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Dress Code
By Peace | November 14, 2011
Jesus Is Stripped of His Garment
Do you know that you are not allowed to enter the church if you are wearing such so-called three-quarters pants?
Jesus Falls The Second Time
This is St Joseph’s Church at Bukit Timah and I had to carry a big bag for the journey there. The weather was very hot on that day and the photograph taken on this day was excellent. You can see that I wore three-quarter long sleeved despite the hot weather. I wore long jeans — acceptable dress code for church.
In Singapore, the weather is so unpredictable. One moment it was sunny and the next moment it could be raining. Tonight is such a cool night. I am watching TV in the room with cool breeze blowing in my home, without the need to on the air-con. This is a rare chance. Usually it is hot in Singapore!
Ever since my parish implemented the dressing code, I had changed my wardrobe to cater to the permissible dressing code of the parish. I remembered I blogged about it and had done a search on the article. It is exactly four years!
Yesterday, the whole family went to church. It was raining at intervals throughout the day — one moment rain, another moment no rain. By the time we wanted to go to church, it was not raining. We walked to Causeway Point to meet Richard and then from there we intended to go church together. However, halfway walking to Causeway Point, it started to rain. After meeting Richard, we decided to take a cab to church.
We reached the church very early. I went to the shop to buy something. After that we proceed to the church whereby we were stopped by the wardens. We were taken aback by the sudden stoppage and the wardens walking towards us. “Sorry, you cannot enter the church.” the wardens said. “Your daughter also cannot.” The fat warden walked toward us , saying that they would not allow us to enter the church. Richard was angry and we proceed to the crying room. Later we were again told to go out (before mass started).
I was wearing three-quarter pants as what they said it to be. And I was wearing three-quarter long-sleeved shirt then. Clara’s pants was supposed to be full length, but since she had grown taller, her pants now become three-quarter and despite the fact that she was wearing ladies shoes (the one we bought on the day we visited Goh Keng Swee…). Richard and Ricsson wore long pants and there were no issues on them. Richard said,”I am not so holy!” They would not want to attend church without me and Clara. In the end, we stood at the Foyer, ‘discussed’ what to do. Some others also had the same fate. We stood there at the foyer. As it was a wet day, we took the cab once there was opportunity (people coming to church). In front of us was a filipino family with the mother wearing three-quarter pants. They took the cab home.
Walking on along Bukit Timah Railroad
Many places are flooded with water during rainy seasons nowadays. Yesterday, after we went off from church in the cab, we went to Causeway Point again (to buy cake). After that, we had to walk home in the rain. Luckily there were some shelters along the journey home. But not all the pathway has shelters. Along our way home, so much water along the pavement — water flooded the pathway and all our shoes were wet. The guys wearing long pants had their pants wet. Richard said,”your pants are dried, whereas we have one-quarter of our pants wet.” That is the advantage of wearing three-quarter pants on rainy day for women.
(to be continued)
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November 15th, 2011 at 8:37 am
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November 15th, 2011 at 9:08 am
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