It's party time!

Like past years, we held a x'mas party at home on 24/12, inviting our closest friends to have fun together. Instead of my mum cooking almost everything, this year we decided to do a potluck party. Mum cooked curry chicken & fried beehoon and bought smoked ham, the rest brought drinks, salad, satay, otah, roasted lamb, fruit tarts, brownie & a log cake. Seems like very little food when we list out on paper, but it turned out to be a lot. Meat lovers were the happiest.

Part of the food served

As it was raining, we held it indoors. We were hungry at 7pm and started to eat before the "official start" at 8pm. By 9pm almost everyone's done with dinner & was all gathered at the living room watching 'Little Nonya'. When it ended, we spilt up into 3 groups - 1 playing wii, 1 drinking (almost all the guys so we called them the 'kopitiam uncle group'), 1 just kaypoh at the 2 groups. I was the kaypoh one not keen on playing wii or drinking. Very soon the kopitiam uncles became drunk. Luckily all except 1 was sober enough to play the gift-exchange game.

The Wii group

The Kopitiam Uncle group

At 12am, we sang "We wish u A merry Christmas" then ate the log cake & drank champagne. After that we played a gift-exchange game with forfeits, which is to drink a bitter mix of vodka & green tea. The lucky ones had 1-2 gift choices, the suay ones had to drink 1-2 cups of vodka. But of course in the end everyone gets a gift though probably not everyone's happy with their choice.
Part 2 of gift exchange was collecting presents (specially bought for each other) under the x'mas tree. That's when we see more excited and happier faces. haha!

Santa AhKe & McDull

Done with the presents, 1 group continued playing wii, the drunk uncles fell asleep and the kaypoh group continued to be kaypohs. At 3am+, a few of us were still awake but no energy or interest to play wii so we watched dvd "Connected". I've watched it before so it couldn't keep my interest for long and I went to sleep at 4.30am. The rest apparently watched till 5am+ then went home.

I enjoyed myself and hope the rest did too. Looking forward to Chinese New Year Party next month if there's any......