Last Night's Prayer Meeting

Mr Hoh was the chairperson, and as usual, he chose his favourite songs (easily predicted if one pays attention to his huraian before each song):

• Sweet Hour of Prayer
• What A Friend We Have In Jesus
  
• God Answers Prayer
  
• How Great Thou Art

And while elaborating on the prayer items, his attempt at a pun was really fascinating:

Jesus is the One who sings the tune, so let us hope that it strikes a note within us.

^_^" To end the presenting of prayer items, as always, he spoke in a very formal manner, as when he teaches Mathematics:

Without further ado, let us break into our groups to pray.

That's Mr Hoh for you.

Anyway, after prayer meet, we went off to Ramli's Burger next door for our traditional supper:

• Uncle Rodney + Uncle Beng
• Daniel See + Harry
• Sharma + Melissa
• Sis + Me + Shaun

(The youth sat at a separate table) We talked about all sorts of things, ranging from the Bible (fuh so spiritual) to our future lives (on Earth). Mel told us of how her friend's in a church where the pastor says that if you leave the church, you have to come back and serve 7 years there before you can leave. And he said it was from the Bible. Shaun suggested that he adapted the custom of the Year of Jubilee:

And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

Full passage on the year of Jubilee in Leviticus 25

I suggested that the pastor was thinking that you can't have a jubilee year if you weren't a slave/servant or doing some sort of service in the first place, so he instituted a system of servitude for 7 years so that at the end of it the members could have a jubilee! Whoop!

After a long discussion, we concluded that the pastor was nuts.

We chatted a little bit about Biology, and we discovered that all of us (except Shaun) were Bio dropouts:

• Sharma: "I slept in every Bio class from Form 4 to Form 5 and failed every paper. My teacher sampat wan. Every time during exam come and talk to me about football (o_O). I only managed to get B3 for SPM cuz the standard drop until very low."
  
• Sis: "-_- (at the last line) I failed every paper and got B4. Plus my friends always laugh at my test answers."
  
• Mel: "I can't remember a single thing about Bio. Only the isotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic thing."
• Me: "I dropped Bio for SPM =D"
  

Shaun: "Thanks man. I feel so pressured now."
Me: "Why leh? Our Bio all so teruk wat."
Shaun: "Yalah, you all! Bad role models!"

(Sharma mentioned something about how his Add Math always got A1 wan) After that, we moved on to the topic of work, especially relevant to the actively-looking-for-a-job Sharma, the currently-working Tse Shuen and the one-with-the-working-experience Melissa. Sharma and sis are both in the audit line, and it's really a tough line of work (judging from the amount of work sis brings home as a trainee).

"I know, I know. We work as auditors for 3 years first, then we move into Accountancy!"
"I know you were going to say that! Don't want! I want to move higher until become manager."
"Eh, manager in audit firm also get RM 3000+ only leh. I think you go into teaching better."
"Har?"
"Your pay confirmed higher than RM 3000 lor."
"Cannot la. I cannot handle students like me."
"Eh, why not become lecturer? Easy life!"
"Ya! Get paid by the hour somemore."
"My lecturer ar, for 3-hour lecture, he came in the first hour and wrote a question on the board. Then he hilang diri till the 3rd hour, then came back and said: 'This is where most of you went wrong. I think.'"
"Become teacher la."
"Ya, ya, become PJ teacher! Everyday in the canteen only wan =D 'Boy, ini kunci. Pergi ambil bola. Ini bola. Kick.'"
"Eh, Sharma can teacher Add Math wat. Hwei can teacher Law and English, I teach Accounts..."
"Melissa teach Econs, Shaun teach Moral and Civics~"

Talk talk talk~

"Eh, so we're all going to be teachers right?"
"Ya! We open our own school!"
Sis + Shaun: "Yeah! Got everything wan - Law, Accounts, Add Math, Moral, Civics, Economics~"
"PJ!"
"Yeah! Private school! With everything except Bio."
"The Special School With Everything But Bio. Got Standard 1 until Degree wan. All in one place."

And so we spent the night talking about nonsense over a plate of kentang goreng and iced drinks (except Sharma and Sis)

"Cold drinks are for small kids. Adults drink hot drinks."

That was before he realized Mel had ordered iced tea. After that, he quickly changed his sentence:

"Working people drink hot drinks."

"Pandai you."