Christmas Farewell Dinner at BI

Christmas coming soooooooooon......... =D Christmas celebration seems to start pretty early in Norway. The christmas decorations on the streets are up! Simple... but nice. =D

Some photos taken along Karls Johans Gates (a shopping street =D):

There were christmas celebrations at the Folk Museum on 1st & 2nd Dec and another upcoming one on 8th & 9th dec (all happening during our exam period... damn sucky... =S ). And the xmas market at City Hall is already up and started!!! Ahhh... I wanna go! Haha. Pooh & I are contemplating whether or not we shd join the celebration at Folk Museum on either 8th or 9th dec... hee hee... we have our Marine Insurance paper on 10th dec at 9am and I havent exactly started studying for that module... hee hee... how how??? =D

Folk Museum (http://www.norskfolkemuseum.no/)

"At the Christmas fair you can experience: Historical houses decorated for Christmas; market selling handmade products, arts and crafts, ornaments, speciality foods and holiday treats; family programs featuring concerts, folk dance, choir; Santa's Workshop; service in Gold Stave Church from around year 1200."

Aniwae, we went to a Christmas Farewell Dinner organised by the IRO in BI today. It was a simple fare but we get to lay our fingers on some traditional norwegian food!!! We had Norwegian Rice Porridge, Glüh Wine, Ginger Bread Biscuits and some syrup drink. Hee hee. Taste good.

Ellen from IRO giving a Welcome Speech:
Queueing for Food:
Us in the Queue:
With the IRO pple:
Posing with the Gingerbread Cookies:
The Spread:
Mandarin Oranges for Xmas?

Posing Again:

The Norwegian Rice Porridge is kinda sticky. With an additional dash of cinnamon powder and sugar and some butter as toppings, it's yummy! Hee hee. I'm not a fan of cinnamon (I usually siam far far from it) but surprisingly, I quite liked the porridge with the cinnamon taste. I guess this is the 2nd cinnamon flavoured food that I like besides the apple cinnamon donut from the Donut Factory. Hee hee. :P

Norwegian Rice Porridge:

The Glüh Wine tasted sweet but it's quite 腻 after a few mouths. I guess we are juz not used to it ba. =) Peanuts and raisins were added to the Glüh Wine. I guess it's the raisins that gave the wine the sweet taste. Although the name of the drink suggest that it's alcoholic, it is actually not. Cant taste the alcoholic taste at all and nobody felt groggy after the drink. Heh heh. =D

Glüh Wine:

Winnie & I Posing with our Glüh Wine:

Mandarin Oranges for Christmas??? It's weird but well... it's sweet. Haha.
Tasted exactly like wat we eat during CNY. Hee.

And here's our door gift..... A book about Norway. That's reallie nice and generous of IRO. =D

BI @ Night (at 4pm =P):