Mr. Grumpy!

It's all over!

2009-04-23T22:49:00.003+08:00

Weeeee! The group calmed down after the whirlwind presentation which we surprised ourselves by doing everything very well from the presentation to actually showcasing the final product! I mean, even my laptop had to fail... which is a bad thing right? But it failed right when our presentation ended. Woots! Oh Oh, my Prof actually told me at the start of the presentation to hide my arsenal sticker on my laptop because I may offend non-arsenal fans. LOL! He apparently studied at Manchester for all his degree, masters etc. and he said he supported man united bcos apparently he stayed outside Maine Road (Man City Homeground) and he was always angry at them for parking outside his home on match days and distrupt his studies! Funny! And before we presented, another group was presenting before us, and we walked and sat through some of their presentation, and they were having a hard time, which gave my group the jitters. But, everything turned out great! Thank God!

After everything ended, we talked about what we wanted to do during the holidays. Some hope to secure their VIP(Vacation Internship). Some going Korea and Taiwan. Good stuff! And they asked me if I was going to do some charity stuff again (They remembered I left hastily for Cambodia during the previous sem) hehe.

Seriously what am i going to do? I really didn't wanna do VIP cause .... I'm doing so-so in mech engin, and I don see myself in this industry when I grad. I half didn't wanna do VIP cause of June Retreat as well. Sniggers. I digress. Doing this project makes me weary of FYP. It's seriously going to be a scary year ahead. And i figured ultimately in the end I'm afraid that all these will impact 2010, what am I going to do when I grad?

After reading Jon's blog, I shall use these 3 months wisely to Matt 6:33 :) Next year would be a good year :D

Onwards to papers!

2009-02-21T03:07:00.001+08:00

My personal convictions :)

2009-01-18T01:08:00.001+08:00

1st week of school's over! And it's already so busy!

Ah well I'm not complaining. Just gotta get down to doing stuff. 4 months to holidays!

2009-01-05T00:30:00.003+08:00

Since my birthday. it's been a hectic 3 months to say the least! I've been truly blessed with all that's happened! It's probably hard to pen down all my thoughts over the pass 3 months. Pple have told me things and I'm wondering if I'm actually capable of the things they've said. lol. Shall not reveal too much!

Anyway 2009 is upon us and... I'm 24 this year! Woots! Alot of things are happening and I'm just committing everything to God for this year!

Amen to a great 2009 for him!

2008-10-05T23:20:00.002+08:00

It's my birthday!

And I'm grateful for everything in these 23 years. And I'm thankful for every single one of you guys! :)

Many more happy 23 years to come!

2008-09-30T00:41:00.000+08:00

Woot!

2008-08-25T20:57:00.003+08:00

Finally got some details about my project! They changed our project in the end. It's about a new system in transporting cargo containers from one vesssel to another whilst off-shore. Going to do a miniature version of the whole system, and design the control system of the overall thingy. Still unsure of the whole thing because they need to get the patent before releasing details to the public.. i.e. My Group. Haha.

Oops!

2008-08-20T19:14:00.000+08:00

Didn't get the project! Instead got a project with Keppel Marine and Offshore instead.. Something to do with.. sludge?!! haha. I guess it'll be fun.

I hope :)

2008-08-19T21:44:00.002+08:00

School work is going start piling up soon. Hopefully I'll do most of them this time around. :)
Had a presentation to get a year-long project with Jurong shipyard, and hopefully we'll get the project, if not we'll be doing a project randomly assigned to us. Otherwise everything is slowly becoming routine! Which is... good? At least I feel life is more organised now. Haha.

And onto some random thoughts and comments..

National Day Rally - Yippee for an extra $100 for the Oct 1st Growth Dividends. Birthday present from the government.

I was really tempted to get the Wine Red Gibson LP Studio since it was so cheap.. but, it's sold! Decision made for me by someone else :) I'll wait for LP Studio Alpine White with Gold Hardware instead :) :)

2008-08-02T00:55:00.001+08:00

No more Guitar!
haha.

More Gas

2008-07-31T22:59:00.002+08:00

I'm a sucker for white guitars. Urgh.

Gear Acquisition Syndrome

2008-07-22T01:06:00.002+08:00

I've gone potty looking at guitars the whole night. Now my wish is for people to pick up electric guitars, so I can be an acoustic guitarist. lalala.

When Harry Met Sally

2008-07-17T04:05:00.001+08:00

I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

:)

Missing Masterpiece

2008-07-15T03:37:00.002+08:00

Hughes, Tim. Missing Masterpiece. 10th July 2008

On 21 August 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' painting was stolen from the Louvre in France. The Louvre was immediately closed down for an entire week as a mass operation swung into action to hunt down the missing masterpiece. When the museum was finally reopened, thousands of people queued up to see the blank wall space, where the Mona Lisa once hung.

It seems crazy that so many people would pay to essentially see nothing. I guess this can be like our church services without the Holy Spirit. We get caught up with the external things - the songs, the sound, the lighting, how the band look, how people are responding. The danger is we judge a successful time of worship by how great the band played and how intense the experience was. All of this can happen without the Holy Spirit.

A. W. Tozer once laid down the challenge, “If God took His Holy Spirit out of this world, what the church is doing would go right on and nobody would know the difference.”

We mustn't let that happen. Worship without the Holy Spirit is like turning up to the Louvre to see an empty space where the Mona Lisa was once displayed for all to see. It's a challenge to remember that we must keep getting desperate to see God's Spirit at work. To be surrendered to His lead and obedient to His call. To be passionate in prayer and willing to take risks. Only then will we see true breakthrough in the worshipping life of our churches.

2008-07-02T20:54:00.001+08:00

Watch this video first before watching the one below!

Healer

2008-07-02T20:45:00.006+08:00

You hold my every moment

You calm my raging seas

You walk with me through fire

And heal all my disease

I trust in You

I believe You're my Healer

I believe You are all I need

I believe You're my Portion

I believe You're more than enough for me

Jesus You're all I need

Nothing is impossible for You

You hold my world in Your hands

May this be an encouragement to everyone who's facing difficulties in life!

Surely if he could put so much faith in God despite his circumstances, shouldn't we as well?:)

2008-06-24T18:48:00.003+08:00

Weddings make everyone feel all lovey dovey.

Now I'm thinking of what to sing for my own wedding in.. 5 years time!
Ha dee ha ha.
Any suggestions?

2008-06-17T01:09:00.002+08:00

Just went through a very utterly frustrating conversation with someone.
I said I'll record this down in my blog, so ten years down the road, I'll ask about this conversation, so I can find out exactly what went on ten years ago.

2008-05-27T14:00:00.002+08:00

Another nice read! Enjoy!
Rushing off to Dhoby Ghaut now.

Goh, Kenny. An Attitude of Excellence. 26th May 2008

Background
Recently, one of the boys in my cell group complained that church was 'boring', and that the worship was 'insincere'.

I thought deeper into it, and realised that these were surface excuses. The main issue was that he was not interested in God at all. If he was, he would have found church exciting - a person chasing after God would look forward to the outpouring of thanksgiving during worship, the thirst for God's Word during the sermon, etc.

Attitudes bear out in Actions
Similarly, attitudes matter in how engaged we are in our ministries. Years ago, several musicians were late for a rehearsal led by a pastor in my church, who then talked about how it could be due to two reasons i) valid reasons, e.g. traffic jams, or ii) a poor attitude.

A poor attitude doesn't arise because the person 'just happens' to not feel like going for rehearsal. Rather, it arises because the 'spark' and interest to serve and worship God isn't there. Conversely, consistent sloppiness is often a sign of a poor attitude. Hence, although there is often a tendency to look at the action (e.g. coming late), what really matters is the underlying impetus and passion to serve. After all, "Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam 16:7).

This bears out in Numbers 14. Prior to entering the Promise Land, the Israelites rebelled against God when they heard negative reports from the spies. God, however, did not touch about the act of rebellion, but addressed the underlying attitude, which is a lack of faith: "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?" (Num 14:11).

Cutting-Edge Ministries
My church's senior pastor constantly challenges us to to engage in 'cutting-edge ministries'. This bears out in Col 3:23 - Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

What is working for God like? Put it this way - I put a few mins to give inputs to my colleagues at work, and maybe about an hour for my director. But recently, our Ministers (i work in the civil service) had a question - i poured sweat over it for days!

In the same vein, the effort that goes into serving God multiplies a thousand-fold as compared to serving Men.

Putting the Two Together
Having high standards is an act of worship to God, an effort to bring worship that is deserving of His glory. On a practical note, this bears out in e.g. being punctual, preparing in advance, and practicing on your own. But these will never happen without a thirst for God's will to be realised, without a love for God, and without a passion for pleasing God because "whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God" (1 Cor 10:31).

Admittedly, we can never offer a standard worthy of God, but as mentioned earlier, ultimately it is the heart that counts, and this is borne out in our constant desire to raise the bar, and in our discipline in preparation and punctuality.

2008-05-17T01:23:00.000+08:00

Finally! Happy Happy. Broke though.

2008-05-14T18:56:00.000+08:00

Like... I ran. Wow.

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

2008-05-14T16:50:00.001+08:00

2008-05-12T18:39:00.000+08:00

Meet my understudy! Meet my understudy's understudy. Meet my understudy's understudy's understudy! Meet my boss from BMTC!
I miss Tekong. Bwahaha.

