Thoughts (Apps): Dubmash & My Idol

Hey guys! It's been 2 months since my last post and I apologise for neglecting my blog. I'm hoping to be more consistent now so do be patient :)

First off, I wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who has watched my videos, shared them, gave me a thumbs up, commented on them & of course, subscribed to my channel! I am so grateful for the support everyone has given to me up till now. I'm well aware I am a beginner but thank you for supporting nonetheless. Do visit my channel, tehshaowei, if you haven't already!

Alright! Back to the topic - my thoughts on Dubmash & My Idol! 

Dubmash

Everyone has been uploading their own Dubmash-es online lately and as much as you want to not get into this fad, you can't. Why? Because it's AWESOME. 
To be able to lip sync your favourite movie quote (Mean girls is my favourite), song lyric and more is beyond fun. Pretty sure lip synching is a trend right now. 

I mean look at Spike's Lip Sync Battle hosted by LL cool J (Did you guys say it in that guy's voice too?). Coincidence? I think not.  

Here are some of my attempts. I must warn you. I'm not very good but it sure is a hella fun:

"Nope. You're still ugly."

 

"Stupid Fat Hobbit"

Positives:

Everything I've mentioned up there.

One negative comment:

You have to be on point and you have to learn the words before recording yourself which will take a bit of time. You're also under pressure because you're competing against other animated people who are just born to rule Dubmash.

My Idol

So while studying, I downloaded an app called Huanshi ltd or My Idol (will do anything to distract myself obviously). I wanted to test out the face scanner and see if it really did the trick. I've seen some instagrammers use it, some of them don't look like them at all but some of them do. I needed to try it out myself. I took a picture of myself and scanned it. I turned out to be a boy.. For awhile, I thought the app thought I was a guy and that I couldn't change my gender. But being a banana who cannot read chinese as well, I was actually mistaken. My friend showed me how to change my gender and oh. my. god. it was uncanny. The app did such a great job in capturing my features (tho I do look more beautiful in the app. Thank you, My Idol. You're.. my idol. hurhurhur). You get to play around with your cartoon version too! It's like playing Barbie but the more advance version. I get to dress up and play with new hair colours so I ain't complaining.

Here are some of the pictures/videos I took!:

Look at that! I think I might be the only one who sees the resemblance!:

"Hi I'm Shao Wei 2.0"

Kung Fu Master? No problem.

Opera singer? SURE THING!

Ever wanted to be a pole dancer and get those fantastic abs? Now you can without breaking a sweat!

Positives: 

Everything I've mentioned.

One negative comment: 

It's in Chinese which is not a negative thing. Just that its inconvenient for non-Chinese speakers but I'm Chinese so I shall keep quiet (How did Lady Gaga use this?!). You can't change your body shape! But I wouldn't scan my whole body anyway. 

You can tell that I'm really enjoying myself. Will definitely make more Dubmash and My Idol videos.
Until next time! 

SW.

Video: Challenge 1: Fringe Crop Top

IT IS FINALLY OUT! MY FIRST YOUTUBE VIDEO!

It has been out for 3 days now and I've been receiving so much positive feedback. Such a great start to the Youtube life :)!

As you guys know, the whole theme of my Youtube channel is to challenge myself and I've received a total of 4 challenges so far:

 

1. Muhd Iylia - Cook authentic Malay food
2. Jovie Lee Fok Lee - Make normal crop tops + match it w low waist jeans
3. Huang Paik Ling - Cook authentic Indian food
4. Jiyin Low - Do nail art

Thank you everyone for your challenge requests so far! I can't wait to try them out tho I'm pretty unsure of myself for some of the challenges but that's the whole point, right? To overcome it~

If you haven't checked out my video, click on the link below!
Please do support me by subscribing to my channel!

Don't forget to #challengetsw if you have any challenges you want me to do! Thanks for watching!

Challenge 1: Fringe Crop Top

You can obviously see how big of a F.R.I.E.N.D.S fan I am from my tabs.

SW.

Pre-roommate Experience

OMG I'm so excited right now! I woke up at 7am (Malaysian time) because my friend in Melbourne was inspecting a place at 10am (Australian time). It was all down to this. If this place didn't work out then we promised that we will all go our separate ways (what I mean by that is that we will live separately). I'm so happy that the place turned out much better than we expected and that we actually have a chance in getting it. It's a good location, good level & have good facilities too! I'm just so ecstatic I get to move in w my two friends. I've never gone through the whole roommate experience even though I've been living overseas for 5 years now so I'm excited!!!!!!! Evidently from the number of exclamation marks I'm using. I know it'll be a thrill ride having roommates. Will definitely have our ups and our downs. Just praying it's more ups than downs but I'm sure we will work things out. Gonna set ground rules with them as soon as our application gets accepted :)! Will defo update on the ground rules! I'm going to go back to sleep now. I've been having morbid dreams lately but I'll leave that for another post.

SW.

Beginning of 2015.

Happy New Year! 

I thought today's instagram post would be appropriate to start off this blogpost. 

"Happy New Year 2014 has personally been a different one for me. Started off w an 8 month break: Travelling w my closest friends to Bali, visiting Melbourne for the first time (thought I was gonna reject Unimelb at the time), getting to enjoy Sydney's nightlife, short trips to Singapore (of course) & most importantly, rebonding w my family especially my dad (since I moved back to Malaysia after 4 years). The memories I made w my dad this year, I will treasure forever along with the other memories I made of course.
Had achieved something I never thought was possible: Got to participate in the Singapore Affordable Art Fair, sold about 8 pieces of my work.
Well those are some of the wonderful things that have happened. But enough about me. Many things have happened to Malaysia this year: 3 unfortunate flights & massive floods in 3 states (number 3 not looking so good right now). I guess these situations have taught us to be grateful for who we have with us right now. That's the best thing we can take from 2014 to the rest of the years to come. Its funny because so many unfortunate things happen every year to other people (war, poverty, sex slavery) but we only really learn to feel and do something about it when things happen closer to home. I will never know what the families of the passengers in those 3 flights or families who have suffered from the floods truly feel but I take it as a sign to really cherish the ones you love and to let go of ones who don't love you. This Instagram post can go on forever so I will stop here!
Happy New Year to all! May 2015 be a joyful year !" 

I wonder how many people have started a blog today. Blogspot must be receiving massive numbers of participants today. Hell! I thought I would start writing again last year and I did but I gave up after 6 months which isn't too bad compared to giving up after one blog post. 

For now, this will be my summer diary because unfortunately, I left my real diary in Australia and for some reason, whenever I come back to Malaysia, I feel the need to write again. It's probably because I have more personal time to reflect on my life which I love by the way. Instead of living my life in this fast pace world, I get to stop and think about what I've done and what I should be doing instead of continuously keeping myself busy everyday. Do forgive me for any grammatical mistakes I might make now and in the future. My English has deteriorated ever since I moved from Malaysia because of the lack of writing and I'm trying to improve it slowly. On the same note, forgive me if I drift off to a new topic all of the sudden. Sometimes I tend to think of other things and I just feel the need to write it down but hey, who's reading this, right? I'm writing this for myself and not for others (tho I welcome any positive or constructive feedback). 

I might write several posts in one day or none at all. It's really just a blog filled with my thoughts. I have no intention of gaining viewership (tho that would be nice) because I think this world is already filled with many social media outlets that make us feel the need to get many "likes" and I'm guilty of that so I'm trying to teach myself that that isn't important and I should post what I want to post, not what I think my viewers would like to see. 

SW.