Yesterday when I was out christmas shopping, I bought a little something for myself, something I'd never ever thought I'd own in my lifetime.

While juggling paper bags of princess mobile phones and fake credit cards for my little cousins (yes do you know they sell these things nowadays - it's a "heavenly collection of shopping essentials", the box says, and so it promotes materialism but which little girl wouldn't go crazy over it) and swarovski crystals for my godmother amongst other things, I stepped into a shop intending to get myself a notebook for next year, until something stopped me from heading to the shelf stacked with pretty flowered cloth books suited for that purpose.

It was pale pink, the colour of your gums, and an ice tray making dentures out of ice. The illustration featured a glass of water with the ice denture in it and suddenly I had so many funny ideas on what I could do with the thing that I burst out laughing, right in the middle of the shop. I thought of christmas parties, serving guests on chinese new year, tricking my grandmothers and a small part of me thought of giving it away for christmas so I wouldn't have to spend on myself and it solves another person's present, but the better part of me wanted it for myself. And for the very fact that I stood there, staring at the contraption and smothering hysteric laughter for fifteen minutes, proved how much I needed it.

Just for how it cracked me up and still makes me laugh, I'm now a proud owner of a $15 denture ice tray, which is sitting right next to me and promises to chase the gloomy days away.