How was the ball in Heaven?

Curtin Grand Ball 2005

HEAVEN ON EARTH

It happened on October 22nd, 2005. We, the Student Council members of Year 2005, had a lot to do to prepare for this event.

This year's Grand Ball was to take place at Mariott Hotel, which is said to be the most expensive hotel in Miri.

Benet wanted to finish off this year's Student Council with a big bang with this final anual activity that is gonna be organised by the Student Council.

The preparations were long and required a lot of work, but we were soon pretty much done with everything.

It was a couple of weeks more before the big event, but I was bugged by a lot of people, about where's the ticket and how to buy them.

The tickets weren't even made yet and yet a lot of the tables were already booked for the night.

And when the tickets were finally made, over a weekend, all tables were already booked!!

It was a surprise, and it became hard for me, as a lot of my friends were hoping to be able to get a few tickets to go for the ball, yet don't seem to be able to have a chance.

It was a stressful period during that time.. as a lot was happening besides preparation for the ball...

It was also the Student Council 2006 Election campaigning week. I had to take care of activites for the John Curtin Charity Month 2005 as well...

Then let's not forget my problematic personal life.

There were a few misunderstandings that a fellow friend of mine brought up regarding Curtin's grand balls and it just ticked me off what people are actually assuming them to be, without ever checking it out before!!

A boring time with the final year students getting their certs??

YO, inconsiderates! If you're gonna gossip, try to at least gossip with a more truthful content!!

What you're talking about there is the graduation ceremony... NOT the Grand Ball!

One happens in the first semester... the other happens in the second semester... and both happens only ONCE a year... OK??

Anyway... let's just fast forward and get to the day of the event itself!!

Day time, Daxter got to pick me up to go to the hotel around noon. What are we doing there so early when the ball happens at night?

Benet wanted to brief all attending Student Council members on the things of the Grand Ball at the venue. We even discussed transportation for ourselves for the night.

I was ready to go for the ball fairly easily that evening.

Last year, my attire was all black formal with a black blazer, plus a maroon tie.

This year, I decided to come all white! I planned so ever since before my trip to KL (which reminds me, I've not yet updated), and it coincidentally came to fit with the theme for this year; heaven.

Haha! I actually came to the ball, forgetting my ticket!

Thankfully, since I was a Student Council member, it didn't really matter for me.

As people started coming in, I played the role of directing people to where their tables were. It took a while to remember the general location of the table numbers, but I got them nonetheless.

We had a couple of MCs to start of the night, Daryll & Pamela.

There were a few speeches, by our Student Council 2005 President, Benet, and then our Dean, Dr. Ruth Marquis. It is then followed by the launching of the night, with the 'pop'ping of some wine bottles and then pouring the drink into a pyramid of glasses.

A toast was made by the Dean, her spouse, our Public Relations officer (Abel), our Head of Teaching & Learning (Dr. Rosslyn Albon), our Head of School of Engineering (Dr. Chua Han Bing) and all Student Council members.

The apple mixed with grape juice was delicious and I even got a second glass since there was extras. Hehe!

Then, we started dinner!

The main course was mostly all right, but disappointingly insufficient. The desserts and everything else outside was even worse. Very disappointing. =(

Anyway... as we dine, there were a few musical performances by the Music Society Club, Azie featuring Desmond, Bay Yeo, Benet featuring Aylwin on guitar, and Abel featuring Dennis (of Curtin Camp 2005) on keyboard.

As Abel sang, we had some couples dancing on the dance floor, including myself. Hehe!

Anyway, on the second half of the night, Noizy Minority took over, with VJ & Renee as MCs.

They were mainly there to handle the tradition of Prom King & Queen.

I won't bother with the nominees and just go straight to who won! Our very own and beloved, Daryll How for Prom King and Lee Kiun(?) for Prom Queen.

After that, the two led the dance floor as quickly the dance floor was filled with dancing pairs.

Sigh, I was quite disappointed from there, as the dance session started off with some nice, romantic songs... but only a few before the DJ (staff of the hotel) started playing those less nice and romantic songs.... (Wasn't he aware that this was supposed to be a romantic night? Not a clubbing night??)

Anyway.. basically that was the Grand Ball.

It was somewhat bittersweet when it came to my personal life during this ball. I could barely get over what I had got to know that night... but I just went on pretending like I was fine with everything.

I don't know how obvious it was my emotions were showing, but possibly, no one was aware of it other than Roger, my best friend since childhood.

Since that night, a series of events have been happening, but let's not go into those, right?

The current status of the situation?

Basically....

I'm all right now.

I don't know how... but somehow just some days ago, I was able to give myself the right slap and I'm now not holding on anymore... if not at all, then very very softly.

I do still care about her a lot.

I do still enjoy being with her.

I do still find her an attractive lady (and that grand ball night, she looked gorgeous).

But she's just a good friend to me now... A good friend that I find very fun to be with.

I've finally beat that 'demon' in my head....

'Id has lost to Hybrid and now has lost some of its power against him.'

Speaking of which.. if you noticed, my blog descriptions are actually in a form of like a story.

I really feel like writing a summary story of that...

Maybe another time....