Xmas'07 at Mumbai

December 25th 20O7

Xmas of 06 was spent at Bangalore. We were busy with project at NCST. So little do I enjoyed. I attended the Xmas nights Holy service. That was the only thing happened. One more interesting part was I bought cake to all my fellow NCSTians, they also came up with cake. I was really surprised. As I previously mentioned, I only spent Xmas , I havent celebrated . Since I had to help my team, which was in real danger and my colleague , who was really tensed.

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Xmas of 07 was celebrated at Mother of Victory Church, Tikujiniwadi, Thane, Mumbai.This church is a well known pilgrim centre.Celebrations started with the Xmas Carol programs. These progams include, visiting each and every home which is registered to Church , then dancing and singing along with the Santa Claus. We had around 7days of Carol programs. And we used to cover 24 houses a day.

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Major differences I have noticed between here and home town are . We were travelling in a Mini bus. We were having all the army im that. Usuage of a transport vehicle was done so as to cover a minimum of 20houses/ day. Since the city was vast and all registered families were scattered all over the city. At our home town we covered all houses by walk,since each houses where located near by.

Second thing was Santa, not only danced, but also made people dance with him. This is a big task, as people shy away from doing that. Here the group entered into houses/ flats. where at home town we used to remain at door steps or car porch. This entery into houses I believe is due to space restriction.

Third thing was we all had hours of joy and dance at our last stop. We had the traditional Kerala food at our last hop. Which we never had at home town,since we completed our visit to all the homes,one day before Xmas.

Forth thing was , here the group was mainly lead by elder people. There were a bigger cordination and maturity in the way things were organised. At our hometown , we youngsters holded the thread.

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The Xmas service at church started by 10.30pm. The service included an animated sequence of the Genisis. Both the video and wordings were in perfect sync. The scene which symbolised the birth of Jesus Christ was perfectly engineered, with the upper part of the Crib lifting up.Both parts were joined as a Globe Jesus christ was concealed inside that. Church also conducted a competition of Xmas cribs. It was held among nine sectors , divided according to the location. These nine sectors comes under our chuch, spread across vast area. They were given stalls to install their creativity. All were worth viewing. Service ended by 1.30am on 25th December.

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We had a nice sleep.Then messages and calls started ringing my mobile phone. There were calls from my closest circles, whom I least expected. We had cake and wine. We cooked Chicken in bulk and had a big food festival. Our neighbours, who stays upstair , made special meals and fish and some home town special snacks and were given to us. We had a nice time.

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Enjoy Madi