The Little Music Maker

Hey all, i’m back from KL mission trip. It was really an awesome trip for me and i truly enjoyed myself there! With the many weeks of practices, workshops and recordings, our hard work is well paid off! Pst Kong was supposed to be preaching in the 3 services at CHCKL but cos Sun was very sick, he has postponed the trip to May.

We had some interesting “hiccups” on the way there like at 7pm on Thur night, the trip was said to be cancelled. But we still carried on with our practices and recording, and at 10pm that night, MD had a call and the trip will still be on. However when we reached KL, we got yet another call to say that PK isn’t coming cos he’s gotta go attend to Sun and we were still waiting for instructions if the team is going to stay or go back. Unfortunately, the tech crew had to return back immediately cos they were needed for the weekend (i feel kinda sorry for Weixiang man) and the drama team had to return the very next day at 10am. However, the beloved pnw team could stay behind and continue with the 3 services held on Sat and Sun.

It was interesting because the musicians had a mean joke about a gong-tao that worked yet didn’t work cos he ate his own “offering”. OMG.

Haha, we’ve a couple in our midst. HAHAHAHA!!! Suhui likes it.

On the trip, we had really good bonding time with each other; getting to know one another better and learning to play together with each other. I love my band. I think we get together REALLY well and i officially name ourselves the YEAMS team proudly. HAhahaha! Not being exclusive, we’ve included the singers in on the last day at the last few hours of our trips back. We huddled together at the back of the coach and listened to each other sharing their experiences with the other spiritual world aka telling ghost stories. We created a good atmosphere cos all the lights were off and we only had the night lights of the streets to accompany us. At the end of the many conversations shared, DY ended with “the power of the blood of Jesus covers us” and “He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.” It sounds so much like a cgm. Though we’re pretty much FON, we are still spiritual people and i like the liberty and freedom of such experiences and expressions that we are allowed to be ourselves yet, knowing the fact that being spiritual is important - not flaky.

So we had Jessel playing around with reptiles. Yucks! But he kinda look like he likes it.

We had good fish spa and the BOYS like it but not me. I tried it and i HATE it. HAHA!!!

YUCKS!!!!

Look at his happy face…

And his happy feet…..

They are OBVIOUSLY loving it!!!

Throughout the trip, i took very good care of my brother and my best friend’s boyfriend. HAHAHAHA that i almost got whacked when i introduced WS as W. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I’m so proud of myself. HAHAH!!!!

Look, they are so well fed and are STRONG and MIGHTY. Cos we sang “The church He knows…. is strong and mighty…..” Instant impact.

Well, best of all was learning that DY really took great care of the team and we do work together as a unit. I love my singers and my musicians and i thank God for the great opportunity to work together and serve each other and Him together. It was a very pleasant trip and i guess, among all my previous mission trips, this is the most happening one cos of the good fellowship and bonding we had with each other.

We’re missing WS, JY and DY.

AND, i finally finally FINALLY after a great long time, understood how to play together in a band. And that’s a great job well done. I did K1 and K2 and i realised being versatile and knowing what these 2 kbs are doing is very very and EXTREMELY important. I had all my sound effects ready and prepared to play both at their very crucial time. Thanks to Cheryl (JH’s gf) who managed to change the settings, i got all my sounds laid out perfectly well and saved it too. OH yeah, am so proud of it.

Oh Yeah! So is Jia Hao!!! Hahah!!!

So, with these happening people on board the trip, i created a new song for Adi to sing and that’s SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT it out Jesus…….. SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM it out Jesus…. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Hahaha…

That reminds me that because of the fear of embarrassment, which i’ve experienced during the trip for one song, i will WORK towards perfection of making sure all my important parts and licks and rifts are CORRECT and PERFECT. That’s very important.

So well, to the whole team of 17 of us. THUMBS UP for you! We’ll pretty much be seeing each other again this week for PM and SOT if you guys are singing.

Cheers to the YEAMS band!!!

I just had a good recording today and it ended around 1am. Despite us being so so so tired, we still went out for supper after that at Bedok. It was madness.

YAY, i think i played well today for the recording!!!! And i’m SO darn happy and glad! And my music director said i played well too! HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haha and that’s cos of the preparation and practice i did at home yst and today!!! Good job miss kbist!

