Xmas with family

Spent Xmas eve at my aunt's place as usual. It has become very much a yearly affair. Lots of good food...wonderful house decor with all the xmasy stuff in the house...didn't really take pics there this year though. It was very much quieter than before with 2 families not in the country.

On Xmas day, my parents invited my bro-in-law's family and Shian's parents to my place. It was the first time that Shian's parents came to my place. You can imagine how early i woke up to try and clean my room!

Mum cooked a feast that day.....and dad bought the Turkey and Ham.....

Then there was of course the log cake...dad bought it from Giant but it was suprisingly very rich in the chocolate taste which is superb!

The Xmas trees with lots of presents.....mainly for the kids...:

Gavin and Gareth busy opening all their presents:

Baby Claire was like the star of the party, everyone was taking turns to take pics with her....

First time i bought presents for everyone in the family.....

Sheena and James with presents from me:

Karen and CJ ....(Karen too lazy to hold the present from me):

Shian with the 'special' present from me:

Well....time spent with family is always the best.....no pretence...full of love, fun and laughter.....I thank God for a wonderful family who stands by me everytime =)

Christmas Party @ Shian's Place - 23 Dec

It has been an annual affair now...Shian has once again invited his click of secondary school frens to his place for a simple pot-luck cum board games party....


This year, quite a few couldn't make it....despite the small group size, we deicided to carry on with the gathering...In fact, the small group makes the gathering much more cosy and intimate....


We had fun chatting, playing taboo...lotsa laughter with the comical JingWei and the jovial Ian...glad to know Dear's frens better too :)


Well, a Christmas party is not complete without the traditional gift exchange.....


Here's the group shot with all of us upon receiving our presents :





And here's the shot with all of us after opening our presents! I love the gift I received! Its a Micky Mouse pillow, but when you zip it open, it forms a quilt blanket! Amazing!~~~



Looking forward to the next Christmas gathering with these guys & gals already.....hmmm we were reminded during the gathering that the next Christmas gathering with this bunch of frens could possibly be at our new place next year! How exciting!~~~

Christmas Service at Expo!

Time flies! Its yet another Christmas service. I'm usually very excited for this service becos of the crowds at church, the carnival and also the awesome musical put up by our church members. All these programs are awesome....the whole atmosphere where everyone sings the christmas carols, give away presents and dress up for the season etc...its really such a mood for giving, loving, sharing and partying!

Am particularly proud to be part of my church. Our drama and musical teams, they are really talented people. Our service will be broadcast on cable worldwide and their performance standard can really be comparable to the professionals.

Aside from the usual dramas and singing of christmas carols....Pastor shared about having Christ in our lives brings light and takes away the darkness in our lives. Along with the symbolism of the message, once again like last year, we all had a candle and the light is being passed on till the entire Expo Hall 8 lights up. Its such a magnificent sight.

I was so excited i had to take some pics with Janice and Jennifer who were seated beside me. I had to take pics using my hp camera as i didn't bring my camera.

At the end of the service, it was such a touching sight to see many people going forward to receive Christ as their Lord and Saviour. Every week when I see people walking down the aisle to receive Christ, i always feel so touched and so encouraged. I'll always remember the time when I brought my parents to church for the first time and they too accepted Christ and their lives have never been the same again...it is transformed for the better.

I wish that all my loved ones and good friends will be able to find the true meaning of Christmas!

Enchanted

I was waiting for this show the moment i saw the trailer mths ago. When the show was finally showing, i didn't have the time to go watch it at all. Finally, dear and I made time to go watch it today at Vivo......sad thing was that we were caught in a jam and i missed the initial part of the show. Nonetheless, was glad we made time for it. It is really light-hearted, touching yet with a sense of humour. It is really very interesting ....... quite stress-relieving.... =) Makes us all dreamy and believing that there is really true love in this world! =)

Outing with the Jiemeis - 19 Dec

Finally, after quite a few postponements...i finally got to meet my Jiemeis to be ..... who are going to be the honourable door 'bitches' at my wedding =) They are all my ex-colleagues at DHL =)

I'm off from work today, so had some light shopping on my own at Parkway in the day time before going home to rest. Met the gals at Dempsey hill in the evening.

Here we are at Oosh (once again!). This time, we had dinner at The Terrace. I like it at Oosh in the sense that they have different sections and every section has its own ambience and menu, so it feels like i'm going to a different restaurant when i go to a different section. The funny yet bad thing was that the service was rather bad. We added onto the list for every bad service item and the final count at the end of the dinner was i think 32??!!! Can't imagine......

So here we are.....at Oosh at the end of dinner .... too bad Adeline and Celeste couldn't join us.....

Then we decided to walk up the hill to Ben & Jerry's ....Wai Yi and I shared the Super Mix 'n' Match and the other 3 gals tried the Strawberry Cheeseshake.....i had a sip and i must say ....its really quite nice...considering that i never liked non chocolaty flavours! There, we had a nice evening of chat......so glad that despite me not working with these gals anymore.....we can still chat in such a carefree and cosy manner.....no pretence and totally genuine....thanks gals for a wonderful night out together!

Here's our picture at B&J (Andrea is getting real sleepy =p):

Looking forward to our next gathering! Hopefully, all 6 of you can join =)

T3 Open House

Last weekend was the end of the T3 Open house at Changi airport before it will then officially open in Jan 08. Despite our busy schedules with house reno, wedding prep and lots of other commitments, we made time to go for the T3 open house. So glad Dear planned for this, he knew that the airport is the place i love to go be it when i am in a very gd mood or when i am feeling down - becos this is the place where i feel very "Free" cos of the large space and happy - cos i can start day-dreaming about my next trip! I really love travelling!!!

We paid for the $3 guided tour where the tour guide explained to us the various statistics, the rationale for the decor, certain hidden things like the speakers at the departure hall were built onto the pillar structures......

At the departure hall, the place you wait to board the planes....the seats are supposedly branded.....they are colourful and comfortable....these holding rooms are also much bigger than the current ones in T1 and T2 to support the A380 customers in future.

At the baggage pick up point.....seems as though we really just went on a trip. Afterall, we get to tour even the duty free shopping area which is usually out of bounds unless you have a boarding pass.

I wish i can take a plane that flies out from T3 very soon! T3 is really big and nicely done up ......i'm dreaming for a holiday already.....