Black Friday Buys

For Black Friday, I went to the Orlando Premium Outlets with my mom and grandmother. We went around 10 pm a little after our Thanksgiving dinner at City Walk in Universal Studios. It was surprisingly really cold that night. I had to wear two jackets to stay warm. I didn't think Orlando could get so cold. First store we went to was Banana Republic.

They had some pretty nice sales going on, though not as great as the ones I've seen at the Banana Republic at the Leesburg Premium Outlets. My mom got a suit for 70% off. I got this shirt, which was originally $39.99, for $12.99. There was a blue version of this but unfortunately, my size was already out. Still, white is nice too.

Afterwards, we went to a few other stores. Went to Nike and my mom got two pairs of sneakers for a total of $68 (and that's with tax). We went to Toys R Us to buy some Christmas presents for the cousins. Then we passed by the Disney Store, which was opening at 12 am. Luckily, it was already almost midnight so we decided to wait in line. The line wasn't very long so we were one of the first people to get in.

My mom got a whole lot of these tiny purses for the daughters of her friends for Christmas. For me, I really wanted a Disney sweatshirt. This one was originally $49.95 but they were selling it for $12.99. I got a nice XL size and it is super comfy and soft. The Disney store was kind of crazy. Everyone was buying in bulk.

We went to a few other stores afterwards. I was looking for a circle scarf. Checked in Charlotte Russe, which was just chaos, and Claires, which didn't really have anything special going on. Looked in Lids for a present for a friend but they didn't have her size. Not many stores carry such a small size anyway.

Then at Ann Taylor Loft, they had this adorable circle scarf. It is knit and very thick. They had it in red, white, and purple. I got the red one. It was such a pretty color. It was originally $35 but I got it for 50% off. That was quite a nice deal.

So we met up with my grandma after that. Went to Adidas to find some shoes but I didn't find anything I liked in the women's section. I liked the shoes in the men's section. Oh well. We left after that and went back to the hotel. The next morning, we went back to the outlets again! This time I was with my mom, her sister, and her friend.

The first store we went to was Tory Burch, which is one of my mom's new obsessions. We didn't go during the night because the line was way too long. There was no line when we went. Everything in the store was still pretty expensive despite the discounts. However, if you spent more than $300, you get 25% off. So my mom, aunt, and their friend just combined their purchases. My mom got me this cute printed flat tote. The color is hibiscus pink with a Lorenzo bird design. Original price was $125 but we bought it for $49.99.

Then my mom went to Toys R Us again to get something. Meanwhile, my aunt and her friend and I went to the Prada store just for fun. We weren't really going to buy anything there. Everything is way too expensive.

Then we went to Lulu Lemon. It's athletic wear, which isn't really my style. My aunt pointed me over to their jackets and I found one that was super cute. It's a light water resistant jacket that nicely cinches at the waist. It fit me so nicely. Originally, it was more than $100 but it was on sale for $54. Couldn't resist!

Ended the day with a trip to the Chocolate Factory. A cute small store in the food court that sells lots of delicious things. I got a hot cocoa set and this delicious chocolate and m&m covered marshmallow. A good way to end the shopping day.

Universal Studios, Orlando FL

November 21, 2012
Universal Studios, Florida

Got to experience, in terms of rides: Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, Twister...Ride It Out, Revenge Of the Mummy, Disaster!, Men In Black Alien Attack, E.T. Adventure. Longest wait had to be the Despicable Me ride, which was a 60 minute wait. The other rides weren't such a bad wait. Got to see their 5 pm parade and their 7 pm nighttime show celebrating 100 years of movies. Got a food deal where for $20.99, there is unlimited meals including an entree and dessert (beverages and certain items not included) for the day. The  set of the park is beautiful and scenic. However, hours during this time are shorter (9am - 7 pm).

