carol singing

carol singing ... first thing that cross my mind is, "i don't know what is that about". i've been ask by my aunt to go with my cousins to participate and take a look since i never heard about it. carol singing is some kind of singing activity perform by groups, mostly organise by christian-youth society, going from door to door during christmas, to wish them the one year festive and to pray for them.

that time i'm in ipoh, the carol singing suppose to be a 3 days programme, but my cousin and myself decide to go on the last day, which is on 21st december. we wear a black t-shirt and jeans which similar to the whole team... when we reach at st. peter church about 4pm, other members are already there, after waiting for a short time and briefing, about a total of 40+ members of st. peter christian youth taking 4 vans to head for the first destination, some other drive themselves, bringing some equipments like guitars, radios and portable speaker.

it is a private hospital, we gather in the lobby and set things up, then at 5pm, i get my lyrics of the songs, and then we start singing, actually i didn't listen to these songs before, so what i do just simply follow the music and pretending, 1st few minutes a bit nervous, but then get used to it already, the whole theme is about before and after the born of jesus. our leader make a short synopsis of the story, a total of ten songs we sing, then include a song that our members perform using sign language -"we are the reason", a very touching song when i first listen, nice...

after half-an-hour singing in the main lobby, we shift to 1st floor and repeat the performance, then the management prepare us some snacks in cafeteria. although not many people watch our performance, we can still get a loud applause from them, that's a very appreciate moment for us, the performers...

at 7pm, we head to next door, a resident's house, belongs to one of the member of the church society. because we have to wait for some other relatives to come, our leaders ask us to have some drinks and food before start singing, again we sing all the songs and wish them merry christmas.

as time continues running, we rush to the next house, at 8pm, then again the next house at 9.20pm. when we completed our carol singing, it's already 10pm... before we going back, our leaders do an ending briefing and thanks for our performance through out the three days of carol singing... (but i only attend for the last day, haha)...

quite a tiring day, yet i get to know of what is carol singing. all the them very enjoy, same thing happens to me... social activity really opens our mind to reality world, always better than staying in house facing games and internet, the virtual world...