cordelia likes... pulling out your phone and pretending to talk to someone in awkward situations

Hehe. So yeah.. The title of this post is a "page" that I liked on facebook last night after a series of rather embarrasing circumstances..

It kind of reminded me about what Ali said the other day about how she had all these funny thoughts and things she would have in her head and thought they were really original and then she would see them as a page on facebook. I actually think that might be a page on facebook too...

Well anyway one if those facebook pages (the one that is the title of this post^^) was especially applicable to *yours truly* yesterday. I was standing outside TISCH on broadway yesterday waiting for Lux to come and meet me. While I was there I decided to take done pictures of the rather awesome costumes that were in the window (tisch is an theatre arts uni)

These pictures actually:





















And I realized I was getting some really weird stares so I pretended to be talking on my phone. Unfortunatley the first person I could think of to pretend to talk to was Lux.. And guess who showed up at exactly that moment? Yeah..
Believe me when I tell you that no words were needed..

(;

So I did some returns, grabbed a drink, went into the prada store, got lost on the subway and--

Wait!
Did I just hear (see) myself say (type) prada store?!?

I sure did!

I went into the rather large prada showcase building (it was less of a store than a sculpture)

I'm pretty sure I wasn't allowed to take photos but I used my "whaaaaat? Photographs? Psh! I'm texting someone. With my phone pointed towards your display.... Making a shutter noise"
Tactic and I got a few snaps of the initial display.
















Yeah so that's the really cool display they had in the middle of the store, then they had something close to shopping racks on the lower level. It was in some cool minimalist//futuristic style and I took a few sh-naps of some of the peices that I especially loved.
















I love the lace detail on this ^
Soo pretty <3















You can't really tell the shape of this in this picture but it was a really cool tank top with insane crystal textures hanging off the bottom. Here is a close up of it:






How awesome is that?!?

Whine whine why is prada so expensiveee
Whiiinneee

Here are some more:






The above photo is a t-shirt with one of the photos from the prada 2010 spring RTW show. It has been embellihed with crystals (again) thread for hair and a sticky out plastic handbag. I swear to god this my be the godliest graphic t-shirt ever made. Here are some deets shots along with a picture of another one of the runway photo-turned-graphic-tee t-shirts.











Hey guys just a little interuption! This is an unfinished post that I have to publish now because BlogPress is being annoying. I will finish it on my computer when I get home.

And continuation of this post startss:

HERE

(:







And next are some pictures I took of some pretty awesome prints I saw












I don't even think a Nikon SLR picture could accurately portray the intensity of the red in the dress above. It was so beautiful I wanted to sheild my eyes.





This bag is a little OTT but I somehow adore it. Here is a close up of the label.





Textures once again!
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Location:Train from NYC

-C

artificial hair

yep, I re-dyed my hair and I acknowledge that it looks kind of artificial. Thats what happens when you dye your hair red, honey. It will fade into a more natural looking colour soon, but the point of dying it that unnatural colour was so that when it fades it will be brighter. If I died it exactly the intensity of colour I actually wanted it, it would fade into something two shades lighter after three showers. Speaking of artificial hair...

I hate to be one of those people who just re-posts the images other bloggers blogged about, but it is unavoidable since it seems the whole entire blogosphere is buzzing about this photoshoot that was in a recent issue of PoP. Here is the picture that really stood out at me:


I am completely obsessed with pastel coloured hair. (I think I mentioned this earlier?) and this picture is like, the perfect reincarnation image of the idea I had for my hair for months.

So today, after seeing the picture, I decided to get a move on it and went to Sally's Beauty and bought some 40 volt bleach and turquoise hair dye. I am going to dye a strip of it from behind my ear totally turquoise, but it will fade after a few washes to a nice pastel-ly teal. (:

I don't want it to be too obvious or "out there"-ish so i'm sticking to the lower layers of my hair. (:

I am going to wait till after graduation to do it, so expect pictures in about a week or so!


here are some mood photos:




The ever-present beta fish emerges again! And he brings My Little Pony with him to the image reel!


