The Opera Populaire

It's 15 minutes to official knock-off time and I already cannot tahan. Just feel so exhausted and brain-dead. And I know why heh. I shall just leave on time today. Will be meeting my cousin to shop for her D&D dress. Had thot that will be impossible, given what I have to do. But oh well, it's not so bad; I have finished the most urgent tasks for today.

D&D. I will be skipping mine becos none of my closer collegues are going. Besides, we are all dying from work and we anticipate that things will be even more hectic by the time it comes.

St. Nicks grad ceremony was held in the school compound itself. I remember we were all grumbling, esp after the fact that the seniors one year above us had theirs at Mandarin Hotel and that was an "experiment" for that batch as well. It had always been a tradition for SNG to hold grad ceremony in school. And 校长 insisted that we uphold our other tradition of wearing white dresses. They were so strict I recalled my classmate, Germaine, was stopped from wearing her beautiful cream-colored mules. Jeanette groaned that it would have been easier to score 6 distinctions than find a single white dress in town! But in the end, we all managed somehow. haha. It was quite an experience. I did up my hair and make-up myself, with some help from my aunt, something that I keep to doing whenever I attend dinners and parties. Just feel that I am never satisfied with professional hairstylist and make-up artists somehow. My juniors were snickering when they saw me in a dress and contact lenses for the first time. After all those time of being their fierce Ma'am.

The next D&D was my JC prom, which was quite a disaster. Back then, I was at my skinniest. And not exactly the happiest time of my life, especially during the D&D. It is a long story, but again, it was another chapter I am glad to have gone through and learnt, because it shaped me a great deal to become the person I am today. More about that another day perhaps.

Back to work before going off... Jia you peeps out there!