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Oh my god. Oh my god.

Jason Mraz did a cover version of my favorite song ever: Queen’s “Good Old Fashioned Loverboy”

Now when I first heard he did a version, I was really skeptical, because more often than not, song remakes are terrible (More Than Words by Frankie J anyone?) but this one was fairly good (Like No Doubt’s cover of It’s My Life).

Actually, the part after the first 20 seconds or so is good. In the beginnig, Mraz sounds like he’s a teenage boy with a cracking voice, and then he hits the part “I can seranade and gently play on your heartstrings” And his voice gets sooo perfect and smooth. I was freaking charmed by it, and it’s rare that I can simply be charmed by someone singing…

Now I’m actually having second thoughts about who did it better: Freddie Mercury or Jason Mraz.

Of course, nothing could compare to the original but… Mraz’s voice is more musical and romantic, like the song and it’s lyrics… better suited than Mercury’s… oh I feel like I’ve betrayed my favorite song.

Some people I know are actually surprised this is my favorite song. People think I’d prefer something New Wave-ish, sailormoon-ish, or some cheesy romantic song.

Although I do admit in a tie for my second favorite song are the ever-too-mushy “Only Yesterday” and “I Just Fall In Love Again” by The Carpenters

Not that I usually admit to liking the Carpenters, because if you look at me, and hear the carpenters music, I probably wouldn’t strike you as a person who listens to what I call “Lovesick Teenager Music” but hell. Karen Carpenter sings like an angel. People don’t think I like Queen either. My cousin told me because Queen is listened to mostly by 50-year old stoner guys who still long for the glory days of riding thier bikes down Route 66. But really what’s more believable: Old stoner motorcycle guys listening to a romantic song about seranades and romantic young men, or a teenage girl listening to it?

My point exactly.

Also. Beach trip.

Uhh. well. Nosukii said everything I was gonna say, but I  suppose for the sake of our readers, I’ll elaborate on the subject.

I had about 7 clothing mishaps within a span of around 7 hours- one mishap per hour, not  bad Mina!!- and that sucked.

For my friends who read this, (I’m not sure if the few friends who know about this blog check it for updates, but w/e. their loss) those knew me in 7th grade (like Alex), and/or have heard about the huge water fight that happened on a certain unpleasant day- all I can say is that at the beach, it was confirmed that myself, my bra, and water should never be combined.

That’s all I”ll say about that.

Oh, and Nosukii the brave said she saw a cute squirrel she liked, but i saw what happened… She wouldn’t let us get near it because it might have rabies and attack. Hahahaa nosukii!!!

And I took pictures:

I have dubbed this one the stupid-happy pic. We were in the car, I put the camera on flash and night vision, and we ended up looking like this. We’re really not that pale in real life. We would probably be dead if we were. Nosukii is on the left, I’m on the right. You can see my glorious braces in this pic. This is also the first pic I have ever released of myself on the internet… voluntarily, that is.

My nose isn’t that huge. I hope. We were being stupid again… and this happened. I laugh everytime I see the stop sign near my eye, I don’t know why… It’s not even funny.

Another car pic. Nosukii was doing a sexy fan dance for me ;D

Uh. Not sure why I took this one. Or why I have so many pics of nosukii… kinda weird…

And… the last decent pic I have (I didn’t take many):

Uh. I’m not sure where I am. I didn’t take the picture… sooo yeah. Nosukii on the left, her brother on the right, his friend in the middle, and I’m dead. Closest thing I have to a group photo…

So overall, the beach was fun. Except I tried to do my make up (liquid liner no less) in a moving car. I got laughed at. Also my hair was poofy. I normally straigten it. And I forgot chapstick. And all of my clothing problems. And the sand. I hate sand >.<

Oh, on a side note… I went clothes shopping. The clothes don’t look like they belong to me. But I figure It was time for a change.

I mean, I can’t wear Techincolor tights and shirts emblazoned with cute little characters forever… it had to change sometime. I look really different now. All the clothes I bought are neutral colors, and i got some longer skirts and classier tops… and a turtle neck. I have never (well, since i was 3) worn a turtleneck. I also bought a short dress… All clothes being black and/or white of course, old habits die hard. But still. Any step forward is good. I just don’t take to wearing t-shirts that are a predominantly bright color. Makes me feel uncomfortable. Black and white are very comforting.

I do feel strange wearing clothes like these, like… I don’t know. I feel not like myself… I suppose they look better on me. Well. I’ve never dressed nicely before so, yeah. Lets see…

7th grade- Huge black shirts. Huge blue jeans. Same pair of converse everyday. small black earrings. Frizzy hair (never combed it). Horrid acne, like really bad. Delicious anime shirts. Crooked condaleeza rica teeth. Also I’m ashamed to admit I stuffed my bra a little in 7th grade. It sucked being tall and flat chested. I wasn’t even skinny enough for that to be my excuse. I figured I could do something about one of problems…

8th grade- Slightly smaller shirts. More anime shirts. changed to black jeans this year. Started wearing eyshadow this year. Still bad acne. Started wearin glasses more. Attempted to tame my hair. Didn’t work, so I just let it hang there. Really chapped lips- i never wore chapstick. Crazy eyebrows- I stopped taking care of them that year. Gleaming braces. Started wearin shoes that weren’t converse for the first time in years. 

9th grade- Babydoll shirts. Slightly less acne. Straigtened my hair. wore eyeshadow only on top lid. wore miniskirts combined with neon tights. Lots of hello kitty. At the beginning of this year, I said I was going to be more feminine. So I wore skirts, non black and white shirts. It lasted the first two weeks. Then I was my normal black t-shirt and jeans self. Started wearing lipgloss this year. Wore neon hoop earrings this year. Lots of yellow plastic jewelery. Really long nails, almost ghetto fabulous they were so long.

End of 9th grade to present- Off the shoulder tops (uhh… black and white). Ditched the eyeshadow. As of July, started doing cat-eyed makeup. Got bangs- sometimes side swept, sometimes not. Less neon colored nail polish, nails are currently light pink and silver ( I used to wear bright blue, pink, and one time green). Dresses. Rarely acne (my father dragged me to a dermotologist. She is indian and I can’t pronounce her name). No more neon tights at all, sometimes black ones. Turtle necks. Longer skirts. New jewelery (all silver except a pair of earrings and a white ring with “amour” written on it in pink).  Nails are slightly shorter…

It’s really odd when you look back and see how your tastes have changed. It’s like in a way you miss it, but then you don’t. Like in 7th grade, I didn’t even care what I looked like, and thus I looked like crap.

It’s shamful really, how shallow I have become about how I look and how people see me, but what can I do? I can’t go back to how I used to look. I mean, I’m not spectacularly pretty or anything, but I don’t look like I died in a hot topic after being dragged through the ocean. It’s strange though. I really don’t pay attention to how other people look (except a few), so I doubt they pay attention to me, and yet I still care.

Well, I care to a certain extent. I won’t dress a certain way because someone told me to, but I’ll still straigten my hair and wear makeup because it makes me look just that much better. But I suppose most people worry about things like that. I think.

I just hope I never get so deep in my shallowness (is that a type of an oxymoron?) that I find myself completely disgusted by someone’s looks or  discriminating them based solely on their attractiveness…

Maybe I’m not shallow, just vain.

Well, enough of my self-depressing talk. I like my new style. I did however cheat and bought a queen shirt online, along with a debbie gibson (black with neon script) one, and a red shirt with a cameo and a gun on it, and a cool elvira shirt.

But that can slide for now.

I also got a nice hello kitty school bag:

Surrounded by my hamtaro plush and Hello Kitty. Also my comforter is black this week. It’s reversible, so I change it every two weeks. Last week it was red.

Bye.