X'mas spirit

Baked lotsa cookies with my bro and cousin today. It's been a long time since we baked and the last time we did, my cousin's mixer short fused and couldn't function anymore. And this time round we were lucky my dad was around, 'cos he smelled something funny (but we seriously thought all mixers are supposed to smell funny) and to our horror the motor of the mixer emitted fumes. Hahaha. Fotunately the beating was almost done, and we manually did the rest. My bro then proceeded to shape an unusually large cookiemonster-styled cookie, with his intial Z on it. When it was baked he held it close to his ear and said "Listen... Zzzzzzz", just like cookie monster always does. My cousin and I were almost rolling on the floor laughing. HahaZ!

Phew. We took approx 5 hrs to finish baking, and then my whole family went to orchard road. Met up my mum at the mandarin hotel and there was a group of pitch-perfect carollers. They're the best carollers I've ever heard. Brought out the spirit of Xmas fully... =)
We then traversed the whole (and I really mean the whole ) stretch of Orchard (our annual family-Xmas-tradition) , and there were throngs and throngs of people. The streets were just thick with the Xmas crowd, and there were so many street performances I lost count of how many. I can just imagine Julie Andrews singing "The streets are alive with the sound of Xmas...". Ha-ha-ha. ><
Anyways I enjoyed the dazzling lights and decos very much, but the most delightful part had to be when we settled down for supper opposite centre point. The food was graaaaaaate. Hehe.

Hohoho. Three days and counting.