Exams are over everyone! Enjoy the summer! (;

-C

whats up with the pants?

*shrugs*

*continues walking*

Yup, thats pretty much my automatic response to questions about my outfits. We had a part of finals today (English and French) so it was free dress and I wore a (in my opinion) supercute outfit (;. but unforunatley the SIZEOFMYJEANS-

holy sheez they aren't glued to your legs!? I cant see the outline of your underwear?!? Their your DAD'S?????????!?!?!?!?!?!?

-"offended" some people. You'd think after at least three years of knowing that I dress however I like no matter how many times they tell me I look weird, they'd stop telling me I look weird..
well I guess you don't need instinctual logic to get into private school after all...

Maybe they had a SUDDENWAVEOFSMARTENESS-KUNG-FU-ACTION-JESUS moment after having all the blood that was normally in their legs squeezed by the denim-deathtraps-of-the-leg-variety up to their brains! Its probable.

But anyway I wore this outfit:




which I said I would wear a few posts ago after being inspired by my (errr...?) boss? mentor? Sifu? master? senpai? (whatever she is), Tilly.

been reading my posts eh? been up to date? eh? well? cause I mentioned it. yep I did indeed mention it.

Here are the ingredients to this (¿apparently confusing?) outfit -> ByCorpus floral tank thing from UO (Urban Outfitters), Lace crop top is reworked 80's vintage, belt is mum's, jeans are dad's and shoes are Kimichi Blue from UO. My watch necklace has been an ANAPHORA (<-- english literary term right there) on this here blog so you are probably aware that it is from MACY'S. But if not it is from MACY'S. Oh and more recently; A TRAY FULL OF FOOD/CRANBERRY JUICE. Someone tripped while they were going to sit down and accidentally (or was it) dropped there tray on me. I was super pissed and whatnot, SINCE CRANBERRY JUICE STAINS. But it was less at the person than the actual fact that I HAD FREAKING CRANBERRY JUICE ON MY NEW OUTFIT.

Well anyway I cleaned myself up and thankfully it didn't stain... but apparently SOME PEOPLE thought my reaction was humorous. Well i'm glad that even though I had to sit in cranberry juice during a two hour exam and have cranberry juice squelching in my new shoes whenever I walked, someone was able to extract humor from my misfortune. CONGRATS.

But anyway, it dried, and I hold no grudges. (:
just DONT EVER do it again.
(;

Moving on;

here be some detail shots--





Oh and by the way the title is indeed an actual question a kid asked me during the french exam.

If you're going to ask stupid questions during an exam, you might as well ask them about the actual exam. I'm pretty sure the reasons behind my pants is far less important than- OH CRAP I FORGOT HOW TO CONJUGATE METTRE.

Just a little bit of wisdom for you!

Good luck to those of the blankityblankprivacy clan who are reading this-- on our Gov exam tomorrow!

khaki everywhere

The costumes are really starting to come together for Othello. The whole play is taking place beetween military men and there wives so were doing a more modern army theme so there is lots khaki in discussion. I'm not much for khaki myself.. I think that is a horrible colour for light skin tones. It does look okay on darker skin tones though. I think I would go crazy if I ever wore a khaki safari shirt because I would constantly be reminding myself if jurrasic park. They all have these ridiculous khaki shirt-tucked into odd pants-binoculars-safari hat outfits that kindof make me laugh. It is hard to be scared of a man-eating dinosaur when the man it's eating looks like he just stepped out of a badly clothed group of British safari goers. OH WAIT. he DID.

But anyway the costumes are great, even though khaki isn't as much. One of our main actors just dropped out all of a sudden so we just had to start taking measurement of the replacement. Thankfully they were around the same size because otherwise we would have had to shop desdemona all over again.

