Tuesday, April 17, 2007 ;
6:04 AM
14 Apr
Sat 6pm
Church FingerFood Potluck and
Game Night: Match Game
Once in a while, there'll be such an activity where we gather for food and games.
This Sat, the game was Match Game, started in the 1950s I think, and popularised again in the 70s and 80s. It was also popular in the UK and Europe but they called it "Blankety Blank" there.
It involves having 6 celebrities and 2 contestants. A statement would be given and the contestants would have to try their best to fill in the blanks to match as many celebrities' answers as possible.
I'll give some examples later. :-)
Below left: The FOod. we brought punch, and the main food was Subway sandwiches. Yummy. And some of them brought cookies, chips and burritos.
(The difference here is that they never org their potluck.. In Spore, whenever there is church potluck or even school potluck, weeks before, pple will pass ard sheets of paper for us to write down what we would bring. Here, they are more relaxed. You can bring whatever you want. If everyone happens to bring dessert then too bad, just eat dessert lor. haha.)
The 1st potluck I went, I saw a lot of pasta and then a lot of dessert, and I thought to myself, aiyoh, so disorganised. So unbalanced a meal, and nothing for the kids to eat.
Then I got used to it, and now I guess I like it that I don;t have to decide so early on what I want to bring, cos sometimes I wouldn't know. Also, I figured that once in a while eat unbalanced meal --- not a big deal right? For the kids, I just let them eat chips if there were no other suitable food. Cos sometimes the pasta is very spicy... Usually there'd be tortilla chips. Anyway, the rest of the week I feed them homecooked food, with lots of veggies, so it doesn't matter...
Am I slowly being "americanised"? I hope you close friends back home will remind me if I return home and irritate you by being too relaxed next time! I used to be such a good Singaporean, plan ahead a lot, make lists, be very organised, have back up plan and contingency procedures... haha...
Now I find myself very last min, very ad hoc, very relaxed. At least, more and more so. And I find myself cooking more and more "convenience" stuff... I must be cautious, cos I am not American after all... I can do what the Romans do cos I am in Rome now, but when I return, pls remind me ok?
And oh, for all my good friends out there who said they will remind me if they see me getting more "ah-soh" in appearance, hee... (I guess it's more my dear colleagues lah...) I will promise to post pics of myself once in a while to let you judge. Right, Mag? Jud, ming?
Why do I always digress so much? Sorry for rambling on. Back to Match Game.
Above right: showing dh as a celebrity in one of the rounds. The other table shows the 2 contestants.
Above left: the audience. Above right: the panel of "celebrities". The guy in the middle is one of the Elders, laughing so happily. The one hosting the show is one of the deacons, so is the one seated rightmost.
Everyone got the chance to play, as contestant or celebrity. Sometimes both. Dh got to play both sides. I only had the chance to play celebrity, most of time the kids were hanging onto me. Even when I was playing the game, they hung around me there at the table.
Those acting as celebrities can choose our own persona and I chose Jennifer Aniston, cos someone chose Brad Pitt and someone else chose Angelina Jolie too. haha. just for fun, don't need to vomit over there! dh went to choose some famous violinist, whose name the host didn't even know how to pronounce. hao lian lor... I myself can't even remember the name, some Russian sounding one.
Ok, I can't remember all the examples but a few I got when I was celebrity:
"Matt Crill dreamt he was a lumberjack swinging an axe. When he woke up, he found he had chopped off _______".
haha. many possibilities.
"This surgeon's last job must have been a gardener! He used a ____ to cut the umbilical cord!"
quite funny. i thought of "shears" and many wrote something like that too.
Yup, and many other funny ones. Kudos to the organiser of the game, it was fun!
rainbows every day, do not worry for the morrow
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