This arrived just in time for Christmas. Amazing. Ordered it last week from Songbird Ocarinas, and it made it in a week. International shipping usually takes like 2-3 weeks, but this one made it in half the time. For those who can't tell what it is (sorry for the bad photo), it's a replica of the Ocarina of Time, in the epic beginning of the Legend of Zelda series. It's sitting on a very nice looking wooden stand.

 Christmas party at the folks' restaurant. I'd call it a Vietnamese Christmas party. Decked out with Hainam Chicken and rice and many other delicious delicacies. It was coupled along with obnoxiously loud karaoke (in Vietnamese) that came along with an even louder score screen.

We headed to my cousin's place for the night after getting deafened by the karaoke. He's got a small house that he rents along with a few other friends, but it's really nicely decorated. The stairwell up to the second floor is adorned by his guitars, which hang from the walls, and various posters and pieces of art.

The living room centers around the TV, which doesn't have cable apparently. My cousin's massive blu-ray collection graces the shelves, while the combined games of his and his friends inhabit the two shelves on the side. They've got two PS3's in the house. Could've been three, but the third person left theirs at their parent's place. We jammed with Rock Band 3 all night (not all night, but for a good while).
My cousin's two friends collect records. In the left box were some older songs, while the right box had some very classy orchestral music; like Bach, Brahms and many other classical and romantic works.
And this is where those records are played. The one of the bottom plays it. The two things on top are the controllers for DJ Hero. 

 So apparently, a friend of his (who works as a caterer) did a meal for Douglas Coupland, the author of books like jPod, Microserfs and the man who coined the term 'generation x'. Some of the ornaments on the rather bare tree were made by Coupland. He also gave my cousin's friend some works of art that he did.

Christmas dinner today. Stuffed turkey, tuna, some veggies, leftovers from yesterday's party, and a whole whack of other stuff. There were a few more dishes behind me that I couldn't get into the shot. The bowl in the middle is gravy.