2008-05-11T19:07:00.002+08:00

Maybe God is indeed hinting me
Everything in his hands.

When the road is rough and steep
And it leads a heart to weep
There's an ocean of tears
That you've held through the years
But we're not stopping here

On this long and winding street
Will You guide these weary feet
Every step that we take
With our hearts full of faith
And we're not stopping here

Together we are stronger
So put your hand in mine

We give You praise
We give You praise
And the King of all the earth
Has saved us from ourselves
We give You praise
We give You praise

Through the avenues of time
Here You meet me where I am
We walked with glory and pain
And You’ve broken the chains
So there’s no stopping here

Glory, we sing glory
We sing glory
In the darkness where You shine
Let it shine, let it shine

!

2008-05-07T13:00:00.001+08:00

It's all over!
But now I've caught a cold. Must be due to my irregular sleeping hours.
Ah well, time to revert my bio clock back to normal.

SLEEP!

Incoming!

2008-04-19T05:46:00.002+08:00

Exams are upon us! It's 5.41am now and I'm stoning. Paper in 4 hours time. :)

It'll all be over on the 7th May.

Tim Hughes - Happy Day

2008-04-14T02:16:00.001+08:00

WHAT?!

Inspired.

2008-04-14T01:56:00.004+08:00

I just put up a huge wall of text below. Do read it if..

1. If you're interested in how behind-the-scenes band admin works in another church.
2. If you perhaps feeling a little weary playing week in week out (Hint Hint Jon and Phine and.. myself!)

All written by Al Gordon. No not the "Make the Planet Green" Al Gore.

Enjoy!

"We do music full time la" Caleb Tay 13th April 2008.
I've ever thought of doing music full time, but in the church instead. Like being a Tim Hughes-liked character. Actually I'm not even sure if he has a day job, but he kinda fits the concept. :)

Practice!!

Behind the Scenes at HTB

2008-04-14T01:53:00.001+08:00

Gordon, Al. Behind the Scenes at HTB. 13th August 2007

was recently chatting with a friend about how we run the worship team at our church.

Our church, Holy Trinity Brompton, is a large Anglican church in the centre of London. On a typical Sunday, we have six services over two sites, requiring three different worship teams. Things are always very busy, with about 4,000 people passing through our worship services every week.

We face a number of exciting challenges, from finding musicians, to making sure our team don’t burn out and stay sharp. Here are some thoughts on how we run the nitty-gritty of the worship life of the parish.

Building A Team

We are keen to build a worship team, not run a series of ‘bands’. The emphasis is on everyone being part of one greater team that exist to serve firstly God and secondly the congregation.

We have found the most effective way of recruiting new musicians is always word of mouth. Open auditions never seem to work for us: the people you really want to come forward and play are usually hiding under their chairs and would never dream of coming forward and auditioning, even though they love to worship and excel at an instrument. We’re always putting feelers out to find out if anyone knows any musicians, then twisting arms, begging, bribing…

If someone does get in touch or is recommended to us, we’ll find out about their experience, and perhaps meet them for a jam in the church over a cup of coffee. The main things we’re looking for are (1) a love for worshipping Jesus (2) the right character, attitude and servant-heart and (3) crucially, teachability.

We have a rule that everyone in the worship team has to be an active member of an HTB Pastorate. This is the primary place they are supported pastorally, get discipled and integrate into the church. We don’t run ‘Band-Only’ Pastorates, as we’ve found them to end up being quite cliquey. Once we’ve met them and got along, we’ll invite them to join the Worship Team.

How the Worship Team Works

Our worship team is a relaxed affair, made up of about 100 people involved in three key areas of the church worship life: worship leaders, musicians and singers, and then the production team. Many of the team will just be involved in leading and playing in their Pastorates, which are just as key an expression of the church as a Sunday Team.

We call the team together about six times a year for ‘Team Nights’, where we eat together, catch-up, encourage the team and worship together. Sometimes we have a bit of a thank-you party. The Team Nights are essential for the dynamic of the team. Any new musician, however brilliant, is expected to come along to these nights for a while so we can get to know them before we put them on a stage. It is out of this core group of 100 people that we build our Sunday Teams, Alpha Team and other bands.

Sunday Teams

Three times a year we sit down and make up Sunday Teams out of the pool of 100 members of the worship team. We’ll allocate people set bands for that term, and work out their dates in advance for the whole term (e.g. Sept-Dec, Jan-April, May-August). Usually, about 30-40 people will be allocated into a Sunday Team. Sometimes musicians will request a term off, so they can recharge their batteries, but we’ve avoided setting that kind of thing in stone, as everyone is different.

The most difficult part of organising the term is the scheduling. Tim and I lock ourselves in our office for an afternoon and try and pull together both the ideal teams, and the way they’ll play out across the dates. We’re aiming to spread the load to make sure that pastorally we don’t burn people out, while making sure everyone is involved in what is quite a tight team. We pair newer musicians with stronger ones within the bands, to ensure the standard is as high as possible across the rota.

HTB is a church spread across two sites, and on any given Sunday we have 6 services over those two sites:

9am – St Paul’s Onslow Square

Traditional Holy Communion with Classical Music

9.30am – Holy Trinity Brompton

Informal Family Service

11.30am - Holy Trinity Brompton

Informal Family Service, with the same band and speaker as the 9.30am

5pm – Holy Trinity Brompton

Informal Evening Service

6pm – St Paul’s Onslow Square

Informal Evening Service, very relaxed feel with no chairs, café, teaching broadcast from the 5pm, different worship.

7pm – Holy Trinity Brompton – Informal Service, with the same band and speaker as the 5pm

We’re currently operating on a two-week--on/one-week-off model for our Sunday worship teams, as we’ve just planted a new service at our other parish building, St Paul’s, and are a little stretched. On a given Sunday, three of our five teams (A, B, C, D, E) would be in action. Our Autumn schedule starts like this:

Sept 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th

HTB AM A D B E C
HTB PM B E C A D
St Paul’s C A D B E

So, you can begin to see the pattern of playing – everyone plays a maximum of two Sundays in a row, then takes a break and is free to just ‘be’ in the services.

Mastering the Rota

“Master the rota, you must, or master you, the rota will” - Yoda*

It’s a fact: if you don’t master your rota and make it work for you, you’re going to be mastered by it. Come on, no one wants that. Once we’ve worked out who is playing when, Tim and I will call each player individually and the conversations go a little like this:

Al: “Hi Ben, it’s Al, can you talk?”
Ben: “Yeah, I’m good, go for it.”
Al: “I’ve got the dates for the Autumn. Have you got your diary there?”
Ben: “Hang on... (the drummer goes to find his diary. Returns three hours later)… Yeh, I got my diary now.”
Al: “Have you got your pen?”
Ben: “Hang on… (the drummer goes to find a pen. Returns three hours later)… Yeh, I got my pen now.”
Al: “Ok, here are your dates: 2nd in the morning at HTB, 9th in the evening at St Pauls, 23rd in the morning at HTB…”
Ben: “I can’t do that one I’m afraid, I’ve got tickets to the Man U game”
Al: “No worries, thanks for letting me know, we’ll organise cover. Then the next date is…”

Some crucial rules:

(1) Never accept a ‘maybe’, as it will double your workload. Only accept a yes or a no for a date.
(2) Don’t get into the habit of asking musicians to find their own cover. You’ll loose pastoral and administrative control of the team.
(3) Once someone has committed to a date, they’ve committed. You’ll accept doctors notes, plane tickets or death certificates, but no other excuses.

We find that by nailing the admin personally over the phone, we generally tie down a strong team for the term. Then if there are any dates someone can’t make, we’ve got plenty of notice and can invite newer members of the team to take their place.

In any given term we might have five of each instrument allocated to a team, and then one or two newer of less experienced musicians on ‘standby’ to step in at any point. We’ll explain to them as well that they’re on standby and we’ll be calling them at short notice. In fact last Sunday we had a mix up and one of our drummers was late for the morning soundcheck. Tim rang his mobile and he turned out to be in Morocco. Tim ended up waking up another drummer who was on standby at 9.10 and he made it for the first click of the first song at 9.30.

Team Culture

We encourage all our team to practice, learn the songs, so that if the above happens, they’re ready to go. One of our little mottos is that we ‘aim for perfection and settle for excellence’, because we believe that God deserves the best, the most excellently rehearsed, the finest honed skills. At the same time, we make sure that there is no pressure, that the teams are a fun place to be and that mistakes generally go unnoticed, as we all make them.

The amazing thing is that our teams seem to walk this balance brilliantly: there is an unsaid ethos of giving God our best, whilst relaxing and just worshipping from the heart, with the music way down the importance list. We often find that the sweetest times of worship are when things go wrong, and an extra dimension of God’s grace seems to kick in and enthuse the place.

Then our rehearsals are at 8.00am for the morning, 2.30pm for the evenings. We circulate new songs and set lists by email in the week before, and always copy the worship administrator in so that they can keep a record of what is being sung.

You Don’t Know My Church!

