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some idiot threw the wedding cake last night

for most of the others it was a very good night

we were finishing early, surely going to be done by midnight

but then a stupid drunk decides to pick up the very expensive wedding cake and throw it around

then of course some other drunks thought it funny and everyone's having a cake fight

then the party was over

my mum, the sympathetic person that she is, actually gave the bride and groom a discount and made them quickly leave before the manager of the reception found out [and let them go through the discussions the next day instead of ruining their wedding day]

then got us to clean up the mess

scrap off the cake on the dance floor, then mop it off

and the rest of us with ice buckets of hot water, on our knees rubbing the carpet with napkins

then the manager comes out in the middle 'WHAT IS THIS?!'

it was quite scary

we had to stay back an extra hour because of that

half of the waiters were attending a wedding the next day, and i'm working again at that wedding

i didn't know i would tire so much, if i did, i would have put myself at a closer table.

my tables sucked

i had one table, which were a bunch of young people [tho older than me] that drank constantly and there was a particular girl who kept yelling at me for more beer and eating everyone's food

so, i was carrying a six pack of beer over from the par to the opposite side of the room between every course

the other table was bigger, the actual table was unnaturally bigger

which is good

and the people were older

which is good cos they don't drink alot and they are calmer

but they kept asking for stuff

like a lady came and changed to that table and i had to get a chair and setting and everything for her

and i took a while since i had to clear some plates and stuff

but then after i went through the trouble of grabbing a chair and finding a cover and everything i find that she's already grabbed a chair from another table

and they ate bloody slow

people would wander off and the people remaining wouldn't let me take away their food or the others would just sit there with the food half eaten saying they're not finished

how do they expect me to keep up if they won't finish eating so i can pack it up and bring out the next course while having to grab tonnes of beer and collecting empty bottles AND being on the other side of the room from both the kitchen and bar?

anyway

hoping today will be brilliant

and we've got lots of waiters attending so that will be interesting

it's my old neighbour's wedding, will also be able to see the girl who used to cut our hair!

on friday [boxing day] me and my brother planned to wake up at 6 and leave the house at 6:30 to be at chadstone by 7am.

but

we slept in till 6:30, left at 7 and got there at 7:30

which was still decently early

first shop i went into was jigsaw

i love their stuff

and it was 50% off everything!

i got a belt for my mum, which i quite like, if she doesn't want it i want it, and i purple shirt for myself

was tempted to get a blue dresss with gold patterns, and lots of the coats were beautiful...ahh but i thought 'this is only the first shop! better save the spending for other potentially better sales'

didn't go to many shops

after jigsaw i had a look in kookai, tried some dresses on, moved on to myer

the dress i had been wanting to get since last month wasn't there anymore, but it's ok, it wasn't that great

i found another dress for $60 [previously $200], a review cardigan, some shorts, a few tshirts

thats from myer

the lines pissed me off

had to line up to try stuff on and to pay

lined up once to pay, finally got there and the lady says i have to go to another counter cos they couldn't take off the little thingy on the review cardigan

so i had to line up at another counter with an even longer line

and it was stupid

then had to line up again wen i went downstairs to try on stuff and to pay

finally got some bathers

got it from jetty surf

i hate surf shops

the people there are annoying

with their ruffled hair, flip flops and surfy attitude

while lining up

a whole group of people cut in by making a new branch in the line

pissed me off

left my brother to pay for it while i went to look at a shoe shop

found some shoes that i liked

tony bianco, $80

but decided to stick to my previously chosen pair in knox

also got something from dangerfield for $40

it's a playsuit

thoe i didn't know it at the time, i thought it was a shirt or a short dress

took me a while to figureout why i couldn't fit through the opening

bought some creams and stuff from l'occitane for my aunty

had lunch and went home

slept

it was only around 11 by that time

woke up and pushed my older brother to take me to knox

there i bought some sandals from betts

then went to myer

where my brother bought some belts while i looked through the suspenders

i have decided

i want white 25mm y-shaped suspenders

then did a quick scan of the big leather bags

tried on all the hats and bought one

bought a country road bag for brian [side bag, don't even THINK of those big sausage ones]

