Written by lainie at 01:14 AM on April 26, 2008 in Events.

On Tuesday night, I went for Puss in Boot's event The KL Word, which also coincided with organiser Elaine's birthday. Upon arrival with Kat and her mystery  “girlfriend” (who turned out to be Zedeck), we were greeted by an Elaine giving out white stickers.

Elaine: You have to put your name, and the L Word character you most identify with!

Then she showed us her sticker: Elaine aka Jenny

Lainie: But what if I don’t -

Elaine: Nope, you gotta do it. It’s not a choice!

I was actually about to finish my sentence with “don’t know the characters in L Word”, but heck. Being the only one familiar with the show, Kat ended up labelling me (Bette, “because she has good taste in art&rdquo, and Zedeck (Alice “because I want to date her").

Someone later told me Bette’s a beautiful, organised, power-hungry bitch, and that I may be more of a Jody, sculpting clay and being activist-y.

Elaine said we have to find our "L Word partners", but I didn't know who dates Bette, so I didn't search for her. Wasn't really inclined to anyway. The music was better in the earlier part of the night, kinda fun, people dancing, networking - couldn't help but wonder what brew of an exes network I was in.

There were prizes given out that night, which I found pretty cool. You had to be the first to answer a Season 5 L-Word question to win one.

The prizes were sex toys: A vibrator, and a G-spot vibrator. I'm not sure if there were more.

I think this was one of the girls who won a dildo. Elaine's the one who's about to glomp the mic. Photo shamelessly filched off Elaine's Facebook account.

The event had a really good turn out, a lot of girls, some looked good. I met Sunway there, hadn't seen her since I moved out of Bangsar. It was good to catch up.

If you’re not from a “small town” like Ipoh, or gay, you may not be familiar with the mechanics behind spotting someone from your school in a gay event: If you’re not acquaintances, it’s usually a nod of acknowledgement from across the room.

“The nod” is something lesbians do that I cannot understand. I don’t see it outside of American tv series, everyone else I know just says hi, or smiles across the room. Lesbians nod. It’s like being the only two lesbians in a party of straight people. That “yeah, I can tell you’re gay too” nod.

 The other is the “yeah, I don’t know you but remember your face from school” kinda nod. Then both parties tend to stay in opposite ends of the room until some unsuspecting person insists on introducing you.

Was there actually a problem with meeting the other person in the first place? No. Which is why I don’t get lesbians. Maybe I just speak for myself.

It’s some group behaviour thing I cannot explain, like a whole bunch of lesbians pretending they didn’t see a hot woman walk by till she’s out of earshot. "Eh, who was that? Do we know any of her friends? Who's her ex?"

Does anyone notice other quirks like this? Or have I just run out of straight friends and can no longer tell that everyone does the same thing?

To clarify - “the nod” didn’t happen to me. I mean, it was a gay gathering, we'd be bopping like penguins all night nodding to each other. I did however, meet two seniors from my alma mater, Main Convent Ipoh - they'd come for the event together.

I kinda knew the first, who introduced me to a senior I was supposed to know by her accolades in school.

 Lainie: I was really blur in school, and I apologise beforehand because I won’t know anything I’m supposed to.

 Lainie: It’s not like you know me anyway, right? Damn seniors, all the same.

 Not like I recognise my juniors.

[ Update: Ding has expressed severe doubt in using me as a source of information on lesbian quirks. She may be right, please exercise any brainfart from this blog with care ]

I met a lot of girls I'd not seen in a while, including some from a few years back, when attending "lesbian dinners", which despite sounding like an euphemism for something sleazy, was really a mild meet up over dinner with other queer girls.

Smile picked me up from the party, and I left a lil early because it was time to go surprise Tei for her birthday. We ended up chilling at home, watching The Producers yet again. We were supposed to go makan because I skipped dinner, but Tei's home is like some alternate reality of soft lights, whirring fans and big pillows. We didn't make it past the couches.

I've more to blog, I've been out every night since, but it's already Saturday now, but the cat wants my attention. Ciao!

But before I do: Youtube darling Koko Kaina performing on Saturday (tomorrow, or today, depending what time you read this) at 3pm.