Ah Ju says:
I never forget… …. Blogging on my 2009 XMAS celebration with my poly gang. This going to be a long entry… lots of photos…
We chose the XMAS day to gather at M Hotel. We even came out with a theme – all the girls had to wear long sleeves, legging and boots. Haha! Very vain! Ching bought herself a new boots specially for this event. Clara was the only one who didn’t go with the theme. Aiya! Too bad, she can’t fit onto Joline’s extra boots. So sad…
This was Baby’s and my first time trying M Hotel dinner buffet. This hotel serves semi-buffet. Must be wondering what’s semi-buffet right? Initially we were very puzzled too! Well, beside salad, seafood and desserts spread, they had a separate menu where customer can select the dish they like to have as main course. Don’t worry that you may need to pay for the main course, it’s all included in one price.
Main Course Menu
Baby and I ordered the steak. The portion was quite big, I didn’t finish. If not, I couldn’t enjoy my desserts. Haha! In any buffet I had, dessert bar is VERY IMPORTANT to me!! Till now I still can’t forget the durian paste’s taste. It was so delicious. I wouldn’t say the buffet was very great. But for the price we paid on a festive day, it was definitely good enough. I remembered we paid less than $60 for this meal. Baby had a lot of seafood that day, definitely worth it for him.
My main course ~ Steak
XMAS goodies ~ Turkey, Honey Ham
Salad Bar
Seafood spread~
Appettizers
Fruity Fruits
Chocolate log cake! Nice!
XMAS bread
Too bad... it was only a display!
One group photo
Knowing that many cafes or bars will be crowded on XMAS day, we decided to chill in the hotel bar. This bar was so quiet -no customer at all.
We ordered drinks, settled down and began our gift exchange. This XMAS we played a different exchange – White elephant gift exchange.
How to play this game?
1. Each guest who wishes to participate must contribute a gift. Everyone sits or stands in roughly a circle around the pile of gifts.
2. Prepare slips of paper equal to the number of gifts with clearly written numbers. Be sure to distinguish 6 from 9, 1 from 7. Each participating guest draws a number and holds onto that slip of paper.
3. On the first turn, the guest with paper slip #1 chooses a gift, opens it, and all admire it.
4. On the second turn, the guest with paper slip #2 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's) or choosing a wrapped one. If #2 steals #1's gift, then #1 must open a wrapped gift.
5. On the third turn, the guest with paper slip #3 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's or #2's) or choosing a wrapped one.
All the Beautifully-wrapped XMAS gifts
Clara ~ opening her selected gift
Ah Dan ~ stealing over Baby's gift! Haha! (In the end, this was not what Ah Dan got!)
Baby ~ opening his present (Eventually this is not what he got too!)
Nice? It was from Bro Jun!
Happy Ah Ju! But this was stolen away too!
Excited Jun! He got a PC game.
Ching ~ opening the gift I bought
Ah Ju ~ opening the gift Baby boughtIt will be more fun when there are more people. It was something new to us so we still have some fun. After several exchanges and stealing, I got earpieces from Baby and Baby got a plate & bowl set from Junhong. But I exchanged my earpiece with Baby’s. He needed the earpiece more. Haha! So lame! He got what he bought.
We played 恐怖数字 after that. I got whiteboard marker so we guessed the chosen number. The winners will lose the number on the loser’s hand. Haha! And the ultimate was MY BABY. He was the only one that went home with both hands clean.
See! The only one CLEAN HAND~
Before we going home, everyone stayed to take photos. Oh… that day was the day my camera spoilt…. Lens error. But not to worry, I’m getting my new camera soon – Canon IXUS 200. YEAH!!
The Ladies
The Men
