harry potter!

this is a completely overdue blog post seeing as how harry potter was released more than 2 weeks ago, but i hadn't been at work to get the photos lol.
and alot of photos there will be!

the whole day was so much fun! but for me it started out rather badly.
the night before was a friday night which meant drinks with the vac work people. omg that was such a bad idea! who knew champagne could get u drunk so fast!!!
anyway, the point of the story is i ended coming home at 3am still drunk, collapsed on my bed and woke up at 6am when kher sing called me to say she was outside my house.

i was completely out of it and panicked like crazy- i didn't even have a costume ready!!!!!
so i ended up chucking anything on and had to wear glasses cos my eyes were too bloodshot to wear contacts.
it was all rather dramatic. lol.
(gosh, this makes me sound like an alco, but i'm really not!! it was just one night and definitely the last!!!!)

when i got to work i was feeling strangely alert and the hype of harry potter hit me so i was no longer that tired.
it was like i was running on a natural high.

group photo of everyone before the doors opened at 7.01am

kher sing + me + christina.

kher sing came as professor umbridge and christina was a ravenclaw witch.
as for me- i refused to be hermione cos i hate emma watson so i couldn't be in gryffindor. i didn't want to be mistaken for cho chang cos i hate her too, hence no ravenclaw for me. so i decided to be in slytherin (forecasting my love for severus snape). why not hufflepuff i hear u ask? well who in the world would wanna b in that house?! its kinda like the 'reject' house....

the doors are opening and we can hear the people running towards us...

and indeed they were....

seriously....it was scary seeing them charging towards the shop like no tomorrow! they had hunger in their eyes!!
it was really funny though.

me + brendan.

brendan hates harry potter and didn't want to dress up as anyone. *cough* KILLJOY *cough*

haha rod (the guy in the black) was dressed as harry but then changed it to snape when he found the wig. the wig was so funny.

we had games for the kiddies to play-

there was potion making......

they got all excited when the bicarb soda was added. you could hear them all scream and yell with glee! haha so cute!

there was also wand making....

and pin the tail on dudley....

bec was dressed as a death eater.

she wanted to come in a disguise because like my fear of being mistaken for cho chang (since i'm asian) she was scared of people thinking she was parvarti patel (she's not indian, but people often mistaken her for one and she hates it- sound familiar? lol).

me + kher sing with "hermione".

she won the art competition. if u look closely at the bottom you can see that she made a snitch haha its a gold cube with wings suspended in a plastic clear box.
good effort for a 10 yr old i reckon!

10am- 2 hours after the release and the lines were still rather long!

at 7am the lines went all the way past the end of fast eddys.

haha isn't that a character from some play station game?!

seeing everyone dressed up was so cool!

is that woman dressed as professor trelawney?
the daughter looks bored lol.
i was so jealous of the people reading it while i had to work!!

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WELL all in all it was a fantastic day! i loved it how everybody got right into the spirit and made the release of the last harry potter book a thorough success!
its times like these that you just love your job and the people that you work with.

i still don't understand how i survived that shift though.
it was 6.30am - 5pm.
with 3 hours passed out sleep the night beforehand!!
my natural high lasted til around 11am then i felt like dying. but i pulled through and enjoyed it!

ahhhh well deserved coffee break!! (i had hot chocolate though) after a morning full of fun filled hard work!

no more harry potter books :(