my 18th christmas

why 18th? cause i'm 18 years old this year of course (swt), and i've been through a special christmas eve, one that i never did before this year. i celebrate the christmas with friends in kl . . .

we have plan this a few weeks before x'mas eve, which is make a steamboat dinner by ourselves and stay overnight in kl. actually we stay in a condo in wangsa maju where some of my friends including myself rent it while studying in tar college. since the house is temporarily ours, we use it as a motel for 2 days and 1 night tour in kl, lolx . . .

night of 24th dec, after preparing everything, we start to eat, it's a normal steamboat with normal food, like crabmeat, hotdog, taufu, vege, etc. but it's quite nice and we really enjoying the dinner.

the dinner, on a computer table, lolx

later that night, about 930pm, i go to sungei wang with my national service friends, rarely i went there at night, i know it will be very crowded, still want to go to feel the atmosphere. i reach there about 1030pm, before i get down from bukit bintang monorail station, people down there already gathering all around sg. wang plaza, waiting to countdown. most of the youngsters are holding the coloured-spray thingy and use it not only on their friends, but cars and people walk by also being sprayed. then, we walk to time square through the plaza, shops are closed but people are crowded outside bukit bintang street, traffic mostly crawling and some police patrols are there, keeping people from chaos-ing i think. i witness this before in last year's x'mas, when i was in gurney drive, penang. similar thing in bukit bintang here also . . .

one of the scenes in bukit bintang street, taken from monorail station

i didn't stay there for too long, about 1115pm, i rush back to wangsa maju cause lrt operation time going to end... when i walking from wangsa maju stations back to condo, between the 12 minutes walking, time is 0000hr, which is 25th dec, suddenly can hear people screaming for 'merry christmas'. walk further, a mamak restaurant- brj, currently full i think, cause i see many customers there, guess this is the typical 21st century youngster's culture, having teatime at midnight, not bad, not bad at all . . .

my friends and i have our own way to celebrate - eating junk food while watching tv . . . haha, it's kinda boring. about 2am, 4 persons including me starts playing poker card - 'co dai di', it's quite tired when starts playing, but all of us are getting more and more awake. and so, we play till 6am only stop . . . haha, and wake up 2 hrs later, to have breakfast, lolx . . .

in the afternoon, we go to suria klcc to walk around, read some books in kinokuniya. . . when my dad calls, about 240pm, time of me to go back home, finaly, after staying in kl for 2 days and 1 night. a special x'mas for me . . .