AND YOU SAW THIS!

wouldn't you just feel all that much better?

of course you would :D

as per mom's request, i had to succumb to a visit to the doctor's yesterday afternoon. a family friend managed to get me in contact with a general practitioner on chapel street - a massive plus considering i don't have a car! ;p but as i sat on the tram as it travelled down my street, i saw a large poster hanging outside the jam factory (and for those of you who've never heard of it... no... it doesn't actually manufacture jam). according to its bright neon colours, the two teenage leads of the upcoming movie 'hairspray' were going to be walking the red carpet at 6pm. kevin called to 'check if i had a pulse' as i waited at the clinic, and insisted that i go!

now as the thought of zac efron gracing the streets of chapel and relatively consuming the same air as me tempted me throught my medical visit, i was pretty resolved that i wouldn't let my 'groupie' gene show and stay home to do my assignment as i was supposed to. but as i called on mom to share the shocking news... all she had to say was "it's ZAC EFRON! why are you even thinking about this?! take all your medication... put on a white t-shirt and go wait there an hour early with a marker!" and as i highlighted how kiasu that statement was... mom said to me in the calmest, most serious voice that she could muster "sayang... it's zac efron. you're allowed to be kiasu" ;) and in the words of kevin "you gotta obey your mom now don't you?!" ;p

and so i did! despite my upset stomach, i put on my jay jays polka dot dress over a white t-shirt and tights and ballet slippers and trecked the 15 minutes to the jam factory. before leaving the house i called jacq up to ask if she wanted to join me in being zac efron's stalker for the day :) after a little persuasion - and proving just why she's one of my best friends over here - she agreed to ;p as i waited for jacq to come over from the city, i called up berlin to see if she wanted to come too. to prove that we were definitely educated in the same place... berlin told me she was already there! hehehe...

we waited a couple of hours by the barricaded red carpet before nikki blonsky and zac efron arrived. the crowd went INSANE! as nikki made her way to our side of the crowd, we managed to hold out our books and i got her autograph!!!! but as the noise proved... there was only one person everyone wanted to see.

and he wasn't very far behind her. dressed in a black suit, white shirt and blue tie, zac efron walked the carpet to the background music of hectic screams. security covered him tighter than anyone else... and for good reson! unfortunately, the security team covered us as he approached :( nevertheless, we got some really good pics and videos of him... enough to get us to drool anyway ;p

me and jacq ripped a couple of posters off the sides and left for dinner... agreeing that the night was worthy of another note in the book of random things we've done since coming to melbourne ;p with the boys off attending the dentistry ball at crown, me and jacq figured it was about time we had a girly night out without the boys around to aggrevate us ;p though kevin managed to squeeze in a phonecall on the way to ask how hot zac was in person... (you sad child!) we went for groceries and settled for a malaysian dinner on toorak road before jacq headed home for the night.

as for now... i've got to literally pull a 2000 word essay out of my ass (or atleast half of it) by tonight because tomorrow...

*not for me!*

note to jacqueline sim: if you weren't you... i would make such a fuss about you wanting to wake me up at 8.30am on a SUNDAY! so if i'm grumpy... be warned! ;)

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