25 Dec 2009
dear Mark,
it's Christmas!! :) guess what...we didn't attend service on christmas eve morning.. hahaha...'ponteng'... instead, we followed a family from Long Langai to their 'resort' at Fa' Langai (Sungai Langai)..they have a fruit orchard so we ate loads of langsat and buah beritam.. the buah tampoi wasn't ripe...and the buah terap trees were sorta far away... there was some ponds in his land so the guys went fishing in the ponds after lunch... i think you might have joined in if you were here..
dear Mark,
it's Christmas!! :) guess what...we didn't attend service on christmas eve morning.. hahaha...'ponteng'... instead, we followed a family from Long Langai to their 'resort' at Fa' Langai (Sungai Langai)..they have a fruit orchard so we ate loads of langsat and buah beritam.. the buah tampoi wasn't ripe...and the buah terap trees were sorta far away... there was some ponds in his land so the guys went fishing in the ponds after lunch... i think you might have joined in if you were here..
there was no 'tarian lilin' or any spectacular fireworks performance on christmas eve but thanks to L, we had a 'private' viewing of fireworks at the airport! However it started raining so the fireworks show was a short one.. the sky was perpetually cloudy so couldn't see much stars, not like the 1st trip.. :I kinda sad la cause I was really hoping for fireworks and skies filled with stars...
This year's Christmas celebrations seems to be slightly different from our first experience.. this time they had quite a lot of praying in the beginning..and they sang more BM songs.. and L even sang English songs during tonight's service!.. not many carols were sung in L Bwg (dang! I was so looking forward to nani carols in the L Bwg language :P ).. pastor preached in BM (so we actually could understand what he spoke on)..
I managed to learn some L Bwg words during my 3 years in Limbang thus this ability to understand questions by the org kampung..and some of the announcements made in church truly made my whole trip this year more meaningful..
can't wait to go back again...some day... :P
so wanted to sing those carols in LB!! though we dun understand well the language but we know how to sing it! hahaha.. this time got intro WA as Tuan Doctor? haaha..
ReplyDeletegot dance together with the whole congregation in the church again during the service?
ahhh! airport! that was my most memorable experience.. easy access into airport! hehe.. imagine you doing that in KLIA, immediately DETAINED!! :D
really thank you for posting these up.. looks like you guys enjoyed a lot! :)
yeah..tell me about it man..i really really wanted to sing carols in LB.. nope..this time not being addressed so highly.. haha.. but we had to go out in front and shake hand with all those who came to church that night..
ReplyDeletethey did dance during service..but i didn't do it la..lazy... think this time not many relatives went back to kampung.. so not so 'meriah'...