Tis the Christmas Season!

Merry Christmas everyone!

I know, I know...this entry is way way overdue. But hey, you won't be complaining soon coz the pictures are worth waiting for!

Christmas started with a bang with a sumptious dinner on Christmas eve. 15 honourable guests arrived, dressed in their best, some came with traditional red or green tops, and another with a Santa's hat.

Entre was served as the host's bid to fill everyone's stomachs so that she can have all the turkey to herself. Wrong move! You'll know why later.



The roasted bird was ready by 8pm, together with 5 different varieties of salad, prepared by the chef himself. It was a meal that will be remembered for long...we almost devoured an 8kg turkey...almost...and another 1kg of stuffing...and that only just fit into the oven.





David Chang arrived late, with nothing done to his supposedly roast pork dish. The meat was not marinated, the potatoes were not peeled, and the oven space was occupied by the bird! But in the end, voila! Great job, David!



And not forgetting the home-made apple strudel complimentay of JK.



The aftermath...




Soon it was time to sing Happy Birthday to Lim Wu...



The guys had their chances on him...



But the girls did not lay a single finger on the man...except the special one...



And it was customary for the bday man to whack down a shot of Tia Maria...to show his man-ness...



But cheekily at the corner of the table, someone else decided to go high...and was soon laughing tipsily...



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Christmas finally arrived the next day...church service was short and sweet today...with the congretation waving glolights during worship. It was so pretty. I told Ted Fabs today that I will be leaving for the land of gong, as well as the church. He said he would like to pray for me on the stage next week, and I was like, no thank you! I prefered it to be done in private. It also struck me that I don't think Ted actually knows my name. It's difficult to remember, for one. And I think he only remembers me as the irratating and hungry girl who kept bugging him for food during a dinner at his place.

Soon we were off to the Chia's place for lunch. We were stressing out in the car what to buy for the potluck lunch as all the KFCs were closed. It turned out that we didn't really need any more dishes. Ben's mum cooked up a storm, with the addition of the previous night's leftovers..and yup, you guessed it right, roast turkey! Everyone who were at my place the night before did not touch a single piece of the turkey. Even the thought of it scares us now. We shall refer it as "chicken" for now.



One of the aunties who were there brought home-made yee sang, a traditional Chinese dish where everyone participates in mixing them together for prosperity...the higher you pull your chopsticks the better luck and "fatt" you get. I haven't had that for a while now...missing CNY for 3 years in a row. Boy, I so so miss it!





With heavy-loaded stomachs, everyone adjourned to the living room...and eventually, Jan, April, Felix and I were fast asleep! I woke up to the sound of Ben and Jason yelling and laughing next door...and soon, all of us were playing dai di and president&scumbags all lumped into one. Soon, it was dinnertime...and yes, it was roast "chicken" again.

When it was almost dark, we hopped into 3 cars and drove down to the Boulevard in Ivanhoe, where houses put up their best display of lights. I wonder if they have a competition against one another. Well, 1 km of lighted houses was enough to wear us out for the night, parting ways on one of the best and beautiful Christmas Day celebrations I ever had. Enjoy the pictures!























Come Boxing Day! Yeah! Shopping.....April can really shop! LimWu defended her expenditure (which was very supportive in a girl's point of view!), and allowed her to freely walk the stores of Highpoint till it closed and we had to be chased out from the surf shop... and april was still scurrying to find a size 9 jeans amidst the pile of clothes. =)

This was my shopping list:
1) a pair of beach shorts
2) a set of bikini
3) a queen-sized quilt

And i could only manage to buy the bottom half of the bikini set becoz the sizes have run out. How bizarre still to me that a two piece triangular cloth tied together with two strings could cost $35! That's a ripoff! I gave myself a pat on the back for getting it at $20, which i still think is expensive. Oh well, I hear the gong beaches are pretty nice.

We treated ourselves to a good dinner, a concoction of Jason's...using the leftover of the "chicken" from the eve dinner. We refused to relate it to turkey meat, because enough is enough! 8kg turkey for christmas eve dinner, turkey again at the chia's place, turkey sandwich from C.Keasberry, u get the drill. Dinner was shreded "chicken" wantan noodles. Not bad. And while he was preparing it, he was also making "chicken" porridge for lunch the next day. No wonder turkey meat is only eaten once a year.

And how sinful it was, starting from this night, that Jason, LimWu, April and me had many many dai di, bridge, cluedo, and DVD nights...where we played by night and slept by day.