#tropicallulu: Class of 84 New Year Party

Monday, January 2, 2012

Class of 84 New Year Party

Getting together and recalling the good old days is what a class reunion party is all about. As soon as one face appeared, it's time to crack brain cells to figure out without embarrassing yourself that your memory is taking a long time to detect or shows no memory data (at all) of an old classmate who just walked in.

We got seated. We nostalgically reminisce about our old school days, fondly remembering the nasty pranks, who bully who, who love who and updating on what has happened to each of us since we went our separate ways some 28 years ago.

Back Row: Swee Ting, Janet, LuLu, Magdelene, Josephine, Ching Chung, Jimmy, Chin Chin, Siew Luan. Front Row: Rosmadi, Franco, Gilbert, Kamarolzeman, Jonathan

Dinner was a Chinese Set at RM338 (per table) of 8 courses. (I like the hot and cold dish only!)

1. Hot and Cold Dish Combination

2. Steamed Seabass with Spicy bean sauce

3. Boneless Chicken with thousand island sauce

4. Teochew Braised Duck

5. Braised Scallop with crab meat and Broccoli.

6. Yongchow Fried Rice

After a fat dinner, time for a little game: Gift X-change- Gifts should be of HOUSEHOLD item worth RM5-8 of value, wrapped in re-cycled paper with name attached.

The Gifts

How to play:

1. Write your name on a chit and drop it into the draw box.

2. Draw a name from the box to find whose gift you will be receiving.

3. You can take the gift or put the chit back into the box to have a 2nd draw.

4. The process is repeated until all the gifts are claimed.

5. Unwrap your gift!! Unleashed your curiosity!!

Within minutes, the room was exploded with contagious laughter and comical comments. Some got what they wanted. Some got no idea what to do with their new gift. Some regretted to have a second draw. That's part of life, i GuesS!

Nureza: Yahooo... I got the Angry Bird I wanted...

Magdalene: Look, a Handmade Bag by Janet

Jonathan: Yeah.. I got a Cute Mug for the New Year!!

Gilbert: Just what i needed as I just ran out of toOthpaste.

What did i get?? A pretty Mug but it got 落地开花*

*落地开花 ("flower blossoms when it touches the floor") is a chinese phase used when you break something; immediately you have to say it to ward off bad luck. I didn't break it though. I heard the paper bag went --Ssluurkk--and the mug went --PplAang--(if i get bad luck, i no friend her for 1 year!)

A group photo is a MUST before we bid farewell and till we meet again. Some went home, the rest went to Barcelona Pub in the heart of Miri city..

The second half of the night was carried forward with happy hours of jokes, pranks and unfinished conversations with tea, coffee, beers and liquors.

The surprise of the night came in a Flaming Lamborghini - a fast and furious Shooter. (A shooter is an alcoholic mixed drink that contains between 25ml and 100ml of two or more liquors.)

Firstly, the bartender stacked up a few Cocktail glasses with a Martini gLass at the bottom filled with 1 oz of Kahlua and floated 1 oz of Sambuca on top.

Then pouring 1 oz of Bailey's Irish cream and 1 oz of Blue Curacao gracefully down the glass tower.

Lastly, with a flick of a Lighter, the entire glass Tower burst into flames. The flames are for decorative purpose only and will not change the flavour of the drink.

Sip the concoction from the bottom with a straw until finished - in One gO. Caution is to be taken as the drinkwave may remain quite hot for a while even after the flames are extinguished!