Christmas Dinner and Gift exchange

Christmas was a simple but sweet affair. The evening started with a grand dinner at Leen's place with some games and turkey, ham, roast.. all the works! Thanks to Leen and Soon Tek for being such great hosts! Gie has also been influenced by the Leen's art of hosting and is on the look-out for a nice tea-pot set, china plates and unique (oriental) ornaments to add to her tiny home!

After dinner, we headed off to St Patrick's Cathedral for carols and mass. The church was packed with people and we were fortunate (and slim) enough to squeeze four of us - Maddy, Kelvin, Jem and Gie - on half an aisle!

At around 2am, we headed off to Desmond's place for Kris Kringle aka Secret Santa gift exchange. Desmond and Edwin had just moved into their new place. Anyway, it was abit quiet when we got there simply because our friends got tired (and tipsy) waiting for us but things livened up again at the gift exchange! Everyone had presents so that was pleasant and cosy.

Unfortunately we were so distracted with the spread at Leen's place that we forgot about taking photos. And the pictures (secretly taken at the Cathedral) did not turn out too well.. so we leave you with pics from Desmond's place =)


Hot choc set from Bee and Freddy

The ladies (from left) - Sharon, Gie, Bee and Maddy

The LOT (from left) - Kez, Gie, Des, Edwin, Kelvin, Maddy, Jem, Kelvin aka Sai-b, Sharon, Bee and Freddy

Kez from Japan and our hosts for the evening

A small token of our appreciation