LOL I totally agree!! What's on the inside, while important, is definitely not everything. After all, as one of my girlfriends always says, others can't see the inside like you do, so it is important if he looks decent on the outside. Inevitable is the most fitting word for vain moments, I guess. LOL your experience sounds just like what I am going through now!! I think you handled it nicely though...I mean, you were only trying to be nice and help him feel welcomed into the group, and to get the wrong idea is really his own problem, isn't it? I am not surprised he ended up liking you, Carrie! You have a great personality, and I am sure you are a very lovely and beautiful girl, so he'd have to be gay or asexual to feel nothing for you!! Are you guys still friends? And well...I understand what people mean by accidentally sounding flirty, but then again, if a man is interested in you, anything you do might come across as being flirty to him. If he is merely a friend, and you laugh at his jokes, he would not think much of it. But if he is interested, your laughter would end up being interpreted differently. So in other words, just like the vain moments, this is inevitable.

OMG OMG OMG *SQUEALS* I know right??? JONG IS GORGEOUS. The baby kisses and the playful bites were SOOOOOO adorable!! He is sooooooo handsome when he pretends to look annoyed. *swoons* Did you see the part where they were all looking through the photobook he created? I know what you mean, Carrie...oh, I'd LOVE to marry a man like him!! When I saw that, all I could think about was how I want to marry him! We will totally get lost in translation but it's okay, love will transcend all language boundaries. *floats away to dreamland* Oh dear, now I am getting little fluttery moments in my tummy~~~

OH YES YES, bikinis and ropes! Do we need handcuffs?? *holds up one* We will scour the world for these hunkychunky yummylicious HOTTIES!!!

LOL your cousin sounds like an AMAZING person to go shopping with!!! OMG the fun!!! She's amazing...I love shopping but I've not reached the guru level whereby I could buy all the colors in the same design without trying them on!!! I wish I could be so carefree when it comes to buying stuff! Being a poor (literally) fresh graduate means I have no income and barely any savings. Arrrrrgh.

It doesn't help that I adore reading fashion magazines, and so, end up exposing myself to wicked temptation ALL THE TIME. It's actually good to be picky!! You'd never end up buying stuff which would make you regret eventually. It's a great habit, Carrie! Speaking of Sex and the City, I know which dress you are referring to! It's gorgeous, isn't it?? *sigh* I want to go shopping. NOW.

Prada has GORGEOUS shoes...did you see the black covered heels with a flower heel?? OMG. I loved that when I first saw it in Elle magazine, but I had to slap my own hands and refrain from going online to check them out. I liked that pair of heels so much; I had to feature them in the upcoming chapter of my other story 'Let us fall in love', and let Kagome wear them in the story. LOL. Cheap thrill, I know.

LOL!! I almost fell off my chair laughing when I saw '584th cousin'. How coincidental, cousin!! LOL. It's such a simple family tree, really. Funny how it resembles a global network.

OMG sweetheart!! *HUGGLES* Thank you for taking the time to read and review both 'The color of love' AND 'Wisteria'!!! You have no idea how guilty and happy I was at the same time when I saw the alerts for the reviews in my hotmail inbox...You must be really, really busy with all your commitments! Anyway, OMG OMG OMG HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY in advance!! Here's LOTS of kisses and hugs for youuuuuu~ *hugggggs* Have a great one! I am sure you will find a decent part time job in no time, and that's when you can make more money to spend on lovely shoes!!!

I actually drew a new picture and uploaded it here on Dokuga, and I hope you can take a look at it dearie! Here is the link:

http://dokuga.com/gallery?func=detail&id=3840

Gin Sun soup is LOVE! I love it because it is sooooo nourishing, and it really really makes one more resistant to cold (strange as it sounds) LOL.LOL it's kinda cute how you eat even the roots!! I don't like them too much though I like the slightly bitter taste of the soup You know, I saw on TV last night how Koreans actually coat the entire gin sun root in batter and fry it, so it becomes some tempura-like snack. Everything tastes better fried, so I bet it's pretty good. Chicken feet are AMAZING! I love them, despite how gross they sound in English. I mean, if you haven't had it in your entire life, it definitely sounds very weird and gross. Oooooooh I LOVE steamed fish with scallions and the fish sauce It's one of the dishes I look forward to at Chinese wedding dinners. But I don't eat fish eyeballs though...LOL you are such an adventurous person, Carrie!!!

