I've been feeling rather guilty not contributing to this blog, so I'm finally sharing something with you guys as a preparation for Christmas!
I received a Christmas card from a retail store today, offering their wishes for the holidays as well as incentives to give them my money this season. As I was replacing the card back in its pink envelope, I noticed how the sender made a total error on the address and getting only three things right; my name, Singapore and my postal code. Well I apparently live on "Condo Hill" now and its a helluva name for the many hills we have in Singapore! So it struck me that my postman really knows his 'clients' particulars well and rescued a potential undelivered mail, which by the way has no unit number, and turned it into my first commercial Christmas card this year. I guess it really pays being nice to the postman, by acknowledging him every time i see him, sometimes even striking a casual conversation. He's like the Super Postman flying in with a blue cape whenever undelivered mails call for a hero. On an interesting note too, this postman represented the Republic last SEA games in cue sports - i saw his photo on the papers haha!
I attended evening mass on Sunday and I do have to admit that some Sunday sermons can be really dull and insipid, leaving my mind to stray like those magical times in chinese class under my warm and fuzzy jacket. But for all those dull ones, there are always many highly inspirational and motivating ones. Before you go wondering whether I'll be preaching to you all, I assure you that I won't be doing so now and you might find it meaningful as I have found it to be. This week, my parish priest spoke about the Sunday's bible text and quoted from it the things we can do to prepare for a truly joyful Christmas.
1. Share this joy of Christmas to someone whom otherwise would not experience that warmth and togetherness and in the way you see it to be.
2. Avoid any injustices.
3. Avoid oppression and judgment.
Perhaps this Christmas, it will truly be a special one for us all. I've not been rather enthusiastic about the beginning of the season, but now I think I've found the reason and remedy to that.
Hopefully we could all have a nice dinner together before Christmas and resuming the laughter-filled moments. HAHA I'm looking towards Winfred now...anyone else looking too?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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