Hi guys! I'm finally starting my post!
It's... exactly 1 week since grad night, and that means this post is 7 days overdue!
But let's not dwell on that teeny tiny fact and get started on this post.
But before that happens, I'd like to express my gratitude towards the one and only bbg, joleen, who went to shop with me to pick out my dress!
She was a great help, and an even better company. I didn't get to hang out with her much before that shopping trip because I was busy with my exams and all.
One does really get cut off from the social world due to O levels don't they.
So anyway thanks for asking - my prom night was fun.
Hahahha yeah okay I'll start from the day itself.
On Saturday I woke up at 7 or was it 8? Anyway I was totally drained and feeling like a zombie because I'd slept late the previous night living life after O's the typical mainstream YOLO way yeah.
But I had a fencing course at Singapore Poly.
SO my dad went to pick the gays candice and jolie up before weixuan, and then we made our way down to the poly.
Once we were there we kinda didn't know where the exact venue was so we walked around like lost sheep before Mr Wong told us where to go and we did.
Yeah Hugang taught us about stretching and some other stuff which my sleep deprived brain cannot recall.
Then it was neon's turn to talk about the rules of fencing before coach norbert took over and gave us some mental strength techniques and advice.
This all lasted from 9+ until 1, I think.
In between we had this practical session related to Hugang's lecture and there was the foam thing, the barbells station as well as the agility ladder which took hugang all of $4 and a roll of duct tape to improvise
Then we had the unhealthy fencer's lunch otherwise known as KFC.
HA on a serious note I realized SG fencers usually flock to KFC if there is one in the vicinity either after trainings and/or competitions. Really. We went that day at SP, we used to go after night training at clement sometimes, after competitions at JE sports hall, and then today again at toa payoh, but I'll talk about today in another post.
Then my dad picked us up and I dozed up. By the time my eyes fluttered open gracefully from my afternoon nap right after a greasy lunch (ugh) I realized those faggots were nowhere to be seen and I was back downstairs of my house. LOLwat
Magic exists or is it just... a car..?
Okay we all need to take a minute's worth of social interaction break and just gaze at the above picture.
My best friend aka Zhiyi is now officially checking in at the airport. He called me a few minutes ago and I totally cried. He's gonna be gone for just a week but I foresee 24x7 hours of loneliness in the near, bleak future.
But if you asked me honestly I would say no la, I didn't cry for him
AHAHHAHAHA
actually I think I really only cried because I was having a shitty day and I was super sleep deprived and now my bff was overseas... the entire thang was too overwhelming
so I had to shed a few manly tears
But no fear! I'm gonna get back up (actually I already did) and face the next week like a man
I might be working next week though.
Can't say I'm gonna be able to commit to it but I sure am going to experience new things I guess.
I'll probably just quit after like 4 or 5 days though, mark my words.
I wouldn't actually even have taken up the job if not for the fact that my friends are working there too.
I mean, I never did quite like F&B jobs that require me to listen to the mantra, "the customer is always right" because I've seen some really unreasonable customers....
I'm really only working just to kill time
I would have volunteered at SPCA, except for the fact that they refuse to accept volunteers who cannot commit to at least 3 months.
That's choosy! and mean.
roar
But back to my story.
(finally)
So when I got home it was already 2+ and just as I was about to collapsed into my invitingly sexy bed, my mother asked me to go out nearby to buy I forgot what.
So I did.
By the time I reached home it was pretty late (to prepare for prom) and I went to bathe.
Right after I got out of the shower I went to my room and saw a jungle
Just kidding. I did see two monsters though.
Yeah... Zhiyi and Litong were at my place to get ready.
Then we made our way to school after waiting for the slow princess ziman who took such a long time that we ended up being late but hey - the party doesn't start til we get there
hahahaha only joking
...but really.
It didn't start before we'd arrived
Along the way I slipped on my right eye's contact lens and BOY did it sting like a fat hornet.
My hands were dirty with hairspray and I totally smeared that crap all over my eyeball.
I wish I could insert a clever name but I forgot the name. Sclera? Conjunctiva? I forgot... My Human Eye chapter was not the best bio chapter of mine
Luckily for me I ain't blind yet.
I went to the school toilet to put the second one on because I wasn't confident of my ability to be able to put that on in th car.
I've successfully mastered the art of wearing/taking off contacts with long ass nails on the right eye, but not for the left. It's a first world problem/skill.
Remember these faces.
