A Happy New Year!

It was a pleasant surprise to have had a certain power maniac host a New Year's Eve party, invite inclusive of food, transport, entertainment and accomodation for the night. Who were we to refuse? However, the party was supposed to be a potluck party, and with everyone bringing something we couldn't just go empty-handed.

Just so happens that New Year's Eve is a 31st - Baskin Robbins, here we come. In fact, we ended up buying a half-gallon consisting of Jamoca Almond Fudge, Butter Pecan and Chocolate Chip (we'll say it again here, we didn't choose Rum 'N Raisin because R&R will totally mask the other flavours) for the party, and a quart of Twinberry Cheesecake and Caramel Turtle for ourselves.

And we'd to pick up a dozen JCo donuts from the Doctor to bring back to the condo as well.

Now there we were, dozen donuts in one hand and two tubs of ice-cream in another, walking about The Curve. Wonder how many people turned green with envy, or how many suddenly felt fat just looking at the goodies we were carrying.

That reminds us, power maniac is still holding our quart hostage, and the half-gallon is only half finished.

The Eve Party went quite well with much food to finish, a wee bit of wine and plenty of sparklies, an intro to Mad Gab, charades, mafia, the countdown. And throughout the entire thing, plenty of voyueristic peeking at poolside activities from the balcony at the naughty naughty happenings below.

The night ended with DVDs before bedding down at...6am.

And getting up again at 9.30am. Then again, surprisingly (nearly) everyone was up by 10.30am. The energy that can only be found during the holidays - amazing thing, isn't it?

Good thing too that we managed to remain lively for the day, because the party was far from over - from a New Year Countdown it became a ... pool potluck party mishmash anything and everything including a birthday party thingy. Very casual. Yet, calling it a pool party only saw a handful of people actually getting into the pool, while some others were sick or didn't know how to swim (could have just lazed in the jacuzzi pool tho') or whatnot.

Oh oh oh and we made a new friend. Smirnoff Green Apple Twist. A silent killer like Absolut Vanilla, but oh so much nicer.

With Ezra being our only transport and with Ezra's friends coming in at all hours (even after the pool was closed) we were worried that we wouldn't be going home till past midnight, but thankfully we managed to thumb a ride back with another friend who'd to leave too - after all we had to work today you know. Was totally kaput when we got home.

Worra way to welcome 2008.

And it's about 5 weeks to Chinese New Year!