dec

taken 25/12/10, 12:03am

since 2004, my cousin and i have a tradition where during christmas and new year's eve, we'd go hang out in town with anyone else who's up for it, till the next morning.

the first two years we had a big group and all bought party sprays to play with, and everyone was doing it back then, unlike now with all the molesting shit going on. the first christmas we all walked home after midnight and it took about 4-5 hours.

then one year, party sprays suddenly got outlawed. sure there were still people playing, but it wasn't even close to the wars of previous years. besides, it was fine with everyone was doing it but now we didn't wanna become one of those 'idiots' playing.

as we grew older, slowly our numbers dwindled. there were other parties and celebrations to attend, and some just didn't like the idea of staying out overnight anymore. i was guilty of this for several years, usually only going on christmas eve.

last chirstmas, there were only 4 of us. my friend brought santa hats so we all wore them, but when we stepped out of the shopping centre and saw the killer crowd, we unanimously agreed that we should stay away. we spent the night dodging the crowd and kids with party spray.

but my cousin still got attacked by a random fat girl. we were chilling by the side of a road and the fat girl was crossing with some friends, party spray in hand. my cousin thought she looked familiar so we were looking at her. "i'm gonna kick her if she sprays me," i said.

she was a sly one, pretending to walk past us before turning around and spraying my cousin. i was really about to kick her. my leg was already raised for a side kick to the (fat) face, but i figured it would be kind of a big reaction to something we used to do too. so i didn't, and i sometimes feel regretful for that.

that night we left after 1am, the earliest ever. new year's eve was worse. it was only me and my cousin, and we went to mustafa (favourite place to go after midnight) after the countdown to check out the millions of cheap stuff they had.

wonder how this year's gonna be like.