May, in pictures

When starting a blog post, I always get stuck on the title. Each and every time. I guess the fickle side of my personality is to blame.
As I sit with my fingers frozen, poised over the keyboard, multiple ideas for a possible title flick through my mind - only to be shot down immediately after, their brief existence as painful as my indecision, as I try to summarise the many different events contained in one particular blog post into a single, short phrase.
Finally after much ransacking of my brain and endless, unnecessary deliberation, I give up and settle for a thoughtless, uninspiring and ultimately dull title which was probably the first thing that popped into my head when I began writing.
This is especially evident in a post like this where a lot of stuff happens but none of which is eventful enough in itself to fill a whole post by itself.
"May, in pictures?? What kind of a name is that?" thinks Edward to himself.

Aaaand, cut.
Wow, that particular rambling was long and awkward. You can go ahead and file that one under first world problems.
Back to the pictures. Why am I showing you pictures of uneaten food and dirty tables?
It was my Mum's birthday, and as such we took her out to lunch. Not much happened really, it was just lunch. Oh except I got to try fried ice cream for the first time. I don't really know what I expected, it literally is just ice cream that is fried.

The moon looked pretty damn cool in May. Oh yeah, this month apparently was the month of the supposed "super moon". It didn't look all that different to me, but then again I am visually impaired (I have to wear glasses constantly) so don't take my word for it. I tried to take pictures of it, however, not having a tripod at this point in time, they turned out shaky and unusable...oh well, only 13 months until the next one. 

A familiar feeling came upon me as I desperately tried to finish my animation for Design Studio, as the third and final brief consisted of creating an animation based on your haiku. Above is a test run of my character running. 
And of course, me being me, I left this project till the very last minute, and then attempted to finish everything within the space of a week when I had been given 4 weeks.

I don't think I did too badly.

I hate it when YouTubers say "watch in HD". I'LL WATCH IT HOWEVER I WANT.
But seriously, watch in HD.
Believe it or not, I did that in Windows Movie Maker. Yeah, it was hell.
Other than the many, many frustrations associated with not having a usable video editor, it was actually really fun making it. Animation is fun. I was looking forward to this brief all Semester.
Even the drawing each individual person by hand part.

My process is pretty shoddy and hobo-ish, but it's the end result that counts, right?
Yeah well, to end this post on a negative note - somebody ran over the water meter in our front garden, then drove away without bothering to tell us. It was an enjoyable few hours waiting in the dark for a repairman to come fix it. And then a few more enjoyable hours waiting in the dark while he fixed it.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to turn on every tap in the entire house and have not a single drop of water come out at all?
At first it's extremely interesting. Then it starts to get quite annoying.

Don't watch the video, it's rubbish. I don't even know why I recorded it.
Some people upload inspirational videos or educational videos to YouTube. Videos that are of use to the world and hold a large amount of value.
I upload videos of water spraying out of pipes.


Post soon. I'm going backwards in time.

FLORENCE

OH MY GOD, FLORENCE.
Truth be told I didn't know what to expect, since this was my first time going to a concert.
Yeah that's right, blah blah, I'm a sad kid.
Anyway the concert was at Rod Laver Arena, and at the last minute I got ditched by Selina so I had to somehow find my own way there.
After losing my way a bit, I decided to follow the massive crowds of people walking down the street, assuming they were going to Rod Laver too.
I wasn't wrong.
Here's a pic of me waiting for Selina to arrive. I was totally expecting her to be late, but whaddya know.

They actually weren't allowing cameras into the concert, but I snuck mine inside in my jacket pocket like a sneaky bugger.
And they didn't allow you to bring water inside. Wait, let me rephrase that. They let you bring bottled water inside on one condition: you had to take the lid off. After asking many people, who suggested various theories such as so that you can't throw the bottle, in case there are explosives inside the bottle, and a multitude of other similarly preposterous ideas, I still have no idea why they make you do that. I'm pretty sure it's just so that you have to buy water there, which of course is ridiculously expensive.
We checked out the merch stall before heading inside: I grabbed a poster (now hanging proudly on my wall) and a concert booklet for Selina as an early birthday present. I say this as I didn't get her an actual present, but more on that later.

This was the inside of the stadium, it was freaking massive.

Took this panorama pic on my iPod.
Selina's sister Shina came as well.
Haha, if you can't tell from the picture, I definitely do not like having my photo taken.

This is when Florence came on, you can see her silhouette through the screen. The atmosphere was freaking INCREDIBLE. I tried to avoid taking pictures, I prefer to spend my time watching the actual concert. We were pretty far away anyway, so you can't really see her, although in these pictures below you can see her on the screens that are on the sides of the stage.

Here's a video I just HAD to record, when she started to sing Shake It Out. It's really hard to pick a favourite since I love pretty much everything that comes out of her mouth, but if I had to pick a favourite it would be Shake It Out. It's really shaky at the start, as I immediately forgot that I was recording and became absorbed in what Florence was doing, but it gets better later on as I remember how to keep my hands still.

Near the very end of the video I zoom out and you can see for a second the crazy amount of people in Rod Laver. Have I mentioned I've never been to Rod Laver Arena before?

I've never been to Rod Laver Arena before.

Ah, what a crazy night. Her voice was divine; it's like nothing you've ever heard on any recording of her, it was AMAZING. When you hear her sing live you realise why singers are so successful, because I tell you what, they can freakin' sing.
After Shake It Out she sang Dog Days Are Over, which was equally crazy as you can see from the video.
She did this thing where we all jumped on cue - I stopped recording since I wanted to jump too but you should've seen everybody jumping, the whole stadium, it was INSANE and BLOODY AWESOME.
Oh and she had a dance-off for the people in the mosh pit, the winner got a kiss from Isa (the keyboard-ist and writer of a lot of Florence's songs). I was pretty jealous of the people down there, they got to brush hands with Florence SO MANY TIMES.
SORRY FOR THE RANDOM CAPITALS. If it feels like I am yelling at you through my computer, that's because I TOTALLY AM.
Ahhh mannn, I have to say, I would have LOVED to have gone to an earlier concert when she wasn't so famous. It would have been the BEST to go to a more impromptu, smaller concert.


Anyways, I ended that night by re-watching the above video endlessly in my room until I fell asleep.

Murmur

Yesterday Caf took us to this bar called Murmur, she's had her eye on this particular bar for a while.
We met up before we headed out and had dinner at some Asian restaurant that I can't quite remember the name of...something along the lines of Red Fish? Salmon Duck? Sangrila?
Oh god.

Here's what I had, it was delicious. I'm a sucker for anything fried, deep fried, coated in butter, you name it.
And here's us.

 

I think we annoyed the restaurant staff, took too many photos with the flash up. Probably blinded one of the waiters or something, oh well.The inside of Murmur was pretty sweet, it had a really chill atmosphere.

Seriously have no idea what Amutha is doing in this photo LOL.
They had these awesome drinks that came in these tribal shaped cups, they were sick as.
Because the bartender set the rum on fire.
That's right.
ON FIRE.
The rest of the night is mostly us being us i.e. acting like complete kids.
Enjoy!

Awesome night.