Dinner and Dance

Dinner and Dance tonight, which was a huge success. I thought it all went very well, and everyone was full of praises for our song item which we presented. Bengawan Solo. It was a surprise that it went so well actually, it went much better than our practices because everyone was singing out loud with confidence. I sang the loudest I'd ever sung before, and I knew I wasn't out of tune, which was good, and everyone looked pretty much spellbound by it. And I was really glad. Two weeks of practice late into the night really paid off.

And some people liked my speech, but I think most people just didn't get the point of it. I tried to do a "different" sort of speech this year, and gave a fanciful little speech about the colours of balloons in the room and how they represented the different sorts of people in the world. Most people just looked bored *sigh*, but there were that few who came up to me after the speech and said it was good.

And oh, something so funny happened. Because I was all in a fluster before the Dinner and Dance, I forgot my strapless *_ _ _* for my dress which had spaghetti straps, and I had to cut the straps off my *_ _ _*. It's ok, it was quite an old *_ _ _* anyway, so I don't think anyone noticed! I hope not though, especially not John Uren, the pro-chancellor of Leeds University, whom I had to entertain throughout the dinner! He was surprisingly down-to-earth and extremely easy to talk to, a very good conversationalist. I liked him so much and was so glad I was sat by him! The other guests of honour were very cheerful friendly people as well, but unsurprisingly their spouses were abit more quiet.

Vas was there, and we danced abit after the Dinner and Dance and he walked me home, and I had a nice time talking to him. Carried my huge bag all the way home, with the cashbox and everything in it, so I'm pretty grateful to him.

Am now talking to Andrew on MSN, and he's repeating his list of reasons why I should like Vas (he's a medic, he can cook curry, he's cute, blah blah). And we're talking about our performance today:

Ruthie says: (2:38:03 am)
  
 but apparently everyone thought it was really really good

Ruthie says: (2:38:05 am)

even edwin

Ruthie says: (2:38:08 am)
   
hurhur

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:38:13 am)
   
yea

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:38:17 am)
   
i made a small mistake

Ruthie says: (2:38:20 am)
   
aha

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:38:22 am)
   
haha

Ruthie says: (2:38:23 am)
   
haha

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:38:24 am)
   
he said alvin's face is super gay

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:38:25 am)
   
LOL

Ruthie says: (2:38:27 am)
   
haha

Ruthie says: (2:38:39 am)
   
edwin was laughing at alvin's expression...

Ruthie says: (2:38:41 am)
   
hahahha

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:38:42 am)
   
i'm so glad it went well

Ruthie says: (2:38:46 am)
   
i thot he was laughing at me!

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:38:49 am)
   
really really glad

Ruthie says: (2:38:54 am)
   
when i hit the high notes, he started laughing...

Ruthie says: (2:38:57 am)
 
  i was like, shit

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:39:00 am)
   
hehe

Ruthie says: (2:39:02 am)
   
and then i was like, shite

Ruthie says: (2:39:08 am)
   
but he said it was alvin..

Ruthie says: (2:39:11 am)
   
the way he was singing

Ruthie says: (2:39:14 am)
   
hurhur

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:39:19 am)
  
 haha

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:39:25 am)
   
yea alvin sings a bit funny-ily la

Ruthie says: (2:39:37 am)
   
that's why i always start laughing during practice

Ruthie says: (2:39:43 am)
   
i'm quite proud of the way we sang

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:39:44 am)
  
 hehe

Ruthie says: (2:39:49 am)
   
it was much better than practice

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:40:16 am)
   
really?

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:40:19 am)
   
it wuz quite good lar

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:40:21 am)
   
i admit

Ruthie says: (2:41:08 am)
   
yah

Ruthie says: (2:41:13 am)
   
i thought we all sang well

Ruthie says: (2:41:21 am)
   
i sang the best i've ever sung in my whole lif

Ruthie says: (2:41:24 am)
   
life

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:41:28 am)
   
ego

Ruthie says: (2:41:32 am)
   
it's true

Ruthie says: (2:41:35 am)
   
i mean not that well

Ruthie says: (2:41:41 am)
  
 but the best i've ever sung

Ruthie says: (2:41:43 am)
   
hehe

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:41:52 am)
   
haha

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:41:53 am)
  
 me too i guess

Ruthie says: (2:42:21 am)
   
haha

Ruthie says: (2:42:29 am)
   
i could sense the purity of our voices

hero on the beach - imitation of life says: (2:42:33 am)
   
woah

Ruthie says: (2:43:15 am)

hahahahhahahah

So everything went really really well, and I had a great time.

I'd better haul my butt off to bed, the helium gas and the wine and Hiang Teik's beer are starting to get to my head...

Good night.