Christmas this year fell on a Sunday, so Monday was declared at Public Holiday. Our good friend Judy Chun came for us at 11.00 a.m. and gave us a wonderful Christmas surpise gift.
After picking us, she drove to Cashew Drive to pick up another former Peacehaven staff, Jennifer Loh.
Then we went to the famous tourist area of Orchard Road to have 'tim sum' at the Imperial Treasure Restaurant! Well it was real Hong Kong cuisine! You can see some pictures posted on Facebook by Chang Siew Mei. She and her mother were the other diners. It was a wonderful and memorable Christmas present for us!
We chatted, we laughed, we recalled old times, we conversed in English and Cantonese because Siew Mei's Mum 84 years of age, speak only Cantonese. It gave me the opportunity to use the Cantonese I learnt in Hong Kong days. My wife is Cantonese.
From there we went for a walk, then got into another resturant to have our coffee/tea and desert. And now we are home, tired but happy and writing my blog.
An English poet once penned these lines: "At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year." This is a time of good cheer and merry making and I don't see why not, for God wants us to enjoy ourselves. A gloomy Christian is a contradiction on terms and bad advertisement for the church. Enjoy Christmas, celebrate the birth of Christ. This is the time to be happy and make others happy. Life is too short to be miserable.
Another thought to share with you. Let's not pack away the spirit of Christmas like we do with the tree and decorations - to be kept for another year. Greetings, love, kind thoughts, best wishes, assurance of prayers that wing their way across the seas from country to country ought to be practised more often than once a year. With modern technology, this is made easy.
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