Monday, October 31, 2005
halloween
well. just to update you guys on what happened the past weekend (it's sunday now. and it's back to working on my paper).
totem had a dance party on fri night. the annual halloween dance party. having absolutely nothing to wear and no time to find anything, i donned my black blazer and pants and borrowed andy's oakleys, and went as MIB agent I/secret service/matrix agent smith wannabe (actually i didn't know and didn't care what i was going as. anyone who asked me what i was could get the answer: "i'm afraid tt's classified information"). heh heh heh.
halloween is a fucking big thing here in canada, and it doesn't even matter what age you are. everyone dresses up. of course, if you're a teenager, every girl wants to look sexy. 2 girls on my floor went as jap schoolgirls complete with the short short skirts and the bra-bearing tight white top. we had quite a few pirates - guys and girls - with the eye-patches, hats, swords, buckles and parrots even; while the girls would wear off-the-shoulder tops. some guys from 5th went as black guys - and these are white guys mind you - so they put on brown face pant and dressed ip gansta' style; and there was a whole group of them! even more hilarious - when the brown paint dried they couldn't move their mouths! 2 girls from my floor alex and jackie went as princess leia (with the cornrolls) and luke skywalker (with red lightsabre) respectively, and 2 guys from 5th went as batman and spiderman! except tt they bought their costumes from toys'r'us and it's for kids, so when they were walking around with it they got a WHOLE lot of laughter. adam's really tall, so the batman costume top came only to the middle of his chest - it was midriff-baring, and it was really funny coz he's so thin! and his tights came up only to a little past his knees! and damien's spiderman costume was so tight and midriff baring too, and it didn't help tt he had such skinny legs because the tights 'accentuated' tt feature! hahaha. oh, and yuka's this really hot japanese girl from my floor, and she went as a police officer, except in black tank top, short black skirt, fishnets and high boots, with handcuff and a cap in two.
seems they love associating law enforcement with bondage and submission here. i think the force were really to introduce these kind of outfits we'd either have a significant rise in crime or a significant drop. depends on the approach.
i had too much vodka. fuck. my newly-unopened bottle was opened and 1/4 of it is missing already. bad idea to take shots and then top up half a bottle of smirvoff ice with more of tt.
anyway we went to the beer garden on campus to mingle with the other happy halloween goers. it was so packed; angels fairies, mickey mouse, monsters, tiggers, gorillas, cross-dressers (yes, there were a quite a few guys who donned blonde wigs, tight pink frilly dresses and thick make-up) and the like. and the highlight of the beer garden was this bronco bull competition where people would line up to ride this mechanical bull in the centre of the bar until they fell off, and then everyone would yell "pussy" to them. it was hilarious.
after tt it was on to the dance at the ballroom and well... i shall say no more of tt (you can guess from my previous post, which i put up still in a state of severe inebriation). but it was fun. fuck... like i was telling jane during a really short msn conversation later when i was still slumped over my table waiting for my head to stop spinning so tt i could make my way to the bathroom to throw up, i feel fucking deprived right now. it's been tt way for so long, and even though the feelings haven't changed, but sometimes i wonder again and again if i'm ready for monogamy. and i went through all this before again and again and when i'm sobre it all works out, but after i get drunk i realise tt sub-consciously i haven't changed. and to be honest sometimes it makes me re-evaluate a lot of things. now, things like money and time and status things which i never thought would matter to me start to bother me because of how they're affecting what we talk about when i call him. esp now when it feels like he's so far away and he doesn't seem pleased or happy when i call him, like he always has something more important to do. maybe i'm asking for too much.
anyway i won't be touching the vodka for some time at least. it's not tt i can't really hold my alcohol, but tt it makes me feel really sick thereafter and i hate having to throw up just so my stomach won't rebel against me all night.
on sat i went downtown shopping on my own for my winter jacket, which i finally bought. it's white and it doesn't have the fur trimming tt i like, but it was cheaper than the a&f one tt i might have bought online, and since i only need it for one winter (unless i come back again), i don't need something quite so expensive. ended up buying more than just the jacket though - as usual; a pair of micro-gloves on recommendation for wearing during running in winter (which i guess is possible coz the people here have done it), a green scarf tt wasn't too expensive; hairband to replace the one i broke, and a pair of angel wings to go with this white dress tt i realise i'd bought over from singapore, for halloween night on monday...
