Season's Greetings and Happy New Year

Woohoo 2012 is here!
Last year before the world ends, baby! (Let's hope the Mayans were wrong or misunderstood)

This year over the Christmas season, I went to my parents' place in Penang again. Just like last year we had our tree and presents and Angry Birds guarding them. I bought a nice hat for the red bird :)



Our tree was totally decorated by Mom as she wanted it up early and we only went back a few days before Christmas. It looked pretty good. Way to go Mom!



My parents came to visit a few weeks earlier, and we went to Ikea where we bought this pre-fab gingerbread house. It was flat-packed like any other Ikea furniture so we had to assemble it with molten sugar. The frosted sugar also made for some nice 'snow'. It's a little silly, but hey, it's festive. Does anyone actually eat these things?



My gifts this year were the usual suspects: two T-shirts, a book (Stephen King's latest collection of novellas), and a pair of pants. The surprises were a some super-cute hand-crafted Angry Birds my sister got and this weird Angry Birds-themed bouncy ball with coloured LED lights my aunt got (yes, I'm a big fan of Angry Birds).



We came back to KL on Boxing Day and the drudgery of work resumed for a few days, then on New Year's Eve, my sister and I had some wine and because she said she always wanted to try it, some black caviar. This year, I chose a sparkling rose wine. Not bad, even if I had to drink almost the entire bottle. The caviar was tasty but my sister didn't really like it. OHWELL



And so begins another sojourn around the Sun. I'm writing this on the morning of the first day of the new year, coffee in hand and the leftover glass of wine which I fell asleep before managing to imbibe waiting in the fridge for a more suitable drinking time. So far, the year seems ok; let's hope it stays that way.