hahaha christmas tree at paragon! ((: recognise it?

yep christmas is definitely like among my favourite festive seasons of ze year. (: w all e cheer, gift-giving (& you cant deny it, gift receiving), snowy holidays (abroad only please), kids screaming in joy over the new bicycle in the backyard, smiles on people's faces!, & (quoting, its a lovely line) us humans forgetting all our conflicts just to come together on this veh brilliant day of the year, in celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ ;D

so dr lim invited mom&i for the gleneagles hospital festivities. was rather reluctant to go at first, kuz thought it would probably be like all adults and no teenagers :/ but in the end, it turned out teh australian grandkids tara and richard would be there too. so was muchly better, we hung around talking countries, songs ("do you understand what she's singing [cantonese song]"), translating chinese to english for them, etc (: and abit of photowhoring (tara's cam-shy lol) the adults got briefly high and were poking us teenagers w personal questions =X aunty lynette was trying to look at my camera or smth, and aunty doris poked richard so hard he was forced to ask for "16 year old asian contacts for recommendation" oO makes it sound like some escort house or smth. then karaoke-ing (how to spell?) outside gave tara&richard&i a goodgood excuse to runaway quickly.

:D & outside guess who i saw - aunty patricia (coll's mom) haha she was super surprised luh, so was i. walked past her and was like oO (thinking, you look VERY familiar) then "OH. HELLO." almost e same reaction from her, except she saw my mom alr. anyways she was like rly bored so brought her to e back room where tara&i were goofing around so she could chat and stuff. talked about rly random behind-the-door topics for awhile (HA im well informed now), and then she was tempted to offer me champagne haha even though my mom was like nonono kuz she was afraid i would overdrink again teehee. (;

and then yesterday oO grandma wanted to go to a chinese christian service. but lighthouse evangelism only has a 9.00 am mandarin service, and that was like wayy too early kuz that would mean tiffany would have to lead e way. then mom made a deal w me, which is like kind of a great christmas present (kuz she's so touchy about me going to church for hours D:) - that i can go to a nearby church regularly during e hols and maybe during school days provided there arent any tests (which i dont agree w kuz we actually need Him the most at those times, and all the more we should be in church! D:) im working on wangling my way out of that part.

ladeeya. must thank grandma. if not for her, all this new arrangements wouldn have come about would it now? (: plus she told my mom to better (translated) 'let the child (COUGH) go to church regularly' cause it was good for me etc etc. yayers ((:

so mom asked me to go try out BRMC (barker rd methodist church, & ive a feeling aunty pat has smth to do w this, kuz she mentioned it at dr lim's parteh, so everything's connected and spore is rly small then) & if i liked it i could continue at BRMC permanently? ((: joy - finally a permanent church service to attend. so went yesterday (christmas eve yo) for e 1030 am service. mom accompanied grandma to the mandarin service then malu (who actually wanted to go to a cathedral, but decided its okay to go to a Christian church) & i went off to english service, but so kuku went to e adult service at the Sanctuary instead of Shine Forth (youth service) which was at e acs concert hall :/ no wonder i noticed everyone there was an average age of 30. so after it was over, went to inquire and check out Shine Forth -

& bumped into collin. wont say who was more surprised ((: (technically him, he'd no idea, i had some vague idea at least) malu saw him first -

malu: eh jayne! isnt that collin?
me: oh that person ah. i know i saw his shirt juz now, same one from china, but he looks different eh.
malu: i tell you its him - saw his face!
me: bt this one looks too skinny for collin eh!
(LOL :D mustve lost alot of weight in 4 days manz)

then trotted down e steps as he spun around then boom. was really him :/ hahaha oops. then i told mom and she was like oO so there was aplenty of "what are you doing here?", "ohmy youre here too!" and "how come you didn tell me you were coming? oO" (i did okay, tried to) etc. well this confirms life has strange kooks to it! =D anyways ive been koped to brmc now from lighthouse - mom likes it this way. conspiracy of the mothers

(okay so this is e long explanation i owe on how i turned up in brmc)

lala then tara&richard, aunty lynette&doris, uncle poh&keith all came over to celebrate christmas (; haha we were playing strange ball games in e pool (use the harder tweety bird ball :D to hit ea other on ze head as hard as possible so youre supposed to duck really fast LOL) and we had crepes w cranberries for dessert, but all three plates disappeared in under five minutes =D so had to stagger off to theatre to watch pirates two: dead man's chest (ohyeah, johnny depp is luhv)

anyways. opened all e christmas presents at 12 smth! (: ta&rich gave a HUGE box of jellybeans, like 750 beans inside please! (shall bring some to school on first day so we jellybean doods can eat happy) and teh eggs gave two veh cute matching christmas mugs! plus some others i opened days before (unintentionally believe me), mom opened her patients' gifts. hahaha ive almost finished e godiva chocolates so no wonder the scales are beginning to increase slowly =/

& then today! goodness mom woke up so late we were rather late for church, arrived at about 1045 am. not good luh ): told mom it kind of stinks to be late, esp for christmas service! so next time if she isn ready by 1015 im calling a cab down to brmc. hmm anyways we were cruising along near dunearn rd when a guy in e car in front of us stuck his head out and waved rather animatedly - then i realised it was julian (heart attack manz) :D haha super dangerous luh couldve removed his head entireleh. so both of us were late for service =/ not good. & obv coll didn have the oO surprised look anymore.

hahaha well e Christmas service rawked, focusing of course on Jesus. and we were singing away - lovely ol christmas songs and hillsong (here i am to worship! =D & shout to the lord) ze pastor keeps going like "i know, my name is noel" and all the connections to first noel etc etc (: teehee to sum it up - today was fun, really refreshing. and service was supposed to end at 12, but stretched all e way to 1. but yeah, its christmas - it doesn matter.

lol mom went for adult service so she ended at 12, and spent rather long mooching around and eating&drinking in e canteen. so when aunty pat&jul&i made our way down, she was like rly bored :/ hung around talking, exchaging e "MERRY XMAS!" greetings, and e mothers agreed we should get together one more time before school reopens. haha then jul took out his sweets and biscuits (yay) so e dying-of-hunger me was like koping alot (and completely ignoring e hints to stop) -apologies. hahaha cannot wear skirt to e concert hall, was so cold i was shivering trembling all over when pastor noel goh asked us all to please stand.

haha the facts revealed i nv knew xD

yay then christmas dinner w grandma, uncle dp&aunty suan. ytd stayed up so late to watch miami vice, today was like the banquet w zhang ziyi (ziyi zhang, whichev way you wanna put it) oO some rather disturbing scenes but anyways! rather fun movie. (: haha we photowhored around in santa claus hats bought a gazillionaire years ago. poohbear hat looked a bit retarded (i wasnt wearing it) but was much enjoyment luh :D well hey its christmas!

ALENA! have fun in hk&malaysia, say hello darlings & throw kisses galore to donald duck and mickey mouse for us all, and bring back dimsum and chewing gum for us ((: and be glad ive found a church to go to for sure and permanents sake! :D & jiawei owes us smth from batu pahat (translation please) johore too yo.