Prom is a term technically only for the celebration involving the graduating J2 batch where both sexes- male and female, (and maybe other combinations) are involved. =D therefore, the wonderful event held at Regent hotel on the 23rd of November 2006 should actually just be called a Graduation Night, and not prom! but whatever it is, it was truly a wonderful time for me and i thank thank thank the exco for all their hard work! while the rest of us were slogging over Os, dear babes had prom at the back of their heads- hoping to plan the most wonderful night for all us SC kim-geks. to my dear Cam, Jean, Lishan, Val, Stef,Shong, Bev your efforts were definitely not wasted!
on my part, the dinner meant so much more to me than just dressing up and getting manicures and fake lashes and whatever not. just throughout that splendid day, i learnt loads about many other things. Well, i did my hair and make up at Jean Yip at plaza sing, and boy was it memorable. plucking eyebrows is such a painful ordeal- torturous! other than that, me and mum were rushing around like mad, buying and trying on stuff, basically exemplifying the result of my bad habit: procrastination and "leaving things to the last minute"-indeed.
finally, I reached Regent, half an hour later than the supposed meeting time, and starting taking many pictures with Lesley and company! Many said they couldnt really tell that it was me but the responses were varied, so oh well. haha what amused me was that nearly everyone could tell my eyelashes were fake! Nooo!
At our table sat zara, rekha, cheryl, amanda, ying, jill,jean, chiawen, koon and I. it was enjoyable esp with reks opposite constantly trying to grab my attention (ahha!). the food was good and i think i ate the most! man, its always me! haha i love food! isnt it great to be able to eat?! Giants must Fall should deserve to be applauded larh for their enthusiasm and willingness to perform for a bunch of 16 year olds. I especially loved the 'chasing cars' version which was obviously made popular by MY idol Jonathan Leong! haha of course i was talking and laughing as much as i was eating and therefore the meal ended much faster than i thought it would. while the other classes went on stage to take pictures, 4gy decided to be fresh once again and took the spiral staircase outside. yayness.after taking more and more photos,
my wonderful class partner Alyssa a.k.a my very own 'koomama' and I!
aah! my wonderful becky!! haah thanks for all the things you've for me! ultra-thankful! mmm!
camille!! hope we both get into vj next year! haha then i dont have to say goodbye to you dearest little piece of thing right now!=D
my wonderful lumsai! aah! what would i do without you?? 
jeansies and I!!
QIANN??!!!
chia wen (!!) miss tan and I!
chimmy and I! haha you should have turned around jill! chiawen jean and i finally came to a conclusion that we were indeed gonna crash ll's house and spread the joy to her - the anti-prommer. haha but we walked down the streets of orchard to view the lighting and we came to yet another conclusion that it was super overdone. i mean the lights were like nice but too many and too thick, it seems like a carpet or something haha. we finally decided to stop walking in our dresses and (chia wen's heels) and cabbed all the way to Tai Hwan Crescent. Yes, ll's house.
haha at ll's house, we watched disc 2 of drumline, disc 1's content being verbally told by me since it was stuck in my dvd player at home! watched band of brothers, then camped at her rooftop. haha chia wen went to sleep while the 3 of us played..MONOPOLY! hahaha it was funn reliving our younger days! anyway yea till like 6 then we flew miniature kites! haha ll's house is just full of entertainment! yea after chia wen woke up we walked to serangoon gardens to eat breakfast! yum! and my whole plate of apple crumbs flew onto chiawen when the fan blew at her direction! haha! after we returned back to ll's house we just talked for 3 hours while jean took frequent doses of sleep. the rain was super heavy and we all had to wait till like 1 then we could leave. man i felt ultra weird on the bus still with my prom hair and all haha but it comes to a time when i dont really care too much about what others think of me (maybe to a certain extent la) so i was still all cheery on the bus.
Chia Wen sleeping!
Us watching and (dying)
back home i had a fun time dismantling my hair and had a few shampooing sessions and a bath then rushed out to plaza sing again for an hour and a half's organ lesson. yess music lessons are cool because every week i seem to see someone new in my class! its quite weird but im not sure how yamaha's planning goes. after that took a bus to crown centre to meet jill. ON THE BUS: i met adeline and angeline ( ex-sc bandits who are currently in ac ) and one more person now j1 in ac i think- i didnt manage to get his name but sounded quite disappointed when i said nearly no one was going for ac's tune in the next day. haha. met wenhui also who sweetly showed me this year band camp's booklet but soon after i had to rush down the bus. talking about that sometimes some people on the bus really amuse me. they sit on the outer seat of the bus column and when the person sitting inside (me) tries to excuse herself so that she and her big bag can come out, they know the magnitude of this whole thing trying to get past them but they only move like an inch to their left.?? haha so i just like squeezed my way through, not sure if my big bag grazed him/ her or something, i didnt have the time to turn around to apologise because by the time i squeezed out and ran down the bus i think Mr. Bus driver was too impatient and drove off immediately.sorry mr/ms if my bag grazed any part of you!=D
after meeting jill, we headed to adam food centre to meet chiawen and koon then headed off to her church -Gospel Light. it was a warm place and the food was good. it was even more amusing meeting Robindro Chatterji- the pro sji lit presenter at our symposium this year. well after that, koon and i had an eventful time figuring out the 9- card game some of the church senior's were putting up. Man sometimes i think i really think too much. Chiawen's church was nice and for awhile i suddenly thought of this : "Be still and know that I am God" -Psalms 46:10. Indeed, amidst all this hustle and bustle and dance and fun, it is indeed rewarding to our souls to thank Him above for even giving us the opportunity to enjoy this. Indeed, all in God's grace.
Till then i hadnt slept since the morning of prom! and the surprising thing was i wasnt even tired! another late night and by the time i reached home i conked out almost immediately! yayness!
