Hi :).

This week was nice. I’ve been up to a couple of things, so where do we start?

Well, id say boa is a pretty fair place to start.

The concert was on tuesday, and me and the friend I was with had time to go back to my flat to get ready, he ate mandi and I cooled off + tried to swat out this big ass fly that came into the flat after I opened the windows. Afterwards, we took an uber (I told the mf we wouldnt be on time if we didnt and he didnt believe me l-l) and waited in line for a little bit.

The concert itself was CRAAAAAZYYYYYYYYYYY, I genuinely had a really good time >:).

Francis in delirium played first, hadnt heard of them up until now but they had some pretty fun songs. The 2nd was my favorite, both because the song itself was really good but also in part just because of that damn orange lighting piercing through my for the climax of that song, it was awesome I loved it.

Afterwards there was a bit of a break, and then boa got on, and my god were we not prepared for it. The instrunments, the lights, the action, the WAZZITS the DOOZITS, INSANITY. IN-SANITY.

Franis in delirium was great dont get me wrong, they were kinda manic and were really energetic, a really good vibe, but boa was a whole different plane of ecstacy.

Each track was an EXPERIENCE, especially stuff like strange few and frozen. Strange few’s violin was EERY, it felt medival, the way it set the atmosphere was unlike everything id ever heard.

Frozen was unbelievably well written and made me want to tear my brain to pieces, only to then put it back together, it was melancholic in the best way. Thats not all to it either, the lyrics dug themselves into me, the whole song just knows emotional stagnation and decline way too well.

Walk with me is still stuck in my head, its such a journey and the lyrics are just SO FUCKING CATCHY.

Honestly, whiplash as an ablum has so many catchy bits.

Beatiful and broken was really sweet, sad but sweet.

Whiplash (the track) was even more melancholy, though not as much as frozen, and had that signature boa charm, again it feels like the kind of thing youd hear at the climax of a journey and I have no better way of describing it right now. Might be my favorite, that or frozen tbh or walk with me honestly (there are way too many to pick from even outside those ;-;)

She sang Deeply too which was so fun (seriously jasmine sings so fun I love it, doesnt even matter which album).

Worry was my favorite from whiplash going into it (not anymore >:)) and it didnt disapoint AT ALL, it was energetic as hell and yea im a somewhat anxious gremlin so that may have possibly helped.

Speaking of which though, it wasnt anywhere near as bad as I thought itd be in that aspect. Everyone there was having a good time so honestly, I was just enjoying myself. I even met another first time listener, and we talked a little before the concert started (thanks for showing up oliver :))

I think the concert itself just really helps you unwind honestly, not in the sense that your more relaxed by the end, but I came into it a lot more stiff, but found myself moving to the music with the rest of the people there, then participating, then singing along (im very thankful to have listened to most of whiplash the day beforehand), and fucking YELLING at some points, like for an encore and singing at the top of my lungs duvet after we got the encore >:) (my vocal chords took like 3 days to fully recover btw, it was so worth it).

Two of the guys in front of me TURNED AROUND on duvet and FUCKING CHEERED ME ON a little, I wish i’d made this up but that damn near melted me into just a pile of clothes (YOU GUYS WERE JUST AS AWESOME BTW ❤ (they were the ones cheering the hardest for an encore, they ARE awesome)).

Both bands were also just really fun to have around outside the songs (AKA the tidbits theyd share in between the song). Francis in delirium were relatable as hell, and jasmine (lead singer for boa) always found ways to be either relatable or hilarious for the stupidest reasons. She kept yapping (WE LOVE YAPPERS) and accidentaly called someone ugly. She wanted to say they wouldnt enjoy beatiful and broken because theyre not broken, she accidentaly said not beatiful instead, and the way the crowd and other band members reacted was fucking hilarious.

Something I really would like to emphasize as well, and ive really been meaning to put this into writing, is that the music was transcendental compared to listening to a digital copy. Seriously, the way the instrunments play and reverberate across the entire rooms, the depth of the instrunments compared to the sort of now flat sounding spotify mp3’s, JASMINES FUCKING VOCAL RANGE IN (she was sick and she still KILLED it), I dont think any of it comes through as clearly digitally, at least with the earphones and other equipment that ive got, or EVER got.

To describe the difference in how it felt, listening to it on my phone has the music go into my ears, being their injected that shit straight into my soul. Again, every song was an experience, AKA it felt umbelievably vivid.

How I thought concerts were overkill a couple of months back is FUCKING BEYOND ME, im looking at femtanyl concerts after the fact and im DYING to go, DYING TO GO >:00.

And ive already specifically mentioned the violin, but the violinist was also the keyboardist AND got on the guitar on one of the tracks????? HOW, HOW CAN SOMEONE BE THIS TALENTED?????? Man, my eyes were already glued on him since he was on the keyboard, but JESUS, I DIDNT EXPECT THAT MUCH, AND HE FUCKING KILLEDD IT.

God, I still barely believe that I went and saw boa.

