Happening D&D

I was excited, as if I was going to party. I get the same heart thumping, adrenaline pumping feel that Friday morning. Haha. Yes, I was that excited about the D&D and I am quite deprived of both D&D and clubbing. 

I had thought that I would wear this.

Or this. And I decided on the latter without the headband.

I had shown the picture to my colleagues earlier and they gave me weird looks and worried on my behalf that I would stand out funny on that day. It got me worried too. I still have to come back to work on Monday and it would be a good idea to not appear too weird. Lol. Still, I pressed on and I turned out very much alright. 

There were much excitement and talks about D&D and dressing up in the office on Friday morning. I even tried a colleague’s top and I thought I looked pretty 80s already.

To make sure that I won’t look like a lunatic and had to escape being “Stomped” while trying to make my way to the hotel in my lau lian costume, I have dated my colleagues for KTV before the event, so that we can dress up crazy and appear crazy. By the way, it has probably been more than 10 years since I do KTV. I don't even recognize the singers and songs now. The session started really awkward with my colleagues singing and me stuffing tidbits into my face. It proceeded fine though and I got to sing a few old Chinese songs and a few of the newer English songs, popular on radio. I got to sway my hips to some of the fast English songs too. Haha.

We had KTV at Scape, which is fortunately very near to the hotel venue but unfortunately a place for really young people (read: teenagers). And the toilet in Scape is very far away from the KTV place. Walking around in Scape in my work wear already felt weird, so imagine this mid 30s auntie in pink skirt, walking with some other weird dressing aunties out of Scape. It was bad. Lol. 

Most of the colleagues were already at the ballroom when we arrived. I was glad to see that there were so many more who really dressed up for the event and I looked so mild in comparison. I did get some surprise looks though – some were surprised that I (read: HR) would actually dress up crazy for the event.  

I got to take pictures with other colleagues who dressed up too. It was fun.

The 4 hours event turned out great. The MC kept the energy high throughout the event but was very crude with plenty of x-rated jokes. It got very bad (to me) at some point but laughter was everywhere. We got to see some really daring colleagues who did sexy dance and I never expected her to do so. When the energy went down at about 10.30pm, the organizers slotted in 30 mins of disco dancing to 80s music and I was over the moon. The only down point was that I wasn't dress to dance – the heels were killing me, my pony tail was bouncing up and down, hitting my face and my big earrings kept getting tangled with my hair. Still, I had a great time and I found some great ex-chongster colleagues who bobbed with me to the 80s music. Ahh.. I missed clubbing.

I didn't win any lucky draw prizes. I never had luck with those but came home with nice doorgift and great memories. Kudos to the organizer. 

Mummy Lim