Adrian Neo's Wedding 20 Nov (Sat) 12.30pm Risen Christ Church

Adrian Neo! Ah Neo! Ade Neo! The man is finally getting married! Yay! The anime fanatic, Jap pro and best male animator in GII ever!

Of course, the day actually began at 8am when I woke up to prepare, wash up, dress up, and have a good breakfast before making my way down to holy fam to meet the rest at 10am. As usual all the young ones were early, waiting diligently at Father's house. We made our way there in 4 taxis and my car. Thanks to Joy, Anthony, Noel and Andrea for being taxi ICs and getting to know the new ones during their journey down.

When we reached Risen Christ, we met the others and had warm-ups downstairs by the carpark as there was another wedding going on. And when we finally could go up to the choir loft, there was some confirmation rehearsal going on downstairs so we had to wait again to practice... that gave us some time to settle some minor hiccups with the keyboard and noel had more time to acquaint himself with the weird organ. I went down to the church hall to hear how they sounded (and also see how they looked haha all crammed up in the choir loft) - not bad lah, love the acoustics of the church!

These were the highlights of the beautiful wedding:
- Fr Simon Pereira concelebrating with an Indonesian priest
- Christine's relatives from Indonesia (abt 100-150 of them) filling up the church
- Adrian and Christine both dressed fully white!
- Derek as best man
- Marc's beautiful cantoring
- I Offer My Life for preparation of the gifts
- the 40 of us up in the choir loft continuing to sing the recessional song - Nothing's gonna stop us now
- the wonderful food at the reception
- being asked to shift as there was a funeral abt to begin! LOL

Best wedding of the year! Will put up photos soon!

Hello dear blog, I'm so sorry its been a month since I last blog.... (hmmm sounds like the start of Confession)... so let me tell you what I've done in the meanwhile...

27 Sep - Paeds posting day 1 - had a German student Nicolai (his weblog is under my links) joining us for the 3 wk posting.... he made the posting really interesting (not to mention having Prof Hugo as our tutor) and brought so much new insight to medicine, to life, for me. He's into rock climbing, photography, and is with the Rotary Club of Singapore.

04 Oct - We met Boon - another 5th yr exchange student from Oxford - a musician, dancer, rocker, and stellar med student all rolled into one.

09 Oct - Nicolai, Boon, Irene, HA, Leslie and I met up for supper at Geylang (bean curd!), afterwhich we went to watch Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow at PZ.

16 Oct - Noel Loh's birthday! Went clubbing at Zouk with Nicolai, Boon, Mark and Mark LOL.. $4 entry for me cuz it was some Cleo bash... but the music was pretty boring so we went to MS, and ended up eating some Bak Kut Teh at 2am by the roadside... also learned that Boon scored 15 A*s for his O Levels! (7 of them languages...) eat this s'pore scholars! haha... Mark the driver was driving as if he was on an F1 track.... and since it was Boon's last night in S'pore, we decided to give Zouk one last chance ...

18 Oct - Started Dermatology posting - acne, psoriasis, tinea, mycosis fungoides, solar lentigo - an eye opening experience.... sat in Colin Theng's clinic and talked a bit on tennis haha

23 Oct - A Day with GII - abt 10 confirmands came down, and we had icebreakers, a great mass and a great movie - Angels in the Outfield! - LeaderSheep rock!

31 Oct - Survivor Sunday - an exciting and hilarious day of fun, friendship.... too much food! spent some time explaining to Zach how to do a scientific report.

01 Nov - All Saints Day - Eye has not seen blooper!

05 Nov - GII's 21st birthday...

06 Nov - derm test in the morning was tough but shld pass... Anniversary Mass 2004!!!! Came early to help Ems with the song sheets, zapped another 250 more so 950 in total... we want the congregation to participate yeah! We sang everything in parts... Behold the Lamb was very very touching and inspiring.... Make a Joyful Noise brought me to tears... and what better way to end a blessed day with You shall go out with joy!

11 Nov - Christina's bro's wedding at QoP followed by Caroling prac at Holy Fam.... macham one day g2 camp... so so tired after that and we still went bowling.... 12 of us - Jude, Zach, Kenneth, Daf, Brenda, Sam, Marcus, Justin, Anthony, Nick, Darren S, myself..... at Katong Bowl... scored my lowest 2 scores of the year... 92 and 99 argh... but Daf stunned all with a 154 and 5 strikes!

13 Nov - cantored for mass, and the Ps just reverberated throughout the whole church.... will position the mike in the way Mel suggested... also had to lead the Universal prayers from the umbo

14 Nov - Camp Banyan publicity and registration! Helped out at the 1115am mass... and during our break taught Jason the tenor parts for pageant; Andrew also joined in. Very heavy rain hit as the 1115am mass ended and since everyone was stuck in church... we cld easily speak to the youths and invite them for the camp! hehe, one of the Kristokos choir ladies slipped and fell at the main staircase.... she had a deep gash on her forehead and there was blood all over the floor... Peter called me, and when I rushed there, Mark Koh and some 1st aiders were already on hand tending to her. I offered my towel which was used to tourniquet her. The SCDF ambulance arrived promptly and she was sent to the A&E for stitching and observation; and probably investigations to see if there are anymore soft tissue; or deeper trauma.

15 Nov - Camp Banyan Day of Recollection at Church as great! abt 26 of us facils and mentors really bonded and forged a common vision and hope for the youth of the church..... this was followed by the Feast of St Cecilia at Cathedral.... very very few choirs attended and so the cathedral was only 1/4 filled.... but Peter Low's Choir (Griffyndor) was magnificent... slytherin house was also present... lol... at the end of mass someone was playing the phantom of the opera on the huge pipe organ upstairs.. The few of us holy famers went to have dinner, and I proceeded to Risen Christ for adrian's wedding rehearsal.