Santa would most prob trip and fall visiting a particular unit in Ah Hood Road..

Christmas is approaching and this year i would really like a Christmas tree but my mom is right, our house is always in such a big mess there wouldnt be a clean spot for the tree.
The last tree we had since pri school had lost all its 'leaves'. It was a real plasticky tree that had leaves slotted into branches slotted into the tree. Few years back I tried to set it up but it looked so ugly cos we lost most of the leaves and if they were still around, most were pressed out of shape. And I bet like most of you, come Chinese New Year, the tree would still be glittering with neon bulbs and laden with cotton snow.
So I looked around and felt books have got to be the most common in my HDB flat. We have a total of 7 bookshelves overflowing with it. The Genre is wide: "Chen Style Taichichuan", "The Complete Medicinal Herbal", "How to Get Extraordinary Results from Ordinary People", "Mastering WordPerfect 5" (do people still use WordPerfect these days?), "New Syllabus Mathematics (latest edition, revised edition, complete edition etc)". We've long ran out of space for bookshelves, hence piles of it are stacked neatly at some corner. Occasionally pile would topple over and stuff at the bottom rises up to the top. Upon entering flat for the first time, friends would almost always display the by now classic expression. Imagine dropped jaws and a 'wah...' followed by long pause. One thing's for sure, our unit would burn the brightest if there's ever a fire hazard.

Random clutter-check:
1. two refrigerators

2. four TVs (1 not working but not disposed of bcos 'it can be fixed')

3. three VCR recorders (1 not working but same as above)

4. four vacumn cleaners (1 not working but same as above)

5. three iron (1 short circuited when my mom last used it, not disposed just cos its simply not disposed of)

6. twelve phone sets!! (4 connected, the rest is spoilt in some ways. Not disposed cos I'm beginning to suspect we have a fetish for these instruments.)

7. five desktops (3 in use while the rest is being kept as antiques)

8. four laptops (2 in use while the rest were 2nd-hand bought at very good rates but with no planned purpose of use)

And I hafen got to the kitchen...