New Year / Christmas Carolling

Happy New Year! It's officially 2009! How was your 2008?

If it wasn't that great... well 2009 is a fresh start, a new beginning, a new step into the right direction.

If it was good, then well done! 2009 will bring more challenges to both your faith and life in general.

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On the 27th of December, RCIY IHM embarked on a extremely ambitious plan to spread a little Christmas cheer around. With just 3 practice sessions and generally sounding not much better than chalk scrapping on a blackboard, we went forth to carol at Pelangi Home as well as Esther's (Ashlee's friend) house.

Personally for me, stepping into Pelangi Home was much less intimidating than the other time as I knew what to expect after the first time. Not that the residents threw tomatoes at us or did something similarly bad, but just that I knew that they might not respond to us despite our ardentest efforts to try and reach out to them.

Overall the caroling was paaassssaaabbble. (quite difficult to say that word) At least I saw some of them clapping their hands and cheering for us. We went to talk to some of them and I felt that I had less hesitation to walk towards them to try and communicate with them. Though some didn't really respond, there weren’t really awkward silences. Sometimes silence conveys more than words. After a nice and informative chat with Mr King, the person in charge, we left for Esther's house.

Getting there, we got into a bit of trouble as we left Greg at the bus terminal while we happily boarded the bus. Sorry man! Luckily he managed to catch up with us in time.

At Esther's place, we were greeted warmly by Esther and her husband and some very adorable kids. There were 3 of her kids plus 2 of their friends, so it felt like we were singing to a primary school class.

This time our caroling sounded much better, probably because we had ample practice at Pelangi home and also because we sound better in a smaller, enclosed space.

We ended off the day at Glen's house where we watched DVDs and munched KFC for dinner.

A splendid day spent with the RCIY people. Thanks all!

//dan