There are a few really cute things from topshop that we got for Emilia and desdemona, including a cute white double breasted jacket that was really mod-looking. Lux (costume assistant) found the perfect boots for Bianca from Steve Madden and she haggled the price to practically half the original. Here is a really crappy iPhone picture of said boots on Alexa (the girl who is playing Bianca)


and here is one of the costume rack (person standing in front is Tilly)




Oh and here are some craptastic iPhone pictures from Wednesday when we went to kuafmanns (army surplus store). It was a space only slightly bigger than my room and they had all this amazing military garb from all over the world//different time periods just stacked up to the ceilings. The staff was really helpful and we found these kick-ass combat boots that we will probably have the men wearing.



Oh and I also found a really creepy gas mask just like, sitting there so I took a picture...



I feel like I could do something really artsy with the gas mask but I can't quite visualize it...

Tommorow I get to do returns! YAY. (<~ sarcasm) I have to lug like 7 huge ass coat all the way to anthropologie and then take all this other stuffs to various other stores and demand money back. If I see anything cool I'll take a picture for you guys.


Night!
-C

Ps. Picture of awesome bun//lump//mound thing I did with my hair yesterday:



and yes, my ear is naturally like that. I guess it got messed up in my birth or something. *shrugs*

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buddah's delight

Hmm I have decided (while sipping a rather good spoonful of wanton soup) That I am going to adopt a whole new rather “monkly” persona//outlook on things. You guys better get prepared because this post illustrates the kinds of things cordi thinks about when asian food eaten in a monkly manner, a new rather OOTW playlist, watching reruns of Avatar: The Last Airbender with brothers, and crazy concentraity ADD drugs are combined. Please don’t laugh or flame, just hear me out.

RANT.. ACTIVATED
*bbeep beep blip zzzz*

There has been a lot of drama going around and things have been building up emotionally for some time which has started to turn me spiteful and bitter (not to mention causing some annoying stress breakouts). But this is old news and certainly not unexpected (Middle school; its a hell-hole people) but it doesn’t mean it isn’t important.

I do love proverbs and giving advice//fixing social problems among friends, but I rarely ever take what I give to my own heart. So I have decided with the year coming to a close, and the coddling notion that I will only have to deal with certain people for a little while longer I would like to believe that I can remain above it all. I need to let go of my bitterness and try to find a peacefullness within myself. Although that is a farfetched goal (I know), It doesn’t hurt to try.

Shoot for the moon, becuase if you miss, you land among the stars

I see people around me, I observe their behavior, and although the way it may affect me is negative and it may cause a negative reaction from me, I have to look at it objectively. Human behavior is human behavior and it is shocking when put in perspective but expected when put in objective. I would hope that the message that I can give to everyone who has “wronged” me (and again I use “wronged” circumspectly) is this;
I cannot “forgive but not forget” because even though it sounds grand it is more likely that I would forget it over time than actually forgive it. So instead I will try to convey this message: I will not forgive things that hurt me unless I have prompted cause to, I will not forget things that hurt me (as much as I want to) because I need to keep them as memories and use them as lessons later on in life (Like a drama study guide!), but I want you to know that I will try my best to understand and acknowledge why it came about and your reasons for it. One must always remain objective when in dealings of the human race. It is ironic and a painfully true fact of human nature but; Things can offend one, but it doesn’t mean they won’t do the same in another situation. I am going to try and not be unnecessarily hateful, go out of my way to make people feel uncomfortable, or anyother things that people have done to me because I know first hand how much it stings and although I may want to, I can only do unto others as I would hope they do unto me.
Yes, Yes this is the PROVERB POST
Just a few rambling words of nonsensical wisdom from a girl who thinks of everything but knows nothing.

I also would like this to go online so I will constantly be reminded of the decisions I make in my life and hopefully not let the positive ones die out (by never revisiting this document and having it lost among my other ramblings (RANT FOLDER). I don't usually get all emotional-ish and like drama obssesed and I'm still not, but I guess I'm too lazy to start a life blog right now (were posting this stuff would make a lot more sense) but maybe I will just for the sake of it. (Another time though) I promise that from now on I will try not to have any non-fashion related ranty off topic posts!

This probably makes minimal sense but I don’t feel like taloring it to be readable because I figure what came out of my head then was what I was thinking, even if it is scrambled.

