Christmas at Ice (not Christmas on Ice)

Me and Irene went to watch the movie Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium at AMK Hub today. I think its a good show, but just a little too predictable. And I feel that when the story was at its peak, it ended! A bit over the top though with its dramatic moving magical toys. Haha. But it brings out the imaginative child in all of us. Dustin Hoffman was great with his protrayal of Mr Magorium as I enjoyed every wise words that came out of his mouth. He is 233 years old in the movie by the way, so you can imagine how wise he is. I especially remember one advice he gave to Natalie Portman in one scene.

"Life is an occasion, rise to it."

Then at around 9pm, we headed down to this pub in YCK call Ice.

Esther and Jay jio us de, so we went down Ice instead of my usual BB at BQ. When we went there, there wasn't many people in the pub so me and Irene thought to ourselves that we can finally have a "crowd-free" Christmas.

But . . .by 10pm, the people started streaming in and by 11pm, it was packed!
The crowd there is slightly different from those in BQ. They are not rowdy, more civilised and has the young, to the very old. I even saw one auntie probably in her 60s outside the pub smoking area.

To entertain ourselves, we played this drinking game.

As you can see, there are 3 rock glasses and 2 shot glasses. Basically everyone gets a turn to throw a dice, if you kena 1-5 respectively, you basically drink from the glass if its filled with alcohol, otherwise, you fill it to any amount if its empty. If you drink, you basically keep your turn until you throw the number of an empty glass. Yes, its very shiong!

And you are right, this is a mindless brainless drinking game as you cannot control your own fate unlike some drinking games. You just base it on pure luck and drink, drink, drink.

Thats not all, if out of 5 glasses, 4 glasses are filled. When it is your turn and you happen to roll the number of that one empty glass, your next player drinks ALL, yes ALL! I kena this twice! Karen (below pic on the right, seen with Irene) kena the most! And we concluded its due to her red top that brought her the luck! Haha.

And you must be wondering what about the number 6? It is a reverse function. So if you try to sabo someone by pouring a lot, and your next player throws a 6, you might be at risk of drinking the same glass you just poured! Karen kena this too. Funny.

The worst thing is we had to play this with beer all thanks to Jay and Q who can't drink Chivas which I was happily consuming b4 the game, so you can imagine the mixture in my body. Horrible.

After doing this for about 1 hour, we all surrendered and decided to stop. So all went out to smoke.

At about 11.30pm, the KTV pub became a disco as they invited a DJ to spin. Wow, I was impressed they have such an arrangement for a small pub. The music was great. Everyone was grooving, and then came the moment.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Merry Christmas!!!!!

We partied till about 3.30am then we went our separate ways as Jay was a bit high. This was a fun Christmas, and one more such celebration is coming . . .

NEW YEAR! December really gives us a lot of reasons to party man!

Cheers to all!