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i’m one exam away from being done with my finals!!!!!! so i’m taking a break from the books and the stale smog of the library to celebrate. 3 exams and 3 final papers down, just one more exam to go. and then i’ll be done — done with freshman year, done with feeling completely helpless, done with feeling like i want to yank all my hair out in fistfuls. after a year here, i can sincerely say that i underestimated how tough college would be. by MILES. i guess till today i can’t quite believe how little slacking one is allowed to do here. i’m really looking forward to going home over the summer and just staring at the ceiling every day to recover from the trauma of the past academic year. i know it sounds like i’m exaggerating but i’m really not.
i crawled out of my room after a particularly brutal final today to see that one of my floormates had already packed all of her stuff into storage bins. then i felt sad. i felt sad that i hadn’t spoken to her properly in such a long time, and that now i only have less than 3 days to do so because she moves out on thursday. i felt sad that i’d spent my whole freshman year worrying worrying and worrying about how i absolutely must get a 4.0, and feeling guilty each time i took a weekend off or spent the afternoon sleeping in. sigh. surely this must not be what college is about. i’m doing it all wrong, aren’t i? people always say that they wish they could re-do their freshman year. me too.
things i took for granted this year:
1. new york city
i spent so much time exploring the city in my first semester, and i loved doing that so much, but then this semester i just stopped doing it completely. i only went downtown whenever i needed to get something done or buy something important. i haven’t even been to chinatown since i came back to the city after winter break, and i love chinatown. i used to feel so thrilled walking down the aisles of the small asian marts, marveling at the fact that i could get marmite, milo, vitagen, 100 plus, xo sauce, sugus and double decker prawn crackers here. i especially liked walking past someone on the streets of chinatown and unexpectedly hearing the malaysian/singaporean accent. all this inquisitiveness, i left behind a long time ago. now i hesitate at the thought of going downtown.
greenwich, near NYU
a fabric store in chinatown. i love fabric stores. i could spend all day just poking around and choosing fabric that i will never buy
2. extra curriculars
i had a lot of fun my first semester when i was running around trying out as many clubs and societies as i could. then i realized how much i’d been slacking and dropped every single one of my ECA’s this semester so i could focus on my grades again. college-bound kids reading this, i dont expect you to be as stupid as me, but if ever tempted to be, please dont ever do what i did. i feel like my second semester here has been so miserable because i just didnt have the time to do the things i loved and missed doing. when i come back next year, i’m pursuing them all again. i dont care if that means i take less subjects; i simply have to do something i love or i will go crazy.
DDR club!!! i thought i was good until i joined this club…… some of this guys are inSANEly good.
3. my floormates
everyone who comes to visit my floor tells me that it’s oddly staid and quiet, and i dont actually disagree. for some reason (actually i know why but cannot say wtf) our floor isnt as integrated as the others. the other day when our RA gave us the year-end speech, some of my floormates remarked that we’ve never had so many people in our floor lounge since the first week of college, when we had that first introductory floor meeting. and it’s true… that night i saw some floormates that i hadn’t seen all semester. i regret not saying hi even then, and not having made the initiative to barge into the lives of the quieter people on the floor. like i said, i only have three days left, and after this we’re all going our separate ways and are bound to drift apart over the next three years in college. it’s a sad thought. i regret taking so lightly the (few) open doors on the floor… next year when i move into EC i know that there are going to be even less doors open. i’m going to miss so much just being able to pad barefoot down into my floormates’ rooms and just sit around being emo, or crying, or whining about stupid homework, or shoving smelly malaysian sambal in their faces, and talking about red furry handcuffs… :)
hahaha this picture cracks me up every time i look at it
this is S, who covered himself in whipped cream just for the heck of it. and then started rolling around the floor and hugging everyone. i have the most delicious pictures of him in his tightie whities all smothered in cream…
4. schoolwork
okay this is so weird but i wish i’d enjoyed my schoolwork a lot more. believe it or not, when i was all bright-eyed and loving all the things i was learning in my first semester, my grades took a huge hit because i was being so flighty. when i sat down and started getting serious about things, i really hated everything i had to do, but my grades got so much better. it’s ironic and it sucks. i’ve had the opportunity to read so many great books for my lit courses over the year, but because i was conscious of the fact that i had to study those books, i just couldnt enjoy the texts as much as i did when i read them for leisure. and italian… i loved the language and got so much satisfaction from the learning, but i was so shocked when i got an A-. it’s the same with econ, which i love, and am actually good at. sigh. i dont even know what to say. even if i get all A’s this semester, i’m not going to be the happiest clam — it’s been the driest and most wearisome process of learning, ever.