Now, I know many people will be reading this and will be thinking that’s fine for HTB, they have a gazillion people blah blah. The truth is that we’re on a journey: 25 years ago we just had a very difficult robed choir who were not at all filled with the Holy Spirit, and an old organ. We’ve come a long way and now have a wonderful team both of Holy Spirit-filled contempoary and classical musicans working alongside each other. We use the organ and string quartet, sandwiched in between the electric guitars.

If you’re doing this while juggling a full time job and family, then you’re going to need to become a master of delegation. You’re team is going to need people in it that can work with you as volunteer ‘organisers’, set aside to manage the teams by email, in their spare time. You’re going to need to find a system that works for your whole team, so that you’re leading the team in a way that encouraged rest and fun and creativity.

But the truth is that it is always hard work. We’re always desperately searching for good bass players and electric guitarists. We’re always struggling with almost every part of the team. It’s not just that London is a busy place and people come and go, but our worship team are committed to ‘the re-evangelisation of of the nations and the transformation of society’. As a result, we’re constantly giving away our brightest and best people to new initiatives. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.

So my final advice would be to make sure your team is giving itself away – that is a sure-fire Biblical way to grow things!

Any questions?

* Yoda may not have ever said this...

How to avoid burnouts

2008-04-14T01:47:00.002+08:00

Gordon, Al. How to avoid burnouts. 8th November 2006.

Ever feel like jacking it all in, swinging off your guitar and lobbing it into the congregation? Here are six top tips to avoiding burnout this Autumn…

(1) PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

What are your priorities? ‘Being’ with God, ‘being’ with your loved ones, ‘doing’ the stuff for God? So often we confuse ‘being’ with God and ‘doing’ for God, at the expense of the ones we’re called to love.

Brian Doerksen said recently in an interview for the Worship Central Podcast: “Staying with our relationships gives us the foundation and the authority to walk with the church. If anything, I’d encourage all worship leaders, worship musicians: don’t pursue your calling in worship at the expense of your marriage, at the expense of your calling to be a parent.”

The first principle to avoiding burnout is not to confuse your calling. For me, my primary calling is to love God and love my wife, and everything else comes way down the list after that. Keep the first things first.

(2) PURSUE THE HABIT OF HOLINESS

Holiness is not an optional extra for the great saints, holiness is not about religious observation: Holiness is a person. Pursue Jesus.

Pursue a close friendship with Jesus. Keep your accounts short with him. We all hear horror stories of leaders who collapse in a cloud of deceit and hypocricy, from Pastors to Presidents. So often the power of sin is in its secrecy, and the most effective way of breaking that power is being accountable to two or three close friends who you meet with on a regular basis. Ask each other how you’re doing, and then ask each other how you’re really doing.

We need to pursue the holiness as a habit, so that it becomes our default position when we’re under pressure, because it is these moments that count.

(3) LEARN WHEN TO SAY ‘NO’

‘No’ is a great word. You can’t put first things first and pursue the habit of holiness without saying ‘no’ to some stuff along the way.

In any church where God is on the move there will be things to do, places to be, meetings to lead, practices to get to, events to go to, more meetings.

Learn to say ‘no’. It can be really difficult, when that church leader is on the phone saying ‘we really need your help.’ But the bottom line is you can’t do everything. Jesus turned stuff down to escape to some secret place, to make sure he was putting first things first and pursuing the habit of holiness.

If ministry is, as John Wimber once put it, ‘meeting the needs of the world on the basis of God’s resources’, then we need to learn to be like Jesus and know when to pull back and recharge, because the needs of the world are endless. We mustn’t fall into the easy trap of thinking we can meet them with our own resources.

(4) BUT LEARN WHEN TO SAY ‘YES’

‘Yes’ is also a great word, but needs to be used with careful consideration. If I had a pound for every time someone who’s said yes to something has pulled out at the last minute, I’d be a rich man.

Jesus says let your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes’. We need to come through on the things we’ve agreed to do. If you suddenly find yourself unable to honour your commitments, something’s gone wrong. Pulling out of stuff may protect you from burnout, but it may also be causing others to burnout.

So think carefully about how to invest your time. Time is a precious resource, and like all precious resources, will always be in short supply.

There's a old business rule for testing objectives, the SMART Principle. Ask yourself these SMART questions about anything you want to throw yourself into:

S - Is it Strategic? Does this fit where I sense God is calling me? Is this a part of that vision. If God has given you a passion for releasing worship in the local church, then is this going to help do that, or is it going to be a red-herring?

M – Is it Measurable? Can you tell if you're growing as a result of doing this, is it helping you bear fruit that will last?

A – Is it Achievable? Do you have the skills and the capacity to take this on right now? While nothing is impossible with God, somethings are simply not going to work without us comprimising our priorities.

R – Is it Realistic? Is it realistic for you to be able to honour the commitment? Biting off more than you can chew is no fun for anyone. Don’t hurry to say yes if you think there’s a chance you’ll have to pull out.

T – Is it Time Specific? Can you be sure it is going to require a manageble amount of time? If agreeing to lead worship at something means a regular commitment, can you map out those times in your mind? Make sure you fully understand the time required, including the preparation time.

Ministry is great fun when you’re in the right place at the right time and no fun when you’re not. Learning to say ‘yes’ to the right things is a key way of avoiding burn-out.

Then once you've said 'yes', you'll know that because God has called you to do that thing, however small or insignificant, it takes on a whole new meaning. Honour your 'yes' and give it 110% of your commitment. Invest your ‘yes’ wisely and there will be no limit to what God can do through you.

(5) OVER-PREPARE

You can never prepare enough. Time invested in preparation is key to avoiding burn out. Billy Graham once said that if he knew he had three years left to minister, he would spend two preparing and one ministering. Jesus spent thirty years preparing for three years of ministry.

I love the story of Nelson, who kept a journal every day of his life in which he noted observations about the wind and weather. He knew a lot about wind and weather when it came to that crucial minute on the morning of the battle of Trafalgar. Instinctively, calling on years of dilligent preparation, he made a snap decision about what the wind was doing. He turned his fleet and sailed straight through the enemy fleet, winning the day. (But I guess he was not that prepared for the bullet that got him and rather spoilt his day...)

Preparation is everything. If we’re to be able to make it through the busy times alive and in one piece, we need to be preparing an excess in the less busy times.

(6) HAVE FUN

Ministry is not meant to be a burden, so enjoy every opportunity you get to serve God. I’ve just spent an exhausting 10 days away on a trip, and one thing that struck me about the trip was how much fun we had. I laughed so much it ached. It really kept us going. Over-intensity is not a fruit of the Spirit. Make sure you’re having fun.

So there are some thoughts - do feel free to add your comments on how you avoid going insane in the membraine when things get busy...

Planetshakers

2008-04-11T00:13:00.002+08:00

Loved it! Tim Hughes was strangely subdued though. Anyway I love the energy on stage from the PS band, but I'm always hardly moving on stage.Guess it's because I really need to concerntrate while playing, haha. not as pro as them.

Anyway there's still 1 more on friday. Do go down if you're still pondering!

All things guitar!

2008-03-24T21:04:00.005+08:00

I feel a sudden urge to really practice my guitar. Feel that somehow there's alot more to learn out there. Basically I still can't / don't dare to improvise solos and or figure out the original riffs in the first place!

I popped by Isaiah's guitar lessons for Daniel Fung, only to find alot more other kids grabbing guitars and learning as well. Really reminded me back in the days when Uncle Dennis would teach a few of us on Sunday mornings in church. Daniel was struggling with the 'F' Chord, which was exactly what all of us were struggling with back then! That was.. 11 years ago? I feel old!

School's been a mess. I really have to rush my Management Project. Lazy with details but hopefully I can finish my part ASAP. I have to finish my lab report by tonight too! Sigh.

44 more days to Holiday!

Krabi!

2008-03-19T01:12:00.001+08:00

It was a really fun trip!
But it turned out surprisingly tiring too. Not just due to lack of sleep. The last day's 1237 step climb was the killer.

Check out the photos on on Jon's Blog!

Back to studies!!

I Love You Lord

2008-03-05T00:25:00.001+08:00

I like oldies redone. This one is nicely done!

2008-02-24T01:25:00.002+08:00

The performance during the anniversary didn't get off to the best start with the sound systems kinda failing us.. but..

Ya we did it! Cheers!

Singing lessons anyone? lol.

2008-02-03T22:21:00.000+08:00

Everybody is saying "LIES!" now.
STOP IT! It's my CATCH PHRASE!

It's the year 2008!

2008-01-09T02:05:00.000+08:00

Tis the season to reflect on the year 2007!
And unfortunately it's been such a long year, I can't really remember what has happened in the early parts of the year! Short-term memory!
It doesn't help that I only started my blog in the middle of the year.

A quick glance at my history and a simple conclusion.
A lot of my happy memories, are thanks to all my friends out there. Thank God for each and everyone of you!

I'm going to be 23 this year! Well it doesn't sound like a very significant age does it, but it does seem to worry my friend's around me! And it really doesn't help that your female friends of the same age are working/graduating soon while we guys slog on with our studies.

What do you think? Is 23 a age to start worrying about career/relationships and what the future brings? Or should we embrace the youth we still have and just enjoy all we have in the present?

Results

2007-12-27T16:43:00.000+08:00

My results were as expected! Mixed!
But somehow I feel as though everything is in control. Yeap!

Merry Christmas!
FAITH!

Disaster!

