A GREAT NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Now I am trying to trace back and updated my blogspot that I have missed for few weeks coz few friends out there demanded me to update and I realised there's someone reading my blogspot. Hehhehe Thank q guys and for those who haven't got their Blogspot, start creating one now.. yes NOW!!! u know who u r? regardless ur r bz, working, married, computer illiterate, no laptop?.... when there is a will, there is a way.... yeahhhhh, inda ja?

Well, let me start with my Trafalgar Dinner Night. It was on Wednesterday afternoon, I tinted out early from my music cell and prepared my Mess Kit. I was very excited that night and that was my last on my Blogspot in which I written down.

At 1900H, I got ready and headed up to the bar and it was very crowded with officers in their Mess Kit and there I came in and luckily my Mes kit was not much different as the Royal Navy apart from the golden strip on my pants. I met couple of Chaplins and officers and met couples of x military personnel who served in Malaya during the conflict in 1963. They showed me their Sarawak or Malaya medal presented to them.

At 2000H, we all went into the dining hall and there were staffs standing at the side watching us and I felt like walking on a red carpet as this would be my first time wearing my Mess Kit with a Bow Tie in a dining hall. I have also prayed that whoever seated next to me would be an interesting guy that I could talk to. I was shocked when I realised, LT NICK the one who seated next to me was my batch mate from Dartmouth. How ironic and he remembered my name, Hanika and Zouhdy, another candidates from Brunei. Wow...

Appetizer was served on a lovely decorated table along with the Portsmouth Royal Marine Band on their string instruments. I was very excited with the Band and the music was hoofing, smashing. I was busy talking to Nick and taking my sweet time having my appetizer until few staffs infront of me and few staffs behind me giving me the smile. I was shocked when everyone had finished their appetizer and waited for me until they could serve the next course. I just hope the guest of hornour wouldn't realise this... Because of this, we broke the ice with few officers seated infront of me. After the main course, I realised I have a full of white wine in my glass and empty on others. They told me that they finished their wine during appetizer and that was the time when they realised that I didn't drink alcohol and asked for my Red Wine. Red wine came along with the main course. Quite hard to keep up the mess rules and ettiquette.

To cut the story short, we toasted to the Queen and Sir Nelson, had some Chocolate SHIP, few songs..... then we moved to the bar and Nick and I had few chat along with his friend which I forgot his name. oooo... I guessed his name was Tony. He came to Brunei before sorting out the new OC school in Sg Akar. We had guessing game as well and finished at 2 am. What a great night!