#haze day

[lyssa-ohno]

My remaining true feelings are

A story where “happiness” is forbidden

8-15-

[artschoolglasses]

Haze Day, Yoshitomo Nara, 2002

[lyssa-ohno]

"Happiness" is a curious thing

8-15-

[actualbirb]

it's the first day of my senior year of high school today, on 8/15. in honor of our upcoming anime, everyone make sure to have a safe and happy August 15th.

[spineye]

Haze Day

Today was something I like to call a "Haze" day. No, it has nothing to do with frats or any form of organization that might involve paddling. Its just a day where you head, body, or (if you want to get mystic) spirit, just isn't working quite up to the standards it is meant to. Maybe its your just having a phantom pain in your leg. Or a odd eye twitch that just seems to happen when someone talks about work or horrible television sitcoms. Or maybe you're just feeling like your head is in the clouds or down in the dumps for no real reason. Its nothing to be upset about, honestly these just come and go and we got to just step through the mind fog, so to speak.

[thegeekychef]

Haze Day

okay so months ago my friends and i decided to celebrate our 10 years of friendship together. So I planned a little BBQ get together....unfortunately at the time, KL experienced bad haze. But we went ahead with our plan anyway. The theme was slightly school ish with blue as the main colour. We were on a very tight budget and to be honest all we cared about was the food so I didn't bother much with the decor.

DECOR

I hung small blue tissue pompoms on strings and tied them to the trees. Blue crepe and school pad paper buntings were hung between the pompoms. A few white and blue balloons were also tied to the ends.

A "blackboard" sign was placed on the food table bearing the words HAPPY HAZE DAY.

I also had plastic cups with tags on them so we can write our names on them (and not get our drinks mixed up)

FOOD

Appetizer

While waiting for the fire to start and for the food to cook, I had some appetizers set out for my hungry friends :

French baguette topped with cream cheese and spicy turkey slices. 

Fresh tomato gazpacho served with nacho chips

 I also prepared Virgin Coladas for them to cool down under the hot sun - served in a retro milk tin 

Main Course

For the main, of course it was all grilled, grilled, grilled on the bbq! We had Creole Spiced Chicken wings, sausage and shrimp kebabs and Cheese Stuffed burgers. A side of grilled corn on the cob and; cold and creamy potato salad were also served alongside the condiments for the burger. I also made Homemade BBQ sauce and green chile mayo.

Desserts

Now for the desserts. I kept it simple as I know we were gonna be stuffed from all the other food we had.. but we had to cake. We just had to. So I made a tall, three-layer lemon cake with Swiss Meringue Vanilla Buttercream and lemon curd filling with bits of Meringue pieces for that extra crunch! (more on the cake in the next post). I also made Homemade Mint Ice Cream with Andes mint choc chunks - sandwiched between oreo cookies; and Rocky Road brownies.

And that just about wraps up everything about this party! Here are a few more random pictures before I end this post! Just cause. Hehe :)