Family Weekend Part Two - Settler's Cafe


Random squawk: I've stopped using Flickr.com to host my pictures. Because I have a lot of photos to host, and there is a monthly limit on Flickr that doesn't decrease when you delete previously hosted photos, and that you can only have 3 sets, I'm reverting back to photobucket. I'm not paying USD$25/year. No matter how awesome the functions I think Flickr has.

Bugger.

As they say, a picture says a thousand words. And because I have so much to say and so little time to write much, I'll let the pictures do (most of) the talking.

On the way to grandma's place

Events at grandma's place

The slightly older group

I just love the fact that Lazy blends right in.

We helped Shirong celebrate his birthday a day late, but it was fun.

This is our lovely lovely grandma, who singlehandedly made the entire feast for us. She's over 80 you know. I feel so guilty for not arriving earlier to help her with the cooking.

After the dinner gathering at grandma's, we set off for that night's entertainment - Settler's Cafe @ Clarke Quay.

Both Lazy and Shirong's car were faster than ZhiZhong korkor's, so the first few who reached started an Ugly Doll game first.

Everyone flips open a card at random, and whenever there are three of the same kind just SNATCH. Fun.

The rest of the group reached and we started on a Huiping reccomendation - Taboo.

Then it was some game that sounded like taboo, but had a time limit. It really was superbly fun.

Shirong and Huiping had to leave early, so we all took a group photo before they did.

Then we actually started with pictionary, but I don't really know what the heck happened here.

We tried a multitude of games that night. Even the person working there almost lost his patience with us because we keep asking for different games.

At the end of the day, I think everyone wasn't well prepared in the monetary department because when they said it was over 200 dollars, everyone frantically scrounged for cash.

It was, in all, a really, really fun day out.

Family Weekend Part One - Lor Mee Ma's House

Random squawk: I've just got wind that the "powers that be" are reading my blog. This power is even greater than the last one, because whilst the last one couldn't touch me, this one can and most probably will. I'm going to have to watch my words real carefully from now on.

A long lost relative of my maternal family finally came back to SG and my maternal grandmother was so excited that she threw a house party and invited most of her relatives.

I brought along my new SL700 for the occasion and got some great shots. The following pictures I am going to post is classified into two catergories - Descriptive, and Artistic.

Let's start with the Descriptive.


Because we were lazy to ride, all three of us, Cudas, Lazy and I took a cab to my grandma's place.


Cudas.



So we got there, and realized that the HDB flat right next to the big S11 in AMK central has evevators that go down from the first floor. And only down.



A lot of people were there, you can tell by the number of shoes.



JenX was still sleeping even though there were many people mulling about there already.


Here's the obligatory funny photo of her.


And here's another one.

The table was spread with tons of goodies, and we did not hesitate to sit down and eat.



And here are the main attractions of the day, grandma and her long lost elder sister.



They look so much alike that they got me wondering why there were two ah mas at the table when I first entered the house.

The other main attraction was her daughter, better known to Cudas and me as Story Yee Yee. She used to tell us lots of stories when we were very young. I remember it was at my great grandfather's funeral, and we were to stay the night. To keep us quiet and out of our mother's hair, she kept us entertained at the stone tablet behind the wake area with exciting stories and stories of princesses and heroes.

She disappeared from my memory soon after. I don't really know what happened but that there was a tiff between my grandmum and her elder sister.



Story Yee Yee's the one in green.

And here's a photo I found incredibly funny because it might've happened to me when I was younger.


HELP!

Heh.

And following in the footsteps of Cudas, I've taken an interest in photo-taking. There were a couple of really nice ones I took on that day, and here it is.

Please bear in mind that I haven't actually took any classes nor read any book on this subject, so it's still very amateurish.

Windswept



Sharing Interests



Catching Up



Chortling



Distant Cousin



Peaceful Sanctuary



Mother Changing Baby

Sweet


The very sweet Onn just asked me out for a smoke before he went to school.



What was originally a 5 minutes smoke because a hour-long smoke-cum-conversation. I think I made him late for school too.

It was nice. And I found something common between us! Other than the fact that both of us:

- Play basketball (that's how we met)
- Have the same group of basketball friends
- Are riders
- Live next block to each other



He is the only guy I know who smokes the male equivalent of my Dunhil Frost. Muahahaha!

That was just a totally irrelevant but interesting factoid.