#I have a christmas dinner to go to this sunday and I rly don't want to go

[lemememeringue]

my therapist supports the "pretending to be an anthropologist" coping strategy for parties

[siodium]

on the first day of december, i went to afa~ ♪

i woke up at an ungodly hour (for a weekend) just so i could reach at 10 am right when the doors open. good decision bc there was hardly any crowd at that hour, and we only did a little bit of queueing (for wristband collection and bag checks) before we entered the hall. i was expecting the pre-queue to be insane but i guess not this year maybe?? or maybe it's a sunday thing.

we conquered the creators' hub area before lunch time!!! it's a new record, i think??

after lunch (yey shake shack), we walked around the con for a bit more while waiting for luwi to arrive so she could have my wristband~ i was supposed to go with her, but she was too intimidated by the ticket price ($29 this year with early bird promo), so we agreed to share the cost of one wristband.

since we finished up at afa so quickly, next up on the itinerary was to visit the marketplace collective, a christmas market, at sands expo.

bUT FIRST we took a break at TWG tea!! i've been meaning to try their freshly baked scones that are dine-in exclusive bc i've heard good things about them. ( ✪ ᵕ ✪ )

did they live up to expectations?? hell yeah. i could do with less cream, but the jelly was delightful on the scone.

i got iced apricot tea and it tasted like chi.......... oh no?? next time i wanna try their exclusive ones!! the server recommended the 1837 black tea, silver moon tea (koko got this and said it was nice but i didn't try so idk), and another one that i can't remember.

after the tea break, we headed over to the christmas market. even though i felt like i wasn't rly their target audience, i still ended up getting a few things—stickers, tea, and room fragrances.

haidilao for dinner but my stomach was acting up so i could only eat a little bit. was it rly that two mouthfuls of the milkshake i had at shake shack??? i don't believe ittt. ( ༎ຶ⌓༎ຶ) hand-pulled noodles + tomato broth is still the best combination!!

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i actually went to afa on friday as well HAHA.

two of my colleagues took leave to go for afa that day, and they asked if i wanted to come along but i couldn't join them bc i had a driving lesson in the afternoon.

i had the idea to join them afterwards and borrow one of their wristbands to enter the venue for however long i could afford. somehow i managed to reach before closing time and still had time to browse around for 20 mins or so!! then we had sushiro for dinner and i had to call it a day bc i was exHAUSTED.

check out this toilet dokja i got from a blind pack (@yiyuehua) LMAO. "boss makes a dollar, i make a dime. that's why i poop on company time." - kim dokja, probably. (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