5. handsomenick, mandapandatan and jacqueline
nick and amanda are the two other malaysian undergrads here, and jacqueline is in the general studies school. we all actually barely see each other, and i keep reminding myself to call them out for dinner sometime, but it never happens because i’m a terrible person like that. i only met jacqueline when i first got here, and even though we took econ and did ballroom for a semester together, we STILL HAVENT GONE TO HAVE DINNER EVEN ONCE. JACQUELINE IF YOU ARE READING THIS IT IS TIME FOR US TO FINALLY HANG OUT. /agitated. haih. okay let me tell you something cute about mandapandatan — she likes to eat but every time she eats she’ll complain that she’s fat, which she’s not, and she’ll start eating carrot sticks. and one time she was complaining about how her grades were so bad la, this la that la, she’s going to get kicked out of her scholarship program la; then when someone asked her, “oh did you get a B or something?”, she shifted uncomfortably and said “no la… not that bad la..” WTF. and everyone should meet handsomenick and see how handsome he is. he looks like a skinny chinese version of Paris. as in Paris of Troy.
mandapandatan and her carrot sticks
6. the scholars program
i’m in it but i dont do anything about it. i dont even hang out with the other scholars or take up the internship opportunities that are offered. idiot idiot idiot idiot idiot.
7. college events
ann coulter came to our school last week and i didnt go because i procrastinated on getting tickets and then they were sold out :( same thing happens for lots of other speaker events… i keep thinking that i’ll have time to go get tickets but that’s never true. ahh college has been a time of many missed opportunities. so many things happen here that sometimes it gets a little overwhelming.
J dressed as a robot during one of those college event nights. hahaha, j j j j j j.
this is O Night at the library — where the school marching band barges into the library’s main reading room at the stroke of midnight on the night before the first finals, and starts playing loud music just to disturb people. they stand on tables and crack some jokes as well. hilarity. last night was Primal Scream night, where the students go outside and screammmmmmm away their exams frustrations on the Sunday of finals week. Primal Scream night is also Pillow Fight night.
8. the ninja poster in my floormate’s room
each time i see it, i laugh. i shoulda invaded his room a lot more just for the free laughs. and the free chocolate — he has this humongous stash of chocolate in his room cos his mom is afraid he’s going to starve. his stash is bigger than any girls’ stash. srsly.
9. things i get in the mail
earlier in the school year, i started a blog category to document all the cool and random stuff that people send me in the mail, but because i blog so rarely now, there’s this huge backlog of What I Got In The Mail that i never did blog about. i have a whole drawer full of cards from such wonderful people that i always meant to blog about but just didn’t; and worse, i have a whole stack of cards that i bought to send back out to these people but didn’t either. i’m sorry :( do you guys hate me :( please dont think i’m ungrateful… i really do appreciate the time you guys took to write me a card. it always cheers me up so when i get a postcard or a letter in the mail. okay i swear i’m going to sit down and send out all those cards when i finish my finals on thursday.
10. being in the northeast
since being here, i’ve only ever visited two other schools — penn and yale, and that’s not even to meet any of my friends. kehrol goes down to princeton like every other week or something, and i keep telling myself i’ll join her one of these weekends… but many weekends have passed and now summer is already here. wtf. why am i like this. why am i so lazy. OMG it’s just occurred to me that i’ve never even been to swarthmore to see andrew. good effin’ … and next year he’s not even going to be here anymore!!! okay now i’m panicking. i think next year i’m going to make it a point to spend some time at schools other than my own. sigh. will you guys welcome me with open arms =(
11. the singaporeans
there are so many of them here!!! i really enjoy talking to them, because all (well, most) of them still have their singaporean accent, and i can lah, mah, and whatlahyou with them unabashedly. it’s greeeeeat. they make me miss home a little less.
