Heylo one and all! Yup, I’ve fully recovered from the verbal
diarrhoea I suffered during national novel writing month (I will put up a post
about that in due time, I promise! XD) and I wanna tell you all about how I
spent my Christmas and Boxing days!
Like we’ve done for the past two and a bit decades,
Christmas means going to church. This year, the English service was held
downstairs; I remember, in past years, there was just one service held in the
main hall, with an interpreter helpfully turning the sermon into English from
Cantonese for us ABCs.
In the morning, when mother fed me two yummy Weetbix with
the merest, thinnest and shortest streak of honey ever, I’d complained at her,
“Gee whiz, mum, you’re supposed to feed me something SPECIAL today, it is CHRISTMAS,
after all!” XD
After breakfast, dad tootled us off to church for the
Christmas service. While he drove, I happily but quietly sang five secular
Christmas carols, knowing that once at church, we’d only be singing Christian
ones.
On arrival, I headed downstairs, used the bathroom once then
took a seat and waited for service to begin.
For worship, I was lucky enough to remain seated, although I
sang everything.
Afterwards, Pastor Chris gave a Christmas message!
There was communion afterwards to end service. Mother came
and retrieved me, took me once more to the loo, then I grabbed some morning tea
and took a seat.
Morning tea was accompanied with yakking to fellow randoms
of BCAC. When morning tea concluded, we left for Leanne’s place in Carindale!
Aunty Diana welcomed us into her home~ I took and seat and
started yakking with Leanne and Nat, while Lee enticed dad to watch some kinda
EPL soccer game in the living room with him. Dad became so engrossed with the
game, he stayed there and didn’t join the rest of us for lunch; he just brought
his plate over to the television with him and ate while watching some game. XD
Lunch was yummy! Mother kindly got me little bits of
everything. And I tried cous cous (sp?) for the first time! It tasted
interesting~ but the yummiest was definitely aunty Diana’s potato bake~
After lunch, Leanne walked behind me over to the television,
where I flopped into an armchair. Oh, while walking over there, I stopped and
pointed to the piano. “Hey, is that the piano battery?” I smirked at Leanne.
“Shut up, you.” She mock-glared back. (A/N: if anyone wants
to hear the hilarious tale of the piano battery and the revenge prank pulled
like five years later, you have but to leave me a comment and ask! XD)
Anyways, over at the sofa, Nat, Lee and two of their church
friends were watching snooker on ESPN. Now, someone please correct me if I’m
wrong, but isn’t ESPN a sports channel? And since when was snooker considered a
‘sport’? XD
After watching snooker for awhile, Leanne suggested we all play
a board game. Pictionary won the vote, and we all had great fun drawing and
guessing. Alas, I’m still as useless at drawing and guessing as ever. XD
Mother came and helped me once to the loo; when I needed to
go again, she decided we’d head home.
After dad tootled us home, mother demanded that I shower
(poor Ela). Afterwards, I plopped briefly online while she went for a shower
herself.
Then, ‘twas time to head over to Pole’s place!
On arrival, I sat at their fat round circular table and
snacked on nibblies until dinner was called. And did you know, I was so touched
that Uncle Calvin actually knew my name! See, usually he just refers to me (and
everyone else) as ‘bin gor bin gor’ (say that in canto) but that night, he
poured me some orange juice and actually wrote ‘Emily’ over it! I wiped away a
mock tear and laughed, “Uncle Calvin, you’ve made my day!” XD
When dinner was called, we all moved over to the big dining
table and the little round table placed beside it. Lol, for the first time in
like fifteen years, we were relegated to the ‘little kids’ table! XD
For Christmas dinner, there was roast pork with gravy and
roast turkey with applesauce! Oh, and probably salad, but my selective memory
only chooses to remember the yummy stuff. XD
So we all ate and yakked. Many thanks to Pole who cut up my
turkey for me~
After dinner, uncle Calvin led us all in singing Christmas
carols! Christian, of course. Pole played the piano for us. Personally, I was
just disgusted with myself to realise that I needed to warm-up before singing;
my voice went disgustingly out of tune during the first few choruses! XD
After the carol singing, ‘twas time for presents! And guess
what?? Pole found me some DVD of Despicable
Me mini-movies from like k-mart!!! *excited squee* XD
All too soon, ‘twas time to head home. I hit the sack
immediately, all ready for the Boxing Day sales tomorrow!
