Mary's boy child Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day

Doesn't feel much like Christmas this year. Didn't do my traditional walk down Orchard Road to see the lights, didn't go out caroling, didn't attend home parties... sigh.

Last year, i was walking down the cobbled streets of Glasgow, cluching my cup of hot chocolate, shivering in my not thick enough coat, gloves and ski cap on. I remember roadside carnivals, bright lited carasouls, christmas carols in the air... and best of air, i was with family. Or at least, my brother. Christmas dinner was fantastic last year, and there was snow only on the eve and christmas day. How magical.

Every Christmas, as I walked down Orchard road, I wished that there was someone there to hold my hand, someone to whisper carols in my ear, and the occasional "I love you" when I least expected it. Someone I could cuddle up to and spend a quiet Christmas with, to count down with in Church while attending mid night mass.

This year, I fianlly had a chance to do that, but that someone's in Phuket. Not that I'm complaining of course, I do need my alone time with my family and friends, but it wld just be nice to be able to spend it with him... oh well. Can't always have my log cake and eat it right?

It's just nice to be able to be able to stay at home, to just take things easy, to wake up watever time I want and to just nua in bed! haha. I'll catch up on my reading, just need sometime alone to recharge myself. I've been someone's girlfriend, someone's risk analyst, someone's daughter for too long, this Christmas, I am myself.

So as I sit alone in my porch sipping my glass of red wine (can't be white cos it's christmas!), this Christmas is ME time. Time to celebrate just being me.

Here's wishing all of you guys out there a very blessed Christmas and an even better 2006.

Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

tania @ 4:09 PM | |

One week in Bali

Spent the week in Bali with Hung and well, it went pretty well I must say. The trip was a birthday present from him, so he took care of all the arrangements - airplane tickets to hotels to our daily itenery. I basically just followed him around.

Bali wasn't what I expected it to be - I expected white sandy beaches and really sunny weather. The weather for one was a let down. It rained everyday, though it was periodic heavy downpour. But still! It was a good thing that our hotels were nice so we just stayed in.

Perhaps I didn't get fully immersed in the Balinese culture... The hotels we stayed at were all 5* ones, and even though the service was good, it was professional, and not friendly. You know the difference... The warmness of the place and the friendliness of the people wasn't that apparent to me.. I felt more the peddlers pushing for a sale, and the taxi drivers shouting to me in japanese, koren and chinese. Gosh, do I not look Singaporean ... meh?

We travelled around Bali. I think I might have died of boredom being in the same place for 8 days. We started first at Nusa Dua, and stayed at the Sheraton Laguna. We stayed there for 2 nights before moving on to Ubud - the cultural centre of Bali. There we stayed at Kajane Mua - a Balinese owned villa estate for 3 nights before ending at Sofitel Seminyak, the latest upcoming beach which is next to Kuta.

All in all, I think I prefer my stay at Ubud the most... of course I'm swayed by the fact that we celebrated my birthday there, and it was really really nice. Hung has tried to surprise me so many times, but he has failed so miserably at it - I either am smart enough to figure it out, or I just happen to chance upon it.

He arranged a surprised candle light dinner on my birthday, but I overheard him talking to the staff about it during breakfast the day before. I was pretty sure I heard them talking about it, but then he started pretending to look for a place to have dinner and he was really convincing that I acutally started to doubt myself! That feeling was kinda weird cos I was expecting it, but I wasn't sure whether that was happening, plus he was a good pretender that I really started to feel really really crappy!

That afternoon Hung wanted to go back to the massage salon we went the day before, but I really didn't fancy having another massage, so I went shopping instead in the market... Was supposed to meet him at the salon, but when I got to the market, the shops were all closing already! boohoo, I felt really crappy so I just went back to the hotel... and guess what? As I walked in, I saw the staff arranging the set up for a candle light dinner!

-yippie-

The feeling was like "yay" but at the same time abit overwhelming... plus I had to pretend that I didn't see it. Anyway, it was a really really nice thing for him to plan it for me, and trust me, it was really pretty, and very romantic.

But I think we've become so comfortable with each other that with or without candle lights, we could still have dinner, just happy to have each other's company.

Anyway, it was a lovely trip and memories are between the both of us. Will post pictures up soon - camera broke down half way so used his camera to take pictures.

All in all, it was a good trip, and Hung did more shopping than me! aHA! Who's the shopper now?!!

tania @ 12:33 AM | |