I was lying on my mom's bed, exhausted from my vigorous Table-Tennis training I had at school. My muscles were aching and i felt as if all my powers were drowned away. There was a side-table beside my mom's bed and on it were some photographs, so the usual curious me decided to take a look at what photographs they were and on it was those smiling faces spread across the faces of my family and I. ''Oh yes, that day was indeed a special moment I had with my family.'' I reminisced back deep in thought into that happy and joyful day we had....

So then our family got changed, each wearing nice good looking shirts and pants. As for me, I was clad in a black collar-shirt and grey skinny jeans. I have been keeping those set of clothes for a special moment and yes, I can finally wear them! So at around 6 p.m, we finally set off with our Toyota picnic car towards our destination. In the car, we played some New year songs and sang along with it. Apparently all of us were in the mood of a new year's celebration. In the mist of our joy, as though we were only in the car for a few minutes, we soon arrived at the hotel. Wow! The hotel was like a GIANT MANSION and it was decorated with many bright lights and they were hung in a wavy manner. Upon this amazing sight, my eyes sparkled. When we arrived there, we had a hard time parking the car as the place was sardine-packed with cars and after waiting for like what seemed like eternity, we soon found a parking lot.

We then arrived at the buffet room and soon my ears were filled with the cling clang of forks and spoons and the aroma of the food started tickling my nostrils  We handed the counter our tickets and we were finally free to choose our food. Wow! You cannot imagine how delicious-looking they were. There were fried beans, chicken, prawns and many more. Saliva drooled as I picked my food and I soon found myself digging in 'heaps' of scrumptious food. So then we ate a hearty meal and I took 3 SERVINGS. Yea! I am not kidding. Over dinner, we had some laughters and there we also shared our personal life. Who knows dinner would be a great time to get to know each other and be even closer to each other.  It was 8 p.m.by the time we finished our  dinner and not having enough of the celebration, we decided that we go to riverside point which is located at boat quay to celebrate new year's eve and countdown to new year.

After about half and hour of driving, we eventually reached our destination. We were welcomed by the deafening musics playing through stereos in the different bars and the bright glaring signboards which decorated the place. We then slowly strolled around the place where it was crowded with people and bustling with many activities like stage performances and many people singing karaoke and dancing, letting themselves free.  Along our stroll, I caught sight of an ice-cream shop surrounded by many amused people. ''What is so good about an ice-cream shop?'' I thought.  So then I decided to take a closer look and I found the answer. The ice-cream seller was playing tricks on people to prevent people from easily enabling to get they're ice-cream like stacking a second cone beneath one cone and when people grab their ice-ceam, the fake cone comes off and the ice-cream is still in the hands of  the seller. Looking at his innovative and amusing tricks, I laughed till I could not feel my own stomach. We also bumped into some group of people going around the area playing ear-deafeaning Jamaican music using Jamaican-styled instruments like the bongo's along our way.  In a blink of an eye, as if we have just arrived, it was only a few minutes away from countdown. So then we waited till the last 10 seconds of 2009 before starting the countdown and it was finally down to 10 seconds. Everybody there started to countdown, ''10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!!!''  Instantaneously  there were many displays of dazzling fireworks and everybody started jumping in joy, and many repetitions of the word''cheers!'' could be heard. For us, we started to shout about and scream our lungs out as we viewed the beautiful display of fireworks. For the first time, we had never been so close before as we put our hands over one another's shoulder and swayed to the new year song that was plaing along in the background. It was soon 12.30 and the celebration ended and it was finally time for us to go home. We reluctantly left the place as we leave behind 2009 and walk into 2010.