Christmas is all around
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Whoot!! Thank God! The Christmas Eve dinner was a success! And we had a rip roaring time too! Whoot!! Praise God!
Hmm... okay, I owe Vanessa an explanation on how the christmas sketch turned out. So I thought, why don't I tell all of you about my entire Christmas eve?
I was there planning and working for the dinner since the morning of the eve at Grand Continental Hotel actually. It was tiring, admittedly, but it was fun too. So here's the deal.
Mike told me he would be there at 9.15 because he would be setting up the instruments with the rest of his 5-macho-men team or so he calls it (note to self: in the end, he had like more than 5 to help him and some of the guys were younger than me.) And my kepala (for the deco team which I'm on) asked me to come at ten. So I came at ten la.
And then, joys of joys, everyone stares at me when I enter the hotel.
Not only that, when I reach the Rafflesia Ballroom (where the function is being held) NO ONE IS IN SIGHT MAN!!
So initial thought that ran through my mind was: I think I'm in the wrong ballroom.
After asking the staff, my final thought was: ... THEY TOLD ME TO COME AT TEN!!!! CHEATER BUCKERS!!
So anyway, we waited. The guys came at ten thirty. My kepala, Auntie Jane came at eleven with all the deco.
Oh yeah btw, the hotel management was extremely nice. Since we were there the whole day preparing for the function, they provided us with this really cool hotel room. *squeal* But the room can only fit like four or five ppl (if more than that, sesak and cannot breathe LOL) So for a while, all the youth that were there (which was like fifteen?) squabbled over who was going to use the room. :P
But since only Lilian, me, Rebecca and Rachel had brought our change of evening wear with us (we knew about the room beforehand while the others only knew that day) we WON THE BATTLE FOR THE ROOM! MUAHAHA!! And as us girls won, we KICKED OUT EVERY SINGLE GUY WHO WANTED TO COME INTO THE ROOM! MUAHAHA!! See, I'm so mean. :P Whenever a guy wanted to come in we would yell: No guy allowed!! But they still came in anyway out of our kind hearts. :D
Which reminds me, the guys (as in the ones younger than me) were more than annoying that day, brotherly type of annoying I guess. What did they do? Let me think...
First: When they found out we had a hotel room, they stole the hotel key from a very blur Rebecca and went up to trash the room!! We didn't even know until I went: Hey! The hotel room! Let's go have a rest liao since we finish deco liao!
Rebecca: Uh oh where's the key?
Rachael: You gave the boys what.
Sam, Lilian and me: OH NO!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!! THEY"RE GOING TO TRASH THE ROOM!!!
*runs madly to elevator and rush to room on eleventh floor*
Sam: (while on elevator) My brother is going to consume all the food!
Lilian and me: NOOO!! IT"S OUR FOODD!!!!!
But of course, besides the guys running around madly in the room and jumping on the two beds, no other harm was done.
Well, after decorating the room it was already 2 in the afternoon. My feet were sore because I was tottering around the ENTIRE ballroom in tight fitting heels. Never knew my feet could grow that big so fast. And note to self: I only wore heels because I had to wear them for the evening and I was lazy to bring my sandals. In the end, I had two blisters on both two little toes because I TOTTERED ON HEELS FOR TEN HOURS THE ENTIRE DAY!! I HATE HEELS!!
Anyway, we retired to the nice little room THAT WE WON FROM THE BATTLE EARLIER ON AND AFTER KICKING OUT ALL GUYS, BIG AND SMALL WHO TRIED TO ENTER THE ROOM, we had our lunch of salad chicken rice that Soby (I mean Sobraj) bought for us. See, we have a nice man slave right? Haha... no la, jk, he went willingly.
After kicking out the guys who tried to enter the room again ( I love saying that :P) we watched TV and stuff and then we realized that we were out of water and we were too lazy to boil sommore in the TINY pot. So Rebecca and I went off across the street to Mita Bakery to buy two litres of mineral water which I hauled back (no help from her. pffff... no la she offered, but I refused.) I stole Lilian's sandals (with her permission) becuase I realized if I wore heels to go buy the water, I was in big trouble because:
Reason 1: I HATE HEELS! AND I"M NOT USED TO THEM!
Reason 2: Got too many cars. Can't run fast in heels and might get into accident.
Reason 3: I'm carrying two litres of water on my hands. Heels will definitely be a no no!
So we bought the water, me in Lilian's sandals. Darn, should have brought my sandals.
