God of this City cover - Blue Tree/Chris Tomlin

Here is my latest! God of this City. Indeed there are greater things to be done in this city. When we are still alive let us all contribute to the city we live in. Patriotism is something I haven't really practiced, but actually its not about being patriotic, but how can you contribute to the city, so that you can change it!

Dental Surgery

Yesterday I went for Dental Surgery to remove my micro-implants, which are the screws at the back of my mouth, the ones that anchor the position so that my teeth can shift to the back by pulling it.

Complicated.

The good news is, its a smooth surgery, i got two lumps on each side of my mouth now. lol. Though I can't exactly laugh out loud now. Ow.... There was no post-operational bleeding, which is good news of a speedy recovery. I had to take pain-killers, of course and a mouth-wash specially prescribed. The surgery was in the afternoon and finished around 3pm? Somewhere there.

My dad was with me and we went to Sim Lim Square to check out graphic cards and games and looking for a bundle price for a fully-assembled CPU with of course the best specifications. It was expensive, and we needed a new CPU anyway. But we did not buy it on that day, there's still my mom to consider about.

After which we went home and I took a nap till Dinner time. I had to eat, steamed promfet fish, tofu and salted egg. All of them are soft food as you guessed it. After dinner, we watched the TV primere of Tuxedo. Jacky Chan and Jennifer Love-hewitt are in it. Love all the quirky accent by Jacky Chan and his choreograph skills as usual. One thing I noticed is, in every Jackie Chan film he always comment about wasting the film in his credit shots. LOL! Some may find it irritating, I call it being smart. Even in a big-budget film you still should at least try to lower cost, especially if you do not know what is going to happen on your set. Then again, I'm not Jackie Chan.

Yup, so there goes my boring day... Btw... I did a recording! Its a song by Blue Tree, covered by Chris Tomlin before and now I cover it. LOL In the next post. Chao!

Through it all...

Oh yeah, wondering why its Green theme? For some of you who know me, its because my next phase of life is Army.

So I decided to fit the theme in! Cool huh... If you can't adjust to the brightness I suggest sunglasses. XD

Besides, why through it all? Well, I was thinking that Through everything I have been through, through it all... I will still follow him. Of course I wanted to fill in the blanks myself. So its actually Through it All, I trust in Him.

No prize to guess who He is. LOL!

Besides that, I've been bugged lately by my bad habits. They seem to have return, all the laziness and procrastination as well as the lack of drive. Its like I really do not know what to do with my own life. Don't you ever feel that way sometimes?

I mean sure, I know I have a destiny in Christ. However, sometimes, as I began to go through life's motion. Life always have a tendency to bend your decisions. I know I wanted to be in the Arts area, yet which one am I suppose to be in? Music? Animation? Design?

Then again. As I look back to my achievements, my art was only so-so, I do not have music lessons before until now. Yet I do not really know if I can be successful in these areas. After all, most of my time is spent studying, slacking, playing games... the Normal stuff... Yet I love extraordinary things. I dream of myself doing extraordinary things. God even gave me dreams which are extraordinary and sometimes difficult to comprehend haha... Well, His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, sometimes his images are Higher quality then our images. Yes, God has a HDTV imaging system while we suffer with normal TV quality.

Then sometimes we just can't really see ourselves doing that. Worse, you want them ALL! I know humans have a limit they should share their abilities with one another. But my desires are out of whack! Though everything points towards the arts. I actually wanted to dance but looking at myself now, I am not even physically qualified. I love to music, especially composed by other people for soundtracks. There is an emotion tied to it that is hard to break off. Thus I start taking lessons to see if I have this ability as well... I love animation since young. Watched animation all the time, which was really very bad, do not let your children watch too much TV please!

Don't make them just dream, let them do whatever it is the job is required get them interested in that job scope...

Though I have indecision but for now, I still put my trust in the Lord. Temptations come, yet I still trust in the lord to deliver me from them. I must first of all put the effort, and confess, Faith is an action, its also a confession.

"I may not have a great feeling right now, but so long as you believe, ALL THINGS are POSSIBLE!" - Rev. Casey Treat

Love that faith guy!

