{look upon my works, ye mighty}

In Domino, there's a shade of blue known as Kaiba blue. It's popular for bedrooms and the trim on hats for schoolgirls. Soon, it turns into the blue of the uniform skirts and jackets.

They call it Kaiba blue even when nobody remembers who the Kaibas were; like Prussia, they are a thing of the past and history books.

Their name is remembered for the wrong reasons. There is no longer any awe attached to it.

Now that I've got THAT out of my system, sorry for everyone who's been wondering why I've been MIA lately. Willow aka witchwillow and Zoe aka tes_aiden came over to crash with me and I was busy having SO MUCH FUN with them that I totally stayed offline!

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Also, PHOTOS will later be up. Both photos from the con, and photos of the combined coolness that is the FWZ triad.

I'm in a white sari with a blue border and a turquoise blue blouse.

One of the things that I love most about the UN is that I can wake up in the morning, decide I feel like wearing a sari, and just go into work in a sari. That simple. Nobody's going to ask me if it's some sort of holiday or give me an odd look.

Can you imagine being in a normal corporate setting and walking into school in a sari or some other form of ethnic dress that isn't suit+tie official?

I can't. Not without it being Sri Lankan Independence setting or New Year's, one of those holidays that might justify the non-professional clothing.

Saris are a pain to wear, really. They're difficult to sit in, they get caught in the wheels of your chair, you have to pick it up to go down the stairs, they require a lot of safety pins and white ones especially need to be kept absolutely stain-free.

I love them anyway.

There's something so elegant and timeless about the way they drape. A sari is really just a blouse, a skirt and about six feet of cloth, but wearing a sari always makes me smile a little whenever I see myself in a mirror.

See, I'm not a good Sri Lankan girl (my hair is growing out of a red mohawk, it's red and black, I'm wearing a Nike watch on one wrist) but in a sari, I feel like maybe I'm the new type of Sri Lankan-American-European girl. Like growing up in Europe and attending college in America don't mean I'm less Sri Lankan, just that I'm more me and less culturally bound, but I can still choose to show off parts of my culture when I want to.

In conclusion? I like this sari. If I were capable of wearing saris on my own, I'd bring one back with me to uni and put it on every now and then.

PaperBlanks official site.

I am currently madly in love with their products, having seen them in shops in Vienna and fallen desperately, unfairly, unstoppably in lust with the smoothness of their pages and the textured, magnetized covers.

I went shopping with Numa the other day. What I bought was this, in Noir (fourth from the top of the thumbnails on the left side).

The pages are unlined and a beautiful creamy shade. The spine is open and handstitched. The cover is silk, and my fingers have yet to grow tired of stroking it. I have calligraphy pens at home and a bottle of ink that I plan on using to inscribe little wisps of thoughts and lines that strike me as lovely and worth remembering.

It won't be a journal or a sketchbook. It'll be something beautiful that I possess; something decadent and different and wildly esoteric-looking, like a spell book.

Sometimes, your soul just craves beauty.

Computer at home died, Internet there runs on a modem so I can't hook it up to my laptop, shall be online during work hours and not home time. Still living with parents.

( NOW FOR HP 7! )

If anyone knows of a slash-friendly RP set around the time of Grindelwald and Dumbledore, or even a Marauder's-era one (I have a sudden, renewed fondness for Regulus) that's looking for players, let me know.

Yesterday, I did an absolutely awesome job on the website that I'm designing for the UN -- it was so awesome that not only my boss but also the IT guy complimented me on it. *preens* I told my mother about it and she brought me a huge sunflower in a vase that I bought her years ago for Mother's Day, so that's brightening up my office at the moment.

I think that I'm going to update on every odd day this July, just for the hell of it. So, with that said, Happy belated Birthday, Josie! If you want a fic or drabble or icon or header, just drop me a comment and I'll add it to the list of stuff to do.

Also, Happy Birthday in advance to Dani, who's going to celebrate another year on this planet tomorrow. ♥ I'll e-mail you my giftie, okay?

Apart from that, SIAN IS COMING DOWN THIS MONDAY! *dance of glee*

Someone ought to write Nohari/Johari fic. It's probably going to end up being me if nobody else does it.

Right now, I'm at Numa's (slept over there last night, taking a break from working on my last paper atm), and I ended up doing the Johari and Nohari windows. Do them for me, please? I'll do them for you in return if you do. ♥

Meeting Kathy and Numa tomorrow so that they can help me move into my new quarters and talked to Kathy on the phone yesterday with Numa. Soon the Eternal Three will be reunited! *getting plenty of hugs from Numa in the meantime which is good since she's been affection-starved at uni*

Want an icon like the above? Comment with a link to a photo of you (unless I know what you look like already) or with a doll of you, and what flag you want. I know that many of you guys are multiracial, so you get to choose which origin you want to flaunt.

I can't do multiple flags in one icon, sorry. ♥

( Why my icon says 'Asian Pride'. )