Merry Christmas!!!

Got a message from a kindergarten/primary/high school friend on facebook just 2 days before Christmas, asking me questions about the Mac. While we were chatting along, he also invited me to a high school reunion bbq on Christmas day.

So here comes Christmas day, I went over to Lei Yue Mun Park and Holiday Village for the bbq. There were 18 of us all up. It’s so good to see everyone there! Especially on Christmas!

F5A Classmates

F5A Classmates

When I got there, they’ve only just started the bbq. I was really hungry when I got there, so I immediately started eating! Haha…

Although you might think that we haven’t seen each other for a very long time, but in fact, we do see each other every now and then. Like our schoolmates’ birthdays and sometimes, weddings. So we do have a fairly good idea of what everyone else are up to and we get along so easily!

Bennett, Carmen, Erwin & Howard were the organisers on the event and they have organised a lot of games for us to play on the night. Of course, punishments are involved. :P

Here’s how our games are played, someone (normally the loser of the previous game) starts calling out the number ’1′. Then randomly, someone calls out the next number. For those who call out the same number at the same time loses the game, or the last one who hasn’t called out a number loses. Then the losers would have to pick a piece of paper (where everyone has written their own punishments) and do what’s written on it.

Here’s one of the punishments I wrote down on a piece of paper where Johnny picked. LOL~

Johnny taking on my punishment

Haha… and here’s a funny one. The punishment is to have honey sprayed onto the face! Haha…

Spray honey onto the face!

Push ups... I had to do 50 too!!!

Pinching both ears for 1 minute!

Maggie Seasoning Sauce straight!!!

Rubbing soap on hand for 5 minutes...

Call out 'HELP' while putting out fake fire...

Here's the last punishment...

Haha… It was fun! Apart from punishments, we also exchanged presents. (I wasn’t aware that we had to prepare any presents, so I only had cash to exchange). I got the first gift from Alice, a $10 MacDonald’s voucher, yay!

Here’s when Alice was handing me the gift.

Bennett & Erwin

There was a punishment where you have to finish a 250ml popper in 10 seconds. Out of no where, Erwin wanted to take on that challenge. Howard and Paul joined him. Here’s the video.

There are heaps more presents being handed out and exchanged. Here are some of the photos.

Maggie & Alice

Carter & Erwin

Almost everyone...

Everyone...

The cleaners were really upset because we didn’t look like we wanted to leave. They started pouring water to put the fire and we started packing our stuff. There were still presents to be claimed so we did it on the way out of the camp site.

We finally sorted out all the presents as we got to the gate. Here’s a photo that I really like.

Outside the gates...

So that’s was it. Some of us went to play mahjong, some of us went drinking. I went back to the office to look for some documents then went over to Mongkok to meet up with a primary school mate. It was such a fun night! Thank you so much to the organisers for doing such a great job! I’ll definitely be looking forward to our next meeting!

Merry Christmas!!!

PK Lai

ACP8 Servicing Day

Have been in ACP8 (a work program ran by my team) for a bit over 2 months now. Part of the program requires us to participate in a service to the community. There are now in total 20 members in ACP8 and some of us have volunteered to be the committee of this servicing event. After their careful considerations, they’ve decided that we would visit an elderly home, chat with the elderly and give them some presents. They have spent a lot of time organising this event for us and I thank them so much!

Last Saturday, all of us met up and visited an elderly home at North Point. I was never really good with communicating with the elderly, but have always wanted to give it a try. So there we were, at the elderly home. It did take me a while of listening to my other colleagues talking with the elderly before I could join in any conversations.

I couldn’t take more photos because the nurses there weren’t happy with me taking photos.

Anyways, after chatting with them for about half an hour, we played games with them and started handing out some presents we brought along. That was really fun! Some of the elderly were really healthy and smart! After the games, we sang some old songs for them then said our goodbyes.

I haven’t really visited the elderly homes before and although we only spent about 90 minutes with them, I felt that we have already gave them some entertainment for the day. I hope that they’re happy with us showing up. I wish that we could maybe visit them again in the future!

After the service, some of us went for afternoon tea then went singing and drinking for the rest of the night! That was fun too! :P

PK Lai