wow...formal night was way cool...i'm not going to get into great detail until i've written it all down in my journal, but basically...

after school, rehearsed our act for about an hour, which ended with us being caught out by year 9s peering through the windows to either side of the classroom door, waiting to get into form assembly, which we conveniently forgot still occurred even though we had double free. after, we made the mad rush down to the city, where i pick up the buttonhole and corsage, my camera, and an extra black tie. a friend intercepted me with my suit, which he had gone to get from the store while i was rehearsing.
i then made pissbolted to mc station, and travelled by train to camberwell, on the classic 5-station express train. i got to rachel's house about half an hour late, and conveniently called her as she was doing her nails.
i got ready in about...an hour or so? after doing a mix and match of three shirts and two ties, and we left at 5:30 off to my friend's (cecil's) place. she looked rather dashing.
on arrival at cecil's house, he opened the door. in a fluoro orange suit. surprisingly enough, he did not look like a jaffa, but actually looked pretty cool. i finished doing my hair at his place, with the help of rachel, and she redid my tie...i'm wondering whether she is more pedantic about ties and canyons than i am...!!!
so we made our way by limo to the ngv intl, where we arrived at just the right time to get a space against the pavement. no double parking for us. our arrival also coincided with the arrival of other friends, where we all gathered together to take fotos, and hug and pat guys on the backs, etc.
rachel and i decided to make our way in, where we did the meet and greet. however, she did that, not me...lol. some of her friends came, so yes. she introduced them to me...
about 15 minutes later (ed: finally...) we all made our way in, and i introduced her to the so-called "group". she left shortly after to go to the loo, where i was then told that my friend (wang) was totally eyeing her off. ooo..i so wanted to take a strike at him at that moment. but i didn't. after she came out, i took her around, to meet friends at the school which used to be at camberwell high as well.
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i would like to continue with this story, but its getting long-winded and i'm pressed for time. but i got a new camera to replace my old cybershot! with this new novelty, the blog is probably going to turn into one of the foto/text - fusion kind, so watch out 56k-ers...but i will try and make the pics small (byte-wise).

PS: hail non-posed people photographs!

CORRECTION: BIRTHDAY IS IN ONE WEEK, ONE HOUR AND THREE MINUTES EXACTLY.