BEST ICE CREAM CAKE EVER

So I have a story to tell about what happened today in the Gemini chat.

It all started (for me) in the chat we had for executing O.K, which was Gemini's secret birthday present to Chiisana. I basically finished the mix and videos days ago, and frankly was confused as to why we haven't revealed it to Chiisana yet—especially since it's been a week since her birthday. But I was clearly alone in wanting to give Chiisana her gift asap, even if it meant I weren't around for it, since the others were adamant about making sure everything was perfect and that all of the Gemini members were online during the reveal.

Cut to today, when after very busy days, we finally found a window during which the majority of or all of the members could be online simultaneously AND able to join a skype call.

Scheming abound over in the O.K chat:

[5/18/2015 2:55:01 PM] Eva: i'm kinda scared chiisa's gonna go nap so i'll try to keep talking to her

[5/18/2015 2:57:19 PM] Eva: oh man it's almost 8 AM in australia
[5/18/2015 2:57:24 PM] Eva: wonder if jeffrey would be up..
(note: actually I miscalculated because I didn't realize he moved to a different timezone)

[5/18/2015 3:01:01 PM] 「 Mimi  」: or I can be like
[5/18/2015 3:01:02 PM] 「 Mimi  」: gaisssss
[5/18/2015 3:01:08 PM] 「 Mimi  」: we can haz call
[5/18/2015 3:01:10 PM] 「 Mimi  」: benton's studying for finals
[5/18/2015 3:01:13 PM] 「 Mimi  」: I'm ronery
[5/18/2015 3:01:14 PM] 「 Mimi  」: ;[
[5/18/2015 3:01:18 PM] Raien: yeah that works lmao
[5/18/2015 3:01:27 PM] Eva: yeah i'd believe that the most ahah

(note: hot babe is jeffrey. we have reasons for calling him our resident troll)
[5/18/2015 5:22:47 PM] Hot Babe: i HATE
[5/18/2015 5:22:48 PM] Hot Babe: being AWKE
[5/18/2015 5:22:52 PM] Hot Babe: SO EARLY
[5/18/2015 5:22:56 PM] Hot Babe: LIF EIS A POO
[5/18/2015 5:23:07 PM] 「 Mimi  」: hi jeffrey!
[5/18/2015 5:23:16 PM] Hot Babe: he000l0ol
[5/18/2015 5:26:51 PM] Eva: LOL HI JEFFREY!!!!
[5/18/2015 5:26:58 PM] Eva: okay roll call
[5/18/2015 5:27:03 PM] Eva: GOOD MORNING JEFFREY
[5/18/2015 5:27:05 PM] Eva: THANKS FOR WAKING UP
[5/18/2015 5:27:11 PM] Eva: eva is present who's present
[5/18/2015 5:27:11 PM] 「 Mimi  」: I'M PRESENT
[5/18/2015 5:27:14 PM] Jay: yayy jeffrey ur here finallyyyy

BUT JEFFREY ARRIVES WITH BAD NEWS.

[5/18/2015 5:34:24 PM] Hot Babe: i am leaving
[5/18/2015 5:34:26 PM] Hot Babe: for class
[5/18/2015 5:34:26 PM] Hot Babe: in 5 mins
[5/18/2015 5:34:27 PM] Hot Babe: xox

[5/18/2015 5:34:37 PM] Jay: UH LETS ROLL
[5/18/2015 5:34:40 PM] Jay: I MEAN LETS FLOY
[5/18/2015 5:34:40 PM] Eva: let's gooo
[5/18/2015 5:34:43 PM] Eva: LET'S FLOY   (note: we are mocking jeffrey's opening lines in O.K)
[5/18/2015 5:34:43 PM] Eva: LOLL
[5/18/2015 5:34:45 PM] Hot Babe: what so we do
[5/18/2015 5:35:19 PM] Eva: jeffrey get on gemini chat and call it and then we'll react like WTF JEFFREY WANTS A CALL? THIS IS WEIRD
[5/18/2015 5:35:28 PM] Eva: and [chiisa]'s curiosity will do the rest of the work

The Gemini chat is calling!! There's chaos. Why is Jeffrey calling? Wtf??? Chiisana hurry and pick up; we're all in call now!

