20^th December 2008.

Christmas Party #1.

My friend Kelvin invited a couple of old friends over to her girlfriend’s place to celebrate an early Christmas. YY had something on, Ah Jie was not free, so it was just me.

We ate burnt turkey and drank sake with Kelvin’s other friends. We even played Guitar Hero, though I am not really good at it, but Kelvin, your friend rocks.

According to Kelvin’s girlfriend’s sister’s boyfriend, the Playstation 3 is an inferno machine; it connects to the Internet automatically and downloads updates, even when you are not online, that is, your computer is off.

Overall I had a good time, a little too much to drink, but a good time.

24^th December 2008.

Preparations for Christmas Day.

This whole day was heck-tick.

Early morning I had to accompany my mother to do some grocery shopping; she buy, I wait outside. After that I had to change the sofa cushion, change the bed sheets, mop the floor, and set up the Christmas tree.

At night I wrapped the presents.

This is the Christmas tree with some of the presents wrapped.

This is the Supergirl action figure my mum bought for the kids, cost her $15.

This is the shirt my mum bought for me, which I found out before Christmas, and I had to wrapped it and open it the next day. Ironic isn't it.

And this is the Christmas tree with all the presents wrapped.

25^th December 2008.

The Big Day: Christmas Party #2.

If you thought Christmas Eve was busy, Christmas Day was worse.

I helped my mum with her Christmas cooking, 4 hours straight. We had chili prawns, fried fishballs, fried beehoon, curry, lobster and soup.

We were so busy, I didn’t even had time to take photos, but I did take one.

“Smile Cousins.”

While the little kids had fun with their toys, we had our lunch. The little girl that got the Supergirl was unhappy as she wanted her brother’s toys more, even though it cost about $6 bucks. The little brother’s gift was a 6 action-figures power ranger pack. I guess at a young age, kids learn that cheap and more is good, typical Singaporean. My Sister-in-law says that kids are like that, when the little brother gets all the attention, the big sister is always unhappy.

Christmas Party #3.

After a quick lunch, I headed over my friend Kelvin’s place for his 2^nd Christmas Party, this time most of the Aljunied Kakis were there. Like always we had a quick snack, exchange presents and played Magic the Gathering, yeah we are geeks.

Kelvin is a Transformer toy collector, and thus his room is filled with Transformer toys, and great food, and magic cards, and videos of Top Gear episodes.

When I reached home, with all the guest gone, and all the chores done by my brother and sister-in-law. It was actually the best time of Christmas.

The family bonded a bit by opening presents, and had leftovers for dinner. Though tired, but it was a pretty fun day.

And let the present raping begin.

26^th December 2008.

Aftermath of Christmas.

We went to Raffles Place to change some presents cos they don’t fit. My mother shoes didn’t fit and my trousers had no proper pockets, so we had to change. But the aftermath of Christmas was the Year-end Sale. Crowded stores, long queue at Robinsons, just to exchange a pair of trousers, it gave my brother some time to do some year-end shopping of his own.

Christmas Party #4:

My father’s friend, Aunty Judy, invited us over her place for late Christmas dinner. This time I took more photos I did on the previous parties.

Mum:”Why are you taking photos now, you should have taken more photos yesterday.”

Me:”Yesterday I very busy ma.”

“Smile, DD Sisters.”

“Smile, Dad and Uncle KL.”

“Smile, T.”

27^th December 2008.

Late Congratulations to Neighbours.

Two weeks ago my neighbour got married, and on the 27^th , another neighbour got married, so we had some more catering food for Christmas. Just wanted to congratulate the neighbours, and thanks for the food.

Outing with Old Colleagues.

I met up with some old colleagues to watch Ip Man. We went to the arcade to play Winning Eleven, yeah Winning Eleven, with a Playstation controller, in the arcade.

We had dinner at Just Noodles, free flow ice-cream and free flow drinks. Dinner was nice, until JW showed me a bowl of Yam ice-cream in a bowl of rice.

One good thing about watching in Cathay, we got to watch in the extra big theatre, the theatre in the middle.

One bad thing about watching in such a big theatre, is the big crowds after the show had ended.