Christmas Eve

I woke up rather early that day, based on my vivid memory around 10 I guess. I had a sleep over at my cousin, Kimberly’s house the day before Christmas eve…Alas, Seraphina was not present thanks to her bothersome brat sister Engielista who insisted to tag along with me to Kimberly’s place *sigh*. Luckily, she went home early that morning before I opened my eyes. So by the time my eye lids were opened, Engielista was GONE *jolly joy*!!! Aunt Stella told me to prepare breakfast as she went to the store to buy some grocery and food for Christmas Eve dinner at her place. I must admit I am rather a indolent person, thus I decided to toast 2 pieces of bread with garlic spread and fresh milk for breakfast. It was seconds to go till Christmas and my anxiety was building slowly.

I had to help Aunt Stella moved the computer from the computer room as it was about to be renovated, all the glucose in my body experienced a complete breakdown in the presence of oxygen to released 2898 kJ of energy *I compressed the equation on energy production in aerobic respiration in my brain*. So I was glued to Frozen Throne the whole afternoon till Seraphina came in the evening to help with the dinner.

I actually mastered the techniques of cutting and pealing tomatoes, cucumbers, lime and apple for making salad. Seraphina wore a vain shirt with writings “Friends don’t allow friends to talk to ugly guy” and stroll every corner in the house and was bragging about it *her friend Steph bought it for her*. Christmas Eve dinner was about to start when we realized there was insufficient yogurt for the entire family (including my parents), there I was stuck with Aunt Stella and Kimberly in their Avanza driving all the way to Choice Daily for 2 yogurts. The expenditure for petrol even exceeded 2 cups of yogurt I uttered to myself.

Finally Christmas Eve dinner started as my parents had finally arrived, we ate Spaghetti, hash browns, cheesy sausage, and the belated-arrived lamb specially cooked at Hilton. Dinner was great and I was satiated at the sumptuous meal prepared. Soon we head to church for the service *we were rather late as the church service started at 8.00 and our arrival was at 7.40). This year most of the events were prepared by the youths and choir members of St. Thomas’s Cathedral. The most booming presentation was done by the youths whereby they all wore “glow-in-dark” gloves and made signs like J-E-S-U-S, love symbol, crucifix and even Jesus’ face while the melodious music was played, the whole church was filled with applause when they ended…FASCINATING. As usual Christmas carols is a must so we sang our hearts out in praise and worship as three angelic and adorable kids (no idea who’s kids) kept wondering around. Kimberly was lame enough to named the twins Las Angeles Dolls and a Vietnam Doll *such creative and peculiar names*.

The service ended at 11.30, 1800 seconds more to Christmas!!! Seraphina and I sleep over at Kimberly’s house and of course we stayed up the whole night chit chatting about gibberish crap, it does sound normal for adolescent and pre-adolescent (Kimberly) to gibber during Christmas Eve night *Seraphina was captivated with her phone, sending random Christmas wishes to all of her friends*.

Merry Christmas!!!