A can of Sweetend Condensed Month

Well i haven't been blogging for a bit, just can't seem to make it part of my regular rouitine. anyway i'm just going to update you on what i've been up to this past month and a bit.

On a night like this:
Formal was on the 19th of November. Props to Saba and Sami for organising the formal and after party respectively.
I had pre formal drinks at pip's place in Castle Cove (which I walked to, warm afternoon sun plus walking plus hills equals one sweaty Charles), as ususal people decided to drink as much alcohol as they could (in moderation or secrecy because their parents were there), which led to several people busting to go to the bathroom on bus trip to the formal. Stand out memories of this pheomenon were 6 boys jumping off the bus BEFORE we got to the venue and doing their business between the gaps of someone's white picket fence, BM breaking a massive sweat just from the effort he was putting into not pissing his pants and all the girls (who had more sense to just hold it in because we were only a few minutes away from the venue) quicky walking off the bus and into the lobby in search of a bathroom.
Formal was at Le Montage in Liedchardt, which over looks a waterway of some kind. I said to myself that I'd get into plenty of photos that night and only ended up in 3 professional photos and a couple of photos taken by various friends cameras. That said i've come to realise im not much of a "photo whore". The food was good and the DJ's were ok, I ended up dancing untill the lights turned on and i had to run for the bus to the afters.
Afters was organised by Sami and she did a brilliant job considering all the shit that she got put through in the process. Originally we were supposed to be at the civic hotel, but due to legislation passed by the NSW state Govt, minors couldn't be in there without the company of a parent or nominated guardian. The problem was that a quater of the grade was under age and the legislation was only passed the week before the afters. Not a big problem you say? a week is a lot of time to organise guardians? true it is, but the after party company called yourafterparty.com.au only told our organiser that we had to have guardians at 10pm of the 17th... leaving only 1 full day to get guardians organised.
In the end we were moved to this korean restaurant called Kabow. to say that most people were disappointed is an understatement. All up the waiting lines people were complaining and bitching about how they paid to go to the civic and ended up in a korean restaurant.
To be honest it wasn't all that bad, people just had to forget their woes and have fun. The only bit about that night was the fact that the Djs kept raising the volume, which was ok at first... except they kept going... It got to one point where they were playing a track that had digitized harmonic ascending appeggios playing each bar. The accoustics of the basement that we were in was such that the second highest note of the appeggio would just resonate throughout the room. Couple with the volume that they were playing their music at, that one note was like a pin through the eardrums.
at 1 or 2 am my ear had had enough, so i went outside to find my friends sitting around. We decided to go to pancakes, but not realising the darling harbour franchise (although alot closer) was closed, spent 15 minutes walking to darling harbour to discover they were closed and then walking another 30 minutes to go to the Pancakes on the Rocks.
Good fun.

Past the 18th milestone:

My birthday is the next big event that i can remember, aside from vague memories of spending time with a few friends, hanging out with a couple of my cousins, my cousins boyfriend and some of his friends. Now for those of you who don't know my birthday is on the 8th of December, and this year, me being me, i had a small family get together, because i had left the planning of my birthday party too late. None the less i had a good time.

I started my celebrations at someone elses party in the blue mountains. half a month before i had gone with my cousin Katie to my second cousin Martin's house in the Blue Mountains, as a sort of end of HSC party. There we met quite a few of Martin's friends ( hey josh, hamish, sam, liz, rosie, kenny, jules, jullian, corey and ben if you're reading this) and on the train ride home (hello vanessa if you're reading this too) got invited by liz to her own birthday party on the 7th of December.

So kate and i, on friday the 7th hopped on the 4:something train to hazelbrook and met up with martin, had dinner at his place, got a lift to the station from Ian (martin's dad) and took the train
to springwood to find out what a real blue mountains party was like.
To say that it was great would not be doing it justice. Liz's party was awesome! Now i don't drink, smoke or take drugs, but im not morally against others doing it. This party was, as martin described it, more like a normal blue mountains party, some alcohol, some dope and a real relaxed chilled atmosphere, which is totally unlike sydney parties which are dancey and loud with alot of people hooking up. Liz had live music, african drumming, african dancing and fire twirling aswell which was great fun.

On that night martin also shared with me his theory on the two types of schools. He said that one type was an anti drugs pro slut school, where they don't use drugs (im talking about the majority of the students) on a casual basis but will go to a party to get drunk and hook up with some one. the other type was a pro drugs and anti slut school, which obviously is the opposite of what i said earlier. I can say that I went to a anti drugs pro slut school because most parties i go to in sydney are full of alcohol and all people talk about after is who hooked in with who.

anyway when the clock ticked over to the 8th of december i was watching the fire twirling and looking up at the multitude of stars in the blue mountains sky, which was a great way to spend the start of my 18th year of life.
back at home the next day, I planned a menu for my family birthday get together and spent my entire afternoon cooking, which was good fun. There weren't that many people there but I didn't mind. in the end i ended up getting $50 from my aunty Li, a tool kit from my uncle geoff, aunty linda and cousins Annie and Katie, a very philosphical card and a $300 gift card from my aunty mindy, uncle Tim and cousins andrew and jessica, the cook's companion by stephanie alexander and Maggie's Harvest by Maggie Beer (the cook in the cook and the chef) a few days late from my brother Alex, a braun electric shaver from my dad and a telescope from my mum. I was gob smacked at that. A TELESCOPE! i mean that would have to be the coolest most practical present i had ever gotten and I love practical gifts, after all
there's no sense in getting something that you can't use.

Seek and you shall find:
Now after all that excitement, i was supposed to find a job. unfortunatley for me, i had left looking for one too late as the hiring season for christmas casuals was over. Currently im still not working and bumming around the house, but things might get more active... but i'll tell you about that at another time.

well thats all I have for the moment, To all my friends who are reading this, i miss you guys alot and we need to hang out some time soon.

-Charles