My husband and I are Catholics.

My mother-in-law is a Methodist.

My husband's eldest sister and her family are staunch Buddhists.

My husband's youngest sister married a Malay gentleman and converted to Islam.

I speak Malay with my grandmother, mother-in-law and eldest sister-in-law as I can't speak any of their Chinese dialects and they are not fluent in English.

My husband and I celebrate Chinese New Year with both our respective families, dividing our time between Malacca and Klang. During Cheng Beng, we help his uncle clean the graves, and we light joss sticks to remember those who have gone before us.

We visit my youngest sister-in-law's family during Hari Raya and tuck into some 'rendang' and 'satay', and everyone comes over to our place on Christmas Day to have roast turkey with cranberry sauce.

Does that make any of us bad Christians, Buddhists or Muslims? Hardly. Rather, we would be a disgrace to our respective religions if we held on to a "holier than thou" attitude and condemned the other to hell for not sharing in our beliefs.

Faith is pretty experiential - if you have a personal relationship with God, you are just as unlikely to renounce Him as to say that the Earth is flat because you know that He is real. No amount of Christmas tree lighting, Deepavali goodies or 'lemang' will change that.