Christmas and Boxing Day 2013

Cripes, today’s New Year’s Eve, and I still haven’t shared about how I spent my Christmas and Boxing days yet! Yeah, call me slack. XD

Well, on Christmas day, I wished both parents a very merry Christmas, but when mother kindly served me breakfast, two yummy Weetbix with the smallest amount of honey ever, I mock-complained, “Oh, com on, mother, it’s Christmas! Surely you can gimme something better for Christmas than that?” Well, apparently she couldn’t. XD

Soon afterwards, dad tootled us off to church. That’s been our family tradition for goodness knows how many years. I think Catholics attend church on Christmas Eve, but we attend church on Christmas day. While dad drove, I sang a happy repetition of four secular Christmas carols, because I knew we’d only be singing Christian ones at church. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Jingle Bells and Twelve Days of Christmas (even though I only remembered the first five0. XD

At church, I headed downstairs to A1 (the Canto service was being held in the main hall upstairs, but the English service got held in A1 downstairs) and visited the bathroom once before taking my seat on the very left (having no left side side vision anymore, I prefer to sit on the most left so that I can see everyone seated to my right). Mother went back upstairs to the Cantonese and Mandarin service.

I’ve found out one very awesome thing about having service in A1: because there isn’t a platform for the speaker/worship leaders/others to mount, you can remain seated for worship!!

Our speaker for the Christmas service was a guy called Brian Tran (apparently, ‘Tran’ is the Vietnamese version of ‘Chan’?) , and he gave us a Christmas message.

And Christy jie has returned!! She arrived sometime during worship; when Julz saw her, she raced outside and gave her a great big hug; I would’ve loved to do that also, but the cruel and unfaithful god’s abandoned me so physically disabled that if I attempted that, I’d probably just fall flat on my butt … *sigh* anyways, I waited until service had concluded before calling out “Christy jie!!” she turned around, mock-glared at me and retorted, “you’re OLDER than me.” Oh yeah, just by six months, that’s all. XD

After service had concluded, mother took me once again to the loo, and then I joined the queue for our church luncheon. Huge thanks to some random aunty who, seeing that I was physically disabled, said, “Hey, here, just jump in behind me.” Mostly, I was just very happy to get myself one full plateful; in the past, when mother went to get food for me, she’d return with about 2/3 a plate, or even worse, sometimes less than half! XD

Anyways, during luncheon, I sat beside this uncle Ben and his wife (didn’t grab her name, sorry); uncle Ben told me that he’s been attending BCAC since 2008 and attends the same bible study class as my dearest dad!

  After luncheon, dearest dad tootled us home. Mother hit pigland and I plopped online, until mother demanded I go shower.

Shower completed, our guests started arriving for dinner! Lol, when the door bell rang, mother was still comatose in pigland while dad was whipping up dinner; he called, “Answer that, will you please, Em?”Walking to the front door, I called, “That you, Dr. Dr. Tai?” To my amusement, a deeper male voice answered, “No, it’s me, Michael.” Whoops. XD

After I’d welcomed Michael and Ivy inside, they went out into our backyard to view mum and dad’s veggie patch. The next time the door bell rang, I was ready. “It’s gotta be you this time, right, Dr. Dr. Tai?” I laughed through the front door.

“Yes, let me in!” XD

She too went outside to admire the parents veggie patch, while I finished my first book club novel for January! Usually, we read one book each month, but because of some mix up, we received two books for January!

  I must admit, though, Christmas dinner, when finally called, was a slight disappointment. Sure, we had the yummy rice (the plain white rice; it gets called the yucky rice when mother adds grains of red and brown rice into the mix), lotsa ‘bor choi’ (say that in Canto; does anyone know what ‘bor choi’ is called in English?) Some beef and some salmon, but I was hoping for some of my favourite chicken or pork! Lol, no biggie.

After dinner, we yakked the rest of the night away. When walking Michael and ivy out, I cheekily asked Michael could I please have a pay rise. XD He’s my employer right now, I do a little bit of proof reading work for him, and for that, I get a little cash to buy my parents with and he calls me his editor! Sounds fancy~ XD Anyways, he laughingly replied that there’d have to be a long process to go through before he approved my application for a payrise, which I think meant just ‘no’. XD

Once they left, bedtime immediately followed, zzz~

Boxing day: the first thing I did was immediately sing mother happy birthday!

After getting up and kitted, I downed the usual Weetbix for breakfast, visited the loo once more, and then went out with Leanne, Peggy and Esther to the sushi place beside Rochedale café!

We ordered food to share: dumplings, fried rice, fried noodles and sushi. Yakking was a constant. XD

After lunch, Esther (our driver for today) tootled us off to Just Soy Cafe for shaved ice! Imagine my irritation when we discovered the place was closed. ><

But all was well, because I told them about that place opposite Sunnybank oriental that also sells shaved ice and Esther tootled us there instead. From memory, it’s called Home Town.

Funnily enough, I was the only one who had shaved ice! Peggy had this cute little egg pudding, while Leanne and Esther just had drinks.

Afterwards, Esther tootled me home, I hugged them all goodbye and then dearest dad tootled us all out to garbo to catch the end of the Boxing Day sales!

Personally, I was super-happy to find myself a Japanese historical fiction novel from Big W, although I suspect dad was even happier with himself to buy a thin block of dark chocolate ONE METRE long!! Mother just bought some skin care products.

Back home, the same thing as yesterday happened: mother went upstairs to hit pigland, I plopped online and dad started whipping up dinner!

Our dinner guests on Boxing Day night were uncle Slam (Anna’s gone back to Singapore) and Ronnie jie jie.

After dinner, we had birthday cake for mother! Oh, that’s right, I went and bought that cake with the parents myself, from the downstairs Breadtop at Garbo. So, birthday songs (English and canto), photos and yummy cake enjoyed by all~

When uncle Slam and Ronnie jie jie left, it was finally, FINALLY time to open all the presents Santa had brought me this year!

And hey, I must’ve been good this year, because Santa brought me lotsa presents! XD Check out www.taleofepic3.livejournal.com sometime in the New Year to see what presents Santa gave me!

So, Christmas and Boxing Day are over for another year. I’ve had great fun!

Next post here comes, well, tonight. ^^” Yes, I’ve been slack; meaning to post about Christmas and Boxing Day earlier, only never found the time to, then suddenly last night I realised, “Hey, tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve! I’ll haveta write out my reflections about 2013 tomorrow night, but I haven’t even shared about how I spent Christmas and Boxing Day yet! XD So, cya tonight; until then!

Cheers,

Em. ^^