Friday, December 24, 2004
the party was a BLAST!!! our Dolus party at Melissa's poolside (or as she calls it - 'pond'side) was incredible, and i'm not only talking about the food! the company was great, the peals of laughter we shared, the post-party fun @ ecp and in mel's bedroom, the scary agar-agar (no offence markie..and rochelle!), whoa!
i was late again. sheesh. how many times haf i written this in my blog already! wanted to bring ngoh hiang for the potluck, but the stall wasn't opened yest! yowryowryowr as jas would say it. in the end i decided on satay, the only thing was that the satay had to be cooked over the charcoal grill and that made me even later. many thanks to clement who called and 'saved' me from making a grand entrance at mel's place. i took a cab down to hougang mall, picked up debz, ernie and clement and zoomed off to upper east coast road.
what a spread we had at the poolside! for a recap:
tea eggs - xuan
chicken - melissa
sotong balls - clement
drinks - ivan
blueberry wine (6% alcohol) - debbie
apple pie - melvin
agar agar in festive colours - markie
potato salad - marchelle
chicken stew - nana
chocolate fondue - xuan
satay - me
blueberry sponge cake with deers - ernie
baked rice - jasmine
yummylicious food! of course it was way toooo much to finish during dinner, but we polished off more cake and all the agar-agar at night! was sorta rushing like mad yest afternoon because i din know what to wear, that wud be considered "retro-classy aka smart casual"!
it was a time of surprises: everyone looked fabulous, with the guys in shirts and pants, and the girls whoo-hoo! jasmine was in a black tube top with an attached translucent scarf and flower and blue denim mini skirt; roch was elegant with her pulled-back hair and sleek black number; nana looked great in her black calf-length flowy tube dress; xuan was in a blue denim knee-length tube dress; mel wore jeans and a black studded A/X tee; Debbie was in jeans and a black retro top; and i wore a pink tube with off-white 3/4 pants. i think all of us (girls and guys) looked smart!!
for present exchange, clement Made us pick names Randomly, ernie got my present and i got roch's present - 2 bottles of perky fruity refreshing shower gel from the body shop! thanks rochelle!! that night, rochelle markie jasmine ivan and myself stayed over at mel's place. before that, the 6 of us plus nana drove down to ecp where we sat at a table and completed 3 rounds of 'interrogation' per person, haha. we sent nana home and got back to mel's place at bout 230am.
from 230 till 6am, it was zong ji mi ma and electric current that occupied us and erm, kept out minds awake, sort of! i broke a record: lost 8 times in zong ji mi ma (never before!!) and prob ate about half (or slightly lesser) the tub of red agar-agar!! whoa, not touching that dessert for at least the next 6 months! it was just laughter and more of that the whole night, thanks guys for making the morning of christmas eve so enjoyable! it was lights out at 6am, all the way till 1245pm, when we awoke from a night (morning?) of deep slumber despite the freezing aircon. ivan left early to catch his flight to hong kong, bet he must be enjoying himself over there right now!
mark rochelle jas and i had wanton noodles at everitt road near jas's place. afterwhich, markie sent jas home and sent me to compass point. sorry markie for making u explore sengkang and punggol at one go just to find compass point!
just came back from my 'dinner'-movie trip with shalynn james and larry. they had dinner at swensens j8 and i joined them for earthquake, regular size. they're funny pple, james and larry and james's laughter is really really loud haha! jung fu hustle is a rather funny show, funny in a lame way, the effects were interesting and def entertaining...we took a cab from j8 to james's place, from there he drove me home then larry and sha i guess.
erin 6:19 PM
