CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

In many countries of the world, the clelebration of Christmas on December 25th is a high point of the year. But why? Can it have any real meaning for us today? Is there a 'real' Christmas message?

From November onwards, it is impossible to forget that Christmas is coming. Coloured lights decorate many town centres and shops, along with shiny decorations, ect ect (including Mumsie's house and clinic)

Most people post Christmas greeting cards to their friends and family and hopefully these cards will be hung on the walls of their homes (and work place)....mumsie will make sure that she hangs up each and every card!!!!! Traditionally, Chrismas cards showed religious pictures, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus or other parts of the Christmas story. Today, pictures are often jokes, winter pictures, Father Christmas, or romantic scenes of life in past times....

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Look at this Christmas tree in mumsie's house..... Look at all the parcels......
Other than mumsie, grandma, and Asri (our Christian maid) ---(otta to take them to Christmas mass..).Dadda was the earliest to wake up on that Christmas morn...(he got called out to deliver some Christmas babies!!!!!!)

Cheh-cheh....was next...all excited to open her goodies.......and also to tuck in tasty b'fast of hot roti chanai with nice sauces of beef rendang, curry chicken and ect ect which mumsie bought from the mamak on the way back from church.
Gosh isn't she pleased!!!!!!!!!!
Then comes David...dunno who gave goodie to whom first......but things got done....anyway

Cheh -cheh is 'over the moon' with her new camera....(Her hintings paid off.....no need to write to Santa North Pole)
Believe it or not even Danny boy is awake early!!!

Grandma got ?wonder what from David
and ? wonder what from Cheh-chehLinny is the only one who hangs a chirstmas sock on her door. Anyway it's time to wake her up....(just in case she missed out all the 'fun' of watching the other

siblings openning their goodies...) Mumsie remembers that the other siblings used to hang big pillow cases on their doors not so long ago!!!


.Wonder if she has brushed her teeth first????

Dadda helpping her to dig into her sock
Must be something....?funny why are they so 'ticklish?'
'Father Christmas' (or 'Santa Claus') has become the human face of Chrismas. Children are taught that he brings them presents on the night before Christmas, and many children really believe this is true. It is also said that he lives near the North Pole, and arrives through the sky on a sledge pulled by reindeer. He comes into houses down the chimney at midnight and places presents for the children in socks or bags by their beds or in front of the family Christmas tree. Wonder if mumsie's little ones remember that nearly every Christmas mumsie had to take them to the post office to post their "letters" to Santa personally (wonder what Mr Postman did to those letters??)
Now who is this old man with the sack?? He is St. Nicholas,, a Christian leader who was very shy and wanted to give money to poor people without them knowing about it. It is said that one day he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a purse of money down the chimney. It landed in the stocking which a girl had put to dry by the fire! NOW YOU KNOW.........
He must be wondering to eat first or open his goodie first.....
This year mumsie and dadda must admit that we both got "what the little ones think is best suited for us' (Can't say they don't know us by now)Kinky (or coool) T-shirts from Danny Boy

Linny too got the same

Mumsie is really bz bz with her camera....First time for many many many years.....having her little ones and all awake at this time of the morning (and most importantly DADDA is around too...)
Happy happy mumsie

Dunno she's taking or giving
Whilst they are enjoying their b'rast

The parcel wrapped in white background is Linny's "home-made" wrapper....

Big box from Chen Li

Cheh-cheh still bz bz unpacking her goodies

Dadda carefully opens his "glassy" goodie

Guess what's it???

A tea - pot for his daily 'tea-drinking'

Koh-koh trying on his new shirt

Linny's goodie for mumsieCandles for mumsie's altar....
Danny holding his goodie from Linny...see the home made wrapping paper??
Mumsie admiring all her goodies...
Everybody is admiring Linny's home-made wrapper.....
Mumsie's collection of her goodies

Joel got something from South Africa
Cheh-cheh's new T-shirt...wonder from whom??
The happy 'Chus'....(everyone must have got what they've been praying for) Linny still in her pyjamas....(can't tear herself from the happy crowd)
Cheh-cheh and Joel got "His" and "Hers" watches

Then in-between opening their presents there is this delicious b'fast
Koh-koh David got something interesting from Dadda...(from S'pore air-port)
What's it????
Some guy from 'Star War'
Dadda's goodie from Mumsie

Danny's goodie from Dadda
Koh-koh got something from South Africa too
Mumsie still admiring her goodie....CAN'T bring herself to open them yet.....

Joel...must have found some interesting thing from his goodie lot...

The table is 'choked' with good tasting food

Grandma got a pair of ear-rings from mumsie

What did Linny got Dadda???

Mumsie wants to collect more pics of her 4 little ones TOGETHER
and more pics of them with Dadda and mumsie
Mumsie still 'drooling' over her goodies
LOOK DADDA got mumsie a MERCEDEZ --

Oooops.....a toy Merc.....(Maybe a 'prefix ' of what mumsie would get for her B'DAY!!!!!)
From Chen Li
From China David got Dadda tea of all sorts...
That's what was inside the big blue Swaroskwi box
Dadda's tea from Shanghai

Happy happy mumsie...?Big swaroski box...what's inside?

At last mumsie got all her goodies out of their packages.....
Now all her little settle down to enjoy their b'fast and to talk , talk, and talk

And Yati makes the best 'teh-tarik'


Koh-koh admiring his star-war thingi...

Cheh got some goodie for the maids too!

Mumsie's kinky T-shirt
Mumsie's ???Pre-B'day present.....
Dadda should be able to take the hint!!!!!
Inside the Swaroski box
Pair of ear-rings (channel) from Cheh-cheh

Koh-koh trying out his Christmas goodie

Then cheh-cheh gotta try too

And Danny Boy tooo!


Koh-koh telling his 'tall stories'

Then Linny's turn.....




Mumsie really loves to see all her little ones together.....can't get enough photos of them........

Then the 2 OLD LADIES of the house join them
Wonder if they know and understand what's it about????

Then the maids join in....is it voting time???

Cheh-cheh laughs until her tummy 'aches'

Wonder what is the joke??? Poor Dadda had to go for a delivery

Wonder who did the most talking???
Needles to guess...we know who did the most 'LISTENING'
She is still listening

Guess who was brought in to join the family??

Traditionally KFC's family will come over from S'pore to join us for Xmas Dinner and also to "exchange" Xmas presents....
Aunty Joddie is openning her presents
A biggie for KFC from Dadda and mumsie
He is warned to open it slowly.....very fragile
Wow what's inside this box....????

Slowly does it...it's glass
KFC must be pleased with this wine decanter
Andrew with his ??????
Mumsie got this from KFC and Aunty Jodie
Mithchell admiring her new Bag.....

She is still staring at it....
Dadda's new Camera....His xmas present for himself....only he can afford such thing....

Cheh-cheh is facinated.....
Wow it is big......
Look it neary covers her whole face...Andrew is still wondering what's inside his box...... ? Wonder if he's got it open by now?????

Today not many people consider the religious meaning to Christmas. Most people will not go to a religious church meeting, even at Christmas.. It has become a bz race to spend money on presents and get ready for the Day. A visitor from another world would think that Charistmas was a festival to the gods of money and shopping.

What do you want from Christmas?

Many people do hope for more than presents at Chhristmas. We want to somehow return to a time in our childhood (or some other good time in the past), when life was simpler and made more sense, before the troubles of adult life arrived. We feel sure that behind all the fun and decorations, there must somehow be a message, something more, some key to life, hope and happiness.

So can we look beyond the way Christmas is celebrated to day, and find any real meaning, any message for our lives today????

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS