friday, november 22
	i woke up achy, sore, and congested again on this friday morning, and today was picture day.  *blech*  you know it's pretty bad when the stuff you spit up is not clear.  yuck.  i think that i had jook this morning.  parkin had macaroni in broth.  after our little meal, we head over to NOEL CHU to get picked up to the studio.  as soon as we walked in tho, the girls all asked why we were there instead of the studio?  noel had told us to meet her there for a driver to take us to the studio to fah jaung (get made up and dressed) since we didn't know our way around the city.  so we waited, and waited.  finally the owner, mr chu came by with his wife and they took us to the studio near prince edward.  there we met ah choong, ah ghum, ah luey, and ming.  when we got there tho, everyone was eating lunch boxes of rice, meat, and veggies.  smelled good.  ming did my makeup, i felt very very pale.  i was afraid i would look like a ghost in the pictures because my arms are naturally a bit darker toned.  then she put this SUPER PINK lipstick on me and i was shaking with fear.  yucky!  i'm so not the skin type for pink lipstick, and i thought that she would have known that.  i asked her to darken it.. more... more... more... ok, i guess it was finally ok.   and my hair?  well, seeing how long it was and how behind on schedule they were, i dont' think she wanted to do anything to it, so she braided it *sour face* and put some silver things in it.  i didn't care at that point, but the silver thing was pretty neat, til you looked at the back and how messy it was.  yes i should have been more vocal in my opinions but i just wasn't in the mood. *sigh* the usual photographer, ghum and his assistant choong were booked up that day, so they hired an off site photographer to photograph our outdoor shots.  he SUCKED!  he didnt' pose us, he caught us in horrible angles and the faces we had in the pictures were so obviously fake.  i like to think that i can usually smile on cue, but if you were to look at these pictures, you'd think i didn't know how to smile!  he somehow caught us at the end of our smiles or something.  they looked really bad and he made us feel very uncomfortable.  ah luey was there to fix my makeup and hair when needed, but the photographer had her holding the light board, but didnt' explain to her what to do!  he seemed like such an amatuer, didnt' look like he even knew what he was doing.  plus throughout the 5 hours we were together, he could not remember parkin's name, and called him brian or bran or brra... without finishing the word.  and he just pointed to me a lot.  *ew*  we were quite unhappy with the day.  we took pictures at hong kong park where there were beautiful fountains and colorful flowers, a gorgeous waterfall and adorable water turtles swimming around.  it was a warm sunny day and we were happy that the day was nice.  it was unfortunate that the experience was not too enjoyable.  after hong kong park, we travelled to stanley marketplace.  i thought that he would take advantage of the sun setting in the background, the colors, the cloudless sky... but no.  oh what a horrible memory. when we saw the proofs, it was obvious what a horrible job he did.  what a waste of money.  during the whole time, i thought to myself, 'maybe we shouldn't have done outside shots.  hopefully they turn out ok'  but they didn't.  *sigh* by the time we got back to the studio, it was late and there wasn't time for us to finish our photo day so we rescheduled for another day.  we washed the layer of makeup off and choong took us to the mtr station so that we could go back to the hotel.  after we freshened up, we head out back to the nightmarkets and had street food for dinner.  i had no appetite even tho i hadn't eaten since breakfast.  i couldn't really taste anything, my throat was raw from the coughing.  i just ate when parkin did.  poor guy was starving all day. no pictures on this horrid picture day. *sigh* ~
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