Wesley College Ball 2006
Heyyy guys! And greetings to those who are viewing this SPECIAL post, about the Wesley College ball (a.k.a Dub-C ball) 2006! Few notes before we get into the good stuff:
1) most of the pictures were resized on paint. therefore they're not as clear as the original. If you want the originals,lemme know and i'll send em over.
2)some pictures have caption (in yellow) and to read it, you might have to enlarge the pic
3)this is going to be a very long post.
4)you damn well better appreciate that i gave up 2 hours to write it -_-||
Now all the formalities are out of the way.. lets go!
It was a beautiful day! (the 25th of August) Not a cloud in sight, school finished early, and everybody was in high spirits because of the ball. Went to Rob's house early to get dressed and stuff before we set off. Unfortunately one of the first things happened when we arrived was.....an argument. about the colour of my shirt XD
Rob and his Dad seemed to think that white was the way to go, Sharon thought that black was better; and my dad thought the same too. They were locked in argument (with me in the middle) until Mr Ashley gave in and called it a 'winwin' situation. So....Sharon forced me to wear black XD Actually....didn't regret it, i thought, after, that it was probably the better choice.
After introducing and meeting everybody and their partners we set off in the limo! Not without taking a shot of the guys first:
From Left to right: Alistair, Leon, Pasteur, Rob, Me, James.
Looking smart eh? haha. Nice jacket Pasteur xD
and since Sharon insisted that we make the limo driver feel comfortable, we took a picture with him too.
Meet barry; Barry was our limo driver. According to Pasteur, a very sexy man. indeed. Oh and for those that dont know, or are reading this randomly? The lady in the middle is my partner, Sharon. On the right? myself and on the left? barry the (sexy) limo driver.
After thanking Mr and Mrs Ashley for VERY generously opening their house to us; we set off in the limo!! A bit cramped at first, but you know; good fun nonetheless xD.
Allow me; Rob and his partner Mia. ermm, Pasteur in red, and his partner Mary, who you can't really see from here. And Leon's partner Huiting, the Leon himself... and you have Bonnie's hand, who was Alistair's date.
There was some disagreement on the music that we should play in the limo (yea thanks guys =_=) so i gave up my spot to let Alistair decide the music. Apparently Alistair had his own problems with the system:
And after a while of fiddling with it, he decided to argue with it:
Interesting guy, that Alistair. XD And we can see the dashing rogue Leon, giving us a smile there! Hi Leon!!
After many arguments that contained , the radio, toilets in the limo, drinks, who would yell at randoms, whether Barry could actually hear us (yes, he actually could XD); the limo stopped at Kings park! Where we met many other Wesley guys who got dropped off there to take photos. Not even to mention that we forgot we had to take our own photos until i spotted the camera in my pocket. So out it came! And we snapped off a few of these:
That's everybody with their partner. Most of the guys decided to just match black with black hey =\ Didn't even realise. Pasteur and I decided to be adventurous! Go us! =D! Not to mention the fact that my Dad made Sharon's and my corsage; most people were quite amazed at it. It's a skill the Leon refers to as, "poof." XD
Rob and his awesome date Mia. (oh, for sure, Rob's awesome too-) Awwww dont they look sweet? at church today i think alot of people were asking him who his girlfriend was XD Oopss...may have shown a few too many people >.> but it's ok!! you look good together xD very handsome no, ladies?
And me and Sharon. Tried to get Perth in the background, butttt it didn't work XD; ho well, i thought it was a nice shot =) She made the picture, not me XD I also had one of Leon and Huiting, but erm......i dont think Leon would want me to put it up; he had a pretty twisted smile on his face o.O but if you want it? erm i'll give it to you xD
After loading up the limo again, we headed off to Governor's house! Or to be more specific; Governor's ballroom. Upon getting there, we said byebye to Barry the (sexy) limo driver; and walked into the courtyard; where everybody was having drinks, and just mingling. So we met a few friends, said hi, heard a few glasses break, but before long; we moved into the main hall!
