Golden Gleams Ball 2005

That was the theme of the SLANZA Dance held on the 22^nd of October 2005. I was soo thrilled to be invited. We had a whole tableful of friends, and I was happy that Sushilla and I met up after a long while. She had permed her hair and looked gorgeous. I told her, she reminded me of a movie-star, though I couldn’t put my finger on which one. Well, several others had told her she looked like Diana Ross – I agree!

Ranjith picked me up first then we picked up Dorian and then Sushilla. Udesh and Chairmain, Pushpa and her husband, the little old doctor couple made up our table of ten. I love the little couple. She adores dancing and he goes along to please her. Such a lovely, lovely thing to see in a married couple….. and a couple that has been together for such a long time too.

The music was provided by Sohan & the Xperiments and Pearl. Both lovely bands. Sush first complained that they were playing too much slow music, but the songs were so wonderful! Dinner was a ‘sit-down’ and the food was wonderful… though perhaps the wines could have been a bit better.

Sush wore her new purple long gown. This was a first, I’ve always seen her in short little dresses. Dorian was effusive in his appreciation! But really, she did look lovely. I wore my new gold and black dress – to go with the theme J

Unfortunately no one at our table won any of the draws ….. sigh! But still we had a lovely, lovely evening. The dance was over by 4.00 a.m. and I was home before 5. What I liked about it was that we had gone to a dance… and they gave us ample time to do just that …. Dance. Loads of competitions and speeches didn’t interrupt the smooth flow of music…… and there was plenty of good music for dancing. The baila competition was held in double quick time, leaving everyone quite pleased, including the participants. There were lots of known faces there. Faizal Bonzo was the compere. Angela was there, as was Prince Ratnam and Kevin Nugera. The Burgher Association Dance was on the same day too……. Pity we had to choose! But still it was an absolutely lovely evening and I enjoyed every single minute of it J

Home Makers Haven

That was the theme for the Housewives Association Coffee Morning held on the 26^th of August 2005. Ruveena, Margi and I decided to go and have a look to see if we could pick up a few pointers from them.

There were quite a large number of stalls. Loads of time was given for shopping. This had a good and bad aspect to it. On the one hand, those who wanted to shop, did so to their hearts content, and I’m sure it warmed the cockles of the hearts of the stall holders as well! On the other hand however, those who had a leisurely browse through and finished, found themselves feeling quite bored.

Sensations, was a dance troupe with a difference. It was the first time I had seen them perform…. They were absolutely sensational alright.

Kevin and his partner performed three dance spots. Kevin was great but his partner lacks that sparkle so essential for a performer I felt.

There was a jewellery fashion show with top models showing off jewellery from a popular gold store.

There were a couple of skits by certain regions or sections of the HWA. Those I’m afraid I found rather boring and childish.

Keerthi Pasqual and his soothing voice wooed the audience for a good while. And then they had a few prizes on the raffles and entrance and that was the end of the show.

The coffee morning was held at the Continental Hotel and the hotel served the most delicious coffee, though the mistake of getting the people to go to the garnet room to collect it was horrid. There was a rush and stampede with everyone rushing to get at their food and drink which was served at lunch time! That is definitely NOT something that aught to be done at our coffee morning.