SMASHING good times

Today officially marks the fourth consecutive day I've hit town. I myself can't believe it. I think I've set a new record. haha, for myself at least. It has really been an amazing week!I had a really good time watching movies,drinking eggnog,going christmas shopping, meeting up with our jc mates, eating, signing for so many presents that I've accumulated one whole stack of receipts..and most of all, the times spent laughing with good ol' loved ones, carrying taka's christmas bag and making our way through the streets of town.

And I felt really satisfied. Even as I brushed shoulders with the people on the streets, the people crossing the road..I felt very contented. Especially so when I saw looks that suggest similar feelings as mine on the faces of the people around me.

Okay, enough of the sentimental stuff.

Last night, our cell along with the younger cell groups had a roaring good time at our Christmas party. It was one of the craziest and most fun-filled time I have ever had. I mean seriously. We started with ice-breakers, which quickly progressed to us wolfing down dinner:baked rice with melted cheese over it, pizza, chicken curry with bread, sushi with japanese rice which was moi's cooking, and which sharon helped so graciously to pick up=)Dinner was fabulous.

And after that we played captain's ball. And guess what the games i/cs replaced our ball with?...one very raw chicken.

At first, I naively thought that they wouldn't be that cruel or disgusting to really carry the plan out. Guess what? After two throws, the wrapping of the chicken fell apart. Courtesy of me no less. hey,as a defender, I had to smack the chicken away right? Right?

So after we got over the disgust of having a chicken as a ball, we started off a time of screams, catching, throwing, swinging and batting the poor chicken into a bruised, broken piece of offending meat. What sick chicken murderers we turned out to be. You wouldn't believe this, but the way we girls screamed and held the chicken by the legs and some of us swinging the chicken by the neck or legs was quite amusing really. We all felt pity for the chicken. And I have to admit, I think I kinda broke one of the chicken's leg. I was quite disgusted by that point, and quite into the game, so I swung the chicken toward our group's captain, which he caught with much gusto and precision I must say.

Sorry Chicken. I mean it.

Anyway, after that..wait. Did I tell you that one time someone threw the chicken and it BOUNCED off my specs?gross I tell you.

haha.

so after which, we played a few more games which had us blowing balloons up, trying to grab and steal ballons in the dark and of course, we sang carols while playing "passing the parcel" game. To see the nicely wrapped presents being torn so hastily caused me to sigh quite a bit. To think if they knew about the effort that had gone into wrapping it..

and the night ended off with Adrain's sharing about the true meaning of christmas, which struck a chord in my heart..and forfeit. Those people actually had us(the people who lost in a few games)blindfolded and pretend to be prisoners-of-war!We had to like crawl on our knees, roll over on the ground, while they burst balloons, rocked chairs and all..it was funny and traumatising at the same time. Traumatising cause of the crawling and the blindfold. Funny because there was this one part when I was on the chair on my knees, and while I was scrambling to the other side, sammie passed me my phone cause my dad called. The conversation went like this:

Dad:Are you coming out soon?

Me:Daddy, this is really a bad moment, I am currently down on my knees, crawling and blindfolded, can I call you back?I'll be out at 9.45?

Dad:We're at the car-(disruption from the crowd)

Me:Hello people??! I'm in the middle of a phone call!(I was still on my knees and blindfolded)

Me:Yeah, I'll see you daddy at the carpark..

Geez.

oh oh, I got to pick out the gifts first! And I picked out this really nice gift wrapped in christmassy looking paper=)I'm going to open it on christmas day itself!I hope it's not food stuff..

haha.All in all, it was a really nice night.

I absolutely adore holidays.

Lord,Thank You for making all these possible, and for hearing my prayers. Won't You let our hearts be touched this Christmas Lord?