Anyway, i think after a long time of playing together in the band on K1, i sorta FINALLY got it on what it is like to be playing in a band. I’m still learning the craft of playing together but for the first thing that i’m working on is LISTENING. And yeah, for once my best friend’s bf’s going to be one whom i’ll be keeping a EAR out for since we’re serving each other in our playing. OH YEAH!!!

Haha, and i think the later it gets, the more nonsense i talk and blurt out more straight-forward rubbish. OH man, and it sounds like i’m a kid who had taken just too much chocolate and on some sugar RUSH. RIGHT LIANG HONG!!!!

Well, and the funniest thing that happened to me today is this…..
I’m a BIG FAN of taking cabs and i just went online to take part in some contest…

AND TODAY IN MY MAIL BOX, I GOT A $40 TAXI VOUCHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay these’re the 2 highlights for the day: Taxi voucher that i’m so proud of and GOOD MUSIC PLAYING TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to work on my craft. HAHAHHAHAAH right LIANGHONG… we should ALL be practicing and going for classes to be better so that we can always be an UPGRADED musician.

OH YEAH. IT’S TIME TO SLEEP!!!
OR NOT I’LL BE LIKE A MAD WOMAN TMR….

Well, i think i’ve grown n below are some of the photos taken….

My friend’s friend who looked like Belinda. i think may hair is darn ugly. OHMY!!!

I miss my friend!!!! I took this in either end 2006. But later when it grew, it wasn’t that bad afterall…

And if u remembered, i went for a hair show and snipped off my nice hair and i looked like a clown…

I think i took this in Mar 2007. And it grew and was pretty nice… I look like a sweet young girl.

This was in April-May 2007. And then i did purple with my hair….

This was taken last July. I miss my friend who’s in America now. Oh i think my hair’s kinda nice and silky looking…

This was taken last week. My all time fave friend in cg HAHAHHAHA!!!! And now i’m back with this red or faded copper with purple pony tail……………..

HAHAHA, how come i look so different! I think i look tired  now adays and my braces make my face shape looks wierd…….

Suhui, you’re so GOING TO LAUGH AT THIS… i realised we had a photo taken long time ago when you’re BOTAK oh man!!!!!!!!!! HAHHAHHAHAAH

AND LIANGHONG, this was you when you were still a KID LAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So since we’re so into this mood of telling STORIES, i should do this when we tell stories in KL….

Hey Suhui, THIS IS THE LOW V NECK that you all should be wearing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmmm……

This is my clan!!!! The fastest finger works…

Ok, it’s time to sleep.
HAHAHAHHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think we should take more photos… I have so many in my hard disk and i was having fun looking at them. OH MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sleep and Time:
I think i’ve got a funny time problem which i think i should work on. Everytime when i’ve driving, my sleeping hours would be from 2-730 and then i’ll be up at 8am to drive. BUT when driving is not in my schedule, i’ll sleep at 3-4am amd wake up at 1pm for my afternoon classes. This is what i’ve reflected back on my past 3 months sleep patterns.

Time and Work:
I had a wierd thought of changing job to a 9-5pm one because i think it’s darn strange that when i’m awake for lunch and am getting ready for the day’s work, i have peers knocking off shortly after i logon msn. OMG! I suddenly feel that the whole world is working so hard and when i’m getting ready for work, the world just says “OH, i’m off work” sort. And 2 of these people are Eugene HENG HENG HENG ah and suhui. How on earth do people knock off at 5pm when at times, my 1st class would start at 5pm. But well, they get to work early in the morning at 8 and i’m 6Zsing away at 8.. ZZZzzz….

Work and Friend:
I just ended work today and was on MSN the whole time which, after work, i took a great long journey bus back from Bishan to Sengkang to meet a friend. I guess it raised many eye brows why this particular friend would wanna make his way down to SK just to meet up at unearthly late hours and our basic statement is this: JUST MEET UP LAR! We had good Macs and laughed at stupid taf “hee” people that i’d not wanna mention here. RIGHT WT!!! All the best to your work and printing of name cards man. Bust the x-XXXX people if they make you unhappy, just go earn the money man.

