NYE...

We had a small gathering at Ternasser's place with the few Singaporeans left in Bangalore as most of them has returned to Singapore over the holidays. Though smaller crowd, we still had fun with Mahjong and good food prepared by Ternasser.

After the clock struck 12am, we decided to go and set some fireworks (bought since deepavali)which I have brought. We tried to access the rooftop where it would be safer to play but it was locked up. So we went downstairs to the swimming pool area to try out the fireworks and crackers. It's the first time for many of us playing with such prohibited stuffs back in Singapore.

It was hell fun and loud time!

Started off with the crackers (those CNY kind). Just light the fuse and throw to the driveway area... Early celebrations for CNY... =)

Hock Lum seemed to be the most experienced one dealing with these crackers. He took initiative to try out all of those different kinds of cracker, fireworks, bombs... Chris helped to light the fuse most of the time as he had his lighter and most of us were not brave enough to light those short fuses.

Its a swinging sparkle... after swinging for awhile HL swinged it into the empty swimming pool... and oops... it left some burnt mark on the swimming pool mosaic tiles. Hopefully it can be cleaned off. Hehe... or the resident here may be in trouble.

The most fun fireworks are the rockets. HL and Raymond found suitable "launching pads" amongst the branches of the plants and we launch the rockets from there.

These rockets can fly as high as 7-8 storeys. Luckily they are mostly vertical flyers and don't end up in other residents' balconies. =)

We also tried those big bursts of sparkles....

There were also others such as snakes (will fly around randomly), Peacocks (small bang sound), Hydrogen Bombs (really big bangs) and many others... HL was once almost hit by a flying cracker.. luckily the column he hid behind at saved him...

At the end of the "Cracking" session, we did suffer some casualties.. Chris and Raymond's thumbs were slightly burnt when they were lighting fuses... Hope it doesn't hurt that much and will recover real soon. Thanks for their sacrifices. =)

Lastly, let's end with another of HL's silhouette photo...