My Christmas experience!

Of all the years that I’ve spent on Christmas, 2008 is definitely the year that I received the most presents, nuff’ SAID! XD

If any of you do follow my previous blog entries, especially on the failed gift wrapping one, you’d know that I’ve participated in two Christmas gift exchange sessions.  The first session took place at my office, I received a box filled with three items inside, first being a notebook (which I’d gladly donate to anyone who’s interested, as me and my wife have no use of it):

Cheesy looking notebook

The second item in the box is a 4R sized photo frame, which as you can see, I’ve placed a wedding picture of me and my wife:

Photo Frame

The last item is a pen holder + tiny photo frame + miniature drawer, this is my favorite piece of the gift and I’ve placed it on my work desk, and also a cool picture for the frame itself (which I’ve took from my wedding pictures collection as well):

Pen holder with photo frame

The second Christmas gift exchange session happened last night when I’ve attended a post-Christmas BBQ gathering at my wife’s colleague’s house.  The gift that I’ve got is a clock:

Cute Clock

Now that I’ve covered the Christmas gifts that I’ve got from the two gift exchange sessions, time to move on to my other presents, next is this pink colored Cactus (no shit! It’s a REAL Cactus!) that I’ve got from my colleague:

Pink Cactus

Seriously, I’ve never heard nor seen a colored Cactus before, except for the Green ones of course.  Apparently this is not the only color my colleague has in hand, she actually bought several versions which all had different colors and shapes, there’s also this yellow Cactus which shaped like the private parts of a man, LOL!  Anyways, this Cactus is just so cool that I’ve also decided to place it on my work desk, here’s another view of this pink colored Cactus:

Pink Cactus

My last Christmas gift came from my lovely wife, which is this Racing Glove that I stumbled upon on this thread from DCM.  It’s an unknown cheapo brand hence the ‘not so’ expensive price tag, I’ve always wanted a proper glove during my drift practice and now it’s the chance, my wife was generous enough to sponsor me for the glove as I was out of money actually LOL!

My racing glove

To be honest, this glove doesn’t fit on my hands that well, after I’ve firmly wore it on, there are some tiny gaps at my finger tips, especially on my thumb, which really sucks, maybe I should’ve picked size ‘S’?  Well, I have yet to test it on my Charmant, that will have to wait when my car is out of the paint shop, I will make the final judgement by then.

Now that wraps up my Christmas presents part, lets move on to my other Christmas experience.  On Christmas eve, it was pretty much a boring day for me, first of all, Sibu was invaded by heavy rain the entire night, and since my wife is currently pregnant, I can’t bring her for any of the countdown parties (which all took place at local pubs), it was pretty disappointing as all our friends were partying while both of us had to go home early.  But nonetheless, our baby is our main priority, party only mar, lots of chances lar~ XD

On the actual Christmas day, I’ve brought my wife to Kent’s Kitchen for our Christmas Dinner, I forgot the actual menu that we ordered but the Christmas package consisted of Chicken salad:

Chicken Salad

And then the mixed grill:

Mixed Grill

There’s also a glass of Apple Juice, a cup of tea, some Garlic breads.  Overall it was a pretty good Christmas dinner that we had although the price is a bit on the high side (I’m a cheapskate!).

And that’s all for my Christmas experience!  End! LOL!

Gift wrapping epic fail!

Before I explain, check out the following epic fail wrapping  LOL!

Failed gift wrapping

It looks hideous doesn’t it, and guess what, even though it IS a Christmas gift that I bought which will be used for the Christmas Gift Exchange program that is to be held next Monday in my office, but this wrapping was actually done by my wife! LMAO!

Well, to be honest, it ain’t exactly her fault though, I should be the one to be blamed as I was the one that insisted that the gift should be wrapped on directly instead of placing it in a proper box, yep, you heard me right, it’s a dumb idea I know LOL!

It all started yesterday when me and my wife visited the SuperSave store at Sibu Delta Mall during lunch time.  We were basically looking for some decent and also cheap gifts that falls under the requirements (minimum RM10 or above) for the upcoming Christmas Gift Exchange programs (yeah, it ain’t just one!).  As the name of the shop implies, the shop is packed with loads of variety cheapo items, my wife picked a medium sized photo album while I got myself a pretty decent looking table clock, then I reminded my wife that these items don’t include any packaging or boxes, she then ensured me that she will bring some back from her office later in the evening, which she DIDN’T by the way.  Without having any proper sized boxes to do the gift wrappings, I then convinced my wife that by just wrapping onto the item wouldn’t look too bad, she hesitated at first but got into it after several ‘encouragements’ from her lovely yet ignorant husband, and this was the outcome:

Failed gift wrapping

Yuck!! I have to admit I didn’t expect it to look THAT bad, my wife went nuts and was so regretful at the ‘stunt’ she just pulled off, hats off to her for that though! Ha ha!

Here’s another shot of the crappy gift compared to a decent packaged gift:

Gift comparision

The better looking gift was also done by my wife, well that was her gift though, since the photo album does come with some sort of a cover box thingy, so the wrapping can be done ‘properly’.

Anyhow, my crappy gift did not stop there, we had to fix it, I mean, how can you expect anyone to even appreciate a gift like THIS?  Guess not huh… LOL!

Well, this was the solution that we thought of, by using an empty tissue box:

Emptied tissue box

The tissue box proved to be a bit too big for my Clock, but nonetheless its better than nothing.  Since both me and my wife were too lazy to customize the box to make it fit the gift item more (which is still possible btw), we decided to just give it a go, after some simple wrapping, my gift now looks way better:

Nice gift!

Phew, that was a relief! LOL!

Worst registration ever?

This morning while I was browsing Tengku Djan’s latest blog entry on the Red Bull Drifting Event, I was tempted to post a reply to show my support, so I’ve decided to register to his blog site, to my surprise, I see this:

What the F*ck?

As you can see from the screenshot above, WordPress requires me to enter the letters that it provides, just have a look for yourself, can you actually IDENTIFY any letters from that at all?  Well, I honestly don’t, and I’m sure this is definitely one of the weirdest registration I’ve ever encountered, I wondered if it’s a joke though?  ^^