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♥ precious.
la bella vita;

Cara

loves: black and white photography. poetry. vintage stores. thunderstorms. good ambience. fairytales. disneyworld. black kohl and fuschia lipstick. red and purple skittles. turquoise beads. icing but not cakes. might-have-beens. the dandy warhols. within temptation. automatic loveletter. mediaeval baebes. troy. interview with a vampire. the oc. making 11:11 wishes. purple glitter. mermaids. my-little-ponies. magic.

expertise: melodramaticks. eyeliner. laughing. goodbyes. hanging in there.

♥ music on, world off.
shh.

soundtrack to life.

♥ scream(?).
live.

♥ past .
instant time travel

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♥ adieu .
set them free

AMANDA
ANDRE
ASH
DEB
ELEMM
07IP04!
08IP04!
JOSH
KAT
LISA
QIU
RENJEAN


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Friday, January 25, 2008
hello, old friend. 2:39 AM

and I can see your eyes shining from here,
it's dark but oh,
I can see your eyes shining;
----

yesterday was crazy amazing.

I stayed up till 1am the day before attempting to do my IH case study (yes, I know- a very unsweet sixteenish thing to do-- but it couldn't be helped); and then from 11 o'clock onwards; the messages started to come in. And then Choon counted down the minutes for me, to oo:oo; and my darlingest Lothy sent me a lovely sweet sixteenth email, and conversation windows started popping up and then my phone started trilling and I had a nice long conversation with somebody (I laughed lots!) and even when I finally settled into bed, I kept getting woken up every few minutes by incoming messages,

so I didn't get enough sleep but it was okay cos I felt loved,

thank you all.

... But yeah, the fun's just beginning.

When I got to school, the first thing I saw was Ren Jean running towards me with an ominous looking pirate bandana in one hand. Before I could react; she had blindfolded me, Ting had come alongside me and stuck a plush flower in my lapel (thank you hun) and I was abducted and made to grope my way along to the canteen. (with Ting's help-- without which I probably would've fallen into the drain and died, thank you again, hun)
I accidentally poked Wenjia's bosom cos she was standing in front of blindfolded me and was in my way and I didn't know who it was; so I poked whatever was at eyelevel and it happened to be just there-- apologies babe, s'not my fault I'm not as tall as you are.

And then when I got into the canteen, I was made to stand still; then I heard lotsuv rustling noises in the background, and I felt something being pinned onto my back; and then they took the blindfold off, and then I saw the five most beeyootiful girls grinning at me and chanting happy birthday!

then Serene placed a tiara on my head and thus I was crowned birthday princess for the day.

... The whole birthday get-up got tons and tons of stares from random NJCians. I can't say that I blamed them, though. I mean- if I saw a girl walking around with a tiara on her head, a big smiling plush flower on her lapel and a gigantic grinning daisy card pinned on her back- I probably would've stared too.

Lunch was adorable! ... The girls knew I wouldn't eat cake, so instead of getting me a cake; they went off and got an apple and stuck a paper candle with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARA" on it-- and we sang the birthday song and I blew out my birthday candle; mmm, my cake had just 70 calories.

... Oh, andand I got a birthday present from Mr Eng! (!!)

Mr Eng: *his usual dark, sinister tone* ... Caraaa. *glances down at my drawstring*
Cara: *already had one drawstring confiscated yesterday* *...starts to panic*
Mr Eng: ... I have a birthday present for youuu.
Cara: *silently: Oh crud, oh crud; now he's gonna confiscate my last drawstring, too...*

and so I followed him into the classroom;
and then Mr Eng unwraps a familiar-looking drawstring from around his pencilcase, gives me The Grin; and ties the drawstring he confiscated yesterday around my neck, in a ribbon.

Mr Eng: ... Happy birthday. *cue The Look*

so yay I got my drawstring back as a birthday prezzie!

... The rest of the day was brilliant-- RJ, Ting and I went down to Visioncrest with my mum to recee the place for the party tomorrow.
Does not like washing machines I think they should take them all away just for me. >:[

Went to AC, watched Sherman play soccer for a bit, and sat on the steps feeling rather ornamentry and not-very-sixteenish, watching the guys charge around on the field. He still smelt good after the game, so I was open to birthday hugs. :D
Thankyou for accompanying me to get teh black nail varnish for Gayle, and the face tattoos, and Kat's Daphne headband, and my mermaid bangle. Ordinarily I'd write something prettily poetic, but 4.30 school's out slots have drained me. :/ plus I don't think there's anything particularly writable-aboutable about black nail varnish and green hairbands.

thank you for the evening, if you know what I mean.


... so yeah.
Yesterday was so, so incredible. It bordered on perfect, even, and I've never gotten anywhere near that before.
RJ, Kat, Serene, Qiu, Yan-- you girls are the hottest. Thank you so, soo much-- it was a beeaaautiful birthday surprise, and I'll never, ever forget it. I love y'all. <3
Sherman-- thank you for staying up to talk me till I turned 16, the gorgeous garnet pendant, and the evening, and for letting me watch you play soccer. *wicked grin* <3
Wen Loong-- thank you for staying up till 12.01am to wish me a sweet, sweet sixteenth! oh and for putting up with all the weirdness when I was being crowned princess for the day.
Choon-- for the minute-by-minute countdown! and for staying up, and talking to me, and basically just being puhretty rad.
07IP04-- for the birthday card. *grins* ...yeah, don't we all love levitating giraffes.
Mr Eng-- for giving me my drawstring.
Everyone who wished me happy birthday, on msn and over sms. Y'guys made my day. :D

... Ben and Ashwyn Arnesh Samson have been bound in blood to be my slaves for tomorrow.


sixteen, here we go.