W for Christmas!

Guess where we spent our Christmas this year?

The night was spent with my favourite people!

We had a potluck party at W and I prepared fried beehoon and potato salad.
Heehee I guess it tasted and looked not bad cos they received many praises that night!

I just realised the picture of our food was blur and these are all that I have :(
Our East meet West buffet spread!
Love the sio ba and roast chicken the most!

My favourite part in the room!

Haha didn't bother to take a picture of the room cos it was already messed up by the three of them who were there earlier :p

Took a stroll around W before the rest arrive.

It's really in a world of its own like a little neighbourhood.

Chilling at the poolside with the bubble chair.

Call me siao zar bo!

So festive with Christmas caroling at the lobby.

Blur again! Why??? :(

Played lots of lame games during the night.

I laugh so hard till I almost lost my voice!

Love the game 'Heads up Charade!', I was so excited to share the game with them after trying out with Jia.

We ended up having loads of fun giving super dumb hints to the words.

Why so agitated? 

Made all of them pose with the log cake that KS brought. 

Fist palm, like-a-boss, planking, yoga.. See how wacky my friends can be!

First time trying out Secret Santa with them and it's so much fun!

We hid hints and the presents around the room and ended up discovering others' present while looking for our clues. #epicfail

We were laughing so hard at Bella and Lena, giving them 'hot and cold' clues to their presents because the two seemed to be blinded. They can't seemed to see the clue no matter how much we hint them, not to mention the clue was pasted right in front of them.

Hello Secret Santas!

A pixelated picture with my darlings and long lost friend, Carlos!

Ending off the post with a present I really love from Chuck! 

Superhero lego keychains for each of us!

Merry Christmas one and all!  

Another blessed Christmas with you :)

We did an early celebration this year cos we will be having a staycation with our friends on Christmas eve.
I was really excited about it because I love dates with WC, especially when he took leave specially to accompany me! *beam*

He promised me a BIG surprise for Christmas and I was really surprised by the sweet act of the boy!
Haha Jia was suspecting WC got me a Wii (which I seriously doubt) cos he says he needed a big space.
Turned out he prepared 10 presents for me which he lay out on the floor!

But...

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The saying, there's no free lunch in the world is never wrong.
Haha cos I need to answer a question before I can open a present and a forfeit if I got it wrong! *Roar*

I am supposed to assign one question to each present..

Woo.. ALL MINE!!!

In the end, we spent an hour plus unwrapping all the gifts.
Some gifts made me laugh like mad, some gifts made me "angry", but I love all the gifts from him cos they were all so thoughtful and really warm my heart :)

Headed down to town after that for our Christmas movie that I have been bugging him to watch.

My favourite character! So stupidly funny!!!!

Frozen is such a beautiful and heartwarming movie. I was immediately put into the festive mood with the beautiful singing in the enchanting snow fairyland. Definitely one of my favourite movie! :)

And WC treated me to our Christmas dinner at Togi! 

Heehee I told him it could be a prelude to our holiday destination next year and he is finally considering it! Yay!!

 

The boy looking very happy cos I managed to surprise him with his present!

He thought I didn't have the time to get it for him but I got it ready weeks ago!

Can you tell I wrapped it using construction and tracing paper? LOL.

With the love of my life :)
Christmas is blessed because I have you :)

A year of Gratitude and love

A year has passed again and I think this year passed by really quickly, don't you agree?

Every year this time, my mind will automatically "rewind" and think about all the events that happened in the year. 

I am thankful for 2012 cos it has been a really blessed year.
 I am surrounded by my lovely family, especially my sister, my super loving boyfriend, the wonderful group of friends who never left my side and a job that I still enjoy after 3 years into it:)

 

This year, I feel that I have grown more than other years. 

In a year, I witnessed many life events, good or bad, that seemed so surreal to me.
I lost a friend but he taught me to treasure those around me even more.
Wedding bells are ringing for some of my good friends- We used to sit around and talk about the lamest things but now our topics are always revolving around serious matters like housing, marriage, car loan etc. (Come to think of it, our house is actually coming next year!)

I used to care a lot about others' opinion of me because I can be so quiet in the presence of strangers and wonder how my friends managed to mingle so well with new found friends. However, I am a totally different person when I am in my comfort zone because I can laugh and talk about anything under the Sun with them. I can be so candid, do the dumbest thing but is never judged and still loved by them.
That's why I often tell WC that I have a split personality.
So at 25, I think I gave up making new friends! LOL.

I don't initiate meetups (cos I am lazy hehe) but I love meetups with my friends and I only try to maintain friendships when I see the other parties putting in effort. (So sad cos I think I lost a good friend this year)
On the surface I don't think I make a very good friend though I really am ok! haha.
So in 2013, I will try even harder to treasure all my loved ones around me!

Enough of such reflections cos I already did one with WC on New Year's eve (with a very lame "ceremony" hehe)

So Christmas and NYE's was spent with the loved ones :))

We wanted steamboat cos we had craving for it since we came back from NZ.
Coca didn't allow us to make reservations but had no vacancies for us :( so we I insisted on waiting till 9 for steamboat at JPot though our stomach were rumbling like mad! :D

See how happy we are!
The handsome boyfriend! Teehee. 

Super love their seafood combo!

Ended off the night with a stroll at Vivo and then to Queens for a drink and our present exchange :)
Thank you love for such a sweet Christmas present this year! *muacks*
We seemed to be heading there every year but it's really hard to find a peaceful place on Christmas eve. 

And guess what? New Year's Eve was steamboat again!
Mummy prepared a really sumptuous steamboat for us ♥♥♥

And the 6 of us did a 'Yum Seng' to celebrate a good year ahead! 

Cheers to a good year ahead!
Don't know why but I am exceptionally excited about 2013.
Let's give thanks to all blessing we receive, be it big or small and embrace all challenges ahead! :)