my new year celebration~

guess who's that?

hint: the bulging stomach ^^ duh...of course. who else can it be.
this is how you light up our fire crackers. by passing the fire on to another. finally. myself. with both hands lighted up!

in the morning, we called for two comfort taxis to pick us up, at the main lobby, to head church. lyn, eric, naldo and i reached first. we managed to get good seats. however we lost the seats we left for mami, oma, tua-yi and erica to others. so in end, we did not get to sit together. i also get a scolding from my mum because of that. well, it was not entirely my fault. because eric was the one that sat closest to the seats. haix. this is why i hate being the oldest. always carry such responsibility. no matter what the reasons behind are. sometimes the adults don't seem to bother.

the service started with the normal praise and worship. then it proceeded to the testimonial part. it was pretty interesting. because this time it included singing also. luckily, it's not something boring. if not, then maybe i might fall asleep. i thought i was spared that day from the boredom. but when the mic was handed over to the pastor, i began to see stars in my head. what was he talking about? why did he have to use such profound bahasa? oh pls, spare me.

after the service, we ate at the Surabaya restaurant again. luckily, this time the "man" wasn't there. we don't really like him. because he always talk a lot and in a scary way. it's like you can never know what he'll be saying next. and moreover, my bahasa is also not very fluent. it's always a torture for me to speak in my own native language, even to my family members. not used to it i guess. i better brush up before other people laughed at me.

went to chinatown heritage centre after that. we thought it's a shopping centre but it's actually a museum, displaying how singapore life was like before independence. it's quite cool. and just nice, we could let tua-yi have a see around it too. hmm. as to why we were there is simply because of the free tickets that we got from our last sentosa ticket purchase. hmm. it's quite worth it. upon the exit, we came to the souvenir shop. i bought 2 packets of five stones. i felt like regaining my childhood memory that's why. and i also can teach lyn how to play. so it's definitely not a waste of money. walking along the shophouses, we helped tua-yi search for the perfect cheong-sam that could fit her size. we entered shops after shops. on the way, i also bought myself a shell earring. mum let me buy it. and i secretly buy 6 cans of 'snow spray' for the big celebration at night. me and lyn were so excited about that night that we couldn't stop planning what to do for later. me and lyn went home later, while mum and tua-yi went to OG to continue finding. on the taxi, we kept laughing again. non-stop. with tua-yi laughing, there was just no way anyone can escape without a strained stomach (from the laughing). it's just like a quick-spread disease. the taxi driver was quite friendly after that. he asked us questions like why are we in singapore? for how long already? etc.

then came nighttime. lyn, erica and i brought down our bb to the court. we expected booths to be set-up. people crowding around the swimming pool. laughters filling the air. lights shining on the pool. but to our dismay, it was so dark there. without a soul in sight, except for a few four or five. we were so disappointed that our jaws dropped. of course not. i'm just kidding. but we were sad. we're like WHAT HAPPENED?!? maybe they start later at night? but how can they take such a short while to prepare? if that were to happen, then they should start preparing at 6. not 9 plus. that's too late already. so me ans lyn dragged ourselves to the bb court. only to be disheartened further by many people in court whom we don't know of. so we resorted to sitting outside on the gravel flooring playing five stones. until shi han and valerie came, we then went inside the court. they left a short while later to change into their sport gear. tittaya and her friends played at the other side. and then tittaya friends wanted to join us too. but they took such a long time dilly-dallying. and we got bored waiting for them to get ready. furthermore, there's this auntie who wanted to kick us out of the court because she booked the whole court. that's the final straw. so tittaya and her freinds were dismissed. but we stayed at the side. later after discussing what is best for both sides, we pleaded the auntie to let us use the other whale court for basketball. and her family can also join us, if they wanted to. thanks to her other family members, she finally agreed to let us use it. yes! so we played again. later, wei quan, matthew and pamm came to join us. this time, for a match. on the way to the water-cooler with erica, tittaya called me from the poolside. that's how they returned back to the court later to join us. but as usual, her friends were dilly-dally people and only tittaya joined us in the end. we couldn't afford to waste anymore time. an hour left only. i was so glad to be back home castle green again to see all my friends and laughing, crapping together again. castle greeners rocks!!

eric and naldo had finally brought down all the firecrackers and sprays. kakak called us over at the bb court. so we made our leave and met them at the poolside table.soon, they also came to join us in our table and eric and naldo both leave. i think they feel very uncomfortabe being around so many unfamiliar faces. i would do that too if i were them. so we sat there drinking the peach grape juice that we brought from padang. played cards. and chatted. everyone was definitely so disappointed with the castle green management. they s***! anyway, they are like that all along. no surprise that this time it was like that! how tragic! god please change the management. they are so not looking into the welfare of every residents here! lousy!

later shi han brought me to her house. i watched the videos that gewei recorded that time during chalet gathering. it was funny that they did many crazy crazy things. lmao!

then shi han's grandma lent me her goong cds. so kind! shi han brought her laptop down along with some disc that would be funny if we watched it together. but in the end, we didn't. pamm ended up using her laptop for the internet. so, i played stress with val. i won so many times. but she just denied it. claiming that she's the winner, just because she won a game on 12 midnight. lolx. fine. up to her. i'll win her next year, sure. hahaha. lee and bo came to join us later too.

so what did we do that midnight? we sprayed the snow spray at one another. wq really had a revenge on me. because in the beginning i accidentally spray him til he backed behind and dropped into the flower beds! lmao! so he tried to pay back later by spraying me on the face and such. pamm's bbrother and mother came to see us too. her brother was so playful. so small size but yet, so quick. i had to dodge away from his attack everytime he came near. scary in a way. lee and bo also brought some party-poppers for us. i popped one. it was fun. later the whole swimming pool floor was covered with the snow. and pak din almost told us to clean everything but after we reasoned with him that it will disappear very quickly, he left without scolding us. haha. we actually almost sprayed at him but mum told me not to. it's rude, she said. but it's perfectly normal for me. it's NEW YEAR!! duh...

then we proceeded to the playground to play with the firecrackers. since we had the matchsticks but no candle, we got the fire from the neighbours. thanks. erica succeeded on getting her hands on those firecrackers despite mum's warnings. poorthing. if not, she'll be sitting by herself with mum, watching us play. haha.

well, everyone hasn't changed much. all were the same. except fungihead's hairstyle, that is. it's longer and as lyn put it, he looks like a girl now. i find it weird, probable because i'm not used to seeing him with long hair. lolx. lmao! he'd grown fatter a bit i think. which is good, to him. but i think he short hair better. looks more tidy. but well, maybe thailand people has got different likings that us indonesians. can't blame it.

well, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!

have a wonderful year ahead~

i hope i'll be a better christian, sister, daughter, friend to you all. yep. (=