On the night of Christmas.

Hello there!

I'm back! Kagami-desu.

How was your Christmas? I sincerely hope it was fun and enjoyable.

Today's post is about Ubaydah's Christmas celebration.

Last night, Ubaydah went to his friends' place to celebrate Christmas. It was a potluck event. Ubaydah baked a lasagna for that event.

His friends brought other foods too such as spaghetti, baked sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, roasted chicken pieces, green beans casserole, and desserts such as apple pie, bread pudding, and fruits arrangement. The great thing about all those food is that they were all home-made by Ubaydah's friends.

After they all stuffed themselves with loads of food, they played 'White Elephant'. For those who are not familiar with the game, let me give you a brief explanation of what 'White Elephant' is: 

1. Everyone buys gifts according to a set of values (in Ubaydah's case, something worth $10-$15) and/or other set of rules (no gag gifts, etc.).

2. Everyone places their gifts in the center of the room.

3. All participants will draw numbers (in Ubaydah's case, they used a software that randomly sorts out the participants' names).

4. Participant #1 will choose a gift and open it (without knowing what's inside).

5. Participant #2 may choose to either open up a new unopened gift of steal participant #1's gift (this is when feelings get hurt so don't get too attached to the gift that you opened).

6. This will go on until everyone receives a gift of their own.

7. If your gift was stolen from a certain participant, you may choose to either open up a new unopened gift or steal another participant's gift. You may not steal back what was stolen from you immediately after.

8. A gift can only be stolen twice. After that whoever gets it may keep it without worrying whether someone else will steal it or not. If you really want a certain gift, make sure you steal a gift that have been stolen once and you'll get to keep it.

I think that explanation should be sufficient.

During Ubaydah's turn, this is what he got.

A nutcracker.

That gift was then stolen from him and he gets to steal someone else's.

This is what he stole.

An assortment of Starbucks hot cocoa mixes.

After they played 'White Elephant', they played taboo. It was the guys versus the girls and the girls won.

Ubaydah left shortly afterward because he has to pick up some people in Anaheim.

Ubaydah then went home, enjoyed a Starbucks double chocolate drink that he won and went to bed shortly afterward.

It was a fun but tiring Christmas for him.

THE END

On the 21st day of Christmas...

Hello there!

Kagami's here!

How are you doing?

Christmas is approaching and Ubaydah is looking forward to attending a Christmas party on the night of the 25th. Ubaydah and his friends are going to do their own rendition of 'White Elephant' just like last year. The party is going to be a potluck so Ubaydah is planning to make lasagna.

Ubaydah received these from his mom. His mom owns a cafe in Bandar Baru Bangi, Malaysia called 'Little White Cafe'. It's a great place to visit if you are ever in Bandar Baru Bangi.

There were cookies, chocolates, and candy canes.

"Run, run as fast as you can; You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man." (The Gingerbread Man, Wikipedia, 2011).

"Now you see."

"Now you don't!"

Ubaydah also received a container full of baked goods from one of his colleagues.

There were different kind of cookies as well as carrot cake.

Ubaydah told me that all those baked goods tasted awesome!

THE END

Happy Holidays!

バイバイ~~*



Thanksgiving! XD

こんにちは~

Haruhi's back!

I know it has been a while since any of us wrote anything in this blog.

But anyway, we're back and today I'm going to talk about Ubaydah's thanksgiving~

He had an awesome thanksgiving a few weeks ago celebrating it with some of his friends at the Village.

Ubaydah's currently studying for his final this Monday so I'm going to make this post very brief.

Here's a picture of Ubaydah and his friends celebrating thanksgiving:

Did you see the two turkeys on the table?

One was roasted by the girls and the other was roasted by the guys.

Here they are up close:

The one on the left was roasted by the guys and the one on the right was roasted by the girls~

So by looks alone, I think the guys won that contest. That doesn't mean that guys are better cooks okay?

However, the one on the right was very tasty and rich with flavor according to Ubaydah. He also told me that the one on the left was tasty too but it's just that the stuffing wasn't cooked right. Ubaydah told me that the real winner was the gravy that made both turkeys tasted awesome! XD

Both turkeys were their first trials and I really think they did a really great job!

By the way, Ubaydah made some mashed potatoes and rock buns for that event! ^^

I think that should be it for tonight.

For those who will face their finals next week (including Ubaydah): All the Best! =)

お休みなさい~~*