Tribute to 2005!!!

One year has 12 mths, has 52 weeks, has 365days, has 8760 hrs, has 525600 mins, has 34536000 sec. However, it seems to pass very fast though. 2005 is coming to an end in about 3hrs time, 2006 is coming to a beginning and have i prepared for what is to come in the new year?? Well, guess so!! But i would really like to dedicate this blog to year 2005.

Forerunner-ed transformation
2005 began with a bang of excitment when i met the Forerunners and caught their vision. My life was transformed and is still transforming as i finally gotten a glimpse of wot my future ministry will be like....my vision, my mission, etc...I have finally understood what it is to serve God with music and what it is to be a music minister.

I met Pat at last year meta, went for TURT'05 audition in january, made my debut playing for Forerunner worship at GCgraduation worship in march, went for Turt 05 in May - June, played for Void at august to december, started bang band with bangster in september, played for Meta and so on....It was an incredible year of Forerunning!!!

Thanks to FR, my life is transforming and i am beginning to grasp what God has prepared for me and let go of alot of unneccesary want and selfish desire!! Hail Forerunner!!!

NUS life
My study has been quite ok...It was fast lah....Doing in my final year liao and my cap so far has been satisfying. I am no smart guy...but i thank God for the blessing. Got into Drug option which i has always wanted since my poly days.

Church ministry
It has been very depressing as i have never had imagine that i would leave the ministry that i have founded. I am really upset about it even till now. But alrite lah...pple move on, and what Pat said is rite - not being in the ministry or church, doesn't mean that i dun care and love for the pple there. These are the pple that i have come to love since i have 1st stepped in the church 8years ago.

I am contemplating joining CEFC soon as i think i have to settle down to a church... I cant be at 2 places for long. But i will have to deal with the initial inertia of adapting to the new environment, making new frens....

I would really like to thank my comrades that have served alongside me in SACMM. Thanks!!!

Summing up
I want to thank God for 2005, and really pray that i will be more obedient to His will in 2006 to come!!! Happy new year to all my friends.

Scene from the memory!!!

It has been quite some time since i have last blogged. Many things happened for the past few days. Some exciting, some depressing. However on the whole, i was feeling very depress but after toking to Pat, i felt uplifted and began to see lite at the end of the tunnel.

Scoring with my past!!!
Went for a soccer game with my secondary school friends on boxing day morning. Wow, it has been quite some time since we all last met. Everyone grew up and is either studying or starting career. It was fun time catching up with them. But the most fun time was that i scored 5 goals in our 9-1 win against each other. Haha...old sword haven't get old har....hee!!!I was always the goal netted since we were young playing at the age of 14-15...Now that we are mostly half-past 20s...Some things never changed har...hee

But many has changed. We used to do alot of crazy things together: Steal bicycles, gang fighting, catch-spider, shoot marble, gamble soccer, gamble poker and mahjong, disturb gals and alot of stuffs that ah beng will do, we did it all...God was gracious to some of us who have made it to university despite been quite a juvenile, some wasn't so....two of us actually were in drug Rehab centre...sad!!! Those who din made it to uni, most of them signed on army....and they were the guys who seems to be well-off now....driving cars, mod cars and stuffs...it was like a car parade man...it makes many of us(uni student) envied them and asked ourselves why are we studying so hard for....Adrian was commenting that it was those who cant study, are driving cars now!!!

But not all of them were well-off...Some of them were quite pathetic lah...One of them actually got bankrupt and is now working as an electrician in semb ship yard earning less than 1K monthly.

We rockZZZZ Uni Meta
Yeah!! Bangster band made our debut unofficially in meta uni when we performed a few numbers for TURT publicity. We did songs like: My sacrifice - Creed, Drive - Incubus, Found - Bangster band....We almost did Indemnified but Sindric(our imported front man) couldn't pull it off. It was really fun as we got to perform our song lah...But it was kind of last minute as Dotz called us up only 1 day before...and i have to spent the whole nite catching the guitar part for the creed song.

Overall, it's exciting and i really appreciate Dotz for inviting us down...Yeah man!!!She was so supportive to us the whole gig...thank you Dotty dot!!!