and then we went home

tired

julz's birthday party tomorrow

jade's masquerade party on saturday

Another Email and More

Hi Jo
no jonny hasn't changed his mind about the business, it's still a drag! but i've thought a little more on the subject of our business. i think what i'm uncomfortable with is that if we sell it, there will be someone else working under our family name. i'd prefer if we just shut it down leaving it a memory that we can reminisce back on.
don't worry about the knitting lessons, there probably won't be any time!
there's a dance called Ska? i know of ska music but i really can't imagine the dance that would go with that!
i haven't really gotten to the stage of going to art exhibitions, being able to look at a piece and making any comments past 'nice' or 'interesting'. i went to the art deco exhibition with the school this year, i liked that, i think it's knowing the reasoning and constraints behind the art that interests me. i haven't really picked a category of art that i like, but i guess i have a bit of a tendency to lean in the direction of prints.
i saw the mamma mia movie and i loved it! i plan to buy it sometime when the dvd gets cheaper. yesterday i finally bought the La Vie En Rose dvd! i haven't watched it yet but i'm in the middle of Pan's Labryrinth, mum got hooked and is making me wait to watch it with her!
about our canberra trip
could you help me out by giving a few pointers on what to pack?
mum says that there probably won't be anyone able to pick us up from the airport, so i'll be looking for a way to get to the glen waverley train line. feels much more exciting than just being picked up by mum! so once we get to melbourne, will you be coming over to our place or going to settle down...where will you be staying in melbourne?
i see you as the writing kind of person, do you keep a journal? there's something about hardcovers that i just cannot resist!
yesterday i went to see an asian doctor with mum and dad in the morning, met up with some friends to go shopping in the afternoon and had dinner and coffee [hot chocolate in my case] with jonny, jo and aunty ratna. by the end of the day i was stuffed on pasta and chocolate! it was raining a little and a bit chilly since jonny had forgotten the coat i had asked to bring for me, but it's easy to forget when huddling up with aunty ratna under an umbrella!
i hope the weather will be good next week!
if it's inconvenient to pick me up and drop me off at the airport i'm alright to take public transport and do a little walking if you'd just tell me the way. there's something exciting about the thought of being in a new place and getting lost [if you ignore the whole dark alleyway, drugs and rape side of it!]
seeing you even sooner

jess.i'm a bette davis fan

and now, some points i left out of my email to my grandma!

the dvds i bought yesterday:
la vie en rose
the little mermaid trilogy
singing in the rain
greys anatomy [first season]

it was a bit of a quest looking for la vie en rose! the first jb i went to was out of stock [as well as black books] and then brittany and julia left me with another 2hrs to wander around till jonny would get to the city

so i decided to just go a-walking and try and stumble apon the dvd jb shop...in the rain

then i needed to pee

so i went into myer...and walked and walked without finding the toilets

asked a lady with a european accent in the beauty section for the general direction of the toilets

it was upstairs

of course

and for some reason, everytime i passed the entry alarms for any department and shop, in AND out, the alarm would go off

which delayed me even longer since i was too scared to pass a particular alarm

then once i got sick of wander around for the long-awaited stumble

i went into melbourne central looking for someone with a friendly face to ask directions

...took me a while

i went into quite a few shops suspiciously looking at the stock while trying to get the courage to ask, then walking out with my alarm-setting-off-bag of goodies

then i finally decided to ask a random indian guy in one of those booths in the middle of the...walky-area

ends up, i just had to go up the stairs [which lead to the exit] turn right, and walk up past the traffic lights

ahh i was so close

found la vie en rose

and the little mermaid trilogy

but damnit black books was also out of stock

this means i'll have to pay a visit to knox every week until i find that box set!

got sunnies today

oroton too

free too

lol it was 'free' cos my parents had built up points or something...medicare...i don't know

but i got an eye chek, and my eyes are perfectly healthy

but not brian's! his show signs of possible future deteriation

hahahahahahahahaha

sigh....there's something about glasses that attract me too....

