National Day at home

This year, we decide to hold a welcome home party for a couple who just returned from a long overseas posting.

(actually it was suppose to be at another friend's house, but he claimed that he did not have the IT infrastructure.... so hence the last min mad rush to clean the house on monday night hee...)

Someone mentioned to wear RED for the happy occasion and in the end... only 3 of us heard and remembered and took the courage to wore RED. =P

We started with alot of finger food on the table... we had a whole box of brownies of different types (ha ha ha... Blim Blim I think you will like them....) the brownies were courtesy of HC and family (he has 2 boys,, 16mths and 3yrs old, just the great age to help us test the safety of the house for young children hee... HC, hope your kids did not develop some interesting bruises or cuts from our place!! =PP but... I'm quite sure the younger boy will not forget Dr. Morbid who forcefully pull his little leg to prevent him from crawling away.... ha ha ha). We had Indian rojak, goreng pisang, grapes, jumbu, curry puff and a whole chunk of titbits... u may have guessed it, we din need a proper dinner after all that junk food hee.

We caught the parade on our project screen and it enticed our young kiddo friends to start marching on the spot and saluting at the President, we even had a display of leopard crawl across the living room! Young soldiers in the making! Good Job HC & W!

T, we are so sorry that we came home late.... T was at our place much earlier then US the host hee... and he thought that he got the venue or time or date wrong... he drove home and checked his email and came back again, just in time to catch us at home this time hee....

Ad got really excited when he found out that the tanks will b rolling by our central later in the evening, we all got mentally prepared to dash out of the house to see those huge metal box roll past us. However, when the time came, we were all to comfy in the house, drinking and chatting away and no one was willing to walk 500m to see the tanks! Ha, this reinforces the notion of slack singaporeans. The last time the tanks rolled past any heartlands was about 15yrs ago! Yet, we were all not willing to climb out of our comfort zones to witness this "replay" of history Ha ha.

When the anthem was played, we all stood up in our house and I sang patriotic along with the 25,000 crowd on the TV. Yes, I can only hear my OWN singing since no one else was singing... they were all more interested in lamenting about the standing for the anthem... hmm... got to whack their butts the next time they talk during the national anthem or make them do remedial/corrective work order in my house hee...

at 8pm, a few of us throttle into the lift and went to the highest floor on my block, 22nd floor to watch the fireworks, after the initial recce, we decided that the left wing has a better view and we went Oh.... Ah... when the fireworks came on hee. But I think the view at 22nd floor was much BETA than the fireworks.... it really felt like we're on top of the world! Wonder how does those who stay on the 40th floor feel??? SHIOK i think!

We took turns to update each other about our latest happenings.... eg. Dr. Morbid's Anne, T's marathon, Alex & Em's baby, we forgot to share about the Heritage Hunt though.... shucks!

It was Jas's bday the next day... so we all sneaked a lighted birthday cake on her and she was totally caught unaware! Ha ha.... i tot that by asking her to wash the dishes, she would face away from the sight of the cake... then when the cake was removed from the fridge, the whole gang went into the room to look at the new fish and some weird sea creature. She was in the living room again... with a few winks amongst us.... Alex distracted the bday-girl-to-be with his exaggerated efforts to keep the projector screen and Cav totally blocked her from the lighted cake which had to travel 8m from the store-kitchen-living room... HA HA HA... n I had to dash for the aircon remote to turn off the fan mode, else there'll b no lighted candles but just the cake for her.

Jas still had no clue when I said "One-Two-Three", everyone burst into a birthday song! ha ha ha....

Happy Birthday Jas!

Overall we had FUN on National Day! =D

Great to have public holidays isnt it? Can we get another holiday for MM Lee's contributions? We can spend the whole day discussing his greatest contributions.....