Finally I garnered enough energy to shake off my lethargy and start drafting this entry..

Disclaimer - The following post features photographs that are unashamedly koped from Jontay's and Aaron's albums on everyone's favourite social networking site. Do check out their blogs for more photos (:


Happy Holidays to one and all

First of all, I have to thank Aaron for allowing us to crash into his suite at Marina Bay Sands on Christmas night itself FOC.. (Besides the food, drinks and alcohol, that is)

I arrived at the Sands dressed.. rather casually I admit. Shirt with shorts and a pair of flip flops. Smart-casual has never been so reduced. Anyway, it was early and I'd managed to lug a few 1.5l bottles and a sweet little bottle of Long Island Tea up to the room.

We ventured a dip at the well-chronicled Skypark pool before chilly winds forced the majority of us out and into the relative warmth of the shower. Dinner was at Marina Square after a rendezvous with a tropical shower right outside the mall itself (Whoever suggested the long route?!)

Christmas feasts were on 30% offer at Billy Bomber's - however given that we had an odd number and that a festive platter caters for two I had to bite the bullet and go for a single course which costs almost as much as the discounted meal. Oh well..

Back to the hotel we went after sending Jontan off - And the Great Drinking Game hence commenced as we sparred for the title of the most-sane-person-who-will-end-up-drinking-the-least.
Cheers.

The basic tenet of our game was as such.

Every player seats in a circle and and draws a poker card each turn. The card itself shall determine the actions to be undertaken by one/all players.

(H/D) A to 5 - The player downs 1 - 5 shots corresponding to the numerical value on the card

(S/C) A to 5 - The player directs one or more players to drink the total number of shots corresponding to the numerical value on the card.

6 - All players start playing 大鱼小鱼 ("Big Fish, Little Fish") The loser downs one shot.

7 - All players commence 7-up, whereby players are required to say in ascending order numbers starting from 1 and replace any number containing/multiple of 7 with 'up'. Loser downs one.

8 - The all-important toilet pass. Allows the player to make one trip to the washroom if the call of nature knocks on the door.

9 - Allows the player to add a new rule to the game. Any player who violates this rule downs one shot each.

10 - The category card. The player comes up with a category (say, American sitcoms) and all players have to come up with a term that belongs to the said category (GG, BBT, HIMYM etc). Loser downs one.

J - Whenever the player in possession of this card performs an action, the slowest player to mimic the action downs one. The player relinquishes the card once another player draws a J.

Q - No player is supposed to reply to anything uttered by the player in possession of this card. The 'question master' rotates once another player draws a Q. Any player who replies to the question master at any point in time downs one.

K - The immunity card allows any player who possesses it to 'Just Say No' to any card/punishment that requires him to down shots. Very useful when one draws a 5 of H/D. Returns to the pile once used.

At any point in time unless specified no player is supposed to utter the name of any player or to point at anyone. Anyone who contravenes these conventions is to down one shot as well.

Our choice of residence for the night


The view from our room. Personnels suffering from acute vertigo are not encouraged to stay at this hotel.


The Singapore Flyer as viewed from the 34th floor..


Christmas dinner at Billy Bomber's. It literally cost a bomb in the end.


A deck of cards, some drinks and alcohol were all that's needed to start off a night of reveling and fun


The game in full motion. I was at as disadvantage (really!) as I'd downed much of the wine beforehand along with Silu.


We finished all the drinks! From the After-Action Review we garnered that
1. There was not enough alcohol, and
2. Plain water is very very very filling indeed.
These would be rectified once NYE came about..

And of course we did not solely drink ourselves to nirvana the whole night. There were Monopoly Deal and LAN sessions as well as a round of 'Super Munchkin' (Click to find out more more) which Samuel bought for 40 bucks along with an instruction manual proportional to its price tag.

Not that we're not sian of playing Monopoly Deal, which is now deeply established as the game of choice in SAF Camps and University campuses. Well done Hasbro. You have successfully came out with a game that overtook 'Big 2' and 'Bridge' as the ultimate card game played amongst bored Singaporean students and NSFs.

THE MORNING AFTER


The sun rise from the east and its now officially December 26 proper








Skypark in the morning -
Cool, refreshing and not as crowded as the previous afternoon. The view's simply stunning too. Though I do not advise anyone to spend $20 just on the scenery itself as the pool's only for hotel guests.

A shout-out goes to Aaron, Augustine, Mr Hu, Woon, sY, Silu, Jontan, Jontay (who rushed down from work at midnight), Louis, Linyi and Samuel - Thank you all so much for your awesome company. It was great meeting up with S6A people once more even though it'd been a year since the A's, even if the sheer number of people queuing at KFC's in the morning forced everyone else behind us to give up waiting.

College life just never ends doesn't it? :D

Lastly, just a point of clarification - I was still sober mentally at the end of the game - albeit with a rather stretched temper. Oops.

The first day of work in the new year approaches in 5 hours. Let's hope for a peaceful and fruitful 341 days before I go 'ORD LOH'.

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