shame & vanity

i love working at the weddings

and although today we had 3 weddings and mum had long in advance booked all the waiters [which included me] to work 0n this particular day

and although my mum was very stressed about today, and allocated me the job of paying the waiters at the end of the night

i had to pull out at the last minute

because i look like a burn victim

and although i can take the shame of the staring eyes while buying groceries and going to the library

i cannot go to a formal event

and serve food

i feel very bad for wat i've done

so i will spend my day at home cleaning up the house

and dabbing my face with a cool wet towel

Blistering Blisters

my first blisters since i can remember!

got two

on both my pinky toes

it's painful

i wore heels two days in a row

not even full days

wore it yesterday 6hrs

and it was painful after a while, rest of day it hurt

but then the next morning it was ok

then i put them heels on again

silly me

hurt straight away, but no time to change outfit, would miss bus

so wore that for like 2-3hrs

and now i have blisters

that hurt wen anything touches/brushes against it

i don't know how to treat blisters

maybe i'll look it up

got work tomorrow

walking...

feet...

lol

stopped drinking the asian herbal medicine for around a month

and my skins gone bleh again

it feels terrible

atleast, while i had brilliant skin i cherished it

it felt good to wake up every morning and see some nice un-lumpy and un-red skin that felt HEALTHY

sometimes i think that once i find a new treatment for my skin my body slowly gets accustomed to it and then grows resistant to it

so while it mite work at the start it gradually becomes useless

lets hope thats not wat has happened to the latest treatment

cos i really believed this one to be a winner

hope it's all just because i was slack

although that would mean that i would have to buy this $80 of grain for the rest of my life

which i wouldn't mind, if i don't turn out to be a pov artist

and then i'd have to hope that the doctor stays in practice [since they make the medicine there on the spot] for ever

sleepy

gotten into the habit of staying up late, waking up early and sleeping during the day [nap]

so i will refrain from saying anything interesting and just...sleep

Through The Grapevine

sunday morning

me and brian were sleeping

and a fat fly flew into our room

buzzing

woke us both up

then we went back to sleep

i had a strange dream

it was like a movie

a bit like day after tomorrow

the earliest thing i can remember is my standing on a pier kind of thing, looking out at another island kind of place, like another city basically, and there were these dark clouds, lightning, thunder and torrents of rain coming down onto it

and it was strange cos the clouds were directly above it and very distinctly contrasting to the weather around it

where i was it was all sunny and there were seagulls and everything

and i got really scared

i had this feeling, i knew, that i'd survived one of those before and i knew, like a fact known by everybody, that it was coming to us next

and there was a moment where i was frozen and there was that whole slow motion-mode going on

with all the voices around me echoing

cos no1 else had noticed it

and then suddenly everyone was aware of it, and running

someone pulled me into a kind of shack by the pier

a little room with two beds in it and these two strange looking girls

and then there were these people walking past, like a kind of special organisation that were discussing, right outside the shak, how to best act in the face of the storm

they had stupid ideas like leaning a piece of wood across our door, it didn't even cover it fully

we came up with a better idea, i think it was something about sealing everyone in completely like silicon in the gaps and stuff

so we sneaked out past the people outside

and then i suddenly broke down

i was thinking that i'd already been brave once, survived it once before, why should i have to go through it again?

i ran, hysterically, to some kind of really posh hotel

snuck into the one of the pent houses or something

now the rest i can't really remember

but my plan was to hide out there

don't think it went well

didn't remember the dream until a light-bulb moment in the car

hmm

bought jasmine some perfume from body shop once for her b'day

she's never used it

but the other day i used it to the formal

i like it, cinnamon spice

wonder if she'll give it to me ^____^

wanna do some prining this holidays

tho only if i get screen printing equipment, will never got back to the sponge!

theres a shop in box hill north where the school gets their stuff from, had a look at the catalogue

pretty expensive!!

thinking of going to bridge road to get a whole bunch of the cheap singlets we found before and printing a whole lot of my old designs and giving them to my aunty to give to my cousin in vietnam

while doing my folio i got so sick of screen printing

never wanted to see a screen and squeegee again

but now i crave it

i need it!

how i wish i didn't have to do graphics [vcd] next year, and that instead i was doing art

then i could explore etching, lithography and wood cuts

but

not gonna give up on vcd!