Friend and Relationship:
I think having good friends are important and having funnier ones make your day better. In recent times i have a group of mad musicians who falls below 25 and we kept talking nonsense and i can’t stand it. From day to day, i have many crazy thoughts about how it’s going to be like this weekend up at KL.Why do i have this strange feeling that it’s going to be madness? Well, in the team i’ve got my GRAND BOSS: YEM, and his supervisor: YAM, and the youngest boy that needs to sign INDEMITY FORM: LEE, and my closest of all time brother: YANG, and the Hainanese boy with the flat head who wears a V neck top and looks sexy: HUEI, and my best friend’s boyfriend who i said i will take good care of (hopefully not the other way round): WS and finally, the secretary of the YAM, who’s also the taxi claim girl, and who’s also the shortest but most high-class mini pianist: WANG. I think we can form a grand clan. The GRAND clan has now changed its name to the YEAMS TEAM and it forms nicely with 7 of us in it. OH… YEMYAMYANGHUEIWSWANGLEE. That should be it on our initials.

Darn, i’m crazy.

Relationship and Time:
Well, it all goes back a good long way to time. Time is important in having a good relationship. After so mnay ups and downs on relationships i’ve learnt a good lesson never to rush into one, consider factors of what it is required for one and know DEEP about the one. HAHAH. Well, so only one gathered i’ve a part time bf which made me become many others’ gf. Ai yah, what are you thinking about… i meant after my best friend got attached, i’ve become a part time best friend (BF) and i have so many friends and i’m a good friend (GF) to many….

OH….
I hear the bells of sleep ringing… it’s calling me to sleep. Sometimes i wish i dun need to sleep. I can be awake 24 hours 7 days a week… to complete what i’ve not been able to do during my working hours.

I REALLY am thinking of changing to a crazier job like taking up a job of becoming a zoo-keeper. Hm, i reckon most of the animals would die in my hands if i were to be one. Okay, i’d stick to being a music teacher: a funky and cool one. I already am one, since i’ve gotten my hair dyed red and purple. SO beautiful and pretty - like clown. LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH larh! I dont really care.

Okay, nonsense over. Time to sleep… why on earth am i rattling on and on and on recently. I’ll load up some pretty photos soon………..

Weekend’s coming. I am going crazy.
I hope i’ll have a good room mate. That i can drive her crazy.
Perhaps i should bring a nice pink roller bag. Or perhaps a nice black haversack.
OH whatever it is, i am so going to be like a funky crazy party freak.

I’m 24, and i talk like a kid sometimes. Maybe cos i mix around with them just too much.
OH yeah!!!! Viny’s club girl.

This is the common greeting i give to people like my brothers and mad friends…. and i think i’m getting crazy……

Anyway, i kinda enjoyed pnw last week at expo cos i played with a fun group of people on Sat and Sun. I like the combination and the good music that we make. Funny how we were telling ghost stories and i can’t stop thinking about some mad happenings in some of their lives. OMG!

Well, to a good extend, i feel young-er i should say with these many young souls like SUHUI, LIANG HONG (You’ve gotta say it with the accent hahahah) and WEISHENG and of course with the BIG GRAND LEADER: YEM. We are so proud to be in the YEMS band for last weekend and this coming weekend, we’re heading up to KL with Pst Kong. WE are going to play well and rock like heavenly stars in the sky. (A thought just slashed across my mind: since there are celebrity stars on earth, are there heavenly celebrity stars in heaven? ok, of course not in that manner i guess haha!!!)

But before all the weekend hype, we’ve gotta do practice on Tuesday evening, and a good recording on Wed and Thurs evening before heading off to KL on Friday morning 830. I hope i’m not too excited to sleep on thursday but i usually am just too excited to sleep cos before i shut my eyes, my mind would be spinning with a whole lot of crazy things. I am funny, i think.

So, anyway, what’s good is having a good time with good friends, making good music.

That’s important for me now. AHHHHHHHHHHHH, i need to get a life………. suddenly on some ocassions i’d think my life is mundane BUT NO to that, i am going to do something about it. i hate structured and routined lifestyles cos it bores the stars*** out of me.

I need a new friend and a new activity and i’m wondering what i should next look into…………

Hmmmmmmmm, well for now, it’s off to bed. There are some imperfections that i need to work on but still, i think i still love myself a great deal and will continue pampering myself then. My friends feel i am atas… okay i am but no THAT atas also.

RANDOM and so random. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

It is 4:37am and i am up. I have been feeling really strange in my heart recently and i wondered alot about it. Perhaps cos i’m going away but it’s not about the going away that i’m thinking about, but from the now till the going away. Besides having many lessons to complete for the month, i have another thing in mind that i cannot comprehend much.

I’ve been practicing and trying to understand and learn what it is like to play in a band and i got it today; not totally but sorta got it. I might be fast at understanding something, but slow at executing which i am working hard on.

