Merry Christmas!

Believe it or not, this is not just our first christmas tree at our home sweet home, it's also MY very first christmas tree. As we are not celebrators of this festive season except enjoying the day off from work, guess it's not a surprise I was asked this question, not once but few times, "You purposely went out to BUY this tree?". Let me clarify for all, I didn't. I was out getting groceries stuffs, and saw this unbelievable promotion...RM11.70 for this 6 ft tree. Like what JM said, it would be doing injustice for myself if I didn't buy it. And it can be kept for next year's X'mas, and the next, and the next....

Even Adrian felt it was a very good bargain.

Honestly, it feels nice to have this beautiful tree in the home. Made us in the mood for Christmas. Especially when suddenly, we have a little eve dinner party to add on the cheer and joy. Lacked some carolling and gifts exchange only. Maybe can improve on that next year.

A pleasant co-incidence CY's and family were home this holiday. My parents and SH's came too. It was perfect time to spend it together comfortably at home. What did we do? Surely can't run away from the chinese customs, we did it the CNY way... with some money involved.



What a pity, there was no turkeys or christmas cakes and puddings for the festive season, again, it's the chinese dishes to make up for it. Somehow, unexpectedly, unplanned for, these are the guests we had for our christmas eve dinner. CY's family, his inlaws, KT's brother and wife with her sister and boyfriend. A kinda funny good mix of people, all related in a way, which makes us all a family actually.

Then the children's corner. This time, the cousins were not fighting with each other anymore. Only the youngest 2 girls were fighting for toys or attention some of the time. It was a good reunion party for me, just wishing KY's family were here too though.

Merry Christmas, all my readers, family and friends, and let's all embrace 2007 to make it a better year ahead, filling it with more gatherings and reunions to spend more time together. It's a piggy year, our year. Yay!

A tranquilizing time in Avillion.

I do hope that Avillion would give me a free night's stay for advertising its hotel. Unfortunately, I am not a famous blogger who gets a good number of hits on my blog everyday, so no hope in that.

The hotel has 3 pools for its guests, the wading pool for young toddlers, the slightly bigger pool for older children and the adults pool for old people. We of course went for the middle one.



The serenity of a lotus pond to soothe your eyesight and mind while waiting for the checking in process. Checking in wasn't slow, but the room clean up took a long time for us to barge in to.




So, the boys hanged around while waiting for the longest time.

Adults pool, strictly no children are allowed. I suppose the adults do obscene things in here which are prohibited from children to watch.



Sunset by the private beach at the hotel's side.




The water was icy cold that day..but still, the children didn't mind.


Halo?? This slide for children only la...

Chloe had a splashing time on the slide, while Adrian didn't dare go near it. Such 2 opposites.




I sometimes wonder how many nights I can stay there till I find it too boring and prefer to go home? Then again, given the steep price of each night's stay, I think the pocket would burnt out first before my patience does.



The boys went crazy when they saw the white sand. They can throw the sand in the air like it's water..my God! We just had a nice clean bath before we came out to the beach again, and oh, well, they need another shower before going for dinner. Let them play and get themselves dirty again, after all, that's what holidays are meant for, huh?


This ain't exactly a private beach only accessible by the hotel's guests, but a good part of it was maintained clean and nice for us to enjoy it. The sand was fine and squeaky too, but compared to Redang beach, I think I still prefer the latter.



A view from the chalets.



4 of them went for banana boat, and canoeing. Me? It was too exciting and sun too hot. I would get sick if I did. I was already as dark as a Negro by the time I got back. Sigh!

Nevertheless, I had a wonderful time with the family, had great sex, and hadn't slept so comfortably well for a long time.

Chalet on water, PD.

This hotel room is just fabulous. Once we entered the room, it was love at first sight. We especially loved the beds and the shower room. The king sized bed has soft white drapes around it, which I think no girls in this world hated it. I mean, real lovey, softy girls. Makes you feel like a princess when you are sleeping in it. Those drapes were tied in nice little ribbons knots, and these little ties can be used for another purpose at nights. ;)



The additional sofa bed is just appropriate for our family of 5. The boys slept there while the little girl tucked comfortably in the little babycot. It's very cosy lying in that corner with the bamboo shades on its 2 sides. Made us feel horny too actually.

The excitingly hornier part of the whole room is the bathroom. It comes with a private room for toilet, 2 wash sinks, a bathtub, and the interesting shower area. It has this "open" concept where there's an opening on its rooftop, and another opening to view the sea. Taking a shower there felt like being naked in the nature, especially when it rains. Feels real good.

This is the view of the shower area and the bathtub from a little window of the room.

Say hi to the people below while you are showering..

.. and hi to the people from above.

The balcony is a good place to unwind too. Can lie there looking cool all day doing nothing.

The view from the balcony. It's 2nd class. First class are those chalets facing the entire seaview.

We walked around these chalets on planks which have slits to see the sea below. Awful romantically in touch with nature.

It's a good night's sleep for once, since the burglary thing. And hopefully, not another baby 9 months later. :)

Made us laughed

Last night, after bathing the children, the little girl wanted me to put the towel around her hair like how I used to. And this is how she looks..


I carried her up and took her to the mirror to see for herself how she looks like. When she saw her own reflection, she laughed like it's a big joke for her. It was really funny seeing her gesture. I then took a camera and shoot at her.

The aftermath.

It has now been a week since. These 7 days seemed to last like forever. I couldn't bring myself to brighten up or forget about the whole episode yet. I feel like a drifter turning paranoid when I am driving, getting in and out of the house or around carparks. Life sure has not been the same especially during night time. Home sweet home is not like before anymore. I would wake up in the middle of the night and don't talk about stepping out of the room, I wouldn't even dare to move an inch just in case there's a stranger in the room and aware that I has awakened. Locks would be checked twice or thrice to be sure that it's properly locked. What kind of a home this is? What kind of a life this is?

I really don't feel safe. Especially when I now know that someone had in fact been watching us, studying our lifestyle, our routine before he had striked. What if ..? What if...? Sigh! I hope I'm not turning insane.

The only factor which consoles the mind is seeing the care and concern from friends and relatives. It's true, at least we were not hurt and the children were not alarmed. Their funny gestures and cute expressions are the only thing which keeps my sanity in check and brings a smile to my face most often than not. Without them, I am unsure if I can come this far.

It's really a bitter fact. Thieves like these get scott free without having to worry much about police or the law coming after them. Victims like us (or rather, me) have to bear with the aftermath in haunting fear. Thieves are ruling the world so much that we hear of comments we should be putting at least a good amount of cash for them to take, just in case if they do come a visit, they wouldn't be offended and having to harm us in other ways.

And they do get smarter and smarter. Security guards and card access systems don't seem like any hindrance to them at all. I suppose to some, heavy duty locks or alarm systems are easy job for them to disable as well. Is there any day in the future where we can live without any fear at all?

Sorry for the negative sentiments.