It was really nice; the decor and everything was very.....stylish. Bugger, i cant even say that right. Stylish. Stylish. But we digress;
We found our table, which was closer to the back than the front, but still a really good table i thought. Next to all our friends anyway, so we were quite content. Of course this meant people like Blair and Twigstick would show up and Michael Sherry and all the otherlosers cool people that were in the house.
Think Pasteur was a bit annoyed that i didn't tell people when i was gonna snap shots off at them xD. But you know it's all part of the fun Pas!! See? how pro you look in this shot! Got Rob a bit of guard there, think he was in the middle of chewing something.
Early on into the night, after Aidan's magnificent speech; Rob decided to drop a fork. Then something like this happened.
*Rob drops fork*
Hartley: GOD ROB! YOURE RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY!
*few minutes later*
*Pasteur drops fork*
Hartley: GOD ROB! YOURE RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY!
*few minutes later*
*i drop my knife*
Sharon: hehehe well that was sil-
Everybody: GOD ROB! YOURE RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY!
And poor ol' Rob was just sitting there, wondering what the hell he did. There there man; i sympathise with y- anyway! soon after, i got into the mood of taking photos again!! And decided to start snapping shots of James, and his....asian..ness =\.
AWwww isn't that shweet! That's James and his date Amy. But i can just picture wat James was thinking- specially with Leon giving him that sort of look xD:
Lol. Good one james xD The food there was actually REALLY GOOD! OMg the CHEESE was killer, it was like the BEST cheese ever. Since alistair's like Lactose intolerant or something ; i took all his cheese....and i took all my cheese....and i wanted to take Leon's cheese....but i never got the chance to =( Ow well, i gotta find out what cheese that is!
There it is!! The glorious cheese! Man, my mouth waters just looking at it. Mmmmm....
While eating, i was snapping random shots off at people; when something went wrong over at Leon's end, and i got this shot:
LOL gotta love that face: priceless. XD You know you want that shot leon!! I'll send it to you =)!
Obviously there were nice shots too:
Aww. Look at all that stuff on our table =\ come to think of it, we WERE pretty cramped for space eh, even though the tables were like MASSIVE and could fit abundant ....stuffs. Yea. omg, they put me down as "John Quay" WHICH RETARD PUT MY NAME AS JOHN QUAY?!?!?....yes Hartley, i'm looking at you -_-. Not asian enough am i? Have to put my name down as John? Well to that, i say this!:
And your continued efforts to be asian. tsk tsk. Leon's still giving you the look i see. hm =.....we digress;
It wasn't long before all the weirdos started turning up at our table; most of them attracted by our Coke; the amount of leftovers we had;Rob, and all form of other stuff! (lol, sorry buddy xD was gonna type alistair; but the truth hurts)
The night passed quickly, and most of our table spent their time on the dancefloor, Pasteur and his C-walk; Rob was doing really good as well (yea man, we saw you) and Leon and Trev and all the asian dancing. OH OH I GOT MATT QUO TO DANCE *HURRAH!* And he was pretty good at it too! Awesome to see that. Pity i couldn't get a CERTAIN INDIVIDUAListair to dance -_-. Come on mannnn you should learn! It's good fun! =)
But then the main course arrived and we had to sit down, or our food would get stolen/eaten.
And the main course was like....beef sitting on top of mashed potatoes and asparagus. Asparagos? asparagus =\ somethin like that, you know those long green things? yeah. those.
Sharon figured that it was cool, so we gave it the thumbs up! And it wasn't bad actually; the meat was nice and tender, and the mashed potato oh man, mash potato and cheese for the win. The asparagus was .....prettygross average but that's because i'm not a real veggie person and it was like....thick. So you had to sort of chop it up before you ate it, and that requires energy.
Pasteur enjoyed the limelight; and was lookin pretty hardcore in his red suit with bracelet and everything; swear he wanted to stab me when i took this photo of him xD:
*shudders* the eyes. Sorry pas XD
Oh oh! but then it was time to take nice couple shots!! awww so here we go!! *erhmm* ladies and gentleman!! Leon andmoni rache hyori huiting!!!!
