Settler's Cafe

XQ, the last few days nothing exciting happened mah, that's why no entry. i was just lazing around and playing AOE3. Unless you want to hear about how I conquered the Native Americans meh..

Anyway, went to Settler's Cafe last night with my NIE classmates (hmm...can I call them my colleagues?). It was quite fun, although my legs and knee caps are in pain because the table was very low and we were sitting on terrible low stools. (Oh some of them were sitting on cosy comfy sofas with all the leg space but never mind.. =p)

The board games were fun..and we only a sampled a tiny fraction of the myriad choices available. The games we played were rather mind boggling and I had a headache at the end of the session ..think countless brain cells were killed in the process....or was the headache due to the incessant screaming from XQ and Desi?? =p We started with intellectual games like "Cranium" and "Blokus", and then slowly move on to the relatively brainless games like Taboo and Jungle Speed and some barnyard animal games which involve a bunch of grownups making animal noises...

Highlights of the day:
1. Joanne's rendition of having a fever during "Taboo": panting, groaning and moaning as she repeatedly placed the back of her hand on her forehead.

2. Qiuxuan's all too literal demonstration of "SPIT": so literal that we were surprised we got it right.

3. Cheryl's trademark bag of tricks which looks like she just came from China and is leaving for Malaysia. Sadly someone from the next table spilt her drink over Cheryl's mysterious bag.

4. Felicia's rather explicit and excessively informative account of how she was literally kissing the toilet door, although to her credit the toilet was really small!

5. The embarassing cheer from the pink team(consisting of Ouyang, Felicia and XQ). I only remember lots of PINK PONK PINK PONK we wear pink. we will win. etc....

6. THe meticulous green team (Shihui, Desi and Cheryl) who strategise so much during Cranium, that they spent so much time asking the blue team(Qiuxuan, Joanne, Calbin and me) questions and yet totally lacking in interest when it's their turn to answer the questions. In fact Desi is almost always at the loo and we were considering shifting to a table nearer to the washroom.

7. XQ and Desi getting visibly more and more excited and start to move threateningly towards Joanne when she was giving the clues for "Taboo", usually drowning out the rest of their team in the progress.

8. XQ made cute lovely badges for everyone in the class..a pity I cannot post the pictures of them. THanks XQ!

10. Ridiculously difficult questions like "What is the meaning of the word OTIOSE" (for the record, the word means "to serve no pratical purpose"..haha quite a useful word I must say!) and some geographical question about South Africa, capacity of a human bladder, names of astronauts, etc.

All in all it was four hours of fun and laughter. At only $12 per person! A pity some of us weren't able to make it: Janissa, Yvonne, Jacqueline, Melissa and U-shan. We missed your presence!!


Here is a picture of us: as you can see, Calbin is still sore and unhappy that none of us want to play his game involving some pigs racing...or was it cows?