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.
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