My friend, Melvin, recently surprised me by presenting me a bunch of CDs as Christmas-New Year gifts but mainly as tokens of appreciation for helping him to create the theme logo (or whatever we call it) for his company’s annual dinner. He has friends, living in Australia and UK, coming back here for holidays and so requested them to purchase these CDs prior to their visits because he knows I’ve been wanting to get these items for quite some time.

Firstly, he gave me a copy of the Australian edition of Kylie Minogue’s current single called 2 Hearts and the new single of Delta Goodrem, Believe Again. Before I unwrapped the final CD, he actually told me it was a DVD of his company’s annual dinner video and I believed him! But when I realised it is Leona Lewis‘ single, Bleeding Love, I was like “OMG! I didn’t see this coming!”. Leona is UK’s up and coming artist who is doing extremely well in the charts. She won the previous talent competition called X Factor and is always compared to singing divas such as Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston.

Anyway, the surprise didn’t end there. Last night, when we were having a drink at a mamak stall near my place, out of nowhere Melvin passed me the new album of Australian artist, Ricki-Lee, called Brand New Day. That was definitely unexpected! Well, it wasn’t really something that he planned. A friend mailed the CD to him lately and since he already owns a copy, he thought I would be the best person to give it to as I, kind of, listen to Ricki as well. Ah, I just love receiving free CDs!

By the way, since I earlier mentioned about the annual dinner of Melvin’s company, here is a photo of him dressing up for the theme which was “Bling-Bling Night”! I teased him that he looked like some R&B popstar from the USA.