Christmas Party @ Home

On Friday, 26 December 2008, we had our annual Christmas gathering cum exchange gift at our home. During my last check up on Christmas eve, the gynae suggested that I have the cesarean on Boxing Day (26/12/08), but I said no because I want to party first. :)

This year, besides the usual gang (my family, Yoke Kheng, Kevin, Kenny, Sahaya and Pei Lu), we had my Mum, John and Wan Yi joining us. Food was excellent.

How did we exchange gift?
We sat in a circle, each one holding a gift. Then, we sang 3 songs - Jingle Bells, Joy to the World and We wish you a Merry Christmas. Once the singing has stopped, we get the gift that we were holding at that time. Cool, eh? Something different.

Thank God for the great fellowship. We were able to catch up more with John and Wan Yi. I'm really glad to have this simple celebration before the birth of Jemimah.

Lu Kenn's Famous Pasta Sauce

Roast Chicken

Yoke Kheng's famous salad

Nativity Scenes at the Leong's Residence

Most of us were impressed by the nativity scenes that Uncle Chris set up in his home. The figurines and ornaments are really unique, collected from different parts of Europe including Germany.

Christmas Decorations at 1 Utama

Christmas Gift 2008

Below is our Christmas gift to our friends - Quotes on Prayer from "Give Me 40 Days" by Freda Bowers. I have prepared the gift earlier this time. A big thank you to my Mum for helping me with the punching and sorting.

A Blessed Christmas to all!

Christmas Decorations at The Curve

Comment: Last year's decoration was more impressive.

Christmas Tree 2008

Our Christmas Tree was set up last Saturday (22 November 2008).
There is one big present at the bottom - its Jordan's birthday gift.
We have also bought Christmas gifts for him which are not wrapped yet.

Jordan likes to see the lights blinking on the tree. Whenever he is around, he requests for the lights to be turned on. Actually, he helped me to put up some of the Christmas decorations. Its fun to involve him.

Christmas Gift 2005

I have wanted to post photos of these handmade notebooks in my blog for quite some time. I gave them away as Christmas gift when Jordan was born in 2005. My sis and friend, Queenie helped to print a personalised message and paste them on each notebook. I really appreciate their effort.

I have already planned for this year's Christmas gift. Hopefully, everyone will be blessed by it.

Christmas Community Carnival 2007

On Christmas Day, Tuesday, 25 December 2007
(Slide show)

Christmas 2007 at Home

For the past few years (4 or 5?), we have been having Christmas dinner and exchange gift at our home with the ex-BBC team and friends who are mostly single.

This year, we had it on Sunday, 23 December 2007.

The menu was simple:

Lu Kenn’s special pasta (white sauce) – Best Seller
2 Large Pizzas from Dominoes
Potato salad by Yoke Kheng
Fondue by Aaron
Drinks – Shandy and Green Tea
Ice cream – Sweet corn and durian flavour from Bentong
Muruku by Sahaya

Turkey was very expensive this year, and so we didn’t get one. We wanted to get roast chicken but it was replaced with pizzas instead.

Dessert was really special this year – Fondue with strawberry, marshmallow, banana, and cheese biscuit. It’s the first time we had such an exotic dessert at home. Everyone including Jordan enjoyed it. The ice cream from Bentong was yummy too. I think Jordan was the only one who ate the Muruku. Hee! Hee! Hee! He loves it.

This is the first time we played Yahtzee together. The Yahtzee was a gift from Roy, Selvi and Reuel for my birthday. It’s an interesting game but rather long. We didn’t finish the game. Yoke Kheng was the only one who got a Yahtzee which is 5 of a kind. So, I shall declare her as the winner.

Gift Exchange
We had so many ideas on how we should exchange the gift this year, but none was adopted. Some like the idea of a treasure hunt in the shopping centre – hunting for our own Christmas gift. Hmm….but too much effort is required. One thing we all agreed is that, we should buy a purposeful gift for the person. So, in the end, Kenny drew lots for everyone because we couldn’t meet to draw together. We were then supposed to write clues for the person to guess the giver and the gift.

Here’s the list of the giver, receiver and gift (the giver is on the left):

Seng Chor – Christine (Sandals)
Christine – Kenny (Scripture Keeper)
Eva – Seng Chor (Soar Shaking Toy)
Alex – Aaron (Photo album)
Lu Kenn – Yoke Kheng (CD casing)
Yoke Kheng – Lu Kenn (T-Shirt)
Kenny – Eva (Body Shop gift pack)
Sahaya – Kevin (CD)
Kevin – Alex (HP Socks)
Aaron – Sahaya (Back Massager)

Hopefully, we can be more creative in our gift exchange next year.

I realized that we forgot to do something this year – taking a photo with our gift after opening them. Guess we were too excited trying to guess the giver. Ha! Ha! Ha!

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Christmas 2007 Gifts