DreaDrabbles -- GATES

GATES

A tiny face,

An outstretched arm,

A smile freely given,

Innocence out in the

Open.

Paper plate faces,

Coloured walls of hand prints,

Chewed up toys and crayons,

Mischief from minds that are

Open.

Uniform cuts framing faces,

Green ink following red,

Voices restrained for perfect harmony,

Slowly learning to

Close.

Fine lines that bracket,

Veins protruding without strain,

Blocked ears and painted lips,

Guarded eyes that see only rain.

White walls in glass ones,

Only squares to be seen,

No roundness or softness permitted,

No trace of the laughter that had been.

It always happens eventually,

They supposed,

The gates are finally

Closed.

BEACH HOLI @ SENTOSA

A while back, a bunch of us celebrated the Indian festival of colours, or Holi, at Sentosa. We went to Azura dressed in white tops, hoping to get nice splatters of colour on them, but the people around us had other plans... I wore denim shorts there and brought fbts along, and THANK GOD I DID, because the event was a lot less dry than I expected. I guess I kinda assumed it would be like the Colour Run thing that people do, but like a... colour dance?? Since we were technically at a club.

I'm really starting to like the headless ootd thing
for some reason...

I met up with Jun at Beach Station where she was spending some happy time WITH A FREAKING GIANT SNAKE. I'm not actually that opposed to snakes, but letting one around your neck just doesn't seem like a good idea to me...

presentingggg... Jun! THE SNAKE WHISPERER

BEACH TIME! plus, nice legs XD
L-R: jen, me, steph, liling, jun

We proceeded to join Jen, Liling and Steph, who actually met up in the morning, cause Jun and I had church. Well... I had church, but seeing that I'd got back from Hawaii the morning before, I was massively jet lagged and missed it. Oops. Oh well. We met up and stashed our stuff in the lockers. We wound up not having enough space in 2 lockers for our slippers, so we literally just chucked them onto the lockers, out of sight, hoping no one would take them.

We danced together and met a couple of really nice, funny people who would literally shake around like boneless jellyfish to the music. It was HILARIOUS. I also got really tired really quickly and even got a freaking stitch in my side. From dancing. Not even legit dancing. So unfit. All in all, it was super fun and I was thankful that I could catch up with the girls again. It was especially strange going from seeing Jen and Liling every day to just somewhat regularly, so having this "girl time" was great! -insert warm fuzzy feelings here-

We got mostly purple powdered dye, hence the explosion of that single colour all over us. I was a bit disappointed because the back of my shirt turned out nicer than the front hahaha, it had red and yellow and more pink on it. Also, we were told there would be food, and did expect it to be more expensive, since hello, Sentosa and all, but it was freaking outrageous. Can't remember exactly, but I do remember we decided to just go hungry and go get food outside. We also weren't allowed out until we'd gotten clean, but then saw tourists who were covered in what is best described as rainbow unicorn poop get on to the monorail. Oh well. Oh yeah, another thing, THIS SHIT DOES NOT COME OFF. I was stained pruple for DAYS. geez.

vid is courtesy of steph, who hopefully is ok with me posting it. THANK YOU ^v^ 

Excuse the fat arms haha, as I said, UNFIT. Also, the Japan/Hawaii posts are coming, but my dad cleared the SD card after uploading the pics to his com, and proceeded to leave the country (=____=) I'm also going to Malaysia again, this time with one of my cousins as well, so yeah, more delays... Sorry! Heh heh...

Signing off with sunshine, sparkles, sakura petals and purple skin,

Andrea (~^v^)~