02 January 2013
Our
post Christmas gift-exchange with the HXDA was postponed to New Year's Eve and the Quahs' hosted the party at their humble adobe - The Peak! The host whipped up a wholesome yummy feast for everyone of us, Nigel sponspored the Christmas logcake from Awfully Chocolate and the lovely weather on the 27th floor of the Peak was extremely cooling and shiok which made the party
awesome-er!
The fun part begins... Thomas prepared us to draw our number by using the mahjong playing cards. Everyone of us was skeptical about getting the gift-exchanged from Nigel due to his ultimate level of creativity to preparing of the gift exchange, and every year the ban list gets longer and longer. But this year, we have two outstanding gifts that we will bitch about for the rest of 2013...
Nigel's past records:-
Year 2009 - piggy bank filled with 1-cents of coins (
Munic)
Year 2010 - heaps of 武林密集 writing notepads (
... still Munic)
Year 2011 - CT Girls CD (
the curse was passed on to Helena)
Year 2012 - *roll drums* (
scroll down to see the new winner!)
TADAAAAA! Announcing champions by the level of creativity...
Second runner-up was Helena ---> she wrapped up the gift box filled with styrofoam balls and when XY opened the box (
also due to the strong winds), the whole atmosphere feels like snowing! She was made to open her gift at one corner of the house! Aftermath was the host to clean up the balcony platform!
Runner-up was Thomas ---> inspired by the axe brand medicated oil advertisement, he gifted a dozen of them and the lucky guy is Joe! Joe shared his fortune of medicated oils to us a bottle each and some super lucky ones got two!
HAHA. (maybe next year, don't know who will gift pampers or 如意油!)
Champion still bagged by Nigel, fourth year running! ---> this time was all about efforts. Our 大哥 printed his very own LV wrapping paper and gotten the gift to be wrapped in A4 paper carton. Gerine was so curious in what was the biggest gift, she took the biggest risk (
by saving all of us...) and chose his present - a cartonful of wet tissue & tissue papers worth S$15! Munic almost went crazy the moment she finished opening the carton!
gua gua gua.
So this was our year-end gathering we had with the HXDA and always looking forward to the following years of fun together! :))
After the gift exchange, we quickly hop onto the streets and get a taxi to head downtown and meet the Yeos' for
2013 countdown! Traffic was smooth and we are in time to catch the fireworks at Pan Pacific Hotel!
We had finger food and tea at the alfresco cafe at the hotel level 4 while waiting for the countdown and played some
'continuation of guessing and some naming games' with Serene, the BF, Limin and the Yeos' of course... ended the night with a glass of Moscato in the room and a game of Monopoly deal (
I won of course! it's sure a sign of good start to 2013!!!) before we head home and hit the sack (
it was like 3am when I KO-ed!).
