Merdeka Marathon Makan & Movie

Otherwise known as the MerdekaMoodyMondayMovieMadness. Given that till now we've not been online as usual, we haven't been keeping up properly with our emails - we've only skimmed the contents as thus haven't really followed much of what everyone's been planning.

We'd skimmed so much that even when the gang has been planning some meetup thingy with an alliterative title that's five words long, all that registered was that there was an alliterative title. Details of the event didn't stick. Thus when 'Vin called us to ask what we were bringing, we were admittedly still rather blur about the whole thing.

Luckily it turned out to be a potluck event, and when 'Vin ticked off the names and food being brought, no drinks were mentioned. So we quickly offered to bring drinks. Bought Sarsaparilla cordial (honestly, what's the difference between Sarsaparilla and Root Beer cordial?), F&N Orange, F&N Ice Cream Soda and Kickapoo.

The food layout was VERY generous (somehow we find potlucks tend to be, heh) as 'Vin cooked one and a half bags of nuggets, Esteban brought to bowls of pasta (made with half a bag of garlic - lad said they took an hour to chop it all up), Canadian 2-for-1 pizzas, 30 currypuffs from Paandi, baked bacon rolls, salad and ice-cream.

And to wash it off, we made ice-cream soda floats topped with sarsaparilla cordial. Sweet.

Initially we started off with lunch followed by Hellboy II, which we found much better compared to the first movie as there's more eyecandy this time. Still, like the first movie, not that memorable.

After Hellboy II it was back to the food for Round 2.

Then we all decided to make it a movie marathon and put on Kung Fu Panda, in English. That it was starting to rain heavily helped make the decision to stay much easier too.

Then Round 3 with the ice-cream floats.

We'd left soon enough while the others started warming up the PS2 - the weekend saw us up late and we were soon crashing. Still - we'd a spanking good time celebrating this year's Merdeka!