My family started off Christmas by attending church at midnight and after that, a meal of fruit cakes and red win.
Rose Wine

Fruit Cake

Then, fast forward to lunch! Previous years, we’ll be having an open house party but this year, we’ll just have lunch in the comfort of our home. My 2nd sister’s husband cooked his baba nonya dishes for us!

And I also prepared a few dishes myself, with the help of my gf and mum


There was also a fish that I forgot to shoot cause was too hungry that time. =/
Afternoon was spent lazing around at home with my family. Went to survey restaurants for dinner and to the bercham house. Had our dinner at a western restaurant (Citrus) which used to be where Antap Cafe was. The ambience there was good but the service wasn’t up to the standard.
Moving on, night time!! It’s been a tradition for my family to open our presents on the night of Christmas. Every year, we’ll have one or two guests who’ll join us in this ‘ceremony’.
The german family

Yin Sin aka Little Sophie

My brother’s girlfriend, Jessie in HK and her mum

The presents under the christmas tree are distributed by my two nieces to all of us.

Then all of us, one by one, from the youngest to the oldest will open their presents in front of everyone else.

See the amount of presents that I have on the right? And the amount of presents that Yin Sin has in front of her? She almost has more than me!
Hence, the opening of presents begin! Since there are tons of pictures there, I’ll not post them here but you can view them at this link
But here are some highlights!
We have things from
Bags

I.O.U. Air Asia Vouchers

100 year old Rosary from Jerusalem

Leather shoes from Munich

Apron and Cheong Sam

Ships

Estee Lauder Cosmetics

Snowman

Scarfs

Books

Mobile Phone

After our opening of presents, we had turkey!
Carsten’s dad, Raner showed us the proper way to cut a turkey.

And we had that together with red wine!