Past few days....

Its been awhile since I last blogged. Too busy. Ok I admit, I'm lazy to blog.

First of all, to keep you guys up to date... I got a job at Mecomb Singapore Limited. But it was just to help them move their office from Bukit Timah to Jurong West. It was an experience to see how an office moves from one location to another. And I met a fellow temp staff there too, name was Ying Xiang. We sure did loads of packing. At first I did not really talk to him much, because the move was rather hectic. We will be packing and making boxes for the whole office to pack their stuff. I was posted to help out in the Pumps Department.

When lunch came, Ying Xiang and I would eat together and just talk. Interesting and friendly guy he was. Eats sandwich only for lunch, a person who loves most of the things I liked and I would say we can clique well. I have never met someone so alike to me then him. So I've been working with him and other colleagues to shift their stuff.

One name I will always remember during this whole shifting and that is the moving company. K. C. Dat. Truly and amazing bunch of logistic movers. Fast and efficient, they managed to shift most of tables, shelves and other hardware including computers and the numerous boxes in the office, out in just 4 days, which is actually quite fast! And that was only one floor. There was still another floor for shifting which they did it the day after. In other words the whole office shifting actually took nearly a week. A week to shift the FULL OFFICE? I can only say, amazing. One of the colleuges there complimented their efficiency to the person-in-charge. He had something to say: "So long as the attitude is right, everybody plays their part and obey, everything can be done." Which got me thinking.

We christians know that our Attitude determines your Altitude. Yet, we never really could see the result of that happening. Well, this group has just gave me an illustration for an effective force and effective systems that help them move stuff out and postitioning it in the Jurong building all in just 4 days. I overheard they have men at every station point to move the things. There will be some stationed at the Bukit Timah area, another stationed at the Jurong area. In this places they have groups of people stationed at every crucial point like the top of the lift, the bottom level where they are going to load, and for the Jurong side, there are more people as the place do not have a life they have to move it up the stairs... Wow...

Well, moving on. My job at Mecomb later came to packing the store, help unpacking the boxes as well as to do abit of filing and finally chopping letters as the address was all wrong and I had to chop the new address on nearly all the envelopes. LOL! Boring jobs, but I get to spend time with Ying Xiang which I now consider him as a buddy. He loves the anime world and other worlds which I ventured in. Games, abit of music, and he is like a big brother to me during the whole two weeks...

The bad news for me was, I was only there to help for the move and my last day of work was just yesterday... Oh well. It was a timely thing anyway. I will be going for a minor surgery for my dental implants. Yes, remove those pins in my mouth. Its happening this Monday.
Praying for a smooth operation.

Hope this keeps you guys up to date. Oh one more thing... HEROES SEASON 3 IS FINALLY OUT!!! WHOOHOO!!! SO MANY QUESTIONS TO THE NEW SEASON! The first two episodes were aired and whoa, really many things happen at one go. This season could be the best one yet!

Entering a new Destiny...

Pastor Kong shared on Sunday about having Son-ship. It has really got me thinking...

Like father like son, I started to compare myself with my Dad and see the similarities we both had. To be honest? Both of us are actually VERY similar. My Dad likes to sing, though a little bit out of tune and not at the right timing, in other words, my Dad and I love music. He plays the guitar and harmonica, I play the guitar and learning piano. LOL!

We both love service and dressing up nicely for it too. We will take the effort to dress well when needed to. Also, we have the same way of praying. We will go by a system, like putting our life before God before praying about other things. We love sports or rather, we like to have fun, played soccer until our stomach all pain, not from getting hit by the ball, but from laughing so hard because of all the funny stuns we did.

What does all this got to do with Son-ship? Likewise, our God is our Heavenly Father. What is true in the Natural is True in the Spiritual, truth is parallel. So If I am like my Dad in the Natural, shouldn't we all be like our Heavenly Father in the spiritual?
Also, we come from City Harvest Church and Pastor Kong is like a Role Model to all of us, in other words, Our spiritual mentor, which I can gladly say, he is like a Father to his church, and we are his "children". Therefore, when we go out, we know immediately who are City Harvest Members because we are somehow able to get City Harvest DNA from our very own culture in church.

