December it here already!

How time flies! It is already mid-way through December ...and about 16 days before we usher in 2011 ...and 10 days to Christmas!!! As I have been very busy lately, i am very disorganised ...my Christmas cards are yet to be sent (ouchhhh - my dear friends will surely receive their cards after Christmas!), haven't done most of my Xmas gifts, and yet to think about the Xmas menu (which is my mom's task actually, but most of us tend to chip in with our own ideas)

I guess I am not feeling all that xmas spirits as i have not been going out to the malls ....where, i bet!, the decorations are all set up wonderfully and most shops are playing Xmas songs ....this is when I really miss Newcastle ...the Xmas shopping atmosphere ...the late night shopping ....the non-stop xmas party invitations, pre-xmas gathering ...and of course, the wintery scenes ..with its absolutely freezing weather ...aaahhhh, i miss those moments!!!!

(10-foot hight snowman made of re-cycled plastic bottles - in one of Melaka's shopping mall)

Last week when I was in Melaka, i did snap a few photos of the xmas decoration - around the hotel which I stayed in ...it does, to some extend, brings back lots of my childhood memories of Xmas ....and the xmas movies, songs and scenes ....

reindeer and a snowman @ Equatorial Hotel ...but my foster dad was saying that it was the first time he saw a snowman with a carrot's pointy end sticking into the snowman ...according to Cam, it should be the other way round hehehe ....well, what can I say ...maybe it's the style of an Asian snowman LOL ...

and a really nice fake fireplace at the entrance to the hotel's coffeehouse ....reminded me of my winter holiday in Scotland with my parents a couple of years ago!

So far i have yet to venture into the malls in Kuching ....am thinking of going this weekend with my nephews ...to soak in the atmosphere and start thinking about the gifts for the boys and for my parents :-)