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 :)

so i am back in New York, thrown once again into this metropolitan maelstrom of instability, surliness and frost. i’ve been sleeping my days away, much like i slept my days away in London, but for different reasons both times — there, i was exhausted; here, i am hiding. i have nothing to speak of my return here. these days all i’m concerned about is how i’m going to get the shards of heart out of the carpet.

but enough mournful talk. let’s talk about London and how i love everything about it. so i’ve always had great expectations of London, expectations that are swollen with stories and imagery from some of my favorite books in the world. i close my eyes and i can see London… where the afternoons are filled with the treacle tarts, gollywogs, tea cakes and morning mist dresses of Enid Blyton. come nightfall, the evenings are attended to by the grown-ups of J.M Barrie who tuck their children into bed with bedtime stories and then slip out of the house — the men in tailcoats and their wives in white satin gloves — into the foggy streets of nighttime London. not far away, the pretentious laughter of Oscar Wilde’s corrupt and cunning haut monde ring loudly in the air! the rich make merry while Dickens’ young boys dart in and out of the cobblestone alleys, leaving behind them the sooty trails of innocence. and then i play with the word ’sixpence’ on my tongue. how many Willy Wonka bars can sixpence buy? will i find out when i get to London, i wondered when the plane swept smoothly off the tarmac at JFK one month ago. will i see old men smoking tobacco out of pipes? does the old curiosity shop really exist?

i have since discovered that London is actually far more than my imagination can take me to. at first i worried that i would be expecting too much of a city i’d never even been to, that i was furnishing it with all these overdressed ideals and ultimately destroying my own utopia… but now that i have come and gone, there is truly nowhere else that i would rather be. i think i left my soul in London. or at least, a hemisphere of it. this may sound hasty, but in London, i felt like i truly belonged. i’ve missed that feeling. i wore it like a second skin back home in Malaysia, but 4 months of being in NYC has completely sapped me of any such peace. no one ever truly belongs in a place like New York.

and contrary to forewarning, i did not hate London weather. in fact, i quite loved it – sissy sprinkles, puddles, clouds and all. all the grey brought out a kind of melancholy in me that was actually healthy. it encouraged me to think, which is something i haven’t had the opportunity to guiltlessly immerse myself in for awhile. there were days when i would oversleep and wake up to a 4pm setting sun, and i’d just lay in bed, smell the sheets and smile. walking down Marylebone High underneath the oyster-coloured skies was the most cathartic thing i did for myself. in London, i felt at home.

also, English people are as kind as i thought they would be. sure, there are the gruff ones, but mostly, everyone is… soft. kind. sympathetic. the women really do have kisses hidden in the corner of their mouths, and even the youngest of men have twinkles in their eyes. coming from New York to a place like London is quite like stepping into the warm and floury embrace of a jolly and portly grandmother. in New York, you are just a passing face; in London, people take the time to check out what you’re wearing. god, in comparison NYC is so bad for the soul, isn’t it? how does one feel human here? sigh. sigh sigh sigh.

some places in London that i went to and really liked:

1. Portobello Market

possibly my favorite place in all of London. Portobello Market is a long street market along Portobello Road in Notting Hill (!) that is open from 8am to 6pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. i’m not sure what it’s like there on the weekdays, but the market is absolutely bustling on Saturdays, an atmosphere that i absolutely loved. Portobello Market houses stalls and stalls of antiques, curios, independent designs, handicrafts, vintage clothes, bags and shoes, old cameras and jewelry, secondhand books… and just about any kind of bric-a-brac you’re looking for.

a shop in Portobello Market selling all kinds of doorknobs *___*

an enclave selling mostly vintage jewelry and secondhand books

pocket watches on necklaces

i love this place :) i could spend a whole day just sifting through all the beautiful things here.

2. Camden Town

thronged by London’s younger set, Camden Town is garish and brash, but never boring. there is a largely punk rock, emo-kid, gypsy vibe about Camden that is immediately apparent from the wild harajuku-ish merchandise that is both sold and paraded around the area, and also the dudes pushing marijuana on the sidewalk :P slightly dodgy zone, but definitely cool in its own way. there are several markets along the streets of Camden Town, but the best one is Camden Lock. everything else is kinda Petaling Streetish, but Camden Lock is a larger market within a courtyard that vends the artier stuff, mostly handicrafts and trinkets. there are also lots of new age shops in Camden Lock, with palm readers and the like!

the punk / emo-goth / lolita-esque clothes for sale

a little part of Camden Lock

3. Marylebone High Street

Marylebone High Street is the main artery of the little shopping district of Marylebone, and while the High Street is the street i like the most (it’s the most concentrated), the other smaller streets that girdle it are definitely worth checking out as well. the shopping here is demure and sophisticated, with the bigger brands giving way to the smaller independent labels. my favorite shops on the street: Mascaro the shoe shop which has gorgeous shoes (they also carry stock from Pretty Ballerinas, which makes ballet flats that are to die for…!!), Daunt the bookstore, and the Oxfam secondhand bookstore at which i spent too many an hour reading books that i should have just bought for 1-2 pounds.