Cause they were hell to the yeah awesome company for the night.
Except that this picture is missing Meixuan and Yuqing, otherwise it'd be complete.
But yeah. I was expecting some honestly lame event because the schedule online was totally boring ... Speeches and more speeches and then videos. It wasn't what I had in mind actually.
And the girls (fithri jessica belle etc) and I were planning to book a loft or hotel for an after-party, but NOBODY got around to actually doing it so we left it at that... cause we were all busy. It didn't seem to be a problem at first until that night when we realized we couldn't party all night. Damn that!
So yeah I wasn't really anticipating for the prom at all in all honesty.
There were quite a few people who asked me where I'd bought my dress and how much and stuff, and many people told me they think I spent a lot of time, effort and money on that but the answer is surprisingly NO.
Here's the real deal about my dress!
I had in mind a simple dress, straps, fitted waist, skirt until knee length or so. Just a really simple dress. I saw no point in spending a lot of money on prom stuff that you wouldn't wear again ever.
So how did I get to there, buying a masqueradey dress?!
Yeah although I had a simple dress in mind and I had low patience for prolonged shopping, I still wanted to buy a dress that I would like and not just walk in and grab any dress, because I'm not some VS model who looks amazayn in anything!
So to town it was with friends who asked me out. I knew in my heart I wouldn't find anything I liked at towny town because I just knew it. True enough I was right. However I actually sorta found this dress that I liked a lot, it fitted my ideal dress idea.
It was from Miss Selfridge, and was black and dark green and was $89.90.
It was a dress that I could re-wear again for other occasions.
The only thing was, it was opening day that day, and the dressing room queue was totally disgusting. I queued for 5 minutes and left.
I went back another day... But it was only available in size 10 and up and that was too big.
So I went with Joleen to town another day again. But I had a feeling I would find my dress then because she was just my favorite shopping partner.
And true enough I did. I bought my dress and heels from the same store in Far East. Hahhaaha yeahhhh.
The dress was $85. the heels $70
Total $155
But it being Far East you can totally bargain and so.... The cheapskate ziman bargained!
oi what bargaining is an important skill especially when in china okay? That time I bought a bag there in guangzhou last year and it was 95 rmb and chrislyn wanted 1 too.
end up from one bag 95RMB become 2 bag 90RMB
wtf right?! 2 bags cheaper than 1 bag original price
Ya anyway I got both dress and heels for a total of $120.
Should have asked for $100 shucks LOL
Yeahhh so besides my heels and dress I bought these totally peachy oriental earrings from F21 at $8.
And my mother made me buy glitter to make my hair into an edward cullen so that's an extra $6.90
aaaaaand that was it for my cheap prom shit!
No clutch - threw my shit in litong's bag and zhiyi's pockets
No accessories - my dress was probably enough... and the glittery edward cullen hair
So yeah. I'm normally a lazy dresser and I still was that day. Just dress heels earrings.
So... nope. I didn't spend that much on prom as you might have thought.
Prom is more of the company than the clothes, I guess.
So initially it was the typical speeches and everything. I wonder how they chose the valedictorians.
AND THEN the fun finally began!
At first it was just mingling around with friends taking pictures and all but as the night went on...
Yeah wait a minute.
So the DJ was like getting 2 guys and 2 girls for some game and it was like Lucas, Kelvin, Fithri and I.
AHAHA shit I just realized all except fithri are from 4F.
Then they expected us to dance omgwtf. Okay that was pure embarrassing because... dude it just was!
So Fithri and I REALLY had zero idea how to dance to gangam style and Low and what not.
I mean you just don't gyrate each other or do the gangnam style in... dresses. That's just crude!
So we erm hung around like gays and yeah it was baaad. LOL they should have chosen like some gay slow song or something. At least *that* would be danceable in heels and dress??
Not that I would want to slow dance with Fithri. Or Kelvin. Or Lucas.
I'm just... Yeah.
*shuffles feet awkwardly*
Above shows my girls! (and team mates)
It's really been a great pleasure knowing them.
Did you know that, even if I went to different school (in this case YTSS) I would still know them? LOL
My mum put first choice YTSS and I refused and kicked a fuss and ended up I changed it to CCHY first choice.
My score was eligible for YTSS as well la. But CCHY was my first choice ultimately
But if I went to YTSS I would know Fithri through her sister probably
And I met jessica in p6 through our brothers who were classmates
Soooo. Are we fated or what? LOL
And getting back to the story...
