the big day finally arrived. the day didn't really start out well, cos i had to wait for sw.again. sas quite annoyed cos i had to carry some bulky stuff and walk along orchard on my own. when she finally arrived, we had to walk a distance before reaching the orange building of orchard parade hotel.. then we went up the room, and gary was there alr. the room is pretty big, has a 'closet' area, a toilet with bath tub and shower area separated, and 4 beds! and cable tv!!! soon after, the others(eve, cheryl, jie, amanda) start arriving, including the makeup artiste. eve, sw and cheryl all didn't wanna be first, so i had to be 'sacrificed'. haha, but it turn out to be a good thing. the straightening of my hair took ard 2hrs which was way past the time meant for each person's makeup and hair session. but i muz say i like my hair straight. feels so good. lol. so by ard 5 plus, all except eve and cheryl were ready.. the 3 of them curled their hair, which was pretty fast compared to my straightening. then by 6 plus, only the 4 of us were still in the hotel cos we weren't ready. all of us were getting pretty anxious, wondering if we'd make the 'grand entrance' finally, at 7.40pm, more than 1 hr past the registering time, we left the room and hailed a cab.. 'nervous, nervous,nervous'. jie, who was alr there told us that we were sitting right in front of the stage. Oh shit!!! when we reached at the meritus mandrian hotel, everyone at the entrance seemed to be staring at us. i didn't have my specs on, so i cldn't really see them. at the lobby, the 4 of us were all clueless as to where the ballroom was.. juz wandering all over before finally figuring out that it was on 6th fl, which the lift didn't stop at. and so it made us panic for another while, thinking why are we so unlucky. turns out, there is no lift at the 6th fl. So I think it's pretty dumb tt they even have the button there. When we finally arrived at the ballroom, THANK GOODNESS! It wasn't anything like we imagined. It was rather messy..everyone was walking ard, taking pics.. phew. We found our table soon and well, we didn't miss much as the beginning were juz speeches by a few GOH. The prom, was definitely v different from tt of ntss. E moment we sat down, we were hurried to fill in e prom king and queen nomination. Instead of everyone sitting down and eating together, ppls were allowed to walk ard and take photos.. as a result, some of us missed some of the food served. The food was alrite. I felt that we didn't eat much cos there were so many stage games in and performances in between. And the prizes for the lucky draw. OH MY GOD. There was crumpler bag, Olympus camera and and ipod nano wif 8GB. Damn! I didn't win any as usual. eve was lucky, but her prize was a men's wallet and watch. But still, she won! What was everyone wearing??? From retro to formal, sexy to skimpy. But definitely, everyone looked really gorgeous. The prom queen and king definitely deserved their title. At the end, we took a lot of photos and that was abt it. Haha.. it wasn't fantastic. But it was good. Definitely regret not eating as much. The guy emcee was really good.. has great potential. Ard 12 plus, me, limjie, Amanda and gary walked all the way back to orchard parade hotel. The taxi queue was way too long. Oh my, walking in heels really hurt! And limjie was worse, her shoes keep falling off cos it was abit too big.. after reaching the hotel, we changed and went to watch midnite movie- open season. Mel came too.. the rest went clubbing.. Oh, we walked all the way from orchard parade, past meritus, to cine. Are our legs tired or wat?! Bought the tix.. and there were also other prom ppls who were there in their formal attire. The movie: short. First part abit lame. The porcupine very funny!!-buddy. And I like ashton kutcher’s character.. thankfully it was only 6.50 for the tix.. After the movie, we walked ALL THE WAY back to our hotel rm. Again. The rest came back soon after us cos the club had to close pretty early.. I was trying to watch soccer, but cldn't take it, so I went to bed, sharing wif jie. She was gd la! Slp so fast. I was trying to slp but only managed to slp for half and hr before eve woke me up for the Chelsea match at 6am. Lucky sw also woke up, then she accompany me to watch while everyone was in bed.. I cldn't really concentrate on the match, cos my eyes were pretty tired.. but I was happy that shevy and wright-phillips scored. By 8, the gang who went to watch midnite movie woke up and we went to mac for breakfast.by 9, when we returned, the other grp has alr woke up, and it was my turn to go back to bed. nice.. though it was 2hrs plus.. it felt good.. haha.. I actually enjoy the part at the orchard parade hotel more than tt at the meritus hotel.. it was like camping, which I haven't done in jc, but in a high class place. With beds and tv and a decent shower place. I like it.. So that was it.. pre-prom, prom and post prom. It was fun.. I'll definitely wanna stay at hotel room wif my frens again..