Formal Dinner

Yesterday marks the last day of lectures for the year 2006. Going to the last MANV101 lecture, especially at 8am in the morning yesterday really brings back a lot of memories, but I doubt I'll miss waking up at 6.30am every Monday and Friday going to the only stream of stupid 8am lecture, since the 200 level MANV paper is also going to be at the same time next year. *BIG sigh*

Oh well. Hope going to all the early lectures pay off. MANV final exam is on this coming Wednesday, 2 days after my music sight-singing/clapping test and 2 days before biology finals. NO time to recoup in between exams! sigh sigh. I keep telling myself that this misery will only last for another 2 weeks, then freedom takes over. Heeeeeeheeeeee. *insert evil grin here*

Studholme College's last formal dinner this year took place last night. The main course was so worth waiting for, but dessert was bit disappointing. Argh the sweetness. MANY MANY awards were given out, congrats to all those who won, especially to Rebec on her hilarious column. I guess I felt more relieved than sad that I didn't win that writing award, which meant it wouldn't get published in the magazine. Won't go into details of that, though.

Enjoy the pics!

Menu.

Group pic.

Soothing music.

The weirdest ever Scottish ceremony: the cutting of the Haggis.

Being artistic; top view of a glass of red wine.

Being artistic #2: Cutlery.

Delicious food; Fish on savoury rice.

Dessert; believe me: it looks better than it tastes.

Studholme Ball 06: PotC

Studholme College's annual ball was held last night, this year's theme being "Pirates of the Caribbean", held at Savoy *again*.

Anyways, the 5 of us (Janice, Sarah, Rebec, May and I) got ready since 2 something in the afternoon, gathering in Rebec's room, doing each other's hair, makeup, and dressing-up. Thanks for Ange who helped with make-up (I'm hopeless in that)!

After 4 hours of rushing here and rushing there, we finally got everyone ready and headed to the pre-ball function at the dining hall. The decoration was awesome! A fake pirate-sy ship, sails, and skull-designed B&W helium-filled balloons, a fake treasure chest, and kitchen helpers all dressed up as pirates... and the list goes on and on. Syok the coolness and creativity!

Took a few pictures before we headed off for Savoy where the main ball would be held around 7pm. Food wasn't as great as I expected *frowns*, dessert wasn't that bad, though. I still thought the pre-ball snacks were tastier. =) Had a few pictures taken by a professional photographer, then we danced from around 9 to midnight. Phew the exhaustion! Got home past midnight, took more vain pictures (trying to capture the last few pretty moments before we remove all the makeup and hairdo), turned our clocks 1 hour forward (daylight savings shucks... 1 less hour of sleep!), and finally slept at 3-ish.

Finally... PICTURES!

Getting ready...

Pre-ball: Joss, James Slater aka Stud president, Janice

Pre-ball pic: group pic with Ziggy

My hairdo.

Savoy; people dancing.

Post-ball; vainness.

Choir competiton- Iona Trophy

I took part in the choir competition for Iona Trophy against Salmond and St Mags halls on Sunday night. We sang 3 (and a half) songs: Ave Verum Corpus, Down to the river to pray, In the still of the night, and Don't worry, be happy.

There wasn't much time for practice, and frankly, I thought the songs couldn't bring out our full potential. Anyways, going into the choir competition as the "underdogs" put a lot of pressure on us, especially even when Ziggy said that there is no chance of us beating St Margaret's coz they'll win eventually. -___- So the only thing we could do was to sing our best, and have fun!

So yeah, that was exactly what we did. This year's choir/speech competition was held at Salmond hall. Our dear ole Sam Brown gave the first speech about the fate of Kiwi blokes (translation: New Zealand guys) as they are slowly taken over by metrosexuality. His opening line: "It's nice to see those from St Margaret's still awake at this time of the night..." teehee. For those who didn't know yet, those staying in St Mags are known for studying all the time and sleeping before 10pm. Mocking them sure is fun. In short, the speech was so hilarious and well presented.

Next was Salmond Hall choir presentation. They only had 9 people in the choir, which I think was the main reason they didn't do well. St Mag's choir completely stole the show in a sense that they sounded absolutely like those professional gospel choirs. Though we knew we couldn't beat them in any way, we performed as best as we can. Seeing the audience grin when we started singing "Don't worry, be happy" (esp the whistling part) was satisfying enough to reimburse the fact that we could never win the choir competiton, yet beat the St Mags choir in entertaining and bringing joy to the audience. =)

Bravo also to Mata on her impromptu speech though the title of the speech was completely misinterpreted: "A highbrow is a person who is educated beyond his intelligence." NOBODY knew what a highbrow is. haha. Imagine preparing a speech knowing nothing about the topic. Anyway, it was so funny watching her turn the topic completely around and ended up telling a story about her uncle from Samoa. XD

After all the speeches and choir presentations, the results were announced. As expected, St Mags won the choir, Studholme and Salmond drew at 2nd place. =( However, Sam Brown won the prepared speech! haha. Congrats to Mata on her bravery though she got the last place for impromptu speech.

Refreshment was served after that. Salmond hall has a slushie machine! *jealous* When it was time to announce the overall results, the people from St Mags had already gone back to the hall. Even the judge made fun of them for going home so early. hehe. The really surprising thing was that Studholme had the most points overall and retained the Iona Trophy!!! *I forgot that it includes the debate competition results* =D

Desperately

This is what it takes to get people to pass in their leaving forms now. Yeap, unfortunately, my picture is up there too. SIA SOI LANG. And just few hours ago, 3 crazy musketeers had the decency to add a few lines and comments to it. My insides still hurt from laughing too much. But still, SIA SOI SIIII.

wanted Studs.

I've been thinking about staying back here over the summer holidays. I could get a summer job, take up a paper during summer program, and then save the money for an Aussie or Japanese trip during next June! Still not decided between Aus and Jap. Part of me wants to attend the fabulous Hillsong Conference next year, but part of me so desperately needs a getaway to Tokyo Disneyland. Wargh, so hard to decide. But one thing's for sure: shopping getaway at either Singapore or KL in a month's time. =)