chinese we (me n lou) were walking home from dinner tonight. we walked past the chinese mission church along little bourke st bet russell and exhibition (*near sharkfin house), which was quite strange cuz we seldom take the route. it was one of the rare times that the church doors were open and we heard singing coming from within...so we popped in n joined in their service. the place was pretty small....there were around 40 people (around the same number as my tute class!) and the place already looked quite full. they sang in both chinese n english...same song...just different languages....they prayed in chinese...but thank goodness the pastor preached in english. we awkwardly took a seat but no matter how much we tried to blend into the background, it was rather obvious we were new since everyone seemed to know everyone else. everyone turned to give us polite smiles....following that they passed us a...chinese bible. : we looked at each other and flipped nervously trying to find HEBREWS haha. after thepastor finished preaching they went on with their prayer meet....the other pastor now began speaking n praying in chinese....everyone was praying in chinese...i could barely understand. but enough to get the gist of it. the experience was nice. it was a simple place. not with drums, guitars and the works. just a piano and a whole congregation singing their hearts out. maybe we'll pop by again another day. in the meantime, i really need to improve on my chinese.