The next morning, when mother came and poked me with
“fifteen more minutes,” Bear Bear and I immediately gave her our best rendition
of the Happy Birthday song. (Well, okay,
only I sang, but he danced along to my voice. XD)
After brushing teeth, breakfast and one more toilet trip,
dad tootled us off to Carindale for the Boxing Day sales!
Thankfully, the parents lemme use sparkless all day, phew.
And how many levels does Carindale have of car parks? Coz it seemed like we
went up, and up, and up! XD
On arrival, mother helped me once to the loo, then we had to
go validate my disabled parking permit. Turns out only the first three hours of
parking at Carindale are free; after that, you have to pay. Huh, talk about
incentive to shop quickly then leave! XD
Lol, the shopping was funny: mother kept demanding we go to
the big stores like Myer and David Jones, whereas dad kept trying to make us
look at all the little specialty stores located along the sidewalks. As for me,
I was just super-happy that I picked up a book from Dymocks (anyone know why
that store name’s pronounced ‘dimicks’?) by this author called kylie Chan (same
surname as me!) set in Hong Kong!
For lunch, I was hoping to get some warm food; however, the
parents decided that we were all having sushi. No biggie; I happily chomped one
eel one and one chicken one. And while we were eating, we bumped into Pole’s
family! I was surprised, coz I remember Pole telling me the night before that
they weren’t planning to attend the Boxing Day sales, but Aunty Catherine
explained to me that ‘twas Matthew who persuaded them all to go. Turns out
they’d just finished having yum cha. As for us, after we finished, dad sent mum
and I to buy us an ice-cream cone to share! I only got about three small bites;
the parents chomped the rest, but hey, no biggie.
All too soon, ‘twas time to head home. For some reason, dad
decided to chuck a cow @ me; mother wasn’t helpful in the slightest, telling me
to shut up and allowing dad to continue ranting at me. *sigh*
Back home, I plopped online, mother hit the sack and dad
started cooking!
When mother awoke from pigland, she again demanded I shower
(poor ela). Then I sat at the gobbling: P table and awaited our dinner guests!
The Chows and aunty A arrived, in that order. Dad went and
picked up from Carmen from somewhere. Did you know, Carmen’s a beauty
therapist!
Then, ‘twas dinnertime! Lol, I’ve honestly forgotten what I
had, but I do remember that there was chicken. XD
After dinner, everyone just sat and yakked the night away. After
using the loo once, I did so too.
Suddenly, all the lights went out! Enter dearest dad with a
cheesecake, with birthday candles lit, for mother! A hearty rendition of the
happy birthday song followed, and then we all stood and posed for photos.
And, following cake, ‘twas time to open presents! Mother
would only let me open one, but I was left excitedly squeeing again after Vicky
found me this Despicable Me minion pen! Lol, seems like everyone’s well aware
of the infatuation I have with all the Despicable Me minion franchise. XD Vicky
says she found the pen somewhere for me down in NSW.
After aunty A and the Chow’s left, Carmen, mother and I sat
down to enjoy one of the mini-movies from the DVD
that Pole had brought for me! Mother kindly bought Oem out for me (I presume
little Voem had already fallen asleep XD), I introduced him to Carmen, then we
all watched happily until Carmen decided ‘twas time to head home. I wonder
where she lives?
As for me, I happily finished watching the first mini-movie,
then allowed mother to boot me off to bed. Only, ‘twas nowhere near bedtime
yet!
Nope … ‘twas time to open all the presents that Santa had
bought me this year! :D and, I’ve got to say, despite the lateness of my
Christmas wishlist for this year, I must’ve been a very good girl indeed, for Santa
to bring me that many presents! XD
Actually, speaking about presents, I’ve just remembered that
I used to keep a blog noting down any new presents I received! The URL’s
taleofepic3.livejournal.com; if I can remember my password for that account,
I’ll put up all the cool presents I received from Santa this year!
Anyways, all Christmas wrapping was ripped apart (I totally
lack the patience to pick off each individual piece of sticky tape, leaving the
wrapping paper reusable for another present XD) each and every present was
cooed and squeed over and I hit the sack sometime after midnight! XD
‘Twas definitely an awesome 25th and 26th
December for me this year!
Next post here … must come toms: New Year ’s Eve! All my
thoughts and reflections for 2012 will be posted and awaiting your reading
shortly before midnight tomorrow!
Righteo, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
