Sunday, December 26, 2004
its about time i update again. forget the whole entry before this. feel much better now and its not in my head anymore:)
Christmas has come and gone. rehearsal on thursday night was better. but not the best. the best performance was on the finaly day itself.
Thursday night, was the christmas service. i cant seem to find a link to join things. im just writing now cos i should update about such a special time as christmas.a time to once again remember Lord Jesus' special brith :) His wonderful love for us, simple pure love. God's love for us. His humble entry into the world. to suffer with us, and yet remain sinless. tough feat. but He did it!
many people came back that night. the yf'ers of 'the yester year'. ok they're not so old, but they've grown. all like 21-23 yrs old. peiyun jie, eileen jie, meihwa jie(my shepherd in the yf camp when i was p6). so good to see all of them again. and of course they still remember us. pity jocelyn's not with us anymore. and galilee has their programme on christmas eve too.but its funny how some of them are coming back in pairs. it just shows they're into adulthood now. haha. in no time, we'll be there too. (EE!~ dont want!).
after the service, we had caroling! sth i'd been looking forward to! cos i missed last year's and the year before last happened too long ago. plus this time, i was able to poke my fat head into the comittee to look and see how things were going. had fun trying to cut the papers, and not chop off my hand, and laughing at stupid things, thinking up forfeits and laughing over them, though it wasnt carried out in the end. i guess we can put 'kengchin screaming session' as a funny thing too. plus dinner after that.
such frenship and relations are just somewhat special from normal school frens as we all know. and its really a pity i dont get to experience it much cos of ballet on saturday, so i cant meet up w church folks often. oh but the ballet peeps up in tampines are nice too! miss them!~
caroling was fun! i didnt know some might have found it a lil boring but i guess if you planned it, it'll work for ya. :) first, serena wanted to join us (she's some 30 sth yr old lady) and her reason was cos she wanted to follow cheryl (her niece) home the next day, which was a sound reason, so we couldnt get her off the bus. but it was alright in the end.
first (informal) stop was chris house, to collect the presents for the hosts, and leave the presents. i went up for a change of slippers. cos i hate hate heels. then we ran down where the bus( and the rest were waiting) pity praveena didnt come.
matt gave out candy canes and for once, we were sitting in the front of the bus. and the behind activity and noise werent by us haha. chris n jo were feeling so stressed and rushy. i was like..breathe! breathe..calm down....
first stop was uncle norman's house.we lighted candles and walked up a floor to his place. his house is like cool. super carpeted, its so soft you can just fall asleep on the floor if you lie down. goodthing his was the first house so we werent sleepy yet. the games were fun and the ice breakers worked. the food was good. to perk us up for the next house. we left at about 1230.
in a jiffy, we reached there. ( and everytime we got on the bus, we were greeted by fart smell. there was a habitual farter among us, i still dunno who!) maybe its uncle bus driver.
uncle prasad's. we lighted our sparkles and were greeted by a mr alsatian. he's super big and smelly. a doggy smell. and whilst we were in the house, he was outside, sniffing all our shoes. good thing he doesnt drool. food there was good too. otah, fruit cocktail, curry chicken. fish balls again. i didnt wannae at too much though. (cos i busted myself first house)we reached at 1 and left at abt 230am.whilst christina was being a pig at the table with kheng ling, i missed out on it, cos i was in the toilet trying to flush the toilet bowl.
then it was to meijun's place. on the bus i was trying to sleep so i shut up. then jess ask me why i so quiet so i started talking and told myself cannot be sian, situations wad u make of it. so i suddenly started up w stupid jokes again and got high laughing and went to the back of the bus to be kpo.
at meijun's house, about 3. matt and adriel were chairing. what was funny, was tt, on the way to uncle norman's hse, he ask me write prayer for him, i kindly did so, i thot he gonna chair at norman's place. so i wrote, 'thanks for bring us safely here to uncle norman's house' . so he started the prayer and was happily reading, plus my ugly hand writing, he read, uncle thomas house. i was shaking with laughter. and he kept pausing. i told him to rehearse and make sure he could read but he didnt so.. hahhaha!
then we played polar bear. and people were really tired so when we were told to 'sleep' some were already almost snoring! chris screamed too much along the way and her voice broke. she was sounding squeaky and manly and sexy. jess chris n i kept asking mei jun for warm water, after tt, we just asked for hot water. left at 4 plus
then finally, it was aunty may's house. change of plans, we decided not to go back to church. but the silly uncle bus driver thot we were going baq to church.we had to redirect him. he nearly turned into marsiling lane!
