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2004-08-30 - She Walks in Beauty // Layer 03
2004-08-30 - She Walks in Beauty // Layer 02
2004-08-30 - She Walks in Beauty // Layer 01
2004-08-28 - Early Bird
2004-08-26 - My Solitary
2004-08-23 - Happy in Pain
2004-08-21 - Merit
2004-08-19 - DV Day
2004-08-17 - Day In
2004-08-15 - The Errors of Beauty
2004-08-13 - Gloomy Sky
2004-08-11 - Return
2004-08-09 - Isle of Wight
2004-08-06 - Heat and Love
2004-08-04 - Secret Operation
2004-08-02 - Theme to Our Love
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Joey is only a name I use to get by. The name given to me at birth is Hoi-Yee Cheng, but since I was born and raised in London, UK, my father decided that giving me an English name would be easier for the people around me and myself too. I am a year 12 student in Graveney Sixth Form - saving you the maths, this makes me currently 16; this number will move up a digit on July 29.
I guess even though my brother says that sixth form is a waste of time and college is more focusing on what I want to do in the future, it is better to attend a sixth form. Ken always nag on about how employers look for sixth formers more than btecs, but I think it depends on what kind of job. I want to be a clinical psychologists, so studying Psychology for AS and A2 will be my only path as of now.
And oh yes, I am scared of frogs.
I am nice. =D. I believe I am. I also believe that almost everyone goes through a horrible phase; admittedly I have, but I have passed that phase and for the past year I have had no intentions of being horrible and no records of starting fights =D! When other people are intentionally causing harm for me, I don't hesitate to address it, but I like to do it through speech, nono cat-fights or physical trickery.
Speaking of addressing things, I am not afraid to voice my opinions, nor show my emotions (apart from when I cry, I like to be away from public when I cry). However, that does not mean I am one of those people who doesn't think twice before they say things; I don't like to 'dance around the issue' as Adam likes to put it =D, similarly, I lose respect for those who do.
I realise I am doing too much talking - a bad of Joey is when she goes on an essay-like mode of writing, which Sawah likes to address it as the 'novel mode'. Okay I shall do lists of goods and bads of me now.
The goods: honest; empathetic in 99% of occassions; direct; invincible!; nervousness doesn't exist in my dictionary; nor does embarrassment; not afraid to admit to my emotions; charitable (look at how generous I am with Toby about food each day); I live by that I shouldn't regret things, so I don't; very extremely exceedingly sunshine smiley; analytical; self-aware; you give me a piano, I will play you a beautiful song.
The bads: overly critical; impulsive with actions; for some people, my unwillingness to let go of the past can be a bad thing; sleeping all the time; novel mode when in an argument; impatience; rapidfire assumptions without clear evidence (or even no evidence sometimes, ouch); I am quite acaedemically slow; vanity; apparently when arguments (even little ones) happen between me and a friend, for me, everything is over; spending big amounts of money on clothes and [very unheard-of] books; I think of myself as a robot sometimes, says Andy.
Also, read the disclaimer. I can't stress enough about my rights to being the hostess of this blog; what I write here are reviews of my day, my thoughts, my feelings. If you don't like my content, then don't read it.
Current layout: version twenty-four
Layout theme: Heaven
Cover image: Choi Ji-Woo
Tools: Photoshop 7.0 + Paint Shop Pro 7
Title Inspiration: 'HEAVEN' comes from a song released by Ayumi Hamasaki recently.
Colour Scheme: Navy, blue, white.
Side sentences: nobody can destroy my heaven
Launch date: November 12
Comment: This layout image gave me such a dilemma. I use mozilla firefox as my default browser; however I usually code my html for IE because most people I know uses IE, but I realised when creating the colours of this theme that the browser has different brightness settings. The dilemma was to have the background colour match with the cover image in IE but mismatch in firefox, or vice versa. So after about a whole day and night of pulling my hair out I decided that I'd set it correctly to firefox because it is my default browser.
I used about two days browsing around the net and my picture folder for models, and then five days doing image design and coding. Took me an awfully longer time than usual to get this ready =/, it's because I'm not in a rush to get this theme up, even though this blog is badly in new of a new layout =D - had the old Ayumi one for four months, oh lordy!
The model for this month is completely new, you've never met her before =D. She is a Korean actress called Choi Ji-Woo, but is actually more famous in Japan than in her homeland Korea; this is because of the famous blockbuster Korean Drama 'Winter Sonata' - it is through watching this drama that I discovered her =D! She looks much better in this image with long, slightly wavy hair. In 'Winter Sonata' she first had straight long hair, that was normal, every oriental girl has straight straight straight hair so that was easily accepted, but at the main middle part when she cut her hair short it just made her look really really old and strange @_@ ... nevertheless, I started getting used to it then BAM change of hairstyle again, it was short and curly, wtf. But yes, it looks much better in this image =).
This image has such a heavenly and traquil feel around it =), I like it a lot. It is because in 'Winter Sonata', Choi Ji-Woo's character is so innocent and gentle, so from now on everytime I see Choi Ji-Woo T'd just automatically think back to her character in the Korean Drama, unless she is doing a sexual pose of course @_@.
Unlike most themes where I would base my designs on the saga I would be in at that moment, this theme doesn't convey much about the current situation - the obvious one is the sudden change from white to dark ... it is not because I'm turning evil don't worry haha =D, it means I just want to be in the shade, away from direct sun for the moment being. My life is at a calm right now that I don't want to destroy, and nobody could destroy it. Anyone who tries to destroy my calm, I will destroy them first.
But anyways, hope you like the change of colour scheme =), and the theme itself of course!
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