Great day
Yesterday's band prac wasnt very fulfilling. Did abit of the set piece, then repeated the same part of Hymn over and over and over again. Didnt really do much, but it wasnt exactly boring either. Nutcase is back!!! yay! super long never hear her play liao. actually im quite surprised she can still play lor. Impressive!! Oh, but Cheeshan was sick =( so she wasnt here, which means she didnt get her christmas card!!! Gave out the rest of the cards to the section. Really wonder where amanda is. havent seen her at band pracs for super long.
Lunch at curry wok, and then it was off to the party! reached three hours early i think. Was intending to go get some sleep first, cos i was so frigging tired from waking up at 8. But then i decided that reading 8 days would be more worth my time.
The whole thing started around 7, but everyone who was bringing food came at abt 5+. The food was good, chicken, turkey, ham, prawn, crabs, curry, and all the other stuff. Ate quite alot, which is why im going swimming later. Went off to play with Eugene after dinner! he's sooo cute!! And he's my friend now=) Poor Ryan injured his leg, so he's limping around like the tao-jie in 小娘惹。Haha, we kept niaoing him about that until he turned abit sad. awww...
The games started abt 8+. Actually it was our turn to think of games this year, cos all our older cousins were sick of planning all the stuff every year. But my "second generation" ppl were a big bunch of slackers, so we ended up pushing the responsibility back to them =p Apparantly the "first gen" ppl are all going overseas next christmas, so we're going to have to do everything ourselves =(
First game was quite easy. there were a series of pictures taken of things in the living room, and we had to find out what they were. And because the pictures were extremely zoomed in, most of them didnt look like what they were. The person who found it would have to randomly pick out a forfeit (which involved another person), and carry out tt forfeit with him/her. Then the two of them would be able to get a present from the tree. There was totally chaos as everyone walked around trying to find the objects, but Eugene and I managed to find the object in the second picture, which was one of the wall decorations. =D Forgot what the penalty was, but we managed to get Eugene's first present of the day! Yay!!
Haha, my little cousin immediately went into the room and started ripping the wrapper apart. The present was some toy thingy tt you can fix together to form different things. Cant really describe it, but the two of us tried to fix it in the room while the rest of the ppl played outside. From what i heard, the penalties were really stupid, like plucking 5 hairs from the tallest person (mingren) and somehow, i got involved in a really lame penalty, which involved my cousin smacking my ass >(
Second game was pretty original. Ten ppl had to out their hands on a piece of mahjong paper on a table, and the last person to remove his hand wins! Abit similar to the "put your hands on the car" thingy tt u see on the news, but it was much more fun. The penalty for each person who removed his hand was to eat a bowl of leftovers. In order to further test our resolve, all those who were not playing started putting weird stuff on our hands, including flour, all the turkey sauces, chilli, scraps of paper, ice, and even an egg for Eugene! It was really freaking gross, and the smell of all these weird sauces made quite a few ppl quit. Those who remained until the end, including me =) , got another present, so yay!!
After that was logcake time !!! Cake was quite nice, and so was the champange. I drank 3 different types of champange altogether, including a bottle which cost $200++. Traditionally there was supposed to be a Spray Champange Ceremony, where all the crazy adults would arm themselves with champange and start randomly popping them and spraying everyone around. This year, owing to the economic crisis, as well as the presence of $2xx per bottle champange, nobody dared to try this crazy thing.
However, they very quickly overcome this small problem by substituting champange with water! Much more economical, and this way everyone got to drink more champange =)
It started off with innocent ppl sitting on the sofa (the rules change every year, last year's rule was no wetting the sofa), and after that it got increasingly wilder. From small cups of water, ppl started getting out basins, small buckets and eventually even the big pails came out!! The adults and some of my older cousins were the ones doing most of the splashing, but from my vantage point, it was super funny, seeing everyone splash everyone else. Everywhere you see there were ppl holding buckets of water, ppl getting backstabbed, sabo-ed, or caught off guard. absolutely hilarious
After most of the adults got wet they decided to change the rules abit. Now they started aiming everyone else who was dry, meaning all of has had to start looking for places to hide. I was keeping a very low profile on a sofa beside my cousin-in-law, and managed to remain relatively dry even while everyone was getting wild all around me. I even cleverly went to the other side of the living room when they decided to gank my cousin-in-law. But all it took was a moment of lapse in concentration for me to get cornered against the door, and even dodging couldnt prevent me from getting splashed good and proper.
The highlight of the event was without a doubt one of my cousin's failed attempt to splash another cousin. He had been camping in the kitchen with a pail of ice-cold water from the champange box, waiting for the right moment to strike. Only he hadnt accounted for the wet living room floor. As he chionged out of the kitchen with his pail ready, he slipped on the floor, skidded the length of the living room and collided against the wall and ended up emptying half the pail's water on himself!! hahahaa!! Unfortunately for him, my grandma was standing next to his intended target, and she got wet as well!!! She got quite angry with him, but none of the rest of us really cared, we were too busy laughing at the failed attempt. I guess that's what they call retribution!!
At the end of the day, everyone went home wet, except for my cousin's boyfriend, whom she brought over for christmas. throughout the entire ordeal he was standing outside the door, didnt even dare to come in!! Must be quite a frightening experience for him i guess, bet he didnt envision this type of scenario when she invited him over for "christmas celebration"!!
Well, it certainly was fun, and I cant wait for next year. My mum's already sworn revenge on the people who splashed her, namely my oldest cousin and my aunt. Oh, and defintely Eugene too. He was so incredibly happy when he saw her getting splashed he couldnt stop laughing!
Oh, and i got a mini-safe thingy and a box of towels for christmas!! haha, not really very zai presents, but last night was worth more than any present ever!
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