2009

Happy New Year to all!
Its 2009, may everyone have a great year ahead!
I know this is kind of late,
i am sorry.
And i know it has also been quite some time since i post,
i am sorry again.
It was all because i was hooked to some lame game...

To start the new year with a LOUD Bang,
I have got a job!
Yay!
And work starts in 10.5 hours time.

Ok, start recounting from where i left off,
new year's eve.
On new year's eve, 31dec 2008, it was a fun day!
I woke up late, so no cake and no pasta,
Sad.
Then, i saw the sms from yy which states that we are meeting at 3pm.
Dreads, it crashed with my family's party.
Anyway, i went to my family's party in the end and i missed out on watching the movie "ip man".
Its supposed to start at 3, but when i got there, the buffet was not even there yet.
Food finally came at 4pm and well, it was nice.
After enjoying the scrumptious buffet, where i took loads off cereal prawns and choco eclairs(which had choco cream in it! omg!), my little cousin woke up.
Immediately, everyone flocked into the bed to see her.

Ta da!
She is so cute right?
She made this funny face by herself when i told her to look at my hp cam, so adorable.
Ok, so i played with the kid all the way until the guys where ready then i went to meet them.

Met them a around 6+, then we went to Gsc for cs, lol.
Played
Played
Played
Then we departed to Zc's house as planned.

When we reached there, dinner was already set!
His parents were so "ke qi"!
At the heart of the dinning table was a huge steamboat cooker and surrounding it...
Yes, was a whole load of food.
Dishes after dishes.
I was like WOW!
Could not believe my eyes, and also wondering how are we going to finish it.
Lol.

But, we did not dig in immediately.
We laid our bags down, and went downstairs for soccer.
Wee.
Weee.
Weeee.
I suffered a humiliating defeat, and we came back all sweaty.
Haiz.

Then, dinner started.
Zc's dad offered each of us a can beer, tiger beer.
And i was like, errr....
In fact i think quite a few of us were momentarily taken back.
Why?
Cos beer was so not in our culture, especially mine.
Although this was a festive occasion, but, i don't touch beer.
Moreover, isn't beer supposed to be for middle aged people?
However, cos his dad offered us, we must "shang lian", so we sort of tried it.

I slipped a little, and my first reaction was...
Yuck! What the * was this bitter thing i just had.
No offense to the host, it was just that beer was totally not my cup of "tea".
Yeah, in the end i only managed to forced half a can down my throat.
While having dinner, a few of us who did not feel like eating, went to watch tv instead.
Could not believe how boring new year's programs were.
But, before i realise, it was already approaching 12am.
Wohoooo!

We got ourselves all geared up, and when the countdown started on tv, we emulated.
10
9
8
....
3
2
1!
And we SCREAMED!
Seriously, totally, completely, blew our lungs out.
Shouted at the tv, out of the window... oh, y did i forgot find a ear and shout into it , that would be fun. lol.
Anyway, i think we woke the whole neighbourhood up.
But, who cares?
Its new year's day!

Shortly after that, fireworks took the stage at the distant night sky.
Yes, the fireworks at the esplanade!
Lucky for us, Zc's house was at kallang!
Dazzling sparks lit the night sky and the scene was amazing.
Then it was photo taking time and we all posed for the cam!
Flash
Flash
Flash
Then back to dinner.
The soup base was "ma la" flavour, and gosh it was SPICY!

Soon gary came and we now had 11ppl!
As we dragged into the night a few of them knocked out, esp those who booked out from army today.
While they slept, "the gambling den" started.
Gary was the banker as usual, but this time instead of us slaughtering him(which was our original intention, as always) we became the victims.
He seem to be bathing in luck or something, round after round he was constantly getting 20.
And on turns that he had to draw, he got 21, he rarely burst.
Thus, we suffered.
Before long, i was already digging 18bucks into my wallet.
Ouch.
And he was already 60+ richer.

Fortunately, the fortune winds started to change as it drew nearer to day break.
And when the game ended, i only lost 2bucks.
The rest also managed to re-coup their losses, all but one, the one who was daring enough to bet $16 in one round.
I guess this was what we call gambling, throwing $$ without thinking.

Then, after everyone woke up , we went down for basketball!
Played a few rounds and went off for drinks.
Then, returned to Zc's house to take our bags and
"home-sweet-home!" we went.
Got home, bath, then fell flat on bed.

Well, this new year's day(more like night) was sure fun!
I enjoyed myself and 2009 seemed to begin with a great start!
At least(i felt) some bad blood seemed to have quelled amidst this celebration.
Hmm,
and i felt i had to mention this.
Zc's parents were great!
They were really kind and generous.
Totally showered us with hospitality.
His mom was constantly providing us with more and more food.
In fact i felt so bad that there was so much leftovers.
Then, his dad too showed so much warmth, kept taking pics for us and stayed up late even though he had to go to work the next morning.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
So sorry for the mess we left behind, i think his mom really had a hard time cleaning up, considering how much "dining waste" we left behind.

Once again, thanks Zc and family!
scott signs off.