Week: 36
Songs to Remember: Cake by the Ocean - DNCE, Toothbrush, DNCE, So Mack - VASCO (바스코), 제라지다, Baby I'm Yours - Breakbot, Lil' Something (썸타) - CHEN (첸), Heize (헤이즈), Suicide Saturday - Hippo Campus, Press Your Number - Taemin, Be Right There (Boombox Cartel Remix) - Diplo, True (Jay Pryor Remix) - Digital Farm Animals, Fahrenheit (Axero Remix) - XY&O, Sorry - Justin Bieber, Hotline Bling - Drake, No Sense - Sam Kim
My mind has cleared, my aching of my legs, neck, and back have been lessened, and it's 3:58 PM. Time to spend hours on recalling what was "Whatever."
So, as from the previous post, I woke up at 11:00 AM or something like that. After playing League and preparation, I left the house at 6:55 PM. Ec was already picking up Ek and heading to the stadium (ya know, Levi's stadium), Mc was on his way, Dv was on his way.
I managed to not forget anything: my wallet, ID, ticket receipt, phone. Except, my glasses, I was practically blind for the whole thing, uh, could only see two feet in front of me, heh. When my dad and I were closing in on the place, I looked on Google Maps and yep, we missed the turn into the parking lot. Mc was already there, Dv was apparently already there, Ec and Ek were already inside waiting for us.
Mc couldn't go in without me there (since I was a host and he was a guest), so, him and Dv stood out in front of the place, waiting for me. My dad parked at a red sign (which indicated that it was parking for Levi's stadium and not Great America, in which Great America is literally right next to the place). Yep, people were there with their suits and dresses. I walked to the front, had Mc call me to let me know where he was, and yeah, him and Dv were right there in front.
We kept walking up (like, it was literally a straight bridge thing to get in) and there were 3 lines, just to make shit go faster. We stood in the middle one, commenting on eachother's suits, etc. I'd say it was pretty hype. Wind was blowing though, which messed up my hair quite a bit. I noticed that the people around us were not like, from our High school. They acted different, there were not many familiar faces, and they were generally, how should I say this, uh, "ghetto."
My assumptions turned out to be right though, revealed later on. Anyways, we were approaching the security check thing, where we were to empty our pockets, remove our tuxedo jackets, walk through a metal detector, get checked one more time, aaand we were free to go. Reminded me of airports. Up ahead was the stadium building itself, and in person, looked pretty cool with all it's windows and stuff.
Dv went his own route since he didn't have a guest, to the left, and Mc and I went to the right since we were hosts and guests. Walking through the door, I saw a poster in front of the window, a pink poster with the words "Blank High school guest check-in." I was like "Oh no." The name was of this one High school which is notoriously known to the area as being a really bad school. Like, "ghetto" bad. So yeah, I was right when I noticed the "ghetto" atmosphere from standing in line and seeing many unfamiliar people, it's 'cause it was filled with people from the other High school that was attending prom here with us, but I didn't expect it to be, like, that school.
Continuing on, we walked up to the counter, we see two staff people and 2 students, one of which was that one girl Mc knew. She said to him "Ayy we should take pics later" and so on. Checking in, the staff scanned my ID, but for Mc, he had a photocopy of his ID, not like, his actual ID. It didn't matter though 'cause his name didn't match my host name under the system, for some reason. I'd say it was because there are 2 Mc's at my school, along with 2 DrewT's as well.
Either ways, guess they didn't wanna go in depth about it, we had receipts to prove that we did buy our tickets, they let us in since we were causing traffic. Also, apparently we were supposed to have wristbands to indicate we were in, but, nobody ever checked, at all, for anything. Going up an escalator to the 3rd floor I think (maybe 2nd) and the last security check was the breathalyzer thing. Blew into a thingy, "Alright you pass as well, welcome to Levi's Stadium." We met up with Ec and Ek, there was all 5 of us together again, people have yet to fill the place up, and so our first priority was to just sit down somewhere.
We chose a table to the side, the one with the window view to the football field. It was a table with 3 seats on each side, I sat next to Mc who was to my left, in front of me was Ec, closest to the window was Ek and to the other side of Ec was Dv. We all Snapchatted the event from our standpoint, talked for a bit. When more people started coming in, we went outside (the doors to the seats of the football field were on the same side as the windows) to see the actual field, which in person, looked a lot smaller than you'd expect. Very small. I guessed it looked that way due to the amount of seats surrounding it, but. Yeah. We took a picture of us standing together, behind us was the field, and that was the last time all of us were together for the night.
