xmas eve party

christmas dinner with champagne!

the turkey which my mum made with aunt Lan's recipe and spices taste fantastic very tender & succulent! aunt Olivia ordered hyatt's mezza 9 famous lamb its was so butterish tender simply heavens in my mouth! but i personally prefer smoked salmon than baked salmon in breads... i know it sounds weird... i dun like leafy salads but i make good salads... its true! the salad was my creation! an expernsive salad cos i use well expensive stuff! it has to be butterheadlettuce, purple leafy lettuce, japanese zucchini (?dunno how to spell), french cheese, cranberries, roasted almonds, yellow capsicum, and special sauce! the thing is i didnt eat any i was told its yummy.



kidos once more!



my harvest! cowboy hat was for hosting games. i got gerald a guy's sling bag and brownish grey berms. I got 2 esprit skirts and a pants from him. My sis & bf got me a pants & gold shawl. Chocz and special zipper bags given to me by gerald's collegue Peng. Ann & mum gave me chocs. (MORE CHOCS!) and for gift exchange i got ikea lamp, i won 2 estee launder lipgloss (gave 1 each to sis & sis-in-law) & of cos the biggest gift i got AIR TIC AND ACCOMoDATION 4days3nites HONG KONG! my wish did come true...

biggest present for Christmas!

I won this at my uncle's xmas gift exchange ... there were 2 bonus prize and I am ONE of the winner!

early again

bcos mr tan forgot to take hs gift for happy hours in camp ... he drove bac and i got abring it down at 7.30am. since then i am awake and been clearinf emails and not done yet! more to go and checking out wedsites and only kok leong & CT say hi and went off only angeline chatiing with me now cos she oso very free now! WORKING AT sas... WAT CAN I SAY!

Finally the RAIN has STOP!

i am awake since 7am and couldn't get bac to sleep... so here i am ...AWAKE.
partially bcos i opened and closed the door for gerald he is sort of in a hurry. but he had time to comment the sky is clear and we could see the sea far away clearly. here's my view from where i am typing from...



and i got up to get a few more pics of the SUN! haven seen it in 3days. pretty cooling and with a little breeze its chilly.

i wanna go back to sleep after this cos i am still tired from yesterday's shopping spree. with my sis's suggestion of bringing Nesa out to get xmas present... i met nesa and waited at hdb hub for ping to get to tpy mrt stn. she was very late and nesa couldnt stop asking where ms ping is. distracted her by asking her to pick items for the little cousins under her. we walked round and got name printed stickers for Lety and of cos for herself. she picked 3 hp assessories all dooggies which will light up and say "i love you" for the 3 babies.

I was telling Gerald how my Aunt K used to bring my siblings out during the xmas seasons during our school daes to shop for presents and walked the whole street from far east to robinson for almost whole week. and when my legs break i would be very unhappy throwing tantrum! but my aunt is sweet and happy i could do the same for her child. got to town finally rain was jus pouring and everyone trying to get watever shelter there was. had Mos again cos sis wanted it. I ordered watever i didnt eat yesterday with Gerald. Nesa was sure she wanted to share fish burger, nuggets (i dun like)and fries. i almost use my vouchers to get a huge cookie monster. wanted that wo be with the elmo he bot a few yrs bac. put it bac cos sis kept saying it waste of money... which i know i could do better with the vouchers.

got all the stuff she needed and i offered to take nesa alone so that the little couple can go shop without restrictions happy for sis that she's attached! but i needed her bac at border's coffeebean cos the little gal wanted to go toilet when i jus got the drinks and how in the world was i to bring all shopping bags and drinks and lose the table and get her to the loo! thank gdness she was near!

RULE NO. 1 : when alone with a kido always bring her to the loo regardless if needed cos for sure when u are settled down at the table they sure scream for it!

i am jus lucky she is old enough to hold till sis came by. by the time they came we fhad finished the peppermint candycane choc tart. my banana choc drink failed me. got nesa a as huge as her face gingerbread man which i find cheap bcos of its size althou less color but cuter at $2. while waiting for sis we took pics of it. she was giggling NON-STOP!






got her around to get books and she chose her parents presents and we went marks and spenser and isetan supermarket with little regrets i splurge. WELL i got stuff for myself... a box, a light and a happy little gal .

Shopping

Saturday
my lazy daes has started... joining Serena my dear fren as 2nd Idler (2nd most free)
my hols begin with late wake up at 10am on Sat and I laze till almost 4pm to prepare to go over to mum's place and then over to Eileen's potluck party. Finally got to see Serene almost the whole year didnt catch up with her! both the twins got skinner! me still fat! love the conversations with their mum... the satay was good alittle different from Serena's bbq but both taste good! the lemon merigue (dun really know how to spell) was nice! there were 2 "friends" mentioned that nite 1st *arry and then *arry...sounds so familiar but seems far now and to hear both names on the very night seems spooky! there was quite alot of liquer gog around but we went off to fetch parents and i slept at 11pm and the party went on till 3+am. i slept well cos i drank the nice coffee liqueur. but woke up early on Sunday and when he came hm from whampoa we went shopping!

Sunday
we drove in the heavy downpour and walked tunnels! we went isetan scotts and wheelock. we had nydc baked pasta and the tortilla wrap killed my thoart! its burning hot! its madness! tink angeline would love it! even gerald tinks its hot!the best thing was the peachy elehantcino (m sure i spelt it wrongly)... dun really like nydc...prefer Big O. on the way bac to isetan to shop we got free sample of mango gelatos YUMMY so mangoey! there was CK sale and he bought 1 tee with the isetan voucher and we bought gift exchange presents. the only thing i got for myself was this


when we were done shopping we rushed down to the japanese food fair but when we reach there at 8pm... everything was dismantled! we wanted to get the salmon roes that was in cubes for mum to try...it was nice to bite on! can't describe the "feel" guess gota wait till next jap fair. gerald spent all his 100 isetan voucher!

Monday
i was fed up... we were late for breakfast. he made it up by suggesting bkfast at bishan and i chose coffeebean. in the end his choice which was decided by me taste better. he had egg ben and i had salmon scambble egg toast. he complained the coffee sucks but my tea was still pretty ok. his was cheesy covering sunny egg on turkey ham on toast... his was yummy...bcos his was so salted mine was bland... we were stuck at cpf board long slow q... then we went walking at bj8, bot uno stako and we went hm to bring meowlee to vet. she is really sick... it was emotional when the vet ws checking her feeling for the lumps in her body she felt pain and hid her head on gerald tummy... i felt really sad. she is really suffering. i kept tinking of spotty.... i still feel the decision to put him to sleep was cruel and i remember crying madly when he was put to sleep with jus an injection he was gone i couldnt feel him alive i hate that feeling but now i see her gog thru the pain i feel sad. i feel its cruel to keep her alive but the other choice is cruel too... errrr...hate it. endless day. we went on to go buy lenses and fix my specs... rained HEAVILY! its endless since then. went to ask travel agency for hk tickets... they say fulled.
checked the net... jetstar available... i really dun know if we should go...
i very much wanna go but somehow my heart feels heavy... can't explain.

1st try uploading video

Just trying loading videos and I chose our europe trip but this consist only of photos taken together...

my 1st xmas at SAS

took pic with Santa and with Tabby who came bac fr Cambodia! the tree behund us is alive! haha its real but i tink ALIVE sounds better! (took pics with other collegues but dunno if they mind so hee hopefully tabby wot mind!) loads of gifts i got a pretty lunch set and a water tumbeler which i need for school! Soap set, homemade giner cookiesand of cos Loads of chocolate for my "FrieAnTs"... the godiva will be kept safely for sharing with both my families on xmas dae... starbucks voucher fr my bosses, and the joint gift from the parents from my class was awesome...i will get to shop, catch a show and read alot $75 borders voucher. my tcher gave me a book she say it funny and i will start read it next week do nothing but read the whole dae missed that alot! and with her $40 borders voucher i can't wait to go down get mags and stationery and books! SHOPPING!!! but I will start with hibernation i need sleep!

wedding 3

For "safety" reasons i deleted the previous blog. here's a pic ... the dress i wore for the party.

Got flu from Saturday nite reached home after BBQ at around 4am and Sunday althou i slept till 2pm I was in terrible ordeal of headache sneezy and fluey! MONDAY...felt like hell in school ... didnt wanna go to scholl yesterady but got things haven prepare for children xmas craft and I went. At school everyone avoided me. by this friday everyone will be free cos its end of school term. OF COS nobody wanna get sick! but i braced myself stayed in school till 3pm and F*** it rained! always like that need to leave early then sure HEAVY downpour! waited for the shuttle and then rushed home to nap cos got wedding at Swisshotel Merchant court. this is the 3rd wedding i attedend in these 2 months! one more on 30th dec! (shanice, how not to grow! and i got BBQ this sat and so far 2 xmas parties) anyway got new tops and bottoms for this wedding cos lucky can find something and was reasonable for the pants and top!

dinner started late and the waiters rushed the food out. the people i sat with they were funny and we kept laughing the whole nite. they are gerald's long-ago batchmates. the car the couple used was pretty! an antique car! a beauty! when i came home i was gone in no time sniffy and snuffy and here i am MC and i need to go to bed med taking effect eyes now droppy and waterish liao... and heres a pic of my pearly bag, love my handbag!

DECEMBER 1st

its last month of the year.FAST.

this month is packed with parties. Started with SAS party at Tanglin Club.

To attend school function i always prefer Gerald to be around. I dun feel so LOST cos i really dun noe that many people and people i have lunch with they dun attend.but yesterday was a little better than the last party cos at least i talked to Mrs H. she was my art teacher at one academy 8 years ago. finally got to catch up with her at the party.

To cover my "frens" seriously i felt safe with the same black halter top except now got a little lobang cos did wear the red tube dress i pair it with a dark black-blueish skirt with little red diamontes. i must look for more tops like that in other colors for other functions... or jus keep changing the bottoms

next on the list is party tonight and Sunday at Shangrila hopefully i dun grow too much for the gown... is actually my favourite dress even before the latest alteration.

Can't wait to wear it!