Chinese New Year weekend

Or should I say big eats weekend? :P

It was Chinese New Year last Thursday. But I (and a few others) was having end-of-semester tests until Friday. So on Wednesday night we had a small reunion dinner at Goh's place, then on Friday we had wantan with two visitors from Grenoble :D We made the wantan from scratch okay?! Mah and Wen Shao went to buy all the necessary ingredients on Thursday, and left them in my room. Since I finished at noon on Friday, I was the one who started off chopping up the ingredients...then the others arrived one by one after their classes to help. We finished chopping and then marinating the ingredients in my room, then moved downstairs to Teik Siang's room to wrap the wantan. (and cook them, of course :P)

After eating, some of us played Monopoly and some played cards. It was the first time I played "cash-less Monopoly"; actually there was no money, only credit cards. There was a credit card machine to add or subtract money from the card. In a way, it was easier because there was no money flying around, but we had to wait for the machine to finish adding/subtracting the money instead of just passing a bill to someone. And it was hard to gauge how much money we had left, especially in the beginning. As the game wore on, we could compare each other's totals to see who was richer.

On Saturday we wanted to go out for nasi beriani (in fact it was Dinie and I who wanted to go, a few weeks earlier we were already planning to go there after our tests) But there were 9 of us and there wasn't enough place in the shop. (the shop's tiny!) So we decided not to wait (it might have been a half-hour wait) and we went to have bagels instead. The bagel shop is pretty small as well, so we decided to take-away and went to eat on a square near the shop. (the weather was fine :) )

That night we went to Chun Tah's place for steamboat. There were leftover wantan so we put those in as well. Afterwards we played cards (in two groups, 'cos there were too many people to play all together) We left at almost 3am.

On Sunday we woke up late, so Pei Xin (who was staying at my place) and I had crêpes for brunch. Then she left to go back to Grenoble. And that night Dinie and I (bo kam muan :P) went for nasi beriani. It wasn't really nasi beriani, it was actually tandoori chicken with a kind of rice that ressembles nasi beriani. So, I guess it's okay to call it Lyon nasi beriani :P

So what do you think? Was it a big-eats weekend or what? lol

Edit: Here's a photo from Saturday night. Guess what they're doing?
Looks like the thing they're looking at is really interesting, huh? :P

Actually they were watching a badminton match. (on youtube, I think) I can't remember who was playing, I only remember that Lin Dan lost because of an umpire's error (ruling out instead of in or the other way around) so he was really unhappy at coming in second.

I just took the photo 'cos I found it pretty funny that they were all grouped there.