CBM Reunion Dinner & Dance 

1st October 2016

The Star press coverage

JUST as the second course of the dinner arrived, it became evident that it was no ordinary alumni reunion dinner.

Dance instructors Peter Ang and Emmeline Yong went on stage and all the Convent Bukit Mertajam old girls were asked to step forward to learn the cha-cha as soon as the sweet corn crab meat soup was served.

After a three-minute lesson, Finzi Contini’s 1985 chart-topper ‘I Wanna Dance’ (do you like cha-cha-cha) boomed out of the speakers and the soup went cold on every table as the old girls swayed their hips on every available open floor space in the E&O Hotel grand ballroom.

The evening went on with dance competition interspersed throughout the eight-course dinner, and the old girls whooped and sang along to numerous yesteryear hits.

To make it even more memorable, the organising committee from Convent Bukit Mertajam Alumni set the dress code as cultural attire from around the world, and the 300-odd old ‘convent girls’, their spouses and children did not disappoint.

They dressed up as Egyptian queens, cowgirls, geisha girls, Arab sheikhs, Korean princesses, Dutch milkmaids and myriad more, and before dinner, everyone decorated their tables after the countries they were named after.

Alumni president Sharon Ewe Lay Khim left her pals swirling in nostalgia as she presented a collage of old school photos.

But nothing took them down memory lane better than the appearance of their old teacher Charlotte Szto, 90, who had taught in the school from 1965 to 1976.

“We gather every two years and try to create something unique each time. The theme this year was ‘East Meets West’ and we tried to bring an international ambience into our reunion since our old schoolmates are spread out worldwide,” said Ewe.

https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/community/2016/10/25/its-yesterday-once-more-convent-bm-old-girls-chachacha-the-night-away-in-grand-fashion/