hope everyone has a happy cny! :)

new yrs eve was fun, i went down to chinatown with alex to look at the cny goodies. hehe. he also wanted to go take some pictures of the night scene. since my main aim was to go buy cheap new year stuff (yar i know, it's so auntie) so we left at 2330 only, hoping to reach just when the great cny sale starts. i drove and parked at boon keng and we took the train down, which i thought was pretty smart hehe. *smirk*

omg, chinatown was SO crowded. but i think the traffic is much better than last year liao. in some parts there were barricades akin to those in the wisma-taka corridoor so tt we won't have 1 idiot trying to force his way against everyone else. but of course, elsewhere it was terrible. esp the intersections where pple were walking in 4 directions. omgomg. it's really very slow trying to plow your way through..

it was interesting to watch alex snap away with his camera. i thought certain shots he took of children playing with the remnents of the fire crackers turned out to be quite nice. heh. then there was this person who gave him a 1 finger salute. oh well.

i bought alot of snacks! you know those soft marshmallow stuff tt have fillings of green tea/chocolate/strawberry, there was this stall tt was selling you and empty bag for $3 and ask you to fill as much as you can. after i stuffed the bag to full, it weighed about 2kg. good arm training as i discovered later. freaking heavy larh!

everything was on crazy sale. bought liver lat cheong tt i totally adore. one of the foods tt will actually make me step into the kitchen to cook because i so like to eat it. :) then i bought green tea/ rose flavoured melon seeds too, peanuts, chocolates all majorly discounted. talking abt the melon seeds, they were from the gua(1) zi(3) wang(2) stall. by the time i was there they were selling 10 packets of whatever-you-could-find-there for $5. so for $5 i got 3 packs of chocolates, 4 packs of green tea melon seeds, 1 pack of rose melon seeds and 2 SACKS of peanuts.

well, we finally finished shopping/taking photos at 0150. the last train leaving chinatown was at 0200. wah lau, mad rush lar. at first we still thought no problem shoudl be able to catch the train. but when it dawned on us that it was 5 mins more before the train departed and we were still 400m away from the station, we sprinted with all the rubbish we were carrying. haha. i bet alot of pple were looking at these 2 mad boys running.

but i'm sure if they were planning to take the train, they would realise why we were running soon after.

as we were running into the station, the announcement was on, "dear passengers, the LAST train to punggol will be leaving the platform shortly... yadayada" wah lau, i think tt really got us running even faster down the loooooooooong escalator and finally onto the train.

i tell you, it was DAMN exciting. haha, could hear my heart thumping when we finally got onto the train. less than 30 seconds later the last train from chinatown station had left the station.

and we smiled, congratulating ourselves on catching it. haha.

it would have been disastrous if we missed the train. 1)walk home or 2) take cab home, the 2nd option of course negating whatever 'savings' we got from our shopping spree, and the former breaking our legs so tt we wouldn't have been able to go bai(4) nian(2) today.

i enjoyed the little outing on cny eve, though i usually don't like crowds. but the cny crowd is just different, just want to go in to have a look at what's going on and how low the prices can go. :)