P, R and R. they are all super adorable :)
C and his lousily-made popiah. he’s a real cool guy — one of those who’s graduating after just 3 years (instead of 4). i’m really jealous because he got a job offer at HK and he’s going to live there for an indefinite period of time :( hong kong…..
12. campus
it seems to me that all i ever do is run through campus cos i’m late. i barely ever stop to soak in anything. see these pictures that i took? i hurriedly took them and then ran straight for class. this has to change. the few afternoons i spent out on the grass tanning and reading this spring were probably the only times i’d stopped to properly spend some time being one with my college.
13. my room
here is the picture that i promised 50000 centuries ago. i meant to go around my room taking pictures of things and blogging about the stories behind each thing… but … i just didnt. okay i’m beginning to see a running theme here. ANYWAY, this is my room. right now it smells like bananas and there are papers all over the floor from studying for my finals.
14. love
:)
P/S: can someone explain to me how i can maintain the picture quality (esp the saturation) when i export pictures out of iPhoto? everytime i export pictures they turn out so drab… yet i still need the picture size to be less than 50kb :|
May 12th, 2009
so my finals begin in 3 days’ time, my unpreparedness is of epic proportions, i just heard the “it’s been a great year, guys” speech from my RA, i have to be outta here by noon on the 16th of may or my college is going to fine me a hundred bucks for every hour i fail to comply, i am growing older by the minute as i type this, and my freshman year is ending in a matter of two weeks. i would love to pause and reflect on what a wonderful/awful year this has been, and tell you all about the college i’ve never found the time to blog about, maybe even put up a picture of my room which i said i would put up but never did … but i am FREAKING OUT. TIME, STOP. JUST STOP.
it’s such a cliche but my first day in columbia really felt like just yesterday. i was wide-eyed but businesslike. i remember checking off a list of things to do in my head as i ran down College Walk to go get my student ID. when i held the card in my hands, i thought, this is it? then i went up to my room. the 14th floor looked so sunny. my room was airy and spotless. the first thing i did was search the walls for the LAN cable outlet, then i opened up my luggage and moaned to Smartypants and Martian that maybe i shouldnt have brought so many shoes. it was nice having the both of them there with me — Smartypants fretted so much that i didnt need to do it myself, and Martian was as always my voice of calm and order. oddly, i dont remember the first night i fell asleep in my dorm room. i dont think i missed home at that time. yet i dont remember feeling excited either. come to think of it, i dont remember much of my first week at college. the more i struggle to remember, the more the already dusty memories seem to fall away. but i guess that’s not important. they’ll come back to me in time. they always do.
i’m happy to report that i’ve only gotten locked out of my dorm room twice. though the first time was in the middle of winter and i was wrapped in only a towel. S, who’s a real darling, lent me his jacket so that i could walk to Housing not semi-nude. the second time i got locked out was an important day, but that’s a story for another time. remind me. the keyword is heavy-hearted goodbye.
sigh, freshman year. one day i’d like to share with you all the Retrospective essay i wrote for a writing class, about my freshman year. but i’ll only share it with you if i get an A+ on it :)
some pictures of funny things around campus:
#1 this is O, a guy from my lit class, and his totally cool breast cancer awareness tshirt :P
#2 a funny poster in a suite that my floormates and i randomly burst into one drunk night. the door was unlocked so we went in and looked at people sleeping and took stupid pictures of their stuff. hahaha. and then my cell phone rang REALLY LOUDLY when we were in the midst of doing that…… but none of the residents woke up. wtf. anyway the poster should be put up on passiveaggressivenotes.com
#3 not so passive aggressive notes
#4 i really liked this poster cos it sounded like something i would say!! i like to point my finger at people’s faces and imperiously announce, emily yoon, dont be a baboon. or, roborovski, dont be a toucan. or, aira amira, dont be a parrot. hahaha.