Unfortunately, I missed a lot of photo opportunities at certain wonderful spots because we were in such a hurry to get to the next rides. Also, did not get to ride the rollercoaster Hollywood Rip Ride RockIt. Maybe next time then. Still, I did get some nice photos.

Hair Tie Ponytail

Hair Tie Ponytail

Color: Black
Type: Synthetic
Length: About 24"

Bought from: ebay
Seller: sg3global
Price: $3.31 + free shipping

Now I'm not a fan of wavy/curly extensions just because it's hard to match my real hair. I find it easier to straighten my hair than curl it to match the curliness of the extensions and for wavy extensions, my real hair is wavier and frizzier than the hair. I don't have such pretty waves like my extensions.

The pro of this is that I can keep my hair straight and just put it in a ponytail and attach this to it. It is a tie around type of extension so you have to attach it to your ponytail and tie the ribbon around it and make a nice bow to keep it together.

The cons is that, being synthetic hair and also curly, it tangles so terribly. I do mean terribly. I guess I got what I paid for. It is kind of shiny so like I said before, looks more natural in dim and cloudy settings. In harsh sunlight, the difference is obvious. It doesn't stay in as well as the claw clip type. I probably would not buy this again. It isn't really that great. I might go ahead and buy the claw clip type of this. Anyway, here are some pictures.

Before:

After:

It's long though, which is good. But it's probably not something I would ever get again.

Flex Wear Radiance 2: Sea Blue

Brand: Flex Wear
Series: Radiance 2
Color: Sea Blue
Diameter: 14.0 mm

These lenses were purchased from the Philippines. Somewhere in Metro Manila, not sure exactly where and what store but I think it would be somewhere in Alabang Town Center. I heard it is pretty cheap, cheaper than my old Freshlook contacts. I might guess for them to be around 600 PHP. I've been told that they originate from Korea and are a Korean brand but I'm not sure. I've tried looking them up but there isn't really much information on them.

They are branded as just normal colored lenses but they look larger than my old Freshlook contacts despite both having the same diameter. When compared, the colored part of these contacts extend out to the edge and have a dark black ring on the outside while the Freshlook contacts have a clear ring on the outside and the colored part is not as large.

Pros: Larger colored area so it does have a bit of an enlarging effect, though small. Remember my parents don't know I use circle lenses so the fact that they bought this for me means I don't have to hide this from them. They are very comfortable and I can wear them for a full day. Also, these last for six months.

Cons: It's not a very bright blue. It's actually quite dark so the blue isn't really that noticeable. I mean, the point of getting colored contacts, in my opinion, is to make them noticeable.

All in all I still like them. Plus, I'm not the one that buys them so I shouldn't really complain. It kind of reminds me of the Neo Vision Queen Blue from their Queen 4 tone series.

Hair Ponytail Clip

Hair ponytail Clip

Color: Black
Type: Synthetic
Length: about 24"

Bought from: ebay
Price: about $8

For a synthetic hair purchase, I actually like this one a lot. I would get human hair if I could but I can't afford it. Human hair ponytails are actually pretty expensive.

I don't actually have the seller saved for this (I should really start to archive all my purchases. I don't buy much anyway). But I do remember the package coming very quickly. It's always nice to receive something ahead of schedule. Anyway, I bought this because my tiny ponytail nub just doesn't look as nice as a long ponytail. Plus, an updo type of extension will add some variety to the types of long hair I can have.

Anyway, the pros of this item. It is so much cheaper than its human hair counterpart. It's a claw type clip so it looks like a thicker and fuller than the wrap around ones with the ribbon. It's pretty thick and extremely long.

Cons: synthetic and all the cons that normally go with synthetic hair. So it tangles much more than real hair but it does tangle less compared to the really cheap synthetic hair I had before that I bought for like a dollar. It is shiny. The harsh sunlight especially shows the shinyness and the difference between the synthetic hair and my hair. In dim or cloudy settings, it is not as noticeable.

