The yesterday

I'm weak and frail now from fatigue. Sleep was terrible last night somehow and I struggled to wake up again.

Yesterday I organized Tay Yong's birthday party, though inviting many people unrelated to him and none of his new primary one friends were actually involved, I'm sure he enjoyed himself with people from church instead. (which I still think it's a better idea). He received a myriad of presents, which kept him grinning from ear to ear. Of course, that's not the whole point. He really did enjoy himself. And I hope everyone else did as well.

3pm, the first people came. As predicted, they stuck to the Wii like glue. Not exactly a plethora of game choices, inversely, only one or two games were available from my miserable collection. Super Smash brothers brawl is a classic. I've been playing that for my parties since like primary school. (with that old lackluster Nintendo 64 ancient console), and then slowly we moved on to the sequel of the series Smash Brothers Melee on the GameCube and finally brawl on Wii. Yes, we're like a couple of years late, but who cares. They stuck to it like glue and I hope everyone had fun. I didn't really enjoy the game, basically because my Kirby B-attacks was restricted because I found the Up-Down controls of the Joystick of the Nun chuck very restricted.

By 5pm, the number of people started to grow. And there was a north south divide all of the sudden (or up down divide). Bryan Joan And Joy were somewhat repelled by the games (or something else) and took refuge at the third floor while some other little kiddos were playing the same game (smash bros) on one of the rooms on the third floor. Same game, but few years backdated. Soon, I found myself in the wandering nomadic clique which includes maybe me tim and dom and we were auto-roaming my house. Up down left right, thats how we endeavored. Slowly we found ourselves in the piano room where Glen was playing his pop tunes. Then Dominic started improvising Twinkle Twinkle little star and me tim and glen sang three different versions of it in unison. Bla bla black sheep, Twinle star and the ABC song with MIXED lyrics is so funny! But we got sick of it. Then we played the chromatic scale chase and who hits the middle C first whacks the other guy's hand. They figured they couldn't beat me. so they started to do glissandos and whack me, which is so lame!

Amidst the gaming and auto roaming some of us found ourselves at the park nearby hitting shuttlecocks. Been a long time since I picked up a racket and my skills are certainly rusty. The wind was evident, and the conditions weren't as how I use to know badminton as. (nice fine court with proper shoes, clothing and opponents). But it was still fun, somewhat. and the thing i like about parties in my house is because I can go home straight and hit the shower.

The 2nd wave of people who came from Jump arrived just in time for dinner. A series of mingling around and fellowship took place while some others were engaged in a "friendly" game of Wii tennis. (which was indeed quite fun, albeit all that unfamiliarity). As usual, the standard procedure took place when the time for cutting birthday cakes and singing birthday songs arrived. By then, some people have already left, disappeared. But there were still a substantial amount of people left.

Then one of tay yong's new toys took everyone's attention. It was a physics toy. Something called a "Rolling ball" (!!) Two silver metallic poles parallel to each other had an equally metallic (same material) ball on it where it lies on a plane whereby it is slightly elevated at an angle. The ball has to reach the other end(slightly higher ground where by it is elevated AGAINST). by just opening the two poles. The ball does move with some momentum and the goal is for the ball to ride against gravity, adhering to the two poles by somekind of momentum and friction to reach the other end. The plane whereby all is suspended on is marked by planets starting from Mercury to Pluto (some planets are omitted) and intuitively the goal is to hit pluto. It was a very frustrating and excruciatingly painful test of hand eye coordination as well as the dexterity of force from our fingers. the micro details of the translations of minute energy and force OR the technique involved seem totally critical at some point of time as all of us sat in a circle figuring out how to get the BALL to pluto. At last, after a thousand of tries (no exaggeration here), Nicholas was the first to get there. And then after he mastered the technique he repeatedly owned the game by reaching there 6 other times. Trust me, it ain't any easy feat. My brothers both got there at some point of time. But i didn't bother to try. Because even if I knew how, I could never control the two poles to such a micro extent. I shudder thinking of that as I would vibrate in uneasiness and cold sweat.

By then only a handful of people were left (most disappeared while we were trying to set foot on pluto). A game of Wii baseball concluded the night.

Photos are already up on facebook. (my dad took). and people have been tagged. I know this is so not me. But anyway, being the unofficial "organizer", I hope it was somewhat like a success. At some points it got really boring, I know. Forgive me for that.