Its like Singaporeans have a special language called Singlish, punctuate every sentence with a "La" or "Lo". And that defines us as Singaporeans. Its the same for City Harvest! We always clap on the 2, 4. Always, unless abit musically not so inclined then you are forgiven, but naturally we will clap on he 2, 4 beat to every song. Also, we are a church that claps alot. We will also know when to clap at the right time. Most of the time... haha...

But the point here is. We will inherit the DNA of the Church and become what the church was in the first place. We have a certain way City Harvest people will pray. We have a certain "City Harvest" style in the way we do. Sometimes I feel thats why I decided to join City Harvest because I want to adopt this way of spirituallity and not a religious relationship.

I love City Harvest atmosphere created during Jurong West. It was so City Harvest at that time. But somehow, I've begin to feel that CHC all of a sudden did not become what it used to be. It was rather saddening and I think Pastor Kong was a little sad too... Where was the church that will jump at every praise song? Where was the church that was discipline in the church service, not moving around all the time, ready to listen to the word, ready to say "Yes" when a scripture was told to turn to. All this was the City Harvest I knew off... Yet it is sad to see, that the enthusiasm to even attend cell group... was also gone. We have to motivate others to scream and yell when we wanted to, but back then it was all automatic, the fire was wearing out... Sure we are a young adult cell group but I've been to adult cellgroups who seem to be more on fire then the youths! The adult camp has already proven that to me.

I am thoroughly disappointed in City Harvest at some time. But still, we serve One God. Lets not look on the left or the right, look at yourself in your heart. Ask yourself, am I really a City Harvest Memeber... A person who follows a church has to bear the values and the habits of that church, good habits. I once learned that to attain success, we can't just sit on the sidelines, we have to PARTICIPATE. I do not know if I'm putting my point across well enough, but I really want to see the City Harvest I once knew, ever since we moved to Expo, everything's way too different. I mean, we should not stay the same, but that does not mean we lose the personality of who we are. City Harvest is just the same, after all the church is people. You make the decision, whether to join in or not, whether if you want to be a son.

A Son will always build up God's purpose for his life, because not only is he a Servant, but he wanted to be LIKE God, just like how we sometimes are Like our Father. Its the same. What is true in the Natural it is True in the Spiritual...

God Bless and Good Night people...

Army men...

Today I went out with my best bud along with my other secondary school friends.

We decided to hang out for dinner and chit-chat over dinner. This is because, my friend Kean, has just POP, in short for Pass Out Parade. In other words, Basic Military Training (BMT) is over for him.

He had some stories to tell of life in the army and one of my friends joining us, named Stedson, was a 3rd Sergent and both of them began to share about army stuff and me and my myanmar friend, Thit Lwin, sat there and listen and laugh along with them.

Occasionally they will turn to Thit and go on saying about the IPPT or Army's NAPFA I sometimes call it. Then they will say he is able to make it to Command School. Then when they turn to me, they will always sarcastically doubt me and say that I won't make it big or I won't make the cut.

It has been like this for years... They still like to talk me down. In fact, it seems that everywhere I go, I have been talked down. Whether is it Strikeforce, in my own cell-group(rarely happens but sometimes) and most of the time with my outside friends, all of them like to "suan" me hokkien for "disturb" or "talk down".

I sometimes feel why am I a male. I mean, I have been made fun when my friends would talk dirty and I do not talk dirty they will start to disturb me. When I laugh along with them, they always ask me why do I laugh. I don't get it? Is it just my lack of communication? Or is it because I am not Man Enough. What exactly is the world's vision of being a man? That I have to talk dirty and speak vulgarities like nobodies business? Those every verb have to be replaced with an f word?

Why is it so hard to communicate openly with them. I mean Kean will sometimes talk to me seriously, but he is the one that doubted me the most. He was the one who say that if I stayed like this, I could not make it. What am I suppose to do? Prove myself? Yea, maybe I will. But what I really dislike was that the fact that I have not went through it and immediately they say that I cannot make it, saying I won't be alert and may get the whole platoon into trouble if I ever enlist.

