Had lotsa fun the past two days. So much that I can't wait for the next Christmas to come! Haha.

Went to my aunt's hse early Saturday morning to eat breakfast and to buy the stuff needed for our family gathering later. My sis and I went off at 2sth as we had to go get our bursary. Sat through a very boring speech by the guest of honour, then we called my uncle so that he can fetch us back as it was raining. Haha. Once we reached my aunt's hse, we started preparing dinner. The menu for that day was italian pasta with cream sauce and tomato sauce, mushroom soup, sandwiches, mee and beehoon goreng, and deep fried chicken! Haha, the last 3 were store bought la. This was the first time the kids were doing the cooking rather than the adults, so it was quite crowded in the kitchen. Anyway, my sis n i had nv cooked for 18 ppl before, so we didn't know how to estimate the amt needed. In e end, the tomato sauce was too bland cos we didn't buy enough and added too much water, and the cream sauce was too dry cos there wasn't enough, and my sis had forgotten to get the herbs. Haha. And there was too much pasta. Stupid right.

At least dinner didn't taste too bad, so it was alright, I guess. Nobody complained. Haha. After dinner was exchange presents time! It was real funny la. And our gifts are improving every yr. I got a very nice necklace from my cousin. After the gift exchange, we decided to play games. Played all kinds of the "chai quan" games, the animal game, wave, show hand, exhausted almost all the games we could think of. By 11, all of us were exhuasted and tired alr. And my cousin came up with this card "magic" thing to cheat others. Haha. V funny. Then without reason, all the kids gathered in the kitchen to chit chat. I think it is because we wanted to finish the left-over sandwiches. Haha. Anyway, we started talking. Before that, my soon-to-be-cousin-in-law had closed himself in the kitchen for a v long conversation and he seemed angry. And my male cousin said that he knows to the reason cos he had gone to the toilet in the kitchen and overheard enough to figure out the gist of the story. SO we started to offer to bribe him, threaten him to tell us the story. Haha. So gossipy right. That's the down-side of a close knit family. We need to know everything.

After that, ard 1230, my cousin's bf fetched my sis, cousin and I home.

Sunday was another fun day. Went to church in the morning and I got baptised. Didn't really feel anything, cos it was over so soon. But it was kinda weird standing in front of the entire congregation. Heh. After service and refreshments, was class. Then we waited for a while for uncle kim shang to fetch us to j8 cos we wanted to buy sth to bring to Stanley's hse, cos it's not real nice to go to his hse empty handed. Bought 4 pints of bne and jerry's ice-cream. Slurp! Haha. But didn't get the flavours we wanted. Nvm. Then we walked to Stanley's hse. We were the first ones there, except for Ian. But he's not counted la. Haha. Looked through Stanley's photo albums, and he has changed so much! And we found a guy who really looks like Ian, though he keeps denying it and feels insulted over it. Haha. Then the boys arrived and we sat down to watch an extremely stupid movie by Charlie Sheen, called Hot Shots. I think the show has been shown on ch5 before. and I had watched snippets of it. It's those low-budget movies that the boys are so fond of, like kung pao. Kept cringing at the various scenes. Halfway through, four of us decided to play cards. Played tai di and bridge. Then when e movie was over, we started playing games. Played guesstures, which is pictionary with a timer. Then some of them left, amd we played the toiletbowl game! Haha, it was so fun seeing ppl become shit. Hehe. And cos we speak english most of the time, it was strange hearing them speak Chinese.

After that, we had a break, and we played the animal game. then the ouch, very good game, which was crazy la. But it wasn't really fun, cos our reaction were all so slow! Then we played the continue the story with one word game. ANd we came up with this really sleazy and stupid story that didn't make any sense. Haha, abt a prostitute who likes to climb walls. Hahaha. And we laughed so loudly during the story that Stanley's wife who was at the bus stop opp their flat called him and told him she could hear us laughing from the bus stop. Haha. After that, we brought out the ice-cream we bought and distributed that, and watched keeping the faith. During that time, they started going off leaving Karen, Ian, daniel, ginnette and I. Then Stanley fetched us home cos they boys were going to ian's hse and it was on the way. So I ended up walking home from Kovan.

This Christmas was really fun. A lot better than previous Christmases. Happy Boxing Day!