Love is an attitude, love is a prayer,
For a soul in sorrow, a heart in despair;
Love is good will for the gain of another,
Love suffers long with the fault of a brother
Sunday, December 24, 2006
During Christmas there's parties...and caroling!
Caroling is a time to bond and a time to share the joy of christmas; this year is no exception. Caroling just keeps getting better and better each year. Forgive me for the short entry as I'd be having christmas eve bbq in about 5 minutes time; and it maybe a little factual too. I'll try to post up some of the songs in another entry so we all can sing along together. haha.
We practised hard during 2 rehersals, praying and trusting God that it would be sufficient to pull through the entire programme. Thank God we did and could pass off as IL DIVO plus the ladies. Thanks to the wonderful coordinator the songs chosen were relatively simpler than the ones we used to sing in pass carolings and we managed to pick them up rather well. (thanks cherlyn and joan)
1st stop was the Han brother's house all the way in 6th avenue. To those who don't know the family of that house runs the all famous and award winning "'palm beach restaurant", so...naturally we had dinner there =D And I sure pity those who weren't there...the food was fantastic. Just to get ur salivary glands worked up, for dinner we had smoked salmons on crackers, baked cheese potato, roasted goose, braised succulent turkey with stuffings (these were my fav), carrot cakes (the english ones..not 'char dao kway') and giant escargots just to name a few. Well apparently I was lucky and chanced upon an escargot the size of a ping pong ball or even larger.
Next stop was desmond's place in telok kurau. For those who don't know desmond's a staff for campus crusade for christ and ministers to the Arts faculty in NUS and I'm one of his many prayer warriors...and of course he's the same church as me! =)
Yup...we were to carol and bring joy to desmond's non-christian parents and uncle roland gave a short message after that. Apparently desmond's dad had been hospitalised not long ago as he's suffering from lung problem and was really overjoyed to see so many young kids visiting him to spend christmas with him.
Next up was really funny...we were invited to carol at some old folks event right outside the Republic Theater in Marine Parade under a big tapoline. It does remind one of those stages set during the 7 month ghost festival, but nevertheless we sang out hearts out and was thankful not only because the MP (minister of parliment) was there but we weren't scorned by the emcee as he's rather objective to us singing there even though we were invited, some internal problems here and there but hey! we sang in chinese!!...ok that was rather random.
The last house was the Chen sister's house..yup...joan and jocelyn chen's place as some of you would know them. We sang and reached out to the household as their parents and grandparents were non-christians. The most significant event that I brought back as memory is the black-out halfway when we were singing. Call it a spiritual attack as claimed by jocelyn, or then it might be a short circuit due to the rain...but nevertheless by the grace and perfectness of God we continued to sing even in the darkness...we just use our handphone lights to allow us to read the song sheet =D
That about concludes caroling...good food good friends and fruitful event in singing to both christians and non-christians alike. May God bless you all =)
Goodnight
reflected by Juls @ 7:24 pm
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