Some random quotes that are fantastic;
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
- Proverb
"If you lose your temper, you’ve lost the argument."
- Proverb
"I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it."
- Steven Wright
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before."
- Mae West (1892-1980)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
- Dennis Wholey (1937-)
"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison (1874-1931)
(I have tons more, maybe I will make a habit of including one at the end of each post. xD)

Yes Guys, unfortunatley, though I am usually pretty adamant about ACTUALLY STAYING ON TOPIC on blogs, I had to make an exception for this post because I needed to write it for myself. To help "find peace" within myself. (CORNY but true) I will however include this rather (slightly, Maybe?) fashion related picture:

I will pretty much be parading around in my Monk Suit (snuggie) all the time now since I have dubbed myself an honorary monk (not the christian kind, just generally kindof buddhist/shintoist/gnomeland kind) YES, we have monks in GnomeLand (translates roughly into CordiLand)

(;
Picture of me in the monk suit later!

apologies to my meerkat family

Hey guys! I know that only a few people read this blog, several of which just to hate on it, but I must give you guys this message that I have sadly brought it upon myself to give. (?whatttt?)

Finals are coming.

(^depressed person^)
Yes the dreaded finals.. Review week starts on Monday and goes through till Friday and we have finals on the Tues, Wednesday, and Thursday the week after that.
So as much as I love this blog I think that for the next two weeks I will have to limit myself to 3 posts a week. ): I know, I know, you'll miss me. (or not) but I promise to make the 6 posts from the next two weeks awesome (I hope).

I need to concentrate supah hard because I really want to do well. So sorry guys! But I'm not gone forever!

I'm starting to actually do some work on the costumes for shakespeare on the sound today, so that is pretty exciting. Tilly (the costume designer) and I are going shopping for shoes today. (: I don't know where we are going but I will add some photos of the shoes//places from my iPhone. Hopefully we wont get lost because she just moved here from England and has no idea how to navigate NY and I only have limited knowledge... so we'll see! (EDIT on the 1st of June: It turns out it is I who has zero knowledge, as has been evidenced by my past fews days at Shakespeare (; Tilly is beast, she knows her way around *runs off to find bathroom using google maps Ozzy Osbourne style* )

I'm not sure what theme or time period we are going with for the costumes but our director (Joanna) has some very strong opinions about it. Apparently according to the SOTS (Shakespeare on the sound) veterans the costumes last year turned out to be a disaster. They said that when Joanna fired the costume designer last year (different one then this year) she actually made her cry... but hey guys a good director needs to lay down the law if she wants to get things done.

eek.. scary!


So yeah I know I always say this but, I'll update this post later!

my sixth sense

Hmm so you know how a few days ago, I found a little purse with the union jack in sequins on it in my moms closet? Yes? Well I of course started using it, because it is, well, AWESOME.
(example: in this outfit that I wore to the city that I promised I would post a while ago)


I look sortof murderous//superugly in these photos but iz all good.
So anyway, I went into a hudson news and bought a bunch of foreign magazines and yadayadayada. BUTTT I was looking through this french magazine called Please! (with the exclamation point) and I saw an alexander wang purse that looked ALMOST IDENTICAL to my childhood sequin purse thing that I found in my moms closet I must have some sort of sixth sense to subconsciously catch on to trends before I know them. (:

I think I told you about the outfit I wore but I don't think I told you about the AWESOME LIPS COUCH!
My family and I stopped in the Oyster Bar in Grand Central to grab some dinner, and it was this really homely wood paneled, ships in bottles kindof place that looked like it had a lot of history. SO then I get up to go to the bathroom and I walk through this thick musty old door with a stuffed fish hanging over it, and emerge into.. a SUPERSUPER modern bathroom with a Lip Couch! I was so entertained y it I just sat there for ten minutes making gurgles while I drooled. So of course I had to get my mom to come in and take a picture of me on it! It reminded me of Prada's famous lip print.

Sorry You cant really see the print in the runway photo, but the photo was from 2000 so he digital camera quality was.. eehhh
Prada Spring 2000 RTW

Bai!
-C