Daunt Bookstore

the Oxfam secondhand bookstore

4. Regent’s Park

a huge, beautiful park in the heart of London that draws you in even in the winter. such a romantic place to be in when the sun is setting. also ducks galore, which always makes me happy :) apparently there’s a rose garden in here too, but of course none of them were in bloom when i was there.

5. Tate Museum of Modern Art

i love this museum right down to its secret enclosed spaces and the graffiti on the back of the doors in the women’s bathroom stalls. definitely a must visit in London, if you’re into art galleries.

one piece from the famed water lily series by Monet

this was my favorite display at the Tate. the artist worked as a maid at a hotel for a period of time, and while she was there, she took photos of the belongings and rooms of the hotel’s various customers each day of their stay, and also kept a journal describing the belongings and state of the rooms as they changed each day. she went through their luggage, passports, trash can even! she then documented her findings and turned it into art. ah. satisfies the voyeur in us :P the people in the photo are clamoring around just one of about eight or nine pieces.

graffiti on the bathroom door

6. Borough Market

greek desserts

Alvo thinks that Borough Market is an authentic British culinary experience, and i quite agree. Borough Market is a roomy food market in Southwark that sells all sorts of international gourmet food under one roof. foodstuff purveyed: freshly baked bread, imported herbs and spices, gourmet sausages, exotic meats like ostrich and pheasant, burgers, cured meats, sandwiches, falafel, chocolates, candy, mulled wine and a whole smorgasbord of other delectable things. the various vendors here make for good lunch stops. while i didnt venture to sample any exotic meat, i must say i had a very good steak in red wine sauce sandwich from a stall somewhere in the bowels of Borough Market. also had this hot scallop with a bacon and bean sprout mix which is purportedly a favorite at the market. both stalls shouldnt be too hard to find if you’re going to be poking around :)

a delicious chorizo sandwich

7. Oxford & Bond Street

i didnt explore either street as much as i would have liked to, but apparently it’s the only place Azlan ever stops by when he comes to London, so i suppose that must count for something :P it’s good shopping la i suppose. Bond Street is also where the almighty Selfridges is, which for some reason is a huge favorite not just with the Londoners, but also the rest of the world. if one more person tells me that Selfridges is their favorite mall in the world, i will scream. why? what’s so cool about Selfridges? it’s just like Metrojaya but with bigger labels… i must be missing something :\

8. Carnaby Street

i LOVE! it’s another one of those shopping districts; quite like Marylebone High Street, but younger and more contemporary.

9. Soho / Leicester Square / Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus

the Soho / Leicester Sq / Piccadilly Circus area is a lively and spirited junction that teems with good restaurants, pubs, bars and clubs. it’s also where Chinatown is, as well as many West End theaters. Covent Garden, a large touristy courtyard housing some rather interesting toy shops, is also nearby. i mostly descended upon and departed quickly from this area whenever i had to meet someone there, but i’m certain that some idle hours spent traversing the area would uncover gems here and there. nevertheless, i quite like the area — it’s convenient, diverse and effervescent.

entrance to Chinatown

a little carnival in Leicester Square

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i left London with a heavy heart, but writing this post has made me miss it even more :(

after thrice missing the train to Nottingham (consequence of the lethal combination of oversleeping, taking way too long in the shower and the conniving machinations of Fate – he deliberately left me in darkness), i successfully cried my way to a free ticket onto the 11.15 Nottingham-bound train today. not bad eh? so i’m now lying on my stomach in songjun’s house in Dunkirk drinking perfectly-made hot honey with lemon, happy and contented while songjun snores away on the futon. Dunkirk is a little suburb in Nottingham that i recently learned is dubbed Taman Dunkirk Jaya because of its principally Malaysian population. i am jealous; how nice it must be to be constantly surrounded by lahs, yau mou!s and cibais. and the promise of marmite chicken…

anyway, because i am deathly afraid of missing my train back to London, i have vowed to not fall asleep tonight. so in the extra time that has newly been opened up to me, i have somewhat learned how to use iPhoto, and therefore finally have some photos of London to show! happy day! folks who have been emailing me about the dearth of photos in my blog, may you now be appeased!

