happy new year

Had a great start of 2006 watching 7 mins of fireworks at Marina with Emelia. Its been wonderful hanging out with her and of cos Farid who came down from KL. Kenneth joined us a while later, and the 4 of us waited 2 hours just to watch the fireworks. Got back home at 3 plus after walking from marina to orchard, suppering there and took a taxi back.

The highlight of new year's day is the e3 gathering. I was looking forward to meeting all of them after a year. The gathering was at my place so I had to buy all the bbq stuff and do the marinating the day before. The food I had was just enough for everybody and it was only 7 bucks. It was raining heavily in the late afternoon so everyone was late. Luckily it stopped raining about 6 plus. It was good seeing everyone. Havent seen Ivy since we graduated and she came. After the bbq everyone came to my house to play cards. We played Indian poker and some other games. The forefeit if u lose is to drink one cup of water. I swear after one game, everyone was queing up for the 2 toilets in my house. Can you believe it? I dont even have to queue up for the toilet when I am at home! haha But it was really funny. We all had fun laughing and peeing. hee hee. I think the ppl that drank the most had to be leiming and cheryl. They left about 2 plus and I cleaned up my house after that.

The feeling was really good seeing them. It's been 6 years and yet, it feels so good talking to them. No pretenciousness, no nothing. Just a bunch of old friends gathering up and really talking, sharing their lives and knowing more about each other as each year goes by. I really like all of them, and I can tell they are all very nice ppl. I dont know why, but for me, most of my good friends are sec sch friends and majority of the ppl that I have been in contact with are sec sch friends. I was pretty jealous last yr that they had so many 21st bdae parties and I missed all of them (except for Zihao's and Yuanxiong's). All the late night chatting sessions on msn with the e3 dogs whe I was in Aus made me miss spore even more.

More gatherings, I promise. When I was online after they left, everyone said they had a good time and that we should organise more of these. I totally second to that and I am glad everyone had a great time. The most successful e3 gathering and a DAMN GOOD WAY TO START 2006!