Last year I was still having my internship at Monetary Authority of Singapore. How time flies! I remembered we had turkey, pastries, ham, fruit cake and played charades.
This year, I didn't really celebrate Christmas eve. I was so exhausted from the batches of Chocolate dipped Shortbread I baked that I didn't invest much time in my fondant cookies.
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| Could have put in more effort but I was so sleepy that I dozed off while rolling the fondant :( |
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| Chocolate dipped shortbread |
I ended up sleeping at 6am on the eve of Christmas eve. The chocolate dipping took place at around 2.30am and I regretted doing it quickly otherwise it will be covered in half perfectly. Nevertheless, it was worth it as even Russy loves my shortbread :)
According to Baboo, he started whining when they were eating. Awww~
*With huge puppy eyes* "Gimme some please, I promise I will not steal your pillow at night again"
We're mad pissed on Christmas Eve. Was expecting a nice and tasty dinner but it turned out to be extremely disgusting and we were very upset. Cost us about 90 bucks :(
I wouldn't mention what restaurant it is as the supervisor/boss welcomed us very warmly. We didn't even have to queue and were shown to our seats immediately. VIP guest discount was also given and they even gave us a new plate of drumlets very willingly and efficiently.
Complimentary bread was provided as well and boy, it's damnnnnnn good! It's neither hard not burnt. It's soft and perfect and goes very well with the butter they provided!
The drumlets look good on the outside but Baboo wasn't lucky and bit on a bloody one causing the blood vessels to burst and his mouth was like filled with blood?!
Next, I asked for my steak to be medium well, it wasn't even cooked properly as it slowly became close to medium rare and medium upon eating. It even OOZES out BLOOD when I pressed it down with my knife. Red blotches were seen on my plate. I felt like a vampire all of a sudden.
For my baked potato, sour cream was substituted with a huge amount of cheese. Not melted cheese! I'm fine with melted cheese but not any other cheese D: I've eaten many jacked potatoes in my entire life and have never eaten one with cheese.
I suddenly felt very thankful that I'm born a woman and not a man. I would have been stuck outside the house of my "Bride/Future wife" if her bridesmaids were to sabo me with different kinds of cheese including the worse cheese in history - BLUE CHEESE.
Hais, I would rather spend that amount of money at Jack's Place given the steak is of much better quality and the baked potatoes taste even better.
Christmas for us started at Church of the St.Mary of the Angels. We went for morning mass before presenting our gifts to each other :) Gave Baboo a box filled with 11 presents! It's supposed to be 12 but the cookie tin is too big hence I gave him separately.
I decorated the tin hastily on Xmas day itself! I was so swamped with the baking that I couldn't think straight. Luckily I have an old girlguides cookie tin where I kept all my ribbons in it and found 1 with the perfect length.
Now, he has to open 1 present at a time on the 12 days of Christmas starting on the 25th :)
Follow his blog - www.boythunder.com for more details on what he's gonna receive :)
My Baboo bear also gave me 3 amazing presents! All wrapped up nicely with Disney wrapper :)
I also received a Baby bear chocolate lollypop on that day. So cute!!! It looks as if it's playing peek-a-boo.
Went Christmas visiting at Baboo's relatives' house before heading to town. Plans to take pictures with the Christmas trees failed because there were too many people around. It was extremely crowded and not very enjoyable. We smelt various pungent stuff from armpits to body odour to cigarettes smoke and anything CHEESE (Anything that is smelly in my opinion will be substituted with cheese haha)
I'd rather plan in advance for next Christmas and have a backup plan. Baboo, would you like to accidentally bumped into Aunties' boobies again next year???
Craving for Japanese food again, we dined at Sakae sushi :)
The sashimi is the ultimate! I like to chew it slowly and feel the thick slices of fresh cold salmon in my mouth and in just a short span of time, you will finish the entire dish and find yourself craving for more! For every outlet that I visited in SG, it is always fresh and thick.
Tamago sushi seems a little watery though. Other than that, everything taste fine!
We were also back in Marche again for dessert although they have pissed us off countless times.
The crepe was a beautiful light brown this time round instead of the previous burnt look.
Bailey's Chocolate Fudge Cake
DIVINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I always like to stop by the dessert bar in Marche. It looks so pretty with all the beautiful pastries placed neatly on the counter. For a baking enthusiast, you just wish that you'll be able to bake all these awesome goodies and picture this image in your very own kitchen :)
This year's Christmas theme must be blue. It's a Blue Christmas!
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| Somebody couldn't get enough of his brand new SUPRA shoes and kept insisting on a full body shot hahaha! |
New Year's Eve next! I've been waiting so long to catch this movie all because of Zac Efron who will be starring in it.
He has shed that schoolboy image and looks so good and all grown up. This hairstyle looks wonderful on him as well as the minimal stubble.Time for opening our presents! And yes, I'm holding a Santa Apron! So glad that I can wear that whenever Im cooking and baking.
This wrapper cost AUD12.00!!!! But, it's soooo pretty! :)
It's not childish okaaay! It's so beautiful :) The feeling is totally different until you've been to Disney world/land.
One thing I'm unhappy about is that Baboo disallow me to take pictures with Rapunzel because we have too many fastpass tickets for Rock n Rollercoaster & Toy Story Midway Mania and we couldn't miss the timing :(
Some other presents and cards I received from Qinying and Brenda. Feels so blessed to be so close to them even though we weren't in the same school for 4 years!
Brenda gave me the newly launched ZA Impact Lash Mascara as well as the Mascara base. Totally love the Mascara because my lashes became so thick and long with a gyaru effect.
And now for Babu's gifts... It started with a card which is really really meaningful. We have a thing for hedgehogs! Ok inside joke, but then, how common it is to find cards with hedgehogs on it!?!? Most of it are usually bears!
Colouring book with wonder markers hahaha! Cant wait to colour Ariel!
And this!!!!!!!!!! It's a Bieber board game! Apparently it can't be bought in Singapore!!! *gasps*
& a Mrs Santa Apron which is damn amusing!
It looks like this and it suddenly daunt on me that the top is supposed to be your chest area with pearl necklaces. Initially I thought it's a bib. how cute n creative! Will most probably wear this when we cook in Qingpei's house. Baboo bought a male apron for himself and chef hats!!!
Though we didn't have much plans on Christmas, I felt so blissful because we shared a kiss under the mistletoe..
Alright, I know it's not EXACTLY a mistletoe but it's a mistletoe wreath so why not? :) It's the new generation man :D
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