After This Visit, I Still Don't Have One

Went to watch Chicken Little with Shirley today @ Great World City. Once we were in the theatre, Shirley took out a Chicken Little stuffed toy, which she got for me all the way from the US (how sweet of her! ) and started giggling. Soon we were mucking around with it and the lady asked where we got the "free gift". FREE GIFT my ARSE! Well, that wasn't our response but told her nicely it was from the Disney store. So right after, we went down for an early dinner and everyone was eyeing Chicken Little as it was kinda dangling from my bag, rather just stuffed into my bag that was quite full. Once we sat down to eat, I had to re-pack and hide it away as it felt rather awkward with people staring at you or your things.

Halfway through Uma came up and chatted for a while. Basically gossiping about Ada who can be rather dumb & forgetful sometimes. So here we are trying to get her new address and phone number but she doesn't return our calls or emails. What a biatch! Hahahaha!

After dinner was a long walk to Gallery Evason Hotel to pass Sheeda her crochet bikini. We were looking at it during dinner and wondered what would actually be covered by that pair of interlocked thread. It looked more like eyemask than a bikini top. Anyhoo, we had to head right back to GWC as it was almost time to meet Shirley's friend who was driving us to church.

Shirley's choice of churches ended up being the New Creation Church that hold their bible study classes and services at The Rock Auditorium. First thing you do once you get in was to get your hand stamped as if you were entering some club. Once you get into the main auditorium, you'll think you've gone to watch another movie with ushers around to guide you to seats. If I didn't know anything about the Christian faith or churches, I'd have thought that this was one really cool church with plush movie-theatre-like seats instead of pews. With cameras and telepromters set up, the place looked more like they were preparing for some charity/awards show.

The session then started with everyone singing some songs (I honestly wouldn't call them hymns), hands raised and waving, almost like one of the gospel churches you'd see in shows. Personally it felt rather weird, almost to the point of pretentious, and totally unnatural. What made it even more weird was when the pastor (of the day) came on saying "Amen" to certain phrases in a questioning tone and used the term "your Ah Pa" and "your Daddy" (rather ghetto-ish) to mean the Lord/Father. It just sounded "off" and wrong. Bleh.

Fast forward through the whole bible class, which was not as funny as the woman with bad breath next to me thought it was. Everytime she laughed I could just smell her stomach contents and nearing the end it was the horrible gross smell of bile. They seem to expect everyone there to be Christians or would be there to enter into the Christian faith. Somehow I felt like I was brought there to be converted or something. For anyone who would ask me if I'd recommend a church, this is one I'd probably forget about.

Next I'll Be Trying Paganism