We finally had our housewarming party at our new place! "Finally" because friends have been asking us when are we going to have a party and so we picked a day of 26th April 2014 and prayed for good weather. It was meant to rain actually and I truly believe it was an answered prayer when on Saturday morning we saw the sunlight peeking through the clouds.
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| We put up some bunting in our garden, guess whose idea was it? |
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K spent a whole afternoon assembling this gas BBQ machine.
Also had to go to the home ware store to buy this 10kg gas canister (which I am so paranoid of it exploding) |
I was really excited and also worried that the food we bought were not enough.. told K to have Dominos Pizza number in handy because that shall be our last resort! We wanted to keep it convenient for everyone and so told friends to come anytime after 2pm. We invited about 30 people in total and we had 22 turning up - not bad at all! Considering we are in the outskirts now, I love Noelle's question.. "Do you guys need anything from London?" Whoa.. lol she thinks we are in Kent. 20 years ago yes that is true, where we live now is not considered part of London but the boundaries somehow grew and grew over the years so today the M25 motorway is somewhat defining where London stops on the map.
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| Our closer friends these days - Lawrence (L) and Jixian (R) |
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It was Noelle's birthday too and sweet K wanted to surprise her with a cake.
Love how he looked more shocked here than the birthday girl! |
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| Super surprised Noelle |
Friends started streaming in at 1.30pm, thanks to JX who came first and helped set up the table, etc. He also brought over a cool Bose music player (which I am
that close to getting. It is awesome. Just need to convince K to buy it!). We also asked friends to bring a drink (juice or wine) or crisps or dessert as we will be providing the food. The night before I had cooked a big pot of aglio oglio pasta, and then in the morning I made two big bowls of salad.
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Doris, Jiawen and Vic
Jiawen was a friend of a friend who just came to London and I invited her without having met her before. |
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| M&R who gave us a poker set! We get the hint hehe - poker nights on the way! |
It was a nice afternoon seeing how our groups of friends mingled about in the garden with Spotify music playing in the background. Luckily I saw our neighbour Janice in the garden before and told her about our party and it might get quite noisy.. we are trying to be good neighbours here :) We feel bad that most of our parcels (aka online shopping) get delivered to their place because she is retired and so I have run over twice now, getting some chocolates and flowers for her. Ahem trying to earn some brownie points because I know parcels will still eventually find their way to her place.
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| Julie, K, Lawrence & Meihui |
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| Little Peizhen |
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Baby Noah who wanted me to carry him the moment he saw me.
What a sweet baby! |
Our last guests left at about 930pm and K and I were literally slumped on our sofa, unable to move. It was tiring entertaining guests for 7.5h non stop. But we were glad we did it - so nice having laughter in the otherwise quiet house and everyone loved our place. Great! So we can invite more friends over next time!
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| The girls Meihui, Julie, Lloyd, Vic and I-Ding |
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| Gabby and Marketa |
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| Rebecca baked a yummy cheesecake for us |
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| Rahul, K and Rebecca (who now lives not too far away from us) |
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