Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland was the theme for our DentBall this year. Yes, it's that time of the year again when we dentistry became slightly more interesting than usual. Well, at least for UCC's dental school for me. Simply because that's the only time of the year when the whole school was not in our daily scrubs, labcoats and black shoes.

My camera wasn't functioning so well last night. Too bad & so unfortunate. All the pictures were shacky and blurr and too washed off. I seriously need a camera that can be used indoor & at night I reckon. It'll come handy in fourth and fifth year to take project pictures too. Okeh back to the Dentball, to be honest, it wasn't that good..mmmm quite disappointed actually.

First off, the venue was so small. And I think there were some mistakes about the number of tables reserved because there seems to be some people who didn't have place to sit and the staffs were adding more chairs to some tables. Next, the food. Oh gosh, I was expecting something more but it was just so not good. Starter was vege soup & frankly speaking, the hospital's canteen vege soup is so much more delicious and cost only €1.40. Main dish was roasted chicken with mashed potatoes. Another disappointment, Tesco's chicken is so much nicer than this. And last but not least, I was hoping that the dessert will save the 3-course-meal from being totally disastrous but I was all wrong. The profiteroles were so tasteless. Even the chocolate sauce was so dry and wasn't even enough to be called sauce at all, more like merely decoration. Urghh..paid €50 for this. And as my friends said, it would be much better if we spend that €50 to dine in a fancy restaurant in town & later on go and watch some musicals in the Opera House downtown. We still get to dress up.

Oh ya, at first we thought it was really snowing because it was suddenly white outside the hall. We were tricked! Haha the DentSoc people rented a snow machine and made the snow outside of the hall. I really forgot to take some pictures of it. I was too busy admiring it..the funny thing was, I even texted my boyfriend who is in Canada (which is already snowing..the real snow) and happily told him that Cork's snowing. Haha..haven't told him that it was just fake snow though. It would be a good laugh for him.

And finally, the afters party. I love the band playing that night. All is not lost for DentBall 2011 huh? :) I think they were good. Oh I forgot to mention this earlier, the champagne reception. I think I love that the most. The champagne was really good. I took two glasses and took some chocolates too. Hehehe I had some chocolates stain left on my anterior labial teeth the whole night. Luckily the lighting in the hall wasn't so good so it was not so obvious.

So that's pretty much about it. And there's not so many pictures. I think there was only 5 decent pictures taken by me. Showed them to Ben last night, because he insisted to have a look, and those pictures I sent him only led him into laughter :)

That photo above is of me & my best mate Timah. We've been living together since first year (we were roomates even when we were staying in the hostel in first year and our rooms have always been next to one another since 2nd yr and now) My pose there was so Asian, isn't it? Haha with the 'V' sign and all. By the way, our dresses doesn't look any less better than everyone else right? (so proud of ourselves for getting cheap dresses but didn't fall short compared to to others..hehehe)

And this photo below is of Nkamo and moi. She's a senior from Botswana and is also a good friend of mine. We attend the same church and funny enough, every time we went together, we unexpectedly saw some random guy peeing at the corner just before the church's alley is at. Urghh yes, we saw the penis & balls & hair. I wonder why some guys do that. In open air, during the day, and even worse, 20m away from a church entrance on a Sunday morning?
Have a good week ahead people! God bless.