High Table Dinner

High table at Loke Yew Hall

I suppose a high table dinner would be something like a compulsory ball. Everyone from the same hall attends (something like three-hundred people) in formal attire. Arrival and departure tokens help with the attendence records.

The guest speaker spoke about the importance of hostel/hall life and 'regging'. It did seem a bit like a dodgy initiation process for newcomers.
He then spoke at length about community service, how everything is public about his life including what trouble family connections can bring as well as climbing the ladder of society. Even so, all the questions from the audience were planted, with the last girl reading directly off a strip of paper (not even facing him).

There was nice procession music though. As a bonus the banner fell down and the vice-chancellor held onto it for a while.

 

Vice-chancellor in the grey.

No more banner.