Anyway, i am up so late because i just prayed and did my quiet time with Him. I felt strange, really strange today that i had a meeting with a friend and then received a call the 1st time, and when he called again the 2nd time, my immediate thought was “This is it, i am going.” It’s like a battlefield for me, always caught in the middle of something or having the need to change something and since my graduation from SOT, i’ve felt a part of it like forever. Anytime, anywhere, if i’m available i would want to go serve God with my gift and that’s something i would want to do.

So i stayed up, i prayed and ask God for things that i wanted to settle in my heart. It’s been a good time off for long since i spoke about an issue and i addressed it today. I guess i wept like a baby and asked God to touch me again. I don’t want to gain the whole world and lose this pathetic soul of mine and what’s the good of it? I love God and i would want to do what pleases Him but on and off i got bad, sometimes just very bad and perhaps only God knows. Bleah.

So well, i really want God to be mine forever and ever and i don’t ever want to leave Him. I thank God for good talents that’re placed in my hands and i thank God for being able to serve Him all the time with this gift that i’m nuturing. I know that people change throughout and talking to mcyf makes me realised that being simple is important.

God loves u man mcyf! And of course, He loves me a great deal! So for tonight, i’ve settled my uneasiness and strangeness and perhaps that’s the urge for a need to do something this weekend.

Smile, i am going to be a nice kind girl. And nobody can say i can’t.

Well, my beloved brother just send me a nice test to check out my personality trait and it’s probably a good time i do my test since the last time i did was 3-4 years ago. Hmm, was wondering if i would change or not…and my interesting answer and conclusion is this…

Out of 20…
I have

13 S, 1 C, 3 I and 3 D

COULD YOU BELIEVE IT? I’ve changed to more S than I!!!
Haha, okay, you’d think “Sure anot!!!” Yah, i’m kidding you hahahhaha that ain’t my actual results…

Below states the actual one.
13 I, 1 C, 3 S, 3 D

I’m a HIGH I and V LITTLE C and LITTLE S and D. And what’s below states the actual personality that i have…

What i’m darn good at….

High-I  
Communicative - IT IS A MUST!!! I will die if nobody talks to me!!!
Friendly - Of course! He who is friendly has thousand and one friends!
Influential - YEAH, i have a GANG!
Persuasive - GO OUT LAR and we always do!
Positive - Always look at the bright side of life HAHA!!!
Verbal - Yah, i talk alot!
Affable - Yeah i talk to ANYONE!
Charismatic - Yeah! The dictionary.com’s def is this “a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people.“
Confident - You bet i am. Most of the time.
Generous - Yeah, i love to qia pple!!!
Optimistic - You can knock me down and i’ll get up.
Participative - Yah, loves being a participant
Poised - Pretty much!
Promoter - I make a good sales person!
Self-Promoting - ALWAYS! All the time!!!
Sympathetic - Usually!
Trusting- I am to people.

What i should work on to be better..

Low- C

Firm - Erm yes!

Independent - Very! Always wanna be on my own!

Persistent - Extremely!!!

Strong-Willed - YES!

Stubborn - YES!!!

Careless - OH you bet i am!!!

Defiant - Kinda!!! Why should i listen to you….

Fearless - YES!!!

Immovable - Stubborn lo..

Opionated - i think Yem would agree. Sometimes just TOO opinionated.

Rebellius - HA! Yeah!

Rigid - like stick girl!

Sarcastic - With that pinch of sarcasam, it adds colours to your world.

Self-Righteous - Most of the time.

Tactless - I’ll work on it. Unconventional - BUT not traditional…

So i pretty am this kinda person so it’s either you like me or you don’t. As much as i’m pretty likeable based on my I personality, i am also not that likeable based on my low C personality which, for many years i’ve always thought i’m ID but not it’s just HIGH I and LOW C. I am not that D cos i don’t hold too many characteristics of a good D and more of a bad D, which i conclude, i have LOW Cs that’s why.

OH MY! I have so little S and D that i might as well not even include that. SO, in a great conclusion since i’ve taken my 1st survey when i was 13…

MY  I-ness hasn’t changed but my secondary do. I am now a PURE I and a low C.

Tada. Hey, common, you should like me! HAHA and i’m PROUD to say that i’m PROUD of be an I!!!!

I am currently in the YEAMs band and i’m also going through the course titled: The School of Rockers.