She joins us. There's a brief awkward silence as NOBODY KNOWS WHAT TO DO.

Suddenly I go, "OH MY GOD..... THIS IS SO FUNNY. WAIT I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO HAHAHA. IT JUST SHOWED UP ON MY SUBSCRIPTIONS,"
and I link the O.K video.
We all revel in Chiisana's shock and happy tears. ;u;

Suddenly, Jeffrey interjects with, "Guys I'm leaving for class in one minute." I think to myself, hey the video is only 2 minutes and 30 second's long. That should be enough time for Chiisa to make it through the song before Jeffrey leaves.

And then Mimi says, "Hey, this is a pretty cool video too!"
AND WHAT DOES SHE LINK?
GEMINI SINGING RED VELVET'S ICE CREAM CAKE AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO ME.

At this point, it's been over a minute of Chiisana going, "What is happening...? Oh my gosh... You guyyyss.... I can't believe it........."
BUT NOW WE ARE BOTH competing broken records of: "What is happening..... Oh my gosh..... What theeeeeee.... What is this........" except with the addition of "HOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIT WHAT THE FUCK YOU GUYS?? DID I JUST GET RICK ROLLED?!??!!"

Chiisana: "I'm so confused.."
Me: "I think I'm more confused.. I THOUGHT I WAS IN CONTROL OF THIS SITUATION.... "

And naturally, Jeffrey has to go to class and ends up hanging up before I recover from reeling from shock LMAO. Love that punk of a kid.

Man, I don't care that we call Jay our resident saint; they're all sneaky little devils :'(! I had nooooo idea.... And the whole time, I thought I was calling the shots around here too LOL.

This is a really lovely cover though; I'm so happy!!! My bbbbyyys all sound absolutely charming, the blend is on point as always, video's got hella more aesthetic game than I've got, and the mix is great! Aaaaaahhh I can't believe they pulled this off—not because I don't believe in their ability, but because they're such busy people that I never expected them to take so much time out of their lives to make something like this for me ;_; Wahhhh I'm so thankful. This is the best family. <3

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【Gemini】 Red Velvet - Ice Cream Cake 「HBD Eva! 」

Song: Ice Cream Cake 
Original: Red Velvet
MP3: https://app.box.com/s/j2rxqsbbo3nmgd7...

Vocals:
Ryan (http://www.youtube.com/RyanEatPho)
Jay (https://www.youtube.com/user/jaysingyou) 
Jeffrey (https://www.youtube.com/user/jevacado) 
Mimi (https://www.youtube.com/user/mimimois...) 
Chiisana (http://www.youtube.com/ChiisanaChanx3)

Mix: Chiisana, Ryan, Mimi 
Video: Jay
Image Editing: Mimi

Gemini’s back!
And we don’t know about you, but Eva’s feeling 22, so happy belated! ♥
Not gonna lie, this project was a mixing fiasco and a half because we had to do it all without our lovely and talented mixer, Eva ;___; DON’T EVER LEAVE US GIRL. WE APPRECIATE YOU. In its entirety, this project was literally mixed down and passed around at least 3-4 times between Mimi, Ryan, and Chiisa prior to completion = u = In light of that, we hope you all enjoy this special treat since we haven’t posted in a while! We promise we actually have a lot coming up right around the corner, so keep an eye out! And finally to our precious leader Eva -we hope this lives up to your standards ♥ we did our best to learn from your example and we can’t thank you enough for doing all that you do as a one woman super team C: CAN WE BE LIKE YOU WHEN YOU GROW UP? weloveyoubbygirl ♥

WAHHH THEY'RE SO NICE. <33333 And rapping!Chiisana is back YAY!