2007-12-06T16:24:00.000+08:00

Due to forseened circumstances, my blog has drowned.

Feelings

2007-12-04T18:02:00.000+08:00

Yes exams are over, but here I am so irascible about something so frivolous.
A schizoid is loose!

Kill the schizoid! Save the world!

Camps!

2007-11-27T21:26:00.000+08:00

Truth be told, I'm looking forward to the youth camp next week! Although I'm seriously wondering if i'm still "youthful" at 22. lol. Anyway it'll be a good start to my holiday before heading to KL for my cousin's wedding. Hopefully I can do some shopping!

1 Week to end of exams!

Confused!

2007-11-24T03:32:00.000+08:00

It's 3:30am now and I'm busy mugging for my Fluid Mechanics Paper in about.. 10 hours time. My mind is a mess of Flow Rates and Torque and Blah blah blah, so I decided to watch the special features of Delirious?'s Live in Willow Creek album, just to shift my mind away from all those irritating equations.

Well actually I'm watching it a second time. It's quite inspiring really. I mean, to survive a bad accident and come out realising what you want to do in your life FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. MUSIC! It's quite tempting really, to jam on your guitar, writing songs, playing in a band, having your own record label and stuff, and it's not because of the glam or the money or whatever goodie things that come along with it, but rather doing it with a purpose.

Am I cut out to do all these mugging and stuff? I don't think so. I'm not a studious person really. Yeah I sort of got through my PSLE, O's, A's with results good enough to move me to the next education level. My results aren't bad, they just weren't very 260+, 6points and AAAA. And now university laid bared all my studying habits and tada! I'm dying in university now.

It's times like this that I wanna be rebellious, and 闯天下, to abandon university and do what I would really like, but my parents have worked so hard for me, and they aren't mightily young anymore, I don't feel like disappointing them.

Am I to do great things for YOU? What is my calling?

1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, ^[a] you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to ^[b] me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?

22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

Eeks!

2007-10-18T01:43:00.000+08:00

Decisions Decisions Decisions!

USAustralia?
USAustralia?
USAustralia?

Well I got rejected for the recruitment this saturday! I guess I registered too late. (Last Day in fact). Anyway now there is a second recruitment drive in January next year. I've already expressed my interest for this. Now to see what employers are available!

And of course, if it fails again(cross fingers), I can still go Australia! Wahahaha, but I'm worried that the rest would have registered before January. Argh...

Decisions Decisions Decisions!

arsenal cross bar challenge soccer am

2007-10-01T17:41:00.001+08:00

02s24

2007-09-25T23:44:00.000+08:00

And so I was supposed to meet my JC classmates in the evening, but I didn't receive any notification of the time, so I just assumed that.. we were not meeting anymore.

Then a call from Jin Wei.. "Where are you? We're all here!"
Oops. Ah well. Drove down to Clarke Quay to Siew Choon's place. Yep, her house, near clarke quay. I mean.. Best location ever.

That's the view from her house. Argh!!

Anyway it was nice catching up with everyone. Some have graduated, one has become a great chef, sorry I didn't eat though.. I was full. lol. Some have come back from USA with lots to tell. I really wanna go now. Let's hope my friends quickly make a decision on where to go. Turns out Grand Canyon has wireless. WHAT THE?

Alas the usual question of "Are you attached?" came up again. Remember quite a few post ago I mentioned that conversations always end up in this "realm". Anyway I said I'm happily single, and I really am!

Anyway if any of you 02s24 peeps are reading this, jiayou in your work and studies! :)
Jin Wei, Shan Jing, Kai Lun, Xiang Hiang, Choon Yen, Li Ting, Siew Choon, Priscilla, Cheng Ling.
And of course those who didn't make it as well!
Xue Fen, Seow Kin, Wei Qin and Jin Cheng!
And those who were once 02s24 too! lol
Desmond, Shi Wei, Wai Ping, Lee Mei, Kelvin, Samuel and Wei Jie!

I hope I didn't miss anybody out :)

Delirious (Miracle Maker)

2007-09-13T18:27:00.001+08:00

All hail..

2007-09-12T09:58:00.000+08:00

All hail the tagboard... that is currently more interesting than my blog!

The days of.. "There's nothing to blog about"

2007-08-28T23:33:00.000+08:00

School life is so repetitive it's ... feels like my life is currently in a vicious cycle.
Gone are the days of sleeping at 6am and waking up at 2pm.

Instead comes days packed till night, and tutorials to do when I'm home. I even found out that I had an online assignment! And I was totally oblivious to it and the deadline is this Friday. Luckily my friend ask me about it. Haha. I just finished it! Yippee.

Right, I'm sure there are millions out there who say "Student life better". Is it really? I kinda look forward to working life. I love the feeling of coming back home and not having to do anything. :) Of course I need to find a job that gives me that luxury, hopefully I can find it. :)

Watching the US Open now. I wanna play tennis! In fact, I wanna bowl too! In fact, I wanna do so many things! Argh.. Holidays, holidays, wherefore art thou holidays?

Anyway some photos :)

I'm feeling...

2007-08-20T17:06:00.001+08:00

lonely no more!

Well during zone 2 we were talking about the Big Green Reptile... and they were saying loneliness is bad..

Therefore.. I shall be lonely no more!
Instead, I shall be stuffed full of tutorials such that I have no time to ponder about.. such things.

I'm feeling...

2007-08-18T01:38:00.000+08:00

lonely.

Sigh.

But I'm sure I'll feel better tomorrow :)

Why am I even doing this.

2007-08-13T17:03:00.000+08:00

Rules of the game: Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end, you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.

1. I hug my dad everyday. It's a spontaneous thing.

2. My dad likes to make fun of me during his sermon. In doing so, when I suddenly see people I don't know in my house, and they know I'm the youngest.. they usually go "OH! This is the youngest one AH?!", as though they know some deep dark secrets of mine.

3. My first guitar lesson was when I joined the Guitar Ensemble in primary school. That was pri 4!

4. I feel that I have no talent in leading people. Even though I was a prefect and a councilor, I never really commanded people before, and when I thought by being posted to BMTC to train recruits was the chance I had to polish my skills, they put me to do admin work. HAHAHA.

5. I have never left Asia. /Whine. The furthest thus far is.. Taiwan, but I spent most of the time there in lush green forest, hilly terrain and drenched in sweat. /sigh

6. The only reason I'm doing this thing is because I've got time to burn before my next lesson at 6pm. /Grumble

7. I only got the Mr. Grumpy t-shirt because it is exactly the opposite of who I am, and I thought it'll be funny to be paradoxical about it.

8. I support Arsenal Football Club simply because I was playing this managerial game, and I had to pick a team. Since Arsenal was first on the list(Alphabetical Order), I took them. I won the game. :) I supported them ever since.

9. According to my mom, when I was young, whenever they wanted to take a picture of me, I will squat down, turn and face away from the camera, and keep shaking my head and say no. Haha. I'm a shy guy afterall. :D

10. I wore specs since K1. On the first day of school, everybody around me found my specs so interesting, that they passed it around and started bending it. One of them promptly went to break it. I cried, cause.. my world is a blur without my specs. Hehe. The teachers scotch-taped it and comforted me. My specs for the rest of the day looked like it had an big bandage. :)

I'm do not want to arrow anybody, simply because I'm nice. :D

30mins to Mathematical Thinking GEK1517! Think it will be.... an "interesting" module.
lol.

Cheerios.

Onwards to JB! and... NEWTON?

2007-08-10T23:51:00.000+08:00

What was originally a shopping trip to JB with a mini-stopover at Mei's place.. turned into a mini-stopover for shopping and a long stay in her house, mainly because of her dogs.

Now before you go thinking, "OOOoo, dogs! Cute!" Well they are cute, but fierce don't even begin to explain their ferocity. haha. Okay they aren't that bad, I'm just really afraid of dogs that bite. and Mr. Smarty has a big reputation of biting people, so I was a bit apprehensive.

So after the "welcome" from the dogs, I was really happy they calmed down in the end. Even Audrey and Shengwei managed to pat it. Yippee for them! Yippee for me too! HAHA. A quiet dog is a good dog. lol.

Trying hard not to move when Smarty is around.

The other dog, Sweety.

A picture so near the dog! Notice my hands are folded. Smarty bites people's hands. I'm scared!

A photo using the mirror. :)

Anyway, the reason we stayed put in the house so long was partly due to the fact that I needed to "monitor" the bidding situation. Thank God I got my module in the end :) I upped my bid at around 4.30pm(Half an hour before bidding closed), and if I hadn't, I wouldn't have gotten the module. Wootz!

We were on our way back to city square for shopping(finally) and dinner, when Mei's parents passed us while we were walking down this road full of traffic. They persuaded us to go to dinner at Hyatt Hotel nearby, but after we done some shopping. Alas time was running out, so we sort of rushed through our shopping. I didn't get any clothes! /whine /grumble /throw tantrum. I did get a laptop sticker and a USB port, computer stuff! haha.

Dinner was nice! Ironically I had a buffet dinner with Anliat & co the day before, and here I was having another buffet dinner again. I'm growing fat. /dance. The food was alright, but the place was nice. :) Took some photos.

Finally arrived home at... 2245? I was pretty tired. But I still wanna to loiter around online to wait for my bidding results which was to be out at 11pm. And ultimately got jioed out for supper at newton. These guys keep eating and eating and eating. Can we like go out for midnight tennis instead next time? haha.

