My adventures on the last day of the year

It’s the last day of the year and I’m at home mugging. NOT.

Usually, I spend my Christmas eves and new year eves with my JC best buddies, Leeying and Jingwen partying away at Orchard road, but because I had other plans on Christmas eve *embarrassed cough*, I had to make amends by letting them come over on the 31st for a cooking and stayover session.

2.00pm (the following scenes may be abit too explicit, I apologise): I was bathing happily away when just as I washed away the last bit of shampoo on my head, the water from my showerhead turned a dirty brown and dwindled to a pathetic drip. Turns out the management chose that opportune moment to service the waterworks. So I thanked God I’m not still soapy and quickly left the house to meet Liang.

5.00pm: The water is still not back yet so I related the sorry news to LY who expressed mixed emotions: amusement, shock + disappointment.

5.15: LY and JW came up with a plan. They were going to bring tons of 1.5litre bottles and da bao water from the nearby coffeeshop. I was touched but actually it’s because JW spent a lot of effort planning the menu so she die die also must cook.

6.30pm: The water is back! The water is back!

7.00pm: The plan was that they arrive at 7.30 so I waited for their arrival hungrily.

7.30pm: I waited and waited and I waited…

7.45pm: Ate the fries I da baoed back from lunch and waited some more. (Those fries were my secret back up plan in case dinner turned out inedible.)

8.15pm: Received a call from LY saying that they were only at queenstown.

8.45pm: Finally spotted a glimpse of my two tardy friends.

8.46pm: JW appeased my anger and made my day by saying I slimmed down a lot. (I know you’re thinking, “who cares� but this is my blog so “neh neh neh neh�)
9.00pm: Started cooking dinner amidst Sandy’s barking.

Sidenote: All my good friends know that my house is full of expired food products which I still ingest occasionally so JW made sure to remind me before coming to check that all ingredients are fresh but truth be told I can’t really be bothered.

9.01pm: So I wasn’t really surprised when I heard LY exclaim: “Ah wo de ma! Your pepper is expired 7 months ago loh!� I tried fending off their disgusted looks by saying that I ate that 2 weeks ago and was perfectly all right but my two friends were smart enough to say that I probably have a different constitution.

9.03pm: They don’t trust my non-existent cooking skills so they banished me to peeling prawn shells. (that very night I dreamt that I was drowning in prawn shells. I’m not kidding.)

10.00pm: After peeling and cutting some mangoes (they ended up quite mashed instead), I was asked to find some spring onions which my mum insisted were in the fridge. So I searched and searched and finally unearthed this rotting, smelly, yellow mass of veg that bears some resemblance to said spring onions. I quickly threw them away before my friends scream and run away in fear.

10.45pm: After a frenzy of chopping, frying, baking and peeling, dinner is finally ready. This is what we ate: salmon aglio olio, prawn and mango salad, baked potato and chcolate crumble cake.


salmon aglio olio 

The olive oil on the pasta was expired 1 year ago but I deftly covered the label so they cannot see. Then when JW went to top up the mayo on her baked potato she discovered that it expired two years ago and get this, the expiry date was 31-12-02! How cool is that! OK maybe not.

11.45pm: We got out our bottles of alcohol to welcome in the new year.


our booze 

12.00mn: Happy new year!! Ooh! Swoon over Taufik’s mtv.


that's us pretending to look drunk 
1.00am: Girl talk!

3.00am: We started belting out Phantom of the Opera songs at the top of our voices. Imagine 3 girls singing “…the power of the music of the NIIIGGHT� Sylvester style in the middle of the niiigght.

4.00am: LY dropped dead and refused to budge no matter how hard we poked or kicked her.

6.00am: Finally JW and I got tired and fell asleep.

The next day I suffered dire consequences from my 2 hours of sleep. I was so woozy and tired I couldn’t even eat my buffet lunch and that’s saying a lot as I’m the ultimate buffet queen (more about that later).
But all in all I thought everything went pretty well and we all had lots of fun until LY called me that day to inform me that both her and JW have stomach upset. Actually I did too but I was too embarrassed to say.

So if any of you wanna revise your bacteriology or get an mc, feel free to pop by for lunch.