Can you believe I haven't been to China? LOL! My brother did though, and this is REALLY random but he told me he saw people eating fried starfish there. Hong Kong is definitely not too clean, but it has soooooo many other things for me to go crazy over, so I don't really mind. Besides, places like Thailand and some other countries in Southeast Asia are worse, but still I love them all. Are most of your relatives in Hong Kong and China?

Awwwww, come here! *huggggs again* LOL you make me blush with your kind compliment! I was referring to the prescription though, and oh dear, your eyes are definitely not too horrendous in comparison. Mine are HORRIBLE. As in, really horrible. It's 650 (right eye) and 800 (left eye). LOL we can be a couple of happy nerds together then!! Your friend's hilarious!! How did you react to that?? You are soooooo right; I admire girls who can look confident and elegant in glasses!

Aha. Speaking of glasses made me think of sunglasses, and I need to tell you this. I SAW A PAIR OF GORGEOUS CHANEL SHADES LAST WEEK WHEN I WAS OUT SHOPPING. *takes a deep breath to calm myself* I love that brand and their goods...but I've already burned an ENORMOUS hole in my wallet when I bought a gorgeous Chanel wallet last December (ironic as this sentence sounds).

LOL! I don't believe you'd look as if you're eating someone!! ROFL I'll try colored contacts out if I ever get hold of some, and I'll show you pictures then! But it's kinda hard to find colored contacts for eyes as bad as mine. I look like a nerdy mole with my glasses

Speaking of that guy, well, while he is definitely not ugly, he is definitely not cute either. Very average for an Asian guy. LOL this is why I love you lots!! You actually understand vain moments like these. Honestly, true love blah blah blah. It's important to love the person, but how can I love him when I am not physically attracted to him?? LOL. Whyyyy am I sooooo mean?? It's really kinda my own fault, really. You see, because we are close friends, there was a point when our mutual friends thought we had something going on. But instead of being childish and deliberately keeping a distance from each other, we took it to a level where we called each other names like 'darling' and 'honey' in front of them. It was really just for fun, joy and laughter, but in retrospect, maybe I shouldn't have done it after all. I should have been more rational.

Oh, Carrie, I am totally drowning you in Jong’s yumminess (Is there even such a word? LOL) but you HAVE to watch this video clip. It's almost better than Lollipop + SMILE. You see, his band SHINee had this reality TV show named Hello Baby whereby they took care of a 3 year-old toddler. So these five guys were totally obsessed with the baby, and you should see how Jong tried to vie for baby Yoogeun’s love!! In this clip, they were drawing random stuff on plain white tees, and Yoogeun would choose his favorite at the end of it. I squealed and squealed when I watched this, and GOSH, for the first time in 23 years of my life, I wished I was a 3 year-old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUip7j99x-Q

You can watch the entire thing, or start from 3:42!! OMG OMG SQUEAL x 1000000000!!! HEART ATTACK ALERT! I should really have called the ambulance before I started watching it…the fangasms could kill!

Grand Theft Hunk sounds PERFECT. Gimme a moment...*starts packing frantically*...OKAY! I am all set and ready to go!! Wooooohoooo!! Don't forget to bring your extra large suitcase along; we need all the space we can get. I have a checklist of names.

LOL!! Those men you've just showed me have such GORGEOUS hair. *droooools and drowns in dreamy bliss* I'd lurrrrrve to run my fingers through that. It's perfect to tug on and play with.

AWWWW Carrie dear, you make my day and night with what you've said about my thunderous thighs!!! LOL + ROFLMAO. I totally understand the bunions and it is really a vicious cycle because the more prominent they get, the more one would wear heels because they look so obvious with flats!! Awwww you really have to wear those lovely thigh high boots...I foresee a lot of regret if you don't buy them. *chuckles* I am such a terrible friend, eh? My friend hates shopping with my because I tell them to buy everything. Conversations go like that:

"Should I get this?"

Me: "Why are you even asking me? You know you want to." *plus bitchy face*

I haven't heard of Nina, but I have DEFINITELY heard of Jimmy Choos!!! They are soooooo gorgeous but expensive! Arrrrrgh. Trust me, Carrie, I understand the love. I went crazy at the movies when I watched Sex and the City 2. The loubous, and OMG the birkin bag!!! *swoons* YOU LUCKY DUCKY!!! You actually went to the Prada warehouse??! *envious* I would give an arm to go there! Please tell me you bought shoes, bags AND purses!!

