To say that last Saturday night was laced with drama, would be an understatement.
It’d be like saying Bill Gates is kinda rich.
Or that Kim Kardashian is a li’l curvy.
Or that the price of an Hermes Crocodile Birkin bag isn’t exactly on the affordable side.
You get my drift.
So what exactly happened on Saturday night? There was a grand company dinner event, and it was safe to say that everything that could go wrong, did! It was an event planner’s worst nightmare came true. Too many technical glitches to name, a tearful face was spotted, and lotsa frantic running here and there ensued. And all this took place before the dinner even actually began.
Still, the show must go on. And I think we pulled through in the end. People left with satisfied tummies and photogenic smiles that were captured by the official photographer’s lenses and many other personal cameras. And my group’s dance performance went off without a hitch, thank gosh. We were all whooping and grinning crazily onstage – our choreographer had reminded us to show plenty of energy! – and the audience were very generous with their applause :) :)
Just knowing that everyone was entertained by our dance, made it all worth it. Yes I’m talking about the rehearsals that we attended every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for four weeks with equal parts of enthusiasm and agony, ha! The final practice on Saturday morning itself was especially tough as we had to run through the entire routine over and over again in a hall with no air-conditioning. All of us scrambled off the stage for our water bottle after each round. Phewww.
The hard work paid off immensely though, and we rewarded ourselves with a relaxing lunch at Popeyes once rehearsals were over at about 1PM. That was probably the first time I had a proper conversation with my dance mates, and guess what, they were pretty awesome people :P A few of us went shopping after lunch, with one of the girls needing to get something and then the guys wanting to purchase slim ties for their evening wear.
Oh I have to add that the drama which stemmed from dinnertime, continued later on that night. It involved some mix-up over the hotel rooms that the company had booked and their occupants. A room that was thought to be empty, turned out to be taken by a mysterious female staff member who decided to leave in a hurry the moment we got the hotel manager to give her a ring. Bear in mind that it was close to 3AM at the time. LoL Oh well. Right before this hoo-hah occurred, we were at Asia Cafe. Coz unbelievably, after the 9-course dinner meal, some of us were still hungry. So we ordered some yummy supper which consisted of fried squid, kam heong prawns and (my favorite) Portuguese-style grilled fish. Awesome!
Bedtime was 5AM, and it was a shocker how I managed to get up at 12PM the next day for lunch. This was followed by a quick hangout session at Darussalam mamak with my two dancemates, L and K. It was an amusing session – we talked about relationships, girls, football, girls, and err girls again. L said I was like a dude with long hair, seeing as how he and K could talk easily to me like I’m one of the guys -_-” Umm right, cheers. It was interesting how both L and K were the same age but they were at such different stages in their lives. L is getting married in September, while K is still looking for his dream girl, who he insists needs to be either a dancer or figure skater, and with long legs. LoL I said good luck to both of them.
The weekend came to an end with Mother’s Day dinner that almost didn’t materialize. Hmphh. I think I shall not bother with it next year. *disgruntled* Haha.
To end the post – look what I got from Saturday night’s dinner! A bunch of people from this particular department brought glow sticks in support of a colleague who was performing a song that night, and I managed to get one from them during the after party dance. Wheee!
Happy blinking colors, I like :D
