The perception of Christmases in the west was not actualized as how most of us would have pictured it. My Christmas this year had a distinctive flavor of its own.
I was awaken by the sound of the tele and joined the family in the living room around 8am. The skies outside was dark and grey. We just planted ourselves and fixed our eyes on the local broadcasts. Vege-ing was literally what we did all morning with an occasional break to get the morning snacks of cookies. Big sis played "super-host" as she started to fix Christmas dinner as mom, Su-Anne, and I watched the classic "My Fair Lady."
Christmas dinner was served with a wondrous spread of English Christmas trimmings surrounding the main course, roast lamb! We sat, we ate, and as every good Malaysian, we were done in record speed and even put away all tableware cleaned and dried within 2 hours! We wined and dined, and moved back into the living room for desserts and more TV.
At the beginning hours of the evening, we did presents and everyone was excited like children. I was not expecting much and therefore was euphoric to be receiving gifts from the family and the family to be. Suzanne got me a Christmas mug and sheep jammies, Su-Anne and Mark supplied me with cosmetics for the year, and mom fed the soul with one of the top selling motivational books in Malaysia for the year.
More food appeared as we took turns to nap in front of the entertaining box. Notions of playing games were soon scraped due to the hypnotic grip of Christmas programs. We later feasted on the leftovers at Christmas dinner and threw in some fresh salad and salmon. Scrumptious...
What I liked best about today was that we just lazed around ALL DAY in our pajamas! I guess we are well rested for the crazy shop-out tomorrow... Boxing Day! Time to get a bang on my buck, or rather pound on my Pound! (Hehe...)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
1 comment:
Merry Christmas girl!!!
Boxing day shopping should be crazy haha
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