Sunday, June 25, 2006
whee confirmation is over already. ahh. it was great, except that i was being especially blur today. hmph. i didn't even know what to do. so half the time i had this lost expression on my face. heh.
and i was called upon to give the offerings today with this other guy. and cos it was my first time, so i didn't know what to do. heh and i wasn't properly instructed on what to do. lol and half the time i was just busy concentrating on not dropping the cruets or doing something stupid. heh but i didn't okay. i gave the thingies to archie in perfect condition okay. [heh maybe i should stop calling the archbishop 'archie'. it sounds rude. ><] yeah just that i made this beeeg booboo right at the altar. hee by the time i reached the front of the altar, i was thinking 'oh great so what do i do now?' and then the archbishop was looking right over my head, so i thought i'd better wait for him to look down and accept the offerings. heh turns out that i wasn't supposed to wait. i was just supposed to pass him the stuff. and OOPS i didn't bow to him. the other guy didn't too. haha imagine that. archie bowed to us, but we didn't bow back. argh. so malu. :/ heh and the whole time i was feeling like this gigantic blur marshmallow.
heh and the confirmation part was so fast. gahh. basically we renewed our baptismal vows first, then came the anointing part. basically, archie just dipped his fingers into this mixture of oil and balm and then marked a cross on our foreheads. heh. and then he went something like "with this i seal you with the Holy Spirit". or something. i can't remember now. haha everything happened so fast. :/ so sad that i didn't really pay much attention to what was happening around me. i mean, it's a once in a lifetime kinda thing right.
heh. then we took a couple of pics. (: haha. the three of us: tess, jean and myself. haha. and then i took a pic with this very cute ij doll in the pinafore too! (x heh. it's hair looked like a monkey. hee i have the ij bear at home (: whee. oooh and then before the mass the whole gang of us went for last minute confession. hehe. so there was this whole group of us [it was practically the whole of my confirmation class] standing outside the confessional. so funny haha. heh oops i think fr tong could tell that i hadn't been for confession in a long long time. hmm. i wonder how he could tell. haha then he asked how long i had not been for confession... one year? haha i bet he almost fainted when i said "erm, actually i think it was a few years. " then i got this long pep talk about why you shouldn't miss mass and stuff. heh ooops. ><
ohh and there was so much food in the canteen! omg! haha today happened to be the feast of the sacred heart, plus it was our confirmation too! (: hee actually i think that was the reason why our confirmation was held today. cos it's our church's feast day! haha *boink* but i didn't eat. heh cos we were waiting around for many different people, so that we could get our certificates and our gift from fr tay! (: wheehee.
heh our gift from fr tay was a bible! (: yayy now i have a proper one. and the front page was signed by him too! (; heh and my cert looks absolutely cool too. (: my godmother gave me a cute little angel figurine too! haha it was holding a little rosary. (: and it had pink wings. heh. ohh and my face smells very nice too! cos of the chrism oil that was used on our foreheads. heh it smells super super nice! (: omg. i don't feel like washing my face. lol just joking. after all, it was oily. heh i seem to have smelt that smell before, but now i don't remember where. never mind. from now on, i shall always associate that smell with today (:
okie now some pics. (:
hee the anointing part. hee i like archie's outfit! (: oops i mean vestments. especially the tall hat, and the staff. he looks like gandalf haha.
group pic (: myself, tess and jean. heh we look like a bunch of pap supporters. haha but it looks nice. and that's a statue of jesus in the background.
my gifts! the red book is the bible. and the white thing is my wonderful cert. (: and the angel is sitting on top of the bible. (:
ohh and i'm going to be a warden! (: heh. at least i'll be motivated to go to church every sunday. (: whee!
omg i wish i could freeze time. today is the most special day of the year. for me, at least. hmph. have to go back to school tomorrow. sian. have to face 2 more terms of work. yuck.
my gifts! the red book is the bible. and the white thing is my wonderful cert. (: and the angel is sitting on top of the bible. (: