Sai Mm Sai Ah?

I was driving pass the LDP last night and I saw this:

Ok, so this is old news to some, and yes this pic was taken by a friend earlier in the day, but anyway.... at first many people thought this was a hoax but not until The Star reported it when everyone believed it. David Tan is the face on the billboard. He did fork out RM 40k for the billboard space and to top it off, he got her a RM14k ring. Kelly Tan E Li, you must be the luckiest girl on Valentine's Day. Question is...is it worth to splurge all that cash? I mean I can understand, if you're a son of a millionaire or you've hit the lottery or something, but no ordinary person would do something so dramatic and public. If this is the proposal, can you imagine the wedding? Isn't a person always suppose to "one-up" the proposal? But ever wondered what will happen if she declines? Do you think he has a back up plan or a 14 day money back guarantee policy?? But anyway, my hats off to the lad! You have set a very high benchmark for us guys here. Spoil market lah you!!! So to all guys, be prepared!

It just goes to show that sometimes, love holds no bounds.

Christmas Eve Party @ Janice's Place

Tis' the season to be jolly...so what better way than to have a Christmas eve party. This year, I broke a 27 year tradition of spending Christmas eve with my family. If you ask me why?...well...sometimes...it just feels good to have a change of environment. This year I spent Christmas eve at Janice's place. The food was simply excellent...thanks to Janice and her 2 sisters. We had like...sausage cocktails, bread wrap, vege sticks, grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, pesto pasta, tuna pasta, fish kebabs, chicken kebabs, beef kebabs, bacon wraps, sausages, mushrooms, garlic bread and trifle...and a barbecue pit (hungry yet?)

Each of us had to bring a gift that night because there will be a gift exchange game later on. There were lots of other 'stupid' fun games, which were quite entertaining.

Anyway..here are some of the pictures of that night courtesy of Janice...

The Christmas tree..

Our food spread...

Janice and I

'Waahhh! I got 2 pressies...I feel like a kid again..."

"So..is this mine??...Can I open this one already??"

After a few drinks...everyone is happy and a camwhore!

..and finally..the group pic

Special thanks to Janice and her family for inviting me over...Merry Christmas!

Company Dinner Cruise

Last Friday, I had a company Christmas dinner on a boat. No really! I'm not kidding! My company charted a whole boat for a dinner cruise at Putrajaya. Well I got to say, it was something quite different. It was a fine-dining, 4-coursed meal, and honestly, it was pretty decent. The cruise took about 2 hours including the dinner. Prior to that, we brought along our gift wrapped presents to be exchanged during what we call "Dirty Santa". It was fun, except that I ended up with a box of micro jigsaw puzzle with a Disney picture! *grrr* When I say micro, I'm talking about a 200 piece jigsaw that fits into a box the size of a deck of cards. You can imagine how small a piece is right? Well, the whole idea of "Dirty Santa" was to take away another person's gift in exchange for what he/she wants. I had an Umbro shoe bag, but was "snatched" away in returned for the jigsaw!! Anyway, I will tell you the rules of "Dirty Santa" later.

Here are some pictures from that day..

Our boat for the night

And these are pictures courtesy of Alex and Grace..

Mike hogging the biggest present!!

"Dirty Santa"....notice I initially HAD the shoe bag

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us!!!

To see more (and larger) photos and the rules for "Dirty Santa" click here

Gifts From Abroad

Over the past week, I've been getting stuff from abroad. Well, I did ask for them and was willing to pay my friends back for it, but instead, they just didn't want the payment and gave me as gifts.

Firstly, I got a pack of 12s and 2 King Size bars of Cherry Ripe all the way from Australia courtesy of Carrie. So what so special with these sinful (and addictive) chocolates? Well, first of all, you can only get them in Australia (and New Zealand I think). And I heard Candy Empire in Singapore is the only place in the whole of Singapore that sells them too (can anyone verify this?). Anyway, imagine cherries + coconut covered with dark bitter chocolate! It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but hey...I LOVE EM!

Sinful treats!

Next, Sylvia got me a Guess necklace all the way from the States which I really wanted badly ever since I first saw it online. I did try to buy it online, problem was, Guess.com doesn't seem to accept Malaysian credit cards as part of their online transactions. I did also try to include Sylvia's address in Boston but to no avail. I even tried to search for it in Guess stores in both Singapore and Bangkok but they do not carry that design. So I thought, it was just not meant to be. So you could imagine my surprise when I met Sylvia up yesterday and she gave me the necklace!! You all must be wondering what so nice about this necklace right? Well, for starters, it's suppose to be a good luck charm. The necklace is made up of 4 elements - a crucifix, a hand of prayer medallion, a medallion of St. Francis and an Irish good luck coin with a cross. Neat eh? Well, after getting it, I tried to search for it on the Guess website for a picture and guess what?...It's not there anymore...which makes it even more unique and precious to me now! This is what the necklace looks like...

Don't you think it's nice?

Thank you Carrie and Sylvia! You both really made my week =)