fantastic-fab day!!!

Firstly, it's cos im done!!! FREEDOM AT LAST!! & i got to finish the paper feeling happy rather than worried cos the paper was easy! Ok maybe i wont say easy. The paper was not really tough. =) Yep yep.

WOohoooO! So many things were on today. Sucha happy day really.

In the morning, there was this christmas parade on (yeh i know, i think aussies like to fast fwd their months from novemeber to a feel of december cos christmas decorations are already up everywhere) & the roads were all closed up for the parade. When i went out of my apmt today, ppl were everywhere on the road, lining up on either sides with chairs & balloons & kids everywhere...Sadly though, i couldnt be in the crowd & couldnt get to watch the parade cos i was making my way to chinatown to get the bus from there where the roads were not closed, to the exam place -_- So i missed the parade...! ="(

Neway, after the paper was done we all had lunch & because of the bloody hot weather all of us felt tired & decided to head home for a nap.. but instead (as usual) once reached home, the computer was turned on & the sleepiness just vanished. So chatted & chatted till it was 545pm then had to rush to go to church where there was this youth mass on at 6pm in conjunction with the upcoming World Youth Day!

For those of you who do not know what exactly it is, it's this huge event which is held once every 3 yrs in different, different countries across the world each time (sorta like olympics kinda feeling except in a religious sense!)

According to www.wyd2008.org, to be more precise: World Youth Day is the largest youth event in the world and will be held in Sydney from 15-20 July 2008. Organised by the Catholic Church, World Youth Day gathers young people from around the world to build bridges of friendship and hope between continents, peoples and cultures. Through the WYD08 experience, young people from throughout the world will make a pilgrimage in faith, meet, and experience the love of God. The young people will have an opportunity to rediscover their baptismal calling and the centrality of the sacraments of the Eucharist and reconciliation, and so discover a new apostolic zeal to witness more fully the Gospel in the modern world. All in the context of the beauty of Australia and the hospitality of the Australian people!

So that's why I'm gonna be in Sydney next year from 15-20 July! Yahooooo!!

Anyway, went for the youth mass & there was a procession after mass where the cross & icon of WYD was walked through the streets of adelaide. It was such an awesome feeling, really. If i had been in malaysia, NO WAY would i have been able to do such a thing. I doubt the cross & icon could even enter malaysian borders -_- But really, it was such a privilege to be able to be there at that point. To even be in australia as a whole. The timing of this whole WYD thing is just SO perfect! It being in aus just next year, otherwise i wouldnt have been able to attend it & would miss out on a once in a lifetime chance of it....

So yeh, after mass at 7pm, we waited outside church for the procession to begin & started walking thru the streets of adelaide. It was so fun! Felt like a parade more than anything else. hahahaa.. There were things given out like cool plastic candles which were able to light up, a wooden cross with 'WYD SYD 08' stamped on it & also helium balloons! It's been sucha long time since i actually held a helium balloon so it was kinda exciting. hahaah lol. I kno im pathetic.

There was this group of Africans playing music all the way during the procession, & those ppl carrying banners & the cross at the front of the procession. The cross & icon is actually the WYD cross & icon, which has travelled all around the world for all the WYD events. The same cross going across continents & borders, from Europe to Asia to everywhere. Could you imagine?! It was such an amazing feeling being able to be a part of it......

We walked thru adelaide city until 9pm when joanne, chastine & i decided to break off from the group & go grab dinner (since at that time we were passing by Rundle St where all the restaurants were & we were hungry!!). Half of me wanted to continue the procession back to church but i knew it was already 9pm & since i have got stomach problems, I had better get dinner so off we went to Scoozi with our helium balloons tied to the chair while having dinner. LOL. It was such a great way to end a happy day. I was SO happy i couldnt stop grinning like an idiot.

Anyway, pics would be posted up shortly!