Thursday, December 25, 2008

Boring Christmas

Christmas in Manchester -- no white Christmas

Christmas Dinner (16th December 2008)

Me and May and Alex


Christmas Cracker..*woot* (nail clippers inside)

dear and I

Jessica and May

Jessica is damn happy



Cheers!


note what's on his hair

Jessica's fluffy fluffy~

Alex, me, Kiran, May and Jessica



after dinner.. Jessica's room

curling my hair.. but failed

May couldn't resist the temptation to paint her nails

then had her hair curled

showing off the hair.. mine was a failed product

Tang Yuan Making (21st December 2008)

Master Chef

Jeffery and dear

Jeff, dear, me, Min Hong and Bryan


putting nutella in the tang yuan


jean and Min Hong


sorry Jeff...

little Bryan with dear

little little little Bryan with Jeff



my dear 'tou chi'

done!

Went for movie during Christmas Eve, watched transporter 3-- not too bad. The streets were so damn quiet. No buses, no people.. everyone celebrating with family.. apart from us, celebrating in Pizza Co.

Christmas Day -- Quietness again. However, my dream came true-- celebrating Christmas in UK with my dear. Anyway, it is damn boring. No bus, shops not open, no one on street, no snow, no turkey, no Christmas Service like Malaysia churches.... one word----Boring..

These sum up CHRISTMAS in UK.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Christmas Christmas!!!

Jingle bells jingle bells jingle bells rock! Christmas market is one of the highlight events in Manchester for Christmas. It feels like the temporary stalls in Miri City before Chinese New Year. Ooooo... Love it. Waiting for Christmas to come! Ho Ho Ho!!

Dear, Min Hong and I went to the Christmas market last Saturday. That was my third time there. It's in front of the Manchester town hall. I felt extremely delighted and excited. Christmas is my most favourite festival, after Chinese New Year. It's special this year as I will be celebrating it in UK!! Christmas songs everywhere, and sometimes you can see chefs of restaurants and shopkeepers singing and dancing along with the christmas songs.

It's as crowded as the New Year Market in Miri. But the stalls here are proper, all are little wooden huts and they even turned it into bars! Most of the people there had a glass of wine in their hand. I was walking in the crowd and one Caucasian smiled and said to me, 'ni hao!!' Haha


walking towards the market

street lights became like this

flooded with people but that's how the ambiance should be like

the city council made a lot of trees like this



they sell hot coffee and chocolate with wine.. had the latte with bailey.. mild one


it's actually a carving, with little Santa Clauses inside

bar at the back.. it's always full

All kinds of strudels

I had apple strudel... yummy with the custard

Dear and Min Hong

big fat santa

busiest stall selling German sausage

with my 'Super Bratwurst'

chocolate coated fruits--i think those are strawberries

all kinds of nuts

and my hazel nuts

look at the clock at the bottom left. it's made of the bulbs we use for CNY electric fire crackers.

look at the crowd

second german sausage dear had, after his beef burger (couldn't resist)

painted glass

for people with sweet tooth

decorative ornaments

liquorice

Had the mini pancakes last time which was really expensive. Eight really mini pancakes about the size of 50 cents for 3 pounds... but it tastes so great.

Went back and played table tennis for an hour then watched movies with jean, jeff, min hong and dear--doomsday.. what a sickening movie.. til 3am...

Went to church on Sunday and there was a christmas celebration. Kids were singing and dancing. They were so so so cute..



You better watch out,

you better not cry,

better not pout I'm telling you why,

Jesus Christ is coming today~~



The little boy in front was so cute and chubby, and naughty...

Anyway, afterall, CHRISTMAS IS TO CELEBRATE JESUS' BIRTH. That's the most important purpose of Christmas which we must never forget. It's because Jesus came to us to be our Saviour, and we celebrate to thank Him for coming and giving us eternal life. CHRISTMAS IS FOR JESUS! I enjoy Christmas so much until sometimes I don't know why I feel like crying when I listen to Christmas songs. Such a lovely festival.

I remember when I was young I loved to imagine myself as one of the kids playing with snow and Santa Claus during Christmas in the movies. Singing christmas songs.... in the winter wonderland. So beautiful.. I wished someday I would be one of them. My dream... And now finally I'm in UK. However, it feels different. Even though the dreams embedded in me since young is still fresh and clear in my mind... it feels different. Maybe I'm not a little kid anymore. How I wish I could wind back the time, celebrating Christmas in UK or somewhere else with snow 'as a little kid'.

Christmas Party cum Dinner tonight~~