Brand new post for the brand new year.

Yup... I know its been another long time since my last post. Been really busy and too lazy to post. Moreover, not much new photos to put up too. However, I will still do a quick summary of what has happened over the month of december.

Throughout the month of Decemember since my last post, I have been busy with work. One of the amusing thing which I have encountered is that one of my local colleagues actually assumed helicopter landing pads to be found on the ground floor of a residential development. There should be 1 pad for each cluster of connected blocks, where to find so much space to have helipads on the ground? Well, it was surprising to me but I have to forgive them for their knowledge as there isn't that many skycrapers in India for them to know that helipads for tall buildings are meant to be at the rooftops. Then again, they should have watched movies or tv advertisements which have shown helipads in the roofs... eg. Independent Day. Ok... shalln't argue further.

Then comes Christmas!...

This is the Christmas decorations at the Bangalore office. Erm... I have sent this photo to some friends previously and they all laughed... hehe.. well... this is a real tree... not a fake one.

Christmas is actually celebrated in Bangalore as well. There are many christians around too. Besides the churches, the people acutally do organise some christmas parties themselves. The residential block beside our office held a family fun and games party on their rooftop on one of those nights nearing to Christmas.

For us, the Singaporeans here, we had a Christmas gathering party at the Chia's house. It was good fun and good food! Plentiful spread of nice home-cooked food. I had contributed my sambal prawns.

We had a gift exchange thingy for Christmas spirit. I've got a black addidas cap. Thank you to the person who bought that. =)

Good party and some of them stayed back to play Mahjong till wee hours in the morning. U can view this entry for a better description and photos of this gathering. http://singalore.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-party-2006.html

I called taxi to fetch me back. It was another confusing process. Called one operator, he told me he has no cabs around my area so I called the other company. After talking for a long time to tell him the address, I thought he understood... in the end, I got a call from a cab driver asking for directions again. Duh... Never mind, then another cab driver called me ... he is from the 1st operator I have called. So confusing... dunno how these people work. Anyway, I did managed to get back home safe and sound.

For Christmas itself, I din really go out as I was quite tired with all the rush work in office and also the thought of trying to get transport (telling drivers directions etc) makes me totally sian. Had a good rest at home and played WoW.