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.
cause I like you, yeah I like you, and I'm feeling so bohemian like you; ----
be yourself day 2008.
Be Yourself Day was the absolute shizznit. I was pretty impressed, actually, that NJC got alldressedup. I came as Esmeralda; complete with my invisible goat Djali. my esmeralda blouse was a few sizes too big, though, so I had to go around all day with a safety pin pinned behind it and that was weird and it didn't really help, either, but other than that: Ash came as a taliban terrorist and Wenloong came as the Joker! (and fyi was super awesome/freaky; he went around in character all day with a sinister grin and this blank look in his eyes OMGZ dude ease up remember what happened to Heath Ledger!) Reuben came as Darth Maul and Wenjia came as Princess Leia, which I thought was pretty cute; Jeremy (himbo much- yeaaah, I'm SO sure goats go woof woof!) came as Zorro and Ben came as Batman. Oh and Serene was my sortuv fellow gypsy and RJ Qiu Yan came as three ninjas- they were ahdorable.
it was crazy terrific; it was, like, Disney Land, only NJ-fied-- there were people coming up to the people in costume with their cameras and going, "oh oh OH can we take a picture with you?!". I'm surprised nobody asked for autographs.
Oh and Cara cannot function without food and sufficient sleep. My tongue gets itshelf twishtedsh. I was trying to tell RJ that she reminded me of Princess Fiona in the non-ogre form, and: Cara: No but you see, you remind me of a non fioger ogre. No I mean a non yoger fioger. No I mean a non yogurt ogre. ...GAH I mean, I mean- a non-Fiona ogre. Yes that's it. A non-Fiona ogre. A non-Fiona ogre. (repeats to self a few more times) RJ: .... Cara: GAAAHH NO I meant a non-ogre Fiona!
okay, so. we adjourned to the botanicks for our klass piknik. I think we freaked a considerable number of impressionable European families out with Djali the Invisible Goat/Dog. Whenever anyone passed by us; we would gather round the invisible Djali and coo over him and pat his invisible (albeit non-existent) head and go "oh, good boy, Djali, good boy!" and it was so funny-- a whole lotta people did double takes and started rubbing their eyes; and there was this one guy who kept turning behind him to look at us and invisible Djali and the look of "omg what the hell is wrong with me; why is it that they can see a dog and I can't!" on his face made me crack up.
so the Fourckers set up our picnic in a pretty little gazebo next to Swan Lake and then we played frisbee. I ACTUALLY CAUGHT THE FRISBEE. :DDD then we sat down and played Shoot Shag Marry, which was a riot.
KKY: Why play Shoot Shag Marry. Let's play Shag Shag Shag!
AAAAND the worst part was; I recorded what he said down in my phone in the form of a text message, so I would remember to blog about it; and I saved it in a format that goes like this: "shoot shag marry. ...shag shag shag!" and OMZG instead of saving it as a draft message-- I SENT IT AS A TEXT MESSAGE TO A SUPERSENIOR BY ACCIDENT. mortification! fortunately I realized my horrible horrible error and sent a hasty "OH HELLO SORRY IGNORE THAT MESSAGE" text as a follow-up. ... I digress. so we played that, and we played (oh)fourtified charades and it was really funny.
(during Cara's turn. Cara goes up to act out the charade.) RJ: (whispers) okay, so this is what you have to act out. (leans in and whispers) ... "teletubby". Cara: (indignantly, and a little too loudly) what! How'm I supposed to act out "teletubby!" whole class: .... (groans.)
and then later on sitting there with the fourckers... I just felt this incredible sense of being loved. I know it sounds majorly cheesy now; but it's trueeee. the thing I love about 04 is that we're really one big happy family, y'know? we've got no class politics to speak of; and yeah we've got cliques but we all get along with each other and I know we all love each other and everyone just accepts everyone- weirdness and idiosyncrasies and all- and it's crazy amazing and i love it.
okay, so. later on, I met up with Av and Sarah and Nic! They haven't changed; not one bit-- and I'm glad. Av and I lost no time in catching up and spazzing away and Sarah was every bit as mama-ish as before and Nic STILL plays the piano like it's going out of fashion. we went over to mel's awesome penthouse place for the om2g! partaye and it was great. I didn't feel a rift at all. okay maybe just a little-- but there was more love than there was rift and that's good yes? Julia makes my sides hurt. She could be a standup comedian, I swear! We played I Have Never AND I Have and ooh everybody loves a good scandal. Also heard from someone something about me said by someone and my reaction was "whut?". Rumour-mongers can kiss my tracker arse. Gawsh and to think that I used to think the world of you! It's kinda disappointing, really oh and by the way I saw you the other day and you should really avoid the whole shorts+slippers combo if you don't have the height to pull it off.
And then San and Maxy and Av and I had our own little Secret Society Seance in the corner behind the dining table and camwhored a whole lot and I'm not ashamed to say it. I've missed Av a lot. I'd forgotten how retarded her laugh sounds. :D Love you girlie. I miss writing cliched fanfiction with you.
... I've missed a lot of people, actually. Specially Av Cheryl Nic Sarah Julia and oh, y'all know who you are-- I loved you so much and I still do. but I don't regret my decision to move to NJ. not one bit. I guess I'm pretty blessed; I've got the best of two worlds and I know it.
