The Guitar Player

The First Post After 8 months.

2011-06-03T11:43:00.000+08:00

People will definitely ask me, "HOW'S LIFE MAN?" I would say in the last 8 months, life has been a roller coaster. Not as in potato chips but an adventure of high and sometime turmoil that turns you inside out and then back to outside in, again and again.

My 2 mentors kind of stepped aside and now it's my turn to become a MD and I got to say that since that has happened, things didn't start as nicely as I thought it would be. I made a couple of mistakes, burnt some people and as a result, burnt myself. The only thing I took heart in is that I am human and I'm learning, other than that, I got to admit that I hated the position I was in as it ate into my soul all the time.

It reached a staged where even until now, I would just rather be alone and not talk to anybody or just border on the surface of things in life so that nothing will get burnt. It also reached a point where I was not able to focus on my wedding preparations. Being a leader is not easy especially when from 3 men it becomes 1 man. But what to do? Life goes on.

The best thing for me in life now is that I am getting MARRIED! Preparations are happening as I type and a lot of follow-up work on furniture, restaurants, blah blah blah are taking place.

In life there is a balance. Unhappiness and happiness. Getting married kind of outweighed the unhappiness and there is so much more I can look forward to in my life. I really love my wife-to-be and I believe that things will look up from here.

An encouragement to myself and for people:

This poster has historic meaning and purpose. Go check it out and TAG IT!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2010-10-28T11:09:00.000+08:00

Hello Everybody! I'm back after a month and I tell you man it has been an eventful Sept and Oct. Well most of you are wondering what on earth am I up to, well I got awesome news for you and that is, I GOT MYSELF A WIFE! Yes I am gonna get married in 2011. Stay tuned for more news. In the mean while enjoy the many pics that are on FB and here are those that I haven't added up there for a touch of humour. Enjoy!

Entering a once flooded Starbucks is nice. New non-carpetted floorings and extremely high chairs with just a couple of sofas. Very obvious fear of another, uprising? HA!

This is my Aviom setting when there are too many people talking at the same time.

Yesterday I took out my wisdom tooth and check out the roots man. The are evilllllllll. Evillllll. Evillllllll. I have a swollen face but I managed to solider on the pain for the entire night of the music prac and I got to say that it sucks to not be able to eat solid food. Check out my meal below man

This is totally not me to eat such stuff. According to Benedict, this is abnormal food and for me, it is! Oh well the road to recovery will definitely be a weight loss opportunity and let's just DIG IN and DIG IT!

The last one month I have a thought in my mind. What is the thing that you have done to contribute to society? We see so many people doing great things even to the extent of reducing methane output ads that we see on cabs. Is it really a money making opportunity or a pure contribution? So my next quest is to find the thing that hasn't been done in Singapore and contribute to our society. Then again how will our society accept this movement? Let's research, take a "gamble" and see if it pays off!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2010-09-21T20:30:00.002+08:00

My blog has been dead, rusty, and dusty. It's time to revive, de-rust and clean it up! Time to make this place ALIVE. Can you dig it?!?!?!

I just realised that April 15 was my last blog and that was a blooming 5 months and 6 days! Guess what, I am coming back more often than before because there is a renewed passion and fire to share my life and soon, my music.

Inspiration has hit me hard this time and it's time to let it FLOW! Let the power GLOW! That I have something to SHOW!

Watch this blog! Lame and awesome will be back!!!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2010-04-15T21:59:00.008+08:00

Hello Everyone! I've finally blogged after 3 and a half months! I guess I have neglected this space and I think it's time to let you guys know what's happening.

Well, I've been busy training this year's SOT band and also I've had the greatest opportunity to go to Sydney to attend C3's Presence Conference. Below are some pics. Enjoy!

Weather at home has been scorching.

So we took off for cooler places unlike wild geese. HA!

