Futile attempts.

I have these plans of wanting to test the limits of sleep depravity during the summer, because I'm curious as to how long I can last until the wee hours of the morning. 

It was my mom's 55th birthday party last night so staying up was kind of easy because I was occupied with things to do. The party ended around 1am and I was still high on coke and chocolate cake so I decided to have a trial last night, and recorded the things I did. 

How it went:

1:17am - The last of the party-goers are readying their things and saying last-minute slurred greetings of "Happy Birthday". Basically every male is mildly drunk and slightly tipsy except for my brother, who still has a football match in the morning.

1:20am - I eat another piece of chocolate cake. It's my 5th slice for the night.

1:25am - I try my hand at the karaoke and sing a very off-tune rendition of the Beatles' "Michelle". I also realize that my French is not very good, even whilst singing songs with French lyrics.

1:29am - I sing a few more songs with my sister.

1:37am - I get tired of singing so I take a bath. I can still hear my sister and brother singing old songs and I cringe because they're screaming at the top of their lungs. 

1:55am - I lie in bed with the lights off, staring at the glow-in-the-dark galaxy stickers I have on my ceiling. And then I drift off into my thoughts and remember that when I was a child, I would reach out for the stars on my ceiling and say to myself, "Someday, I'm going to touch a star." 

2:21am - I check my watch and realize that I've spent so much time staring off into space. By this time, I'm getting a bit drowsy so I get out of bed, turn the lights on, and scurry to the kitchen to get some grapes. I've been thinking of eating some for awhile. I get a small bunch and go back to my room. My mom's singing an Air Supply song. I eat my grapes and continue staring off into space until I suddenly remember Taemin and his grapes in his teaser pics. I laugh to myself and think about Taemin.

2:33am - The grapes were long gone and I'm beginning to get sleepy again. I go out and sing another song, this time it's "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sing another song, "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. My throat is beginning to hurt.

2:47am - I return to my room and I watch all of SHINee's music videos, just because.

3:36am - The singing has stopped. I can hear someone brushing their teeth and some shuffling of footsteps. 

3:37am - Mom knocks on my door. I decide not to open so that she'll think I'm asleep already.

3:38am - I decide to read Jane Austen's unabridged version of Pride and Prejudice. Bad idea. Old English makes me very very sleepy.

3:47am - I give up. I go to sleep with the lights on.