It was funny because the younger ones are learning how to rock and jump and go crazy onstage instead of just being a stick girl or man on stage. I like it. It makes me happy moving around like always. Just that…. i need to be taller and more visible instead of hiding behind the music stand! Haha!!!

I truly enjoyed myself at prac on thurs with the new buddies playing nice music together and learning how to play together was my main focus. I’ve always thought myself as an individual pianist and never liked playing in a band since young. As my mentality of music is so focused on what i’m playing, i only started learning how to listen and play and serve one another (as what YEM said) when i started playing in church and that’s a good learning tip for me. I realised that my playing is really ‘flimsy and floaty’ if there are words like that to describe it. So am working towards “grounding” it. HA!

Well, for a good amount of time we spent playing in a band every wed and thurs, we also had a good amount of time learning about each other’s nonsense. I think it’s crazy, so crazy when we had dinner and we shared about “stuff”. Ain’t that intellectual, plainly just about this and that persons we see around us all the time.

Honestly, i am NOT much of a facebook fan. And i go in there to see what other pple’re doing and that’s a bit of a hmmmm kpo, but ain’t YOU doing it if u’ve signed up for facebook? Haha, just like friendster and whatever not. So don’t laugh at me man!

So well, i’m glad that things are good recently with my dad recovering well too!

I’ve been so high up there recently.
So high and happy, so wild and crazy,. so nonsense and funny and so dearie and cutie.

HAHAHHAHA okay, cheerios. I just got 20cents deposited into my nuffnang account. SO FUNNY!

I am happy this week because it’s the first week where i start collecting my $$ again. I realised i am indeed getting older when i took this photo. In mannerism and in behaviour, perhaps a mixture of a kid and an adult yet in my mentality and perspective, i’d say i’ve pretty much have grown from the 18-19 year old me.

Well, i still love me. And after a good 23.5 years, i’m finally learning how to be on time for lessons and even early for classes and likewise for all my appointments. It’s a long long long time to change my late habits and i’m glad to have gradually turned from being a late night girl to an early morning girl. I wake up at 7.45am everyday this week and i end around 10pm, head home and sleep by 2am latest.

Gone were those days where i sleep at 5am, wake up at 4pm and wasted the whole long day rushing from places to places and being late and was so afraid of others reprimanding me. I’m considered a night owl and i sleep very little. So when i do have holidays i sleep like 12-14 hours straight. You can check with my brothers.

Hmmmm….. perhaps i’ve changed. Changed to be more on the ball, and to be more on time.

So much so, i believe, i’ve grown to take better ownership in my time, my relationships with others, and my  money-spending habits (i only spend on crazy cabs now, in which, after i buy a good car, i’d cut down the cost by a whole lot).

I’m coming 24. I’d better be a better person, otherwise, it seems as though i’m walking back to adolescence!

How are you guys coping with this quarter-life-decision-making life? Hope it goes on well for u. Anyway, just remember we plan our ways and God directs it.

Cheerios!

Recently (or rather, as always) i’ve been CRAZY over crab and then i had crab for dinner and breakfast. and lunch and stuff. So my dad taught me how to re-cook a already cooked crab. WoW WeE!!!!

This week’s going to be a long week because i’m starting at 730am and i’m ending around 10pm everyday. Nonetheless, i’ve been thinking about some good things to do from next week onwards with first things first, my jazz piano lesson with a jazz@sb pianist that starts this FRI!!!. I want to be better in my music playing. If there is a job, i’d want to be paid to learn all the different instruments in the world. It’s so fun cos there’s just this relation between all of them.

I had a good monday late morning shopping at sk where i loaded myself with new cosmetics; replacing my old, i think the newer shades of colour brightens me up a great deal. Tell me about looking pale, down and dull man…. i used to have it when i put on the wrong shade of foundation and stuff. So well, thanks to fruitcake, it was good opinions and advice given today.

Then i headed home to get changed and dressed and tried on my new stuff - really light make up; sent my sister to school and headed to PS for lunch with my lunch buddy today. Haha, last week was LH. Today was MH - mr heng. So well, doing lunch together was good and then headed to vivo to walk walk walk and went to teach.

OHHH, what a wonderful day it was. I’m so looking forward to tomorrow where i’m going to touch another life, change another mindset and inspire another mini-me-musician. Cheerios to music class. I’m having a whole lot of fun teaching music, and changing lives.

*Twist*