1. Our X'mas Tree & the wonderful pressies!
I always love to gaze at our X'mas tree and looking at the X'mas lights shining...It feels so warm at heart just having our own X'mas tree in our own house... Dun forget the pressies that we spread them all under the tree! However the wrapped-pressies get lesser as we give them to our family and friends, then the tree looks bare. Hahaha...Nevertheless, the unwrapped-pressies also got more as we receive them from family and friends. Afterall, its a season of Giving and Sharing right?
This year we received a lot of "surprise" gifts. Why are they referred as "surprise" gifts? Cuz' normally from the outlook of the gifts, we will thought and believe that gift is a certain item, however after opening up, we realise its something else and better! Most importantly they are mostly useful items. We love the "surprise" element that the gifts gave us!
2. Family & Friends' Gatherings
This is the season whereby family and friends' gatherings cannot be missed and forgottened. I'd dimsum-lunch with my parents @ Yan Restaurant and got wonderful gifts from them. Thank you Dad, mum & bro! I was telling Dear, I felt very fortunate as I am being doted by so many people close to me... I wanted to treat them for this dimsum-lunch, but both my mum n Dear co-paid for it in the end... I just feel so loved!
On X'mas day itself, we'd potluck lunch with my in-laws and sis-in-law's family members and again another round of gift exchange. Dawn was so happily opening up her share and her sister, Diyan's share of presents... She is ever so clever & cheeky when we played the identify-the-animal-sounds game that we bought for her. Dear prepared his all-time-favourite-and-best-dish: The Yam's Fried Rice! I simply love his fried rice and ate alot to show my support! Hee... I couldn't have my fill of his fried rice yet, so he says he will cook for me again..hee...
For friends' gathering, we went to The Lam's house before X'mas eve and we had steamboat dinner over video-watching & logcake-cutting session. Of cuz' gifts were not forgotten and I thank the friends for their wonderful presents!
Will be having post X'mas gatherings with my primary school mates @ my humble home tomorrow, and my JC chums-cum-sisters on 30th @ Amara Hotel for buffet dinner. Photos will be available after the gatherings. (Of cuz' la! Fei hua! haha...)
3. Beautiful X'mas lightings on the streets
Everytime I passed by the streets along Orchard, I just go "Wow...." I simply love the X'mas feel that the lightings that it gives me, and the beautiful and spectacular sight that I saw... Very emotional during X'mas... I repeat myself that "I love X'mas" every time of the year and Dear was like " Erm, you have said it for the past few years liao..." haha... X'mas is just different from the rest of the year, and especially with a loved one celebrating with you, you just feel the love in the air! I will still be continuing saying this for the following years to come!
4. Mr & Mrs Santa Claus were here!
Can you believe it? Mr & Mrs Santa Claus were here! They came to our house on X'mas day and hang a bag of gift outside our doorstep! This mysterious Santa Claus couple sms us on the morning when we were still sound asleep, asking if we were at home! haha....Wat a high-tech Santa Claus hor? Thank goodness nobody took the gift away..hee... We love the gift very much, and we love & appreciate the thought of the gift, especially the efforts of coming all the way from "North Pole?" and putting at our doorstep.. Its just like a fairytale coming true and its just so sweet!!! A lovely surprise again, for this festive season.
5. You are here with me, to spend a memorable X'mas Eve...
This year's X'mas Eve is especially so extraordinary and special and touching one.... Dear planned to have us to spend the X'mas @ The Jewel Box (Mt Faber), and wanted to surprise me. But he got busy at work so he asked me to do the enquiry and booking. : / Nevertheless, the thought is there and it doesn't matter that I can help to make the whole thing happen!
X'mas set dinner was real expensive and so we do away with it, being the practical couple. Instead we had a yummylicious yet cheap dinner @ Carl's Junior! Then we made our way up the winding and upslope to Mt Faber... With Dear's 小橙 motorbike, we managed to surpass several cars which are moving at snail's pace. The blue & white lightings were so capivating.. You should take a look at their tallest X'mas tree! Its awesome! Despite it is not a "real tree", it is still a very very magnificent view when we looked up! Got ourselves in by buying the Snacks-&-Drinks tickets, and we got to see X'mas arriving on a sleigh via the cable car tracks, soft Snow falling, and also enjoying the X'mas songs on the top of the mountain...
I looked at Dear, feeling so touched that this man, this very simple and down-to-earth man whom I used to know, can be so lo-mantic at times.. I feel very fortunate that he is always ready to have new ideas in his mind, bringing me to experience many different things in life... I love him so much... I hope we can continue to be lo-mantic even when we grew older... Hee...
Thank you so much for giving me such a special & memorable X'mas Eve..
Merry X'mas Dear...
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Even Dear and my colleagues and close frens who knew I am taking the test today, worried and pray for me... Thank god that skies began to clear, rain began to soften, thou lightning still strikes on-and-off. But I was really lucky that my nervous heart began to calm down once I started my test... With my guanyin prayers, and my calm composure, I managed to pass one item by one item...and with each successful stations, I felt more and more confident and relieved (especially after I finished my parking sections..haha... most worried about the parking sections...) Also, today I was considered lucky that during lane changing, not many cars, so quite smooth lah... Only a few times when the tester took out his board and made some markings, I knew something went wrong but it still didn't waver my confidence...hee...
I will only set my appointment after my driving test...
