phew, finally home! after a mad day rushing around the entire nation to prepare for prom, staying over at swissotel and sleeping at 4am, getting up at 8am for a tea session and returning to get my stuff, going for lunch at raffles city... I AM EXHAUSTED!

but prom was really enjoyable, very fun.

getting prepared for it was also ultra fun! my mom took half-day leave to chauffeur me around the entire Singapore!! how cool is that?!?! we were rushing to coronation to do hair, then drove like crazy to swissotel the stamford to check-in for ah meng to enter, then swept down to the car park and getting lost along the way (i can't help it, raffles city is too big!), probably offending several passers-by who got in my way, hopped in the car and positively flew to taka for an Anna Sui makeover (which, by the way, was extremely good! go there in future if you need make-up or a makeover) then raced back to the hotel room, where mel, meifen, hongyi, ahmeng and siqian were panicking, trying to put on make-up or their dresses, screamed at everyone to get outta the way so that i can use the toilet to change, finally getting into the super-fab dress that gloria so kindly lent me, mass taking photos with my mommy and the gluttons, then clacking our ways down to the level 4 function rooms in our skyscraper heels, then mass-taking photos again with almost everyone and anyone in our way, and finally getting seated in the ballroom.

pheeeeeeeeeew, that was a long sentence. and i haven't even reached the part where grad nite officially starts! you can tell how tiring just getting prepared was!

then the program started after an unnecessarily long delay, and the program kinda sucked, so did the food. especially the emcee, who the hell hires an emcee of that calibre?!?! please la, we pay so friggin much and you hire some half-*ss lao-yah-pock-gai fella to talk crap and irritate all the guests!? but we had fun mass-taking photos AGAIN, so as to preserve the memory of our dear friends, classmates, acquaintances, cca-mates etc. and obviously to preserve the memory of our tedious preparation, the hair, dress, make-up, accessories, blah blah.

sigh. it really was fun. and a few pple looked really good! i think benjamin's and benedict's were the best for our class' guys! haha. and sichen, lu rong and annabel too, for the girls! hmm, some of the ruggers didn't look too shabby either. in short, everyone probably looked better tonight than every day in school for the past 2 years! there was supposed to be a best dressed category right? wonder who won that.. wasn't listening to a word the blabbering idiot on stage was saying.

it felt really good taking photos with so many people! i feel like a celebrity, haha! ok kidding.

anyways, the gluttons went back to the room, but siqian had to leave, how sad. back in the room, we threw off our singapore-flyer heels immediately, and started wiping off all the make-up and people's fake eyelashes were being peeled off everywhere, it was chaotic! like the end of the world was looming close and pple were scrambling all over trying to...er...remove make-up and change. anyways, we were thinking of walking to clarke quay to make the most of the night, but gave up. we all bathed and went out of swissotel to hunt for food. we were supposed to look for a 24-hour hawker centre, but got lost and went for 24-hour Macdonalds instead. that was rather amusing. there was only one guy at the counter and the 5 of us were flooding him with orders. poor dude, he looked quite shell-shocked.

by the way, singapore at 2am in the night is rather enjoyable. no traffic, the wind was blowing constantly, the air was really cool, it felt like i was overseas on dec vacation! anyways we got our macs and went back to pig out, then the bustle of our hectic schedules caught up with us and we all fell asleep. stupid mel and ahmeng kept pulling the blanket towards their side! i had to fight for my life, yanking the blanket towards me occasionally to prevent hypothermia!

oh, before that, me, ahmeng, mel and mf had PLENTY of fun doing something. it was hilarious! except for mf, who was lousy!

then i woke early to get to the psc tea session, probably waking half the neighbourhood in the process trying to pack my stuff quietly. haha. sorry guys! the plastic covering for my dress crinkles noisily. it's not my fault!

then i came back to the hotel just in time to check-out, and so i did. and we went to Aerin's for lunch, which was good, despite the miniscule portions of food for gargantuan prices. couldn't really taste the white wine in the linguine vongole though, but it was not bad!

we walked around a bit, and i had to squeeze through narrow aisles with my humongous and heavy bags! i felt like an elephant in a micromouse maze.

i saw a lot of nice stuff, but i didn't want to add on to my already unbearable load, so i staved off temptation and kept my wallet firmly shut! good on me!

so after all that, i am back home, typing away, preparing to load photos of the long-awaited prom. i really will miss the class and the people i've met in rj! like mdm lee said, when she sees certain new students, she'll be reminded of some of her past students. i think i will too, when i make new friends in future. some of the things they do might remind me of the dudes and times back in rj, triggering memories. but oh well, we have to move on in life anyways. looking back constantly does noone any good.

but for now, i will sit back and appreciate the glam shots of my friends during prom, and remember all the silly, amusing, interesting (etc) moments we had together!