Xiaoville: End of a super long weekend

It has been a longer weekend for me than most of you. The last time i stepped foot into Sungei Gedong Camp was last friday! Lol.

After the NE tour on Monday, my battalion had a dragonboat cohesion event the following day at Kallang sea sports center. The event happened courtesy of my idea but many of them disappointed me by taking MC that day. Most of you don't know this but i actually wanted to join the dragonboat team back when i was in Temasek Polytechnic together with Shawn and Laijin. But when i saw how they were just lifting weights, running and doing other things instead of rowing, i decided against joining. Scary and exhausting dragonboat might sound, but it was really all only fun that day. We were splitted into 3 teams for 3 dragonboats and there was a steerman and instructor on every boat. We rowed leisurely, had some fun rocking the boat and also raced each other. The whole thing lasted 2 hours and i was thankful the weather was cooling and awesome that day. I was pretty sure most of them had as much fun as me..i definitely won't mind going for it again!

Where we had our dragonboat event

Warming up before dragonboating

We were then given a simple introduction

Then it was time to put on our life jackets and get our oars!

Boat 1

My boat!

Awesome surroundings

After an hour of splashing, rocking, rowing and shouting!

The winning team! With me inside of course

One of the other team

After the dragonboat event, a group of us decided to play futsol at East Coast's version of The Cage. Had a great deal of fun before heading down to our battalion's cohesion chalet at Changi Fairy Point 5. Spent the whole night at the chalet playing mahjong before heading home the next day in preparation for reunion dinner. This year's reunion dinner was again held at AUD's house. Had a simple steamboat dinner as of every year before sis and i decided to head down to Yishun 10 together with Annabel and Terence for a movie. You might have guessed it right, we watched Jack Neo's Ah Long Pte Ltd. It turned out to be a very typical Jack Neo's film with a large chuck of local jokes and lousy corny animations..but to be fair to him..me and the rest of the theatre did have a fair deal of laughs.

Our Reunion dinner

The steamboat

Some random uncooked food

Yum yum

How it was like

Then 1st day of CNY arrived. I didn't buy any new clothings this lunar year and so i picked my newest top..which coincidentally happens to be the auspicious red colour...yup thats right...i wore my Manchester United jersey. The sequence of event turned out to be like every other year. First to church for mass, then to Da Yi's house in Queenstown, then to Bedok, East Coast, Marine Parade and finally Kok Bin's house in Alexandra before home.

Myself, Yanqing, Yanping and Sis

And then for the funny faces

Sis and Huishan

Sis and Huimin

Mum and Sis

Huimin, Powzhen with son Basil and Sa Yi

Terence and I in the East Coast house

Sis and Annabelle

We had dinner at Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe in Anchor Point

Day 2 was pretty much as per normal too. Went to my Ah Dio's house in the morning before dropping by my Ah Poh Yi's house. We then went to visit my Ji Yi at Winston's house before finally ending off with the usual visit to the house just beside the botanical gardens.

Ah Dio and his grand-children

In Ah Dio's house

Jaslina, Sis and Annabelle outside Ah Poh Yi's house

Kok Bin, Terence and I joined in the fun

I found some time to practice some kungfu kicks

Then Sis and I had a little fight

After visiting with my family that day, i went to Weijian's house. He opened his house this year because his parents left the country...yup and so i went to bai nian but received no ang bao in return. It was a mini party there with Jonathan, Richard, Puss, Bernerd and Weijian's gf Jiamin all present. We played some boardgame in the form of I'm The Boss before catching CJ7 at Balestier on the stroke of midnight. Turned out to be a super duper boring show. I had high expectations for it..after all...Shaolin Soccer and Kungfu Hustle were all awesomely funny. This show turned out to be not at all funny. Stephen Chow wasn't his usual humourous self and i hardly laughed the whole show.

Played mahjong at Jackie's place on Saturday before heading down to Meiwen's house for our yearly ban luck and gathering session. I gambled till i lost track of whether i won or lost. But based on gut feeling i think i won around $20 this year..a good start to a new year!

Played soccer this morning and we won 5-2! After soccer, my family and Kok Bin's family went for a dim sum brunch at Geylang. I then went home for a good afternoon nap after that before going to Serene's house to bai nian. Yup and so here i am...feeling all sad and demoralised now that the long weekend has comed to an end. I dread going to work..can't wait to leave..its a $3.7 million TOTO draw tomorrow. I bought a hope for myself..please pray for me..