ok so the new year is here.
decided to stop being lazy and post some things up just in case i forget them and need to have some reference in the future. the girlfriend has a tendency to ask things like "Do you remember what we did on our first date?"
stuff like that.
christmas 2008.
two words: interesting and overwhelmed.
celebrated it with the girlfriend's "family". somehow they all knew each other since they were very young and now they're all family friends.
so ok.
cant remember what we did during the day. but by evening went over to her godparents place, which i cant remember where it is too. met some of her friends other than her godsis. i brough a bottle of wine but i felt that wasnt enough when i saw that they actually practice gift exchanging.
they're from New Zealand anyway. so yeah. christmas is a big thing for westerners.
my firsl real authentic christmas dinner. with all the turkey and ham and everything.
i was so overwhelmed that i kinda forgot to take some pictures. and whatever picture that were taken they're still being held hostage by the girlfriend. since they're all in her camera.
went home at 1 plus. in the morning.
if i didnt remember wrongly, we went out again on 26th and 27th. cant remember what we did.
singapore is too small for anything fun. and anything that is fun requires an obscene amount of money.
though i think it was the 27th that i went over to the girlfriend's grandparents' place for dinner. met almost all of her extended family. aunts and uncles and everything. overwhelmed. hands were shaking badly. partly from the weight-lifting exercise in the morning and partly the nervous-ness of meeting her family. i kept dropping food onto the table even when i'm using spoons.
malu.
new year's eve
went down to meet gary to discuss the possibility of me working part time for him to help him handle his overseas customers.
he's hoping i can help him out with those overseas customers so his full-time staff can handle the suppliers.
but after thinking through, i dont think i have the time to do so.
heavy workload.
then went over to the girlfriend's place to wait for her mum to be ready. then we went over to another one of their family friends' place for BBQ dinner. AMK. quite near my place.
met the full gang of her friends. all of them. they're all 24 and 25 years old. and they THOUGHT i'm older than them. because they said the guys they know that's of my age are all busy getting drunk.
well, i dont know about them. but i have only ONE liver. and i intend to use it for a pretty long time. :-)
since it was a condo, there was a playground there. but. i dont know. nowadays playground designs are so weird. i have no idea how to "play" them.
the girlfriend standing on top while we trying to figure out how to "play" the damned thing. not sure if you are even supposed to stand or sit on it. or whatever.
after the BBQ we all went upstairs into the apartment to play monopoly with her godsis and younger godbrother. the rest of her friends had already left.
there wasnt enough space so i stood while the 4 of them sat and play.
sidetrack: the girlfriend's mother, godmother and some friends, relatives referring to themselves as "in-laws" already. my god la.
eg. during the BBQ, when one of her mum's friend asked why i wasnt drinking, i replied that i want to remain sober. then the friend asked again, "Why cannot drink? mother-in-law say you cannot drink ah?"
ahh... whatever la...
let them have their cheap thrill.
so anyway during the monopoly game, one of her mum's friends or her aunt came over and took my hand and placed it on the girfriend's back. her godmother walked past and smacked my hand. "No! Godmother-in-law only allow shoulders! No more lower!"
sigh. framed.
oh well. but their apartment has a great view of the fireworks. only went home at almost 3am.
and somewhere in between went on a double date with julia and her boyfriend. and how can i forget me and julia actually spent valentine's last year. because we were like the only single people around and went to watch barney with her. (all inspirations from her blog, deserves some mentioning.) and maybe somewhere a short discrete mentioning of how i was woken up at 3am in the morning one or two years ago. XD
this year's valentine's we'll all be busy with our own stuff.. :-)
my GPA of 2.63. needs a lot of work this semester onwards. serious work.
