Dec 16 - XMAS PARTY @ ATUL'S

On a Sat we had a xmas celebration cum dinner at Atul's condo.

But before that, I had some issues at work and got woken up by a phone call at 10AM (damn!) and had to subsequently rush back to office to deal with it. poor wilson had to wake up along with me and so i pacified him with Helen's lollipop stash as well as a chrysanthenum packet drink from our pantry *hehehe*

Finally what I can do is done, we had out to visit Wilson's mom and afterwards we left to go to upper east coast rd's Beach Road Prawn Mee and had our long-time-no-eat hokkien mee as gor pang (aka. 五香 or basically some chinese food lah)

i forgot what we did afterwards. probably went home to rest for awhile before heading out again at around 5pm or so to buy some pastries to bring to the xmas party. oh yea i remembered wrapping presents at home. there's supposed to be a gift exchange.

when wilson and I got to the condo not many people arrived yet but there was our editor and his cute cute dog!!!! i don't really like flat muzzle dogs esp shi tzu. always thought they're quite ugly but this dog quite cute! like... furry and fluffy hahaha then it hardly barked except on a few occasions where his owner walked away for awhile. it's super attached to its owner. whenever the owner walks away slightly it'll whimper and cry and eventually bark once.

it has the IKEA heart-shaped cushion wrapped round its collar. haha



there was then Atul (duh!), and basically there was around 8 of us who's there (including me).

The rest came slightly later but there was the roast turkey and roast beef and roast lamb and roast ham hahahahahha then there were my pastries, wayne's sushi, curry, birthday cake (someone's bdae!) and etc etc

played some simple games and then came the gift exchange. wah lau i got toilet seat cover lor! hahahaha pengz. another producer of ours kena toilet cleaning brush. lol!



around 11pm - 12am some of the ppl left but there was still some of us who stayed on so we played some card games. I LOST ALL MY COINS BASKET! hahahaha anyway, by the time we got home it was around 2am. (die lah!!!!!)

why die?

cos i'm supposed to meet LC and her friends for the Tree Top Walk.

I'M SUPPOSED TO WAKE UP AT 6.30am!!!

i DID wake up at 6.30 to give Min Hung a wake up call but me n wilson soon fell back asleep lol! then we took turn jabbing each other but continued lying till a phonecall from LC send us flying hahahaha by the time i took that call it was 7:10am!!! she was like, "we're on our way".

i jumped out of bed and chiong to the kitchen to brush my teeth.

shockingly, we made it to dwnstairs to get into the car on time wahahahaha

so we are heading to the reservoir. Helen was supposed to come and join us BUT she got home late last night so end up cannot come *ceh!*

but actually hor, think even if she came also cannot make it. damn difficult to walk.


reservoir

it started to drizzle a little but we walked on without any umbrella. it was a pretty long journey but you could see lotsa senior citizens jogging and families having their day-out. as you get further along the trail, there's less people in sight and it gets pretty tiring and tough to walk. it's worse than pulau ubin. from what i've heard, there's only 3 years left before HSBC stop sponsoring for the maintenance of the Tree Top Walk. Thereafter I think it'll get kinda run down and perhaps even dangerous. the slopes we tiring and some areas started getting muddy because of the rain. for me, it seems like an never-ending walk with the gravel sound behind you while we crapped and chatted along the way. didn't see any animals or wadever.

Here's the suspension bridge!!!



actually we took lotsa shots here but it was with LC's friend's camera. i took the above 2 shots with my handphone instead.


one bite from it and that's it.

towards the later part of the walk it started raining CRAZILY. serious. crazy downpour. we had to start walking with our umbrellas and what's worse was that me n wilson, we were wearing slippers all these while!!!

but then again, besides having the sand going btwn our feet and the slipper that caused much discomfort, it's all in all that bad an idea cos imagine u're on trackshoe then end up it gets soaked and your socks are wet. u're link is so gonna stink man. we walked for damn long and still the trail has not ended and i'm getting damn tired and couldn't think straight anymore. had to hang on to wilson for support to drag myself and keep walking.

when we finally FINALLY got out, it was 3 hours later.

then we saw monkeys. well, at least that's something! the monkeys are smaller than i expected! the babies one are damn cute. then saw some mother monkies carrying their babies.



darnest things these monkeys do. they were like digging the ground for insects, checking out each other's butt. grooming and all and i was about to move forward to get a better shot of the monkeys and two stupid china teenaged girls just rudely came into the picture and were posing for their own photos. idiot.

we went for bah kut teh @ eunos after we left the reservoir. after "lunch", wilson and i took a bus home from the interchange and after a bathe, we went to nap immediately haha