"Service crew don't get sambal chilli."
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Got home kinda tired so I didn't blog. Yesterday afternoon, I went to meet Val to help her prepare for her dinner. Seeing as how Ben would be working, XW was recovering from drinking (lol) and tak was indisposed, since I was doing nothing at home I figured I'd go over to help out cos I told her I'd do so. (That's a very long sentence.)Went down all the way to Carrefour at Suntec to help her buy all the stuff for steamboat. Believe it or not, she was using an advertisement for an electric steamboat, looking at the picture of the food depicted within as the guidleline on what to buy. Lol. Yummy.

Went around helping her look for stuff to buy. A lot of it is organic. Sadly organic = expensive. I discovered val likes cheese! I had no idea. In the end we got some Brie and blue cheese which I thought we might be able to try with the biscuits she bought. That was a misconception. Now I'll never find out what Brie tastes like. =( You'll find out why later. Went hunting for pasta sauce, and found it in one of the aisle. Mm-mm...Carbonara with Ikea meatballs. Another misconception.

Went to my place to pick up the steamboat, back to her place to drop off the food, down to NUS to pick up booze from her friend. Or rather, her friend then the booze. To NUS, pick up the guy, to his house to pick up the booze. Mmm...booze. Misconception number 3. Picked up another group of her friends nearby. This is starting to feel like Crazy Taxi. In fact, part of it was like Crazy Taxi!

She went onto the highway, swooped from Lane 1 all the way to 4, oops, too close to the lorry in front, swish, lane 3! Overtake +10 points! Swish back into lane 4. Her friends were all ZOMGWTFBBQ. I was, whoa! Just like Burnout! Nevertheless I can say her driving HAS improved considerably. And maybe her friends are just less used to it. =P

We dropped by Cold Storage to top up on food, and then drove to pick up XW. Dropped off at her place, she went off with her dad to pick up the chairs. XW was there, so we just helped set up the tables along with some others. There was a very small almost "kiddy-sized" set of foldable table and chairs. It almost looks like something from Ikea, ingenious design. Since our group was the smallest we took it. Weee!

Ben and Raye dropped by. First thing when he and Xw met was they fought. Lol. Okay, chop chop, get to work! (Pun intended.) We headed to the kitchen and brought out the various packets of food to distribute them amongst the tables. One group was mugging projects with their laptops, another one was in the process of setting up the third IR on her dining table. Well, no actually they were just playing cards. Chop chop! Wash and chop vegetables, chop mushrooms, open cans, disembowel...stuff, soak the tang hoon, slice tofu. And damned if we didn't do that stuff better than mama.

This wasn't swipe you finger across the screen in the direction of the arrow, this was chop! Whack! Slice! Dice (tofu)! Wash! Ladies and gentlemen, dinner is served. Brought all the processed food (Read: Our Hard Work) out to the tables and distributed it. Ben said this reminded him of last time. -pause- OH. Yeah. That year. When we barbecued food for like, whatshisname, oh YEAH. Everybody. By now the third IR was up and running in full swing with coins strewn across the table.


Waited for, uh, something, someone, whatever so we could start lou hei. Xw was hungry but she refused to eat. =( Went outside and threw some of the veg into our pot to cook first. We learned one particular group started up the induction cooker upside down and induction cooked the table. LOL. Induction cooker fail. Eventually the lou hei got started and we proceeded in the finest Chinese tradition to make a mess out of things. (Pun intended.) Okay! Back to steamboat!

Collected rice, and drink and went back to eating. I was eyeing the booze other people had. But none of the 3 at my table were drinking. Well,everyone knows it's no fun to drink alone. (If you're thinking about drinking alone, there isn't that much fun to be had in the first place.) So I didn't. So much for booze. One of the group came late. They took the dining table indoors with the HUUUUGE steamboat cum Teppanyaki. Wahhhh. Really like IR le. Lol.

Some time during the dinner, someone came to our cute little foldable table. The one which might give us all 3rd degree burns(HUAT AR!) if someone so much as sneezes and makes the table collapse. Put a gas-fired pot full of boiling water on a little foldable contraption with 4 people in close proximity sitting on it, and everyone moves as though they're going to steal the Hope Diamond in a vault full of movie lasers. =)

Oh yeah, anyway someone came to our table and asked if we had the sambal chilli. Nope, we shook our heads. Sotto voce, I said to ben the line at the very top of this blog post which made us laugh uproariously. Ikea meatballs were served. My pasta sauce stayed in the bottle. Oops. =( After that it started to drizzle a bit. Ben and I grabbed the huge garden umbrella and rolled the concrete base over to our table! Hahaha! Service crew cannot get wet. If not who serve you? Quite cute to have that tiny table with the umbrella hanging over it.

After finishing, we packed up our stuff, clear the rubbish and went to watch Chuck in Val's room. And do something to Xw's iPhone. Lol. The IR had grown into something out of a channel 8 7PM drama. One table with a few seated, 1 banker, and a lot of people crowded around. Lol. After watching Chuck, we decided to leave. Wonder who helped to pack up everything after the service crew is gone. =P But yeah. Since val is our friend we don't mind helping out with everything. It's perfectly 100% A-Okay fine by us. No problemo. =) It's only once a year. I mean, she has a lot of things to do and a lot of guest to entertain.

Oh yeah. I never got to try Brie...

"Excuse me sir, are you done? May I clear this for you?"

After that, Ben sent Raye home by cab, I cabbed w/ Xw to her place where she borrowed the car. Went to Tamp to pick ben up and sent him him home. THANKS XW! Then after that she let me try driving. I drove home from Ben's place! =DDDDDDD SO FUNNNN.

Went for job interview tomorrow. Think I may have it but still got AIA on Mon see how. i dunno how's it gonna be like...should probably catch up on sleep now. Then maybe go for a run in the evening. Anyone wanna go out?