Daily Mail Celebrates Christmas with CSI

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Sure Decadence - How to Get Rid of Christmas Leftovers

To prove what a decadent and sloven society we live in today, instead of bringing leftovers home, we stuff ourselves there and then with this evil but so fun game called "终级密码" (Guess the Number), thus reducing cleanup and leftovers but increasing girth and misery.

What happens is this, someone will decide on a number X within the range of 0 - 99. Then the next person will guess the number Y and then the first person will confirm that Y == X or reduce the range to the Y and the upper or lower limit. Then this continues in a round robin fashion, until some doofus guesses it correct.

To speed things up, we had the "winner" and the two persons on his/her either side to consume certain leftovers, e.g. share one slice of watermelon, instead of merely "punishing the winner".

After a few rounds, we discovered this was not as fun as if we make only the two persons on either side consume the leftovers. After all, isn't it more sinisterly fun to guess it right, not have to suffer and get to sabotage the two persons next to you?

Most Popular Presents that Acquaintances/ Colleagues Give

This year, we wrote down what we would like to receive for our Christmas presents, which was a blessing because otherwise we would end up with these:

1. Photo Frames (the annual fave)
2. Mugs
3. Vouchers!!! (which I chuck somewhere, and I forget where they are. Where is my Kinokuniya one??
4. Key Chains / handphone accessories
5. Towels
6. Wine/Alcohol
7. Puzzles
8. Silver Jewelery [I am guilty of this]
9. Desktop Ornaments
10. Small Soft Toy [I am also guilty of this]
11. Chocolate [updated in 2012]

Predictable but useful and affordable, nicht wahr? Did I miss out anything?

Fröhliche Weihnachten!

Nibblezware wishes you Merry Christmas!!!

I am sensing that I don't drink enough water. This year I got 2 mugs and 1 water bottle. Hahha.

I finally got my DS Lite which I was supposed to get for doing well for my Masters (sounds weird huh). After mugging for two years, I decided not to claim it as I figured that I could use the time better for reading books, or my other hobbies instead of spoiling my eyesight. Besides I only wanted it because I was paranoid about my brain age. The present I most liked were the German story book I wanted and the kitty vacuum cleaner.

I cooked and I baked

Who says women cannot multitask?

For three hours, I prepped, cooked, baked (washing up took another hour, haha) and packing up Top Chef-like for my office celebration while thinking about how to resolve my application problems.

I made vegetarian bolognese sauce (smaller pot on the left) and nasty nasty bolognese sauce (big wok on the right). I was paranoid that the vegetarian one would have no taste, as my colleagues are strict on not consuming onions and garlic (my two great faves), so I dumped in diced carrots for sweetness.

I also baked my cupcakes again. I was happily cooking while my cakes rose in the oven. This time without topping with the diabetes-inducing cream *gag*. I deliberated whether I should bother making a glaze, then I thought, zzz more important. So I decided to let them be topless *keke*.

My topless cakes turned out even better this time. I tried some new tricks I learnt from books, while adding 5g more to each cup.