First Christmas in Singapore

Looking back at the latest blog entry I can only congratulate myself on the highly ambitious notion of getting two texts in before the New Year. Considering there were none. Therefore, I’m making up for it today!
There was however an absolutely smashing Christmas Eve Party at The Springbloom, since I obviously had to leave this house wifing business with a bang. The dinner itself, with homemade recipes from both casa de Eurenius/Dagnell and clan a la Moeller with a small addition of Gordon Ramsey’s Christmas Special + all the fantastic help from glorious friends, was an absolute success!

I however don’t know what to make of the first sign of Christmas at our condo: they decided to hang The Snowman, which I don’t really agree on being the most Christian thing to do during the holiday seasons n' all

This is so what I’m getting for Jonas next year; a live size Christmas bulb.. Yay.. 

Mum: if you come next year for Christmas, you must wear a leash; I can find my almost 2m tall husband in any Asian crowd, but in Singapore they are not as small as in Japan and then I might lose someone your size. And if Daggan is tagging along, we are so putting a biking flag on her

The Christmas feeling wouldn’t really appear, with all the summery sunsets and palm trees..

… so the decoration grew mildly..

..as the second batch of Christmas candy and decorations started coming together..

..until we realized we had not actually celebrated a proper Christmas since 2008 and we needed a tree

 

I was also astonished by all the absolutely foul decorations almost plunging out of the stores in some areas; I mean, I feel really sorry for the dude in red in the far left lower corner, who’s clearly not interested in making out with that bearded fellow holding his arm around him

As the Christmas cheer started spreading in The Springbloom #06-02, so did apparently the creativity

 

On the 23rd, my birthday started off with breakfast in bed by this wonderful gentleman

I was then off for some SPA..

 

..followed by the final shopping before the Christmas dinner..

..delivery and self-assembly of our new tree..

..placing the highly personal ‘star’ on the top (this is another reason why it’s highly practical with tall men, but you have to feed them a lot)..

 

..champagne break..

 

..and voila! A tree has been made!

 

Christmas dinner was prepped the following day with settings, decorations, candles and song lyrics

Some people in our marriage also thought we needed ‘Donald Duck’s Christmas’ from Sweden, or ‘there would be no real Christmas feeling’

There were of course the proper Christmas food, such as herring, lax, gravlaxsas, cheese, meat balls, prinskorv, ham, mustard, vortbrod, potatoes, knackebrod, egg halves, Janssons, ribs, ris a la Malta, fudge, knack, ice chocolate, truffles, mulled wine.. 

..and snaps!

For some it was the first Swedish Christmas ever, so ‘The Christmas Gift Game’ and ‘Put the Tail on the Pig’ came as slight surprices

 

The only problem was keeping some things cold, especially since at ca 22.00 the fridge broke down; this was however solved with previously prepped ice baths for drinks and the fact that we almost finished all food

Thank you all for making our first Christmas in Singapore a nite to remember!