The Methodist Youth Fellowship decided to have a home visit (is that what you call that?) to Joshua's house during this weekend's activity.
And so all of us went. Pastor, Sorvine, John, Jacob, Kelvin, Luke (SiangBoon), AikLoong, Cindy, Joshua's best friend (didn't get his name), Cindy's boyfriend (didn't get his name either), Caleb, Joshua (Tan), Hern, Jo and I.
We started with a short praise and worship session. Before that, Joshua put out a few chairs between the piano and the sofa and he waved to me asking me to go to the chairs. Assuming I might be blocking the road, I moved the chair I was sitting on, but he insisted that I go there. Then I realised that he was asking me to play the piano. -.-lll
Well, frankly, I did sweat a bit in the air-conditioned hall. I wasn't even a bit prepared! And the song leader, Luke, was like super blur and did not prepare any song lists or anything.... Well, at the end, he just flipped through the song boook and sang whichever song he knew. Too bad for me that some of the songs they knew, i didn't know. I don't have to explain more about the sweating, do I?
Then it was followed by the story-telling time by pastor. I said it's a story telling time because pastor was sitting on the floor, in front of the television while others sit on the sofa or chairs (except Joshua & Caleb) and listened to him telling the story of the first Englishman who went to China to spread the Gospel.
The story was quite interesting at first, but eventually, everyone get bored, as everyone in the story died at very young age.
Anyway, pastor explained that the reason of people dying at young age was because that people at those times weren't that hygenic and they had a very rough time facing challeges that are in their way to spread the gospel.
I get to know that this guy, 马礼孙, (Ma-Li-Sun) (Don't know what's the name in English) was the first ever person to get into China and tried to spread the gospel in 1807(which is exactly 200 years from now) and he baptised 蔡高(Cai-Gao) (sounds like chai kueh huh?) in Macau.
And later, he came to Malacca and asked Mr 梁发 (Liang-Fa) to print bibles in chinese version for him and this Mr Liang, from a non-believer, believed in Christ after a lot of printing of the bible. ^^
Mr Liang was the first ever Chinese being appointed as a pastor.
Furthermore, Mr 米廉(Mi-Lian) (Not sure what's the English name too) followed Mr Ma-Li-Sun in spreading the gospel for seven years before he died of respiratory problems. Besides printing the bible in Chinese version, they also printed 3 small 4500 page booklets of Chinese-English dictionary, which was the very first one on earth.
There were quite a lot of difficulties that Mr Ma-Li-Sun faced during the times he tried to spread the gospel in the Mainland, China. Well, now we should appreciate his effort to do so because if it wasn't because of him, we wouldn't be hearing the gospel today as it spread from there to here.
Ok, moving on to the programs of the night, pastor brought along a DVD about 苗族,(Miao-Zu) (a small ethnic in south-east China if I'm not mistaken) and it shows how the gospel is being shared among the people and about their lives and customs too.
Everyone ate the fried noodles Joshua's mom prepared and drank the drinks prepared while watching the documentary. Actually, no one really paid much attention to it except for pastor who was really excited about the whole clip.
In the middle of the documentary, when everyone was busy eating and chatting away, Joshua's parents and brothers came back from dinner. The thing I want to say is, I never knew Joshua has a little brother until just now! He actually told me before, but then I thought he was joking!
After the whole family went upstairs, pastor asked Joshua, "Who was the little boy just now?"
"My brother," Joshua answered while half laughing.
"Huh? I never knew you have little brother!" pastor exclaimed.
"There are 3 of us."
Haha, and I thought I was the only one who just knew the existance of the little boy.
Anyway, his little brother was really kind to treat all of us with mango flavoured gummies.
Luke passed one to me, and I said, "Thanks!"
"See, I'm so nice, right?" he said.
"Yea, I'm so touched!"
And he opened his gummy and wanted to give me the opened one.
I thought he was really going to give it to me since mine's not opened yet, but he quickly ate the gummy before I could take it. How cheeky!
Later on, Joshua's father joined us for drinks and watched the documentary too.
Then it ended, everyone washed their own plates and cutleries. The guys were discussing about the 'P' and 'L' license they are having now with Sorvine.
(AikLoong is holding a 'L' license while Luke is a 'P' motorcyclist now)
"Hey, how come you went to take the Perempuan (girl) license?" said AikLoong.
"Better than you-lah, Lembu(cow)," joked Luke.
"Go get a Lelaki (male) license-lah," interupted Sorvine.
"Yea lah, I have the Lelaki license ok!" defended AikLoong.
"You've got a Perempuan license, what are you?" AikLoong continued.
Anyway, the Lelaki and Perempuan thingy went on with among the guys when someone noticed that Joshua(Tan) was washing the plate quietly when they were all bickering with each other.
"Haha, Joshua is holding the Perempuan license too!"
"That's why he's so quiet all this time!" laughed Sorvine.
It was an interesting 'gender' bicker. **
It all soon came to an end when pastor said that we shouldn't bother Joshua's family that late.
And so we continued the 'fellowship' outside the house.
John said that they're having a game on the 13th of October and invited me to join them.
I will still be at ShangHai that day if I'm not mistaken. Hmm, too bad I can't join them... *Sob*
John said that Luke will be pretending to be a dead person! and the game starts at around 11pm! Oh gosh! Why do I always miss the fun things?!?!
Well, John said that it's going to be a detective-like game, where everyone has to guess who murdered Luke.
I say, don't have to think that much, the killer must be Kelvin, the abusive brother! *Evil grin*
Too bad when I asked Luke who killed him and said that it must be his brother, Kelvin heard us! Herh, this brother.....
我说凯文杀气很重！哈哈哈哈！臭气还差不多！开玩笑！哈哈哈哈哈！
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站在门口，望见天上有两颗星星。
“哇！这里可以看见星星耶！”我大声向站在身边的翔文喊道。
“没有！”他很诡异地转头看后面的天空。
"我的手指指着这里啊，你看那边做么？”我扮凶凶开玩笑说道。
“只有两颗……"他说道，“噢~那颗是可诗来的！”
抬头望，一颗闪闪发亮，一颗却隐隐约约。
望回地面的翔文，走掉了。
我是哪颗呢？嘻嘻！
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翔文10月13号就会‘死’了！
我追问他到底是谁把他杀了，怎样冤枉‘死’了。
“翔文！你一定要等我哦！”我激动说道，“在你‘死’之前我一定会回来见你最后一面的！”
by~Casey Chan