I was so frustrated at their words, but I did not show it. Instead, I put on a smiling face and never talked back. Because if I did talk back, Kean has a way to counter the words I say.

Yet, I still consider him as my best buddy. He is my music confident, my "teacher" in music and i definately admire his musical prowess. He is also the first guy I have been friends with a long time. He is my only friend that gives me a Reality Check and I need him to be those kind of guy, because without him, I would've probably lived in a Fantasy World of my Own and not do something about the dire situation I was in before.

I guess, the army is really tough if he say that I could not make it, I'll PROVE it. In the name of Jesus I will prove him wrong. God I ask for your strength and discipline, an annointing of being alert at all times. I have to exercise more in order to build up my strength, especially arm strength. I need to get 20 pull ups. Thats my current goal. I need to start training leg power for running and Standing Board Jump. I have to be able to prove, that i can do all things, through Christ who strengthens me...

Urge for a Merge? Or just your Flesh talking...

Many a times I walk along the streets, on the MRT and on the bus. All I see are couples, couples and more couples. Sometimes when you just stand in the middle of all these couples, immediately your concious starts to hypnotise you, "Time to get a girl-friend." And it will swirl in the depths of your thoughts over and over again.

Its the agony of single and available people. Bachelors and Bachelorettes are all considered DESPERATE!

HOWEVER!

I have a question to post, "Is it really time yet?" Most of us will reach to this question when you see someone you really liked and you say, "thats the right partner for me!" But is it really?

Many fall into the trap of the outward looks and never looked on the inside of the person. I too am a victim of such, honestly speaking, for guys especially. Who won't stare at a girl dressed in a speghetti strap, black silky sexy dress? or even a girl with a bikini on at the beach? If a guy says that he has never took a glance at a girl dressed like that, they are most probably lying. Either that, or theres something wrong with them biologically... Lets not get there.

The point I want to make is Character Triumphs Looks. I actually found that to be VERY true... I have seen some of the girls in my school who were sexy, good-looking and being just how sexy girls are, yet, they are lousy when it comes to helping people, to serving people. Some will whine and even spoke the beautiful language know as "Vulgarity".

Seriously, I have an issue with girls swearing all those profanities. It just seem... Wrong to me. I mean, sure they have been influenced but its just one of the things that I really dislike a girl immediately. Another issue is referring to girls who smoke. Girls, why would you want to have your teeth yellow, or to have breathe that smells like cigerette? Its really something I do not understand. You want to look beautiful but in the end, you destroy your teeth, lungs and eyes will be bloodshot. Whats the point in looking beautiful when you are destroying your insides.
I would gladly throw a listerine water bomb into your mouths.

Don't think I bomb the girls the guys go scott-free. What in the world are guys doing these days? I have extreme issues with guys who always think about sex sex and just sex. I do have friends like that, and I really pity the dude. I mean sure, guys WILL think about sex, but its how you control the thoughts that make you accountable for it. It was preached during FOP when Mark Conner came he said that thoughts are swimming around and you are RESPONSIBLE as well as you HAVE CONTROL to sipphon out the thoughts that were not applicable to lead a righteous path. The thought will come but its your choice whether you want to go along with that thought.

I find that if guys cannot control themselves, it is an excuse for not taking responsibilities over their own life. Understandable that some really could not control themselves. If thats the case they can still choose to go for Counseling and that in itself shows that you need help and you are taking responsibility over it. Overall, as you can see the problem with most guys is taking responsibility.
Yep, me too, I'm struggling in that area too, but I make to choice to give it a shot again. I may fail but I try again to be responsible. The spirit of Resilience is in all of us, women and men. We can change! Theres no such thing as "I can't, I just can't control-" Do yourself a favour, SHUT UP and go and PLAN! Think! What can I do to stop this. If you put the effort, I'm sure you will think of something.

So I've side-tracked again. But yes, how do you know if its the one. Honestly speaking? Its all based on effort. For Christians, we have God's guidelines on choosing the right partner, and its up to you to follow. However, I know we have preference in our partner. Example, I like girls who dress well, physically well proportioned and love arts and performing arts.

