Christmas Day

It's Christmas Day! But I has to work in the morning.....haha anyway it's just a last half day work for my 2010! So I went to work in the morning and just before I leave work I went to cold storage to buy some ingredient for my cooking session at Hubby's place. It's been a long time I wanted to do some cooking for Hubby. Since we were just lazying at home so may as well let me do the cooking that night! So here's the menu of our Christmas Day Dinner:

There's only 2 dish as there's only the 2 of us. There's no turkey, no log cake, no red wine but it's just a simple dinner for the 2 of us. Really enjoyed the cooking and the end result of our food. We shall do it again! :D Merry Christmas!

X'mas Eve Celebration

What was my program for my X'mas Eve? It's a simple one! Couldn't ask for more, I just wanted to have a simple night out. Many of you might have a half day or off day that day while me it's a full working day lol. Work till 6.30pm as usual then I quick run off to meet up with Hubby and his buddies. We meet up for dinner at Kallang Leisure Park, yes we wanted some where out of the crazy city! You wouldn't believe how crazy the city is during festive season, I simply just hate the crowd. We had a dinner at Pasta Mania followed by a coffee break at Starbucks before our movie starts.

We also played a card game at starbuck, it was full of fun! The card game is call the monopoly deal! We also exchanged gift and I was kinda surprise that the gift from LH was a cute hand made crystal handphone string. Well it really doesn't look like something that a big guy like him will spend time and make it. But I really appreciated it, and we really had fun just to guess what was the animal that he had made. Making fun of the gifts that we received, so sorry :P Here's how it looks like:

Isn't that cute? You may make a guess what animal is this...haha I chose the most normal looking one la of cos. Anyway it was a fun night with those guys, it's really a fun X'mas Eve. :)

Preparing X'mas Gift

Guess many people hate the process of it...the process of preparing X'mas gift. But actually I like it, cos shopping ma! But this year I didn't need to prepare a lot just a few so I only use half a day to complete getting all of them. I like some of the gifts that I have gotten this year, one of them are the sweets! It's from Japan imported and lots of different weird favors! Here are all of them!

There's: Yaki Toukibi Drop / Kobe Pudding Drop / Cheese Cake Drop / Hot Milk Drop / Okinawa Beer Drop / Choco Banana Crape Drop & Yudo-Fu Drop! Isn't it fun!?

Guess another thing that people hate is getting the gift wrapped up. Shopping mall's wrapping service need to queue and you are just too lazy to wrap it yourself. Well I have been doing the recycling wrapping for a few years. Ever since I starting to hate people who like to waste paper getting lots of free wrapping papers & paper bags and in the end didn't use it and throw it away in the year end. I started to just use fashion magazines that I no longer read to wrap up the gift, in anyway you are going to just tear it away right? So here's some of the gift that I have wrapped up for my colleagues!

Recycle Gift is Environment Friendly or Cheapo?

Read this article in a newspaper and it saids that many Singaporean will tend to recycle gift. Which means some will use the gift that they have just receive and know it's useless to them and give it as a gift to another person. Some people will it think it as cheapo, as if you can't afford to buy something for other people. Some think that it's good, as you are recreating less rubbish as the gift is useless to you but it might be useful to another person right? So what would you think?

For me I think it's ok, if the item you have gotten from a friend is really useless to you then the only result will be the item will be thrown away for place it somewhere for 1 year and when it's CNY time you throw it away during spring cleaning. If you think that the item is suitable for another one person why do you still buy another useless gift and make the same mistake again? hahaha

So I still think it's fine to recycle the gift if you think the ending of the gift will be to the rubbish bin....But then don't be like someone that I know, he use the gift that was in the storeroom kept for 2 years and there were dust on it but he just blow the dust away in front of you and pass you the gift to you as "Merry Christmas". This was a classic! hahaha

But anyway I still like to encourage everyone to have a more green Christmas this year. Just like what I have done the past years, I'll still use recycle papers as wrapping papers. Let's work together for a more green Christmas!

1st Christmas Dinner & 1st Christmas Gift

The very first Christmas Dinner was with Twin, Grace. She is so busy lol wanted to meet on Wed 15 Dec when I don't have any packing duties but she suddenly have another family dinner. So we can only meet for a quick dinner on Thu 16 Dec when I have a packing duty. No choice since she is so busy and she is also flying off the next week. Wouldn't want a after christmas dinner with her and it's been very very long since our last meet up. My Dear, I know you will read this hahaha Must meet me once you are back from your holiday ah! hehehe

Anyway, we had our dinner at Tonkuchi it was a quick dinner and quick updates on our life. Although it was a quick one, it is still a nice dinner with her. Not to mention we also had some Christmas gift exchange, she had a big bag of goodies back as there's so many things that I need to pass her and this is the only chance! hehe Thank you Twin for the Christmas Gift I love it all. Sorry I didn't put much effort on your gift but hope you will still like it. I'll give you a better birthday gift next year and we shall have our photos taken next year before we step to the 30s!

Winter Season or Raining Season? I'm still loving it

When ever it's December I love the weather, even through it keep raining. The weather is cooling that I can bring out all my jackets to wear. I'll try to have some winter looks on my daily wear, of cos not those thick thick jackets that you wear in winter country. I'll add some scarf or thin shawl around my neck and will also wear thick socking. I just love the feeling of wearing some winter feel outfits it makes me happy. :D Advance Merry Christmas to all too!

There goes the money!

Yes I did it again~ I couldn't handle the temptation... every time this period I'll get so tempted and got overspent during this Christmas session. As there's so many end of season sales going on! I have been trying very hard to control myself to not stepping into branded boutiques that starts with C, B, G, K...etc. But too bad the temptation has over power my brain hahaha I stepped into the boutique of G.... And this time round I couldn't controlled myself!!!

The bag is really too good deal that I couldn't let it go. The usual price was $830 but now there's 30% which is $581 and I have got additional 10% off which become $522.90! What's more I purchased it using my DBS Mastercard and there's promotion for purchases over $500 that gave me $30 Takashimaya Gift Vouchers! So this made the bag even cheaper at $492.90! Ok ok I know many of you will be saying I'm just finding excuses to make myself feel that it's worth it. But I really think it's worth it!

Well I promise this is going to be my last branded bag this year. haha Anyway it's going to be end of this year soon. This bag shall serve the new bag for my new year too! :) Here's my lovely bag!

Missing Wedding Party

Yes missing wedding party, what does this means? There's 2 wedding that I missed or going to miss. First one is my secondary school friend Shan's wedding, her wedding was suppose to be on last sat 4 Dec 2010 but due to a sudden reason it was postponed. It was kinda pity as I was very much looking forward to attend the wedding and have fun with the girls. Well there will be still chances for that as it is postpone till a later date beginning of the year 2011 I guess. Hopefully it will not crash with my holiday....cross my fingers.

The 2nd one is my primary school friend Xia, just gotten her invitation and her wedding is on 2 Jan 2011! Guess you would have know that it's my 1st wedding anniversary and we have all planned the whole day event for it so I doesn't want to disappoint my hubby so I'm gonna give it a miss too.

Will there be any more weddings? Pls invite early to avoid disappointment. :D

4 Days more, 10 Days more, 15 Days more~

I guess nobody will understand what does the above means right? haha I'm counting down the dates in December. Here are the explanation of each count down...

4 more Days of packers duty

10 more working Days till I receive the letter for this year bonus

15 more working Days for 2010!

Isn't it great?! It's going to be a wonderful December except the packers duty, I simply hates it. 4 more days as a packer I guess there's more funny funny and weird customer I'm going to face. But of cos there's happy things going to happen too! Like bonus is coming and my super super long holiday is coming! I'll be clearing some day off and leave so I'll also be going for a short short holiday with hubby to celebrate our Anniversary. I simply can't wait! :D Hope everyone will also enjoy this December.

Cinderal-lah Musical Show

Went to watch the show with Jamie on 4 Dec 2010, heard from colleague that it's a really funny show and very nice. I didn't read any of the reviews of the show or the show outline before hand...what's there to read anyway it's Cinderella storyline I guess how far it can go? We reach there early so we go into the hall to take our seats first, there were people giving away light stick for the show and we thought we need to pay for it so we didn't take it. Till one of the staff told us it's free so we took one each.

