Friday, January 01, 2010

Last Gathering for Year 2009

It all started with Chee Seng wanting to have steamboat and hence we decided to have a mini gathering at my house to celebrate the last day of the year. We did not expect many to turn up since there's usually many celebrations on-going at the same time plus it was a last minute decision.

Nevertherless, we had quite a huge number of people joining in and some are even people which we had not seen for quite a while. The people who joined in for the celebration are as below:
1) Guiqing
2) Chee Seng, Elaine plus Mother & Maid
3) Henry
4) Sean, Grace & Yongqian
5) Daniel
6) Webster & Sophia
7) Desmond & Lynn
8) Mon
9) Sin Li
10) Joel, Meiling
11) Joel's Mum, Dad & Uncle
12) Mum's friend - Ah Teck

10am - 4pm : All thanks to Uncle Robert (Mum's friend) who came early to prepare the ingredients for the steamboat, curry chicken & fried mee hoon while I went to Giant with ML to buy all the necessary utensils.

5pm - 6.30pm : Guiqing came along to prepare her special dishes - beacon with tomato & smoked chicken breast. Being a perfectionist, she had wanted to add in some vegetable for the smoked chicken breast to make it more "healthy" or to give it a not-so-dull taste. However, both Chee Seng and myself strongly object to this suggestion due to the simple fact that we are both meat-eaters and not really a "green" eater. Sorry Qing!! Next time I will try to have some vegetables in my fridge ok!!

6pm - 7pm : Chee Seng & his future family plus Henry arrived too. More steamboat food was added to the list as contributed by Chee Seng. I think he brought along all his favourite food loh, and there's definitely no vegetables in it.

7pm -8pm: The feast begin with Sean & his family coming along with the fried rice. Yongqian had successfully became the ladies or should I call it "aunties" killer once again. Hmm, snatching all the attention from me ah.....haha!!

8pm - 9pm : Daniel arrived with his long waited fishballs while Webster & Sophia came with the seaweed chicken. Desmond & Lynn joined in with their vietnam spring rolls too. Wow, the group had became more crowded than I expected as I had originally estimated a 30% last minute drop-out rate. Been a long while since we had such a big group gathering and especially where all are interacting with one another without fear of anyone being left out. I guess it 's a wise decision to keep the food in the centre where everyone can sit down to eat, chit-chat all at the same time.

9pm - 10pm : Mon decided to pop-by too though she's not feeling well. Thanks so much for your support gir, Muack muack!! Sin Li was the last one to arrive though it was only 2 hours late, not too bad lah!! It's better to be late than never....hee!! I had not seen Sin Li for more than a year already...hmm...seem like I had not keep in touch with all my friends for quite a while.

10pm - 11pm : Gathering dispersed. Chee Seng commented that many of us had moved to another level where there's no energy to count down already. Haha!! Maybe it's true since most of us had family or going to have family and it's different from the past where we can played till wee hours before taking a cab back home.

This gathering was a perfect one especially to conclude the last day of Year 2009. Perhaps most of us had been so busy with the daily activities of our lives that we do not even have any time for our family, friends or even to rest. I'm sure everyone had enjoyed this party and most importantly the friendship bonding that we had. Let look forward to a even better Year 2010 then.