Hari Raya Haji

Ah it's the Hari Raya Haji holiday and the start of the 3 short weeks .... I Like .... :)

The weather however was not very cooperative, wanted to have a game of tennis or swim but it kept raining. In the end the family and some relatives decided to head on down to Marina / Suntec. There were not many cars on the roads but wow !! all the malls had their car park FULL signs up !! what gives I thought, the traffice was light, not sure why. In the end after going round once I decided to head to the Esplanade Car Park, at least there was still lots there. When I got to the mall, man was it crowded !! So jam packed with people, wanted to get some bowling done but we had to wait like an hour for a lane so decided to skip that and just browse around the mall.

After shopping at Marina and Suntec, we went back to Esplande and there was this area where you could sign on some balloons and give your wishes for the new year, here's what I wrote, guess you can make out what was under 'Happy New Year 2008' ha ha ...

Here's some more wishes from the wife and the neices and nephews.

Anyways in the end we decided to go to that Makansutra "hawker centre" near the Esplande for dinner before we head back for some Christmas Carolling at the Esplanade. Order awhoel bunch of stuff as you can see below the photo on the left and on the right is the 'aftermath' of the meal.

BEFORE . ..........a........n........d.... . . AFTER

The Christmas Carols were great, it was from a group called Agreppalla pretty decent songs and they cut a CD this year, the music was so good that we decided to support them and bought their CD, played in on the way back, pretty good stuff although a little short on the playing time. There was a song in there, can't remember which as the CD is in the car currently, but it started with little kids giving their wishes to Jesus and there was this little remark from a little kid :-

" I want to give Jesus all my medicine so that he can help to cure all the people in the world .... and I don't like my medicine. "