Sunday, March 20, 2005
Today = Palm Sunday.Where every year people's kiasu-ness make them rush for the best palms. Or whatever they can grab. Being late to wake, bathe and as usual, leave the house.. I caused my family to be late. Thank God my godparents kept seats for us, or we'd be left standing.
So yeah, 1st time ever attending Palm Sunday ceremony our renovated Saint Mary's, so I found it cool that we had to do the mass outside of the church where the blessing of palms would be held. So like, before I knew it.. I was actually surrounded by Indians. Not only were they very pushy (pun intended), but when the priest asked to raise our palms.. my mum and I.. well, you could say we couldn't really stand the smell of.. raised armpits, since the both of us had a height of only bits higher than 1.5m. So after a few words and blah.. they made a pathway to clear for the priest to walk, and of which I thought we'd be finally going back into the church, and looked eagerly at the big pond and focused my eyes on the big church, waiting for people to move of when all of a sudden -
SPLASH.
I squinted my eyes, absorbing what just happened. My arm that was holding the palm was like.. wet, and so were the rest of my face and shoulders. Apparently the priest walked by and decided to bless the palms with water. Despite my being slightly taller than 1.5m and having tall indians *cough* in front of me as well, I was still.. well.. soaked. o_o I wiped off whatever 'holy water' that was in excess (of which was pretty much all >_>) while my mum and I started laughing because her specs were full of water droplets as well. XD
People started going back in, while my godfather told our familes to stay. We were the only families left in the row.. and I was starting to doubt my godfather when the priest asked the rest of the people to return and that he had to finish the 1st reading before we could go back in. One word: OWNED. =s
Church was pretty much longer than usual; even my devoted mother was telling me she was going to fall asleep soon. XD
Didn't go to IMM today, phew. I'm going to be sick of that place as much as lunching in Swensens. >_>;
But in today's mass.. I actually felt that I understood Christ more. I don't have my faith shaken, but nor do I wish to be some extremist that wants to make people believe in God SO much so that they try to convert others. Just because you believe in Him, doesn't mean you should make others do so. I hate converted people, especially people that converted into Christians and start to go around talking about EVERYTHING related to God, and how powerful he is. You should see how embarrassing you are. It's like having your mum going around proclaiming her child comes from this and that school, having 11 A1s, can play the piano with eyes closed while chanting the Apostle's Creed, and in between paragraphs, yell a random chemistry/mathematical equation and solve it. >_>
Min:
Please take care.. not having someone to sit beside me will kinda cause me to feel very alone, but if possible.. I wish to be with you. Don't make yourself sound like you're going.. because I would never want you to go anywhere else.
Min, get well soon.
God bless you. I don't care what God it might be; could be yours, mine, or some Indian animal God. May they give you a speedy recovery asap. =)
anyhow whacked by gloria @ 12:33 pm