I have no idea how to successfully convey to you what a great success it was when most of the photos are with Edith, Shelly or Chai. I'll try to make do with my own pictures. Forgive my bad narrating and photographing skills.
Me and Shelly had an OK time at Damai. It was so hot that we didn't swim much as we had learnt our lesson from last year when we went to school looking like aliens with skin peeling off every part of our bodies. I must say Damai Puri is just OK OK to me. I didn't like the extremely slow service, what with taking two hours just to give us a towel.
We share pillow
Mess
Cha bo
Messy room at Damai Puri
Well, then the next day we went to Leo Forum at Santubong.
I wish I hadn't left. I wish I was still there. I want to go again! It was a blast! It was like an exclusive event. For the first time I felt like I was on the inside looking out.
Anyway, we reached there, me and Shel, and were utterly confounded. I shouldn't have worried about packing light when practically everyone had enormous luggage bags! Urgh. The guys were like, "Go find Kim, let her handle her own people.." Registration was a mess. Linda fared worse. She wasn't in our room originally and we broke rules by squeezing her in our room. We were pretty lucky, we got our room key quite fast. Our room number was 7320 which was on the 3rd floor of block 7. Daphne's room was 7326 and Ann's was 7322. Kim's room was 71** and Mavis and Edith were in 8101. Our rooms were gorgeous. The bathtub, the shower, the beds, the plasma TV, the balcony with the view of the pool.. Yummy!
Room
Plasma TV
I slept on the couch first night
Here I would also like to state that this Leo Forum was abundant with hot guys and pretty girls and eye candy was everywhere.
We contemplated swimming but decided there was no time. We changed into our Forum T-shirts. Oh and I realize we didn't take photos of our luggage, our forum kits, or our T-shirts. Damn. Okay, I do take photos of everything. But that's how it's supposed to be!
Anyway, we went to the opening ceremony where the District Governor declared his love to us, and it was officially opened. Kim was up speaking. She's Vice Organizing Chairperson.
Opening Ceremony!
Can you find Kim?
???Okay, then a mad dash to get ready for Fellowship Night. There was no water! We had no idea what to wear, jeans and top? Nice top and jeans? I wore Shel's red top with jeans and heels. Gabby them wore roughly the same arrangement. The rest of my friends wore jeans and shirt. Shelly and I participated in tons of games like Charades and one where you take a picture of yourself and when you're holding the camera when the music stops, you're toast. I was with Joey once more. She was in October too, during ice breaking. We also got to know people like Chris and Desmond and then some. We sold badges then and I spent RM35 on pieces of metal to decorate my vest. Which reminds me, I need to take a photo of my vest too. I don't have any photos from Fellowship Night except me and my blister from being stupid enough to actually wear heels. I was in charge of room keys!
Vest
Tag
My top
Key
Blister
We finished at 11 and we went back where we were tame and boring and everyone was asleep by 1.30. I soaked in the tub then I went out and took some photos but they were all dark. It's scary to go out alone. I slept on the couch cause I wanted to read to sleep.
Corridor at night
San asleep
Linda asleepWe woke up for breakfast the next day. We have the messiest room ever. We have a knack of losing things in our room and always looking for our coupons and stuff. Yes,we have food coupons. Like during the Japanese occupation. Then we had seminar after seminar in which we were in charge of registration for a while. The seminars were pretty sleepy but some parts of it really made me think and cry. The parts where the speaker called the Leos' mums and asked if they loved their children was sooo touching. We sang 'You Raised Me Up' a lot.
Next, indoor games. Lodge skipped the whole seminar to go swimming. So i wanted to as well. It didn't happen because my friends were more interested in the games. We sung and lined up and ran around like crazy. It was all very touchy feely (which is good).
Edith and mine shoes
During games
Me half dead
Is that Daphne?
ThemWe finished early at 4.30 so we swam till 5.15. Chai was accompanying me, Linda and Shelly when Daphne pushed her into the pool. With her phone inside her pocket. Chai was upset and went back to shower. Daphne felt really bad so we cheered her up by pushing her into the pool.(Pictures soon)
Then the mad dash started. We ran around blow drying our hair, screaming over the noise, conditioning our chlorinated hair, trying in vain to de-wrinkle our dresses, borrowing makeup from Ann, sticking on another plaster on my newly-ruptured blister (after Daphne stepped on my toe in the pool). The i slipped on my heels and we headed to Ballroom 2(which incidentally is where we seem to hold everything). I found out Junette is actually in Form 5. And that she hates her hair to be flat.
I semi-learnt how to use chopsticks. There were lots and lots of really hot people around. My friends and I felt so under-dressed what with the ton of people decked out in formal wear. There were incredible professional fashion shows, dances and really top-notch talented performances. And Mildred!
Mildred
The table
Daphne and Shannen
So proud of myself for using chopsticks
Ewww tea
Junette
Me
Edith and I
Old and new LEO BOD of SMK ST Teresa
Francis, Shel, Me, Ahmad
Me and a badge-customer-turned-friendThen we walked back to change and then came back to footloose but it was already over. We contemplated going to the poolside party, or the lounge snooker party, or the underground-all-boys party in Block 9. We were so undecided. We went to Francis' room but the
idiot wasn't in. When they were, they invited us to patrol with them for a while tryign to catch some people having sex.
Then, we were hanging out in Junette's room (because ours was taken by sleeping Chai) and Kim, Mildred, Ashton, Adeline, Jessica, Gabby, Ann, Guine, Daphne, Shannen, Mavis, Shelly, Sandra, me, Linda and Junette all squished in one room. Ashton looked drunk but she was like really hot. Still, they escorted her back to their room. Then, me and Linda went back to bath.
When I got out of the bathtub, I found out that Daphne, Shannen, Shelly and Junette were gone! They had gone without me. Linda and San came back, afraid. The security team had almost caught them. They had a mission.
I managed to coax Linda to go down find them with me. After like an hour we found them and we were like spies sneaking around to complete ou rmission. We faked blurness or pretended to buy something when approached. I was Number 2 and we looked out for a while. Hiding in bushes was a norm of the night. Me, daphne and Shelly split and we used texts to communicte. Linda had sources in the patrol team which we subtly manipulated to our benefit. When the coast was clear, we ran to forbidden Block 9 and started ringinn doorbells like mad. However, mission failed as the guys inside were not awoken. We rang Ben Sim's room too.
So freaked out
We met Lion Cecil so we smiled and said we couldn't sleep but we were going now and we snuck back into our rooms. We packed while the door was open as two of our guy friends were outside talking to us. AHA, see we obey the rule we don't let the opposite sex in. SO guai.
We slept at 4.30. I woke at 7.30. I skipped breakfast cause I lost my coupons. (or I was too lazy to look). We had our closing ceremony and then we went by the pool and I pushed Ahmad into the pool. We walked about waiting for our 1 o'clock bus. Chai left earlier.
I was so beat by then. Here are some photos from the long wait for the bus :
Me with eyebags at the Closing Ceremony
Me and Chai
Me and Shel with Sabahans
The beautiful view
The beautiful pondAnd that's the end of this looong post. I loved it and I'm saving up to go again next year. I'm so proud of Kuching and Kim! From what I heard, it's wayyy better than last year's Forum. Way to go! I'm going to bed now. Youtube video coming soon. You can check out the photos at
Edith's or officially
here. More disgustingly vain photos at my
Facebook too.
Nitezzzzzzz!
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