Mardi Gras

Hey all,

Just want to have a short update as it's late and I'm not really in a mood to write.

Yesterday, I attended my first Mardi Gras parade ever. A group of friends and I went to the city to check the parade out right after Lasertag (which wasn't that fun...). It was quite late when we went so the parade was over by then. What was left were streets full of litter and people.

It was like China. Everybody flooded the streets and most people were in weird costumes of all sorts. Gays and lesbians were also largely present, as they dress up in eccentric costumes. Peacock tails, fairy wings, bikini dresses were all common. Some of the special ones included wearing a tight underwear and suspenders without a shirt on. It was a good but different experience from the ones I have had before in my life.

Sadly, I didn't bring my camera with me. So I didn't take any photos. But one of my friends, James, did use his Galaxy SII to snap some photos of us posing with some of the people in costumes though. It was quite funny. Everyone was all quite friendly and they were all willing to snap photos with random strangers.

After walking around the streets for an hour or two, we decided to head back. But most of the roads were closed off to buses and cars so we had to walk quite a distance to actually get to a bus stop. By then, we were quite close to our dorm already so we decided to walk/semi-run back. The weather was quite windy and cooling so the walk home was smooth.

When we almost reached our dorms, for some reason we decided to head off to a park opposite, where we played around with an exhilarating flying fox in the playground. We played around for a bit before heading back to our dorms to chill. Lisa, who you can consider the head of our dorm's resident council, brought us to her room to have our handprints on a poster on her wall. She painted our hands and we just smacked them on the posters. A really cool idea, I feel. Following that came ice cream, which I offered. We just chilled a bit while we ate our ice cream down in the dining area. We went to bed straight after that.

It was a good day. I liked it. I know that there won't be many more days like that but I'm glad that I had that day. Thanks Lisa, James, James (there were two James), Evan and Neil.

PS: Tomorrow's the first day of school. I'm not exactly nervous nor am I excited. I'm kind of in a foul mood right now so I don't really want to think too much about school. I just want to promise myself that I will study hard because my parents paid lots to have me come here and I'll be wasting their money and my time here if I don't even try. After 8 and a 1/2 months of holiday, I think I'm ready for school. May tomorrow unfold itself. Cheers.