Why can't all dogs be like Jack Jack? lol

Bored..

2007-08-08T15:58:00.001+08:00

Well I just finished work, and I'm waiting for a certain someone in a certain University to finish his/her lessons so I can go out with him/her and a couple of others. We're going to somewhere to shop later. haha. lalalala.

Anyway, schools starting next week. "Yippee". Have I mentioned that already?
Anyway, EPL is starting this week. YIPPEE!!!!!! Finally can watch Arsenal again. Everybody is predicting we'll finish fourth again, with spurs having a very good chance of overtaking us into 4th place. Well fine, we'll just win the Champions League this season then. HA.

Star Wars D&D has been pretty fun thus far! I hope the guys have been enjoying it. I'm.. thinking of making my own storyline from here on.. Hehe.. The previous gathering ended off in a perfect way for me to make my own storyline now. Lalala. Can't wait. Maybe I'll use my two hours+ now to think of something :)

Oh Oh! I just went vivocity for the first time ever. lol. Yes I can imagine the open-mouthed looks you all are giving right now, but it's really far! Well it's alright actually! Walked for like what.. about.. 5-6 hours. I didn't buy anything, but my friends bought quite a bit. Haha, my spending power isn't as much as them. lol. Ah well, school's a good time to save up money. Got at least 1 holiday to save up for.. Krabi Thailand! I wanna go Hillsongs conference in Australia next year!! But that will cost quite alot. I think I must save $300 a month. lol. Not forgetting the ever -present wanting to go to HK by everyone of us. Dots! I think we should go just after my exams end in may 2008. :) Of course you all can go as many times as you all like before that, but 1 trip in May would be nice. haha!

What else? Hmmm. I want a tennis racket! Quite Gian to start playing more, but a good racket cost alot! Haha. I put a tag on Jason Hau's blog to ask him to lend me his racket permanently. lol. But I guess it won't happen. Hmmm. What should I get? Any tennis pro who visits my website wanna advice me? Hmm I wonder if LTA rocky visits my blog. You going overseas right? Lend me your racket permanently too! lol!

Oh btw, if you're a football person and from COSB, join us in our league! Cause I wanna beat all of you guys. Hahaha. I can't find the League number though. You can ask Daniel Yan for the number once you created an account. :)

Some overdue pics!

Until next time..

Work! Modules Bidding! Fantastic Race! Busy Saturday!

2007-08-04T03:39:00.000+08:00

One by one now!

Work
It's been good! At least I feel like I'm doing something other than lying around at home. Although the pay isn't outstanding, at least I get some experience and get to know more people! Perks of the job include eating food free! I ate a... Spaghetti Vongole today because the cashier keyed in the wrong order! lol. I get free flow of drinks too. Ha! and of course when the restaurant doesn't have that many customers, we get to talk. lol! Some pretty interesting people I've met already. heh. Only one shift next week though!

Modules Bidding(CORS)
I've got 5 Mechanical Engineering Modules already. I just need one more module! I think I'll do 'Living with Mathematics'. Seems simple enough. Beng Zhee we confirm doing this right? :D

Fantastic Race!
All the details are almost done! I just need to take some photos of the places before Monday 2359hrs, so I can send it to Helena for her to print.

Busy Saturday!
In the morning gonna play tennis at Caleb's! First time! Wonder how it'll go.
In the early afternoon is church practice!
In the late afternoon is photo taking for Fantastic race!
Evening onwards is Festival of Praise!

Most probably I'll be reaching the indoor stadium at.. what.. 5-6pm? People who are queuing up early let me join you all please! I hope security doesn't stop us. :)

It's 3:49am now. Gonna wake up in .. 4 hours? Argh. And I need to bring my guitar, my pedal board, my change of clothes after tennis and my shoe bag to Caleb's place. Wish me luck. zzz.

Botak Jones

2007-07-30T17:28:00.000+08:00

http://botakjones.com/

Love Above All..

2007-07-30T01:12:00.000+08:00

The most tiring Sunday I've had in a long time..

Woke up at 7.30am to get to Dialect Service.
Finished up at 1pm with Bilingual Service. I was pleasantly surprised when Bryan came with a few pedals and a pedalboard to lemme use! :) Includes a Tube screamer, Boost/Line Driver, a DS-1 Mod Distortion Pedal, and a tuner :P That's 5 pedals! Nifty Stuff.

Had lunch after that. Felt guilty cause my cell was fasting, but I didn't have breakfast before I came for service, so my stomach was growling already by then. Gail/James forgive me! heh.
Finished up with cell and then rushed off for my musical at NUS UCC(National University of Singapore, University Culture Centre).

Great to meet Kai Yuan, Bryan and Evan after such a long time of holidays. We went to eat with Kai Yuan's church mates at 'Botak Jones' in Clementi. It's apparently a quite famous American/western food in a hawker centre setting, according to Kai Yuan, but I told him as long as I haven't heard of it, it isn't THAT famous. lol. Anyway, for the super hungry people out there, their serving is absolutely enormous. It's mind-boggling. I mean, who eats that much fries!!! I wanted to take a pic with my phone... only to realise, my phone has failed me a few hours before that. The screen went blank and my On/Off/Hangup button cannot be used anymore.@#!!@#()#@ I even called Adriel accidentally. Oops. Back to good old Nokia 6610.

Anyway, I brought a copy of their menu back. Apparently they have more branches at....
1. Ang Mo Kio Blk 608
2. Tuas 32 Pioneer Sector 2
3. Toa Payoh 970A Toa Payoh North
4. Depot Road 118 Depot Lane
and of course
5. Blk 325 Clementi Ave 5

It includes really "casual conversational" comments on all their food.
Here's their Fries Menu.
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FRIES
(CHIPS)
(NOT LIKE POKER CHIPS)

ALL OF OUR FRIES ARE COOKED IN PURE 100% CORN OIL. THIS OIL IS PURE, WHICH MEANS THAT IT IS NOT PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED, WHICH MEANS NO TRANS FATS. DID WE JUST START USING THIS TYPE OF OIL? NO!!!!!! WE'VE BEEN USING THIS TYPE OF OIL FOR OVER TEN YEARS CAUSE IT FRIES CLEAN AND TASTE BETTER. NOW WE'RE TOLD IT'S NOT SO BAD FOR YA EITHER.

SPICY FRIES REG $3.00 LG $4.00
Ok, the regular aren't small and the large are really, really large. The balls' in your court now. These fries are dusted with our own spice mix, which is a little spicy but with a lot of flavor. If you don't want the spice just say so and we will go to all the trouble of not putting it on.

CHEESE FRIES one size ok lah!? $7.50
Ok, a large spicy fries has gobs and gobs of REAL cheddar cheese melted all over them. I said REAL cheddar cheese, so when it cools it gets chewy. If you don't like chewy cheese, eat it fast while its gooey not chewy. If, however, you like chewy cheese, like us cheese connoisseurs, take you time. Be cool lah!

WHOOPASS CHEESE FRIES(Yadee, Yadee, Yadah) $9.00
Like it or not, this is a MONSTER!
You'll see.
------------------------------------------------------------

Yap that's their menu. In case you're wondering, their menu is printed on A4 paper, so it's like.. you can take it home.

It also includes absolutely MCP jokes inside. Since I'm free, I'll type it out!

(This appears in the middle of the menu)
A letter to Tech Support
Dear Tech Support,
A while ago, I upgraded GIRLFRIEND 7.0 to WIFE 1.0.1. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected organizational and renovation processing that took up a lot of time and valuable resources. In addition, WIFE 1.0.1 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activities, such as SURFING 10.3, CLUBBING 7.5 AND RACQUETBALL 3.6. I can't seem to keep WIFE 1.0.1 in the background while attempting to run my other favorite applications. I'm thinking about going back to GIRLFRIEND 7.0 but the uninstall doesn't work on WIFE 1.0.1.

Please Help!

Troubled User.

And of course, at the end of the menu.. here's the reply.
Dear Troubled User:
This is a very common problem that men often complain about. Many people upgrade from GIRLFRIEND 7.0 to WIFE 1.0.1 thinking that it is just a utilities and entertainment program. WIFE 1.0.1 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its Creator to run EVERYTHING. It is also impossible to delete WIFE 1.0.1 and return to GIRLFRIEND 7.0. It is impossible to uninstall, or purge the program files from the system once installed.
You cannot go back to GIRLFRIEND 7.0 because WIFE 1.0.1 is designed not to allow this. Look in your WIFE 1.0.1 manual under WARNINGS: ALIMONY AND COMMUNITY PROPERTY. I recommend that you just keep WIFE 1.0.1 and work on improving the situation. I suggest installing the background application YES DEAR 2.7 to alleviate your program problems.
The best course of action is to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE because ultimately you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the system will return to normal anyway.
WIFE 1.0.1 is a great program but it tends to be very high maintenanace. WIFE 1.0.1 does come with several support programs such as CLEAN AND SWEEP 3.0 and COOK IT 1.5, however be very careful how you use this programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program NAG NAG 9.5. Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of WIFE 1.0.1 is to purchase additional software. I recommend FLOWERS 2.1 and DIAMONDS 5.0.
WARNING!! Do not under any circumstances install SECRETARY WITH SHORT SKIRT 3.3. This application is not supported by WIFE 1.0.1 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system.

Best of Luck
Tech Support

I wonder if the joke is available on the web, cause if it is, I wasted 10 minutes typing all those out. Ah well.

The Musical!

It's about this group of 5 men who went to a remote part of Ecuador to spread the Good News to the people there. They knew of this group of Tribal people known as the Aucas. They were hostile to any outsiders but they felt that it was their duty to reach out to the people there. After months of searching, they finally managed to track down the Aucas. Unforunately their generous approach of giving things to the villagers via an airplane drop gave them a false impression that the Villagers were friendly to them, and a few days after they decided to land and meet these villagers, they were speared and killed. Okay that was a really brief summary. If you want to read, go to wikipedia!

Anyway, the main thing is that, it roughly feels exactly like the situation the 22 South Koreans in Afghanistan are facing. I didn't know whether to feel more guilty cause I didn't join my cell for prayers, or more happy to know that even though the 5 men gave their lives, the Aucas all became believers through 1 of the men's wife, Elisabeth Elliot, who even though lost her husband to them, still reached out to the people there. :)

Next week's a busy week. Beginning with CORS(Modules Bidding) tomorrow. Apparently some of my friends are going to bid 6 Mech Engin Modules. That's.. abit xiong. I might join them though. :) Pray for wisdom. Heh.

Spider Pig.. Spider Pig.. Does whatever Spider Pig does.
Look out... He is a spider pig!
Homer Simpson

Football After-thoughts.

2007-07-29T00:15:00.000+08:00

Dirty.

Really dirty.

Really really dirty.

But who cares?! Okay I didn't play like awesome, but I thought it was still good fun. The game was played in good spirit and I managed to.... head a ball wide. That's all! Made some okay passes, but was lazy mostly throughout. I think I only played better when I dropped deep into central midfield, where I think I'm more comfortable :) But of course there are better players in our team in that position. I'm happy where you play me Jonnie! Just play me! :)

I think our next game will be one year later. Someone prove me wrong! lalalala.

Thank God that I stayed injury-free. Heh.
Get well soon Jonnie.

/dance

I've become a Peon!

2007-07-27T04:08:00.000+08:00

Well not exactly..

I'm starting work soon at Munchie Monkey's at NUS! I guess I could do with a little more cash considering the trips that might occur next year. Of course even if they don't, I'll still have abit more money on me. These few months I have slowly seen my NS savings drop to... well below healthy levels. :)

Of course, there aren't alot of NUS students left in Church. Let's see..... Sharon...... and.. that's all I can seem to find! The rest are at NTU/SIM!! Grrrr...

So come hop along to MM's once I'm more.. comfortable with my job. lol. I'll treat you all really nice if you come. Wahahaha.

Operating Hours
Weekdays : 11am - 10pm
Saturday : 11am - 10pm

Simpsons tomorrow! Can't wait.
DOH!!

My Rosicky Jersey..

2007-07-25T04:45:00.000+08:00

is coming a day too late for the match!

My friend finally received it in london. I was abit afraid it'll not arrive before she leaves for Singapore/Malaysia. Anyway, if you were wondering, I got Rosicky's Jersey for the fact that he wears Number 7. If I could, I would have gotten a Pires 7 Jersey. Ah well.

I haven't ran yet. lol. Crikey!

Ljungberg's gone. How now brown cow? Reyes and possibly Flamini to go soon. We've become a selling club! We lack width. Our wingers, ARE ALL NOT WINGERS! They all like to cut inside and play in the middle. But then again, how often have you seen an arsenal player sprint to the byline and cross a ball for a central striker to power the header home?

Therefore, with the personnel we have, I think we should play 4-3-3. Simply because we have no width, might as well let the strikers do the running.

--------------Lehmann------------------
Eboue ----Toure----- Gallas-------Clichy

---------------Gilberto-----------------
---------Fabregas----Rosicky-----------

Walcott--------------------- Van Persie
-----------------Chin-------------------

LOL

I recall a secondary school inter-class football tourney. I was the backup striker. I never thought of myself as a striker. Can't run, tall but can't head on target, can't shoot. But on 1 fateful day, I managed to 'ole' one of my friends in a P.E lesson, sprinted pass him, and rocketed the ball into the goal from the halfway line(basketball pole smallish kind of goal). I got the position of the backup striker after that. Yippee!

I didn't play a single minute in the tourney.
We drew 0-0 in 1 match and lost two other matches.

Serves them right. Ha Ha Ha.

I switched to basketball after that.
4 days to the match at Kovan.
Yanquan wants some supporters. Who wants to come?

Shiver me timbers!

2007-07-24T04:05:00.000+08:00

I finished Harry Potter Book one.. in 1 night.

On a more serious note..

2007-07-23T02:52:00.001+08:00

I can't believe we're really going to be playing football, eleven-a-side on a grass pitch, with a referee to boot. I mean.. I've never played football that intensively!

I can almost see it..
Jonnie saying he can't run anymore.
I laugh at him.
5 minutes later, I'm as tired as him and request to be subbed.

lol. Seriously..
I've never been avid runner. In secondary school and JC, I'm almost always falling behind most of the guys in my class during 2.4km runs. I then believed that, some people have the "running genes", while some don't. I probably belong to the latter group. The army didn't change this perspective. Even though I did improve drastically during my BMT/Sispec days, my best time was a 10.00 timing for 2.4km, but most of the guys were getting sub 10mins timing! It was because I couldn't get 9:44 for my 2.4km which resulted in me not getting a chance to cross over to OCS. (Although this turned out to be a big blessing!).

So after my training days and during my 'office' days, I stopped training and things started to deteriorate from there. To make matters worst, my BMT section mate collapsed and passed away after a casual run on Tekong. I then had absolutely no desire, I even had a small bit of fear, to train for my IPPT thereafter. For my second year IPPT, I got 12:40. I just passed. 1 second later and I would have failed.

And 1 year on, I haven't done much running. lol.
How am I going to last a football match?!

Please let me warm the bench.
Cheers.

Alright, maybe I'll go do 1 or 2 runs this week.
I probably won't, but at least I tried. lol.

Blogskins.

2007-07-23T01:53:00.001+08:00

Wanted a simple design. Got this. Did away with redundant stuff. Changed some colours. Added a photo.
Tada.

Harry Potter and the deathly black screen.

2007-07-21T03:13:00.000+08:00

My first harry potter movie in a cinema.

And the screen blanked out 10mins into the show. LOL. Ah well, at least we got a complimentary ticket as 'compensation'.

Although I always thought Harry Potter was a 'happy feeling' kind of movie after watching the first movie in a KL hotel room, it's all gloom and doom and everything sinister now. Boo. I love happy movies.

I preferred Transformers.

And if you're wondering, no, Bumblebee isn't my favourite. If you know transformers well enough, you'll know of the dinobots. I loved them. Simply because, they talk really funny english and always talk in this way.

'Me Grimlock no bozo, me king!"'.

:) So go watched the animated movie if you get the chance.

Dim Sum Dollies!

2007-07-10T23:48:00.000+08:00

This was a case of.. I didn't wanna watch at first, but I guess someone out there knew it was too good a show to be missed.

And so it was! I loved its wittiness and all the dialogues. It was also the first time I saw the Esplanade in all its "glory". The lightings were obscenely good.

Anyway, someone mentioned that this is a good avenue to find a girlfriend, but.. even if you find someone, how you suppose to talk to her? Say some corny pickup line? lol. Argh, the canondrum of dating. lol.

And if you're wondering, no I'm not desperate. I'm just creating an avenue for you guys to discuss, and make more scandals. lol.

Cheers!

The Ultimate Question Of The Day.....

2007-07-09T17:26:00.000+08:00

Can we wear T-shirts when we're onstage? Pweety Please?!

Forget the iPod on my birthday list.

2007-07-06T13:22:00.000+08:00

I want this! However, it only comes out in asia-pacific in what.. 2009?? Dotz Dotz Dotz...

Oh Right.

2007-07-04T03:28:00.001+08:00

Happy 4th July!

Grumpy.

2007-07-04T01:40:00.000+08:00

Yes grumpy. Well maybe frustrated is the right word. Went down to Bukit Panjang Plaza to have coffee with the lads. I guess I was kinda bored at home, been reading too much. I wanted to get the PlanetShakers latest album 'Saviour of the World' after hearing it at JW's place. It's quite nice. We've often lamented that we could never attempt PlanetShakers' songs, but I think this album has 1 or 2 songs that could be tried out. Anyway, I couldn't find it! Sad. Haha, in the end the lads seemed rather tired. Puts into perspective working life, you always seemed to go back home after work... to sleep, and do nothing else.

After coffee we went over to Audrey's place for a little catch-up, and more importantly to present to Mr. Dhruv his long overdue birthday gift. It's been a while since we've seen her, but I think we're all still as crappy as ever when we meet up. NEVER TAKE PICTURE! Please buy me a camera on my birthday! Thank you! You all could gather up 30 people and share.

And since I'm so into listing out things, here's my list of things to give me on my birthday this year!

