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Merry Christmas!

Merry Chistmas, everyone! Have loads of fun today!

This is my first Christmas with DD. I hope we will celebrate Christmas together in all the years to come. :)

Selamat Datang ke Malaysia

Went JB with DD today. Upon reaching City Square we went and get the movie tickets. Next, is breakfast time!

 

 Wanton Mee, Shui Jiao Soup  & Coffee for breakfast - all for only RM15.20!

It's not really tasty but not that bad either. For that price that we are paying, definitely worth it!

As we are walking back to City Square, we past by a stall selling the "butterfly".

DD bought one, knowing that I like it. :)

We bought tickets for the 12nn movie and we watched

It's a pretty nice movie and the duration of the movie is 2.5h. I supposed nowadays all movies are trying to convey some sort of "save the Earth" message, effective or not, I leave it for you to decide.

We went for some shopping after the movie and here are the things we bought:

All from Face Shop

I realised that the things in Face Shop Malaysia are so much cheaper and best of all, there is additional discount due to the festive season! I'll be stupid if I don't get them right?

A sports bra from Nike...love the colour!

 Now that I am running more, I need a few more sports bra so that the soiled ones can be washed and dried in time!

Next is time for lunch cum dinner! Decided to have chicken rice.

Regretted eating at this shop, should have settled for Bak Kut Teh instead. The lady serving us gave us such big servings for the food and charged us an exorbitant price! In the end, we couldn't finish the chicken and we requested to ta-bao.

We planned to go JB again next week. Cos I saw a nice pair of shades from Gucci and the price is much cheaper compared to getting one in Singapore. We didn't bring enough cash hence that purchase shall wait till next week. And DD promised that he will watch Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 with me next week. :)


Supposed to have tennis tonight but was cancelled due to poor weather, sianzzzzzzz......


Anyway, today is Winter Solstice （冬至）, a day where the Chinese celebrates by eating rice dumplings （汤圆）. We still have some in the fridge, shall have them for dessert later...heh heh heh....

冬至快乐！

俗语说“冬至大过年”，意思是冬至比新年更重要。在新加坡，我们大多只吃汤圆，但在中国也有吃饺子的习惯。

中国人把一年的时间分为春分、夏至、秋分、冬至，冬至也称“冬节”、“长至节”、“亚岁”等，象征着一年将尽，天文学家测定：每年的冬至约在12月22或23日，对北半球的我们来说，是日照最不足的一天，也是一年中黑夜最长的一天，过了这一天，白天就慢慢的变长起来了。

冬至吃汤圆是中国传统习俗，代表着一家团圆、圆满过冬之意，也意味这吃了汤圆就增添一岁，过去传统的家庭都是自己以糯米来制做，但现代人生活忙碌，一家人很难得聚在一起，冷冻汤圆成了现代工商社会的职业妇女的最爱，是最简单又方便的过节食品，即使忙碌也能轻松享受过节的气氛。

今天就和家人一起吃汤圆吧！

Blogging with a heavy heart

I have been a fan of Cecelia Ahern's books since she wrote P.S. I love you. You can imagine how excited I was when I saw this book at Borders last month. I bought it immediately.

I took longer than usual to complete this book, cos well erm......was kinda "busy"....LOL

I finally finished reading it today! In fact, not too long ago, about 10 minutes ago or so. My heart felt heavy after reading it, maybe it was because of its ending. I won't reveal too much of the story here in case you guys out there are picking it up for a holiday read or who knows, you might receive one as a Christmas present!

DD was beside me, soundly asleep when I was done with the book. Looking at him and relating myself to the story, I reminded myself to spend more time with my mum, my DD, my god-daughter Cheryl no matter how busy I get, for I won't know when the day will come that I wouldn't be able to do so, even if I want to.

I would love to get this:

I have checked out the price at Borders, it's twice the price of the usual Cecelia Ahern's book. I wonder why is it so pricey. I won't mind to receive this as "The Gift" for Christmas though. :)

It's about food again!

Haha....the number of entries on food definitely is more than the entries I have on exercise...LOL

We decided to have porridge for dinner tonight!

Clockwise: Plain porridge, silken tofu with dark soya sauce, preserved olive vergetables and my favourite braised peanut.

And we ate rice dumplings again!

Not the handmade dumplings this time round, we bought those with fillings.

With red bean filling

With peanuts

Enjoying the rice dumplings

Wanted to get the rice dumplings with black sesame filling but they were sold out. Hmmm...it means they must be really tasty......shall try and get it next time round.

A different Saturday

The alarm clock went off at 6am. Lazed in the bed for a while and went for a shower at 6.15am. Met up with DD's student and we began our first session of training for stairs climbing. DD and his student did 25 storeys x 4 sets, while being a novice, I get a discount (1 set of 25 and 3 sets of 15). Needless to say, my timing sucks but I shall continue to work hard, hope that I can achieve a better timing next time round.

We went for breakfast and reached home at about 10.15am. DD's friend jio-ed him for their weekly tennis session. Decided that I should not procrastinate anymore and went with DD to have my first session of tennis training. DD's friend jokingly commented that it's the first time that they saw him coaching someone with screaming his head off. LOL.....I am sure I will get it from him if I don't get my strokes right on the next tennis session. Shall practice the strokes on my own......secretly.

No mahjong tonight as DD's kakis are not free and my usual kakis all happened to be abroad...duh!

Shall go watch TV! Heh heh heh......