Finally, Singapore's "winter" season has arrived. It's rained and rained and rained non-stop since Sunday and it doesn't show sign of stopping. It's been a long time since I've last seen so much rain in my life. In fact, it rained so much that on Tuesday, the rain fall was the highest in record for the past 75 years. Thomson road on Tuesday itself was also flooded and the flood level was actually up to the shoulders. Although I wasn't there to experience it, but the images on the evening news made me wonder for a moment if I was really in Singapore. Don't think I recall experiencing a flood in Singapore when growing up. The only time I had that experience was when I was still working in Sentosa. Our staff cafeteria was so so flooded with muddy water that we almost couldn't have lunch. In the end, we packed the lunch and we returned to the office with feet so wet, we could rear a gold fish in there.

Although it’s been a grim, grey and wet Tuesday, and, as a matter of fact, the entire week, there was not a day that I felt hungry. All thanks to the great Christmas feasting, which happened for me since the Bollywood Christmas on Saturday, 16 December. Then on Tuesday, I brought my parents to Wan Hao at the Marriot for dinner and on Wednesday, I went for our department’s once a month and compulsory dinner gathering. This coming Friday, we’ll have a Sales & Marketing Christmas gathering at one of the function rooms booked for the event. Goodness…. so much food, I can literally eat with my eyes closed.

All that feasting actually had some sort of a reverse effect on me. I kinda lost my appetite as a result of it. As a matter of fact, I lost my appetite the day after our Bollywood Christmas night. I didn’t feel like taking breakfast and even lunch on Sunday. Even my shepherd noticed that I took the longest time to eat my bowl of slice fish soup noodle. I literally chewed for about 40 minutes and still couldn’t finish my lunch. After that, I basically slept through till Monday without dinner, which was just fine for me. My mother even commented this morning that I seemed to have lost weight. Whoa… I didn’t know that just a few days of losing appetite could have such an instantaneous effect on my appearance. Should I rejoice over it? Think I make use of this time to train up and get toned. In any case, I want to look good and feel good, not just shrivel up like some dried vegetables.

Well, Bollywood Christmas was really fun. With games, prizes, food and dancing throughout the night, all of us enjoyed ourselves that night, visitors and regulars alike. However, I couldn’t really say that the programme outline flowed with the theme. Even though, we were dressed as “chindians” (that’s Chinese attempting to dress up like Indians. Invented, but not recognized in the English vocabulary) and the beginning performance was some Indian dance that sort of began the event, the highlight for the night was actually Latin dance. Hence, it’s in fact more Latino than Bollywood, but nobody really cares cos’ what’s important was, everybody enjoyed themselves and I think that objective was met. The location at The Pines (formerly known as the Pinetree Club) was a good choice and the activities lined up was quite suitable for people our demographics. Hope some of the visitors can also join us for the Christmas service on Saturday, 23 December.

During Christmas, I always get this magical feeling in the air, as if something magical could happen to me too. I really thank God for the past year or so. It was quite a year of breakthroughs for me as I did a few things which I never thought I’d dared. I’ve also accomplished some goals which I’ve set out to do as well as goals that were left unfinished for the past few years. There are still many more breakthroughs which are yet to come and I’m certainly looking forward to it coming to past. So excited!

Meanwhile, gotta finish wrapping the presents before Saturday comes, which is not much time left! *Yikes!*