Christmas

This christmas is definitely one of my laziest christmas EVER!

I went about setting up the christmas trees just days before the 25th, only to realize that the lights of the trees were no longer working. Urgh.

I settled for an eco-friendly christmas tree that requires no electricity, but merely more christmas baubles to make up for the lack of lights in gold and red theme nonetheless...

It actually turned out decently pretty, but I didnt manage to muster energy to take pictures of the tree (Maybe next year..)

However, to spruce up the festivity, i've dressed pix!e and Scrabbles up in santa's hat, and a golden axe - stolen from a log cake!

The hat was too big for pix!e, and had 2 slots for bunny's ears to fit into...hurhurhur

Arrggh! So cute!

As for Walnut, she was uncooperative, so no pictures for her.

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I started buying presents a mere 2 days before christmas, and it was a horrible, horrible mad rush (I'm totally blaming the new job for killing all my enthusiasm and love for the christmas season), but i am still pleased that despite all the last minute purchasing, all the gifts that I've selected were bought with the intended receiver in mind, and not bought on impulse, for the sake of getting a gift!

:)

I was worked to death on the eve of Christmas eve, and only left the office at 5ish in the evening, and rushed back home for a simple family dinner at home in the company of the bro, sis, and mommy + pix!e, Scrabbles and Walnut each had a portioned of our christmas salads less the dressing.

Awesome!

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Pre christmas, I had a shot with grumpy robots from Starwars (I think?) marching about town.

The grumpies were rather obliging with my request for a picture, and Ta dah! here we go...

heheh..

I caught them right outside Borders @ Wheelock.

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Oooh!

I received my first ever present/ christmas present from BD, and it comes in a green box! Woo hoo!

Love it!

My mphosis wallet was falling apart, and I wasn't too happy making do with my red Epi LV, and he got me the Kate Spade!

Thank you! (Even though you weren't impressed by their products/brand, and never will......./simply cannot understand your my fascination for it)

I love it.

:)

Randomies...

There was this random weekend where I declared to BD that I could differentiate the taste of Mineral water, Distilled water, and home tap water, and so just to prove that I could, we drove out to Cold storage to get us a bottle of Evian and Ice Mountain!

Hahaha...

My chilled water holders in preparation for my blind taste test! :D

the contenders... Ice mountain, Evian and Home brewed water

I turned around, and baby dispensed the water into the glasses randomly!



and results: I got them right!

It's not exactly rocket science, but I do know what i'm drinking!

Therefore I'm a self declared water connoisseur

Lalalalala...

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BD's got this random Blueberry cheesecake craving for the longest time, and I was semi bored hanging out at Orchard 313 after work - waiting for him, and so i decided to satisfy his craving by getting him his cheesecake!

So after going back and forth around 313, the only 2 places that sold "cheesecake with blueberry jammie toppings" were Blue mountain cafe, and coffeebean.

I couldn't decide which cake is the better of two, and visual assessment usually doesnt work.. I decided to get both, just so that if one fails the taste test, the other would hold (hopefully).

Coffeebean's rectangular blueberry cheesecake..

with it's slightly more "gelatin" finishing

and Blue Mountain cafe's jammier looking blueberry cheesecake!

Our verdict: BD prefers the coffeebean blueberry cheesecake, as it has a lemony aftertaste to the cake, while the brother and I preferred Blue Mountain's - which is the typical velvety cheesecake finish.

Yums anyway.

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Very random...

but whatever! :)