Christmas Delights

Accounting is driving me nuts. What with capitalizing leases and looking at valuation accounts and deferred income taxes. Argh. I wish I could go out and get some sunshine- the past 6 days have been so warm & bright, it's like summer time! (although we are now smack in the middle of winter) So I've decided to de-stress via COLOUR THERAPY- ie. post loads of colourful photos!! Haha.

Sworn had a flight to Los Angeles over Christmas so I picked her and her batch girl, Pagan, and we spent Christmas together. I came up with this silly idea of a Min $5, Max $10 Christmas gift exchange- which left us scrambling around for presents in 10 minutes. We then went on a wild supermarket shopping spree to get all our party needs. When we got to my house, sworn insisted I play her some songs on my cello- exactly what got us to know each other in 2001..Mann, I feel ancient... :(

The cooking process was not too difficult- it was just lengthy. Our Christmas menu consisted of:

1. Tortilla chips with cheese & salsa
2. BBQ Buffalo wings
3. Prawn cocktail with peach pineapple salsa
4. Buttery mashed potato
5. Rosemary roasted garlic chicken
6. BBQ Chicken Pizza
7. California Signature Pepperoni Pizza
8. Grape jelly with nata de coco
9. Walnut brownie
10. Haagen Daaz white chocolate raspberry truffle

With a selection of wine, alcohol and spirits:
1. Malibu blended passion tea
2. Diet Sprite
3. Lipton Green Tea
4. Riesling White wine
5. 100% Apple juice
6. Lemon Tea
7. Apple Spritzer.

And in the party of extravagance, we had a proud count of 5 attendees for this Grand Feast!!! :-)

Jason was our chief Bartender for the night, Cheryl was his capable personal aid (you know how James Bond is always surrounded by pretty girls), I was the lowly kitchen i/c a.k.a chef, Pagan was the dessert specialist and Sworn was the... eng eng cheng cheng nothing to do kid on the block. Only know how to take photos & yak on the phone!!!! Hrmmmmpf. Hahahaha!

After our dinner, we decided to play Bingo for live entertainment as we didn't have poker cards (and you thought the SIA girls would bring some cards for us from the plane right... -_-"') It was also a good chance to test out my new Black Friday printer as I started downloading and printing out Bingo cards off the internet. LOL

But hey, our BINGO was SPECIAL ok! We allocated 1 point to the winner of the game (we played 6 sets) and 0.5 point to whoever guessed the winner of the game correctly!! So each round was really hilarious - we kept telling whoever we voted for to buck up. The spooky thing was that Jason guessed all 6 rounds of winner correctly!!!! That's a 1/5 x 1/5 x 1/5 x 1/5 x 1/5 x 1/5 = 1/ 15625 chance of getting all 6 guesses right!!! We decided then that we should have spent Christmas in Las Vegas instead... :((( [believe me, we would have seriously driven down since it's only 4 hours away, if not for Sworn & Pagan who had to report for flight duty the next day)

The overall winner of Bingo (that's Jason!!) got to choose the Christmas present he wanted from the gift exchange.. but we had another set of rules for playing the Christmas gift exchange which involved stealing another present that you like, and once the same gift had been "stolen" twice, it would be frozen with whoever had it, so it was funny that he ended up with the same gift he had brought! LOL.

Ok, 3 more painful days of MAD ACCOUNTING and I'll be done with the Accounting Monster. Although I don't like the super tight deadline, I think it helps to relief the pain that the end is in sight!!! Adios!