Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	Geek in the pink - Jason Mraz

Parties, Parks and Pokémon
Hey there!

Yesterday, I had a performance with my choir at our school at the abi feast. (The abitur is the highest graduation you can get in Germany without going to university and it is what qualifies you to go there.) We were singing a rather swingy version of P!NK's "Get the party started". And guess what? One of the best performances we ever had. We hadn't started singing for more than 5 seconds maybe and people were already beginning to clap and cheer and moving with the music. They were smiling and snapping their fingers and it was awesome. Afterwards, when we were down from the stage, we all had shaky knees. And I always thought that was meant to be figuratively!
Oh, and something more. Before the performance, we had some time to ourselves. Well, Carolin and I sat down at the piano and she played "Wind" by Naruto and we sung. I love singing that with her! And when we turned around after finishing, there were teachers and others in the room, having apparently listened to us!! I mean, they said it was great, but... AAAAH! I got such a shock when suddenly there were all those people XD

I had two really weird dreams, but I'm only gonna tell you one because the other is... random and boring. You see, I dreamt I was in a kind of amusement park with my class and I was in a group with... let's see, Daniel, Ingo and some girls, I guess. I'm not sure, don't remember many details. Anyway, it was really weird there, I saw security guards in black more than once and it seemed over-all rather fishy to me.
Then, when we went to the toilet, sometimes one or two of the boys just wouldn't come back. (Or girls, for that matter.) They reappeared later, though. Anyway, we were just walking down some road in there and I mentioned to Ingo that it was weird, wasn't it, that they suddenly vanished and stuff and that the park was kind of suspicious anyway, and he gestured me to be quiet. Seemed like I wasn't the only with these thoughts.
Well, then the coolest thing happened. I don't know how exactly or why they didn't stop us (it seemed to me like the park people would do pretty much everything to keep people inside the borders, or under control in general), but we just followed a way and left the park behind us, then it turned more like a path and finally we were walking across a grassy plan, the park far in the distance - it looked so small! And then we got over that hill and... wow. Just wow. It was sundown and there was this incredibly huge, beautiful lake and we all were totally amazed and mesmerized. It was so breathtakingly wonderful. We just stood there and drank the sight in like someone who'd just crawled through a desert on his fours. It's indescribable how fulfilling and good the moment was and, truth to be told, how I ache to dream of it again.
In hindsight, it still surprises me we weren't stopped or something. The security guards just weren't there suddenly. We walked back across some hills at the side - and there suddenly was a wall and a roof and we were walking through that landscape in some kind of room, along the wall, until we reached the park again. Then it was over.
I think I know now just why it was so very special to me - not only the moment at the lake in itself, but also that I actually dreamt it. You see, my dreams are always kind of anti-climactic. That is, if I dream I want to ride in the fields, I dream of the preparations for hours and hours, but just when it's about to start, it's over and I wake. It's like that every goddamn time! ARGH! So maybe reaching the real point in the whole story is what makes this even more great. (I feel like a freak, really.)

I also have a major Pokémon flash right now. Oh, how I love those games. (And the series is cute, too.) I'm so into Palletshipping. Gary/Ash, that is. I always thought it's some kind of crack-ish OTP, but looking at some really good essays about them convinced me they're actually kinda canon. (At least that they like each other a lot and are most important to each other, the latter is even stated explicitly in the series.) I had to laugh so hard when they were comparing the size of their Krabbies. Yeaaah, sure. It's called "subtext", guys, subtext, "sub" as in "subtle"! Not blatantly-obvious-in-your-face! Not that I'd complain, mind you.
But, awww, they're so cute together. By the way, did you notice this in an episode?:
(Brock turns blue, curls up in a ball and gets all moody whenever someone mentions Prof. Ivy)
Ash: Misty, what's up with him?
Misty: Oh, Ash! Brock liked Prof. Ivy.
Ash: But... I liked her too! =D
Misty: Ash... Sometimes you're just as bad as Gary.
Ash: *turns blue, curls up in a ball and gets all moody*
Mwahahaha. I love it when canon supports a pairing I like XD
Have I ever mentioned that I adore Gary's character design? I already loved it back in elementary school, when I got my first Pokémon game - Red. Aww. That was great times! I don't know, I think I'm a sucker for cute, snobby, pink-and-violet-wearing, ambitious little brats. (The pink Hawaiian shirt, anyone? I mean, come on. And he winks at Ash more than once and stuff. [NO, this is not my ZOMG!CANON-super evidence or something. I just think it's cute XD])
Just for fun, have a look at this: (I LOVE the song!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hV-mT1nlJA
On a side note, I can't really understand all the Richie bashing. Why, guys? I mean, sure, he's some kind of Ash clone with his Pikachu and all, but he's also really cute. So, show some love for Richie, alright?
Oh, and one more thing: here's a site with some nice essays. Have a look at the "anime evidence" essay. It sure is no 100%-proof, but it's really well-thought and makes the pairing quite plausible in my opinion.
http://www.auroramoon.com/pallet/main2.html

While we're at it, does anyone have the songs "I hate everything about you" by Three Days Grace and "Geek in the Pink" by Jason Mraz? And "Toxic" by Britney Spears? I'm dying to get them but I have no Limewire or something. (I'm using my Dad's computer and he doesn't allow it *sigh*) If anyone here has them or the means to get them, would you do me the favour? Pleaaaase? Pretty please with sugar, cherries, cream, icing, cinnamon and a candy cane? I could give you some other songs for that, by Zwei, several soundtracks, something from "Decemberunderground" by AFI? (I'm really desperate *cough*)

~*Kjesta*~

PS: Okay, it's afternoon now and I just slept two hours and... dreamt that Ash pleaded that his mother would let him go to a party at Richie's in drag o.O" He said that it was a themed party and the Pokémon dressed as the trainers (Eevee in a violet pullover, anyone? *squee*) and vice versa.
Somehow that settled the argument, although I still don't get when Pikachu ever went around in high heels and frilly tops. Whatever. But Pikachu in a miniature of Ash's cap and jacket was the cutest thing. Ever.