Xmas Presents

 

Gift exchanges has become part of Xmas celebrations, hence I was rushing to town to buy & wrap up all the presents. My fave place to shop was @ Taka & that pretty much explained the amount of Taka-wrapped presents I've prepared underneath the tree. Many people believe that the tradition of gift giving started from Christ's birth, as the 3 wise men/kings brought offerings to honour him. 

 

  I've been giving chocolates to my team members for a couple of years, since that was the one of the universal present that I got for almost every one. Who can resist chocolates?

 

Then in 2011, I've decided to pick out individual gifts for the guys ... yes, I'm the only girl in the team now. It was hard racking my brains over what to buy for guys, given that Leecher always tells me what he wants and I'll pay for it.

 

Last year, I've continued the trend of picking out gifts for the guys as well, with a homemade card this time round :)  

 

Us, with our lil Xmas tree behind ^^ We usually open our gifts during Boxing day, where I'll get to "box" Leecher if he doesn't give me the "right" Xmas gift. We didn't get each other Xmas present this time round (so, no chance of boxing), hence, we opened our gifts on Xmas night.

Someone got a lot of presents, can't decide which one to start first.

Interesting idea from one of his colleague!

 

My boss gave me my present in a special bag, interesting read :) 

Must take a few more pictures ^^

Thank you for all the Xmas gifts! Hope you'll like those that we've picked out for you as well :) Till the next Xmas season, xoxo

Xmas Tree @ Maison De Joie 2012

Celebrating CNY soon, but before that, I had a wonderful Xmas last year. December was always a time for gathering, meeting in the name of Xmas & New Year. As usual, we put up our Xmas tree this year on the 1st day of December. I wanted to change to a different theme, but Leecher was strongly against that, citing storage space crisis, haha!

 

 The usual stockings & reindeer decorating the wall.

 

Overkill with the Xmas ornaments on the tree last year, so this year, we used some to decorate the photo corner as well.

Leecher did most of the decoration this year ... since I was busy placing the presents underneath the tree & arranging our newest additions :) Traditionally, the Christmas tree is decorated with edibles such as apples, nuts or dates. An angel or star is placed at the top of the tree, representing the host of angels or the Star of Bethlehem.

Our lil toys guarding the presents! I'm glad we bought these 2 despite the hefty price tag, cuz they're so adorable. Highly popular with our visitors too. 

 

Lighting up the Xmas tree ... like twinkle stars :) 

PicPrints - Beary Xmas

 

Still pretty much in Xmas mood, with all the Xmas posts that I've penned. 

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PicPrints - Ginger-Girl

 

I'm not a fan of gingerbread, but these are too cute to resist! 

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Merry Xmas

PicPrints - Xmas

As we step into the 1st day of December, it's time to shout ........

XMAS IS COMING! 

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CNY with Sis & Bro

Touched down on Saturday from the trip and it was close to 2am before I hit the comfy bed and finally switched on the TV, after 4 days of non-TV in BKK. Sunday was such a nice day to sleep in, for it was raining for almost the whole day. I had to literally drag myself out of bed and put the laundry into the washer, unpacked my bags and get down to work. Before (even more) stuff starts to pile up, here's another backdated entry :)

CNY with the brothers & sisters gang! A trip into JB to the korean restaurant that they went while we were in Bali for pre-honeymoon. They whatsapp us the pictures and I was drooling! Filled with envy at the spread that they had!

 Jang Won BBQ Korean restaurant located in JB is located along the coastline of the ex-customs. You can choose to have alfresco dining or indoors.

 The drink that got all the girls hooked! 

 

Close to 17 side dishes, all refillable. I love the pancakes the most, followed by pumpkin.

 

    

 I think we ordered Set C or Set D, which comes with supply of pork, chicken, beef and lamb. They will have a helper onsite to help you with the BBQ, cut it for you when its done. Thumbs up for service!

 Seafood pancake as side dish. We were famished when we arrived for being stuck in the jam for close to 2 hours.

  

Ended the meal with maggi mee, tofu and sausage :) yum yum yum! 

