Rain, rain, rain and more rain..it has been raining since eternity. We've hit the most number of rainy days and the highest volume of rainwater in December since I've ever known. Cooling weather is a good thing, but too much of it starts to irritate most of us. Its so inconvenient and virtually everyday we are trapped either in the office, at home or shopping centre. We can hardly see the sun nowadays as most of the time there'll be the cloudy skies even when it's not raining. I can finally understand why the foreigners love the sun so much after staying in the cold countries for so long...I'm beginning to feel the same way too!!

It's been a hectic 2 weeks. I've been wanting to come in and update my blog but the sudden earthquake in Taiwan on Tuesday disrupted the internet services here and I wasn't able to do that from the office.

Christmas came and went by. I still can't believe that it happened so fast. I guess time really flies...Hao was excited about Christmas ever since we put up the Christmas trees and not to mention the presents under the tree. He kept asking when Christmas was coming and when he can open all the presents for him and Ee. Ee is too young to understand what is going on, but he's still influenced by Hao's excitement over Christmas.

On saturday, 2 days before Christmas, we brought the kids to Orchard road for lunch and stopped by Paragon ToysRus. It was very crowded but hubby decided that Christmas wouldn't be complete without a walk along Orchard to see the lightings and rubbing shoulders with the crowd. Took some pics, had lunch at Spaggedies and headed back home before we get completely swallowed by the horrible crowd there.

Hao opened his first Christmas present this year and was told the other presents had to wait till Monday morning, which is Christmas. He was so excited when he tore away the first present and saw it was the CARS Leapster Cartridge that I've got for him in the US. He spent a good 2 hours on the game set till he had to go to bed, but not before placing the game set next to him in bed.

On Christmas morning, I was awakened by Hao who jumps around excitedly declaring it was Christmas Day and he could open all the presents! Without refreshing ourselves, all of us sat beside the Christmas tree and started tearing away all the wrappers. As expected most of Hao's presents are Thomas train related stuff, while Ee got only a book and a dancing mat from hubby. Ee seemed more interested in Hao's toys than his own, but he still had a good time dancing on the mat.

Now that Christmas is over, New Year is just around the corner. The year of 2006 has come to an end and the new year 2007 is just a few days away. Soon the Chinese New Year will come and then time will be flying off again, with the kids growing up and us aging...I wonder where I'll be the same time next year. Hopefully still around my family and enjoying my time looking back the the wonderful year of 2007.