Thanksgiving Dinner

It was really really cold on Thanksgiving Day. The temperature was beyond freezing (-14 to -16 degree C).

This year, we gather for the first time with our friends to celebrate Thanksgiving. There were turkey, ham, chicken pot pie, pork cutlet, fruit cocktail and wine...etc on the dinner table. I call them -- My first real, solid thanksgiving food....

At the dinner table, I was suddenly very touched just by being there at that very moment, missing my families, but luckily we're surrounded by friends.

I was thankful to the Lord, once again, to have brought us all together. This past week was tough. With the tension building up each day, waiting for Bryan's qualifier/exam results...

God has answered our prayers. I thank God for listening to me.

Not just only for this, we're thankful too, to have known a bunch of really nice friends here. Some of them are returning to Singapore in just a few weeks, and I've been wanting to say this ---

Specially to Boon, YG, MC & Jane...

From the very beginning, the moving in, settling down... from all the potlucks, outings and gatherings, to "stripping" together (grocery shopping) and to the road trips we've all taken together, oh, and not forgetting our weekly badminton sessions... Thanks for sharing those times with us. We're sad that you guys are leaving, but at the same time we're so thankful for this newfound friendship. Promise that we'll all keep in touch and that we'll once again gather in Singapore.

From Bryan & Cocoa

Well. We'll definitely, certainly, unquestionably, going to miss you guys a great deal..

After dinner, we had a round of game (7Up) and a round of very fun group photo-taking session. Oh, a few interesting notes to add,

• First dish to run out b4 dinner even started : Pork Cutlet. (It became our appetizer...many of us are too hungry while waiting for the turkey to come out. Apologies : I shd have made more!!)
• Geok Wah : She beats anyone in "Blood Circulation" (see photo);
• XXX : Merely took a few sips of Chardonnay (okie, more than a few sips...) and the evil alcohol went straight into her head to take effect. Next thing we know she's lying flat on the floor liaoz... (okie, sad to admit, that's me.)
• Winner of the 7up-game : Adrian! (came as a surprise to me, thought either YG or Tianlin will win)
• No Sportsmanship in funnyface-phototaking : Mr Lihao, ZJ and GW (hahaha. Their punishment is a re-take!)

Well, It was a short Thanksgiving dinner cos we all have to leave early to catch some sleep for the Black Friday Shopping on next day (or rather, in the next few hours..) Leaving in 2 batches, taking off at 2:15am and 4:30am in the morning... (Are we crazy or what??)

kekekeke....