Chinese New Year Day 14

Went to 4th Aunt's house for our last CNY gathering. I thought there would be a buffet spread, but it turned out to be a buffet spread of 4th Aunt's cooking. Mum chipped in with some mini cupcakes (baked by ME!).

As usual, there would be some cat and dog feuds going on because 2nd Aunt brought Bobbi along and 4th Aunt has two timid pet felines. According to the clan leaders, the two parties must not meet each other or else necks will be snapped and eyes will be gouged. Ah Gim's two sons entertained Wee and I with their playful fights and jump-up-and-grab-the-hanging-pineapple antics. All was well until Kar Cheng the fargly monster came along and scared the poor soul out of Gordon.

Finally, the gambling rounds started and we all launched into see kee. After several mind-numbing rounds, we paused to carry out a belated birthday celebration for Haoling. Then we had some delicious strawberry spongecake, but stupid Wee had to knock my precious strawberry slice out of my plate.

We resumed gambling all the way to 1.30am when the mahjong folks finally finished their rounds. Henglip, Haoling and I went to Wee's house to stay over. In other words, to get wasted.

Upon reaching Wee's house, her cat Tiger greeted us with its incessant meows. We watched Anacondas while taking turns to bathe. Wee brought out her bottle of peach vodka which sent Henglip thrusting out his mug excitedly. Halfway through the movie he was already sprawled all over the sofa and complaining about the heat. It was obvious Henglip had been imbibing the vodka in its neat form!

After the movie, we proceeded to play drinking games in Wee's bedroom. Wee misplaced her poker cards, so much for the Indian poker. Grrr.

Haoling and a drunken Henglip

We played 007 where I tried to weasel out of the game by acting stupid and not catching the rules of the game (that was because the peach vodka was extremely bitter and strong and I was revolted). Unsuccessful, though. At one point of time, Henglip started hiking up his shirt and we all thought he was going to strip.

Check out his pathetic pleas

Alas, he saw me filming him and he quickly tried to act normal. But we all could see that he was more or less wasted. That was because when we played the 一只青蛙 game, he happily rattled "一只青蛙, 一张嘴" when it was supposed to be "一只青蛙, 跳下水". On the way to the toilet, he was swaying sideways and according to Wee, he could not even 'aim' properly.

Finally we decided to call it a night and prior to hitting the sack, Henglip entertained us with ghost stories that revolved around his unlucky friend named Vincent. Ahhh ... drifted off to sleep with the intoxicating effects of alcohol ...