Void's last dance!!!
Void did our last gig finally on the 28th. It was cool lah as we refreshed our repertiore. We did the exact same set as poly meta. The audience love it and i was glad to see many familiar faces in the crowd. Many were my science crusade friends.

Before the gig, pat came to me and said that i was not there to prove myself but to play for the grace of God...it eased my turmoil i felt before that particular gig.

Meta Worship
Wow...it was wonderful to play with Pat on the same platform again, also as 75% of Bangster band and also for worship leader and forerunner director simon. The fast songs were exciting!!! Dinno that Simon can jump onstage man despite he was suffering from gastric problems....The whole congregation was jumping to the beat anywhere. Forerunner rockzzz big time again.

However so, we made many mistakes lah...like half of the band modulated while half dun!!!haha!!! Lack of practise lah....We were all so buzy with other schedule and hence this worship wasn't the top of our priority list lah....okok, no excuses for the mistakes....but i think we made a good worship team leh!!! So cool...William is really an excellent musician and he really earned my respect man....our perfect pitch guy!!!

It was very very uplifting as once again i witness the work of God as many came up to kneel infront of the stage during ministry time. It was really as if i was standing on Holy ground!!! Actually, i was myself been ministered too.....God is good...How can i not want Him!!!

I met Johnnathan, an old fren after the worship....so glad to see him...miss the time when we used to jam with jason on the bass....Ohh man!!!

Ok lah...That's all!!!

Ah Kong's tale

Watched ah Kong last nite with the Forerunners gang after their gig at Paragon. The show was quite good but the only drawback of it, was the fact that the story was abit chompy when it come to the end becos the beginning was too draggy. Too many unneccesary details were shown in the beginning.

Beauty and the beast - the T-rex battle!!!
I enjoyed all the action-parts whereby Kong bashed up the 3 T-rexes that was trying to lunch on his barbie doll Ann. All the punches, clothesline, body-slamming and throwing were great beside the part whereby Ann dodges death with her super luck. The action ended after ah Kong and the 3 Trexes fell from the cliff while Kong tried many innovative ways to protect his barbie. And he used his "peel durian move" to finish off the last T-rex. Little barbie was impressed by how he was willing to go thru so much battles for her and the fact that he got injured.

Then Ah Kong turned and scoff barbie while she was trying to get close to him. Wow lao...That's so guy....Did so much for the gal he like, then scoffing her and act dao!!! This started their love relationship...The moral of the story:" if u look like King Kong, nevermind!!! But u must work super hard to win the heart of beauty!!!" hee!!!

Beauty kills the beast
Have u ever have somebody that you will love with all your heart? have u ever love a person to the extend that u will give your life for her? Well, our Ah Kong had!! After he was captured alife and brought back to New York, and somehow he managed to break free, he was searching fanatically for Barbie. Bashing vehicles and buildings to pieces...and eventually, barbie came to him. Like any typical movie, each time the female lead appeared, here will comes the show spoilers - the army!!! Kong was fired upon with MGs..more like 20mm calibre MGs...Well, he may have thick skins, but it certainly aim hard enuf for the armor-piercing rounds. He was injured!!!

He was soon surrounded and have no choice, with barbie with him, he went round fanatically...Well, he should have hit for the seas and swim away...but instead, he went on to climb up the 100story tower, having himself cornered. All he ever wanted, is to spend some private moments with his love.

On top of the tower, they enjoyed sunset before the fighter planes flew in to the assault. It was sucidal lah!!!Ah kong was so blinded by love and ended up badly injured. At his last breath, barbie touches him and cried for him. He fell to his death from the 100story tower.

U think ah kong's stupid? Well, i think it's worth it leh. Men are foolish animals though when we are in love. We can dun want jiang1 shan1, only want mei3 ren2. Well, it's worth it lah, all the effort done to spend the last moment with her...:>

dat's all folks

Bye bye MSD-ers

It's over finally!!! After so 6 months of having to wake up early, sleeping early and having to do a super boring job!!! It's all over now. And I am back to my normal self again. No no, dun get me wrong...I dun dislike MSD, in fact i think i will miss the frens i have in MSD. It's the routine and boring job that i really dislike.

