bury me in this dress

I’m feeling restless right now. I was in hyperdrive earlier at my cousin’s birthday party. She’ll be leaving for US next year so she threw a grand party on this birthday. Gad! The place was packed with pubescent boys and girls who were very loud. Okay. I’m getting old but when I was 15, I didn’t have any social life. None at all. For me, gimmicks meant going to the mall with friends and this fucking happened so rarely like thrice in a school year. Fine, I was a total loser back then but I never heard anybody in my all-girl Catholic school throwing a party with DJ’s, catered food, professional lighting design, band set-up, fog machine, and all the works. And there’s booze involved too. Some of my cousin’s male friends have bands. There were two bands who performed actually. It was really awful. Even the sound engineer (YES! There was a sound engineer) couldn’t do anything to make the bands sound better. Cousin Paul was there and he’s like me (not into mainstream music and live an alternative lifestyle) so we sniggered the whole time while the teens shrieked to their hearts’ content. Maybe this kind of party is typical for America or Europe but not here in my third world country. By 10 PM, the place was spilling with drunken half-naked teenyboppers who could hardly walk after drinking a bottle of beer. And you know what it’s like when people are drunk, right? They get even louder. Add this to the party music being spinned. I don’t know what was going on inside my head of my uncle and aunt head when they decided to serve booze to the underage. I was a bit annoyed when some of the kids went outside and just hung out IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. Mike, a friend of my cousin Fortune, said some of the teenage boys were smoking pot OUTSIDE. I am not against pot but egads, to do that in the middle of the street, in a well-to-do neighborhood, and the village guards just a few meters away. Totally insane! *shakes head* I should have taken pictures to post here but I during that time, it’s just a waste of effort and web space.