6th Place, Baby!!

okok...i guess that's good...but it could've been better. considering we are...BUT let's not dwell on the past and be content with what we have at present.

wait...you don't know what i'm talking about, do you? it's the treasure hunt organized by Saint Francis Xavier's church for the Triple Jubilee of the Jesuit Order...(or something like that)... so the hunt was basically a church thing...and we got 6th place in the end...not too bad...not too bad at all..the hunt started from the church in PJ and ended up in Malacca...

Malacca..i haven't been there for ages...and i must say i loved every second of it. it's oh-so-beautiful...just the culture and tradition AND the smell of joss-sticks and incence is enough to knock your socks over...

and celebrating mass at the old church ruins on St Paul's Hill...you know, the old old building right on top that has a statue of St Francis Xavier outside?? yes, there. we celebrated mass there..singing hymns....looking up at the bright clear blue sky..(as there was no roof)...it somehow felt really surreal...like...SURREAL. i'd love to do it again sometime...

anywho...here are some pics...i don't have any taken in the church...cos it would've seemed improper and somehow sacrilegious to do so...but it was beautiful...so beautiful that a picture didn't seem necessary...



In the midst of the hunt...everyone's busy looking for answers and lo and behold... ELAINE!!


Inside the church of St Paul's Hill...this tombstone belongs to a certain Pieter Pietersen who died on May 27 1644...




Mom, Elaine, me and dad..we DO look like a family, don't we?


Double Take: Jazz duo...i'm completely in love with the guitarist...to quote Father Aloysius.."if the guitar was a human body, it'd have fainted with pleasure"...









oh...and i've just gotta tell you...there's this huge lizard living in my house...ARGH!! make that, an IGUANA. it's seriously that huge...