Christmas at Portugese Settlement

It's Christmas..!!

Look at these photos.. Where do you think we celebrated Christmas at??

It's Portuguese Settlement in Melaka.. a very famous place for Christmas celebration.

In order not to join in the “Christmas Traffic Jam of Portuguese Settlement”, on 9^th December 2006, 3^rd Melaka company had our last outing of the year to Portuguese Settlement to celebrate Christmas. The program is simple: main-main, makan-makan and jalan-jalan.

The NCOs organized games for seniors and juniors. We sang, we dance and we “shouted” publicly.

After some games, it's finally time for makan.

The food in Portuguese Settlement is rather expensive, as it is a famous place for seafood and it is “Portuguese style of cooking”.

Officers ordered 6 dishes for all of us.. yummy yummy.. Portuguese style of cooking is quite spicy. The famous black pepper brinjal is sooooooooo spicy that only few senior members enjoyed it. At the end, “untung” the officers as they get to “sapu” all the food.. (emm… do you think they purposely ordered this dish so that they can eat more.. haha…)

After makan, it's time to jalan-jalan.

The houses are decorated with lights and lights and more lights.

The best decorated house is “Santa Workshop” where there is a HUGE santa and a HUGE snowman at the entrance of this house. We were so excited to see that!

Everyone posting to take photo of these 2 decorative items.

There is another house which focuses on the birth of the King. It is the most meaningful decorated of all

After jalan-jalan, we have our BB vesper as the closing of our outing.

Although this is a very simple outing, all members enjoyed themselves. Everyone rejoice, as it is the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ! Remember, Christmas is the celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, not the Santa Clause or the Snowman..!! 

Here, 3^rd Melaka wishing you all… Blessed Christmas and Happy New Year 2007!!

Lim Fern Fern, officer of 3rd Melaka writes.