On the 16th of April (Saturday), the annual gala night was held at Crystal Crown Hotel, proudly presented by Taylor's University Pharmacy Student Society. About three weeks before the actual day, a promotional video was posted on our facebook group as well as the poster done by our marketing team.
The theme for this year was I WANT TO BE A SUPERMODEL, everyone dressed up in their best dresses and best suits in accordance to the theme.
Registration opened at 6.30pm and the beautiful ladies as well as the handsome gentlemen slowly filled up the hall. Then, a countdown video was played and the hall was blackout, when the light was turned on, the lecturers entered the hall by walking on the red carpet runway.
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| Special thanks to Sam, our emcee for that night |
The event started with speeches from our OCP, Leong Chee Hong, and the dean of School of Pharmacy, Prof. Thomas.
Soup (Creamy Mushroom Soup) was served at about 7.12pm and followed by starter (Smoked Salmon Salad) at 7.27pm. While enjoying our food, the first performance was shown by our students from year 1, 3, and 4. It was a play and dance named Cinderfella. This performance was very entertaining and the audiences had a good laugh watching the males acting as female characters, and this had lightened up the mood of the whole night.
At about 7.50pm, the main course was served. Our main course were Rib Eye Steak and Chicken Golden Bieu, the participants got to choose which one they preferred. Besides, vegetarian main course was also provided for our participants who are vegetarians.
After our delicious main course, the hall was filled by amazing voice from our talented year 3 student, Vincent Ngu. He is the talented singer in our pharmacy school and the song he performed for the night was You Raise Me Up. The spotlight shined on Vincent made him looked like a bright star that night.
The 3rd performance was a kpop dance performed by our students from year 2, 3 and 4. The dancers were so energetic and the appearance of the male dancers at the last part of the dance had added some colours to the whole performance. We could not tell that they are pharmacy students because they looked like professional dancers!
Then came the time that everybody was awaiting for, it was time to announce our nominees for prom king and prom queen. They were invited on stage to do a cat walk down the red carpet runway and the audiences could not stop cheering for these handsome gentlemen and beautiful ladies.
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| Vincent and Tiffany |
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| Wei Liang and Qistina |
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| Giselle and Kee Teng |
But this is not the end yet. The nominees were invited to be back to their seats and the audiences are required to write down their vote on a card provided by the ushers. While waiting for the outcome of our prom kind and prom queen, we proceeded with our next performance. It was a singing performance by our year 2 student, Patricia while our year 4 student, Cheryl played the piano.
Both of them are very talented in music and most people were singing and clapping along too!
At around 8.40pm, a 4th year dedication video was played, and followed by a surprise video prepared by the organizing committees for the year 4 seniors. Then, it was time to present mementos for the year 4, and the representative, Jenning, was invited on stage to give a speech.
After that, a memento was presented to a year 2 student, Shee Mei, who will be transferring to University of South Australia to continue her 3rd and 4th year of pharmacy student life. There was also a surprise prepared for her by the year 2 students. It was indeed a very touching moment and that very moment was captured down as the photos below.
At around 9.25pm, it was time for our boy band performance by the year 4. They can really sing! You cannot tell that they are our year 4 pharmacy students because all four of them have really amazing voice. The audiences used the flashlight on their phone and swung their arms with the spotlight in hand. That was really a superb and fantastic show!
After the amazing performance, it was time to announce the winners for the lecturers' awards. The vice president of TuPSS, Ng Kar Weng, was invited on stage to present the awards for the winning lecturers. Tokens of appreciation was presented to all the lecturers and the staffs of School of Pharmacy by Lok Ren Zhang, the president of TuPSS.
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| The Most Dedicated Lecturer: Dr Jason |
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| The Lecturer with a PhD in Humor: Dr John |
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| The Most Fashionable Lectuere: Ms. Penny |
Next, we had a performance by the Thai students who visited to our university. We thank them for giving us such a great performance which helped to beautify our night.
Since we had awards for the lecturers, we also had awards for our students, which were The Social Butterfly and The Funniest. Check out the photos below to know who were the winners for each awards.
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| Year 1 Social Butterfly - Daphne Chen |
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| Year 2 Social Butterfly and The Funniest - Lok Ren Zhang |
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| Year 3 Social Butterfly and The Funniest - Ng Kar Weng |
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| Year 4 Social Butterfly - Kelly Chan |
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| Year 1 The Funniest - Reynard Aw |
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| Year 4 The Funniest - Yew Keong |
Next up was the hype up moment of the night! Because it was time to announce the Prom King and Prom Queen for our Gala Night 2016!
*drum roll ......*
The Prom King for GN2016 was Kee Teng; The Prom Queen for GN2016 was Qistina.
Both of them were truly the supermodels for that night.
Then we had a presentation for tokens of appreciation for the class representatives. Thank them for being the voice of the class!
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| Year 1 - Leong Chee Hong |
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| Year 1 - Daphne Chen |
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| Year 2 - Lok Ren Zhang |
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| Year 3 - Ho Ka Mun |
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| Year 4 - Wei Qin |
Next, we had a surprise session for Wei Qin and it was planned by the year 4. Wei Qin is known as the most dedicated class representative, thus they planned to thank him on this very special night in order to make this a memorable one.
To spice things up, a lucky draw session took place and amazing prizes were won by these lucky winners.
To follow our tradition, a send-off session is a must for our year 4 students who will be completing their four years of pharmacy student life soon. Each of them was given a rose and Wei Qin represented his cohort of friends to cut the cake prepared by the organizing committees of GN2016.
We wish them all the best in their future endeavors and we sincerely hope that they enjoyed the night, their last gala night in pharmacy school.
Before we call it a night, the lecturers and students of each year were invited to come up on stage for a photo shooting session.
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| The lecturers and the Thai students |
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| Year 1 |
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| Year 2 |
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| Year 3 |
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| Year 4 |
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| Year 4 and the Thai students |
Last but not least, a million thanks to our organizing committees for Gala Night 2016! This event will not be possible without their commitments, they have done a very great job and congratulations for organizing such a meaning event.
Special thanks to our three photographers from Monash Malaysia Photography Society, for capturing down all the precious moments of GN2016.
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