Baby Tee!

I have just received the wonderful news that Baby Tee has finally arrived in this world last Saturday!!! Woohoo! Well done, Baby!

I welcome with both hands (and legs) the first human being featured in this blog! we have been waiting for a long time, Baby Tee!!!

Proclamation Day..

It's Proclamation Day today.. Boxing Day for the rest.. they both mean the same thing to me: Public Holiday! Haha! a good 4 days of nothing to do!

Christmas Day was a day of food, more food and much more food.. haha.. the girls of Maylands Manor spent a day cooking, eating and watch the Bourne series back to back, only stopping for lunch break, toilet breaks, nibbles break and desert break! haha!

the day started off with the opening of presents 'under' the Christmas Tree.. which was fun! we proceeded to having nibbles, which i am in charge of.. Beer Battered Wedges and Chicken Nuggets.. while watching Bourne Identity..

we break for lunch and Jo made us a roast 'dinner'.. what can i say? more Yorkshire Puddings! heaven! we watched Bourne Supremacy after lunch and proceed to Bourne Ultimatum after that.. while Bourne Ultimatum was in progress, we had the luxury of eating Miyuki's Christmas Cake! yummy yum yum~!

absolute bliss.. the cream was the tough part.. we took turns to whip it!

the ham!

the whole leg of ham!

by the time evening came, we were all filled to the brim with food.. but as promised, i continued to provide more nibbles.. i made oven-baked potato patties with the ham that Miyuki had sliced off from the whole leg.. and i forced everyone to eat some.. hehez!

Dinner fit for a King.. hee!

we started the Christmas week early with a Christmas dinner on Monday night.. the table was empty at first.. but my cute little napkins were in place!

Jo's roast dinner and Miyuki's Ratatouille, we are ready!

there! a table ready for our landlady and landlord!

white wine and beer were supplied by Simon and Paul was in charge of desert.. which was great! Sonja & Naz brought over a whole leg of ham! no joke!!! a whole leg of smoked ham which we somehow managed to squeeze into a whole shelf of the fridge in the kitchen.. gosh!

Christmas Lunch!!!

Full-of-wholesome-goodness platter

Ham platter

Veggie sticks with dips platter

Cheese platter

Fruit platter

what can i say? it's Christmas! work ends at 1.30pm and it was all party after that! heaps of food, that is needless to say.. heaps of fun too.. with the revealing of Kris Kringle or 'Secret Santa' is another term for it.. i managed to guess my 'Secret Santa'! However, the person whom i was Secret Santa for also managed to guess that i was the 'Secret Santa'!

the top 3 were also revealed for the Christmas Bake-off.. and lots of crackers were going off.. a few of us stayed till after work hours.. the plan was to head out for dinner but by 8pm, we were still waiting for a couple of their partners.. i decided to call it a night after i was showered with some white wine down my jeans and shoes! haha.. no harm done, i just smelled like i have been drinking quite a bit..

all in all, it was good fun..

peace, quiet & tidiness..

Sis has gone home.. her flight was at 2pm this afternoon and i took the morning off to accompany her to the airport.. i went straight to work from the airport and i came home immediately after work to clean my room! haha..

i have come to the conclusion that i cannot share my room with another living thing.. human being, pet, insect, you name it.. i just cant! Geez.. no doubt i'm glad that Sis came to visit.. but i'm still glad to get my room back!

i shall write about Sis's adventures in Adelaide soon!

4AM?

i CANNOT remember when was the last time i had to wake up at 4am.. but today i did.. and it was not funny at all.. more crazy than anything was that we (me & Sis) only managed to turn in at around midnight.. as can imagine, putting us together in a situation like that only brewed trouble..

i took a shower first and then we were getting ready for the 5am cab that i booked the night before.. 2 of us in a tiny room with plenty of luggages lying around? TROUBLE getting around.. the unearthly hour didnt help.. and Sis was trying on different outfits at 4.30am in the morning! Gosh!

i couldnt take it out on my Sister who is here on a holiday, so i took it out on the cab driver instead! but trust me, he asked for it.. he pressed the doorbell at 5mins to 5am in the morning! hey, all my housemates were still in bed!

so i opened the door and gave him a piece of my mind before he can even say the word 'Hi'.. yup, i did and i didnt bother about my manners at all.. no 'harlow' and 'good morning', there was only:

"OH MY GOODNESS! Why did you press the bell at 5am in the morning? We are ready and waiting for you! Why did you have to press the doorbell? GEEZ!"

well, it was somewhere along that line and i was trying to convey my message in the tiniest voice that i could squeak in.. anyway, poor cab driver was in shock and only muttered, 'oh~'

after that, the very pissed-off me turned around and went back to my room and shooed my Sis out of it and off we go, what a nice start to a lovely day~

when i booked the tickets for Sis, i didnt think that it was that early and the buses were not running yet from where i was staying.. the buses heading towards the airport from the city were available at this unearthly hour though.. so we took the cab to the city to catch the second earliest bus to the airport..

as mentioned, we had a lovely start to the day and the day got even better when it started to drizzle when we were waiting for the bus.. no dramas but it was 'pouring' when we got to the airport.. 'pouring' for SA's standards.. but still considered 'raining' for Singapore/Malaysia..

we were earlier for check-in but the staff for Tiger Airways were late.. hey, it's no big deal except that it's adding on to my lovely day~ when i went through the check-point, i had to remove my heels because they make the 'electronic gate' go 'Di! Di! Di!'.. soil on my heels, i reckon..

breakfast was Chicken Wrap from HJ's for me and a Sausage, Bacon & Egg Wrap for Sis.. and of course a Grande Flat White from CIBO for me.. i have no idea how i survived today, really.. i thought i would have to tell BM that i have to go home because if not, my face will slam into the keyboard some time after lunch.. but i guess the workload kept me going..

Sis flew off at about 7.50am and i headed back to the office.. the bus was really packed on the route back to the city.. to think that i was still thinking about renting along the J1 line.. i have to reconsider..

we were on the Murray Expedition for the weekend, starting from Friday evening till Sunday evening and it was a relaxing and enjoyable trip.. shall update about it in a separate entry as promised, with photos of the 4th longest river system in the world..

amazingly, i didnt get river-sick but i have been land-sick ever since Sunday evening till today.. but it's fading away now.. *phew* i had enough of *floating left & right* and *bobbing up & down* on land~