on the way, we started telling funny things abt joanna and then it went to ghostsey stuff. adriel and joanna were scared so we kept making fun of them. haha. adriel sisnt wanna sit nxt to the window so he pushed chris outta the seat? hahaha. super crazy.
at aunty may's place, everyone was shagged. but we and gang were still up and about. justin brough his volunteer frens along and they taught us some camp fire stuff. suddenly, jumping around in the fresh early morning air, it felt so good.as we were learning the thing in the field, if u can call it tt, garden's a lil too underated, i thot of camp and orientation. it felt so jj camp orientation again. its this super happy relaxed feeling. if i were any crazier, i would've broken into a jj sch cheer. but they wld think i'd gone over bonkers.
then we played sparkles. and jumped around. mr chicken kept cockle- doodle- doo ing at 6 plus. as the sky slowly turned from dark, to blue to light.
we got into the care corner, sang a lil more carols and chatted till we slowly dispersed. most of us left at 730.
reached home at 830, went to bed at nine, and slept till four.
in the evening, we went to chris hse to collect food and auntie jessie's hse to collect food (potluck dinner at aunty may's place). it felt so good to see chris again on christmas day. as it was cool, it felt like morning even at 5 plus 6.
then we travelled all the wae to seletar again. and jared and adriel were already there playing badminton~! haha.
dinner was super good. went back home and prepared for sunday.
today was a good day. we sang again, but everyone's voice was a lil wonky and off. as the kiddies were having promotional sundae, we went for lunch. i laughed quite hard again today. its been a super fun weekend. pity its all over. after a long long time, we went to causeway pt to take neoprints cos it was rare that everyone was present. ok mainly praveena, jess, chris( cousins), joel(e brother) adriel and me. i hope prav will come on fridae. it mostly sounds like she wld! thanks prav i love ur present! if only i'd really work for me n were true. haha
tomorrow, i have to be in school at 7. ogl camp. well well. i feel super screwed about it. and a part of me dreads going back to jj. as much as a part of me misses it and the people. i still want my hols. but i shall remind myself it'll be fun! camp is fun! i want to enjoy myself, if tt's possible. and if simon doesnt get a bitch fit and if i dont get kicked out cos of what i did or didnt do.
gonna drink my tauhuay now. and eat youtiao. bathe and continue packing for tomorrow. im gonna have a blast at camp! cos i want to, and i will :)
one last thing, during this christmas season, ive enjoyed lotsa laughter and fun and craziness with the church people. i thank God for all of them. they really cheer me up from the wreck i would otherwise be in, and im just so happy everytime im with them :)) my joy is bursting thru my panties~!
God's wonderful family.
my resolution for 2005, more love. more love into me and more love outta me. more love to evryone around me. cos as cheesy as it sounds, love makes the world go round. more powerful- God's love, God's wondrous love for me, and you, and them and everyone, including kengchin. eee. i dont want to end my blog with her name! but more love in my life would make a difference. it'll rub away the pride and the sadness and fill it with brimming joy!!
A level's nxt year. and my parents were asking me, and i have to seriously consider what i wanna do when i grow up. after this, im supposed to go to uni. ahh! when we were younger, they always asked us what we wanted to be. and then you'd imagine urself all adult and big being a doctor/lawyer/blah blAH.But i guess none of us kiddies actually thot of THIS phase. the one where you're in jc and about to enter uni. the last phase of study. we never saw this part (please! i didnt even know what was psle then, much less A levels) this part of serious study, murderous study. we all just thot, anyone teaching us sunday school or kids church or looked adult enough were already on their way working and gonna get married anytime. really. kids dont see the difference. huien always asks joanna when's she gonna get married ( and mind you, joanna's only 20!!) i bet they think im working already( ok nvm. tt was a lie. they think im in sec sch). and then when u tell them you're in jc, they ask very inquisitively. e.g:yong en. a lil kid due to be pri 6 nxt yr was asking my sis n i the diff btw poly n jc, but i dont know if they really saw the clear diff after tt. and one more thing, when you hit 20/21. u find urself, just automatically being called 'aunty'. eg: aunty sharon :P aunty joanna and aunty charmaine. hahhaha
argh.A levels. the last hurdle. and the hardest one. and the funny thing is, when you look back, even a's arent tt hard anymore. then what is eh?
ok i really should get packing!
charlene said a lil' prayer for you at 11:03 PM
