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Su sv. Kaledom!!! / Hyvää joulua!!!

So it is Christmas again.(This picture also shows off my new hair, I look like a Japanese punker now.. What do you think?) Not the first season in tropics, so we'll manage somehow. No real feeling of Christmas though.. And how could there be when it is steaming hot and blinding bright light all the time. Kaj wants to avoid buying presents and I somehow sympathize with him, Orchard road is a living hell these days - on Saturday I got stuck in a human jam in a tunel between shopping malls when I wanted to return books to the library. This mass of people wasn't moving anywhere, back or forwards, at all. The slow-walking Leijonakaupunkilaiset started getting on my nerves too (Kaitsu has been ranting about this for months..). People just walk slow here, slow and in the middle of the path, so that you cannot take over from any side. They also like to stop abruptly in the middle of the road, turn backwards and bump into you.. But I'd like to get a present, so I'll get something for Kaj and he'll have to get something back.. haha.. Otherwise, it seems that the agressive strategy of advertising our new address here with a kind demand to "send us something" was very fruitful! :) Our little altar is growing and it is a great pleasure to get all these beautiful thingies from you!! Thank You!!! I even got Lithuanian recipes book from my mom (if only I could find the ingredients, such as "potatoes".. :) well, no, you can get potatoes here, but everything else???) We've been shopping in IKEA for Abba siili (silke) and nakkileipaa (dziovinta rugine duona), ah, tastes so good... We're warmheartedly waiting for visitors who could import a healthy dose of ruisleipa (rugine duona), savustettua poronlihaa (rukyto siaures elnio) and puolikkaa (brukniu). Natalia and Borzin are coming for a very short visit in January, but they've been traveling in Thailand and Bali before that, so I think they'll be out of stock.. So please, if you have any chance, extra holiday or extra money, come for a visit (not only because of tuliaiset (lauktuviu)), we'd be very very happy to give you a roof above your head and a bowl of noodles.. :) We've been celebrating my first salary last week and were supposed to go for a champagne brunch on Sunday, but wisely enough decided to go for a walk in Bukit Timah forest-jungle. Hangover free and sweaty choice it was.. I'm looking forward for our trip to Philippines very much (despite all typhoons and terrorist warnings.. argh.. not again..) we're leaving on Saturday! Don't know if I'll have a chance to write before that, but if not - Hyvaa joulua! Su Kaledom! Ir Naujaisiais Metais! Ja Hyvaa Uuta Vuota! PS. Habbo Hotel was finally launched in Singapore too! I learned about that from my students who were not listening, but figuring out how to get more credits in the hotel during the class... They were a bit annoyed that you have to pay for everything in there... Posted by gkligyte at December 20, 2004 07:26 PM