We went back and watched TV for a while and sometimes listened to the radio. We watched Catch That Kid and also the Three Ninjas movie because there was nothing good on. Haha... we shoved Rebecca into the bathroom at around 3.30 because we needed to be dressed by 5.30 and she took like one hour to bath!!! I went in last coz I'm the most quick and most efficient when it comes to bathing. Ekkk, I'm perasan.
We shot lotsa silly videos in the hotel room, including one of me screaming at the top of my voice. What did my neighbours next door think? LOL It's still on my hp, so you can see it on the 28th, prefect friends of mine. Haha...
Oh... one more aspect in which the guys were annoying.
The lifts in Grand Continental has EXTREMELY sensitive buttons. Slight touch and it lights up. One guy, while playing on the lift when we were all going to the eleventh floor to our room (the ballroom is on the 2nd btw) crashed into the lift buttons, thereby lighting up EVERY BUTTON TO EVERY FLOOR! I tell you we screamed and yelled and shouted until everyone else on the lift was staring at all of us like we were raving. Rebecca, Lilian, Rachael and me were sooo bloody angry with them when the lift stopped at every floor and it took SOOOOOO SLOW to reach our final destination. It's like 3rd floor open, 4th floor open again and so on and so on. OMG, it was the longest ride in the lift I had to take. By the time we reached the 11th floor, we were just about to murder the guys for torturing us! :P
At 5 all of us had bathed and were ready to go. But Rebecca kept doing her make up (VAIN POT!!) and we all had to wait for her till she was done. Lilian left in desperation while Rachael and me (being good friends pffff) waited and almost fell asleep on the comfy beds. So we went down anyway, pulled some things straight. And the dinner was off to a start!
The kids were soooo adorable! Esp this tiny kid called Bryant who kept slapping his forehead as if he were exasperated with singing the song! SOOO CUTEEE!!! And what more he's wearing a tiny little red bow on his shirt again! EEEEKKKKKK!!!
Then got singing and opening prayer. Then got the superb choir with the superb pianist (which was yours truly HAHA! PERASAN!) Then got Unc Jimmy who sang really well. But I was too nervous to notice because the next act was the sketch!! The youth sketch that all of us, esp Mike has laboured so hard for!!
I was so damn nervous and my throat was soooo dry. And wonder of wonders, my glass was empty and the waiter did not refill! Pfff... so I had to swallow and swallow my saliva just to keep my throat moist. Pffff...
Before the sketch begun, the actors and actresses went to change into their outfits and then they were too nervous to go back into the ballroom so they went milling around outside the room. I couldn't stand being in the ballroom (butterflies in tummy) so I went outside to join them in their milling.
Few minutes to the sketch and the rumbling of my tummy continues (partly because of nervousness and also because for the whole night, I hadn't exactly had the time to eat much because I was involved in quite a number of programmes!) We prayed and then something very funny happened. Or rather I was shocked the rest found it funny.
Me: (to Samantha) Sam, I'm so nervous!!
Sam: (hugs me) Don't be, don't be!
Then she kisses me lightly but impulsively on my cheek.
Me: (stumbles back because I'm surprised) Sam?!
Peter and Sobraj: (watching) Eeeee... (moves backward)
Silas: Aiyah, I very nervous ler. (tugs at the loincloth he has to wear for the sketch. HAHA)
Sam: Don't be! (moves forward to him)
Silas: (takes a weird look at her and stumbles back out of her reach)
Sam: (laughs) Don't worry. I might get the guts to hug you but I won't kiss you.
Entire cast laughs.
It was sweet of her to do that actually. Don't think I'm gay or something la but seriously, it's nice for a girl to have her friend give her a peck on the cheek once every now and then. So Van, mebbe kisses are sometimes better than hugs. But I still like hugs more because hugs can be done between very good friends of opposite sexes! HAHA. In your face!
The sketch went extremely well!! Sobraj was like WOW!! First thought of mine when he went on stage: OMG! He's so... B I G! Seriously, during practice (the ceiling of the stage is low) he kept bumping into the ceiling poor thing. Haha. But on the night itself, he was brilliant! He really really played his part of God the Father well!! He was good in relating to the audience.
Lilian! Whoa! Transformation man! She's supposed to play the devil and during the practices, her face was always pretty impassive. But on the night itself! Wahlau! Her face was so fierce and scary and so I-hate-you type of face! She was shoving Silas (Man in Bondage) around so realistically and so fiercely! Go girl!
Silas! Good actor man! I never knew he could act, seriously. He was extremely good. He was the best (no offence to the others) He really did his part extremely well. He screamed so real, he shouted as if he was really in pain when the devil tortured him. Wow.
