Time of Our Life

5th of December is a very special day for all the JC2 students of Hwa Chong Institution, for it is the long awaited senior promenade. This year, the prom was held at Ritz Carlton, a famous five star hotel in Singapore.


Having paid a total of 98 Singapore dollars, I was actually expecting a delicious meal and an excellent ballroom. The ballroom was no doubt beautiful but the food has certainly fell short of my expectations. I did not really expect to see Char Mee (imagine those kind of mee your mother always buys for your breakfast except that it has more prawns) and simple vegetables with mushrooms. The food was really disappointing and, to tell the truth, awful. However, I must say that the baby octopus and the desert were amazing but that was it, 98 dollars for a piece of baby octopus and a bowl of desert.


Do i regret going for prom? Surprisingly no. I have a really good time chatting and taking photos with my friends, especially those who I have never talk to for a long time. I really enjoyed seeing my friends dressing up and wearing nice clothes with beautiful hair. I have never seen my classmates and friends, especially the girls, to dress like that. Actually, I was quite surprised when I saw some of them because they were vastly different from the way they dress in school. I managed to take photos with almost all my classmates and the Malaysian scholars. I also managed to take some photos with some people who I rarely talk to. I must really thank Vincent for lending me his camera, or else I would just be stoning at my table for the entire night.


The emcee for our prom, which I have forgotten his name, was really funny and I think that he has done an excellent job chairing the whole event. He constantly made funny jokes about the Bangkok airport and other really R-rated stuff to capture the audience's attention. I especially liked the way he host the contests because he was really funny while doing all the demonstration for the contestants.


The contests were really fun, especially Mr. Body Beautiful, in which some retarded chap threw his blazer towards the VIP table, nearly hitting Mrs Foo, 真是“四肢发达，头脑简单”. Mr and Miss Congeniality were also interesting and I particularly enjoyed the English and Bollywood MTV. Prom King and Queen, on the other hand, was a little bit boring, nothing really interesting and memorable actually happened, except that CMF made a fool of himself doing some stupid Kungfu moves while walking down the aisle and singing his self-composed song for Britney Spears. I did not really agree with the results for Prom King and Queen for I think that the winners are quite random and I rarely saw them around the school and here I thought that Prom King and Queen are contests of popularity, I am really intrigued by what really happened. Perhaps people forgot to vote because they were busying taking photograph with their friends, I really have no idea.


The rest of the performances were seriously a nightmare. Nobody was really watching the performance as everybody was busy talking and taking photographs with their friends. But the performances really sucked, especially the three guys who sang with the guitars. It was really disastrous and my ears nearly bleed when I hear them singing that random song, which till now, I still have absolutely no idea on the title of the song. Maybe it was a song that they wrote themselves, no wonder it sounded so terrible. Choir performance last night was really nice and I think that it was the best performance of the night. It was the only one that looked well rehearsed and professional.


Prom ended at around 10.30pm and I decided the go back to boarding school earlier for I was really tired. Really sorry for not being able to hang out with the class yesterday night after prom.

That is it. I will try to upload some photos if my Internet permits. It has been really slow these few days and I hope that it will get better so that I can start uploading my photos on to facebook.

. My prom . Our prom . Time of our life .