Lookin pro there guys =) I thought that was a really nice shot. Dont you? And then *drumroll* Rob and Mia! Who were looking very pro:
Rob was dressed very nicely, with Bowtie and Waistcoat. Lookin very sharp. I dont know what happened to the shot that i got of Pastuer and Mary......but it sorta....dissapeared =\ I'll find it and put it on the flickr slideshow player later on. And of course, us:
That was taken by Sharon, out of the 9 self-shots, that was the only one that turned out ok XD Well done =). After camwhoring for around an hour, we went off to find Mel- Sharon's friend- and drag her back to our table, so she didn't feel too alone. Not sure where Scotty (her date) was, but i think he was hanging with the 'cool' people up front.
Mel's awesome; she was the victim of a very sly trick by this rubber face dude up front; who like asked for a kiss on the cheek, but then turned his head just as she was about to kiss himso he got one on the lips. Devious, devious xD Sounds like something **** would do. Lol ;p
Desert ....dessert. Yea Dessert came soon!! And it was like a round cakey thing with mango sauce!! I know that sounds gross, but it was actually REEALLY nice, and was the only thing i was looking forward to on the menu hey!
Mmmmmm we got so into it, we only remembered to take a picture of it, after we were halfway through it =\. But then Alistair next door, didn't want to eat his *coulactoseintolerantough* so i think we went through his as well! Actually most people didn't eat theirs coz they were doing some funky stuff on the dance floor (wow that didn't sound sus ><), like Pas and Terry showin off the C-walk; and apparently somebody air-guitared. Prolly seb =\ So i went around using my camera to photograph people that were at the tables; and i got these guys:
Shakes, Frankthetank, Gazman and....Frankthetank's date. Who i forget the name of. But yea pretty cool crew there! Lol Gaz actually pulled off the 'macho' look reli well XD And frank's suit was pinstriped, but he also did it up good.
That's pete and his date; yea, needless to say, Pete's one of the more h-interesting characters at our school. But really nice guy; and if anybody could wear a pink suit? it'd be him. ..it was him =\. Lol got Pasteur giving me another stare there *please dont hurt me ><* The ball actually ended sooner than we thought (although it seemed like an eternity; to ali B XD) and people started to pack up and head back to their limo's to get to the afters party. So we all came out (rather reluctantly) and headed off to the asian afters party (that's what leon called it); and true to our name (as asians) we hired a taxi (i HAVE to pay you back Pasteur) and headed off. Managing to make friends with the taxi driver...Curtis; Who was like...indian or pakistanese...pakistanise? pakistany. yea friendly guy! Really soft spoken though. Pasteur did the whole "i'm a rich asian from a first world country" and gave him a pretty large tip *amount not disclosed*. So i guess he left us pretty happy. The afters were.....lol, interesting. There were games of Mahjong going on:
Which Sharon decidedly won twice in a row; much to Pasteur's displeasure XDD While i decided to have a go at playing cheat; and simply called out cheat whenever Tyler put a card down XD It worked for the first few go's but then he caught on (smart man) and i ended up picking up like a pile =( Oh well. It was around 1 when Sharon and i left; coz she had school/test the next day.
But apparently lots of interesting stuff happened xD Like....hm no, i better not say xD but you know, i'm sure Leon or Pasteur could tell you all about it ;p
So, we got back. After one of the biggest nights of the year. Yea it was fun; really tiring and everything, obviously this was quite a neutral account; because i have alot of guys who were there reading this; and it obviously meant something personal to different people there. To me? yea it meant alot aha, for a few different reasons. Those that know me better, perhaps can tell what they are.
But that's that! A night that i've been looking forward (however anxiously) to has come and gone....and i find myself with less than 6 weeks left of school. Reality never fails you, does it. But at the end of the day?
It's always good to create memories, with people that you treasure, especially friends. And i guess, i did learn something from the ball:
Time with people you hold close to you is short, you always have to make the most of it.
How'd i learn that? lol, that has to come in another blog entry i guess. But it was really nice to see everybody all dressed up and primed for the occasion. Lots of fun haha! Guess things come and go; and that was one of them.
