In my sand filled shoes: x'mas fun

well... x'mas week was pretty much fun this year... i had parties on fri, sat, sun.. 3 days of continuous partying...

Fri was x'mas day and the first ever dragonboat x'mas party for the 06 batch ... almost everybody turned up though we were missing a few 'arhats' and girlfriends.. well.. i hope that over time... the girlfriends will also know each other better and then we can have more of this kind of stuff in future for other occasions besides x'mas as well.

attendance for the nite ...

Thanks for making the point of coming even if you were late..

arhat pose

the galfrens.. the ladies who's been waiting for us, supporting us

thanks to boon and leslie for majority of the planning and everyone else who helped a lil here and there thereafters...

my parents were happy to host the thing... saying that we are a fun bunch of people.. noisy and happy.. and helpful to stay back and help up. they also say 'that tall tall one with the earrings ' was rather responsible to stay back and clean up.. (snicker ... hahaha). My parents were also impressed with charmaine's potato salad... keep bugging me to ask both leslie and charmaine how to do it.. my dad and mom.. the copy ninjas promptly converted the bunch of potatoes we have at home into a copy of her potato salad without the bacon bits... after a fair bit of discussion over coffee on the morning of boxing day.

sat was my aunt's party for the family.. been a while since my maternal family met up... and also a while since i saw my nephews and niece.. haha.. it was kinda funny when my cousin came and promptly made fun of my younger female cousins and my sister by introducing his son that they were their aunties.. drawing some sibei sian faces..

my dad's idea of a log 'cake' .... log pork. he's grinning from ear to ear... for having trick two kids into thinking it is some chocolate roll/ cake this x'mas.

'san duo hua' .. my mom, big aunt, and small aunt..

haha.. brought the wii for the kids.. (my nephews and nieces). kinda surprised that my female cousins dunno what wii was initially..

my cousin's son.. cute boy.. he offered me his milo just so i have 'enough energy and win' for him in the raving rabbids game and he will take the initiative to ask for help when he isn't coping well.. . think my cousin brought him up well.

Sunday was for my paternal family ... celebrating the annual x'mas at my grandma's place... nothing special really happened though it was nice seeing my cousin yolanda back from perth.. The highlight of the day instead was on the morning's brunch at Spruce. Finally ... one of the few sundays without a training... without hesitation, me and joko decided to head to this place at tanglin after being denied an earlier visit cos of my ns mobilisation a few weeks ago.. (hence the rant)

Spruce!

the interiors..

it is a rather small establishment.. like some old barracks retrofitted into a restaurant... it's rather cosy nonetheless.. and it isn't too cold inside ... just nice..