Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve! What did you do for Christmas Eve? Spend time with family and friends? Stay at home? Go carolling? 

This year, I celebrated the eve of Christ's birth in Singapore with my parents, my 6 (Tiger Lily, Spiderman, Ironman, Cinderella, Dare Devil, and Toblerone) younger siblings, my grand-uncle and grand-aunt, my uncle and aunt, my 3 cousins, and last but not least, my grandfather! We made a nice, big party! Dinner was fabulous! 

There was crispy green salad with my aunt's home-made caesar dressing ...

Warm, brown roast beef... 

Creamy white mashed potatoes that Tiger Lily and I made...

Cold, delicious flavoured ham...

 Air fried sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, eggplants, and butternut squash...

And a wonderful turkey!

 After dinner, we opened presents!

Toblerone

Cinderella

Cousin 3 and Ironman

Ironman

From left to right: Cousin 3, Spiderman, Ironman, and Cinderella

Ironman

Spiderman

Cousin 2 

Tiger Lily

My stationary-loving aunt :)

Chek Kong (My grand-uncle)

Chim Po (My grand-aunt)

What a wonderful day!

Singapore - Part 7

While we were in Sentosa, someone gave us a cute little log cake. As usual, I just had to take a few pictures :)

The day after we left Sentosa, we went to a snack shop. It was tiny, but boy, I've never seen anything so jam-packed with just snacks!!

Chek Kong and Spiderman

One of our favourite lollipops. Yum!

Later on, we laid out all the snacks on the kitchen table. We...um...filled up the whole table :P

For unto you is born this day. . . .

Merry Christmas!

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among those with whom he is please!"

~ Luke 2: 11-14

Singapore - Part 6

Here's the second part of our wonderful Sentosa trip. Sunday, we were lazy and just hung out and swam at the hotel pool. And then for lunch, all of us, except Cinderella and I (we think she had the mumps), went to Slappy Cakes for a pancake lunch. Then on Monday, we spent the morning at the beach. 

This was out of our hotel window. The buildings changed colours
and looked so pretty against the black night sky. I couldn't resist :)

The lion head was illuminated too.

This is what is looks like in the day.

At Slappy Cakes. This time, the photo credits belong to Tiger Lily.

According to Tiger Lily, there was a skillet on the table. You were
given pancake batter and then you could fry any shape of pancake
you wanted. 

I think Mom was trying to make a Canada flag :)

Oh right, and then the "men" went to play laser tag

A nice, quiet beach suddenly invaded by 10 children :P

What did I say? Where you find one, you usually find the other!

I like this picture the best. She didn't know I had the
camera on and I called her name. She turned and click!

Cinderella had a rather peculiar way of digging sand :D

I'm not too sure what they're doing in this picture. Looking for stones?
Or shells? Or seaweed?

Ironman and Cousin 2

Heading back to the hotel on a tram after a nice, salty morning at the beach.
Seriously, there was so much salt it made my hair turn as stiff as sticks!