Here's most of the food on the table at the Married Soldier's house gathering on Christmas Eve. My fingers weren't steady so the photograph was blurred but there were cheese-filled sausages, macaroni soup, mashed potato, fried vegetables, chicken fillets, spaghetti and mushroom pizza. Dessert was a chocolate log cake and drinks were Jacob's Creek red wine. 
A much clearer shot taken whilst the table was being set. After dinner, we played a card game called Manager Material where we were supposed to fight off corporate projects cards with excuses cards on our hands. The game was fun because we were trying to prevent 30 project points from accumulating on our hands and yet sabotage the other players' chances by stacking recognition cards so that the players could not escape from the project cards through their excuses. In the end, The Married Soldier was defeated because of the conspiracy between The Changed Man and myself. The girls were more interested in the clothes featured in variety show then though. Hahaha.After the card game, the hosts wanted to watch Little Nonya and we obliged to finish the episode before continuing with more drinks and another movie "The Family Stone". It's been so long since we watched a TV series together and we were interjecting throughout the show on who are the villians and how Yueniang was in despair for causing Yuzhu to be raped during her attempted elopement.
I opted to stay over because it was already near midnight by the time the gathering ended. A quick shower later, The Married Soldier and myself stayed up till 2am because he wanted me to watch him play his Fallout 3 game. His style of playing was so different from mine - whilst I preferred subtler sniper tactics, he would charge into the fray with his mini-gun. We finished clearing a few maps before the game hung on the computer and that decided our online adventure was over for that night.
The next morning, I woke up with a mild hangover from too much red wine - more than 3 glasses and by 11am on Christmas Day, I bade farewell and headed home because I still had a movie appointment with the Busy Bee. We met up at Orchard Cineleisure for the movie "Australia" at around 4.20pm and we bought the evening tickets as the nearby showtimes were almost sold out so we did not want sub-par seats for a supposedly good movie.
After getting the tickets, we hung out at Starbucks to see and to be seen with iced Eary Grey tea and ice-blended Frappucino. We were lucky enough to grab the large couch to enjoy our drinks and The Busy Bee showed me her new handphone and we played some penguin games on it before heading down to Takashimaya basement to grab some finger food just before we catch the movie itself.
"Australia" was one long movie worth over 160 minutes but it was quite a movie - a comprehensive, spell-bound mix of mysterious Aboriginals, hard-talking Whites, deep racism, dark politics, shady business throat-cutting, awe-inspiring wildlife, tough outback lifestyles, rowdy bar brawls, majestic natural sceneries, heroic sacrifices, passionate romance and even brutal war scenes.
Nicole Kidman was at her finest again portraying the character Lady Ashley and Hugh Jackman was convincingly set as the hard and gruff character called "The Drover". Their chemistry sizzled and captured my imagination of how beautiful the town of Darwin and the cattle stations' outback lifestyles were. It's definitely one of the most memorable and enjoyable movies to catch before 2008 concludes. I loved one particular line from Hugh Jackman in the movie, which goes something like:
Property, money, luggage, people - all of these mean nothing because ultimately, you will lose them. What's left is probably a story.
This was taken inside Paragon and it was a very beautiful series of Christmas decorations. 
Ballerinas dancing in a shower of blue Christmas hanging lights looked fabulous. 
This was taken on our way to the Takashimaya basement - a Christmas tree made up of many, many teddy bears. 
This was Central Point's Christmas decorations. There wasn't much themes to speak of but the sheer number of lights gave the surreal feeling of an alternative daylight in the night. Everyone was illuminated slightly bluish as they walked below those hundreds of thousands of lights. 
This was taken on our way to Raffles City - we walked all the way from Orchard Cineleisure to Raffles City because the Busy Bee felt like taking a stroll instead of hustling on a crowded MRT train along the main Orchard Road. We parted company at City Hall MRT station so that we could grab our sleep from all those partying.Simple but enjoyable story for my 2008 Christmas celebrations. ^__^
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