My best Christmas to date!

I never really felt e true meaning of Christmas until ths yr. For the past few yrs, Christmas has been a time of gathering but mainly w my mum's friends. It usually involves crashing into all the aunties' and uncles' family gatherings. And of course, it would also mean bingeing on food and putting on the unnecessary kilos.

Somehow this year, to know that Jesus came to earth on ths day, brings a new meaning to Christmas. Or at least to me.. Christmas celebrations kickstarted on Christmas Eve where my bro, Audrey, mum, Jeremy & I gathered with some very close friends for some hard-core bingeing. Nothing beats a good gathering. It is not the place tt makes a day special but the loved ones around u tt makes it EXTRA EXTRA special.

Then, it was pressies time!! Let me see... Christmas pressies ths yr was everything I told Santa:

A study bible (NIV version) fr Kat & Karen, my bunch leaders.
A cross pendant fr Jennifer.
A love shaped photo frame w our photos & a special msg fr Jun.
A cross pendant fr Jeremy.
A Nalgene water bottle fr Jeremy (end of his nagging abt me using plastic bottles!)
A picture book - Chocolate: The Consuming Passion fr Jeremy.
A purple fluffy pillow fr Jeremy.
A box of Lindt chocolates fr Eira.
A notebook and an RMIT pen fr Peter.

My favourite: the sincere effort & thought put into every single pressie. ^_^

I spent the morning of Christmas singing Christmas carols at church followed by a brief luncheon with church mates, an afternoon of packing and Christmas dinner at aunt May's.

It was my first Christmas in another country and it was the best I ever had. :) Merry merry Christmas everyone.