#1 london suburbia

#2 a small toy store somewhere in south kensington. sigh <3 london is full of adorable shops like this one

#3 a toy sink from the shop. the 6-year-old me would have loved one of these. actually.. so would the 20-year-old me

#4 mince pies! in my younger days when i devoured enid blyton books like no other, i imagined the delightful mince pies of enid blyton’s world to be these robust, savoury pies stuffed with scrumptious minced pork and piquant herbs. alas, this sublime image has been destroyed! mince pies are actually sweet; in fact, they are awfully reminiscent of pineapple tarts. not that pineapple tarts are awful, it’s just that mince pies were a lot more delectable in my imagination…

#5 Tamtim and a mince pie. haha! he liked them a lot more than i did

#6 more cute London shops. this one is a baking utensils + cake deco shop. sigh! i was too afraid to go in, lest i feel like i must own everything in there. ginny, you understand me right.

#7 me and the famed Four Seasons roast duck restaurant in chinatown. verdict: VERY good duck. i think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that it’s the ‘best duck in the world’, because it’s really of a different category from the roast duck of malaysia and hong kong (the Four Seasons duck sits in an absolutely yummy dark sauce whereas the roast duck we’re used to back home is usually drier), but it’s so good that i could eat it every day. actually, i kind of did for the first week i was in london.

i also went to Gold Mine in Bayswater, where the renowned chef of Four Seasons supposedly ran to, and i do actually think the duck there is yummier, though marginally so. the sauces are different, i believe, but Gold Mine has the one-up of this tofu dish called pei pa tofu. it is to die for!

#8 the Tube. i like it SO much more than NYC’s subway — faster, cleaner, and less sketch. i definitely do not miss the drunk and violent bums nor the smells of eau de dog pee in the New York subway stations…

#9 punctuality, as they say, is the thief of time

#10 making friends with the lions of Chinatown.

#11 Gloucester Road station, the tube station i see every day!

#12 outside the Adelphi Theater, where i watched Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. it was the first West End musical i watched upon arriving in London. i dont know… it’s just not the kind of musical i like. it was campy, tacky and i could not appreciate the music at all :\

#13 voon emerging from the tandas! this picture is just too cute

#14 Tower Bridge in the night, en route to Valerie’s apartment, which is fast gaining the reputation of Malaysia Hall #2!

#15 andrew, emily and the glenister bros. look at andrew’s big happy smile!

#16 cute teapot i totally wanted

#17 calling home from the steps of a hotel near Bond Street. i was shocked to find that a mere 3 minute call cost me something like 8 pounds. T____T le sigh. never again.

#18 obligatory tourist photo with a london phone booth. i think i was making a face cos i couldnt open the door. mou sik fan!

#19 tamtim and i – partners in crime!

#20 tamtim acting fierce

#21 i also watched Les Miserables! which i loved to bits. officially my favorite musical now.

#22 the staff at Odeon Cinemas have their favorite movie printed on their nametags! this guy misspelled Memento, but he knew a lot about movies, which made for good conversation as i was getting popcorn

#23 at the Hummingbird Bakery, where i had the best red velvet cupcake ever. ever. ever. ever. more pictures another day!

#24 at a secondhand bookshop in Portobello Market

#25 another secondhand bookshop, but this one is in Camden. secondhand bookshops are without a question the one thing i like most about London. i think i’ve bought something like 15 books since i got here, and for under 30 pounds. /smug. some gems: Vita Brevis by Jostein Gaarder, a collection of letters by D.H Lawrence, a critical analysis on Virgil’s Aeneid, and a book of Oscar Wilde short stories for 20 pence. happiness :)

ah, london. i cant quite get enough of you.

it’s almost 7 in the morning here and my door is ajar, leaking the light of burning midnight oil and the sounds of thoughtful keystrokes. concerned floormates keep poking their head in and telling me to get some rest, but i dont have the heart to tell them that i’m actually not doing any work. i am, in fact, just sitting here eating nutella on crackers and looking up on wikipedia the process of getting leg cramps. basically just pretending that i’m busy studying for finals when i’m actually not. it’s an academic strategy of the highest degree; i dont expect anyone to understand. resigned sigh.

and to add to my growing list of pre-finals procrastinatory undertakings, guess what i just found! a whole bunch of photos from my yesteryears!!! when i was 15 and 16 or some tender age like that. i keep saying ‘2 years ago’ when referring to these pictures in conversation; for some reason i’m stuck in the notion that i’m only 18. but i’m not. i’m 20. so old already. resigned sigh again.

anyways, finding old pictures always calls for reminiscence. so here goes!:

#1 one chinese new year’s at sieutheng’s. man we all look so young

#2 one of kezanne’s annual poolside parties. come rain or shine or menstruation, when it’s kezanne’s birthday, everyone has to get thrown into the pool.

