james' blog...

james' blog...
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Monday, July 22, 2002

Sweet weekend..

Wow, such an amazing weekend!! So much to write about and so little time. It's already pretty late and I have a full day of work ahead of me, but I'll write a bit since I had no time to write anything during the weekend. Anyways, so it all started off with Friday. Slept in for the first time in a while, then went out for lunch. After that, Joe/Dan picked my bro and I up and we went shopping a bit in preperation for the party at night. By 5ish people started filtering in yea when all was said and done, I think we had over 60 people come. I know, I know, we had more last year, but I kind of liked it since we (Megs/I) actually got to talk with almost everybody instead of a lotta "hi's and bye's" like last year.

What did we do?! Well, had potluck dinner (with some amazing creations handmade by a lot of people from pasta to cheescake, and we had a ton of chicken as well. =) There were different people doing basketball outside, swimming in the pool, playing scrabble, playing tabboo, lots of talking and chatting, eating, and just different fun things! Even met a few new people (haha, we both seem to meet some new people at our party every year!) Had quite a bit of fun; thanks to all that came and showed up. Oh, and Carny called from HK in the middle of the party, Sue called from Windsor, Grace called from HK, Kar from Europe, and all these other people called in during the party too!! That was so sweet as well, and totally made our night.

After everyone left, Megs and I have our little "Christmas morning" at 4am and we open up all our presents together. Got so many funky things like car stuff, food, picture stuff, books, puzzles, pens n' stationary, music stuff, and of course, tons of alcohol!! Jon even bought me a mini-keg for afterwards!! Sam, Jon, Jon and Jus stayed over for the night and we chilled a while before crashing at like 5. Had a great evening!

Saturday was my actual bday and that was really sweet. Went to the driving range with Jon, Jon, and my bro for a bit but it was so hot so we didn't stay too long. Went out for lunch, ran some errands, and then chilled around for a bit, before going out for family dinner and then to John 4:24. The praise nite was pretty good, but there was a section where we took sidewalk chalk and wrote comments about Jesus all over Mel Lastman Square. A ton of people at John4 actually came up to me and said happy birthday (some that I didn't even know) so that was really sweet. I didn't even know how they knew it was my bday. That was really cool, and afterwards, I walked around reading and totally being encouraged and blessed by these comments. Went out for "siew ye" afterwards with a bunch of people (mainly softball team) at Congee Wong and then headed home.

Had church this morning, then went to Taste of Japan for lunch with our softball team. Chilled at the park for a bit and finally saw Lyds. Wow, I miss her so much!! Chatted for just a little bit and then we had our softball game. We were actually kind of freaked out cause we were playing the 6-0 knights jr. who had just finished dismantling FOTS, whom we really respected and thought were a great team. But I was really proud cause our team played really hard and played together and we pulled out a victory in the end. So now we're 6-0!! We also had a ton of people from the Sr. team and Lumas and other teams that came out to support us, so that was totally awesome.

Francine, the governess of the Knights Jr. is such an amazing woman. Afterwards, she invited our entire team, and all our fans and their fans over to her house where her parents were BBQing for us with a ton of good food (lots of meat!) She does that for every single team that her team plays and I thought that was so amazing. Thank you so much Francine for opening your house up to us and for really demonstrating God's love with your actions. We chilled there for a bit and then headed over to Velsie's where we chilled, watched "Meet the Parents" and yea, had more team bonding. Just got home now and i'm pretty dead tired.

So there you go. A completely useless update on my entire wonderful weekend. If you don't know me, I apologize, I'll try to have some substance on this blog sometime. But yea, really glad to see some old friends again this weekend. Thanks again to everyone who made it so sweet. Too many of you to name, but you definately know who you are! I'll try to blog more soon. Nites!

posted by jamescl | 12:24 AM

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