Me and the person I was with were wholly different people when we stepped out of the union. It was like id rebooted my brain, or waking up from a really good nights rest, everything felt so real, so fresh to the touch. The sounds, the air, the moonlight, the voices of glee, bunnies wandering about the campus, all coalescing into the conglomerate of mental piquancy that was my brain after the fact, ive said this twice now but, it was pure ecstacy, start to finish.

So yea, that was the concert—to make a long story short ;-;. Good times :).

So, what else?

Well, im never getting chicken flavoured indomie again (its the beef flavour I mentioned a while back, was calling it beef based off the colour :p), thats another thing.

I liked it alot at first, but honestly im sick of it now. That, and it doesnt taste that good with extra ingredients compared to the white and red packets. It tastes bad with sour cream, milk, isnt helped by peppers and onions as much as other flavours, in general it isnt that tasty anymore anyways. It feels like it ran its course, which is weird to say about an INDOMIE flavour.

Also I almost went blind the last time I ate it.

OKAY IM OVEREXAGGERATING, SHOOT ME >:(, IT FELT LIKE IT.

Look, you know that one recipe that futurecanoe did in one of his viral videos, where he poured scolding hot oil on seasoning + onions and garlic? Well I thought “wouldnt it enhance the flavours of a pepper too?”

Big mistake, UNBELIEVABLY BIG MISTAKE.

I was working with 250K SCOVILLE PEPPERS, which yes isnt that bad, bad it gets spicier when you pour burning hot oil on it.

Some of you im sure, still dont see the issue yet, I SURE DIDNT WHEN I MADE IT. I searched it up later to find out wtf was happening to my body, but you wanna know something cool oil can do at that temperature with peppers like the ones I used?

It absorbed the spice. The > 250,000 scoville spice, that spice. Not only did this mean it hurt way more (and lasted longer for some reason), but it now hurt NEARLY EVERYTHING. The back of my hand, under my fingernails, certain parts of my arm, I dont even know why in that case.

I dont even know when or how it happened, but because of me using tissue to sniff out the mountain of mucus coming from my nose because of the spice, some of the spice got on my eye.

The pain was relatively managable, but it didnt end like it did when id first gotten it in my eye the last time I cut the same peppers when eating indomie (yea this is the second time :p). I thought it would the same, but (AND I DONT KNOW HOW IT WAS TRANSMITTING I WAS TRYING TO BE CAREFUL) it got onto my right eye too, and it wasnt stopping, the pain. It was getting WORSE. 15 minutes in, WORSE, ao I tried rinsing my eye.

The rinse made it worse. I think it was because I pushed with my finger too hard (which at that point mustve not been washed enough to get rid of the oil(not to say I didnt wash it but I shouldve washed twice)), but it hurt even more.

At that point, I shuffled out of the bathroom in pain, practically blind since both of my eyes needed to stay closed no matter what. I bumped into my hanger, and opened my eyes on instinct.

I dont even know how to explain the pain past that point. My right eye started pulsing, Both of them were blood red after the fact and felt like they were gonna scratch into a million pieces and pop at any minute, alongside the back of both of my hands having that stupid burning sensation. I barely kept my mouth shut with the pain, the only thing on my mind at that point was that there was nobody around to help, and how the hell to make it stop.

Normally, like often happens with my asthma, I have family around, but for all I knew when this was happening I was gonna go blind. It was the worst pain ive felt in a while, I can say that pretty comfortably. Back pain, shoulder pain? Fine. Even the same burning spice on my hands wasnt all that bad, but something about getting it in your eye, at this intense a spice, was just vile. Fucking vile.

At the very least, I made the right choice after that rinse. No, I didnt call emergency services, I considered it but people are dealing with way worse compared to spice eyes.

I decided to take a shower. I frantically took off my clothes and threw them onto the floor, shuffled into the bathroom like a complete mess, and got the shower running to wash myself of all of the chilli oil that id gotten on me at that point.

It took like 20-30 minutes, but yea, the pain finally left me, and I got to open my eyes for the first time since what felt like an hour of non stop pain in my eyes, and in a couple of other places.

Of course, it didnt end there. The pain is still following me around and weening itself off, not in my eye, thankfully thats totally over with, but for the past 2 days since then ive been feeling burning under my fingertips every so often, and yea it would still spread a bit if I wasnt careful. Its slowly been popping up less and less though, cant wait for it to be all gone. In fact, its probably over now anyways, since I havent felt it since last night.

(before you ask, dont worry I did clean my hands thoroughly in an attempt to gid rid of it, its not like ive been with gross hands since this happened. it just seems to be really sensitive under my nails, combined with the crazy oil which doesnt make for a good combo, even a day after)

So yea, thats why im never getting chicken flavoured indomie again ;-;.

Also, definetely working with less than 250k scoville peppers from now on, that kind of spice doesnt make for a pleasant meal anyways, even when not jacked with oil (which is weird because I usually love million scoville spices on wings and burgers, but o well :p).

Ive got some more to talk about, but honestly I should probably get to studying, or head to bed soon. Gotta get ready for the physics mock exam this week. Hope you had fun reading though :). Ill be back to talk about an INTERESTING game next week.

Its danganronpa, the game is danganronpa. I finished the first game this week im on the second one now.

Bye now :D.