Busy Weeks

So busy - we hadn't been at home on all the weekends in December, except Christmas Eve and Day ironically, ha. As weekdays after work were too short to shop for presents, we only had 2.5 weekends to do it. Last Sat (17 Dec) was originally reserved for Christmas potluck party with our cell group but was last minute replaced by a movie premiere to watch Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, an invitation from hubby's office. Hubby had to show face as his director was away.

Quite a number of hours in the last week before Christmas were spent in gift wrapping. Tiring as done at night, after work... But the pleasantly surprised expression on each receiver's face & their praises made all the efforts put in worthwhile ;)

On 23 Dec, our office was officially closed for half day (pm). So shiok to be enjoying half-days on 2 consecutive Fridays (16 Dec & 23 Dec)! Met June for lunch at United Square before my BRT treatment at 3pm. Bakerzin's set meal was pretty good (except for the slices of bread that were as hard as cardboard!) & the catch-up with June was great. By the way, hubby & I are impressed at the pace Jun speaks... as info shared within that 1 hour+ at lunch took me the whole night to update hubby! Ha...

After treatment, I went to meet hubby at his office. It's a 1-hour long bus journey from Thomson to Telok Blangah.. along the way the bus braved flood and heavy traffic (almost everywhere!). We then had a beer & early Christmas 3-course dinner at The Chamber, Robertson Walk. I like the food but not some of the drinkers there.

My Grilled Chicken Skewers with potatoes.. Nice!
Hubby had Lamb shank with red wine sauce.

Christmas Eve, we popped by at the Christmas party organised by hubby's aunts & uncles (maternal) at One Shenton.

We brought a bottle of Champagne to the party ;)

We stayed for an hour+ & then adjourned to Liang Seah Street with June & Eugene for drinks.



We headed back home around 1am... had only 4 hours of sleep and attended morning Christmas service @ 8.30am!! I"m proud that hubby & I didn't doze off at all! :D

Current Fav

Lemongrass soda. Nice!

My Secret Santa !

Last Fri we only worked half day & had department Christmas lunch at Senso (@ Club Street). Had a nice lunch filled with fun & chats with colleagues. When it's time for gift exchange, I was the first to be called & was pleasantly surprised that my Secret Santa was our boss. So undoubtedly he bought something that was over our individual gift budget of $25.

Thank God for the hand cream as I was actually searching for a good one recently.
At first I nearly blurt out that the box was so crumbled but am glad I didn't, as it's from the boss :D

Finally!

We've bought all the presents... exactly 30 pieces!

From now on just need to focus on wrapping them. As hubby knows I like to dress up our presents, we purposely made a trip to Kin Soon in Arab Street this morning to get more ribbons.

The "naked" presents are all placed by the tree now.. soon they'll be dolled up ;)

JPO

Last Fri hubby attended an ex-colleague's wedding dinner & I went out with 2 of my colleagues. We'd dinner & then drinks at Firefly. I haven't been to a Canto club for many many years. Still not my cup of tea, hehe. We only reached home past midnight as hubby came to pick us up at 11pm & sent them back.

I only had 4 hours of sleep (& hubby had 4.5) before we rushed to an outing organised by hubby's company. It's a lil trying having to wake up after only 4 hours of sleep & some beer the night before.

JPO was opened on 2 Dec & we went on the 3rd.
That day, altogether 11 coaches were organised by hubby's to go up!!!

We didn't expect to buy anything there but in the end we bought quite a bit including some Christmas presents, Adidas shirts for hubby, a Gap dress and La Senza's underwear were too good to miss (10 for RM50!!!). The highlight of the shopping trip gotta be the Coach bag hubby bought for me. It wasn't very cheap but I like the size & the silver strips.


Gonna keep all our purchases for the coming CNY so as to make myself feel less guilty :P