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Christmas 2007!Yeah... This year is the most meaningful and probably peaceful Christmas celebration that I ever had.. With 3 groups of friends, from W64R(current semester classmates), bus enthusiast, and E447(cell group).
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1st is the W64R... On 23rd December afternoon, most of the W64R friends went over to Lincoln's house for celebration.. Had a lot of fun there playing around with his 2 dogs at the 3rd floor, although I am sort of afraid of dogs.. Alsred, Shumin, XiaoWei, Hui Xian & her little cute son whose christian name the same as mine, and myself were inside 3rd floor sitting down, while Shiyang and Melissa were standing along the steps watching the dogs run around with Hui Xian's son (ok I called him as small Victor... Haha..)
After which Jessie, Xian Hao and some of them went down to prepare the BBQ stuff while the rest of them like me, Shiyang and Wendy etc etc... We stayed in Lincoln's room at 2nd floor to play Wii... Very fun especially the WWE part... Can play until our hands feel tired, and produce sweats too. It's as if we have just finished our gym workout inside the gym...
After a while, the rest of us went down too, and all of us eat and drink and talk cock.. And then we had our gift exchange... Happy that the present I bought was received by Winnie (through the counting numbers game... aiya don't know how to describe down here..), and mine I don't know who I received from.
After which when Lincoln's parents came back home, they were talking to some of us (excluding me at that time) about Christmas and some other stuffs, and I happened to be involved in the conversation as well when Melissa they all told his dad that I am from CHC... And then his dad started to talk more about CHC, the celebrations, drama and etc etc...
It's around 10pm++ and we went to Chomp Chomp for supper/dinner or to grab some food/drink/desserts there.. Shiyang, Xian Hao, Alsred and me decided to try this Wasabi popiah... And I only ate at the most of 2 slices (1st was try try and 2nd was sort of being persuaded to eat as there's a few slices left which none of the rest want to try...)
Besides that Wasabi popiah which makes me both high and more tired in the end, I also tried beancurd and have a drink of sugar cane, while the rest got tried some other good food there..
After everything's finished, most of us took Service 136 back to Ang Mo Kio Int and from there, some transfered to bus, some transfered to train... For me i took train as I am afraid that there's no more last bus when I transfered to another bus services along the way... (like service 171 along Bt Timah Rd and Mandai Rd)
Reached home at around 1am, have a quick bath and did all the usual computer stuffs before I knocked out to bed...
All in all, I had enjoyed all the fun time with my W64R friends, and this kind of spirit shall remain and not faded away.... ^_^
P.S: It's only from there that I know that the famous/well known R.K House is situated right opposite Chomp Chomp.. Lolx...
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2nd is my bus enthusiast friends.. On 24th December I went over to meet up with them after my night service ended at Expo.. It was rather a last minute thing as I got 2 groups of friends to decide which one I should go to. The other group of friends were Wei Kang, Jun Jie they all, whom they intended to stay overnight till next day morning, which I can't afford to do that because next day I still got service again at Expo in the morning.. Nevertheless, I still sent my Christmas greetings to them =)
Reached at the Merlion Park at around 2330hrs to meet up with them, and we sat down there and chit chat until around 12am where we made our way to Peninsula Plaza bus stop and some of them just snap photos of Nightrider and NiteOwl buses, while some of them like me, just stand aside and continue to chat.. XY sent his Christmas greetings to me through sms a few minutes after that (and I sent back mine to him of course... ^_^), and to our surprise, he came out of his church (St. Andrew Cathedral) and snap photos of buses at that bus stop as well. So all of us waved to him at the opposite side and he came to our side... Had a chat with XY and he told me that his service has just ended which is like "wow! so late..", but I believe that to him it's a very meaningful one..
We spent our night there until close to 3am when we made our way to the hotel at Raffles City Shopping Centre there, then some of them who brought gifts for gift exchange, would do do while me, XY and Wei Chuen were not prepared for it and we just watched them having the gift exchange.. =) After which, we proceed to Marina Square, hoping that MacDonald is a 24hr outlet for there, but in the end, it's not... and we continued to walk till 7-eleven store whereby some of them bought drinks etc and we made our way to Esplanade bus stop. That's when all of us dispersed from there and made our way back home, as all of us were very tired le.. For me and Wei Chuen we took 3N while the rest took other services...
Reached back home at around 4:30am, and have a short sleep from around 5:30am to around 8:30am when I am going to be late for the morning service at 9:30am, and in the end, I only went to the next service which is 12pm at Expo...
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Last but not least, my E447 friends... We went for the service at least once (for me I attended 4 out of the 5 services at Expo). It's a very meaningful one for me, especially the wonderful drama show being put up by our own CHC drama ministry people, and the lighting up of candles with the surrounding lightings off and sang the peaceful christmas song, Slient Night... I admitted that I almost cried right after the drama which was linked together well with the candle light part..
It's only at the 25th December that I went to fellowship with my E447 friends after the service as the rest of them I got to attend to my other groups of friends such as my classmates etc etc.. On the day I went to fellowship with them, we went over to Changi Airport staff canteen to have our lunch and chatted for a while after lunch... After which I got to meet up with my parents at Causeway Point, and hence I took Service 858 to Woodlands... Never did I expected that my parents called me along the journey, and told me that they ordered the KFC home delivery, and from Woodlands Regional Int, I took Service 966 back home..
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Some of the photos which I took it using my Nokia E65 phone which the camera's quality is very lousy... Okay... At least better than never snap any shots at all, as I find it very meaningful... If I took it using my 3 year old digital camera, it would have blur effect instead of only pixiliated..
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Victor Lim