#5 a graded problem set from my calc class with a response from the TA in red ink. i cracked up for like 5 minutes. the TAs who grade our homework usually write in big red ink on the front “STAPLE THIS!!!!!” if we dont staple our work. some people never staple their stuff despite repeated implorations, so sometimes the warnings get a little bit ruder
#6 found in a stairwell in one of the dorms…
#7 haha kingsmen posters are always the funniest. do you guys remember the vas deferens poster i put up once? the kingsmen is an all-male acapella group on campus, and their posters are all notoriously misogynistic. their concerts are as well — the last one i went for, they sang Enormous Penis by Da Vinci’s Notebook. hilarity!
#8 something that a friend wrote on my wipeboard lah. haha i like to force my friends to understand me when i speak in manglish, especially when i’m agitated and i cant really be bothered to force my speech into an American accent — srsly that can feel like the most restrictive thing ever. so if i can understand your accent, you should understand mine too!!! okay anot?
#9 HAHAHA this is a picture of my calculus professor that one of my floormates drew on his own wipeboard — he’s taking ODE with that same professor this semester. i really hated my calc class so i couldn’t hold back my giggles when i saw this. the prof actually DOES look like that… :P
#10 this is F from writing class, and no, he’s not a teacher :P our teacher was really late one day, so F just got up and started conducting a mini review session, cos that’s what we do almost every class anyway. we review what goes into motive and thesis, what goes into intro, what goes into body, what goes into conclusion… blablabla
#11 MG’s stoopid shirt. we totally hate each other
#12 i love CU because people are in denial!
#13 ahha an election campaign poster by a party running for student council. they really do have two asian girls! another one of their posters say “James Franco, CALL ME!!!” ya, everyone here has a James Franco story. his first couple of weeks here he kept studying in the most crowded lounge of our main library for some reason, so people kept going up to him to ask for pictures. i think he realized very late into the semester that we actually have quieter reading rooms and like a dozen other libraries scattered around campus…
#14 another hilarious kingsmen poster. Take Back the Night was an event that the women’s college across the street organized to raise awareness against sexual harassment and rape. so this was the kingsmen’s response to it. hahaha seriously who comes up with this stuff?!
#15 THIS IS MY FAVORITE. it’s a poster of Ninja Tips for Healthy Living on one of my floormates’ closet doors. it’s so freaking funny. let me share some with you:
- exercise is important, but jogging is for wimps. plenty of exercise can be had leaping from bushes and kicking joggers in the head.
- laughter is medicine. ninjas practice the art of inappropriate laughter. laughing when hearing about cancer also shows the ninja’s strength.
- ninjas occasionally, without warning, stab friends with throwing stars. life is random. ninjas embrace this fact of life.
- samurais are the source of much stress for ninjas. they think they’re soooooo cool with their armor and swords and those awesome helmets. it’s in a ninja’s best interest not to think about such things.
- when eating the still beating heart of an enemy, ninjas eat it all. there are starving ninjas in africa who dont have any hearts to eat.
– fiber in your diet is important. ninjas eat the shirt off a complete stranger’s back at least once a week.
- killing the wrong person happens. ninjas know this. that’s why it’s useless to live in the past.
hehe. okay. back to studying. wish me luck for my finals!!! if i flunk out of college, life isn’t going to be pretty.
May 5th, 2009
as i ascended the stairs hurriedly, late as always, i heard the sound of laughter leaping forth from the open doors. it was a brief symphony that rose and ricocheted into the hallway, swirling up into the ceiling, striking my heart suddenly. oh my, i turned around and smiled. doesn’t that sound so adult? we’re all adults now… in that suspended moment there on the stairs, i felt like Mrs. Darling, hand in hand with Mr. Darling, leaving behind Wendy, John and Michael to tend to some party that was unwritten about because it was so adult and had no place amongst mermaids and red indians. this is that party; this is that grown-upness that for so long i had only looked at the knees of. only my parents and their friends used to laugh like that. what happened to the interstice? this feels like a second adolescence, and we’re all on this uncomfortable, taut brink of madness that we don’t quite know how to manipulate yet.