At first I was kinda awkward cause there wasn't much to do but after the DJ got the crowd hyped up, a makeshift dance floor was created and after awhile I got sucked into it and found myself with Jessica, Fithri and Denise. Ok they were so high that I found myself to be so unhigh and out of place. So I didn't really dance cause it was just plain weird cause I wasn't with the atmosphere and i was feeling awkward. Just plain awkward.
So ex-ah-cuse me and I forgot why suddenly out of the blue Meixuan Yuqing Vanessa appeared and they made me dance. Then came Denise with Chantal.
And all of a sudden we were all just high and dancing and shouting-singing the lyrics of whichever song that came on. Chantal was being a ziman and feeling awkward so I made her dance too LOL
Yeah it was really crazy, CCHY was totally awesome.
You really missed out if you didn't get to dance. Being caught up in the crowd of friends, everyone's dancing and shouting and being crazy. It was like clubbing except that with friends. And that's just even better. Okay la, I'm a good girl, I don't have a clubbing night life yet leh. Not that I want to anyway after hearing all the crazy shit that goes on from other friends. Not my style bro.
I'll be at home knitting if you need me.
lolwat
So yeah it was the best YOLO feeling that night
I realize I probably sound quite noob describing this event cause erm yeah I.. just scrolled up.
But I don't know how to describe it either.
At first I was quite sian that CCHY was having grad night in the school hall because it's just ... everyone else held theirs at swanky ball rooms of hotels and stuff.
But our principal said "you start your journey in chung cheng, you end your journey in chung cheng"
Well, I guess all's well that ends well because everyone totally had a blast.
In ball rooms you probably just eat dinner and make conversation and take pictures and go home.
But in the CCHY MPH, you can not care about the noise level and just really party.
And that's really the best part of it all.
When I first entered this school I was super unhappy and angry because I wanted to go another ssh that my parents didn't allow.
But now that I'm graduating, I think, this decision forced upon on me is really one of the best choices they have ever made for me.
Not many schools around this region, or in fact, none, have Fencing.
I was in neo's pioneer batch together with my girls.
Fencing is a soft spot to me because I had many memorable experiences with the fencers and in fencing, especially so in my sec 1 days and at tanglin trainings.
One is not able to fully summarize and draw a parallel in emotion towards the fencing journey.
True story.
love my juniors like my mans, xxp, gay xinyi, my girls, etc.
Wouldn't have met them without fencing!
I love cchy cause of fencing and cause of my classmates and most of all because of teachers, particularly Ms Trixie Lim who has since left the school. Love her most of all.
After prom we went to Macdonald's for supper and chilled there for quite a bit.
Wanted to head to my place to party but I guess everyone got tired and in the end my father sent us all home.
LOL
Anyway I realized this is seriously a sorry excuse for a grad night post because it's been 1 week and 1 day since. Yeah I dragged my post from sat til sun.
I didn't really mention much names in particular to express my gratitude for having them in my sec ssh life because I don't wish to leave out any so erm. Yeah.
Hahhaha
Im not really in the blogging mood now but I do owe quite a bit so I'll do my best to churn out blogwworthy posts for you guys LOL
But really. I had an amazing grad night especially when I was dancing with the girls. It was a new experience for me and I had a lot of fun just being high. I also got to know a friend better and that's Chantal. As Vanessa said, it's funny that we are all talking much more only after graduation.
I guess the idea of losing or leaving things or people behind makes us treasure them more.
Nonetheless, I'm still looking forward to my tertiary education. I believe the next 2-3 years will breeze by, and whilst I am glad at the prospects of being able to integrate myself into a new culture and a new life, I know that these are the people who have seen me grow up. As our lives inevitably courses on, diverging us into different streams, I will always hold a special place for these people in my heart.
Many of them have been more than their roles for me, especially the teachers.
I think, a really, extremely, super duper, ultra cliche phrase to sum up my education years in CCHY would honestly be this, that in CCHY, I was touched by love.
YA OK CALL ME CHEESY OR GAY OR DISGUSTING OR BONER KILL
But really okay?!
Thinking about that cheesy phrase, it holds really true for me. Many people have doted and cared and loved me in cchy. I mean yeah my family too of course, but really, the concern and love and all that you receive from cchy is really overwhelming.
Although there were many lows, there were even more highs, and if given the chance, I would gladly rewind time and replay every single moment and feel every single emotion, good or bad, again.
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