Thursday, December 2
Oh wow. Prom. Kinda stunned but... Lol. You'll never know what you'll expect until you experience it yourself...
Had been really looking forward to prom, and getting excited and gan chiong together with all your girlfriends. Haha. I mean, when you have 6 girls cramping in one room and frantically trying to change into their dresses while slapping some make-up on your face at 4 pm when they have to leave at 5, that's what I call action. Woohoo. I think I got lucky, at least I had the time to leisurely stroll around in Sophia's house, play with her dog for a while, then shower. Haha. Already dressed and more or less finishing with the cosmetics section when the people finally arrive. Not bad. That's what I call planning ok?
Lol. Went our separate ways after receiving our testimonials. (Speaking of testimonials, I think Tay hates me. She even spells my name wrongly. Sigh. Had to give it back to her for changes. Anyways...) I decided I should rabbit to Sophia's house as soon as possible, since I'm not doing my hair, and I should go first so we don't clash with each other later. Hehe. Wise choice. But of course had to do some dirty job, like calling people for the night's hotel room, so that we get enough people and enough dough to 'kai fang'. Yeah, I think we're really spontaneous. I mean, considering that we only finally decided to book a hotel just in the morning of the night itself, I think we're pretty gung-ho. Lol. Not that the hotel was some kind of 5-star hotel, or even 4-star, but at least it had two beds, and a toilet. Good enough. Hehe. Some u-lu hotel like The Gallery Hotel, which I've never heard of, but yeah. It was, at least, not dilapidated, or 'raunchy'. (Quotes Junyong. Think Hotel 81. Lol.)
Oh yeah. Back to Sophia's house. Let's just skip the part where Larry (the dog) tries to rub himself on me, or me giving him a body massage. Lol. Oh yeah. Gan chiong time. I guess I underestimate us girls sometimes. Never thought we could dily-daly for so long. Originally needed to leave by 5, and me and Huiling with Junyong by 4.45 (around there) since we needed to check in the hotel room first. BUT, (yeah, there's a but) we had to delay, and ask the poor guy below Sophia's flat to wait for us for half an hour since Huiling and I weren't done packing and we needed to collect everyone's stuff to bring it to the hotel. Yeah. Talk about being bellboys for the peeps. Lol. But since there was only one guy that was truly being the bellboy, I shan't say much. Haha. Rounded up our stuff into the taxi, and headed down for The Gallery Hotel. Don't even talk about the rest. Hello, the rest upstairs weren't even done. Lol.
Oh yeah. The taxi part. Can't resist talking about it. Hmm. Had me pretty stunned. Wow. Hmm. You know you usually see Junyong in that kind of pattern at school? Yeah. That's how he'd appeared in the morning during testimonial collection time. And he was kinda gonna do some more last-minute shopping for his shirt, jacket, hair highlight, hairstyle... You get the idea. Then me and Huiling were just in the lift talking about him when we reached the lobby... and saw him. Utterly stunned. Lol! I mean, wow... Talk about 'being the man I never thought he would be'. (Another quote from him.) I can't exactly describe, but... he really went great efforts into, erm, 'being the man I never thought he would be'. Ok. Can't describe. Oh my god. STUNNED. Lol. So yeah, so sweet of him to get me flowers (roses), though it was kinda expected, but well... Yeah, nice. Hehe.
Reached the hotel with lots of time to spare, but we couldn't check in yet. Yeah, sad fact. The hotel needed a deposit of 250 bucks, which none of us had that kind of dough. (Actually, we were wearing the money. Can you imagine? My dress - 89, shoes - 50, accessories - around 20+, my hair - 26... The rest? Huiling - 200+, Junyong - close to 300! God. What did he spend on anyway?) Yeah. Had to call for some help. Got Yani to withdraw the money so we could check in, but guess what. Wow. We arrived at 5.30pm, but had to wait for Yani and Clara to arrive... at 6.45. Lol. Nice wait. Hmm. Can't do anything else anyway. Yeah. And felt stupid to take photos with the lobby personnel staring at us. Lol.
Yeah. Finally got our room, and it looked so cozy after the hour's sit down at the lobby I didn't really feel like moving anymore. Oh gosh. Nice beds, nice toilet, nice tv... Yeah fine. Lol. Was already late, so had to rush. Really rush. Yani was bunning up her hair, Clara was sprinkling shimmering powder, and we were waiting for the bellboy to bring up our stuff so we could rummage it for the tickets the girls over at Sophia's house forgot to take it with them. Hmm. Yeah. Lots of stuff to do over at the hotel, and were really delayed.
7pm before the five of us could finally get out, and problem again. Hmm. 5 peeps = 2 taxis. Sigh. Nothing much to argue about who's going with who, so sent Clara, Yani and Huiling on the first taxi while both of us tried to hail the next cab. You wouldn't believe it. I don't know how we can miss so many cabs. Waited quite a while before we finally boarded the taxi to Ritz Carlton. Man, I hate my heels. They sink into soil. Crap.
Yeah. Grand entrance... Actually not really, since the program started late, so we were actually on time. Last few to reach, but hey, who's noticing? Took LOTS of pictures. LOTS LOTS of them. (SEND ME!) Entered the ballroom. TOOK MORE PHOTOS. LOTS LOTS MORE. You'd think I'll be blinded by all those flashlights by then, but no... Had to take more after the prom. Yeah. Click click and pose pose. Lol.
Hmm. Kinda regretting should've taken more... but oh well. Wanted to take more but no one was noticing me. (I lead an invisible life. I feed on glass.) Sigh. Yeah. Then Junyong's digicam had to batt flat on him. Sigh. There went my chances of taking more. Hmm. Realised I didn't actually take a lot of photos with him alone, so... yeah. I mean, no decent photos of me and my date? Funny huh... Lol. I'm hoping the one that we did take will turn out good. Hehe.
I think I'm glad. Yeah. Contented lar. Having a date going with you to prom, fetching you, doing things for you. Yeah. Fun. Muahahaha. (Servant of the day.) Lol. I mean, when I actually agreed on going with him, it was just like a fun kind of experience, like seeing what your date would do for you and stuff. But I guess he was making a great effort to look good, and yeah, I think he turned out... stunning. Lol. Real sweet. Funny lar. Hehe. I guess that's how having a date feels like. =)
Posted by Isabelle at 1:22 pm