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and then there was: silicon valley! tube top! boris yeltsin! cheesecake! very famous actress! we tumbled over each other like dominoes as we raced against time. did you know i wished you were there? we would have giggled together at how cute the techy boys were (the key above control!), and shared occasional secret nods. nevertheless, it was one of those milky, sleepy nights. curling up in bed with andrew was nice for however long it lasted, and infinitely a better way to spend an hour than taking drunken pictures of ourselves in lingerie out in the hallway. our dreams are made out of real things, like a shoebox of photographs with sepia-toned loving / love is the answer. dancing to barbie girl with queen suet was, of course, a big naive bubble of layan diri laughs, as was singing off-key to jiwang songs. i keep thinking we’re all 18, but we’re not, and we’re quite old, our lives all sewn in with respective traumas, unfulfilled goals, unrequited love, struggles, archenemies, unfinished papers and indecision. these things orbit our heads like weary moons still, but it’s nice to know that collectively we can dust these things away. it’s a good kind of peer pressure.
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imperceptibly, one of the organizers winced as the sound system died again and that dull clicking sound in the audio resurfaced in 10 second intervals, and she quietly looked to the side of the room for help. i can never refrain myself from studying an event’s organization; i always have to look at the hardware they use, the size of the canopies, the catering company and florists, the corporate sponsors, the division of labor, the type of cloth, the type of paper, the fonts, the crowd management — vestiges of being in love with event management during high school and college days, i suppose — but most of all, i like to look at the organizers. so as we all sat there with that 10-second clicking sound hitting the thick air over and over again, i marveled at how calm the organizers were. they were so held together. if this tech disaster had happened to me, i would have been angry and flustered, at nothing or anything at all, and i would have been the last thing from calm, and it would have shown. where do people find calm? is there an oasis that you will hit if you tunnel deep enough into yourself, or do you have to be born with it?
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it was quick and rough. the lobster fried rice was delicious.
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okay lahhhh some pictures of the weekend at Yale before you folks accuse me of not blogging ‘properly’ :P most photos are from Carol:
#1 a disheveled me and emoyoon with hummingbird cupcakes!!! which, btw, i’ve actually grown quite sick of :|
#2 me and queen suet! i’m trying to think of a funny thing that she said that weekend (cos she said many funny things) but i dont remember any now…
#3 jeremy -_-
#4 nick -_-
#5 a more handsome nick!! mwaks.
#6 chern han looking hamsap
#7 we sang random malay songs like setia, kau ilhamku and belaian jiwa!! so nostalgic…
#8 joe doing his thing on the guitar
#9 with joe. so this guy writes poetry, sings, plays guitar, is studying philosophy… i mean srsly!
#10 DOM <3
#11 hahaha i just had to put up this pic of andrew. he’s not actually sneezing… he’s making his stupid malaysian food orgasm face -_-
#12 the crowd during a panel session. wish you were here, chen chow!!
#13 we made jeremy turn to the side and take a picture with us cos his profile looks so much like wai kin! except not really la in this picture.
#14 hahaha damn stoopid this two. this is their attempt at imitating the Twilight poster shot
#15 i love you <3
April 29th, 2009
thank you to those who wrote kind comments in the previous post or sent me such lovely emails :) i really appreciate the time you guys took to comfort me or to leave me a little bit of your stories. the primary purpose of that post was closure, and i believe i’ve finally found that now within myself, with Martian, and with all else. and having achieved that, i want to close this chapter of my life. i thank all of you for your kind comments, but i really am so done with all this baggage. right now i just want to chase that bit of happy. happy that is found in things like:
#1 cupcakes! these are my favorite red velvet cupcakes from the Hummingbird Bakery in London, and they truly are the best cupcakes in the world. you think Magnolia is good? nothing in New York compares to this. absolutely nothing. these came with much love all the way from across the Atlantic, on an almost-missed flight, and really brightened up my week. i finished them all the first night they got here, and now i regret not making them last :(
#2 emily coming from the UK to stay, though i dont have any pictures of us :( actually, i barely saw her while she was here cos i was so busy with deadlines. wtf. she went out shopping one day and then couldnt come back into my dorm room cos i’d crashed after finishing all my work and didnt pick up her calls… so she had to go and stay with her other friend. yes i am the worst host in the history of the universe. /ashamed
#3 SPRING IS HERE. I LOVE THE WARMTH AND THE SUN.
