Right after I woke up, I went to the market to do the marketing for crabs, prawns, sausages, greens for the salad bar, sweetcorn, etc. etc.. Had to make so many trips back to the car to load up my purchases as each purchase was weighing kgs!!
After 2 hours, I started on getting the preparations started. Drinks went into the cooler box, with ice from 7-11. Garlic and small onions were diced. Chicken wings were marinated. The BBQ pit had to be cleaned up and sunned - 2 pits. Take a short lunch break. Then started cleaning up and preparing the crabs - 5 kgs/ 12 crabs.
By 5pm, took a drive to Leisure Mall to collect an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins and a Classic Cheese Cake from Secret Recipe. Got back, started up the fire for the BBQ. Used the convection oven to get some of the lamb chops and chicken wings cooked - mainly for the "older" guests who would probably not be standing in front of the BBQ fire.
At 7pm, the guest started arriving. Sen and Teo were the first, followed by Elaine and family. Jayson and gang wasn't too far behind. That was my self imposed signal to cook the first round of black pepper crab. Got it a little undercooked - still - most of it was finished.
As the night wore on, Soh and family, Kim and family showed up - and I had a second round of black pepper crabs ready. By the time Siew Mei and her family arrived, the third and last round of black pepper crab was cooked and I was smelling like a crab myself. Should have gone for a bath and a change of clothes, but I was beginning to feel pooped!! I was feeling so full from preparing the BBQ that I was not hungry. Just took a can of Guai Loh Leong Char and a 100 plus to re balance my ions.
Then it was cake cutting time. The Baskin Robbins guy promised me at ;east 3 hours of dry ice. So there was still a couple of small pieces in the box. Used those to create a misty atmosphere around the cakes. Here are the kiddos waiting in anticipation.
Party started winding down around 10pm, with Soh and family leaving first. Soh wanted to catch his football game. The rest of the LSCA gang was having some card game and in the end Jayson was so pissed drunk - I offered him my garden to sleep it off with Berry my dog to accompany him. Naturally he declined. So he was not as pissed drunk as I thought. How did they get so drunk - they did something like these dogs.
The last guests (Siew Mei and family) left past 11.30!! Finally got to take our bath (Alex, lee Chiew and me) and we kinda passed out around 1am.
One of Alex's favourite presents was the one given by the LSCA team - Optimus Prime!! You don't know who is Optimus Prime?? 
Go watch Transformer the movie! Before he went to bed, Alex finally figured out how to transform Optimus from the Robot to the Truck. I really appreciate the efforts put in by the team to get Optimus Prime. Major toy stores in Klang Valley were out of stock for weeks and the LSCA team managed to get the last one from God knows where which was imported from Japan. So Alex had instruction sheets written in Japanese ;D.
Woke up this morning with sore butt (not sure why), sore back (from standing over the kitchen sink preparing the food) and sore legs (my pedometer tells me that I had walked almost 18000 steps, equivalent to almost 7km). Ayam tired!!
Things has certainly changed from the time when I was scouting. Maybe it was my school - Victoria Institution. Maybe it was the times. But I was certainly not aware of any scouts movement that has a co-ed participation. I clearly remember that there were Boy Scouts and there were Girl Scouts. 
So I attended my first scouts camp in school uniform, looking very lost and unprepared. What was the scouts motto?? - BE PREPARED!! Never mind. I was part of Falcon patrol and Sze Toh (a secondary upper) was my PL (Patrol Leader). 
One was to Penang during the school holidays when I was in Form 1 (Lower Secondary 1). We camped inside the Botanical gardens and had daily run ins with the monkeys inhabiting the gardens. We had to be careful with our food stuff as the monkeys would steal them when they can. That was my first trip out of KL. On reflection, it was also quite selfish of me to have gone for that trip as my mum had just lost her job. The day I left for the trip, my mum was staying in a budget hotel courtesy of a family friend. When I got back a week later, I found that mum had managed to get us put up with a Grandaunt in Hot Spring New Village. That was also the time that I had to look after my sister and cook for her - at 12 years old. My mum's new employer could not accommodate 2 small kids at her work place. When school re-opened, Mum asked me to stop scouting. I did for a while, but the attraction of scouting was too great and I rejoined some months later.
We had set up the tent such that the entrance was parallel to the sea. This was to prevent water from getting in if the rain blew in from the sea. One night, the wind must have been very strong and very wet. We had placed the groundsheet inside the tent as usual, but had placed our haversack under the groundsheet at the edge. As a result, rain water came into the tent and could not go out. The groundsheet was collecting the water. My tent mates realized that it was flooding inside the tent and had evacuated -and I was sleeping like a log oblivious to everything. next morning, I found myself sleeping in about 2 to 3 inches of water up to my ears - totally drenched.
Till today, I do not fear dogs. I respect them, but do not fear them. Maybe that's because I am born in the year of the dog??!!
With a capacity of 77 cubicles, we only have a total of 35 employees and another 15 non Agilent workers (contractual/ temporary staff). During the separation from HP, we had >80 employees. WOW!!
Today, he delivered his first coffee talk which was filled with talk, cheesecakes, nasi dagang, carbonated soft drinks, BUT NO COFFEE!! :)
And lunch was a sort of sumptuous Nasi Dagang catered by Village Park. 
Round about 2pm, everyone started making a beeline for U-Bowl at I Utama. We had 7 lanes booked for friendly bowling games with the objective of team building.
Each team was mixed and matched with members from EMG and LSCA. There were some surprises. Some of these guys are GOOD, but inconsistent. In the end, EVERY team won something. 7 teams took part and 7 teams won hampers.