New Year, New Beginning

yep folks! a new year is approaching and the rabbit is starting it off with a new job! woohoo! still teaching, only its a full time basis now. stationed in a private school, its gonna be an interesting year coming up! filled with adorable little kiddos which you'll love to death and at the same time send u to your graves sooner (if you know what i mean).

well, christmas was eventful.. had a small BBQ celebration a few days before christmas with a bunch of friends at someone's house with lots of food and drink. fell sick the next day.. T_T

On Christmas Eve, a few of us went to The Curve for some set dinner at Itallianies (however-you-spell-it) and it was completely utterly RUBBISH! ugh! Allow me to explain.. The set goes like this; one appetizer, one main course and one dessert.. two choices of appetizers, about eight choices of main course of varying prices and two choices of dessert. So, hearing from others that one of the appetizers sucked, ALL of us chose the other one; tomato stuffed with crabmeat. The boy and I both chose some Herb Lamb dish for main course and then for dessert, deep fried dough with honey on top called strafoulli.

FIRST problem: "excuse me, we have run out of this appetizer. are you all okay with the other one?" (which happen to be spinach in cream sauce)
GROUP solution: okay.. (as if we have a choice anyways *rolls eyes*)

SECOND problem: "erm, sir, lamb no more already. can you choose another dish?"
me: *shocked expression* what??
the boyfriend: "uh.. okay. we choose another one"
-after some discussion we decided to share ONE set instead-
the boyfriend: "cancel one set and the other one change to the beef.. can i have medium rare?"
waiter: "oh, sorry sir. all beef is well done"

what the??? its supposed to be a steak-beef-thingy and its well done??? chew until your jaw drop off... *sighs* in the end we settled for some turkey dish which turns out to be two tiny little lumps of turkey breast with a really sad looking piece of bacon wrapped around it and 6 brussell sprouts. BRUSSELL SPROUTS!! the boyfriend heroically stuffed one into his mouth, chewed for 2 seconds and spat it out onto the table hahahaha!! it was hilarious! honestly, i didn't get a chance to tell him how horridly it tastes to our malaysian tongue hahaha!!

well anyways, not only did our food taste disappointing, almost everyone at the table agreed that their food are not up to standard either. except one guy who ordered the most expensive set who said his was not too bad. Next came dessert.. one fella ordered the bread pudding and he almost choked on it.. i dare not try after seeing his expression after his first mouthful. The rest of us ordered the fried dough which tasted like biscuit with honey.. correction, biscuit that has been left out to air and is no longer crunchy. OVERALL... we have learned one lesson of the day; NEVER GO TO ITALIANNIES FOR THEIR CHRISTMAS SET DINNER. honestly the biggest disappointment of the entire day. After leaving The Curve, we went back to PJ for a second meal which cost so much less and tasted so much better! So in the end, when midnight came signaling the beginning of christmas day, we were all happily talking and drinking in a normal cafe house wearing santa hats and playing games..

Christmas morning.. i dragged my lazy bum out of bed and managed to get the boyfriend to come to church with me for christmas service. It was nice with all the caroling and singing and short presentations that the church members set up. Rather nostalgic too seeing the kids doing dancing or singing.. reminds me of when i was young and had to do all those things to entertain the adults haha! good times! After service was over, we had lunch with mummy in Pyramid... jammed all the way in, and jammed all the way out.. what to do? christmas day.. sure packed like sardines! Went home after that and prepared to go to cousin's house for christmas dinner.. yumyum..

Evening came along and we dropped by my godmother's house with my sis and her bf to pass christmas prezzies! and surprise surprise! we got christmas red packets! yippiee~! After that we hurried off to my cousins place for christmas dinner. Ooohhh! it was so nice!! There was a roasted whole chicken (not turkey lol) filled with lots of delicious looking stuffing with two sauces provided; brown sauce and cranberry sauce.. a whole slab of turkey ham marinated and cooked to perfection decorated with pineapples and a cherry.. fresh garden salad with lettuces and mushrooms and other greens with a special orange salad sauce to compliment it.. what else? ooh!! a deep fried potato dish which is filled with onions, meat, and some other ingredients i dont know what but it tasted fantastic!! and.. and.. oh yeah! there was this baked potato dish where a layer of bacon is placed at the bottom of the tray, topped with sliced potato and then topped up again with a layer of bacon and for a finale, CHEESE!!!! then stuffed into the oven to bake... ohhhh it was scrumptious!! *slurp slurp* for dessert.. BLUEBERRY PIE!!! baked from scratch using fresh blueberries!! mmmm~~~~ i want more... T______T

AHH... its no wonder i'm so chunky now.. i've been living a life filled with good food, day in day out.. time to diet with the coming new year... T_T

So that was my christmas! If you're reading this, i hope you don't get too confused.. sometimes my chronology of things get really mixed and jumbled up haha! well, take care all!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!!

-bouncy-