OH MY GOODNESS. its done. after 4 weeks of practice, sweat, wrong chords, laughter, subway, we had our debut gig.
thanks to everyone who made it happen, to you who took time off to come down, to celeste, adeline, alison, ah yong, terence, minlee, terence’s very pretty friend, david, ben, gregory, the guys from my cg, the little girl and most importantly, everyone else.
we nailed some, we missed some.
wait out for the videoss!
i like it, its nice. slim. and business like. i can update my tweets, surf the net while waiting for people who are really late when it comes to meeting me, etc etc. just that the curve’s an older version, a tad slower and less stylish looking.
i’m beginning to like sundays. i love it even though i have to wake up pretty early, i love it even though at times i dont get to enjoy service. i dont know, i just think its because of the people around i’m serving with are great people. my leaders are great and always positive. you would really register in your mind that you’re tired until you actually board the bus and sit down. you’re drained physically. but your spirit’s flooded with “good”. it sounds absurd, but good rubs off from good. therefore, i think i rub off my “good” feeling from the people i serve with.
i believe that should one feel mundane when serving, he/she should find something fun within the “serving” itself. take playing for cell group for example. practice IS mundane. but playing for cell, if you view it as playing it for God and going there with a purpose to bring the members to another dimension, then, yes, when you play, it will be fun!
yes?
“men should never be hung up on missing a bus. there’s always another bus coming up, with better seats and air con.” -jamshed. awesome.
a good leader always will be one whom you look up to, and even though she/he isn’t really placed above you anymore, you’re very sure you can approach her for anything and everything. from issues with the family, concern over friends, to well, just about anything in the world.
a good leader doesnt need to communicate with you much to find out how you’re doing. by looking at you she knows if you’ve been growing well or not.
today, is the first time in so many months, that i actually listened to the sermon and wrote down notes. today, i got challenged to bring myself one step further. today, i saw myself five years ago, and i liked it, and i want it back.
thanks for being there jiaying. real glad being there tonight. i miss the guys. thanks for giving me a chance to play in the cell again.
OMG. I MISS MAXWELL FOOD.
i think the robin’s blue egg colour is becoming very popular this season. i’ve been seeing a lot of the color appearing, on leanne marshall’s site and many others.. its a VERY nice color. if you dont know how it looks, just go google tiffany and co. of course, tiffany and co copyrighted their color. yes, big companies actually copyright their colour. prudential, coke, pepsi. still, praise God for tints and shades! haha.
see what i mean. i hope topman here ships it in. they dont bring in enough nice stuff.
while i’m at it…
are human beings too. i spoke with my cell group leader. she told me a lot. i realized cell group leaders are human beings afterall.
people should stop giving politically correct answers to difficult questions. its as good as avoiding the question asked. even if the question is a difficult question, just answer what comes out of your mind.
which is why i think my cell leader, is a great leader. it doesnt matter if she isnt perfect. its just. her. thanks for being a great leader.
will let one loose. thus, creating an atmosphere for him to go wild. what will i do without rock and roll and rock and roll and rock and roll and rock and roll and rock and roll and rock and roll and rock and roll and roll and rock.
of course, too much is bad for health, and ears for that matter.
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someone told me something that bothered the crap out of me today. but here’s what i got to say about this matter.
i think that its great that young people in can become leaders. it gives them an opportunity to lead to excel and to overcome hahayounger people. the problem however, lies in the different age gaps. young leaders need to understand that they cannot treat their members like slaves, but more like friends and associates. its not about ranks. even in the military, if say i am a lance corporal and my higher up is a major, we could still go out for breakfasts and lunches and we could still talk as friends. once a superior exalts himself, then, things will go wrong. whatever his associates do will never be good enough. and will always be wrong. young leaders need to mature in our church. yes, maturity does not come with age. BUT, age definitely comes with experience.
why is experience so important? because experience can make someone tactful in handling situations. i praise God for youths in our church who are rising up to be cell group leaders. good on them for being so on fire for God and having the spiritual stamina to go up to a level where others cannot. yet, they must remember at the back of their minds that they, like their members, are still in the process of growing. and everyone makes mistakes. we must never ever ever compromise or threaten others with what we think is right at that moment of time at the expense of the rest of the people. oh and by the way, threatening people will only cause them to fear you even more. will you as a leader want to reign by the hand of fear, or out of love and care?
Disected this song at poh’s today. do you know he broke some songwriting rules? i’m sorry if i bore you guys nowadays. i’m pretty into the 10,000th hour thing. anyways, mraz is coming down in march.
Poh talked to us about earning money today. about how we should earn money and buy guitars we really like. and how we should look up to spiritual people for advice. seriously, which guit teacher tells you all these.
and after the lesson, he texted me something really encouraging. i’m happy.
i was practicing for this week’s cell when i stumbled upon the above. this kind of movies are the best. ones which brings out the human spirit. the fighting spirit of man and how one man can fight the world. and its set in the english renaissance era. i bet there’ll be hints of the art movement then. so it’ll be an awesomefied movie. gonna get the DVD.
anyways, i suddenly got reminded of my secondary school literature poem.
Dolce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots4
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori
well, i took leave today, but i went to SAS advanced schools to drop a box of chocolates. well, i gave them to my commander and he joked and said he will have to eat them all. haha. i hope he doesnt. i hope everyone eats one at least. dropped by at tanjong andy (do a search on tanjong andy) and found a slacked captain bernard chilling out with my X.O.
met up with my financial advisor and we started having girl talk. i realized i can be quite a girl and do girl talk. strolled down for my first cell meeting in 7 months and i was glad to come back to being the resident guitarist of my cell group. feels awesome playing for cell again.my hands damn hurt now, but i’ll do it again next week, and the following week. my member went up to me and said she’s glad i’m back playing cause she feels so at home when i play for cell meetings.
sticky: have you ever wondered why your prayers don’t get answered? because you prayed with you flesh. prayer needs to come from a cry so deep inside of you. try this. try screaming without opening your mouth, voice. you can’t do it no matter how much you try. prayer works the similar way (not the part where it wont work no matter how much you try). this feeling has to be so great from the inside that it moves God. mean what you pray and don’t use repeated words. i guess thats how it is. i think stumbling during prayer is alright (try not to laugh/giggle, cause you’ll make the entire group laugh and you wont be able to continue praying. trust me. first hand experience.)i guess that’s why prayers kids use are so damn innocent yet so damn moving and touches alot of people’s heart. people can FEEL how much you’re putting into your prayer. let alone God. yea. thanks Karen for the pyschedelic…. sermon..
i started doing the rubik’s cube two weeks ago. i must say i’m very impressed with myself. i’m left with two corners that are in the right spot but wrong position. kudos to me! no one can beat my ex OCS wing commander though. i went to the toilet once and saw him trying to solve a 5 by 5. when i was done with my weewee, i walked back and the cube was almost done.
Tomorrow’s saturday!- Random
omg, i’m into timbaland’s the way i are. NO, what the heck is happening to me. i’ve been into J.T’s sexyback, Flo Rida’s Low and now, timbaland’s the way i are. Bad music is infiltrating my world and i can’t do anything about it.- Random
oh, for the record, i think my ex ocs instructor Verdy’s a great guy who changed alot since the first time i met him. he changed from a man of showing me the international ihateyou sign to the man who sees signs and wonders. Verdy is the new rock.
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