And we came, saw and caught something. Clean sound...
This is for Alan. Uncle wa ai buay jiao!
I met my aunt and we spent some quality time togther. I miss her.
And I met CHC members and this girl is Chengjun's member. Bro your members love you man.
And so I returned to scorching weather but isn't the sunrise lovely?
Well guys, life has been good and even when it's bad, everything has a reason that turns out good. You all will know what I mean. I PROMISE more posts!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2010-01-02T12:48:00.010+08:00

GUESS WHO'S BACK! Well 2009 is over and let me show u a glimpse of the things since November till 1st Jan.
We had another show with the kids band for the thanksgiving service and they are getting better. Now they only need 45 mins to master 1 song. Good job!

We did some practise for the fanfare music and this is what I caught Merv doing while we took a break.
We had a week of fasting and this is the pre-fasting meal and we really stuffed ourselves and before we starved ourselves. I got to say that the whole experience of fasting was a good one. I really learnt the meaning of not leaning on your flesh, literally and spiritually. I encourage all of you to join us in this fasting quest. It's good!
My good SOT mates got married and Pastor officiated the wedding! Congrats to Jeremy and Salome! Live a great life together!

So the kids band finally performed and this is Benson giving quantam music theory to Brian our saxophone, guitar and bass player. Well done!
Benedict and I had to try the newly hyped ramen restaurant at Mandarin hotel. Not bad. Good stuff but long queue.
So I met my FSV mates for dinner at Marche at the new 313 Somerset! I think the sheeps look strangely interesting...
The christmas tree at Ion. I got to say they really stick to their theme of lights. Well done. Nice tree.
I managed to catch the fireworks just next to the Fullerton and despite the squeezing and me hating crowds, I got to say I really enjoyed this spectacular display. Hello 2010!

Well friends, I got to say 2009 is a rough year. Some ups and some downs but overall everything has a moral and lesson behind it.

Everytime there's a new year, it's like a clean slate. We start all over again and try to make things right.

On the whole, thank God for 2009 and let's welcome 2010 and kick some butt!!!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-11-24T11:05:00.009+08:00

I'm back after a month of hiatus and crazy stuff happening around me. Well my life has been all about practise and grinding and recently I'm reaping the fruits. Well last week was Colin and Cherry's wedding and we had a blast with them at Sentosa, not in the private sense but well, a blast! Enjoy the pics below to get a brief idea.
Gavin, Francis, Colin's brothers and I were the Groom's entourage and after the morning, we headed to Sentosa. But in between stuff, I rushed to play for the service at Expo and I headed back in time for a short break. TAKE A HIKE!

So we saw a group of fellas doing the flying fox and boy, someday I got to do this again!!! LOVE IT!!!
Next thing we saw were odd stuff surrounding us. Gavin and I saw this 2 girls posing with a SEAWEED taken off the side of the bridge. Ok it looks really weird as the seaweed isn't green but kind of brown coz it's dead...
Next thing we saw 2 guys pulling each other into the water. Very disturbing...seriously...groping...blah blah blah...but still FUNNY!!! HAHAHA!!!
Next we saw a bunch of guys "surfing". I seriously think they are trying too hard coz there's no real waves in Singapore.
So I bought 2 cans of NAUGHTY G for Colin and Cherry! Did it work? Ask them yourself!
Here they are. Sweetest couple! The day was a miracle. It has been raining nuts and bolts the last few days and on their wedding day, it was bright and sunny! CONGRATS!!!
So the week had to go on and guess what I saw? A monkey climbing the overhead bridge. Sometimes I don't wanna look for weird stuff but they all just happen to be right in front of me all the time! HAHAHA!

Alright mates! I hope you love it! There's much more and I've been getting fresh revelation and finally a channel of ideas for music. It's like suddenly the frustration and irritating things are slowly going off! THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-10-20T12:23:00.006+08:00

Hi Guys! I'm back, rejuvenated after such a crazy gig! I had fun at the MR BIG concert over the weekend and I got to say man!!! This is a crazy gig! I never thought that it would be this fun and this good and boy am I still nuts about this gig!
I love MR BIG because of Mr Paul Gilbert. The band with him is just crazy and insane and this pic is taken during Green Tinted 60s Mind and I got to say this is the most entertaining gig ever!