Hmm... oh yeah. Peter did an excellent job as well. His part was too short actually come to think of it. Pffff...
And all the other minor actors did well too. Considering they are the guys WHO CONSTANTLY ANNOYED US TO DEATH IN THE ROOM AND IN THE BALLROOM THE ENTIRE DAY, they actually REMEMBERED their cues and did their parts RIGHT. So yeah, they're ALMOST forgiven by mua because they did a great job. Note the word ALMOST.
Then we had a good sermon and then some more singing and carolling and the night ended. Muahaha...
Oh yeah, before I forget, here are the top jokes of the night: provided by Rebecca and her insane sister, Rachael.
Rebecca knocked over her pair of chopsticks TWICE! Aduh. So when she got her third pair of chopsticks, Sam, Steph and me dared her not to drop it, because if she did, it would be a sign that she can never marry a Chinese. LOL Dunno why but she didn't drop it after that again!! And then right after that, she ask for a glass of Chinese tea which she never got! Muahahaha... Really ah, why is she trying so hard to adapt to Chinese culture when she's an Indian? *cough* *cough*
At one point we all disturbed her by getting the entire table to collaborate to eat our bowl of fried rice with chopsticks. We pushed her to do the same because everyone else was doing it but she took up her spoon and used that to attack her rice. Aiyah, no fun wan.
Rachael made some equally stupid joke too. My church is located about a small shop called Ayam Makhota which in turn is near a can-call-it-landmark Everise at BDC Crystalbowl. So when the emcee was explaining how to get to church, he said: So you can see a landmark there by the name of..
Rachael: (cuts in) AYAM MAKHOTA!
Me, Sam, Steph and Rebecca: ...
I mean how can you expect anyone to know where Ayam Makhota is?!
Well that's about all. HOPE YOU"RE HAPPY NOW VAN!
Oh yeah, before I forget. I know I'm slow but Chron of Narnia is damn GOOD!!! AHHHHHH!!
Shall stop my rants here now...
Whoot!! Thank God! The Christmas Eve dinner was a success! And we had a rip roaring time too! Whoot!! Praise God!
Hmm... okay, I owe Vanessa an explanation on how the christmas sketch turned out. So I thought, why don't I tell all of you about my entire Christmas eve?
I was there planning and working for the dinner since the morning of the eve at Grand Continental Hotel actually. It was tiring, admittedly, but it was fun too. So here's the deal.
Mike told me he would be there at 9.15 because he would be setting up the instruments with the rest of his 5-macho-men team or so he calls it (note to self: in the end, he had like more than 5 to help him and some of the guys were younger than me.) And my kepala (for the deco team which I'm on) asked me to come at ten. So I came at ten la.
And then, joys of joys, everyone stares at me when I enter the hotel.
Not only that, when I reach the Rafflesia Ballroom (where the function is being held) NO ONE IS IN SIGHT MAN!!
So initial thought that ran through my mind was: I think I'm in the wrong ballroom.
After asking the staff, my final thought was: ... THEY TOLD ME TO COME AT TEN!!!! CHEATER BUCKERS!!
So anyway, we waited. The guys came at ten thirty. My kepala, Auntie Jane came at eleven with all the deco.
Oh yeah btw, the hotel management was extremely nice. Since we were there the whole day preparing for the function, they provided us with this really cool hotel room. *squeal* But the room can only fit like four or five ppl (if more than that, sesak and cannot breathe LOL) So for a while, all the youth that were there (which was like fifteen?) squabbled over who was going to use the room. :P
But since only Lilian, me, Rebecca and Rachel had brought our change of evening wear with us (we knew about the room beforehand while the others only knew that day) we WON THE BATTLE FOR THE ROOM! MUAHAHA!! And as us girls won, we KICKED OUT EVERY SINGLE GUY WHO WANTED TO COME INTO THE ROOM! MUAHAHA!! See, I'm so mean. :P Whenever a guy wanted to come in we would yell: No guy allowed!! But they still came in anyway out of our kind hearts. :D
Which reminds me, the guys (as in the ones younger than me) were more than annoying that day, brotherly type of annoying I guess. What did they do? Let me think...
First: When they found out we had a hotel room, they stole the hotel key from a very blur Rebecca and went up to trash the room!! We didn't even know until I went: Hey! The hotel room! Let's go have a rest liao since we finish deco liao!
Rebecca: Uh oh where's the key?
Rachael: You gave the boys what.
Sam, Lilian and me: OH NO!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!! THEY"RE GOING TO TRASH THE ROOM!!!
*runs madly to elevator and rush to room on eleventh floor*
Sam: (while on elevator) My brother is going to consume all the food!