it’s even warm enough to sit out in the grass now. i spent a delicious afternoon yesterday catnapping in the sun and getting a bit of color back into my pallid post-winter skin. it’s so good to be able to wear shorts again.
#4 Friday Me-Days. last friday was the first friday in the semester that i actually didnt have anything to do, papers to finish or people to meet. of the nine fridays this semester, i’ve spent three of those out of town, and the remaining six agonizing over work that just never seems to diminish… so it was absolutely lovely to have a nice spring friday all to myself to poke around the city. i used to have such frequent Friday Me-Days during my first few months in NY, but ah, how times have changed :) i have, quite tragically, become one of those college students obsessed with obtaining a 4.0. nevertheless i had the best friday i’ve had in a long time, exploring Hell’s Kitchen and having a quiet brunch by myself with a good book <3
at Good Enough To Eat, my favorite breakfast place near college!
Good Enough To Eat is really into cow motifs. the cuteness!
an anti-doormat at a card boutique in Hell’s Kitch
#5 The Strand, a huge secondhand bookstore in Union Square, and one of my favorite places in New York. i can spend hours in there just reading. spent half a day there last week reading a volume of Virginia Woolf’s letters, random cookbooks and travel stories, perched on a ladder in a quiet corner of the bookstore. the smell of crusty paper remained in my hair hours after i’d left. bliss.
#6 prawn mee. even if it’s americanized. it’s STILL PRAWN MEE.
#7 awesome things in the mail :) truly AWESOME things. i know i’ve been neglecting my What I Got In The Mail category… but one day very soon, i will put up all the pictures of the beautiful cards and gifts that you guys have sent me over the 8 months that i’ve been here. y’all have no idea how much i appreciate these things and the thought that comes with them. miraculously, i always find something in the mail whenever pangs of homesickness and sadness hit me hardest. sigh. and then i am happy again because i am reminded what’s most important. some sneak peeks:
yes i really did get this in the mail… haha.
#8 Food Expo. omg yesterday we had this Food Expo in our dining hall where random food n beverage companies set up stalls to give out free stuff during brunch hours. i wanted to kick myself SO HARD for having eaten breakfast and thus couldnt really eat much more. BUT THEN… i got a free sample bottle of what is now my new favorite tea — this brand of fruity tea called Guayaki. the passionfruit flavor is yums.
#9 umbrellas. when i first arrived in the city and was constantly getting rained on, carol sent me the cutest stripey umbrella in the mail. last week i took it out during a rainy night and accidentally left it at a bar :( went back the next day to get it but it was no longer there. sigh. as commemoration, here are some pictures of me, the lovely carol, and our umbrellas, meant to be put up a long time ago, from a day that carol and i traipsed down to Chinatown in search of bak kwa and hokkien mee:
#10 one of those days where everything is just perfect. oh and canceled meetings on sleepy afternoons :)
April 3rd, 2009
… is what the temperature will be in two days’ time.