But before MR BIG, we had the bachelors night for my dear cgl Mr Colin and although we are just a few of us, we are going to make a difference and give hell to the ladies!
This is the backup of the backups which is more kick ass than any other hollowbodies that I've heard and I'm proud to keep this axe! Who says Epiphone don't kick ass?!
So we went for Weishan's 21st birthday party at Siloso Beach Resort after the MR BIG gig and this is what happens on Monday morning when you are too tired. You dig too much dettol soap, yes I just said dettol, and this is what you get! Dettol jacuzzi!

Well the last 1 week has been good. I am beginning to see things clear up. Until now, I have always been the guy on the ground listening, watching out for everyone, and taking care of the troops. I think knowing everyone is an awesome privilege. Thanks for confiding and thanks for trusting. Secrets are safe with me.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-10-05T13:17:00.021+08:00

I'm back and I'm bad. Yes I am bad and I never ever refuse that. I've been busy for 1 month planning and practising like a mad freak and in the end, nothing comes out appreciated. That's just life I guess. You will never be appreciated for what you do behind the scenes but only if you wayang in front, you'll get more than what you need.

Recently I have been busy preparing for a trip to Kuching and KK. I love KK because it's where my dad comes from and so, enjoy the pics.

My latest and updated gear. There might be minor changes. Watch out!
I'm rather intrigued by this ad and I think it's really funny how we want to boost the child birth rate here.
I went to the Dead Sea Scroll exhibition and seriously there's nothing much but 4 pieces of "scrolls". Besides that, I found time to read and discover stuff.
So we got bored and decided to tuang.
I love my gf!
Alan's 335 and my 135. These are the 2 axes for the mission trip. Cool.
Before leaving, a few of us celebrated Benedict's birthday. It was fun. Check out the FB pics!
I love this shot! Oh I'm bad with liquor. I turn red fast and people will assume I'm drunk. It's fun to mess with their brains when they try to mess with mine not realising I'm not drunk!
I love pomelo from Kuching! Wanna eat?!
And after 2 days in Kuching we headed to KK with the boss.
Our mode of transport. Old school bus!
I'm the pianist for the Green Heart band at the lobby of the KK hotel with a lot of pang puah liap singers.
I thought they only spit in China.
And so here's the real pic. Jesselton! I was named Jessel in remembrance of my dad's hometown. Jesselton, the old name for Kota Kinabalu. That's the story of my name and the place. When I come here, my name's no longer unique. Dang!
Fresh eh...
We went to stay overnight for Stephanie's aunt's wake and guess who I caught sleeping! HELLO KITTY IS FROM SATAN!
Being intrigued, this crazy bugger decided to try the drink and see if he can "rise to the occasion" or "sustain". Nothing happens...the urine just smells weird. [DISCLAIMER...NO SEX INVOLVED OR GONCHANG!]
Our dear crazy Weishan busted her slipper, wrapped her foot in a plastic bag and we bought he a really ugly pair of slippers for her. She can't help but to accept it because of the situation she's in.
The kids blew away the whole church again. Well done boys and girl. I'm proud of Ron coz he's got an attitude.

Well. I guess everyone's wondering why am I so quiet, angsty and one kind recently. I got to say things are not happening for me and I am feeling rather frustrated about it. I'm on the verge of giving up many things and the only way back is a supernatural intervention or the fellowship of real friends. The line is getting finer by the moment. If any screw ups occur, I'll just blow my top without hesitation.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-09-05T10:04:00.006+08:00

Hi Guys! It's been a while since I blogged after that crazy rant of mine. I guess at the end of the day, being happy is what matters most. Enjoy some of the pics below to get an idea of how things has been.

My gf and I made friends with an old lady at the zoo.
Mr Benedict went to Australia to look for his gf and now he's having a blast of a time there. Well done dude! Remember to keep ball in hand.
I'll be working with these guys again pretty soon. I am looking forward to them doing so well. The last time they brought down the roof. I hope to see them do that again. Well done boys and girl.
Mr greatest drummer. I'll be watching you and October is just a few weeks away!