The light stick with the stage before the show starts, and it's a "magical wand" it helps to make magic during the show and not for u to wave it and sing "we are singapore, we are singapore". Yes it's not a national day celebration show...hehe

I really enjoyed the show as there's alot of participation with the audience during the show which is quite fun. The story line is funny and the actor & actress did really very well! Some part I simply can't stop laughing. So I really think those who are interested in Musical show should go and watch it.

Cinderal-lah~

Poor Cindy lives in a crowded HDB flat with her Evil Casino-Obsessed Step Mother and two Ugly Step-Sisters, Precious and Treasure. All she dreams about is going to The Grand Fish Ball where Prince Char Mee will choose a bride. Fairy God Makcik appears, and Cindy is transformed from “no taste” to “fashion ace” and off to The Ball she goes! But will the Prince recognise her? Will the shoe fit? And will true love find a way?

STARRING
Emma Yong, Sebastian Tan, Chua Enlai, Darius Tan, Neo Swee Lin, Lim Kay Siu, Karen Lim, Siti Khalijah Zainal, Dwayne Lau, Andrew Ng, Tan Shou Chen, Alecia Kim Chua, Josephine Tan, Najip Ali & Gurmit Singh

I Love Agnes b

I am kinda hook with getting magazines that gives freebies from Agnes b recently. Aboves are the 3 freebies that I have gotten so far! First one should be the Agnes b pouch with is free from Elle magazine, second one is the Agnes b small bag with handbag holder from one of the Japanese magazine. I simply love them all. I am still tempered to get one more Agnes b magazine that has a free bag inside it....but I've got so many bags already~ :p Looking at these few freebies just simply brighten up my days. :D

Official Farewell Dinner with Vic

My manager left our department about 1 week plus then we had a farewell dinner with him. We went to the Pan Pacific Hotel for a buffet as a colleague told us there's an one for one promotion for UOB & OCBC cardholders. I was hoping for good food and hoping to eat till I drop. But I was kinda disappointed with the buffet, there isn't much selection of food as compare with some of the buffet I went before. Even till I reach home that night I almost wanted to cook myself maggi mee...haha. But we had a great night chit chat with everyone and making fun on each other's chinese name again~ luckily my chinese name wasn't as funny as theirs.. :P

Oh that night I was also the lucky one! I went to the toilet alone when I reach the restaurant and I found $17 in the toilet. There wasn't anyone in the toilet, I guess someone just dropped the $17 on the floor and in a hurry went out. So the founder the keeper. :P I told me colleagues when I came back to the restaurant then the ladies all wants to go to the toilet again...hahaha

We really had a great night, even though Vic is no longer our Department head but we still wish to have gatherings with him. Well like what my colleague says a good boss is hard to be found nowadays. Days without him nagging at us in the morning will no longer be the same...hahaha we kinda miss his nagging. :p

The big family photo of the night...

苦口良药

As I'm changing much on my eating habits and adjusting my health. I mentioned I cut down quite a number of items of intake. My coffee control is doing well, I no longer need a coffee a day to start my day. I no longer feel headache when I didn't drink coffee, but sometimes I'll still have the crave to have a cup.

Now I also start to ask mom to cook the herbal soup for me every month from now to adjust back my body. Hope it's really 苦口良药 la.

I hereby wish everyone good health.

Time of the year

The time of the year is finally over, we finally make it and get it over. I got so tired after that the next day I even can't get off the bed by myself and need hubby to help me to the toilet. Yes this is how terrible, my whole body was so painful that I can't even move. But anyway it's over already and it also means that it's gonna be end of the year 2010!

Here's the photo of the biggest event queue...

After this biggest event of the year what's next? It's the packers duty at the cashier counters lol....ya once again have to stand at the counter the whole 8hours till store closed...arh I hate that too! I hate it when customer ask me to repack the stuffs for ask for extra extra more paper bags. Can't they be more environment friendly and bring their eco bags? I strongly encourage all friends who read this to use their eco bags while they do their christmas shopping and use recycle magazines paper to gift wrap the gifts. Let's do something to the world this christmas.