What are you giving your spouse for Xmas this year?
It's Christmas morning and the first thing most of us do is open our gifts. After all that surreptitious feeling and shaking of packages under the Christmas tree or wherever, we want to find out whether we have guessed right. Stabroek News asked some wives to let the cat out of the bag and tell us what they planned to get their hubbies on Christmas Day, and then we asked the husbands to do the same. Director of General Executive Management Services, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento wife of Kit Nascimento, Managing director of Public Communication Consultants Limited, does not want her husband to go without a good drink on Christmas morning so she decided to be innovative. "I will pour champagne all over myself, wrap myself in gift paper and give myself to him." She said this would be a special champagne offering for her husband only. In terms of material things, Mrs Madhoo-Nascimento said she would purchase a pair of pajamas for her husband, Kit. "He walks about the house in his pajamas a lot so his old pajamas have gotten tight; I'll just get him new ones," she told Stabroek News. Her husband, on the other hand, has purchased an ethnic jewellery set for his wife, comprising a necklace and a pair of earrings. "I bought it from The Unique Little Store in Boston; the earrings are from Indonesia and the necklace from Pakistan." Dawn Humphrey, wife of businessman, Richard Humphrey, plans to give her husband lots of love and support. "He needs it now; he is not his normal self and I just want to make him happy for Christmas." Mrs Humphrey is not expecting anything material from her husband; "he is all I want for Christmas," she says. Husband Richard Humphrey says he will give his wife the "sexiest gift possible; I will give her the nicest dress I could find. It must be a very beautiful colour, very short, and sexy." But this is not all, Mr Humphrey will also do what he does every year. "It's a fantasy - I will wrap myself from head to toe in red cellophane and hide somewhere, maybe on the veranda, she will find me and we will, you know," he said. Mr Humphrey does not hope for anything since he says he has everything he needs right now. He explained that once his wife and family were around they were everything that made him happy. Pamela Fung-A-Fat, wife of Chief Magistrate Paul Fung-A-Fat, will have her husband walking in style for the new millennium in a new pair of Clarks shoes. "His old shoes burst... I'm hoping that the new shoes will last long," she said. Mrs Fung-A-Fat would like to spend more time with her husband for the holidays; health, strength, love and more time, she said, would be the best gifts she could ever have. The Chief Magistrate knows exactly what he wants to get his wife: "I will get her something cheap, anything cheap, maybe jewellery... I will buy it from the bottom level of King's Jewellery World; I'm not going to the top level... see the salary," the Chief Magistrate said jokingly. Magistrate Fung-A-Fat is not expecting anything much. "I usually get new pajamas; I usually tell them I want pajamas because I am always in them," he said. Managing Director/Executive Producer of VideoMega Productions, Catherine Cholondeley Hughes plans to get her husband, Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes something in the line of jewellery. Cathy also expects to find jewellery when she opens her gift package some time today "probably from Gaskin and Jackson" and a piece of paper from her husband promising to spend more time at home with her. Husband, Nigel Hughes is not quite sure what he will get his wife. "I have nothing in mind, I'm not sure... probably jewellery," he said, but he is sure what he would like to have, namely, "tickets to a jazz festival in the Caribbean." Attorney-at-law and Member of Parliament Deborah Backer says her husband is a difficult person to buy gifts for because he already has everything he needs, so she will go for music. "I'll go for something in the line of music, probably music by Louis Armstrong," she said, adding that she would probably change her mind. Mrs Backer expects a piece of jewellery from her husband. Mr Backer, who is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited, says he will get his children to ask their mum what she needs and like a psychic he will purchase the gift for her and everyone will be happy. Economist, Indera Alli wife of Saeed Alli, Chief Executive Officer of the Quality Supercentre Mall, says she will get a professional masseuse to give her husband an entire body massage on Boxing Day. "He has been working really hard around the clock lately and a massage would do him well." According to Mrs Alli her husband had all the material things he needed and it was the thought behind the present that counted. Mr Alli told Stabroek News that he would depart from his usual gifts and "get a baby for his wife... a real baby." He added that she needed nothing material at this time but a baby would make her happy. Coincidentally, Mrs Alli happens to be pregnant and plans to give her husband a baby for his birthday next year. Apart from that he said that she loved plants, and that he might get her a book on plants, plus a bouquet of red roses. As for himself, after a hectic season he would really like to spend the day after the holidays at Shanklands, or somewhere, and just relax.
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