Before

 After

It's quite pretty and I like it. I might buy another one so I can have pigtails :)

First Come, First Serve Hotel

I had a lot of dreams that night that didn't make sense and didn't flow when I remembered it in the morning. It was just all so disjointed. I remember one dream where I was a ghost and experimenting walking through walls then another one where I'm an investigator of a murder mystery case full of drama. The memories didn't make that much sense but I did remember my last dream. It was the one right before I woke up. Here goes...


I am pretty much crawling up this hill, exhausted. Apparently, I had been running/jogging/sprinting/walking/eventually crawling towards a destination where there will be a huge get together of all my friends. I wouldn't exactly call it a party but more like a reunion perhaps. A lot of people had been bused there but for some reason, being the silly person as I am, I kept missing the bus. Every time I would get to a different stop, I had missed the bus by like a few seconds. So in the end, I had gone the whole way on foot. I was tired beyond belief.

At the top of this hill was my destination. I crawl up using my arms because my legs were too tired to move. I see the buses in the loop, dropping off tons of friends and classmates as they enter the hotel. I manage to get on my feet, sweating profusely, and walk to the hotel to check in. This hotel is where we will all be staying and our get together will be in their main grand ballroom. Our stay is free, thankfully, but getting rooms is first come first serve. I wanted to get a large bedroom so after checking in, I run to where the rooms are.

First floor is busy. There seems to be like a communal shower room and everyone is taking a shower. It's pretty loud. At this point, I'm in dire need of a shower. I had sweat through all my clothes during my trip. However, people are claiming rooms and I would like to claim a nice room. I see a room I like and try to open it but it is locked. Apparently rooms are still locked and people are leaving their things by the door as kind of a signal that they have claimed that room. Most of the rooms are locked and claimed. I decide to head upstairs.

Second floor, the rooms aren't much better. Rooms are small with a communal bathroom. Bleh sharing. I head upstairs.

Third floor, seems to be about the same but I'm intrigued to what is on the last floor. It's quiet up in the third floor and no one has claimed any rooms yet. At least I know I'll have a room.

Going up the stairs to the fourth and last floor, I see the ceiling of the hotel. It's glass and I see branches of a tree full of beautiful flowers hovering over it, letting through bits of light from the sun. It was really a sight to see. I head to the fourth floor and it is a very small floor, only about 3 rooms. I learn these are the large master bedrooms. I quickly claim one for myself and the door happens to be unlocked! I swear it was meant to be. Downside, the bathroom is outside across the hall. But I don't really mind it that much at the moment.

The room itself is so big. There is a king sized bed. Nice soft carpets so I take my shoes off. Then it has almost a separate room that is has a step up into a small sort of living area with lush couches and a huge window that encompasses the sides of that half-circle room. I guess you could call it a sun room. The view from there is awesome and I can see everything. I'm glad I bothered going upstairs to see what was there. There are no elevators so it is a hassle to have to walk up here but it was definitely worth it.

Now that I have my room, it's time to shower.

The End.

Princess Mimi Green Apple

Princess Mimi Green Apple


Brand: GEO
Water content: 38% - 42%
Diameter: 15.0 mm
Base Curve: 8.7
Duration: 1 year disposable
Purchased from: fobbybarbie

These are the biggest lenses I have ever bought. Got them on a whim because they came with free shipping. I had been eyeing this series for a while then. They are nice and big. Not as big as I had hoped they would be. Gosh, they seemed so big on the pictures and stuff. However, I'm still looking for something bigger (my endless search to find circle lenses big enough to satisfy me).

The color is not as vibrant as it seems. It's actually quite dark and you don't really see it unless you are in a place that is very well lit or taking a picture with flash. I was kind of disappointed in that. I was hoping for something a little bit more vibrant. But by chance that you do get the color, it is quite nice. I like how it is a little yellow in the middle. I think that's unique. I do like the limbal ring being visible so that's a pro.