Lilian and me: NOOO!! IT"S OUR FOODD!!!!!
But of course, besides the guys running around madly in the room and jumping on the two beds, no other harm was done.
Well, after decorating the room it was already 2 in the afternoon. My feet were sore because I was tottering around the ENTIRE ballroom in tight fitting heels. Never knew my feet could grow that big so fast. And note to self: I only wore heels because I had to wear them for the evening and I was lazy to bring my sandals. In the end, I had two blisters on both two little toes because I TOTTERED ON HEELS FOR TEN HOURS THE ENTIRE DAY!! I HATE HEELS!!
Anyway, we retired to the nice little room THAT WE WON FROM THE BATTLE EARLIER ON AND AFTER KICKING OUT ALL GUYS, BIG AND SMALL WHO TRIED TO ENTER THE ROOM, we had our lunch of salad chicken rice that Soby (I mean Sobraj) bought for us. See, we have a nice man slave right? Haha... no la, jk, he went willingly.
After kicking out the guys who tried to enter the room again ( I love saying that :P) we watched TV and stuff and then we realized that we were out of water and we were too lazy to boil sommore in the TINY pot. So Rebecca and I went off across the street to Mita Bakery to buy two litres of mineral water which I hauled back (no help from her. pffff... no la she offered, but I refused.) I stole Lilian's sandals (with her permission) becuase I realized if I wore heels to go buy the water, I was in big trouble because:
Reason 1: I HATE HEELS! AND I"M NOT USED TO THEM!
Reason 2: Got too many cars. Can't run fast in heels and might get into accident.
Reason 3: I'm carrying two litres of water on my hands. Heels will definitely be a no no!
So we bought the water, me in Lilian's sandals. Darn, should have brought my sandals.
We went back and watched TV for a while and sometimes listened to the radio. We watched Catch That Kid and also the Three Ninjas movie because there was nothing good on. Haha... we shoved Rebecca into the bathroom at around 3.30 because we needed to be dressed by 5.30 and she took like one hour to bath!!! I went in last coz I'm the most quick and most efficient when it comes to bathing. Ekkk, I'm perasan.
We shot lotsa silly videos in the hotel room, including one of me screaming at the top of my voice. What did my neighbours next door think? LOL It's still on my hp, so you can see it on the 28th, prefect friends of mine. Haha...
Oh... one more aspect in which the guys were annoying.
The lifts in Grand Continental has EXTREMELY sensitive buttons. Slight touch and it lights up. One guy, while playing on the lift when we were all going to the eleventh floor to our room (the ballroom is on the 2nd btw) crashed into the lift buttons, thereby lighting up EVERY BUTTON TO EVERY FLOOR! I tell you we screamed and yelled and shouted until everyone else on the lift was staring at all of us like we were raving. Rebecca, Lilian, Rachael and me were sooo bloody angry with them when the lift stopped at every floor and it took SOOOOOO SLOW to reach our final destination. It's like 3rd floor open, 4th floor open again and so on and so on. OMG, it was the longest ride in the lift I had to take. By the time we reached the 11th floor, we were just about to murder the guys for torturing us! :P
At 5 all of us had bathed and were ready to go. But Rebecca kept doing her make up (VAIN POT!!) and we all had to wait for her till she was done. Lilian left in desperation while Rachael and me (being good friends pffff) waited and almost fell asleep on the comfy beds. So we went down anyway, pulled some things straight. And the dinner was off to a start!
The kids were soooo adorable! Esp this tiny kid called Bryant who kept slapping his forehead as if he were exasperated with singing the song! SOOO CUTEEE!!! And what more he's wearing a tiny little red bow on his shirt again! EEEEKKKKKK!!!
Then got singing and opening prayer. Then got the superb choir with the superb pianist (which was yours truly HAHA! PERASAN!) Then got Unc Jimmy who sang really well. But I was too nervous to notice because the next act was the sketch!! The youth sketch that all of us, esp Mike has laboured so hard for!!
I was so damn nervous and my throat was soooo dry. And wonder of wonders, my glass was empty and the waiter did not refill! Pfff... so I had to swallow and swallow my saliva just to keep my throat moist. Pffff...
Before the sketch begun, the actors and actresses went to change into their outfits and then they were too nervous to go back into the ballroom so they went milling around outside the room. I couldn't stand being in the ballroom (butterflies in tummy) so I went outside to join them in their milling.
Few minutes to the sketch and the rumbling of my tummy continues (partly because of nervousness and also because for the whole night, I hadn't exactly had the time to eat much because I was involved in quite a number of programmes!) We prayed and then something very funny happened. Or rather I was shocked the rest found it funny.