and then in the evening after the sun went down, i went for the pacific national exhibition playland fright night event with eileen. pne playland is vancouver's amusement park, and they had some special event for halloween with 2 roller coaster rides, 3 (i think) haunted houses, and a bunch of other rides. me and eileen only managed to go on 4 rides in total because it was so packed! we had to queue at least 45 mins for 1 ride - and the corkscrew roller coaster took us 1 hour of queueing time just to go for! we didn't even get to visit any of the haunted houses because the queues were all too long and we simply had no time! but queueing aside, and the fact tt it was so fucking cold tt i was shivering incessantly even under my down jacket and eileen's toe had gone numb, it was a hell lot of fun, and a damn good way to spend saturday night! we went on both roller coasters, we tried this ride called hell's gate tt turns you upside down as you go up and down, and crazy beach party, which is like the viking except tt you're spinning around while you get swung from side to side, and we alternated between being scared (1st roller coaster) from the height drop to being made supremely dizzy! haha.
and after tt we bought hot dogs and corn dogs respectively from the stands before making our way back to ubc past 11pm.
we met shawn at granville. he'd come back from this irish club and was dressed as neo from the matrix (cheap costume according to him - just the long black coat and sunglasses). we ended up taking the bus back and eileen wasn't feeling too well, so she slept through the bus ride. and i was talking to shawn about where he'd been and what he was doing, and he's inviting me to go up to whistler on the 9-13 of december with him, weiliang and kweelin. they're going to learn how to ski. i want to learn how to snowboard. i'll give the skiing a miss coz i just wanna learn how to ride, and ride good, but i'm seriously considering coz i think it'll be a lot of fun, and even if it's going to be 4 of use squeezed into 1 hotel room i don't see any difficulty. i like sleeping on the floor anyway (experience from seattle). i think shawn kinda took my suggestion as a "i'll sleep on the floor if there is no space thing", which made him feel kinda paiseh coz i'll be the only girl there, but to be honest, i'm not offering to sleep on the floor as a magnanimous thing... i LIKE the floor coz i'm a light sleeper and i can't sleep on beds where i can't shift around or if i'll wake up every single time someone does.
but yeah! snowboarding at whistler in mid-dec sounds like a plan! and i can't wait till montreal and toronto and visiting amy and the rest of the singaporeans in ut! oh! and new york! for christmas and new year's!
k. gotta get food now, and then back to my paper.
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
totem had a dance party on fri night. the annual halloween dance party. having absolutely nothing to wear and no time to find anything, i donned my black blazer and pants and borrowed andy's oakleys, and went as MIB agent I/secret service/matrix agent smith wannabe (actually i didn't know and didn't care what i was going as. anyone who asked me what i was could get the answer: "i'm afraid tt's classified information"). heh heh heh.
halloween is a fucking big thing here in canada, and it doesn't even matter what age you are. everyone dresses up. of course, if you're a teenager, every girl wants to look sexy. 2 girls on my floor went as jap schoolgirls complete with the short short skirts and the bra-bearing tight white top. we had quite a few pirates - guys and girls - with the eye-patches, hats, swords, buckles and parrots even; while the girls would wear off-the-shoulder tops. some guys from 5th went as black guys - and these are white guys mind you - so they put on brown face pant and dressed ip gansta' style; and there was a whole group of them! even more hilarious - when the brown paint dried they couldn't move their mouths! 2 girls from my floor alex and jackie went as princess leia (with the cornrolls) and luke skywalker (with red lightsabre) respectively, and 2 guys from 5th went as batman and spiderman! except tt they bought their costumes from toys'r'us and it's for kids, so when they were walking around with it they got a WHOLE lot of laughter. adam's really tall, so the batman costume top came only to the middle of his chest - it was midriff-baring, and it was really funny coz he's so thin! and his tights came up only to a little past his knees! and damien's spiderman costume was so tight and midriff baring too, and it didn't help tt he had such skinny legs because the tights 'accentuated' tt feature! hahaha. oh, and yuka's this really hot japanese girl from my floor, and she went as a police officer, except in black tank top, short black skirt, fishnets and high boots, with handcuff and a cap in two.
seems they love associating law enforcement with bondage and submission here. i think the force were really to introduce these kind of outfits we'd either have a significant rise in crime or a significant drop. depends on the approach.
i had too much vodka. fuck. my newly-unopened bottle was opened and 1/4 of it is missing already. bad idea to take shots and then top up half a bottle of smirvoff ice with more of tt.
