It wasn’t so long ago when I blogged on how pretty the snow were.
But this time, I’m cursing the snow. How ironic.
Because of it, our flight to Dublin was canceled. We didn’t get to hv a short getaway holiday. And Lieshien couldn’t come down to London. And the skies were grey and gloomy, the floor slippery, transports problem and all. It was miserable. Although waking up in the morning to see the snow falling was really pretty, I have enough of canceled trips! Twice in a year man? Who would ever have that kind of bad luck in traveling?! And listening to all the holiday trips around Europe made me green with envy. I know mapa ain’t encouraging me to travel lots, but if I don’t take the chance to travel now, who knows when I will ever get the chance to again. Especially now when it’s cheaper to fly from UK.
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oh well, that’s life. *shrugs* let’s move on!
Getting on with days, celebrating Shari’s birthday, shopping for presents and studying, Making Irish Lamb Stew after failing to go to ireland, it’s finally time for Christmas.
I know it don’t looks great but it tastes totally -wait4it- AWESOME!
Thank goodness I still manage to head down to Cambridge! Am so happy that the kids still recognize me but woah! how much have Paul grown! Now his hair is much longer and he is no longer mumbling words in baby language but is such a chatterbox now! And gosh! his grasp of words and his vocabulary is really good for kids his age (going to be three soon). But he’s still chubby and cute and Lovable!
fell asleep on the living room couch the first night, the play room couch the second night, and finally where i was suppose to sleep – in dua gou’s room on the floor with sleeping for the last night. i didn’t mean to, but i was really tired, so i fell asleep on couches. But since I’ve sleep all this 3 places i can say for sure the living room couch is the most comfortable, although it might be because it was the first night and I was most tired.
Anyway, staying in cambridge, though I wake up really early in the morning, like around 7-8am, I sleep a lot. Like REALLY ALOT = 10-12 hours! It’s so scary the amount I’m sleeping! Although I do wake up in the middle of the night, around 3-4am (probably because of the 7-8hrs of sleep I usually have) to the colourful christmas tree alight in front of me in the dark, it was just toooo cold to step out of that warm edge i cushion into the sofa and that duvet, so I end up falling back to sleep. It’s terrible! but i can say I really have some good rest! It’s such a homely place, am so glad I have relatives over here!
The three kids are all so adorable, hope they love and like the presents. And I swear i’ll visit them more often in the coming year of 2011. I do want to be around while they are growing up, especially now since I’m so near them! When I go back to Malaysia or wherever, probably wouldn’t have the chance to see them as often and their memory of me might just fade, as kids one usually does. So, it has got to be a lasting memory, at least for me!
Their first christmas present they were allowed to open since mummy hasn’t come back from their night shift yet.
Paul tearing open his present from his Grandma!
Soo Yuen cheche explaining what some of the presents are.
There were a lot! LOTS AND LOTS of presents all strew across the bottom of the tree.
Duagou helped added my small pile into it as well!
And of course presents among the adults.
A Thankyou shout out for the presents I received, and hope u all like the presents I bought. Shall remember to buy a present for grandma jean the next time, especially when she’s so kind to drive me to parker’s piece.
so all in all, it was a lovely chirstmas with relatives! <3 Merry Christmas everybody and a Happy new year to come!
edit:
OMG! I knew I missed something very important!
of course! A big Thankyou to BiaoYi and Shien Yin for bringing over my stuff from Malaysia! hope you guys has a good stay over here and thanks for the tips. Feel so paiseh, didn’t really need to! I hope they had a nice Christmas while I was away too, and I’ve eaten two free dinners that they ‘belanja’ me, once in Zizzi’s and another it Masala Zone, both really good food, thankyou!
