The Finale: Graduation High T 2004
I had a bath in the morning and went out at around 11am wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt, black jeans and black shoes. It's the Graduation High T at Hilton!
I arrived at Orchard MRT a few minutes before 11.45am, the meeting time for Abraham, Kegan and I who initially intended to take a taxi from there to Hilton but later decided to walk instead. Waiting at the MRT station were Abraham and other Nan Huarians waiting for their friends and, for girls, decked out in great clothes. I was probably a little surprised when I saw XL wearing exactly the same colours as me (i.e. blue shirt and black pants). Kegan arrived later, and the three of us walked to Hilton.
Once in Hilton, we took the lift to the third level where the Grand Ballroom, the venue for the event, was. We were way ahead of the registration time and so we sat around the area as other people started to come in. Mdm Poon came later and instructed me to give out the NHSS Alumni Student Membership cards to my classmates and get them to write their email addresses on some orange-coloured papers. Giving out the cards worked like marking attendance, and by the time we could enter the ballroom, only Yvonne and Ng Min's cards were left in my hands.
4o1 occupied tables 1 to 4 which were close to one of two huge white screens. A keyboard (some sort of logo for this Fond Farewell) served as the backdrop of the stage. I sat at table 4 with some of the guys and we started off drinking Pepsi and other drinks. The emcee, an ex-Nan Huarian, then started the show by inviting Ms Wassan to say a few words and directing us to the screens to watch a special graduation video made for us.
The next programme was Part 1 of the games session headed by the emcee. The two games played didn't exactly click with the rest as he separated the ballroom into two teams (Ah Nan and Ah Hua; I was in the latter) and tried to get everybody interested and enthusiastic. Eventually the people got more interested as it was time for eating. There were cakes, satay, laksa (I heard), popiah and others. By the time the second part of the games began all of us were more enthusiastic. We even got into human chains and all sorts of crazy stuff.
The highlight of the afternoon had definitely got to be the Boogie (dance). The whole stage and dancefloor were practically filled with students dancing their hearts out to popular disco tracks. Even I, with my two left feet in dancing, got onto the stage with everybody else and danced (if you could call that 'dancing').
At the end, table 1 received Nan Hua bears as prizes for a lucky draw and XL got a bear too for being "Mr. Nan Hua Graduation High T" (he himself was clueless as to what he did to earn the title). We ended off the event singing Auld Lang Syne, with 4o1 spearheading the singing of the song by forming a circle on the dancefloor and waving and singing to the song. The time spent here wasn't wasted after all. As we left the ballroom (there was a wedding to be held in that ballroom that night), hugs and gifts were exchanged and moments were captured on cameras. The whole hotel was swarming with Nan Huarians. While the other 4o1ers went out to eat, I had to go home (to avoid my mother screaming at me again for wasting money).
It didn't feel like the end. It felt like a new day has come...
I arrived at Orchard MRT a few minutes before 11.45am, the meeting time for Abraham, Kegan and I who initially intended to take a taxi from there to Hilton but later decided to walk instead. Waiting at the MRT station were Abraham and other Nan Huarians waiting for their friends and, for girls, decked out in great clothes. I was probably a little surprised when I saw XL wearing exactly the same colours as me (i.e. blue shirt and black pants). Kegan arrived later, and the three of us walked to Hilton.
Once in Hilton, we took the lift to the third level where the Grand Ballroom, the venue for the event, was. We were way ahead of the registration time and so we sat around the area as other people started to come in. Mdm Poon came later and instructed me to give out the NHSS Alumni Student Membership cards to my classmates and get them to write their email addresses on some orange-coloured papers. Giving out the cards worked like marking attendance, and by the time we could enter the ballroom, only Yvonne and Ng Min's cards were left in my hands.
4o1 occupied tables 1 to 4 which were close to one of two huge white screens. A keyboard (some sort of logo for this Fond Farewell) served as the backdrop of the stage. I sat at table 4 with some of the guys and we started off drinking Pepsi and other drinks. The emcee, an ex-Nan Huarian, then started the show by inviting Ms Wassan to say a few words and directing us to the screens to watch a special graduation video made for us.
The next programme was Part 1 of the games session headed by the emcee. The two games played didn't exactly click with the rest as he separated the ballroom into two teams (Ah Nan and Ah Hua; I was in the latter) and tried to get everybody interested and enthusiastic. Eventually the people got more interested as it was time for eating. There were cakes, satay, laksa (I heard), popiah and others. By the time the second part of the games began all of us were more enthusiastic. We even got into human chains and all sorts of crazy stuff.
The highlight of the afternoon had definitely got to be the Boogie (dance). The whole stage and dancefloor were practically filled with students dancing their hearts out to popular disco tracks. Even I, with my two left feet in dancing, got onto the stage with everybody else and danced (if you could call that 'dancing').
At the end, table 1 received Nan Hua bears as prizes for a lucky draw and XL got a bear too for being "Mr. Nan Hua Graduation High T" (he himself was clueless as to what he did to earn the title). We ended off the event singing Auld Lang Syne, with 4o1 spearheading the singing of the song by forming a circle on the dancefloor and waving and singing to the song. The time spent here wasn't wasted after all. As we left the ballroom (there was a wedding to be held in that ballroom that night), hugs and gifts were exchanged and moments were captured on cameras. The whole hotel was swarming with Nan Huarians. While the other 4o1ers went out to eat, I had to go home (to avoid my mother screaming at me again for wasting money).
It didn't feel like the end. It felt like a new day has come...
yours truly, tobias at 10:42 pm
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