After making everyone watch Little Nyonya with me on Christmas eve, I gave up my premier seat in front of the television and got ready to leave for another party.

“Wait! Play one game before you go!” Dasmond was more than glad to regain control of the remote at 10pm and promptly turned on his Wii.

Oh man, I suck at games which require complicated brain-eye-hand-leg coordination. There must be a reason why people invented board games like Monopoly. Throw dice. Move token. Receive money. Give money. Etc. One action at a time.

I watched in despair as my silly rabbit (or whatever it’s called) went in every direction except where it should go. “I’m not going to stay here and humiliate myself. I’m leaving right now!” It was a good thing I stayed for I eventually came in tops in the last segment which only required me to move the control up and down to simulate a bounce.

Later on at Jan’s, no one was in the mood to listen to lengthy instructions as San Chin whipped out her Cranium set. Some were hungry and were taking orders for McDelivery. Others were concerned we would miss the countdown. Then there were those who hadn’t met up for a really long time and were determined to catch up with one another before the year was over.

We settled for Taboo instead. Oh, I’m really good at this. My voice drowns out everyone else’s so my team members can hear my clues/ answers clearly.

I discovered this Christmas that the real reason why I excel at Taboo is because of my incredibly warped thinking.

Clue:
Boy and girl.

Cruz:
Pregnant.

They stared at me for a really long time as the team gained another point.

It’s a good thing I returned from Hong Kong a day earlier.

Flights at Hong Kong airport disrupted by strike of ground staff

Two days before the flight to Hong Kong, I emailed my friends to inform them that I’ll be absent from the Boxing Day Party.

Andrew:
Wah seh! So fun! Everyone go to the airport and send you off again?

Leo:
Don’t give him false hopes.

Needless to say, there wasn’t anyone at the airport that morning.

Cruz:
To all the heartless people who aren’t seeing me off, Merry Xmas! Cya before the year ends!

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t mind spending an extra hour or two in Changi Airport. It’s the best in the world! (Or one of the best. Whatever.) However, with the lack of sleep the night before, I was in an extremely grouchy mood.

Don came to know about my predicament and did a mass SMS.

Cruz flight delay, very DL now. Whoever nearest to airport, please go and sayang him. Ar bo he go mad on Xmas Day not so nice lah.

No one turned up of course, but the SMSes and phonecalls streamed in. That’s when I decided on a change in the itinerary. I was tired, grouchy, irritated, fed up, etc. Shopping alone in Hong Kong was the last thing on my mind. My mum was the only one who thought I should stay in Hong Kong.

You come back sure no time rest one. You better stay in HK and sleep in the hotel.

Where got people ask me to waste money like that one? Anyway, Jan took care of everything as usual. She has my NRIC number at her fingertips and my credit card number written down somewhere. All she has to do now would be memorise my passport number for future flight changes.

The turkey served on board was surprisingly tasty!

There weren’t any vegetables on the menu, so I settled for “vegetable rice” to get a minimal intake of greens for the day. The pork chop was good, but the 杨汁甘露 was disappointing.

The streets of Tsimshatsui were filled with people.

What? Boxing Day is a public holiday in Hong Kong? We were once a British colony like them! Why isn’t Boxing Day a holiday in Singapore?

Ok lah, they don’t have Hari Raya Puasa, Hari Raya Haji and Deepavali…

Everyone was generally in a joyous mood, except Cruz Teng who wanted nothing more than a good sleep. Hahaha. The ferry perked me up a little though. First time crossing the waters to Hong Kong Island!

In conjunction with the release of Heartbeat 心.跳 on Boxing Day, Wang Leehom did a spectacular stunt on Christmas. Instead of a press conference that has the whole of Asia converging at a single location, he met the media at three different skyscrapers in the Greater China region- Taiwan’s Taipei 101 (509.2 m), Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower (459 m) and Hong Kong’s International Finance Centre (415.8 m) in one day.

300 media representatives from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia attended the series of events which cost Sony Music NT$8,000,000 (approx S$400,000).

Leehom’s exclusive interview can be heard on Y.E.S. 93.3FM from Monday.