Sunday, February 11, 2007

Valentine's Day

This is the first year that I had so much fun on Valentine's Day although I am single. I went to the Valentine's Day dinners on both Saturday and Sunday night. I was right! The one on Saturday turned out to be a blast! I got all dressed up for a fun night out with my friends. I didn't expect to see so many other girls who turned up for the event. There were about 150 girls in total and everything went smoothly as the limo and luxe SUV sent us to the church hall. Yes...you heard me right...a limo! I met some new friends and caught up with others.


This is me with Emily. As you can see, I look really good in that cheongsam (lol!) but it was really cold outside at -8 C. I practically ran (in stilettoes) all the way from Grace's dorm to Olmstead Center. I only had that dress on and my winter coat but my winter coat is only knee length.


I was dancing around from the cold while waiting to get into the limo. I managed to take several pictures before we got in.


The limo was the longest one I've ever seen and it was so cool to be able to ride in one for the very first time. They really packed us in. I think there were about 15 of us in that limo.


Ally, myself and someone else whose name I forgot. We were sitting by the door so we were the first ones to get out. I know I look really scary in the makeup but it's the lighting. The guys were really nice, once we reached, they escorted us one by one out of the limo into the building, made small talk and took our coats for us.


Once we got into the building, we basically went photo crazy. Both of us (Grace and I) looked really good that night. Actually, all of us looked really good!


Nicole and I


We asked a friendly gentleman to take a picture of us and he was more than happy to oblige. He took this one of us while lying on the floor to get the right angle...haha.


There was this little arch at the entrance where people stood to take pictures. It kinda reminded me of prom and since I didn't have prom in school, this one made up for it. While we were waiting for the guys to serve us, they put up pictures of us to see and this one came up on screen several times.


Nicole, Kerry and I. Kerry is a really nice guy...one of the first few Americans I met over here. He was waiting on tables and was involved in the performances later on.


Nicole, Andrew and I. I've been over to Andrew's place for dinner once (check history) and he was also involved in performing later on that night. The guys served us salad, baked chicken wrapped in bacon with pasta and a choice of cakes for dessert. It was nice to see the guys being so courteous, accomodating and entertaining all at the same time.


The theme for the night was "MTV Made". The audio and visual crew prepared weeks ahead for the event. They made episodes/parodies of various MTV programs such as "Real World", "Cribs" and "Pimp My Ride" and showed them on the big screen in addition to all the live acts. This was supposed to be TRL-Total Request Live and Kerry was no other than Carson Daly.


A bunch of guys pretending to be Blink 182. The surprising thing was that some of them really did look like the band members and they sounded pretty good too.


These two were supposedly two members of Nsync. They sang "God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You" but Andrew forgot some of the words in the middle of the song and made some up instead. That drew some laughs. :)


A guy in a pink tutu...not something you'd see everyday.


Another cross-dresser! They were really sporting enough to make fools out of themselves to entertain us girls.


Kerry and 2 other guys dancing to boy band pop music. I'd have to say that their performance was the best one that night. Everyone could tell that they practiced and I was rather impressed at Kerry's pirouetting skills!


The other guys who weren't involved in the actual performances helped out by being enthusiastic audience members. I had a blast that night, and so did my other friends.

At the end of the night, we were provided with rides back to wherever we wanted to go to. Nicole, Ann and I got into a very nice Honda sports car driven by a cute guy named Steve and we were chauffered back to campus. What more could a girl want eh?

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey lady, u look gorgeous le. U look the best among them all.

melian22 said...

Haha....thanks! ;)

Anonymous said...

Nicole looks cuter, heh :)

Glad you enjoyed yourself!

melian22 said...

Hmm...yeah, have to agree with you on that one. She looks cuter than usual. :)