… is also my score for the weekend. though if i were my own judge it’d probably be -20000. i’ve been very, very bad. some things, like unfinished homework due tomorrow, can be easily fixed with some time and effort. and some other things, like tequila, can be expelled in the morning. some things, like disgusting calculus midterm scores, won’t go away but are ultimately irrelevant in the bigger scheme of things. but some other things however. just stick.
more Halloween pictures!:
#1 sizzling hot firefighter bananatan and i
#2 K who was a kinky schoolgirl. also one half of the blow-up dolls the next day
#3 i have no clue who this girl is… haha but she’s a funny drunk. she was dressed as a sailor that night too, and as i was walking past her she just threw her arms around me and said OMG IT’S YOUUUUU I LOVE YOUUU LET’S TAKE ANOTHER PICTURE COS WE’RE BOTH SAILORRRRS. haha we didnt take an earlier picture, but i obliged and took ‘another’ one with her anyway. only cos she’s cute. that’s the Pope behind her
#4 the sailor, the pirate, the firefighter and the flight attendant! all very smexy
#5 B, who kept getting his suspenders snapped. i think he was a construction worker…?
#6 look! mario, luigi, and even PRINCESS PEACH HAHAHA
#7 this is T, one of the Mile High Club attendants from this night. i think i saw her in like 4-5 different costumes at different parties during Halloween weekend, and even the weekend before Halloween! shit la i osowan multiple costumes now
#8 E, whom i think looks sooooo much like Claudia Schiffer. anyway.. you guys wont believe who she’s facebook friends with….
#9 azn love! E and Y, two of my floormates. they are super cute :D Y has stickers of Disney princesses on her door
#10 number of crossdressers spotted : 8. at least. but my favorite halloween cross-dresser will always be androo <3 pictures here-on are from the actual Halloween day, where a bunch of us went out to the parade!
#11 when i stepped out into the lobby, this guy in the mask just started running at me. hahaha it’s actually quite scary when you’re being faced head-on with such a mask. and the annoying thing about such masks is that the people wearing them NEVER want to take them off and reveal who they are. but this guy started talking and his thick Nigerian accent gave him away. haha. hello alexander. i see you.
#12 THIS was what i wanted my nuffnang wild live party costume to look like!!! but noooooo instead i went as a sissy ladybug :(
#13 batman and wife taking the subway!! Batpod’s in the shop eh
#14 a sloppy obama. i am unimpressed. number of Obamas spotted: 3
#15 BANANAS! though i’m not sure why they have moustaches?
#16 i was quite blown away by this costume. i really was! but then as we walked around the parade, lots of people were wearing the same wind-blown costume. so.. cheh. at least this guy could pose well.
#17 choi sun do!!
#18 hahahaha a hot dog eating a hot dog
#19 not exactly a halloween costume, but this dog was MASSIVE. it’s actually BIGGER than the girl it’s trying to pounce on O_O
#20 girl in the middle? totally hot. and i think the girl on the left has a prettier sailor costume than mine :( i totally saw the costume at Ricky’s (default NYC costume store) weeks before Halloween, but i figured because it’s available at Ricky’s lots of people were going to be wearing it. WRONG! this girl was the only one i saw with that costume. bah.
#21 hahaha batdog and cat face-off!
#22 little batman <3
#23 a homemade robot costume. so awesome!
#24 and a little mummy! i asked him, “hey little man, are you a mummy?” and he went, “nooooo im a monster!” and started scuffing his shoes on the ground. i think my heart kinda melted.
#25 number of jokers spotted : 58390854. but no Joker Nurses, and definitely none as cool as Jolene!
#26 french friesssss~
#27 GUYS THIS IS THE BEST HALLOWEEN COSTUME EVER. EVER. EVER. THIS IS A POPE!!!!
#28 WHO CAME WITH THE WHOLE FREAKIN’ CONFESSIONAL BOOTH!!!! hahahahahahahaha he even called himself Pope Fiction. see his real legs on the ground? he made that look like the legs of a nun who was lifting up the whole confessional booth. totally awesome!! he really was attracting so much attention. there was this crowd around him everywhere he went
#29 this is nicole kissing the pope hahaha
#30 nick and i groping the pope, though the photographer cut nick out. okay mom dad Martian if you’re reading this i didnt really grope him okay! that’s a fake pair of legs!
#31 the Beijing Olympics panda haha
#32 girl picture outside bananatan’s room!
#33 and the most adorable duck i have ever seen :)
November 17th, 2008
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