christmas eve dinner

spent christmas with the family. i'm not into countdowns or havocking wif friends. for me, i spend christmas in a quiet fashion. benjamin told me to invite some friends over to spread the food, and more importantly, the love. haha anw i felt like i invited the right pple to come, coz both of them r really gd meat lovers, while i pale in comparison.

dad, mum n bro doing last few preparations

project FAT
Guest no. 1 --Rang. (Note: I'm a bad host, bully her by asking her to prepare ribena vodka n den she helped make the whip potato sauce too. heh no la, this is wad i call involving the guest so they dun feel bored ;)
Guest no. 2-- Kevin aka bro. damn gd. help to finish up alot of the food hahah
Delifrance log cake @$45
Mahjong session. my grandmother the mahjong 神..i think. hahah dat's rang, my dad, my brother's gf, and my grandmother. intensed concentration..

spent christmas the simple way. i dunno, to us catholics, we dun really spend christmas in an extravagent manner where we go into a shopping spree n stuff. to us, christmas is abt simplicity, about preparing for Jesus' entering this world. in other words, it's the coming of our savior, ie the word is made flesh. so basically for the season of xmas, we prepare ourselves spiritually for Jesus' coming.

fr richards told a story bout how this mother (swept into the material world's disillusionment), who was soooo exhausted with all the christmas shopping, yet still have to drag her kids (also tired n whiny from all the xmas shopping/walking) into the lift. then when she and her 2 kids finally entered the lift n e door closed, she lost it. She just lost it, n burst out angrily, "Whoever is behind this whole christmas bullsh*t ought to be shot dead!!".

The whole lift went silent.

Then from the back of the lift, a man replied, 'well, he has. not shot, but crucified.'

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For a moment, i was like, wow. speechless. the way he tells his homily, it juz strike a chord n makes u think.

Wad does christmas truly mean to each and everyone of us?