remember, remember, the fifth of november; the gunpowder treason and plot.

i see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

guy fawkes night at york was a pretty damned fantastic night, pretty much since i've never in my LIFE been able to set off fireworks. i launched into a little pyromaniacal phase-- all my flatmates seemed intensely tickled by the fact that i was laughing and clapping and jumping about whenever someone set off a new one. -_-" so anyway, i should have probably blogged about it a long time ago.. but i never really had the chance; i was sort of waiting for the photos from charly's camera because, honestly, one can't describe the elation one gets when you set fireworks off. :) it's brilliant, i tell you.

i only set off one or two roman candles that night, because we only had a couple of rockets, i think, and everyone was clamouring to set them off. but it was still fun. squatting in the grass holding huge matches to a fuse, and then watching the fuse light and RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE away from the explosives? best feeling ever. it's like a thrill to match no other. [again i display my pyromaniacal tendencies.]

another rather pyromaniacal character was andrew.. he truly went a little bit bonkers that night, and kept threatening to run TOWARDS the fireworks rather than AWAY from them everytime someone [or himself] set them off. haha.. he's such a hilarious character. charly got rather peeved after a while and just instructed everyone to restrain him and keep him away from the matches.

anyway, a picture says a thousand words [omg, the cliches], soooo here they are.

my flatmates and the usual usurpers of my kitchen in the hallway of our flat before we went off to set off the works.

the guys very graciously let the girls have the sparklers to play with [because well, there were only five.]

how bright the sparklers ACTUALLY are in the dark.

FIREWORKS!!!!

FIREWWWWWWOOOOORRRK!!!

the girls, posing for a little group picture. yes, i am THAT short.

the guys, posing for a group picture. [i don't know why there's this white sheen over it]

GROUP PICTUREEEEE! [from left: giulia, liz, meg, chaos, craig, andrew, matt, sookie, me, sebbie, charly and michael.]

they REALLY should allow fireworks in singapore.

ciaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaao!