Hi ya all! lots of stuff to upload today! cos yesterday and today were just packed with interesting stuff! Thank God! haha.



Ok first up we have pastor Jermyn to lead the YF with group 2 on why we should go to church. His testimonies really touched my heart!

then we used a game for an analogy. It's captain ball with a rubber ducky ( though i think using a balloon will suit the analogy better) Can you guess whats the moral of the story? I will try to get the pics from Christine soon! lots of pics i took with her cam!

Then we came back and Jermyn summed up the lesson of the day. The reason we go to church is to...

1. Meet God!
2. Fellowship!

And Next up is the task to show what they have learnt...

QLC GOT TALENT!

With judges...

Randy Jackson ( me. hahaha)
Paula Abdul ( Felicia )
Simon Cowell ( Donovan Wong )

The challenge was simple : there are 3 categories ( skit, song, poem ) and they are marked by the following criteria...

Creativity ------ 20 marks
Effort(gp effort) ---- 20 marks
relevancy ------ 30 marks
Personal touch ------ 30 marks

total ------ 100 marks

So here are some of the gp effort pics!





And Group 4 won with an award winning skit. lol. haha but i have to give credit to the other groups, esp group 3, who really tried their best, their poem was good but if they had more creative ways of presenting it, they would have won.

And oh yeah, I will try to upload the vids of the group performances. Will ask from evie!

and following that went to meet my friends for lunch and chit chat about Army stuff and later we went to watch MAX PAYNE! OH MY GOODNESS! ITS SUCH A PAYNE TO WATCH THAT MOVIE! IT SUCKS SO BAD. not that the graphics sucks.BUT THE STORY LINE IS NOT CONSISTENT, IT HAS A LAME PLOT AND ITS STUUUUUUPPPPPPIIIIDDDD! DUN WATCH! YOUR COMPO WRITING SKILLS WILL DROP!!!!!!!!!!!

after that was an even more interesting event. My God mum (youngest aunt) knows a famous dance instructor cos her company is involved. His name is Sunny Low, founder of the Sunny Low dance school. and get this, My mum used to dance for him in her younger days... sadly he cannot remember her... oh well.

So whats this event? Its the finals of the Singapore International dance competition 2008. You know those scene in Dirty Dancing where they compete in a ballroom where dinner is served and the spectators savor the dance as entertainment when the dancers compete to be the best in a category? Yup its like that.

I will upload some good photos soon but heres some with my own phone.











Haha heres a vid of my cousin dancing on the dance floor when theres a intermission. Its embarrassing cos its like dirtying the sacred dance floor! haha. sorry its side ways...



And yeah after that i asked lester to come over my place to help out with the Bouna Vista Dance item. We choreograph til 2 and after that i KOed til next day (which today) noon

Today i went to east coast with my cousin, Leon, who persistently dragged the family to east coast to play with the new skate board, the street wave board. here's a pic of how it looks like...




Its my first time! boy its scary at first, but i managed to work it out in maybe ... 30 minutes? By some heavy trial and error also la. lol. I thought i was kinda good for my first time :) here's a vid.



and i rode the thing non stop for 3 hours! haha i got cramps everywhere except for my left arm. ( mavis said i haolian, ah but i tried my best not to be arrogant liao... )

then when i went home, although my whole body is in pain, i was struck by inspiration when i was playing my guitar ;) This vid is taken when i am very tired ( eg. like now ) ( but i still wanna blog this first >.< )



Hmmm i am kinda happy with it though i planned it to be faster one... just that i really very tired. ( can see my face bloat alot right )

Hmmm oh wells, i kinda know that there are people who cant love others easily. Well i kinda love people easily cos i wanna see the best in people :) I really pray that God will touch the lives of people with bitter hearts, cos i know they need God's love more than others. So pray for them k?

Ok i really need to sleep. Got groceries to do tomorrow and there's dance practice and Chorale at night, not to mention i need to go to Bugis to look for something... K GOOD NIGHT!

FUN TIME WITH JSS KIDS

Hi all, here to just update with some of the stuff i have been involved in this month, I now have 4 students, so thats pretty much the story. Its kinda tough teaching people with no music knowledge at all, so i should stop saying stuff to that guy like "er you know... its much easier to teach that person than you..."

OH LOOK! Its me and some sec one kids from Jurong Secondary doing random stuff!



Justin Mui from LCCS called me and Jo to help out with this. Its some kind of amazing race, using historic landmarks around city hall area, wow, i never knew got so many interesting things around, I really thank God i went :)

The above vid is a challenge, they have to find the spot where sir stamford raffles first landed in singapore and pose like him for a min. haha

The next vid is a task where they have to find the merlion and find 5 tourist to sing a song to, they got a little over enthusiastic. >.<



haha, doesnt the lady look like Demi Moore? she got offended when i said that this vid is going youtube, haha man...

the picture is taken cos we need to show the group at this place. Can you guess where? probably not, cos we blocked the object in the end, We're at Fort Canning Park!



In the end i made friends with 2 of them, haha one of them really reminds me of mavis. Its more like she is elsie and mavis combine. ( ah the energy of youthfulness! sob i feel so old... ) and a guy... who later confessed that he has feelings for me... ok... enough about that!

All in all i enjoyed this journey, Justin asked me to share about my experiences in service about 2 weeks from now. so watch out for it!
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LOL Monster hunter madness!
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The new obsession with one hit KO! lol

The first vid was actually an accident where we ( Gordon and me )coincidentally left the poor monster at 1 HP. lol, so when things like this happen, you chance on it!



