Handover...

...was simply lovely!
Im glad everyone on my committee showed up :) we were twenty five really beautiful people. I wore this black raw silk phulkari thing that mom designed long ago, with heels and my crimson jewels (read below). Hair was up with a knot pin thats also gorgeous, it looks like a snake with a corkscrew body. Sexy.

When my turn came, and they called me up to speak, people HOOTED. they cheered for me :) and it wasnt just EdBoard. That felt good, cos i was so NOT expecting it. I stood up, turned back and smiled at them, before walking to the stage and taking my place. Speech was well received (or so i heard, later on during dinner. They said i spoke naturally, and confidently, and that it dint sound rehearsed. Thats cos the speech was NOT rehearsed hehe. i finalised it 20 minutes before the start of the function, after my DramaQueen wrote me a rough draft.)

Well, on stage they had up one of those flimsy glass podiums up, (i HATE those, because you cant hide behind them, and if u fidget with your body, the whole world can see it)
So i walked up, waited for the rest of the cheering to stop (i was nervous as hell, but also on top of the world!) and started talking. It was quite a blur for me (my knees just WOULDN'T stop trembling), but i think im getting better at speaking in public, as long as its not competitive. I keep thinking of that time i had to present some community medicine seminar thing in third semester, and how surprised i was at the end of it cos people wouldnt stop telling me how good it was.

Sorry, but this is going to be a truly self obsessive, self worshipping type narcissistic post.

By the end of the night, we'd taken lots of pictures and hugged a million ppl. Ex ed-in-chief was really sweet to me, i guess she thinks i can do without the extra nastiness cos i have enough coming my way.

I'm happy, but also missing a lot of people
In order:

Mom and Dad, i wish you could see me like this. I look like the successful, beautiful, popular and capable daughter you always wanted.

Y, my happiness is incomplete without you. I'd like to hear you say once more how you're proud of me, and how i AM cool no matter what i think. i would have liked you to see me on stage like that, talking to my peers with confidence, knowing deep inside me that i AM the best one for this job.

N, i wish you were here, simply because you've ALWAYS been present at these events, and this time it just dint feel right that you weren't there. And because you're the only one who'd listen to me talk about it for hours and meticulously analyse every second of the night. And you wouldnt laugh at me afterwards if i told you i wanna go dancing because i'm feeling so good. You'd just take me, and we'd salsa to hip hop numbers.

M, because BOY you should have seen me tonight, cos it would have knocked your socks off, and you'd see that they WERE right to pick me, and that i CAN handle it AS well, if not better, than you did. (Im hoping I havent spoken too soon!)