So what to do? I am not physically proportioned yet, I have a zero on my tummy for goodness sake and arms like jelly. I always dress in bermudas and t-shirt. If you were like that and lets say you meet a girl who really was super-stunning in a very beautiful dress and you just walk up to her to talk to you. She's not going to pay any attention to you. Come on, I mean, in the end we need to put effort as such that it can meet your requirements in a girl. I mean, you want to have a girl that dress well? Then Start dressing well! You want a well-toned girl? Please do yourself a favour and go and exercise.

I'm not saying this is a SURE-GET thing. Its just a way to heightened your chance. Also since you like this kind of people with arts? Go and mix around with people like that! I believe if you put in the effort, if you seek God and God is the centre of your life, your partner will eventually come.

God Bless! =)

Strikeforce, Drumfest 2008 Coming soon!

Alright folks! I shall just get to the point.

I'm going to perform for Strikeforce! Woo hoo! FINALLY! I wanted it to be my last performance actually. I have always wanted to serve in Choir ministry. After the revelation that God has a dream for every one of us and it so happens that one of them is singing and leading praise and worship. So i was planning how am i going to attain that goal. Indeed I want to lead praise and worship in future, whatever platform may be. Whether in cell group, or, in my dream, in my future studio office. That's why I picked up guitar, thats why I made the decision to serve.

Anyway, Strikeforce! Yep, I'm going to play in the Singapore Drumfest 2008! Its going to be big! All the HUGE drummers of this age are going to be there as well as aspiring drummers and musicians are all going to be there! To watch us perform an item on the concert. Wow...

Of course the practice time was a killer. I mean, its on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night, 8pm to 10pm at Joo Chiat. And this week, we have rehearsal on Friday night, venue not confirmed yet. However, we know its going to be a blast!

I'll be playing for 2 parts of the Gig. The intro and middle part. The final part is for our UDM drummers! I want to give my very best for this performance, take it as the last one and after this, I will be heading on to newer heights, challenges and even new goals.

The performance date is on a Saturday13 September 2008 at Fort Canning Park.

DUFFY- MERCY (ACOUSTIC - HQ SOUND)

OMygoodness... Great voice and I really like this song! It really has the groove to it, but really her voice is simply stupendous!

I Give You My Heart - Hillsong(Unified Praise Version) cover

I did my own version. I hope you will like it! Its finally another COVER after so long!!! XD

W A L L . E Popcorn Smasher

PIXAR animation studios has again met my expectations!

The emotion is there, the drama is there, the entirety of the story plot flows and it has a morale about saving the Earth.

Some of you have no idea how hard it is to make this movie. Well, it is. Trust Me.

All the robot scenes, the transformation and all that hologram stuff? Well, its going to take a very long time to fix all those up. I say that this is PIXAR's breakthrough. The story plot is fantastic, only the director from Finding Nemo can think of something like this. Ok ok let me get straight into reviewing.

At the start of the movie, an old song was played, I myself do not know the title, but its those olden American songs. And afterwards, they revealed an Earth, full of Garbage and a company name B&L always pops up here and again. Afterwards you see a fantastic view of the city of new york and you will see something pretty interesting about the towers there. You will see later our friend, WALL.E a very curious robot.

When they said in this movie there was no talking? They really mean no talking. I mean occasionally, Wall.E will beep and whistle and do all those things that he's suppose to do. You can't help but admire this little machine, able to survive all by himself by using his other Wall.E friends parts to maintain himself. He will gather resources all by himself and he likes to collect funny stuff that we will laugh at.

Of course, then comes the part where Eve appeared and basically he manage to befriend her for a while. There was some sort of one word spoken language that was the first time words were spoken in the movie and subsequently, you guys know from the WALL.E trailer, he went to space because Eve suddenly was taken by the spaceship. So he followed after the ship, always staying on the outside of the ship, poor Wall.E, but he got to see amazing things he did not see on Earth as he made his way to space.

