Vent

So the competition has begun and we are down to 6 spots. A.S have checked out early in this round, leaving behind contestants A.J,J,F,C,A and K. So in the next match we will be down to only 4 spots. So who among the 6 contestants left will have a spot? Is it A.J who has her husband backing her up and not only is she one of the founding members of the team but with her tremendous creativity, she deserve a good chance. Founding or not however, it could work against her, as A.S was a founding member too, but look at the outcome; A.S has been sent to the benchers in the first round! It is going to be a long wait before she'll play again! Will it be J a latecomer into the competition but have strong chord works to support her as well as experience and support from her father a worship leader of many long years. Or would it be F another latecomer, but having great potential and like her father is just taking baby steps easing into a spot on the team. Quietly but surely, these latecomers are a force to be reckon with.

Then, we have C and A both with great parental support, each individually taking up different spots, unlikely to challenge each other but yet they are competing for the 4 spots. C currently is under training to be a singer as well, thus, will the double crossover teamwork be good for her or will it break her? And A, drama queen that she is, with her amazing voice she has the advantage being capable of singing and playing at the same time. Yet her inability to make it to the monthly meetings can be a factor. Finally we have K, who came into the competition sometime after the founding members and shy at first have slowly made her way to being a good player, producing sweet melodies being her greatest strength, yet with no one to take a stand beside her and her weakness for not keeping time, will she make it to the final 4? We shall see about that, in the months to come as the 6 contestants battle to better themselves for the final 4 spots. Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting! Stay tuned for the final outcome and may God be with them!

A Quickie Movie

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a movie based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Instead of a 'Scrooge', we have a 'Womanizer' instead.

Thoughts of the show

*I wished it wasn't 18PL as the over 18 scenes were unneccesary at like only the first 15 minutes of the show. And the 'Scrooge' never even took off his shirt.

*Lacey Chabert has grown up a lot! from her days in Party of Five. She was the deciding factor to watch the show. Haha!

*Michael Douglas looked really really old! I almost mistaken him for some unknown old man.

*No strong chemistry between the main couple, there was only like 2 Aww moments that had nothing to do with the main couple being together.

*I actually shed tears when the little brother was defending his big brother the 'Scrooge' aka 'Womanizer' in the show. But minutes later he took back his words and wished him gone. *which was kinda lame...*

*This should have been a Christmas show....what with all the snow falling in the show and frozen cars.

*And the quote of the day:

Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less...

That was a good line....

*Sadly, it wasn't a strong romance comedy show like I hoped it would be. You know, lots of teary moments mingled with teary or stomach laughters.

Today there was...

....a 3 legged tortoise. It was missing its right hind leg. I watched it wobble using its right fore leg and left hind leg. It swam forward using only front legs.

.....a ninja looking tortoise, because the middle portion of its shell was not green like the bottom or upper portion but was silvery. Reminded me of Ninja Turtles.

......altogether 8 tortoises. Pretty little things. I have not seen so many together before.

.......water going down the thingy in the middle of the dam that has a vase looking mouth. Water was at maximum level, hence the overflow going into that thingy. This is my first time enjoying the view of maximum level.

........a broken beehive. It was broken by some grass cutters who ran for their lives leaving behind the grass cutter thingy spinning and lying right in the middle of the way down from the Dam. A motorcyclist passing by at that time was stung and just left his bike lying beside the road some distance away. And of course there was traffic jam. I started to wonder if I was going to be stuck up there into the night. It took some time before the grass cutter made his way to the thingy and remove it from blocking traffic. It had by then stopped spinning. I of course closed all my windows before passing the bees. Big, ugly, black ones.

.........Galileo's telescope day.

A very much delayed post...

I finally finally finally found the courage to look through my photos.


Cuba Libre, need I say more?

At the edge, a kitten contemplates suicide.

I'm just glad this turned out okay.

Freedom of flight.

I don't understand.

Stripeys!

It was awesome, staring at this giant swimming so gracefully!

Little dancers.

Chew on grass.

I frankly can't remember what's the name of this,

it was just good!

Macaroons!

Self-explained.

*sigh*

Thoughts of the week

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Be still and know that you are with good company.

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I wanted a star in my pocket. Badly. *sigh*

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Pink sky. Pinky sky. Pinky promise sky.

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Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up

Catch a falling star.....

And put it in your pocket,

Never let it fade away......

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT FOR

PERSEID METEOR SHOWER

Do wishes on falling stars come true?

Word of the day

Let patience have her perfect work;

Let God refine your gold;

For in His time He'll show you why,

And blessings great unfold.

—Bosch

God's gift of joy is worth the wait.

Quote of the day

“Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all,”

says actor and author Frank Carne,

“yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us — gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.”

Taugehs

I just realized a couple of minutes ago that my last post wasn't posted. Haha!

As a follow-on, there was no taugeh to read and much to my relief, Missy who owns the taugehs took over the song.
And unfortunately, I spilled a little communion on Judy. Bless her! So glad though that the droplet fell on to the middle of a key instead of between keys.
So there I was panicking, trying to wipe the droplet off which made my finger wet instead and I had to keep on playing still which meant the other keys were getting abit wet as well....AND....in the midst of all that, I can hear the person who handed me the communion giggling at my predicament!!!

Me thinks me don't like to read taugehs for worship songs.
And it is probably due to influences reminding me to FEEL the songs.
How do you play based on FEEL if everything is already laid down in exactness right before your eyes?
How do you get your brain that absorbs all the taugehs to co-work with your heart that FEELs and get yourself together?
How? How? How?

Me understand why taugeh songbooks are created, it helps musicians to get everything right.
But what is the point of being right, if you are going to end up memorizing and concentrating on the taugehs and in the process forget about The One you are worshipping. Or if you have the taugehs all embedded into your brain and it turns auto pilot? That is so pointless.

Me will study taugehs if you ask me to, for the sake of understanding the dynamics they developed when they launched the song. For the sake of expanding my pattern-making bank. For the sake of getting the feel of the song. For His sake.

But Me might just burn the songbook if you ask me to play taugeh by taugeh.

Mist at the Dam

It was awesome being in the mist.

It was the coolest of natural wind I've ever felt in Penang Island.

And it brought up that gooey warm feeling because it reminded me of Peacehaven in Genting.

I'm glad I stubbornly went up to the Dam although it was drizzling.



I have to read taugehs tonight.