Boxing day

My day 3 celebration - Boxing day

Today need to work, but absolutely has no mood. Only thing to look foward to is the gathering at Jul's place tonight. As everyone is working, nobody is doing any cooking thus we ordered KFC and pizzas. Yauwen even bought the christmas log cake from Awfully Chocolate.

With Bev

The current auditors

The ex-auditors - who are now accountants, internal auditors and bankers

The 2M real christmas tree with presents beneath!

The whole gang + spouses....too bad law couldnt make it...

We played the "white elephant" gift exchange game. Everyone is suppose to get a white elephant present that cost under $5. How the game is played is that:

1) everyone chooses a number.

2) the one with the smallest number will have to pick a gift from the pool and opens it

3) then the 2nd person, can choose to open another present, or to snatch the present of the person in front

4) if he/she chooses to snatch the other person's present, the other person can open another present from the pool again and the games follows

5) each present is limited to cross hand for only 3 times. Ie if i am the 3rd person who snatch a particular present, it gets lock with me and no one else can snatch it from me.

So to say, those ppl with the last few numbers are the best, as they get to see what presents are available before deciding whether to snatch or to open another present. And the white elephant present means that we are suppose to get something that is worthless and ppl will try to get ride of them. Also some ppl need to get something useful so that ppl will try to snatch the present. In this way, there will be snatching and promoting of own's present and thats the fun part of it!

The presents!!

Cindy and Alex - they got joker and ace, ie they are the 1st 2 to go

Me and Bev got queen and king, ie we were the last 2!! Yippee!!

Cindy got tissue papers!!

Lauren got photoframe cum stationery holder (from me haha)

Jase got a mini water dispenser

Jul got a lollipop massager

Mingli got some erm...clothes washer that u r suppose to throw it into the washing machine

And i got a cute umbrella! I chose this from the pool. Didnt snatch it from anyone

And for some snatching scene

Snatching of the Dove soaps!!

Snatching of the travel laundry bags

I love my umbrella..see so cute right! I was telling everyone if they dare to snatch my present, i will hit them with it! Lol..thus its safely in my hands :P

The gang with their final presents

Chocolate and banana christmas logcake from Awfully Chocolate

With rich chocolate and QQ bananas! Yummy!!

The party was great!! Too bad Fred and Aug and ah dear couldnt make it...next time then!

Christmas day!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Slept till quite late this morning (due to the countdown last night) and shortly after waking up, its time to head to uncle Yue Wah's place for christmas lunch. Its the first time we are holding christmas gathering at his place (normally its at auntie Yinleng's place), and as we were all too lazy to cook (ie potluck), they decided to get a cater instead. The food was from Manna's Pot. Not bad at all!!

Food was good and catching up with each other was great too. But of cos, center of attraction is still Trishelle.

Present from auntie Yinleng and wats that??

Its shoes!!

Trishelle with her young aunties and uncles @ the poolside

After lunch at the function room, we headed back to uncle Yuewah's house to look at the pics that Charmine has taken while she was in US. She is back in Singapore till Jan for her winter break.

Look at my uncle's Boxster!!

Damn cool right!

Haa..next time must ask him for a ride in it.

Tried to link the laptop to the TV, but failed. Thus everyone ended looking at the small laptop screen instead.

PS: would like to thanks auntie Yinleng for the SUPER GENEROUS wedding gift!!!!!!!

Christmas

Christmas is a 3 days celebrations for me starting on Christmas eve. My company had declare half day for us, but as we were expecting to do OT, didnt plan anything in the afternoon. Ah dear need to work (as usual.. -_-), thus i met up with uncle Sing instead. It has been a long while since we last metup. More than half a year i think? Haha but anyway, with our busy uncle Sing, i only get to meet him during diving off peak season.

Since everyone is in holiday mood, we decide to stick to half day instead of doing OT. As it was still very early, i went home first and uncle Sing came to pick me up from my place. Haha...i really like to go out with guys that has cars! Its a luxury! Especially uncle Sing, cos he wont mind petrol cost and would just love to drive ard and chat in the car! We went to Tampopo at Liang Court for the famous Black Pig Ramen. Its just heavenly, thinking of the soup and the QQ ramen!! As we were looking for places tat are not packed with ppl, instead of sticking at Clark quay, we headed down to Harry's at Far East Square instead. Its a wise move! Cos there are much lesser ppl and we can enjoy each other's company, chatting, drinking and listening to music.

Thanks uncle Sing for the company!!

Happy Dong Zhi

HAPPY DONG ZHI!!!!!!!!

Thumb drives

Know wat they are????? My new thumb drives! Cute right! 1 for me and 1 for ah dear :D

Chirstmas gathering at sis house

Today, its our annual Christmas gathering at my sis's house again. Gosh..time really flies. The last time i visited my sis's place was exactly 1 yr ago, for the same celebration! Haa..that time Trishelle is still a baby and was sleeping thru our whole gathering. This time, she is a acitve little toddler and simply just need a lot of attention! Haa..cant imagine how it would be for next yr...one more crying baby?

This yr round, me and my parents are incharge of buying the food. Thus we left for Gaint in the morning, then to collect our christmas cake and headed for my sis's place.

Trishelle with christmas present from yiyi

And what she got? Animal flash cards! Her favourite. She is a real animal lover!


With yiyi (she can call me now..but only say "yi"... haha just 1 word, yi.)

With gong gong

She is very guai when her daddy is cutting her nails. She will just sit there quietly and let him do the work.

Trishelle not only likes animals, she also love music and to dance with it.

The spread!

She just cant wait for it to start...

Yummy!!!

The star of the day - Christmas cottage house from PrimaDeli

Trishelle is exactly 18 mths old today. Too bad..forgot to request for candles from the cakeshop.

KPMG christmas dinner

Haa, as this year i am the social rep for our unit, the organising of department activities are all being done by me. SO, for christmas, we went to Greenhouse at Ritz Carlton for dinner!!! Its by far the most expensive department dinner which i had been to :P Well, of cos that would be the privilege of being the organiser right! The service of Greenhouse was just great. Pre-dinner coordination with them was a breeze with efficient replies thru emails. As there were 54 of us, i requested for a corner and the manager even sent me a floor plan for approval. Impressive right!

The food at Greenhouse were great! With fresh seafood like lobsters, oysters, prawns, crayfish, and great main courses and also a varierty of japanese sushi and sashimi. There is also a live band playing in the restaurant and most of their songs were disney related. Very nice indeed! YL and YW came back to join us for the dinner too.

Huge and super fresh oysters!

Crayfish with turkey

Delicious lobsters

This is only for display. Looks so delicious!!

Of cos their desserts were great too, with a wide range of cakes, cookies and chocolates. They alos have alot of different favours of ice creams and soberts too. Just too much to try all!

Was too full, thus only ate their strawberry logcake and tiramisu

With Yauwen

Bev, Sarah, Billie and Jase

I got a carebear for christmas and so did Huijun :D