Calm Saturday before the Storm

It's the weekend after the exams and before the Lent Term starts!

How not to celebrate the occasion with a Global Consulting Project meeting at 1.30pm in the drawing room of our place, then at 3pm for more MBA classmates to join in for tea?


I love this pic!
They were literally sitting around... sipping on tea... having some sweet potato soup... chewing on some crackers... It's like recess time!!


The invite list started off rather modestly...

But along the way... it snowballed... and somehow... about 10% of the MBA class had tea in our drawing that Saturday afternoon?!

The house was exceptionally warm that day... =))

1. Victor (Canada)
2. Lorenz (Switzerland)
3. Peter (US)
4. David (US/Canada/Hong Kong)
5. Zarko (Serbia)
6. Erik (US)
7. Shelley (China)
8. Tibor + Kata (Hungary)
9. Kee (South Korea)
10. Dominic (Switzerland/UK)
11. Igor (Russia)
12. Kristof + Veerle (Belgium)
    
13. Bora (Turkey)
14. Axel (Germany)

Of course the day couldn't have ended with only tea?!

Part of the tea group made our way to our latest favourite haunt...


Bora asked Deepankar (India) along.

Here you see Bora waiting for Deepankar to lock his bike (so schweet!), while I took a quick pic from the upper floor of Hong Kong Fusion!!

I suspect Axel was very happy at dinner...


Group picture!!


Of course... Saturday couldn't have ended with only dinner!!

Igor offered his apartment next!!

Here's Erik trying to look coy in Igor's apartment. I'm not sure why he did it though.


Axel and Deepankar... looking very happy...


Us too...

Little did we know what was coming...

It's a brand new bottle of Russian Standard... =_=


Igor kept coming out from his kitchen with stuff... Filling up the table over 30 minutes...


Suddenly, Igor declared that he 'found' a bottle of honey beer in his fridge?!!

Oh our sneaky Russian classmate!!!

Our first toast... Always start with the drink with the lowest alcohol content... Never reverse the order...

Axel looked a little worried...

Uh oh... Here comes the main dish...


Demonstration from the mastermind...


Deepankar's attempt...


Axel looking very willing...


Erik... He was rolling the thing all over his face!!


This is Igor's German friend, Michael. He must think Cambridge MBAs are a weird bunch.


I mean... Check out Bora?!


And after a while... A spaced-out Blinkymummy and grinning-ever-sober 'Good Fren'!!


And around 1am, we made our way home in the freezing night... with vodka, pickled cucumber, honey beer, cheddar cheese and tomatoes in our tummies. Time for a good sleep!! It's gonna be a crazy ride!!