Merry X'mas eve gathering

These few days were the most sleepless nights i had gotten into, because i have been doing my research for a digital camera which suit my complex requirement of having a camera which is portable, scalable and loads of features. Finally, i had come to a cross road with Fujifilm 9500 [a bit big], Olympus CZ8080, Panasonic FZ30 [Len too long], FZ5, LX-1 [ i quite like], Sony R1 [too huge]. Finally i settled on the Olympus 8080 [2004 era] to end all my headache as it's offers superior image quality, not too overly huge for a prosumer camera. Only caveat is, it 's magnesium alloy body is quite a weight to lug. Then i headed off to have a nice 2nd half afternoon with Paulyn whom she had returned from Beijing before i headed to Gary and Denise house for a pre-X'mas cum House warming gathering.

Coming back to the topic, i went to Pat & Jimmy's place for X'mas gathering which is quite an annual thing altogether. Despite our dear friend, Leocadia was off to Switzerland to complete her bible studies we did missed her commanding presence, i would said. However it won't be long that she will return to "papa" side soon. haha [Darth Vader's breathing noise]

Some of the foods were prepared by Rebecca, Agnes and Patricia while i only contributed red wines on my little part of the night. However, the evening did indeed kick off to a good start....i betcha. Hiak Hiak :p















That's Lorraine absorbing my blow, Lorraine is Leocadia's 2nd elder sis. And Rebecca the youngest sis among the Koh family is the chef wannabe who has immerse interests in cooking. As usual her kah kia [Sidekick cum buddy], Agnes is out to assist her. Agnes also happened to be an ex-colleague of my part-time UCE University classmate Thomas at Cable & Wireless.















And every year, the star of the X'mas eve is usually snatch away by Luzisa [Lorraine & Van Onn] who is the youngest of the house seemed to have more of the X'mas Gifts [she got a new Nintendo Gameboy from daddy!!], she 5 yrs old this year. Too bad, Melvin [Agnes's nephew] did not come this year. I actually was trying to matchmake Melvin and Luzisa to earn some ang boh money, guessed i have to bribe Agnes next year. hahahaha















See how happy daddy is? [Van Onn hugging his beloved daughter]

And this year we have a new addition, Rebecca brought along her Korean counterpart to join in as well. Her name is M J, aiya not Micheal Jason lah. But dunno what M J means. Only Rebecca knows. She from Seoul and will be stationing Singapore Dystar [Rebecca's company] for a six months assignment.















And our lovely host, Jimmy and Patricia's friends also turned up to round up a pleasant evening. Greg, Gilbert, Chris & Luzisa [hogging the lime light again]















So it all began and end with a nice evening at Jimmy and Patricia's X'Mas hospitality.

Hopefully, this year absensees will be made available in 2006 X'mas. Leocadia & Melvin below.



:D