BFF New Year's Eve 2008!

The parties continue with us all gathering again a few day's just after the Christmas party at Bunny's place in PJ to welcome in 2009. Like the last New Year's Eve party, we had a potluck. And like the last party, we brought ice cream. Only this time we didn't get Baskin Robbins. We got Bunny glasses instead. We arrived after dinner at the Chief's, when everyone else had already finished eating and was busy camwhoring or chatting.

And proceeded to play the same games we played last year, because they worked so well. What were the games?

Mafia. Also known as Werewolf, or Lupus In Tabula. The thing about this game is that, different groups play different versions, and we rather forgot the other roles that the gang were familiar with. We're used to playing with the Werewolves and the Bodyguard, while they play with the Werewolves/Mafias and the Seer/Detective.

Anyways we'll explain some of the roles here (click for bigger pictures!). Then again, there are so many variants to the roles...Oh, and for cards we used the only deck of playing cards available: Chairman Mao And Friends. We cannot believe such a deck exist...

Maybe we'll actually print out this cards for future use. After we've probably drawn something else to swap the Tuzki pictures.

Interestingly, this game doesn't need to use the terms 'Mafia' or 'Werewolf' because it can simply be replaced with 'Rapist' and the likes...we remember playing with others were we had She-Ra and the likes involved...Anyways after three games we had a turn at playing while Jin took over as GM. Only to be lynched as Saint Janvier on Day One itself.

After that it was almost time for the countdown!

Now, there seems to be a sort of internet-dependency for bloggers. Or perhaps it's just a case of the need to stay connected somehow, because with everyone keeping different time and no telly to refer time to, some of us flocked to Bunny's laptop to go Google for the Atomic Clock. It may sound a bit drastic but at least everyone could agree on a time, after a false countdown 5 minutes before midnight.

2009 was greeted with a yamseng in harmony of voices. See what singing does for you?

Then after that, the next party game - Charades!

Now that everyone understood that, "There is no car!" participation was more sporting. And initially it was Charades as we knew it where an actor acted for others to guess, then we decided to go for a twist: Puppet Show from Cranium, where the player uses another person as the puppet to act out the answer. Imagine Alex using Jin to act out 'Scuba Diver'! The one we enjoyed the most was when Earl Ott puppeteered 'America's Next Top Model'! Very interesting concept.

The party ended with group photos before calling it a night. And hello 2009!