Today
went to attend a celebration of Christmas in a church
Happy to see my friends and Ms. Lim
She's happy too when she saw us :)
She's wearing the Christmas costume & hat
Her mother in law's very kind, sporting, helpful...
introduced us to her son(Ms.Lim's husband), & her daughter
The celebration's already begin when we reached
but
of cause our beloved Ms. Lim haven't perform her choir~ sing Christmas songs(in Mandarin)
before that,
there were some speeches by MC, Ms. Lim's husband & perfomance by young children
later we shook hands, wishing Merry Christmas & Happy New Year..
throughout the speeches & performance...Ms.Lim's mother in law sitting beside me...me in between her & Elaine
after Ms. Lim's performance, she sat beside me exchange with her mother in law(who sat somewhere else)
singing songs, then blessings, then baptised ceremony to 6 people(most are female young & old), blessings again, those Christians ate the "white round flat without-yeast made bread"-(something to do with Jesus - sacrifices) & drank Ribena - supposed to be wine(as Jesus blood)
those new-comers were given a CD/VCD as "gift" to welcome new-comers like me & my friends
after the Father spoke, talked about the meaning of Christmas(which some I don't really understand coz in Mandarin~sigh)....we had out lunch- spaghetti, turkey(chicken), fishball, mushroom soup, water-melon, jelly with longan(a bit hard, maybe not enough water), Chinese tea...that's all I ate/drank...(of course the food there is not as delicious as mom's cooking...overall is ok, I think...anyway this is not the main thing, the main character here is JESUS)
then Xiao Chen & her sis came......too bad, celebration's over...but luckily still haven't exchange present yet...everyone have to bring a present(under RM 7) to exchange by (draw a number from a box)
Ms. Lim "lecture" us about what actually Christmas meant(in English) as told by the Father previously...it's to remember the Jesus's sacrifice to sin(human, us) ...the word "FAITH" & "BELIEVED" are important...those who baptised are those who told the public that he/she believed in GOD and Jesus helps them to bring them to their origin place(from where they came, when they die, they will go to the place where they came from) generally to Heaven.
Ms. Lim & her husband chatted with us & introduce some of their friend to us(can't remember their names though)
then we took some pictures...(so sad my camera in low battery, so used photographer's one)
children keep disturbing photographer while adults were having fun(joke around)
&
Lastly,
bid goodbye...
get some sweets & orange
raining outside...
me with the other 3 (Elaine, Xiao Chen & her sis), i dropped them by BTR LRT station
while others, Ms. Lim & her husband fetched them back to their hostel.
the pictures I'll post it after I receive them...
to be continue...
would like to wish everyone:
Merry Christmas
&
Happy New Year 2006!!!
again...
