Clairine

Gosh, I’m floating!

The AUP Ball, Fall Foliage: Interlude Soiree With Destiny was AMAZING! It was such an incredible night, full of fun and happiness and joy and all that good stuff. From start to end, everything was just PERFECT. I couldn’t have asked for a better night. I didn’t want the night to end! Everything just fell into place, and everything played an equally important part in making the night just perfect. My date for the night was Ing Tai, here he is:

This is Ing Tai. I don’t really know why I look taller than him in this photo.

There was this super-cool dance, and this super cute (literally, cute, not handsome-cute; cute-cute) guy was dancing on the stage, break-dancing and sort of robot-dancing to a weird mixture of dota (as in the computer game?) movements and the song ‘Petrified’. His timing was SO accurate it was just amazing… impressive… I wish I had recorded it! His dancing showed real talent, and it was so nice to watch. The whole performance was CRAZY-amazing. It was just… just… I’m at a loss for words; it was so great. The ballroom was also very nicely decorated, very pretty, very grand in a simple and classic way.

This is the ballroom. I love the chandeliers. I loved them so much I took pictures of them. Sorry if it’s not too straight. It was difficult ok!?

You may want to wonder how I took this photo. Did I lie on the floor? Did I bend over at 90 degrees?

One day when I’m filthy rich, I’ll buy a chandelier for my living room. Or two, or three.

Enough about the chandeliers. Now back to my evening. It was just wonderful, you know why? Because by some form of miracle, my date was surprisingly SWEET and THOUGHTFUL. I can’t even begin to describe how sweet and thoughtful he was. Aside from fetching me from my doorstep right on time (actually, slightly earlier) and complimenting me, I thought I was dreaming when he gave me this:

Like, how… thoughtful… can you get? A red corsage with a red silk ribbon for my wrist!

And I was shocked to speechlessness when he gave me this:

THREE (not one but THREE, ohmyfreakinggosh) pink-purple roses.

This is a sweet picture of me with my sweet date:

    

Disclaimer: He is not my boyfriend, he is just my DATE. They are not the same thing. Your boyfriend can be your date, but your date is not necessarily your boyfriend.

This is my girlfriend, Grace! Damn, do we look great or do we look GREAT?! Haha, ok, too perasan. But it’s a pretty picture, yeah ;o) Grace, I love you! You’re the best! She’s a wonderful friend, future room mate!

Stop staring at us. We know we’re beautiful.

Let me introduce you guys to Chang. He’s the president of the AUP Society, and a fantastic president at that! Thanks to him, AUP blossomed and grew even larger, with an even larger following and greater popularity at INTI! But we managed to piss each other off during the ball:

Tengah merajuk-ing.

Now, let me introduce you guys to Jonathan. He’s the new president of the AUP Society, and he’s a great friend to everyone! I know he’ll do a great job continuing the legacy of AUP.

 

Picture perfect. Btw. I know that corsages are supposed to go on your hand. But I was so cold that I had to wear Ing Tai’s jacket. Thus I had to remove the corsage from my wrist, so I could get my hand through the jacket hole.

There were some vain-vain-vain photo sessions. This is what remains of the girls of the original Jan 2005 semester. There’s just three of us left at INTI now. By next sem, there will be only two left. And after that, none. Sob.

Mwah! Thank you for coming! Thank you! Thank you! We love you!

I actually contemplated going on a liquid diet for a whole week, just so I’d look good wearing that dress… but… uh, no… it just didn’t work out. Diets and Clairine don’t go hand in hand. Food and Clairine go hand in hand. We’re best buddies, Food and I.

 

I went for first round appetizers, second round main course, and third round desserts. The food wasn’t all that great, but I wanted to make the most of what I paid for, so there :op

Time to make you guys sick with my love of butterflies. I love butterflies, I think they’re extremely lovely creatures. I started loving butterflies since I was a little girl, and I still love them. As decorations or accessories or random works of art, I love them. This was actually all a coincidence. I didn’t mean to have so many butterflies on me that night.

Butterfly heels. My mum bought them for me two months ago, just ‘cuz they were purdy.

Butterfly earrings. A present. I saved them for the occasion.

On loan by my hairdresser-roommate, May Lee. She did my hair (due to my limited budget).

There were lots of lovely greek statues around the whole hotel area and ballroom area. There were too many to take pictures with all of them. So I just took pictures with some of them. The photographer is Ing Tai, I have to give credit to him as I’ve no idea how to use my new camera. And I’m sorry. I couldn’t resist. Here is my vain-vain-vain photo.

Crap. I should have cleared those bags. So zuo deng!

Paint me white and I can be one of those statues!

This is Ferdinand. He manages, successfully, to make his suit look like casual wear. Aww… but I love him anyway :o) He’s like a brother to me.

I’d just like to state that I have totally awesome housemates. I love them both. I didn’t manage to get a shot with May Lee, but I managed to get one with Shantiya, who was at the prom at the DJ’s invitation. She did my makeup for the night, and she was absolutely brilliant with it. I love you, Shantiya!

The one thing I hate about my feet is they’re a size 7. Shantiya has the world’s greatest collection of shoes and her feet are a size 5. Damn, if only……..!

Ing Tai loves his pockets. His hands are always somewhere other than straight by the side.

I feel like a star at some kind of awards show. Lol.

This is Ui San. Cute, funny, and always good to have around.

Nadia and me.

One of the last things I did was take a picture of Ing Tai taking a picture of me.

Towards the end of the ball, I was delirious with happiness and yet felt like crying. The movie that they played was so touching, and just knowing that we would not be seeing each other again for a long long time, since we’re all going to different places, different universities, with different lives ahead of us… The past 1 year and 7 months has been truly and absolutely amazing… There were so many things that we have gone through together, and college will just not be the same without the same people around, the laughter and moments of joy, fun, and happiness that we shared, all the numerous projects and activities we worked on, all the trips, all the lunches, dinners, birthdays, all the long breaks at "Uncle Chong’s Cafe", hanging out at the AUP Office, posing for an insane amount of photographs, the Chinese New Year visiting, the chat sessions at the concourse… every single moment counts and will be remembered and cherished dearly… So, "Til We Meet Again". An interlude soiree with destiny.

 

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