Who Got My Name?
13th September 2006, Wednesday
A special day in the calendar since I got attached back in 2000, yes...the birthday of the missus...
In the past it had held great significance as of those propaganda-type holidays like St. Valentine's Day or X'mas as well as of our anniversary....
Not a big fan of keeping dates but 13th September will always be etched in the stone...but nowadays due to other commitments with the finance, her birthdays are much subdued affair as of this evening when I would most probably get her a cake and Mom cooking her some traditonal Chinese celebratory cuisine, soup Mee Sua with hard-boiled eggs...
I mentioned that when she turned 25, I would make her my wife and I pretty much keep to that promise....
Last evening, the young Japanese chap who came visit the La Tendo crew departed for home with a new school term to contemplate with...
A get-together dinner penned by Eng Kiong for Yu-kun was well-responded as everyone in the clique turned up for the dinner at Roma Deli's, the highly-recommended and affordable vegetarian Italian cuisine joint at the Shaw Tower at Beach Road...
Vincent who turned up with his missus, Miyano after returning from yet another Japan culture-exchange trip ensured that everyone but most importantly himself was well-fed for the dinner as the feast was garlanded with high carbohydrates such as sizzling potato, pizza and baked rice...
While food was top priority and the deli owners were hospitable to served the food fast and just off the overn to appease our hunger, the star of the evening should be on Yu-kun as he should felt overwhelmed about making such a great number of otakus from a little island south of his country...
The friendship surely would be extended as we even graciously invited him for the X;mas party Eng Kiong was coining with the likes of Chan since August...
The big item on the agenda for an event which seems a bit premature at this moment would be the gift exchange and it broke all frontiers in my past experience as the bar was risen to $100 per head for the exchange which is almost unheard of unless you belong to some high-expenses rotary club or something...
The bigger obstacle surely would be that with more than half of the people involved sinful of over-indulgence with toys, figurines and other anime-collectibles; the organiser (i.e. Chan) felt we should not include those mentioned items in the list and any purchase from La Tendo would be a strict no-no...
Therefore the names was tucked in the bag as the random choosing process begins from the eldest (Vincent) to the youngest (Yu-kun), with me and Eng Kiong representing our spouse to choose another name...
As of many of such random name-pickings in the past, people started moaning about their selection instantaneously and in this case, Miyano, Chan and Karen was fixed in a difficult proposition about what are the possible items to get for their chosen names respectively but the elders like Vincent and Reedy were quick to brush of any notion of a re-pick...
It is quite predictable that Chan might had picked one of the 3 spouses in the draw which makes it difficult to accomplish that gift-acquisition task...
Meanwhile everyone started speculating what gifts could be a possibility with that price tag which personally I felt it is way too much to get average items and too little to get more brand/quality orientated ones...
A wishlist will surely be important to ensure no "prank gifts" such as a year supply of toilet paper (which Vincent mentioned that he wouldn't mind) would be at the horizon and an exciting prospect of what Yu-kun will get from the land which sells on uniqueness and appeal though we might have to do some posting in case he couldn't make it for the party on the 24th of December at EK's place...
For the next 3 months or so, I will kick off the mail circulating and everyone in the clique would crack their heads on what items they would badly want for X'mas as well as speculating who might have gotten their own names from the draw...
A special day in the calendar since I got attached back in 2000, yes...the birthday of the missus...
In the past it had held great significance as of those propaganda-type holidays like St. Valentine's Day or X'mas as well as of our anniversary....
Not a big fan of keeping dates but 13th September will always be etched in the stone...but nowadays due to other commitments with the finance, her birthdays are much subdued affair as of this evening when I would most probably get her a cake and Mom cooking her some traditonal Chinese celebratory cuisine, soup Mee Sua with hard-boiled eggs...
I mentioned that when she turned 25, I would make her my wife and I pretty much keep to that promise....
Last evening, the young Japanese chap who came visit the La Tendo crew departed for home with a new school term to contemplate with...
A get-together dinner penned by Eng Kiong for Yu-kun was well-responded as everyone in the clique turned up for the dinner at Roma Deli's, the highly-recommended and affordable vegetarian Italian cuisine joint at the Shaw Tower at Beach Road...
Vincent who turned up with his missus, Miyano after returning from yet another Japan culture-exchange trip ensured that everyone but most importantly himself was well-fed for the dinner as the feast was garlanded with high carbohydrates such as sizzling potato, pizza and baked rice...
While food was top priority and the deli owners were hospitable to served the food fast and just off the overn to appease our hunger, the star of the evening should be on Yu-kun as he should felt overwhelmed about making such a great number of otakus from a little island south of his country...
The friendship surely would be extended as we even graciously invited him for the X;mas party Eng Kiong was coining with the likes of Chan since August...
The big item on the agenda for an event which seems a bit premature at this moment would be the gift exchange and it broke all frontiers in my past experience as the bar was risen to $100 per head for the exchange which is almost unheard of unless you belong to some high-expenses rotary club or something...
The bigger obstacle surely would be that with more than half of the people involved sinful of over-indulgence with toys, figurines and other anime-collectibles; the organiser (i.e. Chan) felt we should not include those mentioned items in the list and any purchase from La Tendo would be a strict no-no...
Therefore the names was tucked in the bag as the random choosing process begins from the eldest (Vincent) to the youngest (Yu-kun), with me and Eng Kiong representing our spouse to choose another name...
As of many of such random name-pickings in the past, people started moaning about their selection instantaneously and in this case, Miyano, Chan and Karen was fixed in a difficult proposition about what are the possible items to get for their chosen names respectively but the elders like Vincent and Reedy were quick to brush of any notion of a re-pick...
It is quite predictable that Chan might had picked one of the 3 spouses in the draw which makes it difficult to accomplish that gift-acquisition task...
Meanwhile everyone started speculating what gifts could be a possibility with that price tag which personally I felt it is way too much to get average items and too little to get more brand/quality orientated ones...
A wishlist will surely be important to ensure no "prank gifts" such as a year supply of toilet paper (which Vincent mentioned that he wouldn't mind) would be at the horizon and an exciting prospect of what Yu-kun will get from the land which sells on uniqueness and appeal though we might have to do some posting in case he couldn't make it for the party on the 24th of December at EK's place...
For the next 3 months or so, I will kick off the mail circulating and everyone in the clique would crack their heads on what items they would badly want for X'mas as well as speculating who might have gotten their own names from the draw...
Japanese word of the day: ギフト交換(Gift Exchange) I have been thinking of putting a year supply of condoms as one of the items in my wishlist but don't think it would be really appropiate
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