bury me in this dress

Gaaaad! I’m so exhausted. But dammit I had a really great time.

I got to Gateway Mall a little past 10 am for the book signing. My friends and I planned to go there around 2 pm but we heard that people started lining up very early during the book signings over the weekend. On the way there, JB called and told me to hurry up because they only let the first 150 people in for the signing and he was already 130. So I speeded up and got there without getting lost although I did have to ask a number of mall people where Fully Booked is. JB and Sherwin were already in line so I was able to squeeze in without the other people noticing. We had to wait for two hours before we got a number stub but we were still lucky because a lot of people didn’t make the cut. It was torture and a lot of people were losing temper. Fans who didn’t have a book pass can only have 1 book signed but Val Piramide, my org mate, works for Gateway and gave me a book pass. After we got our numbers, we were free to do whatever we wanted but we had to go back my 3 pm and line up again. So we had lunch and killed time by looking at lame things. We went back to Fully Booked before 3 pm because we didn’t have anything better to do. We passed the time being crazy and made lots of friends with the others in line. It was fun but there would be instances when we got so bored. Sherwin wanted to buy a deck of cards but I didn’t feel like playing ‘tong-its’. I preferred to listen to my music on my mp3 player. We also made bets as to what time we’ll get to have our books signed. It also got quite hot. I think the mall turned off the aircon in that area. We saw other people we know like Zenon, Johanne, and Rachel who unfortunately got there too late. It was 7 o’clock when we reached Gaiman. It was exciting for everyone. Our new friend Nick was even shivering. When it was my turn to have my book signed, I was too tired to talk much so I just said hi to Neil and asked if he could draw a rat for me. He said sure then signed my other book. He thanked me for coming but I don’t remember if I replied. I think I just smiled. We compared books when we came out of Fully Booked. My new friends and JB went home. Sherwin invited me to hang out with him, Adi, and Adji but I was so tired that I wanted to go home…so I did.

Blech! My account of what happened sucks. Whatever. I really had fun and I really should go out more often. I’m very happy with the new friends I made and I really missed hanging out with Sherwin and JB. They’re really fun to be with.

Bored fans

Me giving JB and Sherwin the finger for making me go to the mall so early in the morning

Looking at lame things to kill time

Take a dump. Also to kill time

Bored me (this pic looks horrendous!)

Frustrated Rachel who arrived late and didn’t make the cut

JB and me. Tired and lying on the dirty mall floor

JB very bored so he took a picture of somebody’s butt crack

This is new friend Kae. JB took the picture because she’s pretty

I was taking a picture of Gaiman but also took a pic of the cute guy I was eyeing (the one with the blue shirt) by chance. I wonder who he is. Too bad I only got his profile in this pic.

Neil and me finally!

Me looking proud. Sherwin looking troubled.

Fruit of labor

And the end was good