On Saturday, our life group went out to shop for Christmas presents for kids from Rumah Hope, whom our church is having a Christmas celebration with on the 12th of December 2004. Rumah Hope is a home for children who've been abused or abandoned. A few months ago, BLC-ians paid these children a visit and had a blast with them apparently! :) Unfortunately, I had to pull out of this celebration because of work in the last minute but I'm sure not missing out this time around!
The experience without a doubt became an experience for ourselves as well simply because me, James and Moh Foong are big kids ourselves! Each life group is in charge of buying presents for 10-11 kids. So for ours, we decided that the boys will buy the boys presents and the girls will buy the girls some nice gifts.
Toys!! Now, that's something I might never grow tired or out of! I sometimes joke about 'fighting' with my children in future over the toys we want to play with! *haha* Or I just might play with the kids so much just because I love toys too! I get scared of stepping into toy stores also because I always come out with purchases OR leave empty handed and sad because I want many things in there but cannot afford to be spending that kind of money! :( We had to remind ourselves during this trip that we weren't there for ourselves but for these Rumah Hope children :) It didn't stop James from buying his toys though! *haha*
Oh, and the beautiful weather and skies before the rain came on Saturday meant me and James whipping out of cameras as usual and appreciating God's blessings in our own unique way ;) As you can see, 2 best friends are often of the same mould. People think we're tourists sometimes, or they just think we're nuts! *snickers* Oh, and 2 best friends also behave similarly at times! We love doing silly things for the cameras. I mean, sure it's kinda embarrassing for some doing stuff like that in public but to us, it's a whole load of fun! Wish I could share more than just a picture with you on how that road-crossing experience was like. You should have been there, great fun!
5 comments:
Umm... isn't it kinda dangerous to take a photograph in the middle of the road with cars clearly coming towards u and james...?
Isn't it obvious that we waited till it was time for pedestrians to cross to take pics in the middle of the road? :P
Wasn't it fun to do silly things like that? Yes, it was! All of you who are too 'cool' to do things like that are missing out in life! *hehe*
It's fun packing presents, isn't it? Last weekend, I packed 56 presents for my school's Christmas Party. Ironically, it was 'hellish' cause we had to make sure kids of different ages get different presents :P Anyway, it was so fun :)
By the way, I hope you don't mind, I linked your blog to mine (sorry for doing it than telling you, it should be the other way round ya?). You can check it at my blog!
That's cool! :) Glad you had a similarly enriching time! Have fun and Merry Xmas in Japan!
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