Christmas 2009

We parted ways on Xmas day to spend the festive season with our lovely friends; while Leecher was out @ HQ's house for potluck, I was out at Ryan's place for a day of steamboat :)

We were supposed to assemble @ Ryan's place at 1pm, but being bros & sis for over a decade, we know that the unofficial reporting time is normally 1.5-2hrs away from the official time ... so the sisters meet at the station near Ryan's place at 3pm, lol

Grocery shopping for our steamboat ingredients @ Cold Storage.

Wine for the after-party :)

Preparing the ingredients in the kitchen.

Ta-dah! A table full of spread; with lots of mushrooms, fishballs, sausages. We were banned from buying tau-pok due to overdosage of it @ Joe's place 7 years ago. This has been our private joke ever since that fateful day and it will always be mentioned everytime we have steamboat.

ZZG made his grand appearance at 6pm, just in time for dinner. His punishment for being late - to help the sisters to take this picture :) Fling, we forgot to use a cushion to represent you, so sorry!

We eat-drink-gossip-iphone the night away. Turned out that out of the 8 of us, 5 of us are Iphone users & ZZG was peer-pressured to purchase an Iphone after his contract ends :P

As per Caihong's tradition, a group picture is a must! Fling, once again, you will have to superimpose yourself into the picture. Miao, Ron & Ye Ling had to leave for the night while the rest decided to come up with our own program at midnight ....

Another round of prawning. 2 sessions within 2 days; would I be entitled to a VIP card for my frequent visits?

Yeah! First catch of the night :)

ZZG helping to unhook the prawn

The great harvest by everyone

Jocelyn caught a yellow-stickered prawn. Guess what is the prize?

A set of keychains, lol. We were expecting it could be a free basket of prawns or something; so disappointed :(

Ended the session with 18 prawns, 2hr of catching up over supper/breakfast, 1hr journey back home and reaching my place @ 8.30am on Boxing day. Off to bed for my marathon sleep!

Christmas 2009

A belated post. We had our first Christmas gathering at HQ's place.

A group photo of everyone present. New addition to the group, Gav's partner, Jac. Too bad Josh got something on and couldn't join us. U missed out man! (guffaw...)

Our gifts for the exchange. Mine's in orange wrappings courtesy of Blamer.

What's a better way to create the festivity at home than to have presents under the Christmas tree! Kudos to HQ!

Digging in to our potluck Christmas spread.

After dinner, HQ suggested playing the Pictionary Man set he bought. Something like win-lose-or-draw, just that the drawing board was replaced by the man. Brought us lotsa fun and laughter, would have been better if it's the Singaporean version as some of the American themes were like Greek to us.

After some more booze and snacking, it's time for the great gift exchange! Zg got Gav's present.

Mine went to Gav.

Zg's to Ray

Ray's to HQ

And finally, HQ's to me.

And everyone started ripping open their presents!

Seems that everyone got theirs out of their wrappings except me... ...

Still ripping... ....

And ripping... ....

Guess what came out from that BIG box??

Turns out that Zg got the most entertaining present of the night.

All of us took turns to play with Zg's present with Ray being the popular target practice. Should have bought more "weapons" so that we could do something like this:

Great epic battle!

Next up, cake cutting. Log cake courtesy of Ray.

Need to thank our wonderful hosts. Hq and his lovely wife.

With a game of 终级密码 and the forfeit was goofing down 8 potato balls in one go.

Till today I never knew that my capacity was so limited... ...

We increased the forfeit to 10, but HQ seems to be accommodating it well. Guess now we know who got the biggest gap. Hee hee hee...

Loving it

This arrived sooner than expected! A great start to a wonderful weekend :)




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Prawning with AF guys

23 Dec 2009 marked the start of the Xmas countdown, which the only thing I can recall was being deprived of sleep all the way till New Year 2010.

Yunfa organised a prawning session and we assembled at 11pm @ Bishan, without him as he ended up sick, haha. Leecher guided us (thank god for CLEAR directions from Roger and Leecher noting word-for-word in his Iphone) to the super ulu place for prawning.

The place was pretty crowded even though it was midnight on Wed night.

Leecher was uber excited, as it was his first attempt in prawning.

The props needed for a good harvest later :)

All set up and ready to go! We decided to have a competition to see who would be the champion in prawning.

Due to beginner's luck, Leecher caught his maiden prawn 10 min later.

This prawn managed to escape its fate of ending up in our stomachs, as Leecher decided to throw it back into the pond.

Yeah! I was initially bored with the waiting and was playing with my Iphone when Winston saw a tug. Pulled it up and woolah - the prawn that I have been waiting for!

Scoreboard as of 2.45am, 24 Dec 2009:

Winston/Chuanyew: 2
Leecher: 2 (1 thrown back into pool)
Yen: 0
Me: 3

Yen finally caught his prawn 5 min before we had to hand over our rods to the counter; spot the relief look on his face :)

Our harvest for the night

Preparing to BBQ the prawns on the spot

Yen, the great chef, had the honour of poking the satay sticks into the prawns *ouch*

Yen decided to teach Leecher a few tricks on BBQ-ing prawns.

The final product; which were not enough to feed our hungry stomachs that we ended up @ Jalan Kayu for prata at 4.30am in the morning. I was pleasantly surprised to bump into dear Kenneth! We finally parted ways at 5.45am while we rushed home to get ready for work & another day of celebration. My official start of a 40hr non-sleep day ....