Anyway, to all those who attended and enjoyed themselves; good work guys! You all rock. Thanks, for making that a night (for me and others) to remember! =)
lol. we gotta do that again sometime.
Fin~
1) most of the pictures were resized on paint. therefore they're not as clear as the original. If you want the originals,lemme know and i'll send em over.
2)some pictures have caption (in yellow) and to read it, you might have to enlarge the pic
3)this is going to be a very long post.
4)you damn well better appreciate that i gave up 2 hours to write it -_-||
Now all the formalities are out of the way.. lets go!
It was a beautiful day! (the 25th of August) Not a cloud in sight, school finished early, and everybody was in high spirits because of the ball. Went to Rob's house early to get dressed and stuff before we set off. Unfortunately one of the first things happened when we arrived was.....an argument. about the colour of my shirt XD
Rob and his Dad seemed to think that white was the way to go, Sharon thought that black was better; and my dad thought the same too. They were locked in argument (with me in the middle) until Mr Ashley gave in and called it a 'winwin' situation. So....Sharon forced me to wear black XD Actually....didn't regret it, i thought, after, that it was probably the better choice.
After introducing and meeting everybody and their partners we set off in the limo! Not without taking a shot of the guys first:
From Left to right: Alistair, Leon, Pasteur, Rob, Me, James.
Looking smart eh? haha. Nice jacket Pasteur xD
and since Sharon insisted that we make the limo driver feel comfortable, we took a picture with him too.
Meet barry; Barry was our limo driver. According to Pasteur, a very sexy man. indeed. Oh and for those that dont know, or are reading this randomly? The lady in the middle is my partner, Sharon. On the right? myself and on the left? barry the (sexy) limo driver.
After thanking Mr and Mrs Ashley for VERY generously opening their house to us; we set off in the limo!! A bit cramped at first, but you know; good fun nonetheless xD.
Allow me; Rob and his partner Mia. ermm, Pasteur in red, and his partner Mary, who you can't really see from here. And Leon's partner Huiting, the Leon himself... and you have Bonnie's hand, who was Alistair's date.
There was some disagreement on the music that we should play in the limo (yea thanks guys =_=) so i gave up my spot to let Alistair decide the music. Apparently Alistair had his own problems with the system:
And after a while of fiddling with it, he decided to argue with it:
Interesting guy, that Alistair. XD And we can see the dashing rogue Leon, giving us a smile there! Hi Leon!!
After many arguments that contained , the radio, toilets in the limo, drinks, who would yell at randoms, whether Barry could actually hear us (yes, he actually could XD); the limo stopped at Kings park! Where we met many other Wesley guys who got dropped off there to take photos. Not even to mention that we forgot we had to take our own photos until i spotted the camera in my pocket. So out it came! And we snapped off a few of these:
That's everybody with their partner. Most of the guys decided to just match black with black hey =\ Didn't even realise. Pasteur and I decided to be adventurous! Go us! =D! Not to mention the fact that my Dad made Sharon's and my corsage; most people were quite amazed at it. It's a skill the Leon refers to as, "poof." XD
Rob and his awesome date Mia. (oh, for sure, Rob's awesome too-) Awwww dont they look sweet? at church today i think alot of people were asking him who his girlfriend was XD Oopss...may have shown a few too many people >.> but it's ok!! you look good together xD very handsome no, ladies?
And me and Sharon. Tried to get Perth in the background, butttt it didn't work XD; ho well, i thought it was a nice shot =) She made the picture, not me XD I also had one of Leon and Huiting, but erm......i dont think Leon would want me to put it up; he had a pretty twisted smile on his face o.O but if you want it? erm i'll give it to you xD
After loading up the limo again, we headed off to Governor's house! Or to be more specific; Governor's ballroom. Upon getting there, we said byebye to Barry the (sexy) limo driver; and walked into the courtyard; where everybody was having drinks, and just mingling. So we met a few friends, said hi, heard a few glasses break, but before long; we moved into the main hall!
