Individual lives are the expression of a pre-existing idea in the mind of God.

Oswald Chambers

Classic Julie

borrowed this CD from esplanade library.. the music n singing is simply beautiful.. =)
i loved the My Fair Lady Suite, medley of songs from My Fair Lady & Oliver Twist... so nice...


Julie Andrews

Tagged. 10mins fill

1. What is your dream during your childhood?

- Have enough money to buy the junk food that i want, be 2 inches taller, be educated in a western school, have a Caucasian accent.


2. You like rainy day or sunny day? Why?
- Depends on mood or whether I am indoors or outdoors, i love both.



3. Which colour you like most? Black or White?
- I like white more, but i definitely wear black clothes more.


4. If you've chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?
- That I love them and always will?



5. Where is the place you wanted to go most? Why?
- i'm greedy: new york, los angeles, switzerland, italy, melbourne, london, sydney, japan: hokaido?

why ar, cos it's nice, and i would love to experience a totally diff culture.


6.Which part of you that you hate most?
- not hate la, i wish would improve: my ability to focus


7. When you encounter a sad moment, what would you do?
- har.. wish it is raining. listen to songs, talk to friends or God, or write sad poetry


8. What are you afraid to lose most?
- My family, my courage to love, and courage to be myself.


9. List out 3 good points of the one who tagged you.
- someone that i can look up too. i guess one point is enough.


10. What are the requirements that you wish for your other half?
- hmm.. ok, i'm gonna jack up this requirement unrealistically high.. heh, for fun.

An excellent singer n pianist, laughs n enjoys talking to each other, good character & pleasant personality, simple, loves God, sincere, a good talker n listener. Sweet-looking, has expressive eyes, beautiful smile, loyal, healthy, same taste in music n movies, a little adventurous, always spur each other in spiritual growth and maturity.
Have the same calling. Name's victoria. lol



11. Till now, what is the moment that you regret most?
- Major disasters that happened, that has to do with not listening to God


12. Which type of person you hate most?
- People with evil intentions & the cunning type


13.What is your ambition?
- Be the best I could be in my studies/work/talent
that would be a lot.



14.What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad.
- One of the ways: The way that person avoids certain topics of conversation.



15. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
- Marrying victoria, lol.




16. Who would you want to spend your last day with?
- family and a small group of close friends, and probably writing letters/email/phone all the others.



17. What do you think that is most important in your life?
- Learning how n when to lead & follow, share, treasure, and love.



18. Who's your favourite cartoon character?
- none actually. likes manga n movie characters.
favourite movie character would be Jason Stevens in the movie "The Ultimate Gift" (2006)



19.What will you do if the world ends tomorrow?
- besides the usual, eat two McD apple pies, and call all my non-christian friends and said that i still want to meet them the day after tomorrow, and plead them to receive Christ.



*20. What is your greatest weakness?

Wishing I was different.

Penny

this pretty girl who likes her songs, has same tastes in music as me, went to the same kindergarten & primary school, same class for 4 years, us being teased by classmates for 4 years; then came sec sch, she went to a girl's sch, n i went to a boys sch.

see each other during inter-sch competition, muttered 2 sentences.
graduate.

shares the same birth date, and serendipity-ly keep in contact once or twice a year. when we meet now, talked non-stop for hours. she asked about me, my neighbours (who r classmates too), music and drumming; i asked abt her composing, classmates, n who's the next one getting married.



how weird.

there was a time

There was a time when i wrote,
now there seem to be none...

the other approach

it is getting to the end of January, yay. Busy month ending soon.. Because of classes, i am yet to attend TEENz service for this year, and feeling out of touch with going-ons in english service & TnT.

sis told me about the ITC day during teenz, the hilarious part where ah-tat published some of my old photos of "self-posing faces". ah, the happy days when ITC always have its meetings in s'pore. the most gel-able n fun comittee, heh.

oh, 2008, when i am 23, an age i never could imagine achievable but here am i, waiting for maturity to kick in, either gracefully or a painful butt in the boinky stomach. recently i have been so task-oriented its unbelievable, i hope to tweak this blind to see the real people parading in all its glory.

words flow, time flies.
sigh.



i felt that my drumming for the teenz album's chinese songs are too rigid, so when mom switched on the radio featuring chinese DJs puking lurvy-dovy words n playing sappy songs, i am inspired - by the creative drumming on dull songs, and da beauty of chinese words. lots of improvement n writing to be made to play better..

last sunday was my last drum lesson, a 9-week break, will continue after the live recording. said a short bye to my students n gave them assignments that weigh a ton [dracula laugh].


study-wise, it's nice, student to lecturer ratio is much better, less students = more personalised lectures, especially from Brit lecturers, though s'porean lecturers still sounded too professional n business-like. there's a new m'sian lecturer that has a really funny accent, and has a face that makes you wanna punch him, ha, lightens up my day anytime.



yay-ness! i am able to attend TEENz the coming sat, but sadly as an 'old person'. The good thing is I get to enjoy some 'senior citizen' privileges in TEENz:

1. able to come late n leave early without raising any eyebrows
2. order the musicians around
3. able to give foolish comments blatantly & confidently
4. when sitting with a much younger teen and looked serious, will make that teen look like a bad person, haha.

ha, ok, if you're feeling under-priviledged now then it means you are still in TEENz; if feeling questionable, then it means you don't know it's a cold joke.

brr, cold...



sigh, it's only January and i felt lifeless..

