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KDU Ball 2007 Post Mortem

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Good Evening…ahem…Good Morning and welcome to….yada yada yada!
haha…still can’t snap out of character yet :P

After a miserable attempt at an impromptu speech during my public speaking class on Friday morning, I was asked to co-host the Ball with my American classmate Naina CumMouth! (sorry naina :))

I found it to be so ironic that after performing so badly, I was made emcee for such an important event. so naturally, i had a few doubts. but i had enough motivation from everyone…cavern, mark, and some.

The Ball was the next day and I only had a few hours to practice. So, after rehearsals at the hotel I was home by 8.45pm, and immediately worked on the script and cue cards! Slept at 4.30am, woke up at 9.45am, continued working on the cards, rushed to queensbay at 11am to get a tie that matches naina’s outfit and arrived at the hotel at 12pm sharp!

nervousness struck at 6pm when some guests began to arrive. But it felt good. Naina was good at calming me down! There were’nt too many cock ups and everything went pretty well i think :)

The icing on the cake for me was most definitely the moment i opened that recycled piece of paper Mr.Ding passed to me. I just thought it was some note but instead it had the names of those who won the title of Mr & Miss KDU! The minute I saw Derry’s name I went estatic! He did it! All that work for the past month paid off!
Since I was the one who had to announce the Miss titles, and Naina was to announce the Mr titles, I immediately insisted for me to switch roles with her! Hehe…nothing feels better than announcing your best friend as the champion :)

Everything was great! We managed to get some suspense out of the crowd, mass commers went wild announcing Mark as the winner, I had a go at Mark, Naina got blasted in her face by the confetti canon, and Derry won! What else could have been better?

After the Ball, whilst everyone else went on to clubs, I joined some of my whacky coursemates at Coffee Bean and McD! We had an overdose of Macs and decieded to club at the Kids’ playland for a few mins!

So, generally…things went well :)

Again, a special congratulations to Derry!

GOOD NIGHT!