OMG I know, right?? and we both originated, no matter how many years ago, from the Cantonese-speaking provinces of China! Most probably shared the same ancestors too.

Awwwww *HUGGLES* dearie you definitely deserve those reviews! I will write more reviews after I finish typing this wall post. The fact that I have so many chapters to read makes me a very happy girl; I wanted to take a 2-day break from writing to catch up on the stories I love, and 'Between Heaven and Hell' is definitely one of them, together with '50 Love'. Speaking of the place in 50 Love, yes it should be Ginza. LOL you're such a sweetie! I am no VIP reviewer... I am just another member here on Dokuga who likes to write and read. I should be thanking you instead for liking HEA!

Thank you for being so supportive on my job hunt, Carrie! Guess what? I landed a job offer as a career consultant with a Japanese-speaking job agency!! That's a pretty cool job since I get to work with people and various firms, but of course, we will see how it goes. I am keeping my options open.

Shark's fin is crazily expensive!! It is not as expensive in Singapore as it is in the US though...my friend was just telling me, she had Thai-style shark's fin soup at this particular Thai restaurant for only $12 SGD (approximately $8 USD) Isn't that INSANE?! I was going LOL. And thai-style shark's fin soup is the sort where you get one mini pot to yourself! Bird's nest is such YUMMYLICIOUS STUFF!! And it is sooooo good for complexion and your lungs too! (I am quite a believer of traditional herbal/medicinal therapies) Chinese food is amazing. What other 'gross' things have you tried?

AHHHHH THE ABS!! Don't remind me; I think I see drool all over my keyboard. I NEED TO TOUCH THEM. His body is AMAZING! It's a total transformation from what he used to be, and now he is like, the epitome of hotness. I watched Remember Me!! And he is really cute in there, since he is not pasty white. The only pasty white man I am into is Sesshoumaru LOL. Did you watch the Harry Potter series? Patty-boy played Cedric Diggory, and gosh, he was sooooo attractive there.

A million USD for a 3-room apartment??!?! THAT'S CRAZY! I don't get it, okay, I do but still, this is crazy!! LOL. I HAVE TO GO TO NEW YORK AT LEAST ONCE IN MY LIFE. Sorry for the abuse of the CAPS lock key, my dear, but that was to emphasize my determination LOL. I am sure your aunt is very thankful and happy to have both you and your mom there for her! Everything will turn out fine, I am sure

Aww, thank you for the lovely comment. *Huggles* And yes, the tablet is absolutely wonderful! I don't know why I didn't think of getting one years ago. XD Do you use your tablet often? If not, you should try and draw/write more with it (and share your lovely drawings with us!). Practice makes perfect. It took me a while to get used to working with it. I was very shaky at first, and I kept forgetting how to control it properly (I was using it like a mouse. XD). It's easy now, though. It makes drawing far more enjoyable. ^_^

Hehe. Thank you! Super cute was just what I was going for. ;D And it's okay if you haven't seen that anime. It isn't really well known, it seems. I think the title "Utawarerumono" puts people off of watching it. I know my brother mentioned to me once about how some people said that they refused to watch an anime they couldn't pronounce. XD Oh well. =(

Oh! You got your wisdom teeth removed? Lucky! Mine are just only growing in. XD But I have heard that getting those particular teeth out can be painful... Was it? O.O

I'm so sorry for taking so long to write back to you! Every time I sat down to do it, something always came up and interrupted me. DX

WOW!! BLUE contacts?? LOL you must have looked really cute! I’ve never tried blue because I am almost 100% positive I can never pull the look off, but maybe I should do it for fun someday! LOL sweetie, actually there is someone who has a crush on me right now, and he did ask me out to dinner. He is funny, smart (he topped my cohort and graduated with first class honors), and holds a fantastic job now. But the problem is, he is…somewhat shorter than I am. I know this is dreadfully shallow and I sound terribly bitchy because he is such a nice guy and we get along so fantastically BUT BUT BUT he is far from being my dream boyfriend. Is height even a reason for rejecting someone?? I feel so shallow, and gosh, recently when he sent me a text message saying we should go out for a night drive for some drinks…I have no idea how to reply him, so I simply went “Haha yeah…it’s been so long since we had a group outing! We should all meet up!” (With ‘We’ being our classmates and friends) WAS THAT MEAN OR WHAT!? I felt rotten :/