Bye bye MSD-ers
Bid farewell to my supervisor Angela who i have worked for, for the entire stay in MSD. She appreciated me with a present. I was very pleasantly surprise and was delighted when i found out that the gift was a very cute clock with the name Mr leg. Yeah, it's a small clock with a pair of long legs sticking out. Cute man...!!!

The laboratory team was really great tooo. They gave me a bag of gifts which includes Tshirt, Organizer, travel bag, mug and a $50 Taka gift voucher. I was really lost of words to say but told them that the most valuable thing that i will bring home was the frenship that we all shared. Getting slightly emotional liao...sob sob!!!

At 4pm today, i took the shift bus home and bidded farewell to the company that hosted me for 6mths of my life.

Hey hey, my bangs may asked: " How bout the cute gal leh?"...well, she went on leave liao. But before she left, we met last week at the corridor which we exchanged MSN address. Hope to stay in touch.... :>

So what's next for me?
Ohh man, life is getting exciting now....but 1st and foremost, i wan to sleep and sleep and sleep!!! Make up for the lost i have for the past 6 mths. Then i wan to play n play n play my guitar everyday. And put myself under a stricter and tighter training regime. I aimed to be a better guitarist than i am now after this!!!

I also wish to spend a day or so, by the seaside with God. I need a retreat to seek God and seek myself again. Felt so disconnected with myself lately.

My Xmas wishlist!!!
Well, since i can never have a white xmas in Spore, so i will wish for a warm and cozy one which i can spend with a few close fren of mine.

But what i really wish for this xmas, is direction from God lah. Where He really wan me to go? CEFC? SAC? or elsewhere. Where shall i serve then? Of cos, i am actively serving in FR, but wot about church...? Really dunno leh.

My Materialistic wishlist
1) An EVO 7
2) A musicman guitar
3) A katana
4) A trip to Japan to kanazawa where Maeda's linage began 500yrs ago
5) A PS 3

Tat's all folks

Ending!!! Soon!!!

Finally, tomorrow will be my last day of attachment!!!Yeah Yeah Hurray!!! This attachment has really taken it's toll on me....I am really really very tired already. Not in physically lah, it's just the nature of the work itself really bored and tired me alot. Has being doing a no-brainer job of data entry!!! No challenge at all!!! But in 24 hour, it's all gonna be over!!!

Placebo effect!!!
Caught Placebo's live concert DVD a few nites ago. They were cool and they rock man!!! Their style of alternative rock was really refreshing to me despite the fact that i couldn't accept it in the beginning. Songs like "Protect me from what i want", "plasticine", "Special K", "Nancy Boy"...were quite melodic despite their alternative nature. And i think the lyricist of the songs was very poetic too.

The band is made up of 50% Homosexual. The Drummer is a heterosexual, the bassist/keyboardist is homosexual and lead singer/guitarist Brian Molko is a bisexual. It Eeek-ed me in the beginning upon introduction to the band, but i grew to accept their music more than i accept wot they do outside of their private life.

Anyway, Placebo rockzz!!!

Erza's Production
Before our meta worship started, Dan, Man, William and me jammed and we tried to cover the old James bond theme with our own mixed. Hmmm!!!Sounded quite good. Maybe we should proceed to write a song out of it.

We are finally meeting next monday for a prayer meeting. Looking forward to that. I'll be a whole new man on monday as i finally ended my IA.

First EGS today
Will be conducting my 1st ever EGS(Evangelical guitar session) with Huatsoon and Junshan tonite. Looking forward to that man. Pls pray for wisdom for me and an open-heart for them. Will be inviting them to my church this sunday hopefully. :>

Dat's all Folks!!!

Dream!!Dream!!Dream!!!

Bored!!!Bored!!!Bored!!! How do you know u are having a boring life? Well, i can know when my dreams start to be more exciting then my life. Looking forward to sleep my life away all the time.

(above is a picture of a Samurai about to commit Hara-kiri aka Seppuku)

Walking to the MRT from my house, i was zomblified!!!
On the MRT, I Slept!!
At Jurong East waiting for MSD's bus, i dozed off standing
On the Company bus, i slept.
Reached office, turned on computer,faced my mountains high of work,i stoned....All becos i wish to pursue my more exciting than life, Dreamland!!!

