I was 18 then. It was our Form 6 prom. We were allowed to bring a partner.. and guess who I brought?
Thambhi!
There were more boys than girls in our year. Thus, not all girls could have a partner.. and since we were allowed to bring outsiders, I brought thambhi.
No, he didn’t stand out as a stranger among the Form 6 crowd. Apparently, both of us were studying in the same school. Although it was a boys school, the Form 6 classes were coed. Thus, he knew almost all of my friends.. and being a school prefect, he was no stranger to them too.
We had a nice time..
The opened the dance floor.. as I was not a dancing type of a person, so I resorted to sitting back and watched others dance instead :)
Then came the slow dance.. and my classmate came up to me for a dance!
Hmm, now I have a problem.. I have never slow dance with anybody. Nevermind I thought, it should be easy. Just hold each other and sway to left and sway to the right..
We joined the others on the dance floor.. We placed our hands on each other.. on the hip and on the shoulder, respectively.
Thambhi was dancing with a friend of mine. I can see that he was pretty comfortable. Not suprising!
Suddenly, I see thambhi gesturing and signaling towards us.. both of us did not understand. I was already shy dancing with a guy for the first time, and here he is, watching his sister!
Thambhi couldn’t take it. He came over to us.. removed my hands from my partner’s hip and place it on his shoulder, removed my partner’s hands from my shoulder and placed it on my hips.
Arrggghh!
By the way, after Form 6, amms enrolled thambhi and I for dancing lessons where I learnt many types of dance steps. Sadly, over the years, due to lack of practise, I think I forgot it all..
5 comments:
hehehe that was funny ;p but humm how does thambi know more about ballroom dances? hummm hehehehe
but i can just imagine - ballroom dance can be so uncomfortable without the need for correction ;p
hey at least u didn't step on the partner's foot for the first dance :). Nowadays hardly see people dance huh
Never had to g try all tht stuff and I am sure, I wd have stepped on the partner's shoe and fall on my neighbours!!!
Geetha, I am sure why and hw my display name has changed !
You sure have a very close relationship with your brother.. that's rather rare..
He's protective huh?? Didn't want the guy to be too close to you?
visithra,
Hmm, I wonder too ;P
He's the social person in our home.. I guess he learnt it during his social outings or it was based on his general knowledge ;)
You can imagine how I felt at that point! Nervous, then embarassed.. wanted to go and hide under the table already :)
jazzmint,
Yeap, luckily. But since it was a slow dance, I wouldn't have caused much hurt ;)
Yeap, I wonder whether there are such functions like the Form 6 prom anymore?
k,
Hahaha.. you never know. You should give it a try, and you may be a good dancer ;P
Hmm, I don't seem to be able to get to your blog too.. another problem with the beta blogger! *sigh*
zara's mama,
Yeap, I told you so :)
Thanks to my parents, they have brought us up to love and respect each other..
He is protective.. but on this occasion, he was merely correcting us, coz' my partner and I got it the other way round! :)
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