It was really nice; the decor and everything was very.....stylish. Bugger, i cant even say that right. Stylish. Stylish. But we digress;
We found our table, which was closer to the back than the front, but still a really good table i thought. Next to all our friends anyway, so we were quite content. Of course this meant people like Blair and Twigstick would show up and Michael Sherry and all the other
Think Pasteur was a bit annoyed that i didn't tell people when i was gonna snap shots off at them xD. But you know it's all part of the fun Pas!! See? how pro you look in this shot! Got Rob a bit of guard there, think he was in the middle of chewing something.
Early on into the night, after Aidan's magnificent speech; Rob decided to drop a fork. Then something like this happened.
*Rob drops fork*
Hartley: GOD ROB! YOURE RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY!
*few minutes later*
*Pasteur drops fork*
Hartley: GOD ROB! YOURE RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY!
*few minutes later*
*i drop my knife*
Sharon: hehehe well that was sil-
Everybody: GOD ROB! YOURE RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY!
And poor ol' Rob was just sitting there, wondering what the hell he did. There there man; i sympathise with y- anyway! soon after, i got into the mood of taking photos again!! And decided to start snapping shots of James, and his....asian..ness =\.
AWwww isn't that shweet! That's James and his date Amy. But i can just picture wat James was thinking- specially with Leon giving him that sort of look xD:
Lol. Good one james xD The food there was actually REALLY GOOD! OMg the CHEESE was killer, it was like the BEST cheese ever. Since alistair's like Lactose intolerant or something ; i took all his cheese....and i took all my cheese....and i wanted to take Leon's cheese....but i never got the chance to =( Ow well, i gotta find out what cheese that is!
There it is!! The glorious cheese! Man, my mouth waters just looking at it. Mmmmm....
While eating, i was snapping random shots off at people; when something went wrong over at Leon's end, and i got this shot:
LOL gotta love that face: priceless. XD You know you want that shot leon!! I'll send it to you =)!
Obviously there were nice shots too:
Aww. Look at all that stuff on our table =\ come to think of it, we WERE pretty cramped for space eh, even though the tables were like MASSIVE and could fit abundant ....stuffs. Yea. omg, they put me down as "John Quay" WHICH RETARD PUT MY NAME AS JOHN QUAY?!?!?....yes Hartley, i'm looking at you -_-. Not asian enough am i? Have to put my name down as John? Well to that, i say this!:
And your continued efforts to be asian. tsk tsk. Leon's still giving you the look i see. hm =.....we digress;
It wasn't long before all the weirdos started turning up at our table; most of them attracted by our Coke; the amount of leftovers we had;Rob, and all form of other stuff! (lol, sorry buddy xD was gonna type alistair; but the truth hurts)
The night passed quickly, and most of our table spent their time on the dancefloor, Pasteur and his C-walk; Rob was doing really good as well (yea man, we saw you) and Leon and Trev and all the asian dancing. OH OH I GOT MATT QUO TO DANCE *HURRAH!* And he was pretty good at it too! Awesome to see that. Pity i couldn't get a CERTAIN INDIVIDUAListair to dance -_-. Come on mannnn you should learn! It's good fun! =)
But then the main course arrived and we had to sit down, or our food would get stolen/eaten.
And the main course was like....beef sitting on top of mashed potatoes and asparagus. Asparagos? asparagus =\ somethin like that, you know those long green things? yeah. those.
Sharon figured that it was cool, so we gave it the thumbs up! And it wasn't bad actually; the meat was nice and tender, and the mashed potato oh man, mash potato and cheese for the win. The asparagus was .....pretty
Pasteur enjoyed the limelight; and was lookin pretty hardcore in his red suit with bracelet and everything; swear he wanted to stab me when i took this photo of him xD:
*shudders* the eyes. Sorry pas XD
Oh oh! but then it was time to take nice couple shots!! awww so here we go!! *erhmm* ladies and gentleman!! Leon and
Lookin pro there guys =) I thought that was a really nice shot. Dont you? And then *drumroll* Rob and Mia! Who were looking very pro:
Rob was dressed very nicely, with Bowtie and Waistcoat. Lookin very sharp. I dont know what happened to the shot that i got of Pastuer and Mary......but it sorta....dissapeared =\ I'll find it and put it on the flickr slideshow player later on. And of course, us:
That was taken by Sharon, out of the 9 self-shots, that was the only one that turned out ok XD Well done =). After camwhoring for around an hour, we went off to find Mel- Sharon's friend- and drag her back to our table, so she didn't feel too alone. Not sure where Scotty (her date) was, but i think he was hanging with the 'cool' people up front.