These lenses actually aren't as comfortable as I hoped. They last maybe a few hours but definitely not as long as the other ones I have worn, which is pretty disappointing. I say maybe 6 hours, but definitely not longer than that. So I can't really wear them to school because I would never last through the day.

Like I said before, although my favorite color is green, I'm just not a fan of green lenses. It was too bad they didn't have my prescription of the sesame gray ones when I ordered. Oh well. I'm totally buying the gray ones next time.

-----update-----

Anyway, here are some side by side comparisons of the Princess Mimi Sesame Grey with the Princess Mimi Green Apple. I personally like sesame grey better, but if green lenses are your thing, green apple is a great choice!

Heterochromia? Lol I wish. I am wearing apple green in one eye and sesame gray in the other. Can you tell? I can barely tell. They do look very similar from far away, especially in dimmer settings. You can only really tell close up.

Like Mulan, Except Tragic: A Trilogy

This is an odd dream. Anyway, there is some back story before the present time of when the dream was actually occurring. I liken it to a movie where the dream I was having was the third movie. I didn't dream about what happened before but it was just something I already knew. It's hard to explain. Anyway, here is what happened before the story line of the dream begins:

In the first movie, this Asian girl who looks suspiciously like Mulan is recruited a sensei to save umm...the world I guess. So she is trained by him very intensely and she falls in love with him in the process. He is much older than her though but has aged well, I liken him to an Asian version of Richard Gere (I daresay that man is still attractive). Anyway, after her training she goes and does her thing to save the world. Meets a guy who falls in love with her and is like perfect. So he asks her to marry him but she can't because she is in love with her sensei. However the sensei is part of a secret society and a secret village with strict rules who don't allow outsiders. Now that his job with her is done, he must return. But she is so smitten by him that she agrees to live in the village as the lowest socioeconomic person there, basically a slave. It's all so unfortunate, really.

Second movie. Starts out with a Japanese princess who gets kidnapped by these Asian villains. She is so very pretty and helpless, stereotypical of how princesses in distress are portrayed. It so happens that this princess is the child of the sensei! Her name is like Kisagurumi or something long and hard to pronounce like that. Well, for some reason, her nickname is Mindy, so let's just go with that. So dear Mindy is kidnapped and sensei is distressed and distraught. Dear Mulan lookalike, who's name happens to be Cindy, goes to rescue her for him. Being awesome as she is, she successfully does so. Delighted his daughter is saved, sensei tells Cindy that when she returns to the village, things will be different this time. She is hopeful that he will finally love her in return.

Now here is where my dream begins:

Movie three, things have not changed. There cindy is, still a slave in this village where she is considered an outsider. She has made a few friends but they are of lower class, just like her. Being a slave, she wears ragged old clothes and has chains on her arm as she does hard labor and menial work. The sensei she loves still does not love her in return. She's sick of it and she wants to get away. She devises a plan to escape this secret village whose forcefield makes it hard for anyone to get in or out.

On a normal day as she is working, chance has it that somehow, a large ogre gets into the forcefield and starts attacking. She is grabbed by the ogre and screams for help. One of her friends punches the ogre and she jumps out of the ogre's hand. In the confusion, the citizen who normally opens and closes the door of the forcefield, is shocked by the sight and forgets to close the door, letting the winds blow in from the outside and knocking him far away. Cindy lands near the entrance and starts forcing her way through the wind to get to the exit.

Her sensei, from atop a tower on the hill looking over the village, yells what seems to be her name. Cindy looks up, almost losing sight of her plan at the thought that her beloved sensei is worried about losing her. WRONG! He is yelling Mindy. I don't think he even remembers Cindy's name. He only remembers that it is somewhere close to his daughter's nickna,e. Disappointed and further heart broken, Cindy spurs on while a small friend of hers follows, intending to leave the village as well.

They make it through the exit and out the other side. Her small friend gets scared by the outside world so he returns inside. The door is closed and Cindy stands right by near the forcefield as the villagers look at her. She waves goodbye to them and leaves, going to the pier nearby and taking a small boat to go back to her old home.

