I had a pretty awesome time in malacca, despite afew unavoidable mishaps. which probably happen all the time, anyway. I shan't give you a daybyday breakdown of what happened, but i'll just provide you with hilights-
Father JJ is a rotund (i'm not being rude) priest, indian with curly hair. (shut up, weifen) he plays the guitar like a DREAM, and is the most personable preist i've EVER met. sat next to him on the journey to and from, with him playing oldies on the guitar for a total of i think, 1 1/2 hours! as a spiritual director, he was great as well, explaining contradictions in the bible and making me much stronger in faith. His passion is very inspiring.
alright, on to hilights! i fell sick with the flu on the second day, it wasn't very serious, but i used it as and excuse to not attend practice. and BOY was i lucky, practice went on for 3 WHOLE HOURS with only TWO FIVE MINTUE TOILET BREAKS. urgh. when i came down from my room for mass, i was already perfectly fine, but had to sneak in afew hacking coughs and sneezes (which were very realistic, thank you). so i managed to avoid snide remarks. phew.
at night we played daidee and bluff, and there was this really amusing instance where we were playing bluff and I HAD WON and nicholas got rid of his pack second, so only nicole and lianna were left playing. but after about 10 minutes, we realised bluff coldn't be played by two people, HAHA, it was pretty stupid.
the next night we went to a seaside restaurant, right next to the straits of malacca. there are HUNDREDS of stray dogs in malacca, and there were so many at the restaurant (it was open aired). anyway, nicole had this HUGE paranoia with dogs and went rigid with fear everytime one got near, so nicholas was like- why you all so scaaared? you so much bigger than the dog what."
you know what happened right after that? he went up to a dog, and tried to pet it, said "hello doggie!"
ARF ARF ARF.
l swear, nicholas jumped about a foot in the air! screamed like a terrified little girl, and ran off faster than you cold say "scardy cat"
i hadn't laughed so hard since god knows when.
i hope you all didn't miss me too much, i'm going to have to get back to my study routine. i'm about to start now, wish me luck.
and sanity.
