here's the long-awaited post on farewell alma mater (FAM) 2007! (at least i hope it's LONG-AWAITED) it's also known as prom night, or grad night, or batch dinner whatever u get the idea. it was held at meritus mandarin hotel on the 12th november.
supposed to be there 6.15pm and seated by 6.30pm. i was running late and going to reach at 6.30pm and i was so worried that everyone would really be SEATED by then. and i would enter alone and unwelcome, (u know those grand entrance, then all the ppl turn and stare at u as u turn red and flustered finding ur table >.<)
well in the end everyone was still hanging around the lobby of meritus mandarin (phew), and also the lobby outside the ballroom on 4th floor. so not late! in fact, it started at around...7.45pm? heh the mc saying "the programme is a
little bit delayed" is totally understatement of the century. ^^"
so, what were we doing from 6.30pm to 7.45pm?

notice the many ppl behind us? everyone's kindof milling around and taking pictures with
random ppl

can see more
random ppl actually moving by behind us. me and os! (os apparently chose her lavender one instead. ^^")

me and geri! geri so cute righttt
then we moved into the ballroom. (and we were first few there, so nothing to do, what else?)

the table i was at. table 46 violan to be exact. since we were early in there, empty table for us. btw, dazzle's the theme for our FAM.

look at the difference with flash! the place is rather darkly-lit so if u don't use flash rather blurry. u use flash? super sharp, but it looks like the area around it is super dark...different atmosphere?
doorgift was a birthday bear. i got some march one, so i went around searching for my month's and got a july!

poor bear looks like it's being kidnapped...

and bundled up...

sad and lonely. dunno why they wan put a black tie thingy around its neck too. poor thing...
so SMILE!

vast difference from the smiley keychain we got along with the bear!
the stage.
acid rush and 414 from our sch performed some singing and playing, not too bad, esp 414's harmonising. a bit like pseudonym, since some of the pseudonym ppl were in it...
oh and RJC's street dance performed too! not too bad, esp some of them were quite good. however a few looked out of place and uncomfortable. =P not bad lah...

videos here

videos there

and televisions for ppl who can't see from the back. ^^" acid rush performing "she will be loved". i think.
btw this has NOT been edited.
seriously this picture should have been impossible to be captured on film. what's that weird effect thingy! we were laughing at something can't rmb what.
psst! BLAWS IS WEARING A DRESS AND MAKE-UP! spaghetti strap dress! unfortunately she too shy to show off her shoulders in the picture. T.T
highlight of the night, miss farewell alma mater competition. one person from each class has been nominated months ago, and they would be vying for the title of Miss FAM 2007! ah well they cat-walked down the aisle individually, quite scary for them bah, bcos everyone was staring at them and gossiping about how stick-thin she looks! or how she looks so pretty! her dress is tailor-made u know! wah that dress is beeeauuutifull! etc etc
then they each performed something of their own, mostly singing and dancing, some magic tricks, and toe did some waitor-miming act ^^ joyce did some snake piping thingy? grace zhang FUNNIEST LAH her lame jokes and "magic" that was so obviously fake! and the poem she made up! it all rhymes and was sooo funny! wonder how long she actually took to do that. i thought she should have won miss FAM that night. she was really quite good...
then came the question and answer session. each contestant picks a question at random, and they have to answer lor. haha like beauty pageant. then the questions were actually asked by teachers recorded on video-tape! quite creative. can't quite rmb the responses..this girl picked a qn about would u go for plastic surgery or not, and why. she started giving evidence to support her answer, like ss or english essay T.T she was talking about how there's some woman in the us, then everyone was like WAHHHH so pro can rmb! haha but her response quite PC.
then some ppl gave random examples from their daily lives to support their answer, like joyce said something about her falling down while hurrying to the canteen in p5. she said it taught her "more haste, less speed", so she must be careful next time. haha sounded like something she crapped up.
in the end Miss FAM 2007 was zhen er, she performed some pokemon theme song about heroes, and got her whole class up front to shout as fans -.-" then for qn and ans she was asked, if you have to choose between harry potter and frodo, who would you marry, and why. her reply: "harry potter. because frodo has HAIRY FEET. i don't want hairy feet IN MY BED. oh no. NO NO." everyone burst into spluttering laughter.
she quite funny lah.
my class' contestant was macey, i think she was rather nervous that's y she didn't project her voice better during the singing, then her answering also a bit odd. but not bad lah, she got Miss Personality! haha quite suited her. anw all of the contestants got some title so they wouldn't feel left-out. ^^"
lucky draw time, no one from our table won anything. huiwen and chels were like "ME ME! PICK ME! PICK ME!" in the end they compromised and went "you take 1st i take 2nd ok?" in the end both didn't win anything haha. i told them next time they should try reverse, that means go "NOT ME! NOT ME! I DON'T WAN TO WIN!" then they will win lor. might work, u nv know.
btw, bored by all that text? Nanao Ise actually appeared at my table! in fact, she was sitting right across from me. for the unaware, nanao is an anime character from bleach. this is how she looks like.

and this is her at my table.

nanao ise, lieutenant of 8th division, soul society, eating.
aiya SORRY LAH but she refused to be caught on camera with her specs on, so i had to resort to taking her when she was eating! haha so she doesn't look very glam or anything. everyone was struggling to eat and drink without smudging lipstick/makeup so funny haha. glad i didn't put lipstick or much makeup ^^
personally, i felt the prettiest girl that night was her. she looked so elegant in her all-black outfit, she should have been Miss Elegant haha. well she's miss elegant in my heart, so that's what matters. LOVE YOU JESSIE! you so cute! she can look so shuai4 and so pretty at two different occasions. so amazingly rare!
FAM that night wasn't really much, but it serves as a closure to our RGS journey. we can 收拾好心情 and 勇往直前 towards the beginning of our RJC journey. i learnt that trying to self-take pictures with the camera is NOT easy at all. the only ppl who have mastered the skill is shiao and cheryllynn. HAHA they are like come come take picture! -holds camera, smile, blink and it's over, perfectly in the center-
me, yuling and eileen have been trying it since end of exams, but we always fail miserably. one of us would either be cut in half out of the picture, or it's off-center, or all three of us not in the frame. well yuling is the better one of us though, at least our faces all somewhat inside HAHA. eh well whatever this is side tracking.
erhem. yes FAM holds many of our memories, and with this, i can proudly say I have graduated from
the portals of RGS! Farewell, my Alma Mater!
p.s. blaws if u wan pictures from me email me/msn me. send me the pictures u have also, esp the last 2 photos. (: