Christmas 2008

I bet you guys had seen the photos on Christmas Eve... Now it's all about what happened after that night... LOL!

This year was an unexpected Christmas Day, despite the fact I couldn't really remember what happened after Christmas mass last year, including where I was or who I was with. It's a short-term memory loss I guess. Perhaps that memory was somewhat important to me, enough to hurt me because of its importance. So I guess until the time comes for me to remember what happened during Christmas 2007, let me focus on Christmas 2008...

So what did I do? Nothing much, in fact... I served with others in choir for Christmas morning mass, attended "The Father's Love Letter" by SIB Skyline in Sutera Harbour, was at home to watch a few episodes of "1L of Tears", went out with Felix, Yvonne Teo + sister, Valerie and Brenda to Archbishop John Lee's residence, visited Chris' family's open house in Lok Kawi, went over for dinner at Gloria's house, came home and continued watching the jap drama. Looking back... Quite a lot also eh???!

The next day was 26th December... Slept in late because watch drama until quite "early" in the morning... Then went over to Joanne's house to have lunch (thanks, Joanne, for the lunch!!!) and after that went to Giant in City Mall with Joanne and Jonathan to purchase stuffs for our CG retreat. I'll blog about CG retreat after this... Hopefully! After sending all the food stuffs to Denis' house, I went to collect my "wo tie" (fried dumpling) at Lotus and headed to Joanna's house in Tanjung Aru for our Christmas Choir's Christmas Party. Lots of lovely, delicious, colourful food, and the gifts exchange, not forgetting the video watching. It was fun, laughed a lot, crapped fairly. Hehe!

Now for the pictorial description... All the way from Christmas Day to 26th Dec... Hehe!!!

After Christmas mass with my anakku sayang, Cheryl, Joanna, Koko Adrian and Joshua

Another take with them...

The Wongs and future Mrs. Wong (Gloria) :P

With my students in Magellan... From left: Shaun, Dominic, Gee, Andrew

Another photo with them... Geezzz... I do miss my students at one point...

With Aunty Cynthia (Denis' Mom) near Archbishop's Residence

The statue of Mary in front of the house

Gloria and Fred with the piglet's head... Taking photo was Adik (Gloria's brother)

And Fred says, "This is yummy!!"

On 26th, taking photos as people started coming in...

Joanna and Dot giving pressie to Joshua

Hanging around before food...

Yes! Finally after grace... Yay!!!

Singing carols for Joanna's family

Another take...

And another take... all these taken by Timmy, my future Bio student (I hope...)

Adriance, the Tenor

Conchiz, Mag n Tity

Singing Birthday song for Tity (Her birthday was on 27th~ Happy Birthday!!!)

My anakku sayang and me... after Christmas exchange...

The new addition to my bear family - Pinky Wawa and Koko Adrian... Umm... Koko!!! How can you feed Pinky with liquor??!~~ >:P

Ahh... Finally, my bear and I... Pink and pink!!

The gift is from Goloria Chiew baobao... Hehehe!! Jan marah, ya, golo~

My gift went to Cecilia~~ LOL! So ngam dis!!

The Altos after watching the choir video... Muka mengantuk dis~~

Rachel and myself at Joanna's christmas tree

Alright... that's the end of the entry!! Hope you had fun knowing my days!! Hehehehehe!!! God bless all, Merry Christmas!!!

Eatable vs. Edible

I hope I won't be annoying another person by posting this entry... But as a teacher myself, I felt the need to clarify about these two words, EATABLE & EDIBLE. I was being commented that it was a mistake to use "eatable" when described the food I cooked.

My sentence was something this:
"I'm happy because at least the food was eatable."

And the eyes that looked and said something like this:
"Is that such a word as eatable? It's supposed to be edible."

And as I reflected upon what went by the past two days (which was enjoyable, spiritually upbuilding sort of activity), I had in mind these two words... And thus I checked the Concise Oxford Dictionary 10th Edition to confirm my own language usage. (I've been brought up using the word "eatable" to describe food that I can eat... Furthermore, my dad used to be an English teacher before he retired a few year back...)

Here are my findings:
eatable - adj. fit to be consumed as food, n. (eatables) items of food

edible - adj. fit to be eaten, n. (edibles) items of food

So, in my opinion as an English teacher, eatable is more suitable to be used in my sentence if were to compare the accuracy of words, because anything ranging from pills, drugs all the way to food, I can use the word edible. However, for the word eatable, it is specifically mentioning that the object is fit to be consumed as food.

Blogging about it is just another way to upgrade my English and letting new knowledge flows through my blog to my readers. I hope there is no hard feelings about it, and my apologies if there's any inconvenience caused.

Here are two visual examples, I used dog's items because it is more obvious, because both the dog will normally use their mouth and teeth...

EATABLES FOR DOGS - DOG FOOD

EDIBLES FOR DOGS - CHEWING

Till then... God Bless!

What happens on Christmas Eve after Mass?

Here's what happened... (Just pictorial with slight explanation...) Actually time to sleep... But just want to upload them... LOL! If Fred (choir master) or Koko Adrian knows I'm still online at this hour, kenak la me... so sssshhhHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

The Altos of Christmas Choir (Chris, me n Golo)

Tity, me and Cecilia... Oh yeah, and Oswald behind us... Hehehehe!!

My "anakku sayang" and me, with Deon as backdrop! (What the~~~ LOL!!)

My new-found anak, Vania is her name. Cute right? LOL!! Believe it or not??? LOL!

Golo n me... LOL!

Joanna n me... Miao? Ngaum? Hehehehe!!! Love you lots, gal~~

Alto and sopo... Golo, Melissa, Jo n me...

Me with Sopos... Cheryl n Conz... What's Jo doin behind us?? Hiphiphurray??~?~ Hehehe!

Me n Sopos... Jo, me, Con, Cheryl, Dot n Mig

Koko Adrian n me..

The Lifeliners/KBHKers

Nah... Don't believe she's my new-found anak??? Hehehe... Got two photos liao~~~ Hahahaa!

Ok la... Kasi balik lah anak orang... Charles is her uncle... Haha! I had fun playing with her though... Sweet gal~~~

The Christmas Choir (First row from left: Mae, Marianna, Mig, Adelina, Suzi, Con, Rachel, Cecilia, Jo, Cheryl; Second row from left: Melissa, Nic, Terrence, Adriance, Jason, Dominic Luk; Third row from left: Charles, Koko Adrian, Chris, Golo; Last row on the bench from left: Bian, Harold, Fred (choir master), Dot n me)

My uni friend, Vani, who brought her friends along for mass...

The altos, without robe that is... Hehe!!

Jo n me (Normal look)

Lifeliners (Left: Lionel, Ray, Mathilda, me, Von Teo, Jason n Chris)

VonT, me and Tity

Me n my new dress for Christmas... Sales in Soule, 1Borneo!! I bought it for RM39.90 only~~ Thanks to everybody who said it was a beautiful n sweet dress!!

VonT n me by the crib... Jesus is born this day!!!!! Yay!!!!

Another perspective of the same crib, the same humans...

But still, Jesus is born this day for us!!! "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among men!!!" Thank God and praise Him for giving us His Son, our Lord and Saviour, to be born into our hearts everyday of our lives, to save us from eternal damnation, all because GOD LOVES US SO VERY THE MUCH that He can't stop Himself from saving us, this wretched generation! He's just soooooooo kind and nice and I am speechless to describe how much He means to me at this moment!!~~~ Thank God for His Love!!! Amen!!!

Ok, time to end this entry and rest until morning comes... Another round of choir for Christmas Morning Mass~~~ Glo----ria, in excelsis deo~~~~

Blessed Christmas, my dearies~~ Adios, amigo~