Today is the last day at work before the 4-day public holiday, celebrating Easter. My colleagues collectively gave me a baptism gift and a card, giving me all the good and warm wishes. How very nice of them! Some of them are even not Christian!

I went into the office late today, quite usual lately as there was nothing to do. When I got into my office, I was hit by a huge bouquet of flowers! It's really huge! They smelt gorgeous! It's from William, congratulating me in advance for my baptism. It's so nice of him! He's going to Taiwan over the weekend on business and could not come to the ceremony.

It's Holy Thursday. There was a special mass at Catholic Centre at 5:30pm then there'll be bible sharing at 8pm; same place. I could have made to the mass on time but I wanted to drag 2 of my colleagues, who are lapsed Catholic to it too. One had a medical appointment and couldn't go anyway. The other was going to go but when the clock struck, she needed to speak to the stupid partner ... Well, same old story, nothing new. So, I went on my own and joined from Father Russell's preaching.

Had lunch with a few CC friends. Sharing started shortly after 8pm and continued until after 10pm. It was good; Benny led us and he was, as always, very well prepared. It was a little longer than usual as one of the attendees talked about her children, how to teach them ... things that are irrelevant to what was discussed and to be discussed. If Benny had not intervened a few times, sharing might take a bit longer. Not that I mind the length of bible sharing. Bible sharing is good. I like them. But not sharing re how to teach children and re comparison between Catholics and the Church of England, for example.

After that, I rushed back to the office to get the bouquet and back to CC to take my teacher home. I didn't want to bring it to CC earlier to avoid attention and questions! A few of them saw it and was envy how wonderful the bouquet was. But they didn't ask any questions, or there wasn't much time for them to do so because soon, my teacher and I got into a taxi and left. Surprising, my teacher didn't ask any question either. My teacher is a nice person, but pretty nosy sometimes. If I answer the phone in front of her, she would ask who it was and so on. Somehow I didn't want to say anything, not that there was anything to hide, but just don't feel like "reporting." So, I would just smile. :)

On the way to my office, Benny and Priscilla gave me a book as my baptism gift. It's from Father Choi. It's his preaching on the Sunday Gospel for Year B, which is the current liturgical year. Many thanks to them. I asked them for their autograph on the book too! hee hee.