Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here's wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The week before Christmas was packed with stuff, with me having some Unit dinner on Thursday evening at the Specialist and Officer's Mess. The food wasn't that good, but it was amazing to see almost forty log cakes neatly spread out on a huge table, and I got a nice T-shirt for free! The turkey they provided didn't taste too bad either.

On Friday, I had to attend a Formation Cohesion event at Bukit Batok. It was a bowling event, and I got a box of chocolates and a pair of pen and pencil for my amazing bowling skills (note the sarcasm laced in 'amazing', considering I didn't cross the 100 mark, despite bowling two games). Spent a nice afternoon with Bee, and the evening shopping for Yi Qian's birthday present.

Saturday was Yi Qian's birthday! Michael, Alvin, YQ and me met at Suntec, ate lunch at Marche, presented him with a cake and his present (a leather bag!) and lingered around while figuring out what to do. We finally decided to drive around Singapore (with me as the driver... how scary), and had dinner at the famous You Tiao king at Geylang road. We then wandered around the city trying (the keyword being -trying-) to search for some elusive gay pub (or pubs) or rainbow clubs or something like that. Our futile search led us several rounds around Lau Par Sat before we gave up retired for the night.

Sunday-Christmas eve!- was spent having dinner at my uncle's house, and catching up with my cousins, Eka and Dwi. This time, they're only back in Singapore for a week, and they're leaving just after new year, Eka back to UK and Dwi back to the States, so we barely get a chance to see each other once a year(!). It was great fun, and I enjoyed talking to them again.

Merry Christmas! on monday...

And left for India on Tuesday... more stories and photos coming up soon..