Christmas is approaching, and all of you are going to carry out your traditional gift exchange. If you had two options to set the gift exchange rule, would you rather:

1) Each person has to buy a present for the other 7 people, budget is about $10-$15. You can buy little items, you can hand-make simple gifts, you can do anything you want but with a small budget.

2) By random picks, each person is designated to buy one prezzie only, for another person. For instance A buys for B, B buys for C, C buys for D and so on. Thus, your budget is now consolidated to $70-$100 and you can buy an expensive, pretty gift.

I asked jw this question this morning. And he said logically he prefers the idea of 1), because X'mas is meant to share joy with all of your friends, but because he thinks $10 is too little, so he would rather go with option 2). Haha. How bout you?

Just saw from the badz gals' emails that this year, we are changing the tradition abit, and thus changing from 1) to 2) so that the presents can be better. Of coz, due to the fact that I won't be present during the gift exchange, I was naturally not included in the list when they did the random picks lar. Sob sob. First time I'm missing out on the gift exchange. Arghhh.

Anyway, thinking bout the gift exchange, it brings back alot of happy memories. Of coz, I can't remember every little thing I've received from them, but isn't it true that although you can't remember the details of past happenings, but you can never ever forget that feeling that you experienced? Yeah. I believe so. The hand-sewn gifts and cards from Hazel (including one unfinished pouch that is still with her after a few years), the hand written cards from Sisi, the eyeshadow from Diana, the cup-warming USB device from Sisi, the pretty little scarf from Huimin, the keychains, the lucky stars, the bottles, the little bear with my name 'Shuang' on it, the little red heart with two hands etc etc etc. So many happy memories.

So I guess, at the end of the day, it boils down to personal preference. Jw says not everyone wants to make the effort to go hunt for 7 presents. I remembered last year, I went to Taka to make personalized handphone pendants for the gals, with our names written on colourful backgrounds on ornaments of different shapes and sizes. It cost me less than $10 per pendant, and didn't take me even one afternoon to choose the shapes, colours, fonts for each of us. Yeah, I didn't make the effort to look for 7 different items, but I tot it'll be so cool to hang similar dangleys on our handphones. Hee. In fact, I think it's perfectly fine to give out 7 things which are the same, for example last year Haz gave us little tubes of lip glosses. One small item received from every friend, amounts to 7 small items which enrich me much more than a big prezzie. I dunno. It's just my thinking. I think love and xin1 yi4 can't be bought.

Well. Of coz, at the end of the day, I will support my sweeties' decision. Waha. Becos big or small prezzies, I know that they love me and they know that I love them. So it's okie. =) Like I said, nothing can destroy our friendship. Today I'm gonna mail the CD-Rom with the video to Hazel, and I hope they will love my little gift for them. Didn't cost me anything at all (errr, except the envelope), just a few days of hard work. It's the story of us, and I'm glad I did it, because everytime I look at it, I feel so gan dong and happy that they are here in my life... =)