Me: (to Samantha) Sam, I'm so nervous!!
Sam: (hugs me) Don't be, don't be!
Then she kisses me lightly but impulsively on my cheek.
Me: (stumbles back because I'm surprised) Sam?!
Peter and Sobraj: (watching) Eeeee... (moves backward)
Silas: Aiyah, I very nervous ler. (tugs at the loincloth he has to wear for the sketch. HAHA)
Sam: Don't be! (moves forward to him)
Silas: (takes a weird look at her and stumbles back out of her reach)
Sam: (laughs) Don't worry. I might get the guts to hug you but I won't kiss you.
Entire cast laughs.
It was sweet of her to do that actually. Don't think I'm gay or something la but seriously, it's nice for a girl to have her friend give her a peck on the cheek once every now and then. So Van, mebbe kisses are sometimes better than hugs. But I still like hugs more because hugs can be done between very good friends of opposite sexes! HAHA. In your face!
The sketch went extremely well!! Sobraj was like WOW!! First thought of mine when he went on stage: OMG! He's so... B I G! Seriously, during practice (the ceiling of the stage is low) he kept bumping into the ceiling poor thing. Haha. But on the night itself, he was brilliant! He really really played his part of God the Father well!! He was good in relating to the audience.
Lilian! Whoa! Transformation man! She's supposed to play the devil and during the practices, her face was always pretty impassive. But on the night itself! Wahlau! Her face was so fierce and scary and so I-hate-you type of face! She was shoving Silas (Man in Bondage) around so realistically and so fiercely! Go girl!
Silas! Good actor man! I never knew he could act, seriously. He was extremely good. He was the best (no offence to the others) He really did his part extremely well. He screamed so real, he shouted as if he was really in pain when the devil tortured him. Wow.
Hmm... oh yeah. Peter did an excellent job as well. His part was too short actually come to think of it. Pffff...
And all the other minor actors did well too. Considering they are the guys WHO CONSTANTLY ANNOYED US TO DEATH IN THE ROOM AND IN THE BALLROOM THE ENTIRE DAY, they actually REMEMBERED their cues and did their parts RIGHT. So yeah, they're ALMOST forgiven by mua because they did a great job. Note the word ALMOST.
Then we had a good sermon and then some more singing and carolling and the night ended. Muahaha...
Oh yeah, before I forget, here are the top jokes of the night: provided by Rebecca and her insane sister, Rachael.
Rebecca knocked over her pair of chopsticks TWICE! Aduh. So when she got her third pair of chopsticks, Sam, Steph and me dared her not to drop it, because if she did, it would be a sign that she can never marry a Chinese. LOL Dunno why but she didn't drop it after that again!! And then right after that, she ask for a glass of Chinese tea which she never got! Muahahaha... Really ah, why is she trying so hard to adapt to Chinese culture when she's an Indian? *cough* *cough*
At one point we all disturbed her by getting the entire table to collaborate to eat our bowl of fried rice with chopsticks. We pushed her to do the same because everyone else was doing it but she took up her spoon and used that to attack her rice. Aiyah, no fun wan.
Rachael made some equally stupid joke too. My church is located about a small shop called Ayam Makhota which in turn is near a can-call-it-landmark Everise at BDC Crystalbowl. So when the emcee was explaining how to get to church, he said: So you can see a landmark there by the name of..
Rachael: (cuts in) AYAM MAKHOTA!
Me, Sam, Steph and Rebecca: ...
I mean how can you expect anyone to know where Ayam Makhota is?!
Well that's about all. HOPE YOU"RE HAPPY NOW VAN!
Oh yeah, before I forget. I know I'm slow but Chron of Narnia is damn GOOD!!! AHHHHHH!!
Shall stop my rants here now...
posted by *~siaw hui~* at 10:17 AM
2 Comments:
did i say anyth about hugs and kisses? I don't recall.
whoa! so much can happen in a day! hahah! Those annoying boyz livened up the day le! Maybe one day, I'll just go to that lift in that hotel and 'accidentally' crash into the buttons and watch the other ppl's reaction for the fun of it!
The play sounds great! Scream in pain...
HAH! you can never catch me dead in heels!
the video of you screaming better be goooD!
haha i was screaming in the background so you can't see my face. nyehnyeh.
and you did say about the kiss and hugs thing. last time in an email i think.
and yes, the boys were annoying gits. Garrrrrr... shud have terminated them with the other older guys who were sick of them by the end of the day too.
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