CNY movie trailers

KungFu Dunk 功夫灌籃 - Jay Chou

*heh, A-Sa looks nerdy cute





CJ-7
周星馳《長江七號》台灣預告片2分鐘終極版

Please

saturday: till 5pm class, rush back to JB church 7pm, prac bil till 9.30pm, ITC meeting till 12am, now 1.20am. tomorrow 6am need to wake up for both services, after service album prac till 2.30pm, then teach drums 3.30-10pm.

january's fridays n weekends are really fully packed. argh.. i'm in such a fine mood of loathing abt tiredness..


ok God, you win.. I need you.. just hanging around listening to this song.. listening, singing... then i'll go sleep.. How i miss being a child with you.

i remember when i was 5 or 6 years old at this children's camp in Kota Tinggi, when i closed my eyes and be totally soaked in the presence of God, the innocent pure soul with God, and i forgot about time passing by, i forgot about lunch time until somebody reminds me..

that's where i wanna be.


fill my heart with you
something that will satisfy
back to the basics
back to love
back to you
only, and only you
nothing else will do..

Guy marries

Guy Sebastian proposed to his long-time girlfriend, Jules Egan, getting married soon.. looks like a sweet gal =)

About a boy

i just read someone's secret blog and some of the things the blogger lamented made me think about the life that i had, and i wonder why i am quite okay and happy in my circumstance.

i'm in college now and i gotha make this entry in 5mins.

i have been alone most of my life in 2007, college no friends cos everybody got click already, i ate most of my meals alone, study alone, and when i fail in certain papers, the ppl in my class already moved on.

my sister once said that a normal person will be quite sad to live my life, and some of her dependent friends might go crazy. lol. mom once said that dunno why throughout my whole study life there's no church ppl same school as me; and every school that i went to, i have to make new friends all over again.

and there's minimal outside help in my studies, have to be independent.

i rarely receive phone calls or sms concerning my welfare, most of the time it is reminders to go for meetings, practices, to replace other drummer, looking for transport, doing things for other ppl.


i guess God is molding me for something difficult in the future, i fear..
but I'm happy for the life i have now, and i am a happier person every year. =) i think =P

Gila sunday

today is a gila tiring day..

slept at 1am the previous night, cos watched dvd & talked to sis, and next day woke up at 7am to record the teenz album "raw material" mp3 into my player n go church to serve in drums.

after de service go buy lunch and on the way almost got knocked over by this car, i was riding bike btw. the driver turned at the junction and turned into my lane pulak, stupid, wanna kill me is it, another 2 feet and i might see me life flashing before my eyes. no horn, no nothing, drive on - life of motorists in JB, ppl who don't ride bike won't understand.

prac album, go teach drums. sigh, can't go teenz wmm appreciation dinner two weeks later cos got extra class in s'pore. can't go tnt service, gotha teach drums, a tiring job which i enjoy.

today - siao, cos from 7am to 10pm now is no-rest pit stop, 15 hours makes my brain wanna burst and die (sleep). and riding bike is so fun but so tiring, rain somemore.

today's drum lesson: this cute girl told me she's tired too (when i apologised that i might be more tired than usual), cos she wakes up at 9am, lol.. in my mind: what is freaking 9am man, sleep so late. But i admire children, all the "sweet-&-everything-nice".



Then i got home, and mom saved some leftovers for me.
hee, so nice, got vegetables & steamed egg.
haha, nice....

so now kinda happy & i wanna sleep.

wish that one day i could play drums al fresco on a windy sunset..
*hey, that looks like adult Jesmond, ha

Vincent van Gogh

Watched a documentary about him, a dutch post-impressionist artist. son of a pastor, early years as apprentice of art dealer, teacher & missionary. Nice, very interesting life, fantastic paintings, but sad ending..

it would be nice to be like him, minus the illness & suicide..

Starry, starry night. Paint your palette blue and grey, Look out on a summer's day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and the daffodils, Catch the breeze and the winter chills, In colors on the snowy linen land. Now I understand what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them free. They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen now. Starry, starry night. Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, Swirling clouds in violet haze, Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue. Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain, Weathered faces lined in pain, Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. Now I understand what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them free. They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen now. For they could not love you, But still your love was true. And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night, You took your life, as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one As beautiful as you. Starry, starry night. Portraits hung in empty halls, Frameless head on nameless walls, With eyes that watch the world and can't forget. Like the strangers that you've met, The ragged men in the ragged clothes, The silver thorn of bloody rose, Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow. Now I think I know what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them free. They would not listen, they're not listening still. Perhaps they never will...