Monday, December 25, 2006
know its 3am and very late but i cant contain my excitement and joy and just have to pen it down. christmas countdown 2006 at orchard was fantastic fantastic and more fantastic. atmosphere this year was better, crowd control and security were also better. the pedestrian passageway outside ngee ann city was converted to a one-way street. police watch towers were set up at different locations with spotlights and video cameras. special ops police were stationed near the traffic lights and the whole area looked like a demilitarised warzone. haha. met up with zhihao for the countdown and we walked up and down the passageways outside the meritus mandarin hotel, taking photos of people playing with the snow spray. wanted to get a can to join in the fun but it was sold out. illegal sales of snow spray and colour ribbons have been banned this year. even saw a police truck with boxes of confiscated snow spray inside. disappointed, we tried cheers at cineleisure and 7-eleven at paragon but still couldnt buy any as they were not on sales at these locations. 12 midnight came and all hell break loose with people spraying snow spray all over the place, creating a snowing effect. we couldnt join in the fun but could only watch and take photos. as we walked along, we met an illegal vendor selling the snow spray and we got 5 cans for $10. haha.. now we are armed and ready to fight a war. we went around, spraying at people. of course we were sprayed at too. when the crowd is getting smaller and people are starting to leave, both of us, together with other people, teamed up with this family who had many cans of snow spray and colour ribbons. we formed 2 rows at each side of the passageway outside the coffeeclub at califonia fitness and declared war and attacked at passerbys. our team got bigger slowly until passerbys later became afraid to walk past us and took a detour to bypass us. haha. that was so very fun. zhihao n i left after the family finished their "ammo" and walked around, looking for more targets. eventually saw this guy who was his group of friends. it was a big group but nonetheless, i still went ahead to declare war on him. result was disasterious of course. all of them, some with 2 cans, attacked me and i turned into a foam-man within seconds. somehow, i refused to give up and followed him along the entire street, from california fitness to outside ngee ann city, crossing the road to paragon side and then crossing the road again to swensons. along this entire journey, i attacked him several times and they attacked me back with a bigger force each time. i exhausted my last salvo of ammo outside swensons and he too, is very low on ammo. we made "peace" there, shook hands and wished each other merry christmas. we even took photos together and shook hands and wished each other another time before departing. it was only after leaving that i realised that it slipped my mind to ask him for his name. could have known another new friend tonight but alas, i didnt. hopefully, by a miracle of God, he will chance upon my blog or friendster and see this photo. both of us posing for a photo together. really had lots and lots and lots of fun tonight. even thought of staying there the whole night but later decided to come back. there will be celebrations at orchard again later in the day. the whole orchard will be closed for the celebrations. haha. so exciting. if you are thinking that i may be going there later, you guessed right. i will be there later. dont you just love christmas? i loved it so very much. and thank God for sending Jesus to earth. He is the reason why we are celebrating and having fun now. He is the reason why i am so happy tonight. without Him, there will be no christmas, there will be no countdowns, there will be no fun. and tomorrow, orchard road is closed to celebrate to remember Jesus. praise the Lord. alright. think i shall retire for the night, though i doubt i can sleep. fun is still flowing through my veins, body and head. once again, merry christmas to everybody and especially my friends. have a blessed christmas and best wishes for 2007. and to my wargame "rival", if you do happen to chance onto this blog by miracle, merry christmas to you for the 3rd time. been nice meeting you and playing together. =) Jesus is the reason for the season.
as can seen from the photo, i had much more foam on me than he had on himself.