YEAH!!! My graduation day is finally here. I woke up at 10am and got prepared for my big day. Made sure I did my make up my own as I wanted to achieve a barely there look as well as to highlight my best features. Then, my family and I had a quick lunch nearby and went straight to Nikko hotel, where the function will be held at 2 in the afternoon. Upon arrival, I went straight to the room where there’s officers to assist the graduands wear their robe. After that, it’s off to the foyer to find my friends whom I have not seen for quite a while before going into the ballroom for a quick rehearsal at 1.30pm. The rehearsal lasted for about 20 minutes and then we, the graduands has a short break to do whatever is necessary. Therefore, my friends and I had a short trip to the washroom and quickly went back to the ballroom to snap some photos while talking advantage of the scare number of people before the officials allow the families to enter the ballroom.
At 2.10pm, family members of the graduands started streaming into the ballroom like a stream of bees, each of them trying to get a good view of the stage. We on the other hand, trying to point which seat is better so that they can take better pictures of us when we are on stage, shaking hands with the chancellor. By 2.30pm, all of us are already seated and waiting in anticipation for the ceremony to start. After 5 minutes the chancellor and his entourage came into the ballroom with a grand music playing at the background. Suddenly I found myself overwhelmed with the realness of the whole situation and at the same time, thinking of furthering my studies again to be able to go for these types of ceremonies. Weird but I really do! Once the chancellor and his fellow followers were comfortably seated on stage, the ceremony started with the national anthem of Malaysia and Australia, which made me a little teary as I was already overpowered with emotions and a sense of achievement after 4 years of working hard throughout college, could not believe that this is end of it. But, I didn’t exactly cry… I’m not a cry baby… Right after the songs, along came a few speeches and later on, the scroll giving time! Actually, there’s no scroll to give!!! We are suppose to go on stage, give the announcer our queue card which we received when we registered, walk on to shake hands with the chancellor, then walk to the end of the stage to receive my cert that is not in a scroll… See.. I told you… a graduation ceremony without a scroll!!! LOL.
Anyway, when it came to my row to start lining up to go on stage, all of a sudden I remembered that I forgot to bring my queue card which I kept in my hand bag at my seat situate at the back of the ballroom. Furthermore, there were only 5 persons left in front of me before it’s my turn. I quickly turned around and walk as fast as possible to get my queue card. Almost everyone was starring at me thinking what the hell I’m doing running back to my place… also, I kind of felt sorry for the person who is on stage because I unintentionally stealing the attention from him/her. LOL. After getting my card, I rushed back to my queue. Luckily, there’s only 2 persons left before my turn and I was trying to catch my breath when I’m back lining up…That’s what always happens when my name starts with the letter ‘T’. Because of this, I’m always almost at the end of any queues which uses alphabetical order…LOL. As I went up the stage, and passed my card to the announcer, then I went forward to the chancellor hopping that my mom would take a good photo of me shaking hands with the chancellor as I didn’t pay for any photography services during the ceremony. Then it was off to the next stop…receiving the cert. As I receive the cert, I looked up with a smile on my face, looking for my mom, or anyone, too take a picture of me…but everyone was concentrating on the person behind me and I could not spot where’s my mom. I went down the stage a little disappointed and embarrassed.
At 5pm, the ceremony ended and all of us were invited to have some refreshments outside the ballroom. After that, I was off walking around taking pictures with the chancellor, my lecturers and friends. Subsequently, I left the hotel for a dinner with my friend at Westin hotel in KL. I had a delicious meal of lagsane. The best I’ve ever tasted! Then, my friend and I proceed to Qba with the hopes of catching a live band playing but our hopes were dashed after the bartender told us the band is not playing on that day after waiting for half an hour for them to show up. So, we went home straight after that because I had to get up early for work tomorrow. Anyhow, it was a great that I’ve finally graduated! Really proud of it since I’m still considered young.. I’m 22! But technically, I’ve graduated at 21! LOL. I will forever remember my graduation day and its hiccups right till the day I my life ends. Hopefully, I get to tell the story to my children and grandchildren first… LOL.
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