We had a gathering co-organised by James and I to meet up with Huaian who came back to Singapore during his school vacation yesterday. I was extremely surprised when these adorable fruit tarts with smiley faces popped out in front of me as an early birthday celebration. Who doesn’t love these freshly home-baked low sugar fruit tarts with love from Jess? Honestly, I’m so touched they took the effort to “secretly” planned everything and Jess’s effort for waking up at 9 in the morning to bake the tarts. I feel loved! 
I didn’t suspect anything even when Jess kept walking around and sneaking behind James. I thought she was asking him to show her where’s the washroom. I thought that was odd though. 
They taste as good as they looked which reminds me I should get the recipe from Jess and try this at home sometime. The custard tastes heavenly!
We dropped by Mind’s Cafe and found a new game which was really fun! True colours is a game where players attempt to best anticipate how others perceive them. Each round consists of several private ballot votes on who best fits a particular question. Once votes are entered players guess at the number of votes they received for that particular question. The better your estimate the more points you make and the winner being the player who best understands how others see the player. I ended up as the one with the lowest point. 
Hopefully James will get this for his board games rental site! It’s really fun and entertaining playing with people whom you know. 
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Merry Christmas to everyone! Did you take part in any countdown events last night?
On a side note, I actually drew the above illustration for my own Christmas cards but couldn’t find a inexpensive place to print it. There’s usually a minimum quantity of 100 to 200 and I don’t need that much. I only got to know of a shop at Bras Plaza that does printing for $1 per card with minimum spending of $30 from Ivy when we meet up for lunch last week. Hence, I will just leave the handmade cards for this year since it’s a bit too late to do that now.
I spent Christmas eve at home with my friends and family. We didn’t want to hang out at the parties due to the crowd. So Dad cooked steak and we had Christmas dinner at home. Michelle joined us for dinner and mahjong session as well. No turkeys on the table though. 
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Time really flies and it’s been 5 years since I started blogging. Even though I’ve been around the past few years, Amour Chaleur was only launched last December. To commemorate Amour Chaleur’s upcoming first birthday on the 8th of December and in conjunction with Christmas, I am holding a Christmas giveaway. Panda Santa will be giving away a panda notebook from Artbox.
To participate in this giveaway, you must have a Twitter account. Tweet the following message once or come up with your own creative tweets (which must be relevant to the giveaway). All tweets must contain the hashtag #amourxmasbook and the link to this post http://bit.ly/8pYc6R .
The giveaway has ended. Congratulations to @jadoreivy for winning the giveaway! Thank you everyone for participating. Stay tune for the next giveaway in December.
The giveaway will start on Monday, 30th November at 12 PM (GMT+8) and ends on Wednesday, 2nd December at 12 PM (GMT+8). It will last for 48 hours. A random winner will be chosen when the giveaway ends. I may hold another giveaway again in December to spread some Christmas love. Good luck and have fun!
