White is in coz PAP said so!

Aiyo ... you preached about creativity and all you can do at a party is to turned up all dressed in white ... at Zouk some more. Trying too hard, eh?

SEPT 24, 2004
People! Action! Party!

THE People's Action Party (PAP) may be serious, but last night it tried to show it was not square.

The occasion was a party to mark the PAP's 50th anniversary and its youth wing's 18th birthday.

More than 1,500 Young PAP (YP) members and their friends gathered at trendy nightspot Zouk to boogie the night away.

The party got off to a slow start at 7pm, but picked up momentum after YP chairman Vivian Balakrishnan, clad in a white linen shirt and white trousers, asked guests to 'loosen up'.

When Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the party's first assistant secretary-general, arrived at 9pm, the crowd broke into applause.

Launching the celebrations from the DJ console, Mr Lee confessed that it was strange to be addressing his 'comrades' at Zouk.

'The PAP is a serious party, but we're not a square party. We have some serious people, but we know how to enjoy ourselves too,' he said, before joining party revellers on the packed dance floor.

On stage and on pedestals which normally showcase the most snazzily dressed or niftiest dancers in the club, were MPs gyrating to the mix of house and retro music.

They included former YP chairman Lim Swee Say, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, who chairs the PAP Women's Wing, as well as MPs such as Miss Irene Ng, Miss Indranee Rajah, Dr Chong Weng Chiew, Dr Ong Seh Hong and Miss Penny Low.