Her old home is like a farm or a ranch. It has a main house and a lot of land. Her family welcomes her back with open arms and she even gets her old room back. A lot of these comforts, she did not have when she was in the village. As she naps in her old bed, she is awoken by the sound of raindrops hitting the roof. She is almost confused by the sound. In the village, the forcefield drowns out all sounds and lets nothing through, so she had forgotten the rain and what it was like. Her little brother knocks on her door so she goes out to play with him in the dining area. Her house is small but cozy.

That evening, there is a party going on. There are so many people there and they almost take up the whole property. The party is outdoors, of course. She sees a lot of people that she has not seen in a long time. There is this old guy named Chief who is, for some unknown reason, following around her pet parrot. He is trying to grab it or something so he is luring the parrot with its favorite snack: acorns. So she is following him as he is following the parrot. When the parrot is distracted, he sees his chance and grabs the parrot. The parrot does not like that and gets angry and struggles its way out of Chief's hands. He leaves after that.

Cindy takes some acorns and gives it to the parrot. As revenge, the parrot has taken Chief's wallet and gives it to Cindy, telling her to go spend his money on some Chipotle for herself. As tempting as that is, Cindy decides anyway to return the wallet to Chief. The bad news is Cindy has forgotten what Chief looks like. So she asks a family member is she knew what Chief looks like. The description she was given was old with brown hair. That didn't help much but she decides to look.

She looks everywhere for him. On an interesting note, as she is going through the whole party, it seems all the teenagers had a room to themselves where they were all going crazy. Cindy was shocked by the revealing clothes and the alcohol they were drinking. I just thought that was funny. Anyway, so she continues to look for him but she can't find him. Suddenly, everyone is called together to line up for this raffle thing. Cindy figures she'll find him there. So she stands around looking for him. It is actually Chief who finds her first and takes his wallet back.

I know it's sudden but that's the end.

Burt's Bees lip balm set

Officially called Burt's Bees Fruit Mix with four lip balms. Bought it for $9.99 at my local Kroger grocery store. They also had other Burt's Bees sets. I know one set had the hand lotion and foot lotion but I wasn't really interested in that.

The packaging definitely makes it look like it is meant to be a gift. The four different lip balms and flavors are seen below. They all smell pretty darn good.

Then it comes with a little carrying case. This one is red with red polka dots on the inside. It also has a ring for attaching it to pretty much anything. There was another set with a yellow case but I don't really like the color yellow.

I shouldn't have to buy lip balm for quite a while.

Puffy 3 Tone Blue

Puffy 3 tone blue

Manufacturer: Barbie (Dueba)
Diameter: 16.50mm
Water Content: 38%
Base Curve: 8.60
Replacement Period: within 12 months

Purchased from: UNIQSO

I was excited at first getting these because they boasted a 16.50mm diameter with a 17.50 mm effect. I had been looking for lenses bigger than my Geo Princess Mimi Green Apple and I was hoping these would do the trick. Wrong! I soon find out that these are only 14.5 mm and noticeable so. Compared to my Princess Mimi lenses, they are obviously smaller. That was pretty disappointing. Also, they make me look a bit cross eyed sometimes, like my eyes are looking in different directions.

However, what I do love about these lenses are the vibrant color. I get so many compliments because people just instantly notice my eyes. Yes, they are that blue! They are just so beautiful in any kind of light. Because they are smaller, they look very natural even with the most minimal makeup. Also, they are super comfortable. Great for everyday use.

In the sunlight:

In harsh flash

On a cloudy day

In dim lighting:

The blue shows through in any type of light. I've been camera whoring with these the most, obviously. I have the puffy 3 tone gray ones unopened still so I'll see which color I like better. But definitely, I would consider buying these lenses again.


--------------Grey or Blue--------------

Puffy 3 tone Grey vs. Puffy 3 tone Blue
Which do you like better?