The next vid is justin , whose ranking is basically GOD-LIKE!, tried to one hit KO a monster but failed! he underestimate the opponent! lol




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Oooh the pulau ubin trip!
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The trip was fun, no accidents, THANK GOD!, rained but it brought us closer i guess. But what i remembered which was the most significant time was when i ride up a ramp in the advance trail! it does not look scary in the vid but i assure you, it can be quite intimidating, cos you have this sensation that you gonna fall anytime ( in fact the first time i succeeded the ramp i flew and crashed in to the ground, but i rolled in the grass so i was not injured at all! ) This vid is my 3rd attempt, my last attempt. after that yuki chased us to go... sob

AH... crap dunno where it went... ah such a glorious moment.

Oh well hear more from me next time! see ya!

The Takamine EGS330SC! Woot!

ALL RIGHT! MY FIRST ACOUSTIC GUITAR! haha yeah its my first, I am so happy with it ( cos i paid half the cost with the money from the GST package... lol) AND ITS MY FIRST ACOUSTIC GUITAR! NO MORE BORROWING FROM OTHERS! WOOOTS!

haha heres some pics to show ya!








SO HERE ARE THE 3 BABES! ACOUSTIC in front, CLASSICAL at the back, ELECTRIC at the side! WOO HOO! I GO #&$^%@&# WHEN I LOOK AT THIS PIC!




okok gotta slp! ROCK ON AND LOVE ALWAYS!

Just some thoughts...

Ya know, how can anyone say that they truly understand what you are going through? How many times when you are down and someone comes up to you and say "hey, i know what you are going through..." and suddenly you feel a little lighter? Is it magical? or are we deluding ourselves?

I chased a cat yesterday, was lunching with my grandma and the corner of my eye caught the sight of the cat darting in. It was smart... it ran straight under the sofa, hoping for us not to notice it. Out of anger, I ran to the newspaper stack, rolled it up and smacked the sofa real hard (this is not my first encounter with the animal) and it ran out in fear. But thats not enough for me.

I ran after it. In my flip flops, i ran like i never ran before. The cat was no match for me. Although it had about 5-6 metres headstart i was closing the gap. we dashed down the corridor and up the stairs. It was so close.

Then BANG, i unknowingly knocked down a parked bicycle in the spur of the moment. As my conscience took over, i slowed down and watch the pesky figure get away. Then with a sigh, i went to clean up the mess. The owner of the house came out, asking me what happened. i told her about the cat. She said "why chase the cat to this extend?"

People in church ask me, hey can you help me with this? I say yes ( as usual ) cause i see it a pleasure to serve. But then my family and friends ask me, hey you free? I will give them the usual "church". It does seem that i have no life, but the church is my life. I can honestly say that i have done more significant things in church than at home.

Someone one day asked me, "still busy", I replied shabbily, "yeah...". "Go slow". Hey man, do i carry the profile "I'm Busy" with me everywhere i go? Yeah I have a grandma with attention seeking problems, i have a few groups of close friends, I have my girl, But do i complain all the time?

Yeah i know i am complaining, mavis told me a joke from the noose this morning.

" the average singaporean complains about an average of 4 times a day when he/she is unhappy, and when happy? about 3 times. " LOL

haha guess what, I am an average singaporean. Kinda proud of that. Maybe i am like a girl in YF, who just had an IPOD gift, would be worried if there is nothing to worry about. Ah the sky's gonna drop... oh wait, I have not done this, done th...

Evil. Someone emailed me to not procrastinate about my worship ppt slides, and CC the email to almost everyone in the ministry. Saying he is graceful. Peh. You cant hide your lying eyes... You think i always anyhow do worship one is it? I am almost running out of songs that the old folks would appreciate and worship with... You cant truely understand. I watched a family today, so happy, though maybe they are struggling abit financially, but they got each other.

I want my own life, if i can i wanna restart everything. Too many bad decisions. too many mistakes. But i cant regret. I can only plough through whats to come.

My honest opinion, lets be sincere to one another. If we hate that person, go to the person and tell them what you dun like about him/her. And lets deal with it. Or not, learn to forgive and forget, something that i am trained to do in my family. If we harbor any hatred for each other, the person who loses is yourself. The party who overcomes himself takes the advantage, you lose out.

When you are angry and sad, we do stupid things. Sometimes things that we might regret our whole lives. But the truth is that, its not the end. Let us not be victims of a vicious cycle that might turn into a maelstrom or whirlpool for others. Lets all be more mature and think about others. Be sensitive, and always give a helping hand. Lets give without asking for anything unreasonable in return.

One problem that i see in alot of people today is that they know they have a problem, and yet they dont wanna deal with it. Once i had a friend, who smokes everywhere he goes, and when i persuade him to quit, he will say, "yeah, i know its bad man, i wanna quit, let me quit once i finish this pack" he's still smoking til today.

Why i wonder? is this the reality of the bondage of sin? Are people so blinded by their pleasure? sure i have my own problems, and i am struggling. But yet the more i struggle, it becomes stronger and harder to quit. It has grown to an addiction.

but i will not give up. And because i have fallen so low, so that i can understand how most people feel about their problems. I know i stand a place to help those who need more than just a sincere smile.

I feel that i have to say this, " LOVE YOUR UNLOVED

Love one another. before its too late. peace out.

Yesterday was our 5th month anniversary so i thought i'd do something for her

I LOVE MAVIS!

take that, you silly girl say i never blog about you. lol. These five months were a great five months together. Though we have our differences and disagreements, I really treasure you more and more. Sorry for being a guy who jumps at assumptions easily, i do think too much sometimes. I guess i am learning to trust you more and more! So once again...

I LOVE MAVIS!