2012 Meimei's Birthday Gift

Ok first, I admit, I'm cheap. Well to a certain extent, and in my defense I'm still a whole lot better than other guys. I bought a garnet pendant for Meimei as a Christmas cum Bday gift. It never is good to combine gifts together but well at least I got her something.

Now garnet isn't a bright rock, it's the dullest of stones I've seen. Even coupled with other metals like silver or gold, it is still lackluster. I couldn't find many jewelry with garnets. Some shops don't even carry them. I managed to find one which looked reasonably good.

Meimei was happy she got a gift this year haha she's always one for gifts and surprises, and rightly so *kiss. But even the element of thoughtfulness on my part couldn't drain away the muted attraction of a garnet. So we went to exchange it for something else. That's perfectly ok, anything for Meimei. She found this nice band with 3 little diamonds. This is better for everyday wear compared to Blinky. I'm very glad she is willing to sound it out rather than keep quiet and stash the pendant away, never to see the light of day again. I can see my 'gift' on her fingers and feel good that I 'bought' it for her ... hehehheeh I'm still gonna claim credit!

Christmas 2011

Nua group is here at our place for Christmas celebration! We like entertaining at home. It's so much more comfortable and enjoyable to have parties at home. As usual we are doing our steamboat. I never used to have steamboat just cause Dad and Mum were not steamboat people. So it was only after I have my own place with Meimei that we started to have frequent steamboats at home.

I like how we can indulge on ingredients which were a little more expensive but a whole lot tastier than the things they serve out in the restaurants or steamboat-ish outlets. Our favourites have to the pork belly slices and japanese crabstick from Cold Storage. Those with Meimei's 'secret' sauce and wala! the perfect meal. Oh don't forget the fragrant rice from our Zojirushi rice cooker. The highlight of the meal was the Dark Chocolate Macaroon Christmas Tree from Bakerzin. It looks so good we didn't bear to tear the pieces off!


All in all nothing beats having friends over for a good meal, chatting, games, fun and laughter. That's what the festive season is about.