merry christmas!
ho ho ho. i'm sleepy.
yesterday and today were very fun. you know? well, yesterday morning was kinda bad. somehow my handphone wouldn't send any smses, keeps telling me "message not sent" with that annoying loud beep/toot sound. so i kept trying and trying to send, up to around 50 or more times per sms. well, it turned out that some of them got many many copies of the same SMS. gah. should be some network problem la, cuz ian lin had the same problem too. so i wasted a lot of time banging my phone on the bookshelves in the Orchard MRT Popular while waiting for joel boey to come.
then we went for a little christmas shopping at taka, and met up with IAN and oli and henry after we had lunch. They watched Phantom of the Opera o.O wad so nice about...a phantom. and opera? strange people. anyway, then they had lunch, while joel boey was wandering around cold storage looking for chocolate and drinks.. oh yeah, at this point, we see a giant inflated bottle of...some beer. and henry was staring at it throughout his lunch. oh yeah, it was at this point, where ian lin stood up to say something, and he walked backwards and tripped over his own bag. oh yeah. he gave me a book about the harmfulness of caffeine. and a lot of tea. -_- yep.
then i went to church to sleepover. melodie told me she was 5 mins away when i left the house. when i reached, she wasn't exactly there, so i proceeded to go stay in the toilet. so somehow she and tse yin ended up at their old classroom on the third floor without me noticing, and so i...went up too. yeah. Then boey came. after that, we locked the door, and when other ppl were around, we shut the lights and pretended not to be around =S
ya. so we played some cards in the dark and stuff till yihui arrived. they got all kinds of weird card games, like...speed (always thought that was some drug), and uh...DAI DEE and bridge. all so strange one, i dunno how to play. oh well. the other youth left for the airport around 12 or so to send someone off...forgot who =X yeah, so 5 of us were left in the room. so we went out to uh...seven eleven at united square to buy food. yihui didn't go, to be on the safe side...there were lots of weird ppl at some pubs at the place next to united, and their stupid chinese karaoke so loud one. yeah, so we bought lots of sandwiches, and stuff. and melodie somehow got a free box of jacob's hi calcium biscuits from the guy. that 7-11 is so hot! i wonder how the guy works there 24 hours. when we got back, yihui had organised all the uno cards according to colour and was making a card house with e poker cards...and it collapsed when mel started talking to her =p we spent the night um..playing cards and talking. oh yaaa. and some weird spin the bottle truth or dare thing. argh. at one point someone asked boey whether he could count all the girls he knew with his fingers and toes. so he spent about one hour trying to recall all the girls he remotely knows. and all that while we were doing other stuff, like eating, talking and walking up and down the church...lol.
yeah, so it went on till like...5 in the morning, and we decided to sort of go to sleep. and so we set our alarms for 0830hrs. then whose idea was it to watch the sunrise...i forgot. yeah, so we changed our alarms to 0645hrs. and so the 5 of us were like lying down there in our sleeping bags, talking abt all sorts of...weird stuff, eg. gay teachers who live opposite RI and mounts a telescope aimed at the RI entrance/exit to...nvm.
so after that, we drifted in and out of sleep, until 0645, when the phones sounded. argh. and joel boey was snoring so loudly. so we sort of woke up and...sat there until 0730. oh ya. did i mention that joel boey did not bring anything except a sleeping bag in his bag? and cards too. ya, so we went to wash up, and then went to YAAA KUN for breakfast. joel boey of course, did not brush his teeth, due to a lack of a toothbrush -_- and all the while throughout the whole day whole night whole...something, he was smiling at something, be it me, someone else, the ceiling, or the sun with the happy face on the wall.
oh ya. i had TEA at ya kun. thanks to ian lin's book of...caffeine. it makes you less potent k!
when we got back, we walked around, until around 0940, when we went for christmas service. yay. very cool, half the ppl singing in chinese and half in english. after service ended. i went HOME.
oh thanks mel, yihui and tse yin for the book, mel for the bookmark and the choc, yihui for the nice card =) hope you like the uh...scrunched up balls of newspaper. yeah
what a great christmas =D
bye bye, and have a blessed xmas =)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Hark! The herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With th’angelic host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Christ, by highest Heav’n adored;
Christ the everlasting Lord;
Late in time, behold Him come,
Offspring of a virgin’s womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail th’incarnate Deity,
Pleased with us in flesh to dwell,
Jesus our Emmanuel.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Hail the heav’nly Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Ris’n with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die.
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Come, Desire of nations, come,
Fix in us Thy humble home;
Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed,
Bruise in us the serpent’s head.
Now display Thy saving power,
Ruined nature now restore;
Now in mystic union join
Thine to ours, and ours to Thine.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface,
Stamp Thine image in its place:
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in Thy love.
Let us Thee, though lost, regain,
Thee, the Life, the inner man:
O, to all Thyself impart,
Formed in each believing heart.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
