Merry Christmas to you.

Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping at your nose,
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like eskimos.
Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright.
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.
They know that Santa’s on his way -
He’s loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And ev’rymother’s child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly.
and so I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although it’s been said many times,
Many ways: “Merry Christmas to you”

By the way, Alvin & the Chipmunks 2 is showing in the Cinema.

I didn’t know he is a contestant for Singapore Idol 3. I don’t watch Singapore Idol anyway. And he was eliminated pretty early. Which is quite a pity. I think he is a pretty good singer and entertainer. Check out his version of Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Specially requested him to do it infront of my camera.

Pretty good huh? Don’t ask me why he was being eliminated so early.

Yeap, playing Guitar Hero with your Christmas lighting. Cool huh? Passerby in cars can even tune their radio to 99.1 to listen.

By the way, do you know that it cost $87,402.81 to buy all the 364 gifts in the song this year? That is just a small 0.9% increase from last year.

The original lyrics was pretty sad. But Judy Garland managed to convince Hugh Martin to change some of the lyrics so that it won’t be so dark. Then in 1957, Frank Sinatra requested Hugh Martin to make the lyrics a little more jolly. And that version became more popular.

Anyway, here is the version by Judy Garland from Meet Me in St. Louis.

Judy Garland – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yuletide gay
Next year all our troubles will be miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who were dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon we all will be together
If the fates allow
Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now

It started from the afternoon on 23th where I met S a for Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry. We then hopped over to Awfully Chocolate for another scope of Ice Cream. Yes, scoop shop hopping. We must be crazy.

I had a dinner gathering at Fish n Co with 18 online friends at night. It’s a great gathering, even better than the one we had last year. We had gift exchange and I cheated a little bit. I bought the same thing as I brought last year. Well, nobody knows anyway. I got a jar of great cookies from Sumin. They are amazing. Love it.

The next day, I had a mini Christmas Eve lunch at office. Wanted to order Pizza didn’t. Canadian said they can only deliver in 4 hours. Rites beat them by promising 4.5 to 5 hours. But the best of the best goes to Pizza hut, can’t even get thru their hotline. In the end, I decided to walk over to Pasta Mania at Bugis Junction to order pizza. Waiting time is 20 minutes. Together with donuts from donuts factory and some other finger food, we had our first BLOG2u/BAK2u Christmas party. It’s a small party as not everyone could attend. Let’s hope the party gets bigger and bigger each year.

Went over to my 2nd Sister’s house for Christmas eve dinner. Its a simple dinner with the family. Will be a bigger crowd next year as my elder sister is going to give birth within this few weeks.

After dinner, I pop over to Minds Cafe to meet Jean, Alice, Cheryl and Yann for some board game. We didn’t get enough of it even after 2 hours of board games. So we hop over to the nearby McDonalds to play Dominion. Its quite a fun game actually. We stop at around 3am plus, send Yann home and went to West Coast McDonalds for breakfast before sending the rest of the ladies home.

Slept at 6am on Christmas and woke up at 2pm. Check some emails and left home for Cheryl home with Jean, Alice and Yann to play another few rounds of Dominion before we decided that it is time for us to get out of the house and grab some dinner. Went Changi Airport for a late Sakae Sushi dinner. After dinner, we send Alice and Yann home and headed to Kallang McDonalds for another round of Dominion. Haha.

Played until 3 plus before sending the ladies home. Reach home and surf net until now. Strange, it’s 8am already and I still couldn’t sleep. Don’t know why. Maybe I don’t want to let Christmas be over so soon.

It’s a great Christmas with great company. Throwing all the troubles out of the window and enjoying the last few days of the year. Hope every year can be just as good this.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight

Merry Christmas, prosperous year and happiness.

Merry Christmas everyone.

War is over, if you want it, war is over, now.

John Lennon – Happy Christmas (War Is Over)

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let’s stop all the fight
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now…