Amaranth

Amaranth was pretty good. I don't have anywhere near enough time to blog with pictures, but may as well say what happened. It was a Thursday so I went for my usual class then lunch/dance practice with a few MCAC-ers. We've gotten a lot better now. That was our last practice, people still screw up occasionally (including me) so I hope things will go well. Then I went to my final class then ran back home to get ready for Amaranth.

Makeup, hair and stuff was kind of a disaster but oh well. Yeah, dragged myself to the bus loop to get the bus with everyone else. Jasmine reappeared again! I didn't see her since the winter marathon. She was looking good. Raine was just beyond cute. And the guys... wore suits and stuff like usual, lol. Yeah, it was nice seeing everyone dressed up. So yeah, travelled to Flinders with Raine, Jasmine, Lee, Nazri and Owen. Met up with Drue and Chris at Flinders where we took the tram down. My heels killed me having to walk in it at the city.

Amaranth itself was... really different. Quoting Jasmine, it was a night where we associated with people who would not.. normally associate with. Firstly, it made me really want to cosplay. I wish I did now. Manifest will probably make it worse. Just cause you know... to normal people you're probably some freak, dressing up with costumes and wigs. At Amaranth and Manifest, looking normal is so boring no one gives a crap about ya. I'm gonna go home during December and sew a costume myself!

Jules and Casini (who thought Amaranth was on Saturday) unfortunately didn't come to Amaranth despite paying. So we had two empty seats at the table. We also had a stranger there, and we were really wondering who it was. We figured it was a female from the name 'Michelle' but... OMFG, when she.. or uhh... he.. it.. walked up to us we were all like...

Us: O_____________________________O

Yeah, our stranger on the table was this huge western man (like over 6 feet) cross dressing in this large dress and has hair reaching his waist. Now, we are all pretty accepting people when it comes to cross dressing (heck, Chris is cross dressing and he's one of our closest friends), we're MCAC afterall, we're like made up of people with weirder hobbies from societies norms, but even this guy was a bit.. too.. hardcore for us.

The food was... pretty shitty if you ask me. Entree was this bread and sauce. Main meal was chicken with pretty shitty sauce (OMFG Nazri's was terrible... I feel bad for him, he had the vegetarian meal cause Amaranth doesn't have halal meat) and dessert was okay with the cake although it made you sick after eating too much of it.

Entertainment was a mixed bag. The dancing was alright. Since I suck at dancing I generally just got pulled along by Raine, Jasmine and Drue. Drue was teaching me how to waltz at one point. Me and Chris have agreed now to take dancing classes next sem (although I was always going to after being inspired by Syahir like 6 weeks ago). As Jasmine put it, the ideas were good for this ball but the execution was poor. They didn't stick to the schedule. But it was a first try and I would say a pretty good one.

People's costumes were interesting. Some noteworthy ones I like were xxxHoLIC/TRC's Yuuko, Code Geass's Euphemia, KKM's Conrad and the Transformer guy! Yeah, Amaranth finished, Raine was going about trying to find whether there was an afterparty (it ended at 10!) but we just decided to go home in the end. I think some of the people in my group were disappointed without drinks (Amaranth was open to 16 year olds, thus no drinks). Drue disappeared while waiting for the train though (think he ran off somewhere in the city).

Dunno if I will go again next year. Didn't really thin it was worth $55. I mean costumes I can just go to Manifest to see. I might if Chris, Jasmine, Drue and co. are still going next year (sadly Raine won't be around....)

Education Assignment 1.

Aww... crap. I thought my assignment was 2000 words. Until I read the booklet and it says that the oral presentation I did earlier a few weeks back is 400 words equivalent. That means it's 1600 words. I've written like 1500 words and haven't even gotten to the point yet (cause I thought I would have at the most another 700 words to do that). Bah. Now to cut down and edit to make sure whatever I write is gonna get me a C at least (preferably a D or HD though). I really have to start reading these things.

I set my alarm for 5 AM but I didn't actually get up until 7 (too tired I guess). At 9 past I went to Brandon Park to get my weekly groceries. Or uhh... since the upcoming week I'm kind of either busy rushing with my communication assignment, or just not around because of Manifest and stuff, I decided not to buy fresh food. I'll just be munching on canned food and bread for the week when I'm actually at home. No cooking and unhealthy food ftw!~ I spent an unnecessary amount of time at Brandon Park though because I was looking at make-up and dresses and stuff for Amaranth. I was tempted to get another dress but I decided not too. Since the ones I saw there aren't that nice, I should just wear what I have now and go to Malaysia to buy nicer ones for next years balls. Heh.

Before leaving, I ran into Amanda and the group (made up of Sharon, Jia Chi, Stan and Jonathan). I remember them saying they would come at past 10:30. I couldn't tell them I have been at Brandon Park since 9:30 (like I said I would the day before).

I didn't buy much food, but the make-up sure burned a hole in my wallet. Ugh, I never thought I would see the day I would actually be buying make-up. What has happened to my past tomboy-ish messy self. Nooo~ it has gone. My uni friends probably wouldn't be believe me if I said in the past I didn't really do any of these girly things (buy accessories and jewelry and have like 1000 pairs of shoes). And have people like Manju point out to me each time I wear something remotedly more girly ("Oh! Celine, you look girlier now.") Just as they don't believe me when I said or say actually that I'm shy and sutff. Yeah, next Thursday I shall be experimenting with make-up for Amaranth.

Oh and Amaranth seating arrangements (we had seat arrangements? T-T) came out. I'm next to Jules and... the random person on our table (since we had a group of 9 on a 10 person table). I wanted to sit with the people I knew better but... oh well. I guess sitting with different people is a good thing also.