It takes me more than a week after the MSU finals to actually write a post about it and post pictures of events that happened after too.

Lately I've just wanted to have some space and time to myself instead of answering to the beck and call of people on my phone, over msn, or whatever means of communication. Luckily for me, I'll be flying to australia in a few days where I'll get that much needed quiet.

The lead up to the MSU finals was rather frustrating and more or less overshadowed all the fun I had during the pageant for me. From all the silly predictions on missosology to the rumors and all the phone calls from the new paper that were made, it just took the fun out of a pageant. Yes you have a group of girls, yes there's only one crown, but it doesn't mean you have to end up enemies or hating one another or coming out feeling sour about everything. It affected all the girls, and I suppose by the finals we were just trying to have fun and make the moments last though the damage had been done. In any case, I had my share of fun with Syasya my love :) as well as newfound friends like Jeanine, Ethel, April and all. You girls made it enjoyable and I wanna thank you for being the amazing people you are :)

Dave, one of the official photographer's has processed his photos so here's the link to his flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/davios/sets/72157614997959483/

and here are the ones I took in the minimal time we had backstage as well as during the last rehearsal :)

SAMMY : I had one like this with you and now it's Sya's turn!! lol and in case you need a reminder the picture i'm talking about is the following one!

in all queenly grace =P

back to MSU photos...

this is called letting loose when all the stress gets to you

With Patricia our amazing trainer :)

the top 5 were Cheryl, Rachel, April, Jeanine , and I. I think it would've been more exciting if they had called the numbers randomly instead of numerical order. I also got the question I was dreading the most and didn't have an answer to, which was What's the biggest lie you've ever told and why? I did start off with a "wellllllll I can't say I've lied before so...." but nobody laughed! =(  My sad attempt at a joke. Anyway I ended up talking about this third grade math test I took. On hindsight, the better answer would've been to have said that MSU meant nothing to me and how I don't want to represent Singapore at miss universe because THAT would've been a rather big lie. Oh yeah, and someone took our bouquets from our chairs after we changed out of our evening gowns.

In any case, CONGRATULATIONS RACHEL (though this is very belated lol)!! Do us proud in Nassau!!

So after the pageant, I headed to zouk to meet the boys and jeanie and tabs and co for keegen's birthday cum post party kinda thing =) Photo credits to louisa and me

boys doing some weird cheer thing they do in the army O_o

who looks more innocent? =P

a lot of forced drinking and 5 seconds of vodka that night.

the girls

YEAH close friendships from pageants/contests DO last...like the one I have with oh so wonderful Tabs =)

Week after was spent sleeping and meeting up with people before everybody leaves for summer.
KINKS day out =)

I got my shot with jeanie's sexy umbrella too! =P

Presenting to you: JIGGLE JO

JOYKO "MOMO" HOTTBUTTCHEEKOS

BOBO THULSKINKME

and yours truly KOKOKINS

Next up are photos from Butter with the MSU girls when we decided to take Ethel out on her first clubbing experience since she turned 18 not long ago =)

I had fun dancing that night and we had to persuade Rachel to come out on the dance floor...lol.

And to wrap up this post, here're pictures from a meet up with Tabs, Sophie, and Cassandra with whom I did the new paper new face in 2005 =) We had an interesting conversation over soup and later at star bucks too hahaha

she who stole my shawl but whom I love anyway

Sophie only you can carry off bangs above your eyebrows without looking dorky ha. And i'm gonna be getting bangs real soon too!

our jumpshot didn't work out as well

And at the end of the night she STILL has my shawl on.

I have so much to do and so little time before I fly off. This has been a long post so I"ll save my thoughts for another one sometime soon. Oh and yeah to end it off with something funny, last night I was in an msn conversation with some of the artillery boys planning what to do today because they were free. And we took so long deciding what to do or when to meet and Gabe said "For officers we're not so good at planning for a day out, how do u expect me to plan for war?"

Hahahaha. Sometimes I just wanna bring a camcorder along when I hang out with them. (nor do I know why my font has turned this way or how to fix it as much as i've tried to).