Also, this is the song that I liked so much that I had it on repeat for a while, learned the the rap, and even learned the dance to the chorus. (And I will fiercely deny that I dance, even in the face of videographic evidence.)

So I'm kinda mad. I would have wanted to sing this song with them!!! HMPH. (I really love them bah)

Me, Mimi, Chiisana, Jay, and Ryan during our meet-up in 2012

Jeffrey and I don't deserve any better than this quality when we're together tbh.

we're so cute girl

Late post is a late post is late.

Mimi visited California again over Winter break! Along with Ian, Benton, and Myst, we went up to San Francisco's Japantown to eat and play and do duh purikuras. It was fun! I'd also like to dub this day as The Day The Candy Jelly Love Never Stopped because we were constantly singing that sing and it was obnoxious and the best~
Unfortunately, Mysto had to leave but here's how our very sparkly purikura came out:

[Ian, me, Mimi, Benton]

WE ARE SUCH CUTE GIRL. (No really though, they're all such natural cuties ///)

This one from our other session gets a special mention because
Benton: How should I decorate Ian on this one?
Me: ....Can you make him look submissive?

Meido!Ian. Yes.

March 23rd: NYA's San Francisco Adventure

Pictured:
• Andy or Kimchi / SeoulTempo
• Chiisana / ChiisanaChanx3
• Chris, Hakuro, Hakiro, or Shiratsuyu... / ItsHakuro

• Eva / waterpixieva
• Dibur / diburmakesmusic

• Diji / DijiDori
• Fome / Fome
• Karu / karufuruu
• Kazou / soundmutation
• Kura / Kuraiinu
• Myst / mystraven
• Y

This was undoubtedly one of best days of Spring Break. ^^ It was the first time almost all of NYA (Norcal Youtube Alliance) was gathered, and it was for such a fun outing with food, purikura, karaoke, and good company. Additionally, Andy came to visit from Socal and joined us!

My day started off with just me and Chiisana. Y got off work at 1 PM, so the plan was for me and Chiisana to visit Y's workplace and then head up to San Francisco together with others we had to pick up on the way.

I CAN'T BELIEVE I ACTUALLY GOT UP AT 9 AM.... to put on make-up. Chiisa and I have been largely dedicating this Spring Break to our venture into beauty, since we ordered a joint make-up haul and we finally had time to explore it this week. xD We later had a sleepover during which we spent hours trying out/learning to use make-up, which I'll blog about later.

This day was my very first time wearing make-up out of the house casually u/////u .... as in not for cosplay, prom, or a wedding. But the only eye make-up I donned was brown gel liner so even those that noticed thought it was subtle. ;u;

Pictures from Disney's CA Adventure! (AX2013)

(2 months late...)

Here's a link to Myst's AX write-up because I'm too lazy to talk about all the things we did HAHA.
The people featured here are: Myst, Chiisana, Chiizu, Karu, Ian, Andy, and me.

...I also didn't include all the pictures because I'm also too lazy to do more Chiisana!censoring.......
But there's not much point to this post anyway since you can see everything that we did in my vlog!

We invite you in~

#TeamNorcal @ AOD 2013

We had a #TeamNorcal (aka youtubers from Northern California) party today, woooo!

I spent most of it with Chiisana because we decided to not buy a badge for AOD (an anime convention), so we couldn't access the activities the others were doing. We were pretty late because neither of us could figure out what to wear HAHAHAHAHA.

No but seriously, we were in a dilemma because:
1) San Francisco is cold
2) It's an anime convention so people will be either in cosplay or stylish Asian fashion
3) Thus we felt obliged to dress up a little by wearing a skirt or dress
4) But we're also very lazy people that rarely ever dress up
5) Not everything works with dark+thick leggings

AND I HAVE NO SENSE OF STYLE.. nor do I have much of a wardrobe, so figuring out how to wear a skirt while still being warm enough ASDLKFJLSDLA SO HARD. In the end, I settled on this. =v=)b

It looks weird/plain though.. :c Idk. I wish I knew how to/had items with which to accessorize. I really want a long black necklace, which would pop when I wear lighter colors like this!

