Christmas 2012

It's been a somewhat crazy day, starting from church in the morning, Uncle Baru's place for lunch, home for an hour-long chat with the boyfriend, Nish's place for post-lunch, and finally the airport for Rachelle. At 3pm, I headed home to crash until 6pm, and had dinner at Fook Xing after with the family. Dad called to order the food in the car at 6.30, said we'd be there by 7, and at 6.45 the person who took the order called back to ask if we were there already because the food was ready to be served. Good thing we were already looking for a parking space at that time!

From left : Signature Tofu (top), Midin belacan (bottom), Szechuan soup (middle), Mani chai with egg (top right), Sweet and sour pork (bottom left). And vinegar in a bowl but that's not important.

*For whoever's interested, Fook Xing is located at some obscure building in Jalan Sekama just opposite the famous kolo mee stall.
Anyway, we decided to make this year's Christmas a little more special for mum. So when she retired at 11pm on Christmas eve, Rene and I tidied and cleaned up the house. We tried to be as quiet as possible so that she wouldn't suspect a thing. The end result : 

Okay I know we should've taken a "before" picture for  real 'wow' value.

But the biggest present was this : A gift to the Persecuted Church through Open Doors USA in her name. 


Merry Christmas, mum. =)

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