#3 a happy picture of jovann and me <3

#4 hahahaha! caught in the bathroom!

#5 sitting atop the elephant at british india. haha. wow i just realized i havent seen that pair of shoes since my mom stole them. it’s been YEARS!

#6 omg these red wall photos. i took them with vicnan. we dubbed this one the tampon ad photo

#7 vicnan is so tall that when he jumps, his head goes out of the frame

#8 see how tall he is!! i only come up to his shoulder

#9 trying to be one with the greatest love of my life: Ice Cream! tamtim took this photo, on one of the first few times we ever met. now we are like best bitch buddies. sigh, how time flies, tamtim. i remember a time you once called yourself Jak. and Artificially Verbose. and waxed lyrical about lomo cams. now you are soon to be a full fledged trader or credit risk whatever. i’m so proud of you <3

#10 ahh the bunch of us at the green pow wow, circa 2005. we’ve all grown and done so much in 3 short years. i can still remember all our pow wow jokes.. and all the stupid poses alvo taught us to do, hahaha. just look at him in that picture!!!

#11 this picture evokes some really strong memories for me. maybe cos it was the first and last time i was ever in my school’s bio lab. haha. gawd. i dont even remember what i used to do during lab hours… i think i just sat in class with the lights off doing crossword puzzles with waimin or some such. infinitely more engaging than bio lab.

#12 HAHAHAHA SOHAI BETUL

#13 o.m.g Short Brother used to be so cute. why now not cute anymore T___T

#14 ooh i remember this. this was at Cheer 2004 or 2005, which was pretty much an annual ritual for me. i even went to watch the competition in the years after graduating high school. that’s aira and me with farah, who was in the St Mary team

#15 this, folks, is Rockstar. AZLAN WHERE DID YOU PUT ROCKSTAR

#16 a bunch of us girls during a student exchange to Seoul. wow we really do look so young. christine looks so cute with bangs!!

#17 hahaha we were falling asleep on the loooong train ride from downtown Seoul back to Banghwa where we lived, so stupid Elliot decided to mock us by sleeping on the floor. i’ve lost contact with everyone i met in Seoul, including Elliot. quite sad :( ah, the days before the advent of facebook and friendster!

#18 loooong ice cream for RM2 in Myeongdong. sigh look at those girls :) they hosted us when we went to Seoul. i’m sure they’ve all grown up into fine young ladies by now.

#19 once upon a time, Ivan and i were actually capable of taking normal pictures. this is us in front of the Lion King set at Cempaka. in ivan’s defense, he doesnt always dress up like a priest; he was playing the violin for the orchestra of the Lion King musical!

#20 hahahaha this is what we did to ivan on his 17th birthday. with chocolate brownies!

#21 oh my. i’m getting vivid memories of those glorious cakes… sigh. raya in malaysia rocks big time

#22 azlan and i at my 2nd fav starbucks! this is the one in mont kiara, where i used to go and study for SPM because it was the -only- starbucks in the klang valley that’s open 24 hours. and even that’s only on weekends.

#23 i heart azlan cos he always layans me when i want to take stupid photos. azlan i miss you T___T please stay in london over winter break…

#24 one christmas eve with the gang. i think we cooked dinner that night… did we? what did we cook though?!

#25 sieutheng and i. sieutheng i love you! why are we not putting the webcam i gave you that year to good use

#26 hahahaha such children we are. though i’m pretty sure we would do the exact same thing right now if we were all in mid valley at midnight and there was a big beautiful CNY center-court feature..

#27 pinkpau and the pinkpau!

#28 and this is my desk at home. actually, two desks ago. looking at this picture is making me sad that i’m not going home for winter break. when i packed to come here, i left a lot of things behind because i thought i would be back in december and could bring the stuff over then. things like.. framed photos of me and my friends and family, all my books, my socks and scarves, my toy ducks, my curtains.. and my heart. now i’ll have to wait another 6 months before i can go back and get all those things. haih.

ahh, years gone by. when i have time, perhaps over winter break, i wanna share some of the best stories from those years of my life. but for now, it’s back to the books for me! wish me luck for my finals, folks :( i’m gonna need it.

… 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 :)