So we hung out with Myst (mystraven), Karu (karufuruu), Carmen (iAnimePHr34k), Kura (Kuraiinu), and Zero (Zer0Skye). With the exception of Carmen who was with other friends at the time, we took purikura together, but I can't share since that's 4 out of 6 people with their faces censored. What's the point even LOLL

Myst was cosplaying as Venelope from Wreck It Ralph :D She was so cute, omgah.<333 Unfortunately, our height difference is so much that she's only my boyfriend height (as in my head fits snugly on her shoulder) when she's standing and I'm sitting...................

woooo unflattering pictures

My day consisted of having a delicious gelato crepe (aaaahhhh mocha chip gelato!! it's my favorite in the worlddddd), purikura, exploring Japantown's cute jewelry stores, overly expensive not-worth-it small strips of salmon sashimi with weird texture, and poking through Kinokuniya's hilarious books i.e. "How to Swear Around the World."

I'm quite delighted by the purchase I made today!! A necklace!!! 8D

super duper sucky picture from my webcam b/c I'm lazy

I REALLY LIKE IT. SOB. I've been really wanting to buy a long necklace (preferably black but this jaded gray's an improvement from my collection of ALL SILVER necklaces) AND I've always wanted a necklace with glasses on it. Plus, I loooove keys~! THIS WAS WORTH IT.

Actually, my only long'ish necklace at the moment is my Tsubasa Chronicle wing one that I wore today.... |D But the design looks normal enough that nobody will suspect it's an anime collector's item, right? kekekeke

One of the highlights of my day was the fact that Chiisana and I finally took purikura together--with just the two of us--for the first time despite having been best friends for so many years.

We both naturally have pretty bad luck, so when together, we're so synced that most things that could go wrong.. actually do. LOL. The top contender of the day (among many incidents) for "BEST SHIT THAT WENT WRONG FOR EVASANA" is when the purikura machine that we were using broke.

Basically, we had taken about 4-5 pictures and were on our last one of the set. Except the camera refused to capture anything? So we had to keep repeating that last picture over and over and over. Eventually, the staff SHUT DOWN the machine entirely and had to reboot it HAHA! Tbh, our pictures from that lost set turned out better than the second time, but it was quite an interesting and rare experience.

Idk why I bother putting these up since it's like I just took pictures by myself. =A= Dat censoring... WE LOVE THIS PURIKURA SO MUCH THOUGH. SO CUTE. The backgrounds are perfect alsdkfj ♥

this one's our personal favorite<3

While the purikura machine was down, we seized the opportunity of having very good lighting to snap a couple photos on my camera. xD The thing is that our background was just a green backdrop for greenscreening.

So I left the task of filling in a background to her.

This is what she sent me:

Eva and Chiisana bravely exploring the streets of Seoul together.JPG

Eva and Chiisana having tons of fun at Yonghwa's concert!.JPG

Eva and Chiisana on the set of Flower Boy Next Door with Yoon Siyoon and Park Shinhye!.JPG

I fucking can't.

Bro Deito

So I've been in the LA area for Thanksgiving break and had the pleasure of hanging out my awesome friends Ian, Andy/Kimchi, and Bern today. :D Just those 7 hours made the entire draggy trip worth it haha. It's been a while since I've smiled or laughed that much. Thanks for the truly enjoyable day! You guys are some of the cooler people that I know =v=)b

(This post is really just a collection of pictures documenting our time together.)
(Edit: Added vlog at end of post!)
(Edit: Added purikura~)

Day started out with going to a cafe and getting pearl drinks/coffee.

(because this picture is reminiscent of the turkey leg bone picture I took of Ian at Disneyland)

And of course, having a random stranger take pictures of us--well hey, she offered--while waiting for a table at the ramen/Japanese restaurant. 8D

[Andy, Bern, Eva, Ian]
awks

bro stance
(click for larger size~)