Walking around for bit, more people had started to show up, particularly this one group of guys. They were standing outside, like, at the football field seats, and Ek noticed that one of them looked like her friend, the one who always walks with her from their History class (I see it essentially everyday as I walk from US History to my route to Chinese. And I even wave). "Is that Blank?" she questioned. I asked "Blank who?" "Blankety Blank... It is!" All I saw was her going through the door and outside, going up to the guy.
"Dude what happened?" we all asked Ec. "I don't know, she said she was gonna hang out with Blank for the night or something." And there it was, 5 minutes in and my buddy Ec gets cucked. I'm sorry, but, did not expect this at all to happen, it has never even crossed my mind, for a possibility that this would happen or, anything of the like like this, to happen. All of us were in awe with the thought of "Did that just happen?" Very surreal.
"Dude, he just took your girl, heh! You gonna let that happen?" "You just got fucking cucked, dude." "Get cucked," Yeah, I feel pretty bad for what happened to Ec, 'cause like, getting cucked is pretty demeaning. But uh, I couldn't help but laugh a bit at the absurdity of the situation and what just happened. I'm pretty sure now that Ec was just backup, like, if she didn't find this guy at prom, she'd stick with him. Otherwise, Ec was donezo, which he was.
So after that fiasco, we again explored the area of which we were allowed to roam. From the escalators going up, it was the middle of the place, the dance area with the nasty-ass strobe lights, and a bootleg DJ (more to that later). To the left of that (from the escalator standpoint) was nothing really, and to the right of that was the "bar," or in this case, the place to get water and lemonade (from dispensers, no cliche open bowls so people can put any tea in 'em). To the right right of that were the dining tables (and to the front of those were the windows, with them some side tables looking out to the football field) and to the right of the dining tables was the food-court section, consisting of some rather, not that great food, but, still edible. Good selection though.
At this point, I think it was around 8:00 PM. 65% of the people had showed up, and uh, after our exploration, the 4 of us decided to wait in line for the free pictures (by that I mean literally one picture and a maximum of 2 physical copies of it, all done in front of a nasty-ass green-screen), of which took around 30 minutes, give or take 5. In line, we just talked about what we're gonna do, umm, what pose for the picture, etc, just random shit. Our schedule so far generally was: we take our picture, grab something to eat, find some place to sit, discuss the plan, and then find some girls to dance. Spoilers, it does not go the way you'd think.
Going a bit faster now, our picture consisted of a somewhat edgy pose where we sling our tuxedo jackets to the back, holding them. The picture generally looked kinda nasty, by that I mean reall nasty in which I hope does not resurfaces ever, heh. Uh, I did end up having the actual physical copies of it, both of them, they're with me right now. Really do not want the public to see it, heh. Anyways, we went over to the food-court, I was walking over there and I hear my name called out. "Drew!" Oh and by the way, there was this girl, whom was in my Chinese class last year, and uh, she's a senior, yeah, aaand is attending prom this year. She calls out my name, I turn and see her and in my mind "Ooooo." Not generally a great thing, She also messaged me quite a bit during the beginning of this all, telling me she was at the dining tables near the food-court, asking where I was.
she asked for a picture, and fortunately, that was it, heh. I went ahead and walked back to the food-court, got a chocolate chip cookie (which was unfortunately, very fucking big, about as big as my whole hand). and went outside with my buddies. The majority of the seats (like, chairs, nobody was allowed to sit in the actual red seats) were taken by, you guessed it, couples who want a nice, breezy view of the field and the night sky, outside. The couples thing plays out later on. And so, we discussed the plan of, how we're gonna ask girls out to dance.
Generally, the outline of it was that there'd involve some bootleg-ass pickup lines, Mc's (or Jp's) "survey" method pickup (where you have the contact page open on your phone and you ask somebody to fill out a "survey" aka, gimme your phone number), wingmen, who has initiative, etc. Sounds weird and good on paper. In actuality, no plans, just, whatever. It was around maybe 9:00 PM or something, we all spent a lot of time walking around, standing, standing in line, meetup up with others whom we haven't seen in a while (mostly Mc).
It fluctuated- err, the most prominent like, longest-lasting, most vivid, the one I recall doing the most of, was just standing. Ec, Mc, Dv, me, all standing in front of this one bar which faces the dining tables, looking for girls to ask to dance. I told Mc that I'd do it, as long as I don't know them. Who does he choose for me? A girl right in the middle of these 2 tables, filled with people from my school, whom I all know. Do I talk to them? No. Do I know who they are and their associates? Yes.
Under the right circumstances, I would do it, just impulsively go up to them, boom, say "Hey, do you wanna dance?' But I didn't, I couldn't, because of the circumstances. Mc didn't actually do it all for the night, bugged me about doing and not doing it. Ec was just feeling whatever for the whole thing, I was pretty sure the Ek cucking thing was kinda bad. And Dv, he had his own plans set in his mind. We all cycled between going to the dance floor and standing, or, walking around and seeing which girls are good candidates for being asked to dance. It was Mc's idea alright, I generally feel it to be a bit too direct, like, direct towards a goal, I'd keep it more towards a side thing.
