The weekend began as one would suspect. I woke up late
running to get the landline that was ringing only to discover Joash was closer
to it but couldn’t hear it cause he had his earphones on -_- ANYWAY in the
afternoon there was suddenly a flurry of activity in the Selvaraj household as
we all ran around getting ready for our first day of caroling :D
So we got to church and realized we had a few too many
people to squeeze into one van, so we had to take two. Little did we know that
everyone was going to squeeze themselves into one van, leaving me, Joash, Edwin
(Holy crap haven’t seen him since his wedding we were all so excited he was
there!! When the sister told me he was coming I almost fell over.), Michael,
Valentine, Elisabeth and Avean our ever responsible driver in the other van
that could seat fifteen lol. We were very happy that we all had room to stretch
out. Unfortunately that also meant that there was more room to be jostled about
in, which Avean was very happy about and took full advantage of as he ‘checked
the brakes’ every opportunity he had. I kept almost falling and hitting my head
on the side of the van, yet very cleverly never
moving.
House #1
It was a good omen that we got lost on our way to the very
first house. Best part was that when we finally got there after asking for
directions from a bunch of scary looking Indian boys, we discovered that it was
Aaron and Andrea’s place but they had just sat quietly in the other van, not
saying anything lol.
After we had finished singing (fabulously as usual) we got
to eat a bunch of delicious doughnuts. Nathalie, the crazy person who hadn’t
eaten since 11am the day before, ate four of them and proceeded to pack the
rest to eat in the van. Joash of course didn’t let her live it down and now
immediately summons her in every house for the purpose of bungkus-ing food :)
House #2
One of our hosts pointed out that our van tyre or rims or
something to do with that area looked like it was…about to be punctured?
Something like that. Avean proceeded to explain the problem and tell me and
only me to avoid weighing down the van -_- Curses.
House #3
Well it wasn’t exactly a house, it was a big condo party
that we were singing at. Where we sang for an
hour by the way. It is a thing to be proud of, I tell you. We were off to a
slow start because both our guitar and bongo player, namely the dear brother
and Edgar, got lost looking for the gents. So the rest of us were just standing
at the ready for almost five whole minutes waiting for them to show up. That
was fun.
So we sang and sang until we were hoarse and when the
coordinator announced that the carolers were taking a 10 minute break, we all
gratefully tumbled away towards the drinks, which we discovered were all cold. So…no liquid refreshment for us
then. A mere 3 minutes later we were summoned back to sing, which obviously
surprised us and we scrambled back there to croak another couple of songs plus an encore cause the people there
thought we were just that good. By the second half, Joash was rubbing his
shoulder from his enthusiastic strumming, Edgar was massaging his fingers and I
was bent at the waist rubbing the spot where I kept battering myself with the
tambourine.
House #4
THEY GAVE US FERREROROCHER!!! Needless to say, we finished
one box and Nat was tempted to bungkus the other lol.
Our hosts were our Area Fellowship-mates so that was fun. It
was such a nice house. So anyway when we went downstairs and were waiting for
another elevator-load of people, I was asking the kids what the other van was
like and when they said it was really quiet I asked them why and if they all
didn’t like each other or something. The silence was deafening and I officially
got worried lol.
When Joash came down and we were all getting onto the van he
started yelling how our van was the party van and it was party time and all
that. Next minute he suddenly whispered, “Sleepy la cha.” LOL
House #5
So by the time we got to Uncle Joseph Manuel’s house we were
all sooooo hungry. While we were singing I could smell the wonderful scent of
chicken curry wafting over to us, effectively distracting me from singing in
any level of decent. Luckily the singing was soon over and we all indulged and
then listened to Nat for entertainment :)
Quote of the day would have to be Nat telling us a joke
while we were walking from the vans to Uncle Joseph Manuel’s house.
“So this is a fish right? (wiggles hand) So what’s this?
(makes a fist and wiggles it the same way)
A fishball.”
*Smack forehead* Joash and I looked at each other then he
couldn’t stop himself from asking Nat if she was high.
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