firstly, MS WEE'S GETTING MARRIED!!!!! she's invited the whole 4/6 to her wedding. can't wait. :D there was this big confusion when i received the email. cos the name was jess. and i thought, how come jess knows about ms wee??? then i remembered. it's the other jess. jessica chua from sac. oh... heehee. blur me.
celebrated sumi's birthday saturday. went to her house for party. it was fun. jasmine, zaidah, duan hui, nga chi and shi yun were there also. great opportunity to catch up and talk. haven't seen each other for so long. nino was so excited. he kept trying to chew my toes. he's got teeth now so it's a bit awkward for him to do that. cute dog. he's a little bigger too. fluffier. i got sumi a book. dog tricks for dummies. i think she loves it. can teach nino all the crazy tricks.
went to her place early cos i had to leave early. on the way there, heard some one practicing music. it sounded like some brass instrument. trumpet or something like that. don't know the names of the instruments. anyway, at sumi's place, only duan hui was there, struggling with the briyani. she says it's too spicy. but it wasn't lah. she just can't take spicy. sumi just loves teasing her about it. we watched "sweet home alabama". really sweet and romantic. that type of feel good, typical love story movie.
zaidah and nga chi arrived half way through the movie. someone got lost. jasmine i think. she arrived way later. that girl was wearing a skirt and nino was hyperacting all over her. poor thing. sumi's mother kept force feeding us. which was a friendly gesture of course. only problem was that we were all full.
i had to leave early cos of easter vigil later. so i left without cutting the cake. sob sob. haiz. but what to do? no choice lah. i heard that the cake was solid chocolate chocolate. and later they had mixed chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice-cream. but i think sumi had a good day.
moving on. went to st mary's for the easter vigil cos aunty jaynus was getting baptised. omg! st mary's is so cool!!! i mean, it looks different from pics that i've seen in the papers. i think it looks better in the papers. maybe it's just the angle i'm sitting at. :D pic is the crossless crucified jesus. he's looking over to the right. that's the section where the elect were sitting.
the service was supposed to start at 9pm. but parents decided to go early so that we can get good seats. so we were there at like 7.30pm. damn early. sat there for the next 1 1/2 hours. admire the place. lighting was dimmed. ideal to sleep. heehee. the choir was practicing. gosh. the choir was huge! ah-ku said that its a combined choir. they even had their own sound room, and sound proof rooms for the kids. wow. we'll have that in like 20 years time. and the cantors were ... woah!! so confident of themselves.
a bit disappointed during the service of the light. cos we were seated inside, couldn't see what was happening outside. duh. could only see the top of the big fire. disappointed. wanted to see the 'walking on water' thing. but it's ok. the church used tea lights and those clear plastic cups. bit difficult to light and put the tea lights into the cups but it was a good idea.
the genesis reading was impressive. it was a major collaboration between the lectors and the choir. there were 2 lectors. one was narrator. the other was 'god'. kinda like role playing. the piano was playing background accompaniment during the whole reading. then there was the refrain "and it was good", "god saw that it was good", "evening came and morning came, the ____ day". the cantor sang that and congregation responded. the really impressive part was the timing. the music, the cantoring, the reading...everything was perfectly timed. wow!!!! i wonder where they get the music for the psalms from. cos it sounds so good too.
moving on. the baptisms were the highlight. there were 80 to be baptised, according to aunty jaynus. the baptismal font was in the centre. apparently it's shaped and coloured like a tomb to symbolise dying and new life in baptism. it was a full body immersion for the adults. the kids just get water poured on them. the pic is supposed to be aunty jaynus getting baptised. don't know if it's clear enough. my camera's not that powerful. what i found really nice about the thing was that at the end, the choir sang that EC song "all are welcome". so sweet. perfect song to welcome the newly baptised.
let's see, what else...the service itself was normal. loved the songs. oh ya, the litany. i was wondering how the heck they were going to pull off the litany, seeing that there were like a billion names. but what they did was they did the piano accompaniment thing again, and the cantor just recited the names of the saints. he recited a few then he said "all the saints in heaven". then go on to other names etc. love the memorial acclaimation too. they sang the chorus of "we remember". nice. we should do that too. :D
the service ended like 12 plus. then they distributed hot cross buns. all wrapped up nicely too. luckily we managed to grab a cab. cos we disappeared before everyone else. they were having pot luck at the church. but it was too late to stay lah. so took a cab. the driver apparently just fetched someone from another church. he was asking what's happening, how come so late still have service. after fetching us back, he said he's thinking of driving up to st mary's again, sure got business for him. :) don't know if he did or not.
what an experience.
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