Tuesday, January 25, 2005

lesson #90: tipsy

Head still spinning slightly. Let me try to recount the day of SMU's Patron's Day. Hmmm. Had MA in the extremely early morning. Then out for a flash to Bugis to get top. Saw a whole lot of stuff on sale there, it was very hard to turn away from the shops - I swear they're just beckoning to me. Calling out, "Come, come! Try us out! Relish everything in sight!"


Helped out G with his nerdy Asoc stuff 'til about 3 pm. I honestly can't see what he sees in Asoc. it's just a bunch of boring events. Even Ignite would have bombed if some happening girls (I wonder who...) hadn't started the party. Kinda regretting volunteering to be gamemaster for the Asoc camp. But will get to see cute freshmen boys. Despite that fringe benefit, am still considering to pull out.


So anyway, Monday 24th January 2005 was officially SMU's Patron's Day. I'm still tipsy so I can't remember if I had written about the rehearsals for Patron's Day here. Well, we had a whole lot of rehearsals. Saturday and Sunday wholy taken up by rehearsals. But glad to say it all paid off in the end. The Javanese dance performance to welcome the S'pore President was pretty all right. Was praised by Margaret Chan so it should've been good. But the make was horrible. Had a horrible time trying to take off the gold glitter glued to my eyelids. Hair was up in a fake bun too. Had hairspray fest on my scalp.


Preparation for Emix dance was really rushed. Mad rush to the ladies' to change costume and pin the top up. Thankfully Nicole the Emix pres was skillful when it comes to hairdo so I had funky hairdo (half-twisted with pins and wild strands) to replace the Thai-maid fake bun. Then make-up... Can't do much about it. Alexis helped us tone down the glorious electric blue / purple / silver eyeshadow combo as well as rub off the excessive blush on our cheeks. Put on gloss and whoppa - we looked presentable once again. We looked funky and sexy, I think! Had an agonizing time just waiting around on 'standby'. But it's all worth it. Our performance totally rocked the house! We rock! Emix rocks real bad! Everybody's screaming for us. Scream scream scream yippeeee! For a first massive-crowd performance, I think we did really really well.


After the performance, had a feedback session with Sheila. I joined the rest late though since I met up with G for a while first. But I still got the gist. I'm amongst the people Sheila noticed, so that's a good thing. She gave us a lot of advice. Then after that we all went to shake our booties to the bands that played. Then S'pore Idols came on. Sylvester and Taufik. Taufik had some great dance moves! He was cool! But guess what... I think us Emix girls are still COOLER! Mwahaha...


When the Idols left, most of the audience left too (that includes me & G). We went to Wine Network. Beforehand, I had drunk a couple of beers as well as sips of red & white wine that Abby smuggled. And so I got quite tipsy from the subsequent bottle of sweet wine that G and I consumed. He was pretty high too. We were just mad.


And so now here I am typing this. Can't sleep despite the time being 1.10 am because I'm waiting for my hair to dry. Took me ages to remove the super thick make-up, as well as get rid of the spray from my hair. Tomorrow, I'll look normal again with dark eye patches.


Zhi looked nice. Michelle was easily gone. Jun was the prettiest of all of us Emix dancers. She looked so hot, wild, yet with a touch of sweetness. Don't know how the make-up did it. Which is not saying that she doesn't look good normally, but the make-up really brought up something in her. Suits her very well. Am loving all my friends who came and supported the performance. Love you all. Love G for running around taking pictures and being my no. 1 fan. Love my Emix babes. Love G's friends who took good care of him and assured that he had fun while I was away on 'standby' for performances. Love the guys who ogled at us and gave us compliments, despite them being rather leery ones.


Dizzy dizzy dizzy! We love the stage and the stage loves us! We so rock. Like, totally!