0) Lamborghini Gallardo
1) Gretsch Duo Jet Guitar
2) Sony Vaio
3) PS3
4) Sony Cybershot (I'm a sony guy. lol)
5) iPod Nano
6) A Watch
7) A Bag (It gets more realistic as you go down the list if you haven't noticed)
8) Jackets (One for serving in church, and one for lecture theatres)
9) A change in wardrobe! Tees, short, long, jeans, shorts, berms... (I take them all!)
10) A very loud alarm clock which refuses to go off for 15 minutes no matter how much I smash it.
11) A red packet. (I don't mind. Serious)
12) A Hug and a big toothy grin :D

Right! So in a few months time, if you have a real hard time thinking of what to get me, you can refer to this list :)

I digressed. Actually my main purpose for posting was asking.... Have you ever wished you could pick the songs that are going to be played on Sunday? I sometimes do. At times it's because I've heard a song that I really like, and would love to attempt it in a band in church. Other times is because some songs in church are being sung so much, it's becoming a little repetitive.

One such song I really want to attempt would be the one you're listening to! The lyrics isn't much, but the song is 12minutes long! The song feels very mild at first, but ultimately sounds very nice when it's very "loud", only to end up in a super mellow pre-chorus chorus repeat, before again going "loud", but I really like the ending the most. It feels so surreal, and the ending last for 3 minutes. That's insanely long! I don't think we've ever done a song that hangs there for such a long time. Cool yet weird. It's also supposedly the 主打歌 for the hillsong album out this month! So I guess I've got good taste! lol.

On a last note, It's been probably 2 years since I started "guitaring" for Saturday service and now English service. I've become so accustomed to being onstage that when I'm in the congregation on extremely rare conditions, it feels so.. alien! Of course it would mean a break from serving, and I really appreciate the breaks! Hands that are weary.. lol. Anyway, just wanna share I've learned so much in these two years. If you're one of those still contemplating whether or not you should serve or shouldn't... or whether you wanna be in this ministry or that ministry.. Contemplate no longer! Ask your nearest cell leader on how you can begin serving! I'm sure it'll be as fruitful for you as it has been for me :)

Good Morning!

Desperate.

2007-06-28T23:45:00.000+08:00

Desperate time calls for desperate measures!

If you know of someone who fulfills all criterias below...

PLEASE INTRO!!!

Conversation Topics

2007-06-27T23:53:00.001+08:00

At our age, it seems our conversation at many junctures, would tend towards finding that special someone. Be it serious or just poking fun at someone, it never fails to show up during conversations.

HOW! WE'RE ALL STILL SINGLE!

Applications to be Joel's girlfriend are now available. If you ...
0) are female
1) are single
2) stay in Bishan
3) consider Gucci Bags as a normal thing to have in life
4) are above 21 and below 23
5) are able to play the piano
6) sport Long Hair

Please R.S.V.P. A.S.A.P.
Joel Chin

Thank you very much!

Dedicated to Notbythehairofmyjoelchinchin

2007-06-26T01:25:00.001+08:00

... Nuff Said

Saga Edition

2007-06-25T21:26:00.001+08:00

To Teck Yian, Jayren, Sheng Wei, Andrew, Zhiwei, Kunlin and Benjamin!

Sorry I've been missing a lot of our sessions. It's been bad luck and bad scheduling on my part. I hope all is well without me around!

'A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...'

Yes Siree! I've got the rulebook all the way from Amazon.com! I really really wanna try Gamemastering, but being clueless about Forgotten Realms, I think Star Wars is a better setting for me to try it.

So now I want some input. I know some of you are more interested in Forgotten Realms for sure, so, do you guys wanna try my campaign in a trial mode concurrently with Teck Yian's Campaign? If you guys hate me as a GM, we could always revert back to Forgotten Realms :)

If all is in agreement, I'll photocopy relevant sections of the book for everyone, so as to keep some part of the book unknown to you guys. I'll pass it to everyone the next time we meet for DnD. How's That? All in favour say.. Aye!

Edit: Okay.. it seems someone amongst us is a pirate. So I won't be photocopying for you guys. Please refrain from reading the back parts! lol. Just choose your character and I'll print the character sheets for everyone.

Scandals.. Secrets.. Rumours..

2007-06-25T19:13:00.000+08:00

IT'S EVERYWHERE!

I recall my previous post about secrets.. Quote "I believe all of us have secrets, but when is the right time to divulge your secrets? ........." lol.

Okay random post.

Whirlwind Week.

2007-06-24T21:20:00.000+08:00

To say I had a eventful week would be an understatement. Let's try and recall.

Monday - Badminton with alot of people + Stayed over at DanYan's

Tuesday - Slept the whole day due to absence of sleep on Monday.

Wednesday - Played Lan with Daniel Fung, Nathaniel Lee, Samuel Choo, Daniel Yan, Samuel Fung, Algene Hong and Timothy Lee. It's the first time I played DOTA in about a year. Madness.

Thursday - Movie with Leb, Zack and JonWong. Fantastic 4! I thought it was quite a good movie considering the reviews I've been getting from people.

Friday - Football early morning with OCX, Algene, Zack, Nathaniel, Joel Xu and James! Samuel Fung Flew Aeroplane. Ah well, good workout, but it was really hot. Felt dehydrated. Late Night at Lydia Tan's place. It was funny walking to her place from bishan MRT. I recall the 12 hour marathon tuition on saturday at her place back when I was P5-P6. EVERY SATURDAY. But the funny thing is, we were always unsupervised. LOL. That was.. 10 years ago? lol. Ultimately ended up staying over at Leb's place.

Saturday - Woke up at 9am and went to church for practice at 10am! Finally attempted a song from the latest United album. It's the song you're hearing! Devotion. In the end, I was happy that I could learn the song in 1 hour. Impressive! Tabs FTW. Then had Lunch with JiaYong, ChihPeng, JiWei and Daniel the $$$ Spec. lol. Nice to see all of them after awhile. COL Ishak is leaving BMTC! Horrors! I thought he was such an approachable person even for a person his rank. Ahhh miss HQ BMTC days. Maybe I should be an ISO 9001:2000 / Singapore Quality Class Representative for some company next time. Besides, I'm already trained! Any CEO reading this blog wants me? lol. After lunch, went home, changed up, and off to Roanna's Birthday Celebration! In the end got sabo to be Best Dressed. Abit off. I'm not one for the limelight. In the end we talked about singing lessons and stuff. It's funny that my musical background is pretty... self-learned. Besides abit of Piano lessons from auntie Pei Pei and Guitar Lessons from Uncle Dennis, alot of my skills are very rojak, picked up from all over the place. I've always been tempted to take up official guitar lessons, but never had the opportunity or real urge to. Ah well, singing lessons anyone?

Sunday - Church in the morning! Masterlife in the afternoon! And dinner with Karen, ChunXiang, Shalom + Samuel Fung, Joel Xu and Dawn Koh! It's at some really inexpensive Jap restaurant in AMK. The food at times really matched the price, lol, but nevertheless it was still alright. :)

And here I am blogging after all that. And to top it alllll off, Henry is leaving Arsenal. "Yippeee". I guess it's either Arsene Wenger is going to leave also, or... he's going to do his youth policy and play Bendtner, Carlos Vela and Walcott more. We have lost so many of our unbeaten season players. Ashley Cole, Sol Campbell, Lauren, Pires, Vieira, Edu, Bergkamp and now Henry. Reyes soon to follow as well. Sad..

Right. I hope I get some photos in my mail soon..... Tomorrow is a day at home! Finally!

Barakit! Cameron Highlands Continued! Video Game Symphony!

2007-06-17T20:32:00.000+08:00

It's been a rather packed two weeks of travelling! Back from Indonesia! Tired.. and badly burnt!
Anyway I took so long to upload all the photos, so I'll just let the photos do the talking.

The Night Before - At Timothy's Place

Group Photo before 1½ Hours Ferry Ride.

Our Boat!

On board the ferry

Indo Jaya - Place where we got our necessities!

At the Church! - OCX clearing up and Algene.. being Algene.

Still in the church - The place where we have our meals

Our Comfy Home for 2 nights.

Our Neighbours!

Getting Water from the well.

Materials to mix to form cement!

Hard At Work!

But slacking most of the time! Ha!

Even had time to fool around with the dogs! We called this one.. Jack Jack!

Completed Flooring! Although a kid ran across it before it dried up. lol.

Benches we made!

Final Group Photo on the cement ground and half completed roof and benches!

Home Sweet Home!!

Not to forget good ol' Cameron Highlands!

Breakfast before heading off for High lands.

Our Transport.. abit small

With the Boys!

They're all pointing at Gail.. for no apparent reason.

With Joy on the bus

With Algene at Boh Tea!

With Shalom in the Conference Room

Rochelle, Syl-vyn and Joy at Boh Tea Cafe!

Waterfall Pic!

During both trips, I've built better relationships with alot of the youths in the church! I think we've got really quirky and humourous characters around. Some of them we all know, but some, they may not seem like it, but they can be amusing as well. lol. LIKE ME! HA HA HA.

Did I mention I missed the food in Singapore? At times during both trips, I felt combat rations might have tasted better. lol. Seriously.

