Friday, February 25, 2011

Chinese New Year celebrations 2011

Last Sunday, the society held a Chinese New Year celebration for the Malaysians. Although it was two weeks late, it was something that everyone looked forward to. Despite the low number of replies we got of people who are attending the event, it turned out to be one of our successful events. The low number of participants didn't prevent us from having a good time. We had great food (steamboat, fried rice, popiah, tau foo fah), awesome company (even having some Turkish and Hong Kong guests) and entertaining games. 

Remember the 'Forbidden Word' game? It made everyone think about what they had to say, as they can't say NO or it's Malay equivalent, TAK/TIDAK. Then we had the charades-like game, where a person from the table has to guess his/her team member's description of  a word. The funny acts that they did and the words that came out of their mouth! Jagung (corn) to describe the Petronas Twin Towers? LOL And a contestant flapping his arms to describe tandoori chicken? Golden moment. Lastly, it was the 'camwhoring' game, where everyone gathers in a circle, and passes around a camera that was set on a timer. The person who gets caught on camera when the timer goes off, is out of the circle. While everyone usually poses in front of the camera, this game made everyone avoid it!

Vice president Jameson Ling thanking the guests for coming, and starting the event.

First things first, fortune cookies!

Steamboat on every table.

The popiah

Putting ingredients into the steamboat.

*munch-munch*

The tau foo fah (soya-based dessert)

Chocolate fountain


The first game of the night -- the red packet quiz.

Do you know the answer?

Here's the question.

Hmmm........what could the answer be?

I know!

Yes, you over there!

Congratulations!

Your answer is correct!

Yay, more munchies for me.

A new bowl to eat my steamboat in.



The steamboat needs more filling!

You have to make him guess the word.

A tall building! Jagung!

Uhhhh........

Hahaha!

It's...a....

Next!

That thing! That thing!

You know!

Ok, slow down....

Wait...you know....

It's...the....

Oh!

Let's begin the camwhoring session!

And pass it around...

I need to be on the camera....oops!!!

Let's start again.

You're on camera!

Thank you very much to everyone who attended. We hope you had a wonderful time with us, and we hope to organise more entertaining events for YOU soon. Look forward to it!

4 comments:

Jameson said...

before anythg else, well done guys! well done umpy!

deweyta said...

agree with jameson...it was great

Didi said...

I had a great time! The games were really fun! Keep up the good job!

University of Portsmouth's Malaysian Society said...

Thanks for all the support.
We are happy you had a great time in this event.