As the story flows, there will be hints to tell you what really happened on Earth and you will find clues as to why Earth was totally empty and where exactly are all the Humans? All this will be slowly revealed. Of course, let's not forget Wall.E's adventure. Do not look down on this little Robot, for he can do great things. =)

I can't say more. All I know was, I had a ride of my life. Also, there were touching scenes here and there which made my heart ache at one point. Its worth the money! to those who do not mind animation.... Haiz... It seems that some people do not like animation and they will immediately find this movie a piece of crap... But i urge you people to understand that this movie is really quite fantastic. It also tells us other morales then saving the Earth... You have to watch to understand folks.

I shall not say anything anymore. Until then, Earthlings, WALL.E out!

Oh By the way: Rating is 4/5 =)

Exams over! What next...

So, what do i do now?

While waiting for the results to materialize I guess I can share what I am going to do next. Probably continue working at Cheryl's workplace.

Continue working is a must. I need the money for my future course or pathway. Indeed arts is a narrow road for me. Still I will give it a go. And before I want to enroll I would like to at least get my basic drawing skills down pat. That is why, I've created a routine that I need to draw. So I got my drawing table ready and sat down and just keep drawing the ideas I have about the story in my book. Its not very nice yet. But I want to keep improving.

My dream will not be an easy road. Both roads that I take are going to be risky. I need to have a job and earn the money for the course. After which I still have army to take care off. Two years of wastage time.

Because of NS I need to set a routine for exercise in order to not suffer in NS. I must do all I can to at least get my arm muscles up-grade.

Other than exercise and drawing, there is the part where I have to write a book. For Elly's sake and to realize my own dream of writing a novel. That was my secondary school dream...

I really pray that the exams will be alright. I do not want to see the same teacher AGAIN. It will be super frustrating! And I can't afford to differ again. Let's just say this path is fixed for now, but i will change out of it soon.

Response to Mike Mike Guglielmucci Controversy

This guy explains it much simpler! Also the same view I had.

Mike Guglielmucci.. by Papa G

This is one of the Responses I feel that we should have to this Mike Guglielmucci controversy.

Money No Enough 2: Special Screening @ CHC

Today, in City Harvest Expo Hall 8, from 2.30 - 5.30pm. Money no Enough 2 was screened!

It was an exciting thing! To have a movie screened at a Church was something I have never experienced! And it was indeed the movie for screening.

I could only say that the atmosphere created by our own church after all the graduation service, the holy spirit still lingers in that area. When the movie started, all was quiet and listened and laugh at all the political and funny jokes spoken throughout the movie. However, it was not all jokes and laughter. There were certain parts in the movie which I believe what makes Jack Neo's movie the best to me. I mean, Royston Tan can do 881 and may have topped the charts. The thing was, Jack Neo also have Box Office records before. Even so, I believe that this movie, Money no Enough 2 is one of the most meaningful, most touching and amazing movie he has ever made.

Filial Piety is getting lesser and lesser in our society. So much so, we are influenced so much by the western culture, we tend to follow it a little too closely. Where kids are honoring to their parents are concern, very little have been doing that due to the technology as well as the change of the generation.

In my opinion, we should merge Western upbringing along with Eastern Upbringing. Western in the affirmation and hugs, Eastern for the Honoring of parents and not Sparring the Rod for the child. If we can balance this lifestyle, we are able to become better parents in future as well as to be filial to our parents who have been our providers, sometimes the bad guys because they want to change us, but one thing is for certain, all of them paid a price, to sacrifice for what they have in order to save us, their children, from their situation. Even if they are hurt inside, they still love us, unconditionally and with no strings attached.

The person who acted the mother of the three brothers in this movie, I really take my hat off to her. She really brought out the emotion, not forgetting 'Huey Ge' who really did very well for this movie. Jack Neo wrote the song which appeared near the end of the movie, which was called, Mother is just a name. It was a very sad song, sung in Hokkien.

Jack Neo, I really take my hat off to you. I'll take off as many hats for you, for being so multi-talented, artsy, classy and indeed making a difference in Singapore through film. He has became one of the reigning ranks of Directors I look up to. The song was what made me tear, just to see the meaning being sung, I really felt for the characters within the story and the emotion behind the song was simply powerful.