anyway we went to the beer garden on campus to mingle with the other happy halloween goers. it was so packed; angels fairies, mickey mouse, monsters, tiggers, gorillas, cross-dressers (yes, there were a quite a few guys who donned blonde wigs, tight pink frilly dresses and thick make-up) and the like. and the highlight of the beer garden was this bronco bull competition where people would line up to ride this mechanical bull in the centre of the bar until they fell off, and then everyone would yell "pussy" to them. it was hilarious.
after tt it was on to the dance at the ballroom and well... i shall say no more of tt (you can guess from my previous post, which i put up still in a state of severe inebriation). but it was fun. fuck... like i was telling jane during a really short msn conversation later when i was still slumped over my table waiting for my head to stop spinning so tt i could make my way to the bathroom to throw up, i feel fucking deprived right now. it's been tt way for so long, and even though the feelings haven't changed, but sometimes i wonder again and again if i'm ready for monogamy. and i went through all this before again and again and when i'm sobre it all works out, but after i get drunk i realise tt sub-consciously i haven't changed. and to be honest sometimes it makes me re-evaluate a lot of things. now, things like money and time and status things which i never thought would matter to me start to bother me because of how they're affecting what we talk about when i call him. esp now when it feels like he's so far away and he doesn't seem pleased or happy when i call him, like he always has something more important to do. maybe i'm asking for too much.
anyway i won't be touching the vodka for some time at least. it's not tt i can't really hold my alcohol, but tt it makes me feel really sick thereafter and i hate having to throw up just so my stomach won't rebel against me all night.
on sat i went downtown shopping on my own for my winter jacket, which i finally bought. it's white and it doesn't have the fur trimming tt i like, but it was cheaper than the a&f one tt i might have bought online, and since i only need it for one winter (unless i come back again), i don't need something quite so expensive. ended up buying more than just the jacket though - as usual; a pair of micro-gloves on recommendation for wearing during running in winter (which i guess is possible coz the people here have done it), a green scarf tt wasn't too expensive; hairband to replace the one i broke, and a pair of angel wings to go with this white dress tt i realise i'd bought over from singapore, for halloween night on monday...
and then in the evening after the sun went down, i went for the pacific national exhibition playland fright night event with eileen. pne playland is vancouver's amusement park, and they had some special event for halloween with 2 roller coaster rides, 3 (i think) haunted houses, and a bunch of other rides. me and eileen only managed to go on 4 rides in total because it was so packed! we had to queue at least 45 mins for 1 ride - and the corkscrew roller coaster took us 1 hour of queueing time just to go for! we didn't even get to visit any of the haunted houses because the queues were all too long and we simply had no time! but queueing aside, and the fact tt it was so fucking cold tt i was shivering incessantly even under my down jacket and eileen's toe had gone numb, it was a hell lot of fun, and a damn good way to spend saturday night! we went on both roller coasters, we tried this ride called hell's gate tt turns you upside down as you go up and down, and crazy beach party, which is like the viking except tt you're spinning around while you get swung from side to side, and we alternated between being scared (1st roller coaster) from the height drop to being made supremely dizzy! haha.
and after tt we bought hot dogs and corn dogs respectively from the stands before making our way back to ubc past 11pm.
we met shawn at granville. he'd come back from this irish club and was dressed as neo from the matrix (cheap costume according to him - just the long black coat and sunglasses). we ended up taking the bus back and eileen wasn't feeling too well, so she slept through the bus ride. and i was talking to shawn about where he'd been and what he was doing, and he's inviting me to go up to whistler on the 9-13 of december with him, weiliang and kweelin. they're going to learn how to ski. i want to learn how to snowboard. i'll give the skiing a miss coz i just wanna learn how to ride, and ride good, but i'm seriously considering coz i think it'll be a lot of fun, and even if it's going to be 4 of use squeezed into 1 hotel room i don't see any difficulty. i like sleeping on the floor anyway (experience from seattle). i think shawn kinda took my suggestion as a "i'll sleep on the floor if there is no space thing", which made him feel kinda paiseh coz i'll be the only girl there, but to be honest, i'm not offering to sleep on the floor as a magnanimous thing... i LIKE the floor coz i'm a light sleeper and i can't sleep on beds where i can't shift around or if i'll wake up every single time someone does.
but yeah! snowboarding at whistler in mid-dec sounds like a plan! and i can't wait till montreal and toronto and visiting amy and the rest of the singaporeans in ut! oh! and new york! for christmas and new year's!
k. gotta get food now, and then back to my paper.
# posted by Kitana @ 10/31/2005 03:15:00 AM 