   

 

 

Happy faces after a satisfying meal! 

Jang Won Restaurant

K1-211 2nd Floor, Block C,
Komplexs Perniagaan Stuland Laut,
80300 Johor Bahru, JOhor
Tel 07-226 6820

CNY 2012

Being married means you've elevated in status, and also, the time where you will end your angpao collecting career, haha! This year is our 1st time in giving our angpao :) Weeks before CNY, I've started queuing up at the banks to exchange new notes. My clients cheekily gave me empty angpao packets and asked me to fill it up with money, haha!

Year of the dragon, which the Chinese consider to be the most auspicious zodiac of all. Since it was our 1st CNY as Mr&Mrs, I jumped at the opportunity to buy CNY outfits, esp in red :)

Before that, express manicure from BFF! Thank so much! We even had to pack sandwiches back to our office.

Eve of CNY Eve

(self-declared) Head of the household Leecher decided that we should have our own mini reunion dinner.

Preparing to head out for dinner :) Kinda excited and Leecher gave me a wifey angpao! He slipped it underneath my pillow and I didn't realize it till I flipped my pillow over.

Headed over to Serangoon Garden

Back @ Arbite!

After the gastronomical experience that we had previously with Kenneth & Yaozu, we came back for more!

Newly bought iphone cover :) Not so new now though.

Once again, Arbite revamped their menu before I could even take down the name of this dish :( They took out a lot of their side dishes, why why? This was deep fried mushrooms, accompanied by a toss of greens.

I ordered Japanese Curry Pulled Pork Wrap - shredded pork collar, caramelized apple, leeks and Japanese curry sauce wrapped up in tortilla skin, served with homemade potato croquettes. Not really a fan of this - curry was too salty and I reckoned a lot of MSG went into this dish, for I was perpetually thirsty after this.

Leecher ordered the Pappardelle with mushrooms and parma ham. He concluded that this dish tasted better when sharing with others, haha! He must have felt pretty jerlak after finishing this all by himself.

with (the dearest) Leecher :)

Arbite
66A Serangoon Garden Way
Singapore 555962
Tel: 62870430
Closed on Mondays

CNY Eve

Our 1st CNY, went to Leecher's parents' place for reunion dinner.

Parents-in-law bought small decorations for the house.

Parents-in-law whipped out dishes instead of the usual steamboat. We even had home-cooked sharks' fin :) The table was filled with dishes!

Helped out in the kitchen scoping shark fin soup for everyone.

Then, it was back to mummy dearest place for 2nd round. We had the usual steamboat & mummy dearest cooked a couple of dishes. Leecher paiseh and had to help out in the kitchen, lol!

Drooling while I'm typing this entry. Mummy dearest bought all of our fave steamboat ingredients and she even made sure that I had my quail eggs :)

Tuck in!

Back to PIL's place for countdown. Had a bowl of white fungus dessert soup, specially made by Mummy-in-law.

CNY 1st Day

Red packets all done! Time to start giving out, haha!

Lil bro came over to stay for the night. I was all dressed in red! even my shoes were red :)

1st Day was a mad rush, rushing from places to places. Leecher drove to the temple to pai pai first before visiting all the relatives/families.

CNY 2nd Day

Headed over to granny's place.

Leecher complained that he didn't buy any CNY clothes and was feeling bitter, haha!

Granny always cooked a lot of dishes whenever we come over for visiting. This year, we decided to let her have a good rest and ordered takeaways instead.

Naughty Javier! He's super hyper & its difficult to make him stand still for even a minute.

CNY 3rd Day

I was on leave while Leecher had to go back to work, haha! Feels good to sleep in and wave byebye to Leecher as he made his way out. But, I've a surprise for him :)

Called him after his lunch break.

Made barley water for him, as he was feeling a lil heaty (must be from all the CNY goodies)

Heehee, 有沒有佷 touched?

Went for more visiting during the weekends and the last of the CNY outfit posts :) We'll be celebrating the year of the snake in just a few months time ... time flies!