Doreen's Endless Page 韻語: December 2007

Purple dream

Photos taken at Lavender Creek, just 45 mins drive north of Wellington.

This year Christmas

Woo-hoo, holiday is finally here! Hehehehe 1.5 week of holiday and I'm staying put in Wellington probably spending my holiday spring cleaning the house and be the house's slave. What to do, need to save $$ and annual leave for my next year trip bah. So have to suffer first lah, then can enjoy mah. Said until I'm so miserable like that, but actually not that bad lah, there are a lot of comforts I have for this festive season.......

Beautiful cards and ecards that warm my heart

Terrific virtual presents from FB and here that put smiles on my face

Red, juicy Malbourough cherries I love

A new job that will certainly bring excitements and challenges into the new year (Agreement signed and handed in today. hehehe)

A pair of shoes to keep me bright and shine, from me to myself

And, a box of my favourite Ferrero Rochers from Rick that melts me away

Wish you all a very happy Christmas and also a safe one!

Oops, hat too big. okok, try a different one. Here comes again.....

That's better! (^_^)

Labels: Event/Celebration

Lighted houses

Some gorgeously decorated houses in our neighbourhood......

Work half day tomorrow! Yay!

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Double celebrations

Today is the last Chinese festival of the year, 冬至 (Winter Solstice Festival). It’s my favourite festival as I’m an absolute 100% 汤圆 (rice dumpling) lover. I like those basic traditional ones that my family normally have, simple colourful rice ball cooked in clear sweet syrup with pandan essence. I can eat that the whole day as my 3 meals. Hehehe

Unfortunately, I couldn't find these colourful rice balls here and am too lazy to learn to make so I had to settle with these frozen rice ball with stuffing in it. There are normally 3 flavours in the market, black sesame paste, red bean paste and peanut paste. I prefer the peanut paste one.

Today is also Rick’s birthday. Yeah, he is 100% 冬至子! Hehehe

We went to enjoy dim sum at Dragon (previously known as Eastern Sunrise). Don’t know why the change of name, it is basically the same management as I could see. Anyway, no matter as long as the food is still good.

Then, it was the essential cake cutting ceremony. This time we have green tea flavoured cake and it certainly nicer than my Taro cake.

Labels: Event/Celebration, family/friends

Christmas tag

Chen gave me this Christmas tag….thought I better get it done asap since it is only 4 days to Christmas.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate. What is Egg Nog anyway?

2. Does Santa wrap the presents or just sit them under the tree? Don’t really care as long as there are presents! Hehehe

3. Colored or white lights? Colored ones nicer.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No wor

5. When do you put your decorations up? Not going to coz’ it is depressing taking them down later. (I’m just lazy lah!)

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Turkey! Cold or hot can do.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Er…..not much, may be first time taking a pic with Christmas tree at my uncle’s house. My family doesn’t really celebrate Christmas.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Wah~~~how to remember? I think I read it somewhere probably in my primary years.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Only if I received the gift on Christmas Eve lor. Otherwise, I would open it as soon as I got it! Can’t wait bah. Hehehe
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? I like it full of decors but with well colours coordination.

11. Snow: Love it or hate it? Loooooove it, too much till hate it coz’ cannot have it here!

12. Can you ice skate? Little bit lah

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I love them all

14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? No need to work loh

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Can’t think of any, they’re all extremely sweet. Do cherries count as dessert?

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Christmas décors/lightings
17. What is on top of your tree? I didn’t put up the tree this year, but an angle (i.e LB in his white dress) would be wonderful. Hehehe
18. Which do you like best, giving or receiving? Both
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Last Christmas by George Michael

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

But the very next day, You gave it away

This year, to save me from tears

I'll give it to someone special

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

But the very next day, You gave it away

This year, to save me from tears

I'll give it to someone special

Once bitten and twice shy

I keep my distance but you still catch my eye

Tell me baby do you recognise me?

Well it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me

(Happy Christmas!) I wrapped it up and sent it

With a note saying "I Love You" I meant it

Now I know what a fool I've been

But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again

20. Do you like candy canes? For décor ok, but don’t like to consume any.

May I pass this festive tag to:

keeyit

kyh

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Beowulf

Watched Beowulf last night. It was a date as Rick put it. Hehehe. To my surprise, it turned out to be a complete CG movie! I was a bit disappointed as I had been wanting to see real sexy Angelina Jolie in action. Couldn't believe how ignorant I'd been! Anyway, the movie was good though I found it extremely hard to comprehend their ancient English. Lucky the story was pretty easy to catch on. That said, all I could remember is the hot, sexy, seductive Angelina Jolie! *drool*

Labels: entertainment, leisure

Christmas dinner at Mac

I accompany Rick to his company's Christmas dinner at Mac's Brewery last night. I still remember before Mac's Brewery came to life, it used to be an abandoned old building standing tall by the waterfront with broken glasses all over. It was a sight that you just couldn't miss strolling along the waterfront.

