• 1/31/2010 10:56:00 PM, Sunday, January 31, 2010
Christmas 2009 with NUS Peeps!
It's approaching February soon, but here am I blogging about Christmas celebrations! Guess I'm getting busier and lazier to blog.
Had my second Christmas celebration (first was with the Coke girlies!) for 2009 with Mashimaro's NUS clique at Nolboo Hangari Galbi Korean Restaurant at Orchard Central. Besides the variety of dining choices, I don't think there's anything much else at Orchard Central that attracts me.
Anyway, this is totally random, but Orchard Central parking is really sucky. Jojo was cursing and swearing when we went there the day before too!
Decided to do Korean for a change this time round! They served us many refillable small dishes, but I just kept attacking the same one, which was the fried ikan bilis with peanuts! Yummy yummy! I'm totally not a fan of kimchi!Speaking of which, I really missed the $10 set lunch from the Korean restaurant that I used to frequent with Minx and Jiemin whilst I was still at Springleaf. Brought Mashimaro there once and he loved it too! The BBQ meat is really thumbs up! But it's too far from my current office now! ):
We ordered a couple of main dishes as well, such as kimchi pancake, beef stew, chicken wings, fried rice and more! The red bean dessert with ice cream was good too!
I think we over ordered, but we still managed to polish off everything eventually! It was really a 'table-ful' of food again! 
Managed to get a room for the 8 of us (had full attendance that day!), but it got irritatingly hot halfway throughout dinner, because the central air-conditioning was faulty. We even ate in darkness for a while cause we switched off the spotlights to reduce the heat!
After dinner, it was time for our annual Christmas gift exchange! 
Started our gift exchange in descending order of age. Zhudidi's the oldest, so he got his gift first. And Mashimaro is Zhudidi's secret santa again! I think they really got a strong affinity with each other! Zhudid got a Parker pen from Mashimaro. Next was Florence's turn. Got her a Face Shop gift set!
See what I meant by strong affinity? Zhudidi was Mashimaro's secret santa in return! Haha! (: Mashimaro got a boomerang and Huishi got a necklace from Candice!
Berrie got a bag from Pingping, and Pingping got a Body Shop eau de toilett from Huishi! 
My secret santa was Florence, and she got me this uber pretty pink Agnes B notebook which I doubt I'll ever bear to use cause it's too pretty! Berrie got Candice a pouch and some moisturizer or cream I think. 
Besides the gift exchange, I got some other sweet gifts as well! A pack of yummy treats from Florence, super sweet smelling hand sanitizer from Berrie (love the sweet floral smell!) and chocolates from Candice and Zhudidi! (:
Group pictures again, with Ping's cammie multi-shot function!
Anyway, it's the start of a brand new week/month again tomorrow! Which means that I'm finally one month down with my braces, with four months more to go! Gotta go for tightening again this Thursday, and I bet it's gonna be another super painful, panadol popping week again after that.Can't wait for CNY to come soon and enjoy the long holidays! But it's gonna be two crazily busy and packed weeks before CNY! ):
