The Viennese Ball 2007.

The debutantes were instructed to be at the waiting room at 6pm for early dinner.

Kiwi, Brenda and I reached there at around 6.20pm and was informed by Ken that all the food were totally swallowed by the other hungry debutantes.

Dropped our stuffs in the waiting room and tried our luck at the dining area. Were then told by Selma that more food are coming as they didn't expect the food to vanish before 6.30pm.

Had our (very) early dinner, mainly sausages, bread, wantan(something like that) and stew and were served coffee/tea too.

Then we promptly head back to the room at 7ish(to avoid the guests) to wait and chat.

A long wait it was until 9.45pm(where our showtime began), but we did have a nice chat with Janice(my previous (social dance)instructor). The main topic is about dance, dance and more dance.

Then, Brenda and I asked Hock Siew to teach us the samba(basics only) in preparation of our first samba class today(which was canceled at the last minute due to unforeseen & unexpected circumstances).

8.45pm.. changed into our gowns(for the girls and tux for the guys) and then were told to rehearse the polonaise and quadrille again, for a good 10 minutes or so. We took the opportunity to take a few pictures here and there after the rehearsal(pictures coming up soon).

10.10pm(me think) the show begins..1st the polonaise, then the quadrille and finally the waltz. Then come the polka.. boy did we have fun hopping and jumping to the 'marching' song..

And the ball begins... the band played lots of waltz and polkas throughout the night...

Some of us salsa addicts(and some of the guests) went to the room next door to catch a few salsa/latin beats too.

Then, when Brenda, Ken, Kiwi and I went back to the function room, we saw people dancing to rock & roll and cha cha cha. Then of course, there's Steven(Seah) heading the samba line for all to join.

Came 1am, we were again entertained with a nice ballet(danced to the sweet melody of Blue Danube Waltz) and a few operas again. No understand the language that they sang in, but still captivated by the performances very much(don't know why?!?)

After the entertainment, we did the midnight quadrille with the oh so sporting guests(with Mr Polt shouting the instructions for the guests to follow). We did the quadrille 6 three times in a row where the music keeps getting fast, faster and even more faster .

Finally ended the night(well almost) with the ever hilarious and exhausting french can-can dance.. Did we have a jolly good time with this number .

A marvelous night it was and we have no regrets for joining this event whatsoever.

You guys should try it out too next year..