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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! HAPPY 2009! Ha, I know it abit late now, given that it is already the 20th of January of 2009, furthermore Chinese New Year is just round the corner!! Yikes! but hey it’s better be late then never right?

So, Happy New Year again. so people how’s your New Year Eve spent, man? Did you went to a countdown party? or stay at home with your loved one? or went to someone’s place and created some havoc?

Ha, no matter how you spend your last day of 2008, I would just assumed it must be damned fun and happening!! As for mine, it was really great!! The day was spent with my group of closed friends from my secondary schools, and thanks to YX &KT for offering their home, my friend and I had a place to count down and spend the meaningful night away from the crowd and noise.

It was really a simple gathering and party that we had food and drinks, played some WII and Mahjong and had a chit-chat session of the great old days. What made it special was that, the way we created the countdown party. It was the first time in our 15 years of friendships that we gathered together and cooked a dinner for ourselves!! And what a feast it was!

As most of us were still working on the New Year Eve, we could only start the marketing for the ingredients around 5-6pm. Knowing that by the time we were done with the market, it would be pretty late, our spirit was not really dampen and even though we could only managed to lit the fire at about 8pm. We were still pretty much excited about it,  Ha!

So hit the stove we did, ha, with me being the main “Cook” of the day and together with my assistant DT, RY, YX, we managed to whip out quite a few dishes.

We had,Cream of Mixed Wild Mushroom Soup, Beef Loin-Steak with Black Pepper Sauce, Pork-chop with butter-Onions Sauce, BBQ Whole Chicken, Meat Balls, Steamed Potatoes, Stirred-Fry Broccoliwith carrots, Spaghetti with Veg-tomato sauce, salads and of cos Heineken beers!!!

Yeah! Yeah! It was really fun and enjoyable that night, we had lots of food and everyone really enjoyed the dinner. Beside the dinner and the great company, what made me happy and pleased was that, my friends enjoyed my cooking too. Although, the taste weren’t like world class, but hey it was still nice enough for them to sing some praise for me.

So my dear friends, I really glad-ed that all of you have enjoyed the food and thank you for trusting me in my ability to cook. For those who are not aware, it been at least 6 years since I cooked a meal for someone else, so for me to cook again, I was actually a little fearful.

Therefore, really from the bottom of my heart, Thank you for trusting me and for the past 15 years as well, thanks you all for being there for each other and I hoped my cooking will be just a small token to say thank you and good luck to all of us and of course, let all of us have a great 2009, ok!!

And in the future, if the chance and opportunities are there again, I will cook again for you all. (As long as all chip in money to buy the ingredients lah, hahaha)

Last Night of the year 2008