Had wanted to give Xueling a fright yesterday by making her think that Yanshan is back from Israel. Hahaha.... she's always looking out to see if Yanshan would make a surprise attack on her. This year, the plan was changed slightly. Hehehe.... we would like to break the news of Yuan going through her customary wedding ceremony either in December, or Jan 07.
Our first stop was Settler's Cafe at Katong. Nearly got lost as we stopped opposite Katong Shopping Centre, when the exact location of Settler's Cafe was directly opposite Katong Mall!! Arghh!!!! We had our lunch there... I ordere the Wings & Chips & a Rootbeer Float cos I dun think I want to have a heavy lunch since I ate 3 sardine puffs and a glass of milo in the morning. Yuan ordered the Fish N Chips & a glass of coke, while Xueling ordered her Spaghetti with Meatballs (she had a craving for IKEA's meatballs actually...) and a lime juice.
Our first game was "Sequence". We were supposed to form 5 in a row, horizontally, diagonally and vertically on a board filled with the pictures of the 52 cards in the Poker Game. But we had to open the card and put the marker on the board instead. Each of us has a stack of 6 cards to start with. After putting out a card and a marker on the board, there's a pile of cards for us to draw and replenish. The first round was to connect 5 in a row. After that, it would be more challenging to try to connect more in a row. The J with 2 eyes would be a WILD card where we can put our markers anywhere on the board. The J with 1 eye would be a card where we can kick anyone out and replace that spot with our own markers. Yuan won the first round. Subsequently, I won the other 2 rounds. Then we thought it would be good to change into another game.
The next game we played was "Halli Galli". This was something like SNAP, where we flip open the cards and if the pictures on the cards add up to 5, and someone press the bell, he/she would win and take all the cards. The game is such that the winner has all the cards. We were pretty confused with the game at first, but after a few rounds, we got the hang of it, but the best part was hitting the bell.... haha... it really became quite violent!!! Phew!
After that, we decided to play "The Game of Life" 'cos Emily came and played the game and told me its quite farnie. We were supposed to choose if we want to go to college or start a career at the beginning. This game is like "Wheel of Fortune" where we had to spin a wheel to dictate the number of steps we take. If you decide to go to college, you'll be full of debts at the beginning. If you decide to start your career, you would choose the career card and then draw the salary card to see how much salary you'll get during pay day. I got the Entertainer and my salary was $80,000!! WAH!!! How I wish that was the real life!! In the process, I got married and had 6 kids! My white car had a truckload of tiny babies, I had 2 pairs of twins!! and 2 baby boys!! EEeeekkkk!! If that was the real life, I think I would be suffering from depression!!!! Anyway, I got the most money when I retired as I got lots of "LIFE" which are things I could cash in when I retired. There were items like "Wrote a famous novel - $20,000." and "Win Nobel Prize - $10,000." Then the house I bought gave me huge returns, and I bought lots of stocks. hahahahaha..... ultimately I had $1+million!! Sigh... but its all fake money....
Then we decided to play something that requires a little bit of brains. The waiter introduced us this game called "Blockus". We're supposed to put all the different shapes of tiles we have onto this board. The trick is to get all the tiles onto the boards, but the tiles can only touch each other at the edge. If we want to connect to the opponents, we can overlap in a way but still, one side of the tile must correspond to the edge of our own tiles. Chim..... I won the first round!! hehe... then we played again, this time, we took turns to put a piece of the green tiles which belonged to no one so that we can see how bad the JAM was.
After that, we decided to play one last game before we adjourned to our next destination. The waiter said we have 15mins to go, so he got us a simple game, like Halli Galli, but this was more confusing. This game was "Jungle Speed', where the cards were filled with pics of different symbols and colours. There were a few special cards whereby if those cards appeared, we have to either "Change colour", "Change shape", "Put out the cards all at the same time", or "Anyone can grab the stick". The stick replaces the bell in Halli Galli. It was really confusing because of the shapes and symbols. In the end, we gave up! haha.... cos its also about time.
We decided to move on to Singapore Art Museum to look at the Fiction@Love exhition. I liked some of the works being featured. The manga by Ai Yamaguchi was really sweet!!! I hope to have my wall painted like it too!!!! Then there's also a section on Jimmy's works. They were playing this DVD on "Smiling Fish" and I thought the music was nice, as well as the animation. There's this artist fFurious who used the urinal and made it look like a SPOOF ad for Absolut. He named that "Absolut New Water". Haha... Wicked! but Brilliant!
There's also this Korean Artist called "Kwon Kisoo", whose works are very child-like and innocent. His works basically consists of lines and circles. The colours used were very 'happy colours' too : )
After that, we went to the courtyard where we gave her the presents. This year, we bought her a Mr. Potato Head figure where she can mix and match his features. Then, we also got her a bottle of BioEssence Dark Eye Rings Remover so that she can have beautiful, sparkling eyes! haha.... then, we also got her a "Little Twin Stars" sticker, and a hand-made card ; )
Then we moved on to Novotel Hotel. Yuan's husband booked a table for 8 at the Dragon Phoenix Restaurant so that we could try the dishes. They're trying to find the 'best restaurant' for their wedding dinner. Xueling got a shock when she saw David's parents and elder sister! haha.... but this David also very farnie, he counted 8 in total, but there were only 4 from his side and 3 from our side. Xueling was very gan cheong about the empty seat beside her. hahahahahaha.... it got onto her nerves and she started asking out loud 'Is anyone else coming?'
After the 8 course dinner, we were really really full! By the time the dinner ended, all the shops in Liang Court were closed.... There's this "Thailand" sale at the atrium. Xueling got us a voodoo doll each. The guy who served us was quite cute. As we were leaving, we told Xueling to go back and try to talk to him more. I reminded her she forgot to buy 1 voodoo doll for Yanshan. Haha.. this gave her the reason to go back to buy 1 more voodoo doll! : ) But too bad nothing came about....
Then we walked to Boat Quay and nuazzzzz at TCC.... Initially we thought we could have the beanbag seats upstairs but it was fullhouse..... sianzzzzz... but hor... throughout we saw people going up on their own and the waiters didn't try to stop them!! Damn it!!!
Well, Yanshan's coming back in September and next year, Xueling's 29th birthday won't be such a heart attack... hehehe... but we shall see ; )
