Aloha~

sorry for the late wish but, MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

hahahah. my Christmas this year, i was at Batam~ hehe.

but i celebrated it the next day with my love ones~

some pictures are small, but click it for bigger view kayy?

from yours truly, i organized yet another year of Secret Santa.

most are from last year's participation.

a few are new at this. but apparently, we have the same number of participation last year.

i wanted to do this SS (SecretSanta) this because,

1. its a must to meet my lovely friends. we need to have time for us every year!

2. its a good reason to go out from our house and hang out.

3. gift. not only we give gifts, we also get one :3

last year, we were new at this SS thing.

at that time, not many knew about SS thing.

or maybe they knew but never do it.

last year was our very first.

so this year, was our second and this year.

there are already more people doing SS.

coincident? hahahah i'm not sure.

but i feel among our friends and family,

i guess we would be the one who started this trend eyh?

idk, maybe.. hahaha :P

Sasa was last minute addition. so she didn't participate in gift exchange.

however she is useful on that day,

she was our ELF! hahahahha.

she collected the gift from all of us so we would know who was our Santa.

so she sat further from all of us and collect the gift and stick pictures on it.

if you don't know what i mean. you will in the pictures :)

so i wanna thank Sasa for that help on that day.

how we do this SS Gift Xchange?

we planned it few months before to confirm on who wanted to participate.

they must commit to a date and could not last minute turn down on the rest of us.

so i found this website, www.drawnames.com

this is where we know who we get and type our our wish list.

it's a bit complicated then just tear papers and put our names and pick one.

since all of us are of different school and kind of hard to find a date to meet.

we did it online and one cons about this is that, everyone need to reply fast.

if one reply late, mean the rest have to wait.

i shall not put names.... hahaha

so a month before we planned out the place and date and time.

this SS took out a lot of advance planning.

and with our experience a lot of planning don't usually happens.

but only this event, it will happen for sure.

hahah. maybe because it's during our holidays?

for our gift, we have a budget of SGD$20.

and possibly buy the things that the person had ask for.

and i added a little twist for this year.

my brother brought home 2 4 big package of gift bags which wasn't in use anymore.

so i took some and give the rest each one of the gift bags.

so all of us had the same gift bags.

and this really we would not know who it was from. :D

awesome huh?

haahha.

26th December 2011, VivoCity/HabourFront, 3pm

we all meet at Vivo. ate our lunch at the coffee shop nearby.

and hangout at the rooftop.

everyone had given the gift to my "ELF" and we got the gift which was meant for us.

here are some pictures:

If you have not notice, the 2 pictures above here and the first picture of this post,

they are the same. same i meant in order. so let me introduce you to us,

since you can't see the small wordings on the picture, which was our names.

i shall type it out:

Syed Shahab | Naqib Yusop | Shikin Rashid | Diyana Roslan

Lina Bahrom | Haikal Lesta | Aini Jumadi | Hazimah Sazahali

this is the 8 of us. and in case you have super vision or zoom in the pictures.

there might be some cut off from the picture.

and some names are different.

like for example...

Naqib Yusop --> Naqib Yuso*

Shikin Rashid --> *hikin Rashid

Diyana Roslan --> Diyana Rosla*

Lina Bahrom --> *ina Bahrom (this is fine cox we also call her Ina)

Hazimah Sazahali --> Hazimah Sazaha**

we were laughing when we saw it at the very last minute.

my friend who i ask to print out this pictures didn't zoom out before printing it.

and she didn't even notice it until i told her.

hahahaha. it's really funny at that time when we realize that our names been cut off..

Us with our presents! we were so excited that we had our gifts.

and we were deciding if we open it now or at home

and we reveal the Secret Santa or not.

but in the end we open it one by one together and reveal it too.

i wanna thank the five of you who chip in to give me my oh-so belated birthday.

although it's almost a month after my birthday. i still appreciate it :D

i got a lovely "autographed" message card with a hooded poncho.

that poncho, i seriously find it so cute especially that it has a hood.

and i wore it the next day when i watched movie with my brothers.

its so comfortable and cute, really.

hahaha thank you my friends... i didn't expect it :3

i know i've been neglecting my blog once in a while.

i also have another personal blog of mine which no one read.

really personal to me because it's mostly the blog where i let it all out when i feel really really down.

but here is just my public blog where anyone and anywhere can read it .

and someday i will reveal my other blog? maybe..

Keep Smiling ♥,

ShikinRashid