Too bad it was nothing like a musical! But it was kind of fun. It was a reunion, my school is OLD, like, 40 YEARS OLD! And so they decided to ask a lot of ex-students to come back and celebrate. I’m only ‘out of high school’ since 2007, so it didn’t really feel like reminiscing to me, just like an “oh yeah, that person!” and “hey, how are you doing?” kind of vibe.

I traveled all the way from Gent to Rotterdam, and spent the night walking into familiar faces and talking about what we’re doing nowadays, and how fancy the new toilets are! Yes, us girls really know what’s important in a school building Huge bathroom mirrors, automatic taps in the way more convenient sinks… Haha!

Me and my old locker

Apart from "why where the toilets never this good when *I* was in school?" I don’t really have much to tell. I am glad I left that place, and I am also glad it will take a few more years before I go back again! It was fun to see all those people again, but it’s really that kind of thing that take a while before it is fun again

Sooooo… old school… so you in a few years!

MAN! Why does this ALWAYS happen? I’ve even sunk so low… I have to write a stupid blog post about it.

Maybe you’re wondering what I am talking about? I am talking about Pupe, about Poupée Girl, or whatever else it is that is located at http://pupe.ameba.jp/. My profile is here, by the way, if you feel like taking a look.

So, you ask, what the hell is Pupe? [Pronounced as poo-paaay without the y actually, like the French word for "doll"]

I will tell you! Pupe is a ‘fashion community’ where you have your own closet, to which you upload photos of your favourite wardrobe items. Everytime you do this, you get a few ribbons. Ribbons are important, because they are Pupe Currency. They enable you to buy pixel clothes, for your pixel doll [your poupée]. It’s all fun and games. People can comment on your closet-items so you and them get more ribbons, etc. Originally, it was meant so that people would look at what clothes were from what brand, and what items got the most comment and whatnot. But we all know: everyone is there for the dolls!

So, in order to have fun with your doll, you need items [such as clothes, shoes, accessories, wallpapers, make up] and to get those items, you need ribbons. Of course you can buy ribbons, but where’s the fun in that? Nah, the cool way to get free ribbons is by making a snapshot. You just dress up your doll, click snapshot, and voilà! You get 10 free ribbons! You can only do this once a day, but the point is to do this every day, because if you do this for every day of the month, you get a bonus of 100 ribbons! FOR FREE!

How hard can it be, clicking that "snapshot" button everyday for a month? Well, apparently, for me it is DAMN HARD.
I succeeded to do it twice, in August and September of 2008. Ever since then, I have FAILED. I am pissed at myself, because every time I fail, I just feel like such a loser. I am pathetic, I shouldn’t feel like such a loser because of not clicking on a site where I could get fake money to dress up a fake doll… but I do, because I am an addict. I feel like poop [haha, poop-ay >_>] for a little while and then I just think "whatever, if I do it for the rest of the month, I still get 300 or 290 free ribbons anyway". Yet there’s still always this very point in time where I feel like "NOOOOOOOOOOO! WHYYYYY??"

My addiction goes to great lengths: whenever I am not home, and can’t access the internet, I call someone [read: Muffin] to take my snapshot for me. And most of the times the days that I FAILED was not because I wasn’t home, it was because I was home but FORGOT. Such as today. Today should be a fun day because Muffin and I have been together for 47 months, but all I can think about is how I missed my daily snapshot! How ridiculous!! It always happens around the 5th, or right at the end, after three weeks of stress and doing this routine daily, I somehow mess up on the 21st or 22nd!

Now, I was just laughing at myself for letting it happen AGAIN, and letting it get to me, again [of course], and so I took screenshots of the failure that is my daily snapshot. Haha. Enjoy. [click for the full-size image]

I FAIL at Poupee.

Of course the moral of this story is: I WILL NOT GIVE UP! I will get my month full again! One day! Ha! And when I do, I will update about it, because that’s just about how crazy I am.

Note: It kind of is hard, because the site is set in Japanese time. So you have to do it before 16:00 my time, or else it will be the next day. This is always where I go wrong: I used to do it before going to bed, but then sometimes I’d forget because I was too tired. Then I tried doing it everyday around 12, but on days like today I think "Well, I still have four more hours" and then I forget.. until it’s ironically past four, and the Japanese day has ended, together with the chance at the snapshot. Sigh.

[Note: I am trying to make the gallery-function a bit more... functional, so you can just click and read my commentary on the page. But that is taking a bit long and so I apologize. I went to see EA on April 24th, and it's the fifth of May now. In the mean time, I'm still working on that photo-blogging-convenience-thing.]

For the first time! It was a true adventure, we stressed, tried to look fun, missed half of the show, enjoyed whatever we got to see anyway, had stuff signed and then ended up playing board games in the middle of the night, with blisters on our feet.
I really enjoyed it, all of it [or maybe that's a lie, I don't want to stress that much ever again!] and can’t wait for the next time, when we’ll hopefully go and see the entire show! I am hooked now, I want mooooreee!

To go to the lots and lots of thumbnails of the lots and lots [a 'selection' of 68 photos, haha] of photos that I took, go to the next page!

Emilie singing