21 more days and the thesis is due. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. i am not happy about this at all because i still have a few more chapters of my novel to finish and the creative process essay which i have no idea how to go about writing. so stressed right now like you wouldn't believe. after all this, i better get a crate full of orange gummy bears, assorted jelly beans and endless jugs of mojitos for all my hard work.

but on happier news, PLAINSUNSET^click is playing a show in the Philippines on friday!

i still remember the moment when i first heard them play. i was just sixteen and my best friend, May, was nineteen, and we attended their album launch for the "The Gift" without even knowing who the heck they were, only to leave hours later, converted into mega-stalker fans, attending almost every of their gigs thereafter, donned in full mega-pop-punk-spiky-belt attire and chanting along to the lyrics, half-drunk.

i can't believe it's been seven years since i first saw them play.
great. now i feel old.

but anyway, i am so stoked about their show because Plainsunset is the local Singapore band that really got me into attempting an instrument and joining a band, in the first place, just so i could look sexy with a guitar and drink all the alcohol i want - and that's actually still the reason i bother being in a band now, the whole sexines factor and the endless alcohol allure.

and i really have to give credit to those guys for introducing me and my friends to the scene-kid life of drinking vodka hidden in soda bottles while dancing atop the Youth Park letters completely wasted at 1am on a Wednesday night, knowing full-well that we have classes early next morning; and also for causing me to almost flunk out of school, when i was seventeen, due to my new found habit of drinking excessively and partying like a complete out-of-control idiot. okay, maybe none of that were ever their fault; but me attending all those rock shows and meeting all those people who just wouldn't stop buying me endless rounds of booze and inviting me to all sorts of parties sure didn't help.

so it's late and i need to get back to my thesis now - or at least sleep; but before that, let me show-off my autographed copy of their album "The Gift" which i got signed when they last came over here a few weeks after my 21st birthday back in 2007; and since i want some sort of remembrance for my 23rd birthday, i'm going to tell them it's my birthday when i go try to get my copy of their new album signed on friday just so they scribble me a Happy Birthday on the CD.

i'm an uber-fan-nerd that way.