Christmas Dinner

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas everyone!

Yesterday, I hosted a dinner party in our apartment. Do you know that, the Germans celebrate Christmas on the 24th instead of the 25th. This means, family gathers for dinner and present are unwrapped on the 24th. I don't really celebrate but from my understanding, most parts of the world unwrapped their present on the 25th. This is something new that I have learned.


Anyways, I decided to play hostess because I thought it was a good idea for all the Malaysians to come together and celebrate Christmas. It was a potluck where everyone brought a little something. My contribution was spaghetti bolognese, roasted chicken and potato gratin. Others brought red beanwith tong yuen (prepared by Joe), Greek salad (prepared by Gajana. I must note that she did a fantastic job in the salad), goulash (prepared by Mei Yin), apples and stollen (by Suk Harn). Last but not list, cincau by Benny. We had plenty of food and by the end of the day we were all stuffed.

After dinner, played a few grounds of UNO afterwhich we chit chat and enjoyed each another company. Overall, I think the dinner party is successfully considering the fact that it's my frist dinner party =)

I will be spending new year's eve in one of my German colleague's home. He has offered to cook us a german meal afterwhich we wil head to the harbour to count down and enjoy some fireworks.

Group picture *Note that Joe is not in the picture because he was late!*

Nonetheless, I must have include his picture or else it will not coplete the group picture =)

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Winter Dom

The Winter Dom is similar to an out door theme park where you have the various theme park rides and games. Besides the rides and games, the Dom also offers a huge variety of food stall for all the hungry Dom visitors. The food ranges from grilled sausages to cotton candy and of course plenty of stall selling beer =)






As you can see from the picture above. We found the Gelatin and we were pretty much spending alot of time posing and snapping pictures. Behind us was a horror house where there are live actors to scare the hell out of you.

I was pretty much addicted to a horse racing game where you have to roll ball into holes what have 1,2 or 3 points. If your ball falls into a the 2 points hole, your horse will move 2 steps. You will be playing against 11 other players and the objective is to reach the finishing line first. I played 3 rounds, lost miserably in the first round, won 1st place in the second (woohooo!!) and second in the third. I decided to redeem a huge mug as my prize because it is something practical. I am glad that I didn't walk away empty handed.

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Christmas Markt

Hamburg City centre is beautifully decorated with Christmas lights. I love to walk around the city in the evening this time of the year as the Christmas decorations are so creative.

A bunch of us decided to visit the Christmas Markt after work. This is my 4th or 5th trip to the Christmas markt and I am never bored of it. This time around, I tried a drink called Lumumba which is hot chocolate with a shot of cognac topped with whipped cream. I was told that this is another common winter drink. The cognac gives it a slight bitter taste to the hot chocolate. Nice to have when you are not too stuff with food as I find this drink rather filling.

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Ice Kacang falling from the sky!

As of late, Hamburg has been snowing quite abit. To describe it in Malaysian terms, snow is like ice kacang falling from the sky. It also feels like ice kacang and looks like cotton wool falling from the sky. It is very pretty when the place is covered with show because thewhole atmosphere feels and looks clean.

I hope it snows on Christimas so that I can experience a true white christmas!

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