“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air”

My Christmas (or should I call it pre-Christmas warm up) actually started early this year, on the 11th, with the study group “Despo Chiongsters” (now renamed Chiong Simi Chiong LOL) at USS & TEM Singapore. Can tell Rachel was damn excited to sit the Mummy ride since we stepped into USS loll and well, we did take that ride 4 times (?) till we’re all exhausted not so much from the ride per se, but from all the unnecessary screaming and wailing throughout the ride. And kudos to Ching for breaking her lifetime record of 3 roller coaster rides ‘YAY’ AHAHA 😝

We went to TEM because it rained (despite much prayers), and God nonetheless blessed us with more beautiful pictures and funnnn in the Trick Eye Museum. We did stupid things and amount of sh*t given = 0 💁 Picture paints a thousand words so….

 ^Height disparity muchhhh?? Only person with accurate height depicted here is Rachel LOL kiddingz 😉

Ready for take off!

Pity that gymnast that I overwhelmed.

I don’t look like I’m in a comfortable position to save anybody, too bad Clinty. I’m sorry.

     ^Biatches be like..

…and the everybody’s-profile-picture picture. I’M AN ANGEL WITH A Bicycle? 

Who’s gonna save the world(?) tonighttttt~

After the entire day of much fun, laughter, (peace?) and joy, we took the monorail (suggested by Rachel as usual) back to Vivocity for dinner at the Food Court ‘cos I was too broke that day (as usual too). Nonetheless, we are creative people and entertained ourselves with Heads Up Charades haha

18/12/2014 (Thurs): X’mas Potluck with Exparia @ YC’s Condo

On the first day of my X’mas, my true loves made for me…sausage, gingerbread, jelly and lots of curry!

To me at least, it was a super successful potluck (just that my veggie no business, but I know that it’s nice teehee)!  We began the potluck officially after celebrating Boon Ki’s 18^th B’day (which is supposed to be tomorrow?), followed by playing Heads Up Charades to ‘assist’ our food clearance LOL After our hearty lunch, which effectively immobilized all of us, we kicked off the Secret Santa gift exchange game!

[PS: I was quite glad that my mortal(?) was someone of the OPPOSITE gender and would likely be more appreciative of handmade gifts hehe]

I was Santa for Zi Jun YAY!

Feel so relieved that Zi Jun liked the handmade jar/cup ‘cos the night before I was seriously considering if my cup, of face value equivalent to two jars (it still does satisfy the $10+ prerequisite for this gift exchange tho), was too cheapskate a gift. My original idea was to simply get a Starbucks do-it-yourself tumbler and redesign the removable ‘wallpaper’, but Sbux ran out of those tumblers (oh well) so I quickly ran to Typo (and I was their last customer) to get some jars and see what could I make out of them. THANKFULLY I managed to exhaust my creative juices to squeeze out the idea of the pseudo Starbucks tumbler cup idea hehe J By then it was already 12mn… so guess what time I slept LOL (I was so sleepy that I wrote my fat name on the gift for the following day’s Secret Santa)

Following the gift exchange, we went back to Yan Chen’s home (though he claims that the entire Cashew Heights is his ‘castle’) to rest before we sprint off for block catching (which was totally not a good idea T.T) If not for Val’s sexy souvenir – a flora tee from Thailand (below), I would be drenched in my only polo tee.

After catching, and changing out from the stenchy tee, what’s left of Exparia went for Zhu Chao at Clementi. The price was reasonable though the food was of average standard only? Nonetheless what was more ‘entertaining’ was some H2 Religion lecture by our dear Prof. Luah Haha (while Zi Jun con’t to get drunk) we srsly look like some group of religious leaders having a conference (below) at some coffee shop (#thatcontrast).

Check out how Zi Jun’s still staying strong after a few shots(considered?) while Yunda & Clinty are about to kong off LOL 🍻🍻🍺

After dinner, the remains of the remains of Exparia went to hobo at Clementi Indoor Sports Hall and had some velly serious HTH talk (so serious until all of us felt sleepy, or was it ‘cos of the lightings..) And found out a lot of interesting facts(?) of each other, or rather each other’s parents oops LOL

That concluded day 1 of my X’mas celebration!

22/12/2014 (Mon): Badminton with my precious @ YTCC

On the second day of my X’mas, my true loves played with me…two games of badminton, one game of Citadel, all..at Yew Tee!

Playing anything with Exparia is guaranteed to brighten up my day after all of the office boredom especially sweating out after Badminton with Exparia J YAY! and AHAHA Haoyi was such a lucky person to have me as doubles partner twice LOL kidding.

After exercise, the remaining guys went for Bak Kut Teh @ Westgate (at like 9.30pm)! And yes, cheapo/nice-guy me decided to save 油条left over at the previous table…by eating them lol JUDGE WHAT JUDGE. I don’t usually go around salvaging people’s leftovers but in that moment I really felt that it was a blatant waste of food because the two baskets of 油条 was not even touched at all!

