Happy New Year everyone!! Since it's New Year's Eve, I decided to make a bigger blog today. It's 3 pages long! Here goes..

We woke up today with no internet as well. (Internet finally came back at 9pm at night!). Happy arrived yesterday night, and today we saw Happy for the first time this trip at our door! We went to eat lunch at a Chinese restaurant with Happy, HoT, MYM]Strelok and MYM]White-RA. After lunch we brought Happy to a Walmart to buy some food supplies. Then we went to an internet café, where Grubby and Happy practised together. It paid off because later at night they found that they had been drawn into the same team.

When we got back to the hotel, we met a PGL staff in the elevator. We learnt that the event venue is on the 3rd floor and we may go check it out if we want. So off we went, and when we got there we saw some other players there as well. The group drawings were about to start!

Here are some pictures from today:

"Oh wow.. some of this food is so spicy!"

Happy learning to use the chopsticks.

Grubby and HoT.

Grubby:"Try the little Pak Choi, these are not spicy."

Some of the WC3L and PGL banners and decorations outside the hotel/event venue.

WC3L banner held up by a big red Chinese balloon.

The banners are tied to big rocks so they don't fly away.

PGL banner.

Happy and Grubby on  the way back from their practice.

A huge PGL banner hung outside the tournament/hotel building.

PGL starting the group drawing. They do it by drawing out numbered ping pong balls from the red box.

Go to the next page for group drawings and explanation of the team matches 1st January'09!
And to the next next page for the Funny Story of the Day and Bonus Story.