on carriage janice
christine
paul john, jason, me, yit ming n wirawan
me n kat n joel
me, yilin, charis, ruixi, gezzel
kat, ailynn, me, joel, kevin, mark

03/11/06, was one of the most glitterest and glamourous night of my life... haha.... :) but it all happened in a flash and now, looking at the hundreds of pictures we took, it all seemed so unbelievable that we have just one month left in trinity... throughtout these 11 months, the one social event that had been on the minds of most trinity students was the ball, and when the theme of "hollywood" was announced, everyone started discussing anxiously about dresses, dates and all the related topics... emm... i went back in sept with the purpose of finding my dress and fortunately after nearly 3 days of searching with so many choices, i ended up with one frm zara which my mom added some touch of her creativity on afterwards...
The ball started at 7pm and many pple who had full day classes like me skipped a few lessons, but i am proud to say i didnt... haha.... i took the risk but still Jack, my drama teacher was so nice to let us off early... then i went back to bathe and then went to Concept Blue, where Lay's sister's friend helped me and lay style our hair.. i am so glad to have received some professional help & didn want to trouble kat who had to do her hair and offered to do mine too... thanks lots to lay & kat :) i am so grateful..... haha... by the time my hair was done, it was almost 7 and i haven even changed into my dress which was at home.... arr... i was already freaking out... haha... so with my make-up and hair, i took the tram back home, which was so awkward for me cos i looked so dolled up for the first time, but in jeans and a shirt... i kept looking down, so self-conscious... sighs...
anyways, got out of the lift and kat was there looking so pretty... ahha... :) i quickly changed into my dress and did some last min stuff and made the boys waited downstairs for abt 15 min.. haha....first time i receive flowers...thx joel for everything:)... kat had two cos kevin was officially her date but mark was also her date... emm...i still wondering how that worked out but ya... ahha... LOL... yup, so we walked out of our apartment and i felt that same sense of insecurity... sighs...hate the feeling of pple staring... lol... and guess wat, as usual there was always something to surprise me la... i asked kevin the day before how we gg to grand hyatt hotel, then he said taxi... but when we were opp. astorial, there was this horse carriage waiting... actually joel accidentally slipped it out before that.. haha... but still, it took me a while for me to digest everything tht was going on...i felt like a tourist cos there was two horses in frnt carting 5 of us to the hotel... when we passed arrow on swanston and saw other friends, they were also on horse carriages... n i tot only pple like kevin, joel and mark are capable of thinking of such ideas... ahahah.... there seemed to be a horse race among us... but it was so cool i think... imagine because of the ball, the roads were packed with horse carriages galloping to the hotel, passing through the CITY....looked like some kind of fanciful parade... haha...
we reached the hotel close to 8 and took so many pictures outside, even before we cld enter the building... ahha... it was such an affair... :) but still, so many pple looked so different and the first thing i notice abt pple was their shoes... haha.... but some of the dresses were awesome... haha... really felt like hollywood... haha... yup, we got throught the entrance but when we went upstairs in the waiting area, we took even more pictures... it was the highlight of the night, taking pictures!! haha... the staff were soon chasing us into the ballroom... haha... but we were one of the last ones to enter... ;) and pat porter, my EAP teacher was there!! she told us she wldn be, she lied... ahha... but still, it was more a students night and only a few teachers went....so we toook more pictures...
each table had 10 pple but actually practicaly nobody stayed at the table... everyone was gg around taking pictues and seeking out friends.. but overall the dinner was satisfying, exceeding my expectations... the food was nice and the ambience was better... the songs played were catchy, like "stars are blind", "sexyback" and some other nice songs etc... those songs make ppple just wanna dance... even before dinner, so many pple were already at the dance floor... haha... i love looking at pple dancing.. :) cos i cant dance and it's so cool to see pple who are able to let themselves go and just relax and have fun... if the ball was back in spore, i think the dance floor wld be almost empty and the songs wld not be as nice... but it was so different yest.... throughout the night, the songs were upbeat and the dance floor was seldom empty... haha... there was a dance competition and looking at the moves the girls and guys had, i was already feel high...micheal won the dance competition for boys... & GUESS WAT, in the middle of a song, kat, lay and i decided to go to the dancefloor and after much hesitance, we were in the middle of the crowd and just "dancing", if u can call that dancing... lay and i were just twirling and twirling... haha.. but kat cld dance... :) i didn expect myself to be even there, but even if it was only a few min, i am glad i was at least in the middle of the excitment.... i drank three cups of tea (which the rest have a theory that tea makes me high) and pat was like " i didn't see u talk so much before" !!! haha...maybe tea does indeed work on me....
there were also lucky draws throughout the night and kat was so funny, praying that our table wld not win anything, saving us the trouble frm gg to the frnt... lol.... n we did not... grin* anyway, rest of the night, more pictures and dancing... and i found out something...if u wanna find yr friends at a ball, just go to the toilets... haha...all the girls were busily taking pictures in the mirror and yup, i agree the best pictures are taken in the washroom... :) is a good interaction place...
almost everyone left by 1230am cos most of them proceeded to the after-party at hush-bar or platform 1... haha... i think our group was the last one to leave cos we didn intend to go after-party... instead, we walked all the way to Crown, linking arms in a straight line... joel, me, kevin, kat & mark forming a straight line, while engene, allynna & jon walked in frnt... it was a good way to escape frm the cold too ...ahaha... u see, i wasn smart enough to think of a scarf...lol..after much effort, we reached crown and went to Greco to have cakes... it was already 2am by then... imagine that... !! deserts at 2am!! but who cares... we ordered a total of 5 cakes and some drinks.... the cakes were huge and sad to sae, we had left over... CHEESECAKE rox..haha...i love aust. cakes, they were so rich and huge.... :) yummy... after our sugar rush, we took a maxi cab back cos our feets were sore.... 8 pple in one cab... cool huh>and we made three separate stops... engene n jon went to hush for more partying, while, ally. went home, and kat, joel, mark, kevin n me went back to nelson's and everyone crashed in the common room... the boys brought like bags over, as if moving in la...:) round the world holiday...mark was zoned out by the time he hit the crouch... yup... so after some slacking in the common room, at abt 530am, we went to the roof top to watch the sunrise... it was the access roof actually, where the air-con maintanence are, so we had to slot a calculator in btw the door to make sure it doesn close on us, or we wld be trap... haha.... the sun took so long to rise but we did see 5 hot-air balloons in the sky... so nice la... these huge balloons, called "sunrise balloons", where pple go up to see the sun-rise frm there....
after we gave up on the sun, we went to my room and had toast, ice-cream in a tub, and milo for breakfast!!! :) i think i broke so many of my rules today!!! we were scopping vallina icecream onto our bread and eating it with warm chocolately australian (we have a theory it tastes better than malysian milo) milo at 630am!!...haha... anyway, my story sld end here cos we were all so tired by then, it was impossible to keep awake...
i am sure i am a model student cos at 12pm i still went for chem support class :) !! didn sleep the whole night and still can attend exxtra lessons... sighs... this is really sad... :) after class went to vic market with jessica, lay n janet... had macs for lunch and i was drinking lots of coke to keep me awake.... so here i am, typing this long post, hoping someone wld be interested to read my extraordinary day.... :) i need sleep badly :O

P.S. thanks for everything.. table 26!!! all of u rox!! (my socks???**as kat and joel puts it..lol) ~kat, mark, kevin, joel, ailynn, liern, wai yen, engene, allynna~ 06