We had our christmas pageant briefing today in the AVA room.

The committee of Marilyn, Michelle, Noel and myself first gathered at 12.30pm to prepare ourselves and the room for the rest of the pageant cast and crew to arrive.

The purpose of this first session was for us to get to know each other better. The schedule from now till christmas eve was also given out, much to the gasps and bewildered looks of everyone. We'll be meeting together every sunday for the next 18 weeks or so, to learn our songs, for drama workshops, for rehearsals, for spiritual input.

In all, those present (though not the full strength) were Marilyn, Noel, Michelle, Marissa, Sandrine, Michael, Gregory, Elizabeth aka Daughter, June aka Mother, Anthony aka Son, Dominic aka Father, and myself. We were laughing at Anthony and Dominic cuz the son is 6 years older than the father LOL... Think the others in the crew and chorus are Genevieve (brains behind the pageant!) Ferdinand, Joanna, Michaela, Desri, Daf, Marcus, Duane, Gerard and friend; and Raymond... Dawn will be involved in planning the workshops and input =) so although there are so many g2 peeps involved, there's also a good representation from the rest of the youth but could be better, probably next time.

After the short session, Anthony, Greg, Dominic and I went to Parkway for lunch. Pasta Mania! Ocean baked pasta! It was not bad, but we were on the outside balcony so there wasn't much air-con to enjoy.... Studied in church, collected my racket and proceeded to The Pines aka old pinetree club to play a 2 1/2 hr long game with Toon. I won 6-4, 6-2, 6-1.... the first set was the most tiring and the closest.... Toon just needs to be more consistent and finish off his points better...

After staying in town (BK) to study abit, went at 1130pm to Khian Hao's place to pass the laptops to him. Interestingly, he went for mass after all, with his friend, at Sacred Heart Church. We talked about RCIA and the churches near his house; he also mentioned that Chai Nam was going to SFX with his girlfren; I later heard from the Chai Nam that with his ex he used to go to a presbyterian church; but would be going to SFX soon. We agreed to go for mass together sometime at SFX, together with Khian Hao.... so ya, God works in beautiful ways... esp since I'm in this evangelisation phase... Brian, HA, Khian Hao, now Chai Nam; and gotta check on Bryan Wang haha....