ahem ahem. ecoutez si vous plait. merci beaucoup. Tous les jours sauf aujourd'hui!(today oh today of all days...)

was supposed to wake up extra early today to do some urgent grocery shopping (being the procrastinator i am, i've left it to the last square of tp to get some more...) and to make goode of my glorious weekend off. well, i got up early enough (for the time i actually crawled into bed) and cleaned up my room and created a nicer, more liveable messy space. wonderful. then hung out with my hyper active, 'e'-popping housemate who just moved back for the 2 week break from college (yaaay). then, went to meet a friend (moo's trish) for an appointment that had been set up 2 whole weeks in advance! after attacking a sumptious pear+choc tart and downing our coffees, we adjourned to fed square where a BIG ASS open-air dance party for peace had been organized by various melbourne city depts (eg. vic health....hmmmmm...oh did i mention that john so, lord mayor of melb, patronised the cafe on thursday? heh...we had to try real hard not to break out in our own renditions of "welkam tu ow byuhteefoo sihtay" whilst he was there...we're so mean). the festival, Earthdance began at 8am and went on for 12 hours straight. awesome stuff. when we got there, the music had progressed to techno-type stuff (so it was like a massive rave...but with only a few feral ravers...most of the audience was made of the hippy/grunge sort). although i'm not into that sort of music, the whole vibe from the area and the dancers around just really got me in the mood. and i spotted quite a few ppl from uni...familiar faces. *moo..we saw windsor...raving.. :O)* didnt stay till the end, went home instead to pig out on pizza wif reg & maliq. and somewhere between ordering pizza and picking up maliq next door, i LOST MY MOBILE!! and ohmygoodness, i am MAJORLY LOST without it!!!!!! UGH UGH UGH. i still havent found it. worst bit is that my fully charged phone has been switched off (it was on the last time i saw it). so i've either dropped it and it's broken into pieces, or i've dropped it and someone has picked up a creditless phone. dammit. hopefully it turns up at some point. (please please please) by losing my phone, i managed to sabotage an evening that was supposed to be akin to a set-up/date between two friends [me being the 'mutual friend' :O) ]. sigh.

there must be something i can do right...i'll find my niche someday, hopefully!!.
the impromptu night did turn out a lot better than expected though..we didnt manage to meet up with the other party (they must've left early or changed plans...ahem), BUT had an evening of awesome live music @ Rob Roy. yep, poor kid didnt get to make his moves today, and got stuck with me...all because of a misplaced phone! :O) Jen Cloher + The All About Mes were amazing. although i did miss watching deborah conway, ruby's grace, and bernie hayes trio, i think jen cloher absolutely made up for it!!! plus, i'll get to watch Ruby's Grace today at their special sunday arvo gig! ('twill be a nice close to this music appreciation weekend, methinx). after the gig, they spun music from the 70s,80s,early 90s, and brit punk rock(my fave!!). we decided to pub/club hop after that. managed to catch a bit of the Trojan Horns (a reggae/acid jazz outfit), then moved on to the Perseverance Bar for some commercial dancing moosic. a couple of shots later and many many many lemon-lime-bitters later(for me, at least), we were on our hyper way home..on foot. :O) heh. got home close to 4...and still have yet to make amends with my bed. soon soon.

missing all our pub outings and antics

love hugs kisses and goode vibes

i'm such a sicko...it really was one of those days where everything and anything could've happened to me..ms.klutz in person. actually, it's been one of thoseweeks. i'm suffering the repercussions of having had TOO much sleep over the weekend. and of course, last week i was uber-happy...what goes up must come down (at some point...as the universal laws of nature dictate), so now i am sorta coming down..grumpy. i'm like the bad-ass dwarf. plus, today i had butterfingers (and was being absolutely lazy..so didnt want to use my brain at all). yes, ladies and gentlemen...i dropped an ENTIRE box of sausage rolls. on the floor. and saved one. (yes, i got a well-deserved pat on the back and a big thwack on the head). and then to top it all off, i had a function to handle this morning. so i go up to the boardroom, and there are all these corporates that recognize me (cos i'm there most days+"e function chiq"). one of them decides to be friendly and strikes up small talk whilst i arrange the tea/coffee/muffins. and then, one of his colleagues (in a low voice) teases him knowing each other. oh ew. ew ew ew. erm, yeh, don't mind me while i try to blend in with the muffins. like OHMYGOOODNESSSSS. but i got let off work early today (it worked both ways: less hours=less oppportunity for me to drop things+more time for me) and decided to take the long road home. well worth the 2 hour walk...sort of. my weight's still the same, but i managed to dodge the cars that chose to move as i moved across the road and didnt fall when i stubbed my foot (on nothing,btw). yaay.

feeling thankful for the small things

WORD UP! i've spent the day mostly within the confines of my room, with my trusty computer and radio-clock for company. yes, i'm re-enacting the moments of my chaotic assignment periods from the last 3 years, with a touch of nostalgia. it's funny, though, how i quite consciously pull myself into check every time i start to reminisce about school life. it's like i wont let myself get into that mode because it's so...cliche.. and because it feels as if it's expected of you...once a phase or stage has passed in one's life, it's an expectation of society (?) that one will think back in years to come about it...and somehow, it will (or should) have a (thick) layer of sugar dust on it. hmmmmm. but still...it is kind of nice having things to reminisce about. just like how i LOVE looking at photos and remembering incidences or events linked to the captured image. especially with the collection of photos i have... laughter and goode vibes all around!

Wonderful Stuff

there's a certain degree of difficulty describing the feeling(s) i've been experiencing all week long...very spring, i think. happiness radiating from the insides, seemingly without a cause... "provocation" without any. whatever it is, it's like a wonderful sense of the warm and fuzzy. may all of you radiate with happiness too!! WARM AND FUZZY FEELINGS AND BIG HUGS to all!!!

"..look for the girl with the broken smile, ask her if she'd wanna stay a while...and she will be loved..." Maroon 5

so sweet. a sincere individual reaches out a hand, not realizing the greater good of the deed. small gestures that make a world of difference. corny as it sounds, the small things do really count. even if in reality that smile meant to do no more than just express personal content, the mirror image it commands can mean so much more for another. for the most part, 'tis a wonderful feeling. it's almost like being showered with petals of sunshine, rainbow rays, chocolate drizzles,love packaged in this, the age of consumerism (as we think we know it/know how to appreciate it).

LOVE IS MANY A SPLENDID THING