And AHHHHHH JONGHYUN’S SOOOO GORGEOUS, ISN’T HE? *grabs Carrie and jumps in gleeeeee* I adored that youtube clip and I must have watched it twenty times or something. HIS SMILE. OMG. *twitches and dies* He is only 20, and that’s the same age as my brother so I feel a little scandalized, but WHO CARES!! WOOHOO! When the surprise faded from his face to be replaced by that big, happy smile…I think I went to heaven!! Oh, Carrie, we need to go to South Korea to kidnap some cuties like that! We will be such a happy duo!!

Oooooh I think I know what you mean! Floppy, semi-long hair on guys is gorgeous…and of course, I don’t mean the hippie sort, that’s almost disturbing LOL. More like, this:

http://www.cubeinc.co.jp/members/prf/pht/003.jpg

I’d be VERY VERY VERY happy with this.

OH YOU SHOULD GET THIGH HIGH VELVET BOOTS! They are sooooooo gorgeous, sexy and feminine…and I really, really admire girls who have the legs to wear them! You should definitely wear them! I’d love to but Singapore’s hot all year round AND I don’t have the legs to pull those off. Pointy stilettos are soooooo sexy too…OMG I think I found a fellow shoe lover! I don’t care if my feet hurts like a bitch; I WANT TO WEAR HEELS. Are there any particular brands you like?

Awwww I am TOTALLY glad I started reading Between Heaven and Hell! It's such an amazing story, and I'm definitely HOOKED onto it. I am up till chapter 4, but I'll get lots of time to read the rest of the chapters now that the weekends are coming! I am sorry for the delayed reply, you see, I've been going on a job hunt frenzy, and it's really not easy finding a satisfactory job these days because of the competition I'd be going for an interview in 5 hours, so wish me luck!

I hope you are feeling better today, and gosh, Carrie, you make me feel so bad for keeping you up! When I saw your reviews for Happily Ever After (HEA) and how it was 4am over at where you are, I was thinking, 'Oh no! Please go rest!!' But still, I am glad you enjoyed the chapters you read.

Ooooooh I definitely know what you are referring to! That HUGE dumpling filled with soup is so YUMMY! Have you tried drinking the soup straight from the dumpling using a straw?? That's the best part about eating it! I know it’s cruel to eat shark’s fin, but…OMG it is soooo good. I haven’t eaten it in 5 years because of Animal Planet’s constant efforts to push their eco messages.

I am sure you’ve seen my latest review for 50 Love, and I LOVED it as always! It was beautifully written, and I can just imagine the neon lights of Ginza when I was reading it. Sorry about the ugly font in the review though. I have no idea why it became so hideous, especially since it was sent from the iPhone. One would have assumed that being the iPhone, it should look better if not the same Thank you for reviewing HEA so kindly, my dear! You make my day with your kind words as always! *HUGGLES*

LOL I wanted to watch Eclipse, but none of my friends wanted to watch it, so… LOL. The books were definitely pretty good, and I thought the ideas of vampires and werewolves were intriguing. If I were Bella, I’d NEVER know who to choose, because Taylor Lautner has such an amazing body while Patty-boy (that’s what my friend calls him) has such a great face. ARRRRGH. They can’t really act though, but oh well, eye candy is still eye candy no matter what.

Oh dear, I understand the frustration of trying to persuade someone to see from your point of view, especially in your aunt’s case. I think she knows you mean well, but you know, it’s really difficult to try to advise her without coming across as you trying to badmouth that guy! If she perceives you guys as being biased against him, she might feel a greater need to defend him, which would totally make a bad scenario worse. But don’t worry dear; I am sure she will find someone nicer! One doesn’t have to be a millionaire to pay for apartments. Money is simply a bonus.

Hey DT!

Sure, you can color it! I appreciate that you asked me first! Just link me to the finished product!

Hi Miss Destiny! how are you?? Yay on the story update! I can't wait to read it!!

Thank you for the wonderful comment and its taken me a long time to get to even this point in drawing, if you'd seen some of my earlier work you'd laugh Trial and error is my best teacher.