Christmas is the season for giving, but that’s not how you give me 油条 TYVM (Message to those wasteful Singaporeans)

And and and we concluded that the song 《豆浆油条》should be officially renamed to 《肉骨茶油条》’cos 油条 tastes unbelievably good with Bak Kut Teh (#discoveryofthenight)

Oh and my supervisor gave me Toblerones for Christmas (because I was a good employee LOL just kidding) YAY more chocolates!

24/12/2014 (Wed): X’mas Eve K.BBQ with (part of) Exparia

On the third day of my X’mas, my true loves (which decreased in numbers unfortunately) eat with me…three types of meat 🐮🐷🐔, fried two bowls of fried rice and had one ice-cream scooping competition!

LOL the 6 of us had soooooo much fun cooking food for each other and playing with food (like some kid) and irritating the boss/waitress there oops (this waitress had to change our disgusting black stove and take photo for us under the hot sun, while the boss came over to indirectly check if we are okay LOL) I bet he came over to check if his stove was okay lol. And one setback compared to previous K.BBQ I had was that the heater(?) was so close to my thigh that my left thigh was overcooked by the time we finished BBQ-ing.

Is it my destiny to become a ice-cream man (‘cos check ^ this out!) Oh and presenting to you the fried rice by the guys team…

Overall, lunch was simply splendid, so much so that dinner subsequently was blend Haha And that concluded my 3^rd day of Christmas with Exparia after a short song-singing session at my home! 🎤🎸

25/12/2014 (Thurs): X’mas Pool 🎱 & Christmas Service

On the fourth day of my X’mas, my true true loves (aka family) had lunch with me…four tables for four, three families, then two bros came to play pool and one Christmas service with Kai’s familyyyyy! 🙌

My true true loves! ^

Some (erm just two) presents 🎁🎁 from relatives! ^ I really love the Aztec design of the present wrapper on the left!

[At 12mn, Tabletonix released our X’mas singles “MeeSohToh” and “Last Christmas” (This year’s Xmas could potentially be the last for anyone who listened to our recordings #justsaying)]

Lunch at JCC was not too bad as I had stir fried lady’s finger which had always been my love! And feeling the love from grandma…can feel how much she wants to be there for me in everything I do L be it volunteering to sponsor my driving lessons, sponsor my university education, go to Tekong to see me off…love my grandparents loads.

After all my relatives left, Yan Chen & Kai came for pool! Three people is the ideal number of people for pool I realized. This time round luck was not on anybody’s side, or rather the absence of luck was quite eminent throughout the 9 games or so 😛

My new lockscreen wallpaper ^

After Yan Chen left for work (unfortunately), Kai and I went to play table tennis (our long lost sport LOL)  and I lost in 三盘两胜LOL and guess who wants to join Uni table tennis team meh.

Christmas service at Kai’s church was a new experience (or rather a relive of church service at my previous church when I was still in kindergarten). The entire service (including the sermon) was spoken in mandarin; currently the only time I use that close-to-foreign language is at work when I’m communicating with Chinese-speaking respondents. But Christians there are friendly people (like when were we not friendly? J) and Kai’s parents were even nicer omg haha They treated me to some $6.10 海鲜何粉 at the scam money seafood place (according to Kai) 😱😱

Oh oh and singing classic Christmas carols in mandarin was super nostalgic, ‘cos I only did that with my grandpa 10+years back at a Methodist church near Beauty World. Singing with Kai made it even more memorable LOLOLL J #NoSarcasmAtAll

That concluded the first four (nonconsecutive) days of MY lovely Christmas spent with Exparia! Looking forward to completing the remaining 8 days of Christmas with this precious bunch! What we need to achieve: guitar tutorials/more song-singing sessions, group cycling @ ECP, stay-over/late night party for New Year’s Eve (?), Teo Heng, Malaysia trip (?), more badminton sessions! HAHA (why am I such an optimist when I’m likely to be the one who can’t go for most of the activities L )

ANYWAY I really hope that I’ll gain some trust from my parents this Christmas since I’ve been working and will be stuck in Tekong from Feb 2015 onwards. AND I’m really crossing my fingers on this one:  that I’ll make some true friends in Army (quite excited yet afraid of the unknown LOL). How should I be feeling?

[On the side note, YAY for a happy blogpost after being such a peevish kid in the past few posts, hope this super long post will drown away all the unhappiness previously]

A happy picture taken at Queenstown library ^ (don’t judge my interpretation of happy)

28/12/2014 (Sunday): Last Sunday of 2014 @ Church!

What is Christmas without the beautiful red leaves of Poinsettias! 😍

“The Magic of Christmas is not in the presents, but in His presence”