In my dream, i could be everything and anything. I could be:
....wrestling with Eddie and Shawn on a triple threat match on wrestle mania
....a Samurai cutting off heads of pple i dun like as and when i like
....Damiyo of kaga who is loaded with money
....a gal...Yeee, scary!!!
....Super Saiya kicking baddies' butt
....the ultimate guitar collector with a warehouse fulled of good guitars
....playing for dream theatre alongside John Petr
....touring with G3 with steve and joe
....the 1st Singaporean to play for Liverpool
....the 1st Singaporean to lift the World cup, Champions league cup, EPL's title.
....the man who singlehandedly destroy Manchester United in a match which see my team thrashing them 12-0 with me scoring 11 goals with one own goal from Roony.
....marrying the gal that i like. Yeah man...the sweetest dream
....using my life to save the gal that i like in dangerous situation
....holding her hands as we stroll down the green pasture full of beautiful flowers
....superdamn wealthy, so i could give to pple who my heart pour out to as and when i like.
....superdamn wealthy, so i could buy chelsea FC over from that russian fellow, and sell all the good players at super low price to Liverpool!!
....time travelling to undo many wrongs i did in the past
....happily married with the gal i have loved in my lifetime.
....a vampire!!! Quite cool u know!!!
....a ghost to haunt my old house in Toa payoh
....a mind-reader to know what woman wants
....a mind-reader to know what i want
....a courages man that could tell the gal i like that i like her.
....Maeda Toshiie!!!
....living in ancient Japan where i could die using Hara Kiri( an honorable way to die) when i know my life should be ending.
....a collector of Katana
....living in the fantasy world of walt disney!!!
....a great evangelist!!!
....father of 3 beautiful kids; Eldest daughter - Calista Maeda XiaoXuan, 2nd Son - Lui(pronounce as lu-e, but chinese name i havent tink of), 3rd daughter -Daphnier Maeda XiaoRong.
....having a surname Maeda (qian2 tian2 in chinese)
....named Maeda Matezatemon Zhenpeng
....having a body like Triple H or Batista
....superdamn rich, so that i can support this old uncle who is working as a cleaner in MSD so much so that he could enjoy his old age at home.
....living in a super posh and big mansion with a olympic size beer pool.
....Swimming in my beer pool.
....Body-slamming the big show!!!
....

But when i woke up.....I am back in reality trapped!!! As an intern of MSD, desperately want my holiday....want to get out of working 7pm to 4.30pm work!!!!Sometime life can be a little too long if it cont this way!!!



DAt's all folks!!!

Life has been quite routine lately. Set off to work at 6pm then worked and worked and worked until 4.30pm, took the company bus to Jurong East MRT and then took a train home. Back at home at about 5.30pm, went jogging and have dinner after it. Watched Tongxin yuan on channel 8 then proceed to my 1 hour a day guitar practise regime. Did my prayer walk at about 9pm, then stoned until sleeping time.... Everyday the same for the past few days.....It's not that it's boring, but it's just a bit routine and predictable. Kinda sianz oledi.

Forerunner Meta Worship practise
Last nite, we had a worship set practise at apollos room at GCTC. The band consist of 75% of Ezra's room production team, so it was easy for us to gel together. Simon our worship leader is still in his "Green" mission trip...and so, Pat the band leader led us with his arrangement of the songs.

We have 3 fast songs and 3 slow songs to do for this set. We nailed the fast songs down quite fast last nite as each of us spent efforts to work on our own individual parts. We did 1 of the slower song last nite too. I think generally worship songs are quite eazy to do as they normally aren't too fanciful...I am speaking as an Eguitarist point of view lah. The circular songs that we did in Forerunner sometimes can be much more challenging to do.

Yeah!!This is another time that i can share the stage with my mentor Pat. He'll be playing Eguit and Aguit for this set. Recalling, we shared the stage together for only 2 occasions in my days in FR. Once was the GCTC graduation which Simon led worship, Mike on Drum, Pat on Bass, Me on Egui, Dotz on Key and Sharon, Joy on Vocal. Another time was in Woodland free evangelical church when Pat gave lessons on Attitudes of music minister where we did an acoustic worship.

