the year of the bingo and totingo.

reunion dinner was at changi golf club (i think). after that, it was off to uncle renie's place for some after dinner chitchat.. this was where it got fun. because..

we had our first tan family bingo game, thanks to uncle renie. so the game goes like this, every interested family member puts a pool of $1 per pax and you are entitled to a piece of bingo slip. each slip contains a 4 by 5 box containing numbers from 1 - 79. its idiot proof cos its like toto. you wait for the bingo machine to roll the numbers and you pray that you all the numbers on your slip of paper gets called out. part 1 of the game requires you to get all the numbers on the first row.

and guess what! i was first to get all the numbers! and ka ching! 3 dollars in the pocket. THEN, i was first again to get all the numbers on my slip called out. but being the gong gong that i was, i shouted full house instead of bingo. like which idiot calls full house instead of bingo when the name of the game is bingo right. damn smart la stef. so the adults demanded a penalty since i called the wrong word. the deal was if the next number called out and somebody strikes a bingo, i would have to share the pool money. BAH, aunty chai hong got her bingo! but she was nice enough to give me her share of the winnings so hur hur 33 kaching!

ta da! bingo winners (:


apparently, bingo wasn't the end of the night yet. during dinner, we had to fill our names out and pass it to felicia. we were going to play deal or no deal. so whilst i was still shaking from my super tyco bingo luck, felicia was calling my name. turns out that our darling nephew joshua picked my name out from the pool of names and i was the lucky participant in our tan family's version of deal or no deal!

deal or no deal game going on..

ho ho ho. instead of courts briefcases labelled from 1-25, i had angbaos labelled from 1-10. highest prize was $200 and lowest was $2. and i got $120. i swear that was my best day ever.

me and my ang bao prize money together with my very generous sponors - sam and felicia (:


then came chinese new year, no peektures cos the uncles haven't mailed them out yet. anyhoos, the bingo game got super addictive during new year. so much so that we had so many different versions of bingo, we even had totingo! bah. i'm too lazy to explain how the game works. just that i didn't win a single bingo/totingo round AT ALL despite the many many many rounds we played for those three days. ended up losing like 60 dollars in total.

but new year didn't suck that much cos i followed JY and his friends for some random chinese new year clubbing session at le chinois. it's actually where the old crazy horse nights used to be. and that pretty much sums up my xing nian oh eight.