A good start to a brand new year

December 31st... 10.. 9.. 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

This was the case when I was at the Esplanade with my Metro Philharmonic Youth Choir(MPYC) mates to countdown to 2006. It was full of people (as usual...) and we had to squeeze our way in and out of the place. It was extremely difficult to stick together as a group of 13. Good thing there is this thing called "handphone", so that we were able to contact the person who was missing from the group.

The crowd then proceeded to Padang, where we met the everloving couple, Shize and Xu Yi. That day, on the first day of the first month of the year 2006, we celebrated one of our faithful and commited our member, Shiwei's birthday! It was a birthday that he would remember as this was the first time that some of us celebrated his birthday for him in a such a place (The Subordinate Court) with so many people surrounding us. After that, I had to head home as I had to reach church by 9am that day as it was a Sunday.

I attended service on New Year's Day and went to fellowship with members after that. I was supposed to serve for Chinese Church service at Jurong West but had to turn it down as I would be having an interesting wedding function to attend at, guess where? SENTOSA!

It was a Holy Matrimony of my ex-member, Eugene, which was held at the beach near Shangri-La Hotel. This was the first time I attended a beach Holy Mat. When we were Singing praise and worship, the beach-goers around us were looking at us and watching us "perform". Halfway through, it started raining cats and dogs. Everyone rushed into the hotel lobby, some of us drenched from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. Clothes were bought and changed before continuing with the ceremony in a small funcion room of the lounge. After that, it was buffet time! We had fun eating and fellowshipping as we had not been catching up with one another since we went our separate ways to other cell groups.

After that, Sandy, Mich(elle), Yingjie, Jasper, Michelle and myself took a shuttle bus to City Hall and went to Suntec City for a walk. Matthew joined us later. (He regretted not joining us in the shuttle bus as it was a last min thing that we decided to go for a short shopping spree.) There, we helped Yingjie to change his look (he wanted a new look for the new year.) Then, we went to Starbucks for coffee and a chat. There, we were giving suggestions on how to change his looks and suddenly Jasper got pulled into the picture. We suggested that Jasper should change to contact lenses as he had a nice pair of eyes or at least change his specs.

As for myself, my Certified Accountancy Technician (CAT) course finally started on 4th Jan at Singapore Accountancy Academy. Lessons would be on Wednesdays and Thursdays evenings, so for the next two and a half months pls don't disturb me ok... heeheehee... ;P