Tuesday, January 02, 2007

New Year Celebrations

The year ended with a bang at Spinkypinkie's hse. Lotsa good food, games and great company. Though our grp may be getting smaller, we are getting cosier. Seems like everyone is growing up, but when we gather at Spinkypinkie's hse every new year's eve, we find ourselves plunging right into the food, games, fun and laughter that accompany us through our JC days.

There was plenty of food as usual, compliments of Spinkypinkie's parents. They are pretty keen gourmets, i.e. they luv to try out new recipes + the fact that Spinkie's mum's cousin is a caterer, it all equates to great food for our palates during that 24hrs, stretching from 7pm New Year's Eve to around 5pm New Year's Day.

I can't even begin to describe the food that we had, but suffice to know that we had the following (in no particular order) -

- Turkey with Red Cabbage sauce/cranberry sauce/ 1 other sauce which I forgot
- Devil's curry
- Popiah w Pai-ti
- Chocolate Fondue w strawberries, grapes & mashmallows
- Kong-ba pau
- Salad w Korean pears and homegrown mangoes
- Ikea almond cake
- Fruit cake
- Siew mai
- Yam pau
- Char siew pau
- Spaghetti
- 3 different types of Ngoh Hiang
- 2 different types of Sambal Chilli
- After Eight chocolates
- Meltykiss chocolates
- Ice Wine (Apple)
- Glogg - Some kind of swedish non-alcoholic drink
- Premium ham

Can't rem if this is all, but well, all of u get the idea of how much we ate! After all tt eating, the worse part is we actually settled down to bcum couch potatoes. We watched the Korean Flim Festival awards, MTVs etc.

The best parts of the evening (to me), other than the food, were the Games! Thanks Spinkypinkie for planning and preparing everything, on top of work and social commitments. Was really super fun, although I did not fare too well in the games. Lack of general knowledge, lousy memory and low in IQ. Haha...Shall play tis game w the others in future as well. We also had Scavenger Hunt around her hse, in which we were supposed to find the letter hidden at the various places, just by looking at the pic. Well, well, although we were all sleepy, we still played, and I slowly perked up while walking around. We were stumped at around 2-3 pics, and I discovered tt I am really bad at seeing things from a different angle.

All in all, had great fun at Spinkypinkie's hse. Year after year, we hang out there and sometimes I am really quite paiseh at the hospitality shown to all of us. THANK YOU SPINKYPINKIE & FAMILY!