Anyway, prior to the dinner, we mingled around over some drinks on the deck, overlooking the beautiful harbour. The weather was calm and warm. It was a perfect evening. I finally met the people whom I heard a lot of, either from Rick or from my colleagues. Rick and I are in the same industry you see, so we have a lot of mutual colleagues/ex-colleagues. It is a small industry afterall.

The dinner started at 7pm sharp. We got ourselves settling down comfortably at one of the tables. We were served with beautiful luscious salmon entree followed by a buffet dinner and then scrumptious chocalate cake and Christmas pudding. The food was good, ambience was pleasant and it was a lovely night.

Labels: Event/Celebration, food/drinks, leisure

Presents for this Christmas

I came across this toy in Kay's blog and it is so cool! So I want to have it in my blog too lah, to collect Christmas presentsssssssss! Hehehehe See, you don't need to spend any $$ and just a few clicks then you can give pressies liao. Nice isn't it? Come on lah, don't be so lazy, click click click...Pigi and I both want pressies. Hehehehe

Labels: Event/Celebration, notepad

Birthday birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DECLAN!

May your life be filled with joy, happiness, toys, good health and of course

LOTS OF LOVE!

(Hugs & kisses)

My nephew, the handsome, the cutest!

and also

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my good old friend, Teresa!

May all your wishes come true

(Hugs & kisses)

Labels: Event/Celebration, family/friends

Tag on 8 - Extremely awfully sampat

This is a tag from Chen quite a while ago. I agree with Chen that this is a very very very sampat tag. 8 criteria for each element below. Siao lor!

Let’s see how I go…….

8 THINGS I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT:
1. Travel
2. Rick
3. Food
4. Vell (my dog)
5. Music
6. Blogging
7. Shopping
8. Reading entertainment news (celebrity gossip lah)

8 THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
1. Spend more time with Rick
2. Spend more time with my family
3. Travel around the world.
4. Eat like no tomorrow
5. Write a piece of music as my legacy
6. Take lots and lots of photos that reflect my life and experiences
7. Update my will
8. Er……can’t think of any liao

8 THINGS I SAY OFTEN (in blog):
1. lah
2. ler
3. lor
4. mah
5. neh
6. hor
7. emm….
8. ok

8 BOOKS I'VE RECENTLY READ:
I’ve spent 20 odd years of my life reading books (textbooks, reference books, whatever books), still not enough meh? Still wanna read? No no no, I’ve retired from reading books.

8 SONGS THAT I COULD LISTEN TO OVER AND OVER:
1. 你是如此的難以忘記 by Tony Leung 梁朝偉
2. 情書by Jacky Cheung 張學友
3. 一生中最愛 by Alan Tam 譚詠麟
4. 跟著我一輩子 by Alex To 杜德偉
5. Don’t know why by Norah Jones
6. Sunrise by Norah Jones
7. 隐形的翅膀 by Angela Chang 张韶涵
8. 不能说的秘密 by Jay Chow 周杰伦

8 THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO MY BEST FRIENDS:
1. Common interests
2. Caring
3. Considerate
4. Can take jokes
5. Sense of humour
6. Easy going
7. N/A
8. N/A

8 THINGS I'VE LEARNED THIS PAST YEAR:
1. Life is too short to be miserable
2. Be contented, and the happiness will find you
3. People come, people go and Life Goes On (Yep, I learnt exactly the same thing as Chen!)
4. You can never please everyone, so please yourself.
5. Managing people skills
6. Making tiramisu
7. Some photography skills
8. Some easy DIY hairstyles

8 PEOPLE I THINK SHOULD DO THE CRAZY EIGHT MEME:
I can’t think no more! So the tag is open to everyone who is EFNTD (my newly learnt jargon!) or who want their brain to do some intensive exercises. Hehehehe

P/S: If you don’t see me updating my blog for a while, that means I’m still recovering from the lost of brain cells as a result of this tag. :P

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New age new hair 2

I made an apparent change of hairstyle after my birthday last year. This year, no exception, with new age comes the new look. I guess when I hit my 50, it wouldn't be just the change of hairstyle but a facelift! Hahaha...sigh...I don't really want to go there....

I took a bigger step this time, going out of my comfort zone.......

This was THEN......

And...moment of truth.....

.

This is NOW

To be honest, it is not what I had in mind, but I guess I could live with this. All I need is a little bit of time to get use to seeing this person in the mirror.

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Doreen's Endless Page 韻語

Friday, December 28, 2007

Purple dream

Monday, December 24, 2007

This year Christmas

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Lighted houses

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Double celebrations

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Christmas tag

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Beowulf

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Christmas dinner at Mac

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Presents for this Christmas

Monday, December 10, 2007

Birthday birthday

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Tag on 8 - Extremely awfully sampat

Saturday, December 01, 2007

New age new hair 2

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