Right, anyway, reached Singapore at 1:30pm. Had lunch. Went home. Changed up. Left for Play! A Video Games Symphony. It was nice! Even if I didn't know some of the music, I really enjoyed the Castlevania rendition. The guy on the Pipe Organ.. is shockingly good. Too bad they didn't play Aeris' theme. But fret not! I bought 'More Friends' Album! It is by the World Festival Orchestra which played at LA during 2005. It's a concert dedicated to Video Games Music as well, this one specfically for Final Fantasy Music. And they have Aeris' theme inside! woot! Other nice one includes FF8's battle theme, and chocobo theme.. Lolables.

At the Esplanade!

Okay Longest post ever. Going to catch Shrek 3 tomorrow! can't wait.

Cameron Highlands

2007-06-09T15:11:00.000+08:00

I'm back! It's been a good 5 days! Although Monday and Friday were spent mostly in a van. Anyway, didn't bring a camera, so I'm dependant on others to provide photos for me. Photos please? Only took some photos to use as background for my mobile phone.

And the first person to send me a photo is.... Ereen! A photo at the strawberry farm with Zareth. Cute. Very Cute.

Deep .. Secrets

2007-06-01T15:47:00.000+08:00

I believe all of us have secrets, but when is the right time to divulge your secrets? Recently my friend spilled the beans on something "uberistically" shocking. It begs the question of whether he could have told us much earlier than that. While our circle of friends are particular lame and sarcastic most of the time, I'm pretty sure we could have provided some sort of emotional support.

Anyway back to standard blog stuff. Chalet!

Our little surprise for Birthday Boy!
Although he kept walking into the kitchen. -.-"'

Group Photo with Birthday Boy

A close up of the food. Cheesecake and Chocolate Fondue!

Needless to say, this has got to be the most elaborate chalet ever. The food was good! All credits to those who spent most of their time in the kitchen.

Stayed over at Jon's place on Wednesday night to make it 3 consecutive nights away from home. Had Frisbee on Thursday morning which was a good mini workout. After that went for a zombified shopping trip at Orchard. I was practically asleep for most of the afternoon. Made a quick dash back home to change and proceed to Clarice's birthday party.

/removed the lousy photo and inserted this one!

And to prove that I was super tired, I woke up at 3pm today. I'm going to cut my hair, and after which I'm off to Matilda's place for Zone 3. Saturday would be in church for practice, after which is dinner with the HQ BMTC dudes. Sunday is church, and overnight at Jon's place AGAIN?! That's 4 times in 3 weeks! Next Monday-Friday would be spent at Cameron Highlands. WOOT!

BUSY BUSy BUsy Busy busy bus bu b .... ... .. .

Smile Always :)

Smoke Screen Formed

2007-05-28T12:28:00.000+08:00

Will be away till Wednesday! Chalet at.... somewhere in the east.

/waves goodbye

Dot Dot Dot

2007-05-26T03:47:00.000+08:00

These few weeks have been rather "interesting". Needless to say, I think my daily routine has altered so much compared to a few weeks ago, it would seem that I really need some injection of zest and inspiration!

I guess I'm looking forward to June Retreat the most, My last one being 2002! It's probably a good time for me to get away from the comforts of home, to the comforts of a hotel room. lol. And for the first time during the retreat, I'll be serving! I've always felt a certain difference in the way P&W was conducted during camps. Let's hope for great things during the camp!

Right, on a different note, had dinner at Cafe Le Claire with Frances, Ashley, Isaac and Lydia. Oddly enough, together they form, F.A.I.L. haha, that was totally random. Anyway I thought the food was quite good for a very reasonable price! And at 4:30am.. I've got a sudden craving for Cheng Teng at Newton. Haha, I jioed someone to go there, but I retracted, cause that person is too young, and it seemed wrong to go out at supper at 4.30am.

My New Shoes!

To end off, It's the Great Singapore Sale! Probably a good time to update wardrobe abit, lol! Went bugis and already alot of the Shops were packed! But fret not, the sale lasts... quite long.

Thank God It's Friday! WAIT! It's Saturday already!

Star Wars Roleplaying Game

2007-05-18T18:24:00.000+08:00

Can't wait! Move aside TY! The next Gamemaster is here.
In.. 2 months time. after.. I read everything.. lol.. Get your pencils and papers ready!

Out all day all night.

2007-05-15T15:13:00.000+08:00

It's been a really busy few days. I've been out for 4 days to...play games. 2 days of Winning Eleven on Thursday and Sunday, as well as two days of Dungeons & Dragons on Friday and Saturday. Not forgetting Spiderman 3 on Thursday evening as well as Saturday afternoon practice and Church on Sunday! Not that I'm complaining! In fact, I had to turn some friends down because of my schedule. Sorry Isaac!

I also went down on Thursday to Uncle Dennis' to take a look at some pedals. Though I would like to try out some other pedals elsewhere rather than just limiting myself to pedals from his place. I also happened to try the Pod Xtlive at Luther's. I found it.. amazingly complicated. It's great, don get me wrong, but considering my amateur status, I doubt I can tweak it enough to fully utilise it. And so, pedals it is! Yippee! I wished there were more guitarists in church to utilise it though :P JW where's the lesson plans? wahaha!

On a completely different note, GST OFFSET PACKAGE! I'm going to get $300! It'll pay for my Bible Camp with $30 to spare. Hooray!

And on another completely different note, I've finally upgraded to Vista! Original somemore! lol. Free also! Weee. okay i'm gloating.

That's all folks :)

My first bouquet of flowers!

2007-05-10T11:14:00.001+08:00

www.t-i-l-e.blogspot.com

:)

For the fun of it.

2007-05-08T20:22:00.000+08:00

See how many people you can recognise!

I was just flipping through old photos at 3am, and I thought It'll be quite amusing. lol.
See if you can find JonWong, DaN, Frances, JonLee, YiZhen, Yilin, Isaac, Lydia, Sharon, Roanna and a whole list of other people!

This is also proof I already wore specs when I was very very young. :)

Relationships

2007-05-06T02:23:00.000+08:00

Nope, it's not about Boy-Girl Relationships.

I'm sure all of us have lost contact with friends for whatever reasons, but when it comes to initiating a meet-up session or just a simple update-me chat online, I seem to be unable to do both. Yes Both. Even chatting up friends whom I haven't talked to for a very long time seems.. difficult, in a weird sort of way.

I guess communication isn't my strongest point<----- I guess I've found this out in a pretty hard way. In fact, I'm pretty sure I haven't talked to 75% of my msn contact list for the past 6 months. lol.

Nevertheless, I thank God for all my friends! Be it we're in contact or not. Perhaps if you "kaypo" enough to check whether my blog URL really exists and you happen to pop in here, and you happen to be reading this, which.. you are. Say Hi on MSN! It'll probably make my day. lol.

/runs off to do Masterlife. 5 Hours to Dialect Service at 8am.

I'm an owl. hear me hoot.

2007-05-05T05:26:00.000+08:00

Yes I've become almost nocturnal. It's 5:30am now.

Just finished a "mini" mahjong session! Quite fun although if not for commitments the next day, I'm pretty sure I could go on abit longer.

Since it's practice in 8 hours time, I needed to restring my guitar considering the rust, so I bought a new pack of strings, since from my last pack I used only the 1st string, so I lacked a 1st string to restring everything. To my horror, the new pack.... is missing a 1st string. WHAT WHAT WHAT! SH....alom. zzzzz. I need to go and buy a new pack because I'm missing a 1st string again. Haiz, now I have two sets of extra strings, without 1st strings. Great.

Right! My first zone 3 meeting, I feel young all over again. It's like attending Secell for the first time when you're sec 1. Wahaha.

On a more jealous note, I wish I could blog about something more interesting, like Mr. -Leb-'s trip to US of A. Argh! Where's my holiday! He has a blog by the way.

And on a more appreciative mode, thanks for all the tags! If you've come a visiting and haven't left a tag, do leave one! That would be my sort of "affirmation" ? LoL.

/bounces off to shower and sleep.

P.S. I think C&C3 is awfully confusing, but maybe because I've only played it once. Scrin seems overpowered.

How to impress a girl you've just met

2007-05-03T16:40:00.000+08:00

Write a song for her!

Simply ask the lady for her name, excuse yourself. Immerse yourself in deep thoughts and begin writing. However keep the process to about 30 minutes, lest the girl has no time to wait for you.

Lo and behold! You've got a song for the girl!

A example of such a song is in my playlist. It's called... Katrina, named after a girl David Tao just met somewhere, a long time ago. He thought she was really beautiful, and so decided to try to get to know her, by writing a song, and I would think he sang it to her there and then. Otherwise he might have given her a demo. Ah well, doesn't really matter.

I wish I could write a song like that in 30 minutes.

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

2007-05-02T22:15:00.000+08:00

You
Probably the least "rock"ish song on Hillsong United's latest album.

天天
Probably the nicest oldie that I've heard in a long while.

忘词
Saw the title and found it quite amusing.

Have a listen!

The Enigma that is.. Blogging!

2007-05-02T04:16:00.000+08:00

As much as I do like to go around around reading blogs, I've always felt inertial to creating a blog for myself. It begs the question, "who's going to read?" and.. "How much do I want them to know?"

Perhaps it's a good avenue to practice my written English again. lol. Ah well, I created this blog because someone asked me to. I guess it's a good time considering it's my holidays!

Anyway back to football. Liverpool currently leading Chelsea 1-0 at anfield. It's great to watch football as a neutral. :)