From 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM, it was really just standing, walking, a bit of dancing, meeting up with others, etc. I honestly can't recall exactly in order of everything that happened, but, it's basically what happened. Okay, now, in movies, you see how there are people sitting by themselves, looking all depressed and shit, waiting for people to ask them to dance or whatever, sit next them, etc? That shit ain't true from my experience. It was almost impossible to tell who had a date or not. Everyone was either in couples, or, hanging out with friends. If there was somebody by themselves, it was mostly because they were waiting for their date to come back from the restroom or something.
Almost forgot to mention, I did meet Ct there in amidst all the action. She apparently had a date, and uh, yeah. She was like "Drew!" and turned around, saw her and she was like "Wow, looking good" or something similar. Did not expect her to have a date. Umm, was definitely not expecting it at all. A couple others I encountered were Tu and Ev (ya know, from KDT) in which I encountered them by Tu slapping my ass from behind. Mhmm. I also met Sm (ya know, also from KDT) with her prom date, Ev. "Wow Drew, looking good" or some shit like that, heh. Also, Mt and Ms (yeah, from KDT). I think. I didn't have my glasses unfortunately, but they called my name, I waved, I think it was them. They both wore red dresses so. I'll get into this later.
Alright, time for dancing descriptions. Now, you know how people say that our generation is fucked? Have you ever seen the memes comparing dancing in the 1900's compared to now? Ever seen the crazy-ass dancing in movies (not anything like Step Up, but generally teen movies which involved partying, or shows even)? I thought it was only in movies and shows, but unfortunately, it's real. I also blame this mostly on the other High school being here, like, if it weren't for them, there would be a lot less grinding, because that was what filled the dance floor.
You could see there was people just dancing "normally," as in doing little hops or whatever, to the music. You could see people look into each others eyes, holding each other, the romantic stuff, and then there were those who did the complete opposite of that. By that I mean the girl's facing away from the dude, she's trying to keep an arch, bouncing on his fucking dick and the dude's trying to put it in through her dress. That was what me and everybody saw. And not just a couple, it was a good, hmm, 60%. What a sight, heh. The music didn't help out either.
The DJ, not sure who hired him, but, in the beginning, he was playing some alright songs, the general pop stuff that's, well, popular with the teen culture nowadays, consisting of stuff like Walk the Moon, Drake, Justin Bieber, Rhianna, Eminem, ya know. But then I guess he ran out of songs because the rest was just complete rap after rap. Aka, even more songs to heighten the grinding mood, heh. I noticed while standing in line for the free picture was that there was random clap track played. Like, just one random one. Then it happened again, then the song transition started, which contained claps. Now I don't know about him, but I'm sure that was unintentional. The dude probably hit the button by mistake, tried to play it off as if it was on purpose, and instead make for a really nasty transition.
Another thing was that there were no slow songs, just either rap (which encouraged grinding), sometimes a bootleg pop song like Justin Bieber's "Sorry" or Drake's "Hotline Bling," or a hard party song such as DJ Snake's "Turn Down for What" or Major Lazer's "Lean On." I think there was only one slow song for the entire thing and the song wasn't even like, calm slow. One more thing I want to point out was that people left their shit wherever. On tables, tables, tables, etc. There were shoes, wallets, purses, all kinds of shit. The DJ stops the music once to announce that somebody's wallet was taken (stolen) off a table (I mean it was out in the open, what'd you expect) and that Levi's security was looking at the security cam footage at this moment and that the perpetrator should just return it back where he or she found it. The thing is, uhh, if it was a guy, I'd bet that it was 75% most likely a guy, with low-quality security cam footage, and, considering it was prom where 50% of the people attending are wearing tuxedo's, it's almost impossible to catch 'em. I mean, really.
So, at this point, things were slowing down, like, I've yawned at least times so far. When all of us were on the search for girls to ask out, at one point I was just sick and tired of just waiting, standing, Mc told me "Hey how ;bout this girl." "Alright" and as she walks by in her red dress "Hey do you wanna dance?" I look at her and find out that it's somebody I know, one who's friends with Ek, Ag, and Jk, and is on badminton team. In my mind "Oh shit it's Blank." "Oh, no, sorry, I'm looking for my friends" "Ah alright, that's cool." "Dude, I wasn't talking about her but I liked the effort."
