Monday, December 26, 2005

Merry Christmas & 23-26 Dec 05 (updated)

Had actually prepared the following before Xmas, but din have the chance to post it until now, so here's a belated Xmas greeting:

Here's wishing you a:



As I had promised, here are the pics of the gifts which i received from colleagues and pics taken at Muchuan XMas Countdown dinner.










Will talk more abt them at another time. Rushing off to do some window shopping.

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Updates posted on 27 Dec 05:

23 Dec 05

Received a big cow cushion from my partner. Oww, din expect her to give such big present. Then there is a Pooh toy (dressed in purple) and a pack of magnetic bookmarks from another colleague. She had purposely chosen the purple pooh for me.
Oh yeah, now my cubicle is even more purplish.

Also received a flower bookmark, a box of home-made short bread, a box of Ferrero Rocher, a Body Shop gift set from other colleagues. As for the teddy bear which was stuffed in Pooh’s basket (see pic), it was given by our company. Staff welfare presents huh…

Had a Christmas lunch in our office. Frankly speaking, it was quite boring. We just eat and talked among ourselves. No lelong, no auction, unlike my previous company. (hey Ah-Shui~s, did you all helped me to snatch some lelong lorbangs? keke)

Then later, when getting back to work, something happened. It left me in a state of surprise, shock, bewilderment (whatever u called it lah). Not to mentioned I was even more confused and puzzled after the conversation. It is really a case of “unexpected”. And somehow it never occurred in my mind that such thing could happen.


Anyway, let’s proceed to 24 Dec 2005.

After settling some stuff and kopi talk with my friend, I rushed down to Muchuan for the Xmas countdown. It was held at Lev 2, where the restaurant used to be. While we were havig dinner, we were watching their movie screening (Love Actually).

Despite the mistake the waiter made (we actually ordered 3 sets of Fish and a set of Ham but the waiter wrote it as 3 sets of Ham & a set of Fish), the dinner turned out to be quite tasty. Though I had watched Love Actually earlier this yr (ya , DVD) , I can’t help being touched by some scenes. Haha, Flutterby and XM were drooling over that shuai shuai Karl, especially at that scene. *ahem*

Theme for tat nite was Pyjamas Nite. But no one seems to be following the dress code except for the performers and the 4-5 guests at a table. Can see the performers （3 from Mon-sters, 4 from Tue’s 党+ 亮文） were putting quite an amount of effort to 搞气氛，but compared to the last New Year party I been too, the guests weren’t that high. Most of them were rather reserved. A bit paiseh when only Flutterby and me were shouting ：“Encore, encore”.

To those friends who support the Monsters, let me tell you what 破天荒things that Ximei & Jianhua did. Ximei wore a feather boa and started off another segment with “今天不回家”。 哈哈！she really 豁出去！ And Jianhua also wore a feather boa, and was “搔首弄姿~ing” as he sang 卡门。 Ahem, but it was very weird lah, especially at the verse “男人不过是一只小小的东西，有什么了不起.”

I guess I have to say that I was rather lucky, or shall I say “blessed”. A total of 3 hampers were given out that nite, and just before they gave out the last hamper to me , I was telling to Flutterby:” So far our table hasn’t won anything hor” (but then, there were abt 100 guests that nite). Then at the next moment Jiehao was hinting that he knew the winner and the winner often came to support the other dang (which means Monsters lah). Flutterby suspected I had won but I dun wanna put too much hopes yet. So turned out that it was me who won the last food hamper. There was a bit of confusion on who should give out the prize to me. Cos initially, jiehao suggested Jianhua, but he was stuck with his guitar, so they suggested Ximei. Just when I was waiting for Ximei to come forward, Jianhua somehow managed to get out of the stage and present the hamper to me. Scary, man. Not that he was scary. Just that I am afraid that I might get stabbed, shot or glared by those female fans of his. Hahaha. Well, seems like his female fans are not only getting larger in number, they are getting bolder too. Hahaha. Hmm, refer to the 26 Dec events below.

Anyway, the whole event end ard 1.30am and we went to have steamboat at Beach Road. Eat till 5+am . So I actually spent my Xmas eating, then sleeping.

25 Dec 05

Had a slight change of plans in my agenda in the afternoon. But nonetheless I still meet up with some TXYs for the dinner appt. Big Cow, FL, Fannie and Jeremy and I had our dinner at pizza hut. (gal, where’s the pics???) . Big Cow had just came back from his exchange trip and FL was spotted with a new hairdo. Curls, how I wish my hair is long enuff to perm them into locks.

I din ate much that evening, perhaps was still feeling full from the steamboat. Oh, shall I add that Big Cow is so “meticulously auntie”. He even thought of preparing plastic bags ( u know those clear plastic bags for putting fruits, fish and other groceries) for us to spilt the almond cookies among ourselves. He also gave us a lipstick pouch each and they come with this Incredible Mirror (as exclaimed by Fannie) which make yr face appears smaller. I was scolded for being “chor-lor” cos I caused the mirror to crack when I fastened the pouch. *pai seh*
Anyway, after dinner, I left them as I dun wish to be super lighbulb, Haha.


26 Dec 2005
Met up with Flutterby in town the afternoon, but in get to do much Xmas shopping as the mood was already dampen by the crowd. In the end, we just bought a big corruggated board and headed to Chinatown to prepare for Project Ximei's Birthday Surprise.


So we ate at MacDonalds, at the same time, pasted a touched up pic of Takeshi Kaneshiro holding a birthday greeting for ximei on to the board. Even added

To 金城太:
祝你们幸福!!!!

From:李太与五太


I guess ppl are us tot we are nuts. hahaha.

But in the end, teher were changes to our plans. We are unable to act accord to our plan of sneaking out and placing the board the other side of the glass panel as the venue of their performance was shifted to Lev 2.

Full house that day, and guess many were admirers/ fans of Jianhua and Ah Du. The female fans were rather direct. Dedicating songs to 黑马王子. Then there was another group whom Sips and i suspected that those weird messages that they wrote (such as: "给我的红颜知己", "我原做你的隐形人" ) on their slips were for JH.

Then came this mysterious person dedicating Takeshi's 标准情人. Actually it was a cue for the others to held up the "takeshi board" and brought out the cake to Ximei. This Mrs Takeshi also recieved a cushion with a pic of her "husband" printed on it. Wonder how ML feel when she had to print that cushion.

bday gal was bery sporting,-- going off stage and dance to the tune of Kan Wo 72 bian, i tried taking video but my digicam din capture the lighting well. Owwww

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有时候, 还是不要知道那么多东西比较好....
可是,又不是我故意想知道的....
到底这些事是注定的,
还是是因为未卜先知后所引发的"self fulfilling prophecy"
(to be continue in my private blog)

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