Friday, December 23, 2005

Friday Faze: Christmas Edition

Part 1: Christmas carolling

The orange Christmas carollers

Audience wearing the door gifts -- funky hats!

Lounging around

More lounging...

Part 2: Design a human Christmas tree!
(Groups were formed according to the hats people chose to wear.)

Hard at work


Guess who!


Y lends KO a hand with his sight problem

ST overloaded

Guess who 2!

MN's all wrapped up!

Guess who 3!

Happy face before the brolly

L -- the fairy tree


Hapless D -- the post-it wish tree

Some of the impossible wishes

Gawking crowd

The teams and their Christmas trees:

Team Yellow Hats

Team Moo Moo

Team Starry

Team Smiley Hats

The winning tree -- Team Red Chequered Hats

Part 3: The Christmas gift exchange ala musical chairs

The deejays: A and TT

Guys passing the gifts around

Still passing...

What A ended up with -- girly accessories??

Part 4: BBQ
(No photos 'cos everyone was too busy eating?)

Part 5: Charity auction

Credits to:

TH the co-organiser who also doubled up as the auctioneer

BB the other co-organiser who liaised with the charity

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

A Feeting Birthday Celebration

JT takes leave on her birthday... only to be called back to the office for:

1. Joy and her cake
... THE cake and

8. pitterpatter of tiny feet
... a string of colourful feet??

3. feet necklace
Well, at least it doubles up as a funky necklace...

12. joy and her beer and earrings
and she got presents: A pedicure voucher, dangly earrings and Hoegaarden beer

5. groupie2
The mean groupies who forgot that she was on leave
and called her back (photo taken outside the *ahem* ladies)


13. blue-family trio
ES, JT and Kitty feel the blues (and purple)

16. anuar the beer opener
Nobody could get the cap off... till AA came to the rescue!

17. manisha and joy and their drinks
MN and JT looking happy with their choice of poison

Monday, November 21, 2005

Birthday Ben

BB looking pleased

The make-shift voucher that was a substitute for
the real ones that Anthony got -- but he was on MC!


Blowing out the flame

Cutting the cake

... and briefly considering cutting
something (or someone?) else


Looking on: LK, KN and ES

Who's ES-EL again?

Happy trio: AF, AA and E

BB's buddies

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Launch: Budding Writers Project 2005

Part 1: Before the prize-giving ceremony

BW poster
Poster

SANY0475
The venue: Woodlands library auditorium

SANY0506
Balloons lining the aisles

tania reliving her childhood
Tania reliving her childhood

Wei Jie, Eileen and Tania
WJ, ES and TH

Part 2: After the prize-giving ceremony
(Budding Writers Project exhibition)

Set-up at the ground floor of the library
Set-up at the ground floor of the library

Booths of the winning entries:

The Rubbish Problem booth
The Rubbish Problem

Dayo's Song booth
Dayo's Song

Top 20 works:


Illustrations from Stink Wars
Sock illustrations from Stink Wars


1st page of My Sister and Me
Excerpt from My Sister and Me

Ice-cream
Free buffet of food, including ice-cream (which quickly disappeared
into both authorised and non-authorised stomachs)!

Mrs Nathan visiting the booths
Mrs Nathan visiting the booths

The storyteller asks for an autograph
The storyteller asks WJ for an autograph

The authors at the table with Mrs President
The pint-sized authors at the table with Mrs Nathan

Badly-edited article in Today newspaper, 19th November 2005