After the whole movie, Jack Neo came up along with the cast of the show, and the MingZhu Sisters gave a performance to sing that last song of the movie. Mark Lee was not present there, haiz wasted. After the whole event, I went for the autograph session, get to say some words to Jack Neo and the cast, there was a new girl there called Natalie, she's only 18 but she's really beautiful and tall. Ok maybe its the heels, but I bet if she took it off, she will still be taller than me... Haiz... The life of short legs... Anyway, I really enjoyed myself, get to watch this whole movie event with Jiasin and we manage to catch up with one another.

Overall, I started off the weak, soul recharged and reignited with a new passion. To be in the film arena, my medium being animation. I still do not know how to go about serving God using animation as a medium but I know I will find a way there. I will fulfill my destiny that God has placed in my life. Amen and amen.

Another Valley Conqured, Weary soul was restored...

It was a grueling week for me as it was my exam week.

I am just so tired of my fleshly self during that time to study for just one paper. One paper, and my ugly sides were shown. I have been rebellious, been stubborn and unreasonable. It was a challenging time for me as I received criticism after criticism during this week. And when I wanted to study, I was so affected by my circumstance, I did not really look forward towards my exams and my drive to study wavers too soon.

Fortunately, I really thank God for being my helper. When I went to Ngee Ann Poly to look for my lecturer, asking for tips to help me, about 90% of the exam paper, came out what I was told to study. There were some difficulties in the paper calculations and now that the paper is finished, I can seat back and relax!!!

That was what I thought. I actually felt relieved that the exam is over. However, during that whole week, I missed out something, and that is Praising God no matter what the situation.

On that Friday night, the exam day, I went for a concert, invited by my friend Josephine. It was her church concert known as JUMP, Jesus 'U' Must Praise 2008. It was in the open air, Fort Canning Park. When the event started, we just began to sing praises and worship. Although I was new to this event, I did not feel out of place. The group of people there maybe small, smaller that City Harvest. But they are definitely on fire for God. After the event I was tired, but still I remember the true meaning of Praise and Worship, which we all knew but we always forget when we face crisis.

I thought that I could just seat down and relax remember? Well thats my wrong perception. From this day forth its going to be even busier! Rev Alex Abraham from Bethany Church in Indonesia, came to minister to us and give us the Word for both Sat and Sunday Service as these two services was the day of School of Theology, SOT, Graduation ceremony! My cell group members, Junjie and Michelle were students of SOT and we gave our support.

The thing about Rev Alex Abraham, is that he came to preach even when he is still recovering from his Stroke. He was humble after Pastor Kong grace him with all the achievements he had. The moment he came up he said that "I am just a Servant." Immediately I thought of the song, Hati Hamba. Even though he preached in indo language, there was an interpretor to translate to English, i can just feel the presence of God in that room. He shared his amazing Testimony of how he became a Pastor and met God for the first time.

The details are too long but I can say this. There is Power, in the Name of Jesus Christ. He reminded us the one thing that sometimes we always forgot. That God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is ONE GOD. And God dwells in our Heart! Not the address of Heaven, but he dwells within you. Thus we are able to do Great things because God dwells in us! He made some points which I noted that whenever he wanted things to happen, he will always call upon the name of Jesus. Then during the altar call, he wanted to give us an impartation. He called down the Spirit and I was actually touched by the Holy Spirit, giving me a glimpse of the future me. I shall not reveal it. =)

That was just the First Day. Today, he was extraordinary as usual. He talked about how he got his land for his church, another amazing and inspiring testimony. There was a funny part about how he would jog about the land and sing this song: "In the name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus, I have the victory. In the name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus, This Land belongs to me." We laughed at that. But the thing is, he got that huge plot of land, Free of Charge because, he did a miracle for the owner of that land. Then instead of preaching further, he felt the Holy Spirit move and asked Pastor Kong to stand so that he can pray for him. I know that at this point. It was indeed a blessing to the whole church.

