Party - Open-house Party @ Bayshore Park (10th-11th February 2007)

3:00pm - First guest arrives... 30 minutes earlier than expected catching baobei and I still cooking in the kitchen but was promptly excuse as he was bearing gifts and food fit for the gods

3:30 to 5:00pm - People trickle in and start munching on food. Suk brings whole family, complete with 2 kids

5:00 to 6:00pm - DaMo regales Mei with his worldly exploits while GZ snoozes blissfully in la-la-land in the library/study. Anime movie "Life of Confucius" started at DaMo's request

6:00pm - Early arrivals have mostly left. Snowybeagle arrives with snowylady and two snowypups who immediately stake their territorial claims over the sofa and balcony

7:00pm - The WARGAMERS Ur and Moose arrive. Ur came bearing gifts and bestows "Axis and Allies, the boardgame" on the unsuspecting hosts, gaining instant blessings from LJM and instant notoriety from Baobei

7:30pm - Movie 1 - "Battle of Wits" starts and GZ snoozes yet again, on the sofa this time

9:30pm - With a slightly deminished crowd, Movie 2 -"Musa" starts

10:00pm - Last guest, Lifezard arrives to help clean-up

12:00am - Ur pulls out his games and Moose and Lifezard chicken out mumbling poor excuses and beating a hasty retreat out the door. Only Ur and DaMo remain

12:30am - DaMo threatens Ur menacingly with a sword to begin his cardgame and Ur defends himself by shooting DaMo

1:00am - Cardgame "Illiad" begins. Baobei rolls her eyes retreating back to her room and dives under her blankets to sleep

3:00am - After coffee, snacks and munching on chutney, the telescope is dragged out into the balcony and planet Saturn in Opposition is caught on 360x magnification. Clear cloud bands on Saturn and its rings are seen

3:30am - DaMo, eyelids drooping/closing and yawning incessantly lurches/stumbles to the library/study, barely making it to the mat/floor before he transformed/changed into a pumpkin and locks/bolts himself in the room to sleep/snooze

4:00am - Ur begs for one last wargame and in disgust LJM obliges by trashing him in the game, trampling Ur's army with his war-elephants & phalanx while confounding his chariots with catapults in punishment for keeping him up so late... and wins the hand of Helen in the bargain

5:00am - Everyone is counting sheep and snorting air. Agitated dogs finally stop barking, babies finally stop crying, neighbours heave a great sigh of relief, and peace finally reigns again at Jade Tower

8:00am - LJM gets up to check but finds everyone still unconscious and so goes back to sleep again

10:00am - Ur and DaMo sneak out the house while everyone is still asleep