Same old Christmas but I like it that way~
Christmas has come and gone and it was the same enjoyable time as the past years. On Christmas Eve, there was dinner at Erika's house where there was good food, great company and oh a not too sober man with a knife ;-)
There was quite a lot of food, like bacon sausages, samosas, turkey, beef *waves hand* and Erika made chocolate honey cake. The cake was rich but the chocolate was nicely contrasted with the honey. Sad to say my infamous low alcohol tolerance reared its head meaning that half a shot of vodka and lychee liquor was enough to keep me in the happy land. Well not like the man with the knife was any better hehehe.
This time Eu Geen and I stayed until it was time to open presents. The kids
were surprisingly a little bit more restraint then last year haha. Ben was really happy with all his Ben 10 presents, he was running around wearing his Ben 10 watch and bag. I got some pretty cool stuff, Eu Geen gave me a Nell figure from Bleach and Elaine gave me a 1001 recipes cookbook. I have flipped through it and tagged out some recipes I want to try already. 1001 possible disasters waiting to happen!!
On Christmas day itself, I had lunch with Irvinder who is back for a couple of weeks from Sandakan (she got posted there). I thought Sandakan would be a major town but... it doesn't even have a bookstore!! When I asked Irvinder what she wanted to have for lunch she was like "Anything, chain restaurant food also can!!" apparently there is no McD at Sandakan either. Ok no McD that is still acceptable but no bookstore?! My mind boggles...
I took her to Hajime for japanese food and we both had the Ladies set which is basically a sampler set of a little everything like sashimi, fried chicken, salad, sushi and more. It was a pretty filling meal plus it came with ice cream ^_^ After we were done, because we were sitting in quite a quiet, secluded corner, we went to the counter to pay. I was intending to pay but Irvinder beat me to it and she was dragging me away from the counter going "Merry Christmas Hui Ling" while I was like "Wait wait!! I have a coupon!! I have a coupon!!" I'm sure the cashier was pretty bemused by us =p.