After the practise, Pat drove me to Yew Tee MRT when en route, he was showing me some driving techniques like how to brake in a way to eliminate enertia, also how to do "bao Jia (Hokkien mean sure eat)" filter lane. Cool!!!

Ezra's Room
It's have been long since the bangs have gotten together to meet or to jam as we were all buzy with our own stuffs. We are proposing to have a sharing cum prayer session soon.

Approaching my final week in MSD
Finally, i am approaching my final week in MSD....Saying goodbye to the tormenting life of getting to wake up super early in the morning!!! And goodbye to have to sleep early....I WANT MY HOLIDAY!!!! I NEED MY HOLIDAY!!!! Argh!!!!

Almost completing my 43 page IA report that have to be submitted to NUS after my IA, now wot's left is just a presentation to the company pple next wednesday.

Packing up my stuffs and transferring them home. Slowly handing over my never-ending project and i think i am good to go!!! Bye bye MSD!!! Bye bye to my 3rd year 1st semester!!!

Dat's all Folks!!!

Leaving You Behind For Your Own Good!!!

It has been quite some time since i last blogged. Has been illed for quite a number of days due to stomach flu. Had a 2 days MC which i could only enjoyed in my bed last week. But despite my not feeling well, i still managed to do some activities like: Driving lesson, Gym-ing, Practicing for University Meta....

Finally it's December 1st.
After so long of anticipation, December 1st is over!!! Which means i am officially removed from my position as ministry leader in the music ministry in my church which i have co-founded. Well, it was quite an emotional day for me on December 1st. I remembered that the previous nite, i was counting down to dec 1st, yet at the same time wished that the moment will not arrived. It did however....

It's not easy for me!!! The feeling is like that of abandoning the child that i have gone thru 9 mths of pregnancy to bore her (even though i am not a gal and will not fully understand it) only to see her been taken away from me. Well, it was really really sad for me!!! But i was telling myself this: "I am leaving you for your own good, child....You will be beautiful just the way you will grow up to be without me!!!" I know that the ministry is now in safe hands and she will be developed further to be one that will bless the 1000plus brothers and sisters in St Andrew Cathedral. I am glad that i have participated in the pioneering stage of the ministry!!!

Friday - 2nd day of MC
I spent my 1st day of MC mostly in bed and practising for Uni meta worship in GC. So Friday morning when i woke up, i was kind of feeling much better. Therefore, i carried on with the activities i have planned.

Went for driving lesson. 1st time i was driving off to the main road. Wow sei, kind of nervous initially as my instructor never gave me any mental preparation. And also the 1st time i am driving with others on the road. Some taxi drivers were quite mean. Becos i was quite slow, they started to be impatient and started to overtake me or cutting my lane. One even horned me for being slow. Then my instructor taught me how to perform a horizontal parking. I think i need more practise on that!!!

Then i met Sindric for Gym session at CDAN. Did 2 sets of each exercise and feel that i am becoming more and more like HHH!!! Yeah!!! hee...

Sunday morning!!!
Attended service at St Andrew Mandrain service. Then proceed to lunch with Yihao, Ivan, Yeebing and lebing before attending AGM. During AGM, i shared about my ministry vision and what we have done for the past 1 year. Finally, everything has come to an end!!! Relieved and glad... I went on to play soccer with my churchmates....

As usual, scoring goals were my expertise haha!!!(Dun play play, i used to play for Prime league side Pioneer Arsenal when i was 14 ok!!! And was scouted by Lion city Football club(the club which produced Fandi Ahmand and Lim Tong Hai) but it did not materialised becos of my injuries on my ankles. I missed the chance to attend their trials.)

It was good to sweat it out...Sweat out all the flu virus and felt better after that. Just a little headache lah!!!

Met Manson and Sindric for dinner at Sakura then we proceed to Esplanade to catch Lovehunter's gig but only to our disappointment, Sindric got the wrong date. In the end, three of us had a good time of sharing at one of the cafe!!!

That's all Folks!!! Buzy with report writing now!!! :>