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Happy New Year!

Happy 2009!!

Since everyone's back in London after our Christmas holidays, we decided to hold a New Year's Eve mini countdown party at our place. Themed a Pink Party, everyone turned up in pink and with pink balloons, it looked such a girly night!

There was sooooo much food and still, hospitable Cynthia kept worrying there wouldn't be enough since there were about 10 of us.
Food for the night
Grilled Chicken Wings (thanks to JL and Alicia)
Salad (Potato/Chicken & Tuna)
Sausages
Shephard's Pie (pretty impressive since it was made from scratch - thanks to Yijiang and his friend)
Fish Fingers
and of coz lots of drinks contributed by Eric & Gin (chilled in our balcony since it is colder than our fridge)
* might not seem a long list but everything was in such big proportions we had leftovers and also 3 huge untouched pizzas in the fridge coz we could not eat anymore

After dinner we watched an old school movie starring Stephan Chow (very hyped up by the guys) which was actually a Part 2 and I was a bit lost (can u believe it when the movie was made we were still in primary 6?!).

Time for countdown!! Happy New Year!

Popped a bottle of champagne at 12am (from front office for Christmas) and played card games till 4am... rounds of indian poker, heart attack, bluff... we were really unfriendly neighbours that night coz we were blasting music throughout. At abt 3am JL couldn't take it and kept dozing off but was pulled back from his dreamland again by everyone- poor guy! Cyn's bro in law Kenny who's here for hol with his gf just slept on the floor coz he had too much forfeit drinks.

The targetted end time of the party became a moving target from 2am, to 4am (to catch the last free train), and again to 6am.

From 4 to 6am, Eric drank too much and decided to turn our living room into a dancefloor which was quite strange yet funny. Once again, poor JL, he was totally gone on our sofa but Alicia and Eric kept pulling him up to dance and he actually danced in his sleep for a while before plonking onto the sofa.. and back to his dreamland again. And then Kenny woke up in time feeling refreshed to club haha
"Dovecote House Club" closed at 6am and everyone was so tired and decided to just stay over for the night, or rather, morning.

Woke up at 11am and while everyone went back home to wash up, we had massive massive cleaning up to do! Now, we are only left with mopping the floor and cleaning the oven. (Not bad I think!)
Met again for dim sum lunch at 1.30pm where I was super duper zombiefied for the rest of the day and I wonder why the rest don't look as tired?!
This weekend is so gonna be a sleep weekend for me. *yawnz

Happy New Year to all again!
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