SDE reunion dinner

Before having to do any real work as a memeber of TAS, I got to enjoy some perks. Well, perhaps it's not really a perk but more of an enjoyable task. Me and 3 others from TAS were asked to attend this SDE alumni dinner, part of the NUS centennial celebration. As the name of the event suggests, it is for ex-students to meet up and do some networking, so we as students were there just to fill the tables. We were arranged to sit in the same table as the DE Club (Design and Environment Club) president and some people from the IDS (Industrial Design Society). As we realized later, the arrangement was far from coincidental, when DE club president tried to start a discussion about plans and funding for TAS and DE club; although we coyly but politely avoided discussing full details or committing to any of the suggestions brought up by the DE Club president, as our own TAS president is far far away in Austria.

The food wasn't bad although just before dinner started , my appettite was slightly spoiled by this horrible dance routine. An amalgation of hip-hop, modern dance, caberet (there was a skirt stripping sequence towards the end) and other unknown influences, it reminded me of certain unsavoury dance shows which I have seen in Thailand. Controlling the urge to throw some money onto the stage, we waited for the dinner to start.

The whole set up was very Chinese-wedding-dinner-like. Round tables that seats 10 each. The dinner even began like a chinese wedding dinner, with fast music pounding and the waiters streaming out in a single file holding platters of cold dishes in their hands. The wedding dinner scenario wasn't complete though, as they left out the dry ice which I was half expecting. The food was quite good for such a big reception but we had to be careful not to get any of those blue and orange confetti thingies, which were scattered onto the tables, into the food.

At the end of the event, I thought, with a full stomach, if such an extravagant dinner was really necessary.