Well, the attendence was expected to be quite poor. But luckily, many made the effort to meet up! I was quite happy even though I'm not the one organising, perhaps I'm happy for the organiser. However, latecomers were definitely expected since there are people who never make it punctual for all the gathering and people who have habit of waking up only in the afternoon...
I met up with Russell first, then Ying Cong, Sohaila and Siti and then Huishan. We all went up Mind Cafe (The usual meeting spot for VeNoM), and played first. We all started with Monopoly Deal, then Yi Jia came shortly after 2 rounds. That was time my luck was drained as compared to the day before because I got completely lousy cards! Randy came and we played some cute game like "Don't let the Monkeys fall off the Tree". We then played a few rounds of Incan Gold before the last person, Edwin came. The last game we played there was Saboteur. The one classic game which I enjoy playing the most.
We then took some time to decide on our dinner spot. Then, the final decision was Pizza Hut. Yeah, Pizza again! (I ate Pizza for dinner the night before too!) The 9 of us set off to Plaza Singapura. At the dinner table, there was a sudden discussion about K-pop music, and most of the people are all engaged in it, except for Ying Cong, Edwin and I as I'm not really a fan of such music sensation. The discussion also continued at Randy's house where our Gift Exchange Session took place.
Randy brought around the condo before going to his house. We all exclaimed "WAH!" here and there intentionally when in fact there is nothing much to exclaim about since most of the condos are the same in Singapore. And one very huge similarity is: The apartment is small. And yet I thought the condo in city area will be slightly bigger. So it turned out to be opposite. Russell's house is much bigger. Probably because there is no point for Randy's parents to buy a bigger one since the occupants are just his brother and himself.
When I stepped in, I saw the big comfortable sofa and I had the urge of throwing myself onto the sofa. But I didn't do it since it was my first time in his house. Is not my house anyway. Then, Randy came telling us Raymond likes to throw himself onto the sofa everytime he steps into his house... Ok, so I'm not the one having this "bad idea".
After we all settled down, Sohaila cut the pieces of papar, while I wrote down the initials and crumpled them into paper balls. I put them into a christmas hat and let people picked their "balls". When we all got our paper, we froze for a moment. Thinking whehter the names we picked are for receiving or for giving. After a short discussion, we decided to receive from the names we have picked. Randy then raised another question, which was directed to me, asking what are the initials I wrote. The only problem is the paper he was holding as he had difficulty reading it. It is because he iwas holding the paper with Huishan's name on it. I wrote Huishan's initial as "IHS". But you could actually turned it over and read it as "SHI", which was most people would interpret as. Haha. My bad!
And this is the exchanging result:
1. Randy received Huishan's mug
2. Edwin received Siti's mug
3. Ying Cong received Yi Jia's Nice Tin of Butter Cookies
4. Huishan received Russell's Stress Ball Gift Set
5. Sohaila received Edwin's Piggy Tall Mug
6. Siti received my USB-powered Fan
7. Yi Jia received Sohaila's Thumbler
8. Russell received Randy's LED/Torchlight Keychain
9. I received Ying Cong's Monopoly Deal Gift Set
Yes. USB-powered Fan appeared again! It is not from Huishan this time, and is from me! Luckily, we didn't brought the same gifts on both sessions. Phew. All of us agreed that buying gifts can be a diffcult task, unless we have picked ourselves a name before buying the gift specifically for this person. Well, we will have another round of suspence to think who is going to get whose if we choose not to do that...
There was another round of surprise for those who didn't know Huishan lives near Dhoby Ghaut, especially Randy. He was delighted to know that he has a neighbour all along!
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