Mel's awesome; she was the victim of a very sly trick by this rubber face dude up front; who like asked for a kiss on the cheek, but then turned his head just as she was about to kiss himso he got one on the lips. Devious, devious xD Sounds like something **** would do. Lol ;p
Desert ....dessert. Yea Dessert came soon!! And it was like a round cakey thing with mango sauce!! I know that sounds gross, but it was actually REEALLY nice, and was the only thing i was looking forward to on the menu hey!
Mmmmmm we got so into it, we only remembered to take a picture of it, after we were halfway through it =\. But then Alistair next door, didn't want to eat his *coulactoseintolerantough* so i think we went through his as well! Actually most people didn't eat theirs coz they were doing some funky stuff on the dance floor (wow that didn't sound sus ><), like Pas and Terry showin off the C-walk; and apparently somebody air-guitared. Prolly seb =\ So i went around using my camera to photograph people that were at the tables; and i got these guys:
Shakes, Frankthetank, Gazman and....Frankthetank's date. Who i forget the name of. But yea pretty cool crew there! Lol Gaz actually pulled off the 'macho' look reli well XD And frank's suit was pinstriped, but he also did it up good.
That's pete and his date; yea, needless to say, Pete's one of the more h-interesting characters at our school. But really nice guy; and if anybody could wear a pink suit? it'd be him. ..it was him =\. Lol got Pasteur giving me another stare there *please dont hurt me ><* The ball actually ended sooner than we thought (although it seemed like an eternity; to ali B XD) and people started to pack up and head back to their limo's to get to the afters party. So we all came out (rather reluctantly) and headed off to the asian afters party (that's what leon called it); and true to our name (as asians) we hired a taxi (i HAVE to pay you back Pasteur) and headed off. Managing to make friends with the taxi driver...Curtis; Who was like...indian or pakistanese...pakistanise? pakistany. yea friendly guy! Really soft spoken though. Pasteur did the whole "i'm a rich asian from a first world country" and gave him a pretty large tip *amount not disclosed*. So i guess he left us pretty happy. The afters were.....lol, interesting. There were games of Mahjong going on:
Which Sharon decidedly won twice in a row; much to Pasteur's displeasure XDD While i decided to have a go at playing cheat; and simply called out cheat whenever Tyler put a card down XD It worked for the first few go's but then he caught on (smart man) and i ended up picking up like a pile =( Oh well. It was around 1 when Sharon and i left; coz she had school/test the next day.
But apparently lots of interesting stuff happened xD Like....hm no, i better not say xD but you know, i'm sure Leon or Pasteur could tell you all about it ;p
So, we got back. After one of the biggest nights of the year. Yea it was fun; really tiring and everything, obviously this was quite a neutral account; because i have alot of guys who were there reading this; and it obviously meant something personal to different people there. To me? yea it meant alot aha, for a few different reasons. Those that know me better, perhaps can tell what they are.
But that's that! A night that i've been looking forward (however anxiously) to has come and gone....and i find myself with less than 6 weeks left of school. Reality never fails you, does it. But at the end of the day?
It's always good to create memories, with people that you treasure, especially friends. And i guess, i did learn something from the ball:
Time with people you hold close to you is short, you always have to make the most of it.
How'd i learn that? lol, that has to come in another blog entry i guess. But it was really nice to see everybody all dressed up and primed for the occasion. Lots of fun haha! Guess things come and go; and that was one of them.
Anyway, to all those who attended and enjoyed themselves; good work guys! You all rock. Thanks, for making that a night (for me and others) to remember! =)
lol. we gotta do that again sometime.
Fin~