A: A damn cool chp grp
Haha sorry, couldn't resist. After losing the presentation after a disastrous Q&A, we held a most awesome post-CHP party where we drowned our sorrows in food, patted each other on the back and said, "well at least we had fun" and bitched abt the winning CHP grp (kidding lar!).
I shamelessly ripped the photos off ht's blog, but i think u can see many many more of the photos on chp6.blogspot.com. (also can see dr koh's daughter who is super cute)
As usual i was late when wk picked me up frm commonwealth mrt and we made our way up a very very steep hill (dr koh's hse is very very ulu and is called le hill because it is on top of a hill) behind a black altis (the driver wore big hoop earrings and we knew immediately that she is qc) and a black merz.
At the carpark we saw prof saw emerged frm the merz and purplely dilly-dallied so tat we dun have to go up tog. We got sort of lost and finally spied prof saw standing alone by the pool. ht said, "oh no, quick before she sees us!" and immediately ducked out of sight, while purely out of reflex, i did what i always do when i saw someone i know, i waved.
So after some awkward shuffling abt, there we were, 6 of us, sitting on one side of the table and prof saw on the other. It kind of reminded me of a mini-tutorial. Conversation was very, VERY stilted and she even asked us when were the exams (as if she doesn't know herself), and wk pointedly requested a change of subj. Prof S then brought out a tiny tub of teh-tarik ice cream (it's very very gd) and told us where she brought it frm.We were so desperate for a conversation topic that we spent 10min trying to get her to ascertain the exact location of the shop. (She told us it was at crown centre but Jack kindly informed us later that it is at serence centre. He was right. as addicted as i am, i dropped by the place ltr and found out the tub cost only $8! i hereby announce that i'm going to marry anyone who can buy me one tub everyday for the rest of my life) Anyway we all breathed a sigh of relief when her phone rang and dr koh said that he needed help w smth and needed us to go to his hse. Out of the corner of our eyes, we spied someone who looked like him leaning out of the 2nd floor window and waving wat looked like a spatula at us. Before anyone could say "keep prof saw company" all 6 of us zoomed out and rushed to dr koh's hse, where we saw a very pretty cat, an even prettier baby, a pretty wife and a gan-cheong-looking dr koh rushing out frm his kitchen, handing us a plate of pork ribs, a bowl of fruit punch and many utensils (sigh he's so nice).
After that, more pple drifted in, bearing all sorts of food and after dr koh's unique laughter(if that can't liven up a party, who can?) the party went into full swing. There were drinks, papadum (home made!), sausages, nuggets, pies, spring rolls (made by wl's mum which were very delicious), boiled chicken (which wasn't nice at all but which we ate cos amy kept forcing it down our throats), bee hoon, fried noodles, pizza (sponsored by the v smart but lazy data analysis team), dessert, satay and many more which i forgot. It was to nobody's surprise that we had ALOT of food leftover. It got so bad that when winston arrived with the johnson's roast duck, he was amazed when his arrival was met with groans of "oh no! the duck is here".
yummy food
Aside from the constant begging and forcing by pple who brought the food, the party was a roaring success. dr koh was great and his baby was sooooo cute. Lit review was also kind enuf to bring a yu sheng and gathered everybody to lou hei. The yu sheng seemed a bit strange and we all stared at it till we realized that the 'liao' (carrots and turnip shreds) was missing. One smart aleck ( i forgot who) suggested using fur's beehoon as substitute (poor fur!) so that we would have something substantial to lou and so we did.
uniquely chp6
It was quite funny cos someone said that we had to say a auspicious saying everytime we poured one of the ingredients but no one knew wat to say, so andrew, who was the emcee, said in a very strange ang-moh accent things like "xin nian kuai le" and "gong xi fa cai". There was a pause when we were all stumped and dr koh shouted out "shen ti jian kang!!! Haiyah as doctors you muz say that rite!!!!". Then all like 28 of us tried to lou hei in a very small tub and it got very messy. WaiL suggested naming us '1' and '2' alternately. Picture this: "1s lou" and the 2s will step back and "2s now" and 2s will reach forward and so forth, kind of like a kallang wave with a new year twist.
lou ah!
doesn't tat look delicious?
The end product looked quite gd and we saboed our poor leader to try the disgusting yu sheng. He stepped up to the plate (heeheehee quite funny oh), which was what he had been doing this entire time basically cos he was the 'chosen one' to be our leader, and as usual carried out his duty sportingly.
are you sure???
he really did!!!!
note dr koh's look of concern
After that, all the leaders said some nice things abt the grp and we went arnd talking and laughing and presented our cards to the profs and the party ended on a note of good cheer and love for each other.
us SPSS lovers
And now, i CAN'T wait to hear abt YOUR CHP party, grp 5.... teeheehee
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