labour day shopping and the end of the world.

//geekery

Armageddon is an annual geeky convention held at the ASB showgrounds showcasing upcoming titles in the geeking world (games) and other exhibits including guests from anime, movies and tv, comics, merchandise for the otakus, weapons, artists and much much more. This year it got even bigger and drew an even bigger crowd..

Photos by my friend K.

Yuffie and I.

Yuffie!

And of course being Armageddon, I had to have my annual dose of corndog. We waited in line for about 30 minutes!! And they served us cold, overpriced chips. Corndog was still good though!

I went with a semi big group so I didn't get the chance to see everything. But a good tip is to BRING YOUR OWN FOOD AND WATER. Everything is expensive as poos in there. Oh and bring cash. There was a line for everything, and the single ATM machine was no exception.

Despite the sweaty, sticky and smell of geek in the crowd, I managed to have a great time and managed to pick up a little something being the geek that I am.

Next year I want to buy a sword to protect myself from the coming zombie apocalypse.

In other geekery, I finished my first commission in a very long time! A friend from overseas wanted an anime version of himself for his business card. You can see it in my art gallery. So yeah.. I guess I'm open for commission!

//ootd

NZ weather is like a box of chocolates. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU"RE GONNA GET. But today really felt like summer, which I missed out on last year since I went overseas to Hong Kong for an internship, and it was winter there. So it being nice and sunny today I dressed up in the Mirrou patterned maxi and tried on a completely new look.

So Cat inv'd me to go shopping with her and we had a bit of lunch. Couldn't help going back to MIRROU and picking up more 50% off things.. Total $14.90.

And a big flippy hat for $19.99 from Glassons. Who's ready for the beach?

//design

A bit of image dump. Work in progress of one of the final renders for my presentation.

Last post for a while... so much to do..
-B

50% off retail therapy

//ootd

Today when my sister Debbie came home she was all excited and asking me to visit this new shop in town called Mirrou, located next to Adidas on Broadway, opposite 277 Westfield in New Market. They opened this Wednesday and had 50% off storewide. SOLD. I dropped my design work and bolted out the door with the girls.

The shop was very well presented, but unfortunately messed up by a lot of the customers coming and going. The prices ranged at $9.95 - $45 NZD full price. The QUALITY and prices were reminiscent of Valley Girl's, which stood in the same shop location 2 years ago. However in terms of style, it definitely surpasses VG. The 50% off storewide brought many girls and women and the changing rooms unfortunately did not cater to the crowd, but I expect the numbers will decrease when the sale passes. Another downside is that since the shop is fairly new, they only had 1 mirror between 6-8 changing rooms. Hopefully they'll install 1 for each individual changing room later on..

50% off Sale ends 3rd November, Sunday!!  But get in quick before everything is snapped up by the mobs.

VERDICT: 
Mirrou has a broad range of pastel lights, monochromes and patterns for the coming hot weather, as well as beach wear for the approaching Summer. Definitely the go-to for cheap basics and quick wardrobe fixes and layers.

MIRROU in New Market, Broadway
Style: 4/5
Price: 5/5 (SALES YAY)
Staff: 4/5
Quality: 3/5

I picked up a few pieces for the approaching hot weather. All of the below for $77NZD (sale price).

//geekery

Also, yesterday was the annual Armageddon con held at the ASB showgrounds and goes on between Fri-Mon on every Labour weekend. Will post about that later when I get the photos!

-B

all you can eat herschel.

//ootd

A friend did ask me to start a fashion blog a while ago but I thought instagram would be the closest thing to a fashion blog I'd ever be able to keep. I don't think I'm particularly fashionable, I just aim to look decent on cheap budget. So keep reading if you like to buy pretty things and be frugal about it.

Last night's ootd

Yesternight some of my best friends and I went to our usual, cheap dinner spot The Station Canteen for the Thursday Mexican night where they serve the fruity Sangria wine and $10 'all you can eat' nachos. Or so we thought. Cat managed to convince us to go, promising all you can eat nachos for $10 per table, so we thought we would abuse it and order a second big plate of nachos. As it turns out, it wasn't all you can eat, and by the end of it all, we were stuffed! (Not stuffed enough to stop us having tea at Hulu Cat though..)

Cat also brought the Herschel navy bag we ordered off Need Supply Co. along with a faux leather jacket she got. I lovelovelove Herschel's Navy bags, and it was on sale! It also has an internal "laptop sleeve pocket" on the inside - which is lined with the signature red and white Herschel Stripes of course - and I can fit my 15" laptop easily. Very impressed with it!!

Even though we are getting into Spring, I still love red and navy.

In other ootdness, being the cheap person I am, I subscribe to regular updates of new stock that come into the stores all around Auckland. So today I picked these two new summer skirts up for $19.99 ea and a white spaghetti strap singlet for $10 all from Glassons. So cheap!

Herschie makes a cameo!

Well.. back to design work for now.. :(

-B

hello, world.

//design

Another new blog/journal. Yay!
At this very current moment in time, I should be working on my final project for 3rd year architecture studio, due next Wednesday. The brief is to design a whole development at a designated Auckland (New Zealand, if you didnt know) location and at a high density.

The unit for density would be DPH, which stands for dwelling per hectare. But since we are to be working with multi bedroom maisonettes, units and apartments, the unit HRH or habitable rooms per hectare would more accurately describe the density of our design.

(Habitable rooms) Any room used or intended to be used for sleeping, cooking, living or eating purposes. Enclosed spaces such as bath or toilet facilities, service rooms, corridors, laundries, hallways, utility rooms or similar spaces are excluded from this definition.

A WIP quick look at the apartments we are working with.

The brief is to create a high density (600-800 hrh) residential development in the suburb of Parnell without sacrificing too much from the quality of life = balancing quality of living with density.

The site is the main.. problem or difficulty, if you like. as it essentially is a steep valley.

A metre long 1:500 laser cut model of the given site at Parnell. Each card layer represents 1 real life metre.

You'd be surprised at how challenging this studio brief is. Even more so because we've only done ONE small scale residential project in my 3 years of studio here and ZERO development planning.

More on this next week after my hand in with more refined renders!

//ootd + gaming

Today... not much in fashion as I was running late but here's a look at the top I'm wearing today.

Yes, another game shirt. Mid plz bitches!

In gaming, I've given up on trying to connect to GTAV online and moved on to POKEMON X.

That and leveling to 50 sometime soon on Final Fantasy 14.

-B