Food, Talk, Laugh, Food, Talk, Laugh, Ryan & The Guards

It was an eventful nite for us. All we did was eat, laugh, talk, eat, laugh, talk and the night ended with a highlight of the night - the fight with the Guard! It's so nice to have such gathering with such 'friends'. yup..such "friends"...we used to work together in this S company. Half of us had gone separate ways now. Honestly, I am not sure if we could still be such "friends" if we stayed in the same co. all these years. I think we had our share of finger pointing and politicking those days..but those are all in the past now.

It was a long crazy night for us. I was actually a bit worried that more will happen especially we had to drive home alone. Thank God all of use got home safely (i think). I actually had trouble calming down to sleep. And..No..we didn't have any alcohol or drugs. It was all natural high based on just Food, trash talking, gossips, mag's Finnish cooking, ryan's antics and of course..the final highlight - THE GUARD. Let me try to summarise to the simplest :

FOOD

Appetisers (while waiting for Mag) - peanut pancake, big apple donut

Upon Mag's arrival, she started her attempt to make Finnish pancake..while waiting..we started on pizzas. While Mag, Jenny and Carine figure out on some technicality (more flour less flour, more egg, less egg) of the pancake mixture..we proceed to vegetarian curry and bak kut teh with some rice. As Mag started worrying that her pancake mixture may not workout...we were almost stuffed by then. With renewed confidence, Mag continued to work on her whip cream (for the pancake). While pondering whether I should indulge in another piece of chicken pepperoni pizza, I caught a glimpse of the whip cream that looked quite good & creamy (for a few minutes)...moments later..Mag exclaimed that her whip cream had suddenly changed texture into a slump of yucky looking 'thing'. She later confessed that she had thrown away her first attempt earlier cos she accidentally used salt instead of sugar :D But..it remained a mystery ..why this second attempt a failed too.

Alas, we did have our Finnish pancake without the whip cream. Pretty good. It would have been perfect with some whip cream. OH ya..mag's mashed potato was successful. We finished all of it..nothing left for to take photo.

RYAN

In the midst of all the food and making fun of Mag's pancake. Ryan played his part entertaining us when he shared with us how he 'kicked and punched the abdul rahman' - a kid in school that he fights with almost every other day. He also amused us with his sweet lovey look when he tells us the name of his girlfriend in school - Arina ( i thk). We concluded that..Ryan started fighting & dating at 3 while his mom only started at 6 and 10. Progressing very fast aren't we?

TRASH TALKING

We talked non stop starting from 7pm to 12am. A little bit about career advancement, politics and a little bit about mag's glamourous trip in the next 6 mths..and the rest are all gossips and trash. I really can't recall any substantial facts that we talked about. For example..debating about the right cantonese pronounciation for Spider - is it Chi Chu or Chu Chu. And..what's the right cantonese term for Spider web...while the rest used Chi Chu Mong...ML and I used a similar but somewhat different term.

ML - Kam Lo Shue Wong

ME - Kam Mo Sin Mong----Which one is right?

THE GUARD

Lastly, the highlight of the night! We left ML's house around midnite to find my car clamped! How exciting..first time my car being clamped. The guards insisted that we must pay the $50 fine because we parked at a resident's lot for 5 long hours and they couldn't contact us. FYI - there wasn't a reserved sign on the lot. Duh..did u notice the keyword here? "they couldn't contact us" -- that's simply because they didn't bother to take down our particulars and house no. when we entered the condo area. In addition, they were the one who directed us to the go further up to park since the visitors' lot were fully occupied.

And so..we spent about 45 mins arguing with this drunk security guard who insisted that we must pay. And of course we insisted that we will not pay cos 'kita tak buat salah'. ML called when she saw that we were still at at the guard house . She sent her hubby down to help us out while she kept watched from upstairs. In summary, the argument went on and on and on like something like this:

Drunk guard: lu jangan hantam saya. sya buat kerja saja. u tak bayar saya gaji potong

Us: kita takda hantam u. u tak salah. orang u suruh kami park sana. panggil orang itu mari.

Drunk guard: dia sudah balik tidur. macam mana datang. u bayar, saya bagi receipt. besok u datang office.

Us: tak mau. kita tak buat salah. mengapa mau bayar. u buka itu clamp. case tutup.

It went on and on and on...about who was right who was wrong. Pay no pay. I thank Carine for insisting that we must not pay. I thank ML's lovely hubby for standing by us..giving us the courage n protection.

I was pretty stunt by this part:

Us: sekarang u orang salah. kita masuk, takda orang ambil maklumat. suruh kita park. tapi tak tau mana kita pergi. kita belum complain lagi.

Drunk guard: u complain la. itu bukan shift saya. saya contract pun sudah habis! saya tak takut.

Doink..a cantonese phrase to descrine my reaction then was ' "bei hooi cha do" meaning..caught me speechless! Anyway..the saga came to and end when he called the person in charge and asked us to explain to her. Within minutes..she directed that he should release the clamp but to take down the car registration for record purposes.

Case settle isn't it. As simple as that..but..this drunk fella..still went on and on about donno what. That got on ML's hubby's nerves. He blew his top man..

he shouted at the guard: u kuat minum. saya sudah cakap banyak kali..u takda dengar. sekarang u buat saya malu depan kawan saya.

Guard : apa u mahu bikin sekarang!

ML hubby : apa ? apa u mahu sekarang...

And we were thought the saga was over..these 2 men started a shouting match pulak. Fortunately...they didnt end up in a fist fight as we managed to get this lovely hubby of ML to calm down and leave.

Oh..what a night!