thought # 39- why i adored sydney festival 2010

this is an unconventional thought in that i was intending to recount all that occurred yesterday, and i still intend to do but through the medium that i love doing best... listing haha.

15 things i did which embodied sydney festival 2010.

1. felt relatively genius in asking about how to purchase a train ticket to the city and even smarter to have kuan laugh at my face haha.
2. increased my knowledge in using slrs and felt empowered by taking stalker photographs of strangers and inanimate objects.
3. conversed with my favourites on the way to town hall, received my christmas present from a slack best friend (love you mads haha) and made faces through the reflection of the train window.
4. complained about the heat and was asian by using my umbrella and running (yes, running) towards any possible locus of shade.
5. gorged on water, all day.
6. was peer pressured to sing in the middle of the street whilst watching newly weds perspire and retire into each others arms at st marys cathedral.
7. walked to myer and visiting our lovely dnm grass couch.
8. walked past air conditioned stores and desired nothing more than to be frozen for a moment.
9. took photos on the grass and was abused by those damn subliminal messaged-fuelled anz fans.
10. perved on handsome strangers and reunited with familiar faces.
11. linked arms with mads and kuan as we trekked in search for ice tea.
12. walked through the empty st james station walkway on the way home HAHA
13. ate red rock deli after feeling delirious with hunger.
14. power napped on the train.
15. returned home with a decided mind to repeat this all next year. 

oh what a splendid day. thanks for all who came and made yesterday memorable. next year awaits!

oh and happy birthday to my uncle leslie whose birthday i attended yesterday despite feeling flushed, tired and worn down from the morning's events. nevertheless it was a good day :)

love

ps. at the fountain in hyde park. thanks kuan for the flattering photo haha.

thought # 30- i will never compromise nail polish again

really, after experiencing the glories of expensive nail polish i will not return to the dodgy $2 bins or asian brands which are as bad as scratching the addictive scratchies my grandmother loves to buy. good quality nail polish is exactly like a great pair of fitting jeans, they look great, they feel amazing and sit in your nails/ hug your ass as if they were moulded on. i will no longer degrade nor deprive myself of the luxuries of expensive cosmetics because in this case a little more dollar actually goes a long way.

on a less superficial note, i received my atar results today and after an inital (more like whole day) disappointment i finally was happy to accept what i had and be blessed to find myself in a position where i am still eligible for any university haha. well today was spent with the favourite boy. i must say, against my sappy penchants and whims for anything mushy and idealistic, i did miss him very much. it was a lovely feeling to once again be in a position of familiarity, comfort, assurance and certainty. although things must still be conversed over, the heat, atar (including a raging mother who eventually calmed down haha) and how slightly depressing and eerie where the wild things are turned out to be (great soundtrack, amazing concept, creative, not very child-like though and quite solemn...) were iota compared to just being in the splendid, face- to- face concept of together.

to be honest, there are some days where you love the idea of singleness; whether you are in a relationship or on a temporary sojourn, the freedom and lack of responsibility, coupled with the absence of dealing from a mutual or collective perspective can be so tempting. then again, when your in a position similar to today, like teaching your favourite boy to eat sushi, laughing at his ridiculous mannerisms, feeling sweaty on a bus stop and asking... "do you still like me?" reminds me why "seeing each other" is worth being in the first place haha.

love

p.s. not relevant at all, just amusing. found it from a surfer's tumblr or something. HAHA