Presents in Print

Just about a week ago, it was the favourite day of my favourite month again. According to Wikipedia, I supposedly share the same birth date as some of the more well-known people around the globe such as Jerry Bruckheimer and Stephen King, to name a few. Not that I'm hinting at anything of course, haha.

But rather, this year I had the opportunity to receive so many presents. Funnily enough most of them were advance gifts, so by the time it was the 21st of September I had more or less received all the presents there were for me. More or less, because I still received a present on the day itself, and I even managed to get another present today!

I had wanted to post about all the presents that I've received, but university took up most of my time. Of course, if I posted about all the presents at one shot then the post would be too long, so I'll post about the biggest (size) present that I received this year first :D



Taking off the outer colourful layer of wrapping revealed that I had a lot more work to do...



I've wrapped with newspapers before, and I've done the 'newspaper-upon-newspaper x 1000' style also, although when it's normally not a very efficient use of newspaper because the recipient tends to take advantage and rip off 4 - 5 layers in one go. And yes, it's very time-consuming. And takes plenty of effort. And newspaper of course. So I decided to play fair and nicely unwrapped the newspaper layers one-by-one.


Which took quite a while actually. An hour after I started, it was like this:



Funkily, along the way there were plenty of litte 'encouragements' to spur me onwards. Talk about being meticulously creative :) Let's see...an Orlando Bloom-wrapper chipsmore, a Fergie-wrapper Tiger Biskuat, a box of Moo Milk Candy wrapped in another posse of stars...presents in a present.



Another half-an-hour more of careful tearing finally got me to the real present beneath the boxy exterior. And surprise surprise, there wasn't any real box to begin with. It was an open-top container with the genuine present inside.



At the end of the whole exercise, the actual present itself wasn't the focus anymore, because I really thought that the effort and thoughts put into wrapping it were a whole lot more priceless. The box could have contained a bag of peanuts and I would've been equally satisfied either way because the time spent on wrapping it up alone is already one of the most special things that you can give to someone. But I liked the present of course, don't get me wrong, hahaha.


Thank you very much once again!

Still Many More Presents to Put Up!!