He gave certain prophetic word and asked the Holy Spirit to empower Pastor Kong as well as to strengthen the church. I felt great confidence in my own body. I felt that big things will be happening in the future. Indeed I felt very excited, with all the upcoming stuff like Asia Conference, its going to be a phenomenal time from this day forth.

Rev Alex Abraham says this: We have only one Life, which God has given us, so Let us Live it All the Way for the Glory of our lord, Jesus Christ.

Healer-Mike Guglielmucci Cover

My Friends who wanna form a band? Well if we can do something like this, I believe we can consider ourselves a band. Take note how they flow especially that drummer. He looks like behind the scenes? Well he's important. He keeps the beat and as a drummer whatever that is a drum should be your passion. Not just Drum sets...

PARACHUTE BAND VIDEO BLOG #26

This is the blog that shows Singapore's FOP from the Parachute Band's POV!

My Lucky Star: Love is all about Character...

Its been a long time since I've blogged. But I have to say something or else I believe I will BURST!

I am not the kind of guy who watched Taiwan Dramas. In fact, I did not know of any Taiwan Dramas that captured my attention.

However, thanks to my good friend David, he recommended one series for me to watch.

This drama is entitled: My Lucky Star

This drama, is a MUST WATCH! Seriously, the plot is good, the cast are captivating and it so happens that the main actress in the story is actually a Korean by the name of Yoo Ha Na. Watch out for her, because personally I think she has done the most job in bringing out the essence of the drama. I can't help but to think that this drama, especially Yoo Ha Na the actress, has made me captivated in the scenes of My Lucky Star.

This show is about Jewelery, Romance, Comedy, Action, Racing, Betrayal... Basically its one of those dramas that has everything. Its storyline, whoever came up with it is indeed a genius. This movie is about a Con-women, Xia Zhi Xing who used to make counterfeit jewelery to make a living and scam off rich people. After being caught and living in Jail for 2 years, she is willing to turn over a new leaf. Until he met the 2nd Young Master of the Biggest Jewelery Empire known as E-Shine.

She lets this 2nd young master, an arrogant man known as Zhong Tian Qi, experience her life as she was due to a 'Handcuffed' situation. After which the journey begins when the 2nd young master was freed from the handcuffs and decides to follow Xia Zhi Xing to understand and lead a new form of life then just being the number 2 man in E-shine.

The story is really about Xia Zhi Xing and Zhong Tian Qi's love for each other and how they overcome misunderstandings after misunderstandings. It also help me realize that indeed the truth shall set you free. Altogether the 20 episodes was a roller coaster ride. I can't help but cry whenever Xia Zhi Xing cried during the show.

Even during the Behind-the -scenes short clips, when they said that Yoo Ha Na cried during one of the touching scenes, after the shot was done she still could not stop crying. I have never felt my heart sort of 'break' when she started crying. Its a feeling that I have not felt for a long time. The last time I had this feeling was from watching Kiddy Grade, a Japanese Anime, where my heart was broken when the main character struggle so hard just to clear her name and to find that love was lost once again and that she had no choice but to fight, in the end resulting a lost of her love ones.

Yoo Ha Na was one of the actress which gave me a very very powerful impression. She may play as Xia Zhi Xing but i believe both Xia Zhi Xing character and her own character are similar. Both are innocent and strong in their character values. Caring for their friends, standing strong in moral values, very perceptive of a person's character and is forgiving towards whoever that does her harm. Which is one of the best of her virtues.

I admitted that I sort of have a 'crush' on Yoo Ha Na and her character Xia Zhi Xing, but I know this is just a drama, an act but definitely, I would like to find a partner similar qualities to Xia Zhi Xing, however, this is the real world. So its probably just wishful thinking to find a beautiful, pure and innocent, a heart of Gold and full of forgiveness as well as not letting people run over her head.

Still I wish I could find someone like her. Its just a Benchmark to my preference thats all. Anyway, I'm not in a rush for any romance unless my life is rather stable and I have become physically ' a real man'. Because NS is a hindrance to find relationships, its even hard to maintain when you are in NS. I will be posting Episode 1 of MY LUCKY STAR after my exams on Friday. Do catch it! If not? Well, I'll think of something. =)

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