of a collection or group) Composed of members or elements of different kinds: "a miscellaneous collection".

Synonyms various - mixed - varied - diverse - manifold - different

Courtesy of google dictionary.com LOL

Side note: this first blog post took me  good day to write up and about another day to pluck up the courage to post zzzz who knew blogging was so nerv racking!

Next Blog: Going Asian blonde (lots of photos included).

xoxo M3