Turns out, she was the one Dv was planning to ask to dance with, in which, yeah, I think he did by the end of it all. He used the survey method thing and whadya know, got her fucking number. She's a senior though, and is rumored to be dating the badminton coach. So, ssss, yeah. Nearing 11:00 PM, prom was almost over. Again, us all were switching between doing some dancing (which was very uncomfortable since it was between us guys only, and because of all the goddamn grinding going on, like, jee-fucking-sus, if only you could see the face some of the girls and guys were making as they were grinding, it was, fucking, out of this world, heh), walking around, and standing at one post.
Yeah it'd look awkward if it was only one of us or two, but since we were in a group it works out. At one point, all of us were departing the dance floor, I was walking behind and see Mt and Ms, again, or something, most likely for the second time. They were like "Ayy, Drew!" and they motioned for me to go along with them, in which yeah, I did. I got kinda sucked in. We went to the dance floor and I danced again, this time with them. Mt took a picture with me. In the midst of it all, we see Cw (you guessed it, from KDT, the KDT vice president) dancing with her friends and she was like "Ayy guys" and for me, she does this one bootleg gesture with her hands, making a heart-looking shape with her fingers (I remember it looking like a big heart, not like the hand-heart thing, but like, motioning with her two index fingers, making out a heart shape). She laughed after it though, I'm guessing she was saying that she didn't recognize me or something similar to that. I couldn't tell what she was saying 'cause one, the music was fucking loud, and two, the music was fucking loud, heh.
It didn't matter though. Umm, in the dancing, the DJ played the Cupid Shuffle, and so I had to do that for a bit. Felt pretty fucking stupid but it was okay 'cause i was feeling stupid with people I know, heh. We ended up meeting Th in all the dancing, and also Ev, Tu and Sm as well, and a couple others from KDT. It was a lot of dancing, a lot of dancing, and, during all that, I had a hard time smiling. Like, it was forced, and not an actual smile. An actual smile from me is most likely triggered when there's funny and I genuinely smile off of funny reflexes. Other than that, I'm forcing myself to smile conditionally.
It wasn't like I wasn't having fun, it was more of a "whatever" type of thing. Also maybe because I was really, really tired. After a series of dances, we all went to the KDT table (which turned out to incidently be like, right next to the tables for where people from our school were at) and there I saw some other members like, the co-president. No KDT president though, no sign of her. Umm, yeah, I hung out with them for a bit, their convo's, it was clear that they were all tired. They left soon after, like, around 11:40 PM. I went back with the rest of the gang, ya know, Mc, Ec, Dv, for the rest of the night. Ec asked where the hell I was and I told "KDT fam." I thought I'd go through the night without meeting up with the KDT fam, fortunately, I'm grateful that didn't happen.
Mc and Dv went to do their own thing, Ec's dad had already arrived and was ready to pick him up. I decided to leave too since I wasn't planning on staying at anybody's house for the night, and uh, things didn't really go as planned. Also there would be a lot of traffic once it hit 12:00 midnight, so, I wanted to avoid that too. Turns out, there really wasn't any traffic.
I called my dad, he arrived, took a while but I managed to find where he parked. I got in, headed home, arrived at 12:44 AM. Turns out my dad leaves for Europe at 11:30 AM, not 8:00 AM, so, fortunate for both of us. I turned on the light in my room, took off my tuxedo, got in my regular clothes, and sat down in front of my PC. Just, looked around, see what I missed for the day, which was not really much.
My neck was sore, my legs were sore, my back was sore. I was fortunate that I didn't have to type all of this last night. It would've been a bit more accurate with all the information still in my head, but, at the cost of feeling even worse in the morning after I wake up. So, what was there to learn after all this? Well, for one, grinding has never been more popular than in this current day and age. Everybody looks like they generally have a date or are going with friends. Throughout the whole thing, there were noticable differences in what people do.
There were those dancing, there those sitting down at tables and talking with friends, there were those who were just alone with their date and sitting outside enjoying the calmness, and there were those who were like us: in groups and going with how everything goes. If there's one thing that I'd like to remember for next year's, if I'm even going next year, it's that you should really go with a date. People say that going with friends if fun. It's fine for girls, but 4 dudes, not exactly the same story.
Overall, prom was kinda below my expectations. Lackluster? Yeah. Was it a new experience? Definitely. Let's not to say that prom in general is shit, but from my first experience, seems close to it. But I know now what to expect for next year's. and that is to bring a date. So far, it's been whatever, and that's exactly what happened last night, what our planning was, what the outcome was. Just, whatever. Whatever happens, whatever goes. As of this post, Ek has yet to be seen.
Critics have reached a general consesus that the movie "represents the epitome of it's title and doesn't over-deliver what you'd expect, but rather teases what the bigger picture lies and will lie underneath." They give it a score of a 6.5/10 stars, or in other words, whatever. See ya.
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