Mr Benedict and I went to baybeat and we saw a metal band perform. It was interesting to see the stage antics of these metal maniacs and I remember I once wanted to be such a rocker but I guess age caught up and things are going jazzier. hahaha!
I love this guitar. Right now I have a Les Paul, ES 135 and a Martin DX1CE. Gears are always changing to improve sound but there will be additions coming up soon! Who can tag the exact effects I use?!?!

Recently I have been thinking about life and how it has been. I tell you when you are going up another level, crazy things are happening around you and more in you mind.

Sometimes things can never be as ideal as it seems but I guess working around things is the way to go. For that to happen we need wisdom more than anything else and it's useless for me to rant and hope it goes away, but the best thing to do is not talk so much and work quietly and make things happen. Let the fruits of the work show itself.

That's my lesson learnt.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-08-20T12:57:00.003+08:00

Recently i haven't have time to put up pics but let me just put a very short word entry here.

Recently things have been happening among close friends and all I ever tried to do was help but in the end you get burnt.

All I can say is, this is a very very messed up world and I am sick of trying and helping. Sometimes being a Saint isn't always worth it and being a nice guy isn't always worth it and PR isn't always the thing that I am good at.

Next time if anyone have problems, don't make it mine. I have been burnt and this time, it's bad. I put fuel in fire and I didn't even know. In Chinese it's "yue bang yue mang".

I apologise for any nonsense that I have caused. I can't say more and I can't say less but I'm sorry. If you need an explanation, it's all said above.

dekcuf pu!

2009-07-27T13:41:00.020+08:00

Alright there! I was tied down with work and what nots and finally I have time to show everyone a glimpse of my life from Taiwan till HK till SOT till weekend services till LIVERPOOL vs SINGAPORE!!!

Here I am about to give the F5 to Lee!

Ah...the holy grail of shilin!!!
We left TW for HK and we had a great time and probably the craziest time in TW.

This is what happens when you massage someone...looks extremely wrong!!!
Lee used his warm up for other purposes...damn good massage!

So I caught a fever, flu and cought and just because I just got back from HK, I got 7 days MC and had to self-quarantine!!!
We were training the children's band and this is what happen when too much practises gets to you!!!
Mervyn had a Super Mario jacket for the weekend.
During SOT...JUNE!!!

Glyn also!!!
Victor is a dangerous driver!!! No lah! He pulled up by the road for the call.
So I went for the LFC vs Spore match!!!
40,000 Liverpool fans turned up to sing You'll Never Walk Alone!

And here comes the teams! Liverpool in black and Singapore in red.
The YNWA anthem before the match. Damn shiok, but I guess England, Liverpool, the real deal, is much more insane!
And the match begins!
I was keen to see who will kena ram!

Torres came on and with his first touch he nearly rounded the goalie!
After a 5-0 win, the players gave the fans something to remember. Shiok!
Me and my Liverpool buddy. Shiok lah! Let's go Anfield!!!

OK folks! Most of my TW and HK pics got lost in the midst of transferring them over to my Macbook as I am exploring some stuff and boy it's really messed up! To see more pics you can check out my FB account and oh yeah, I'll be super busy again for Anniversary, running around and making things happen. Take care and I'll update more often.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-07-08T17:42:00.001+08:00

Hi Guys! My Macbook Pro is up and running and I have just started blogging LONG OVERDUE pics that has been overdue since KL till now and the TW and HK pics are on the way up! This is madness!!! ENJOY!

Before going to KL, I went to get my new Martin at City Music and this is how they acknowledged the moving of Maybank.
Malaysian Skies.
The T-Shirts of landmarks!
At Chengjun's wedding, China woman was spotted making her "bed"...

And cozying up to sleep...HAHAHA!!!
I saw a getai at the open field opposite my block. Respect to getai musicians and pentatonics!
During SOT sessions...Estella slept on the same spot...
So did Glyn...
And Estella again...EH SHIFT SPOT LAH! HELLO KITTY IS FROM THE DEVIL!!!
We met this cab driver who could sing songs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Very "nice".
Batu Cave!!!
We went for Victor's kid, Noah's 1st yr birthday and we had a BBQ. We used this brand of fire starters...hehehehe!
Here he is! Confused with the cake...
And then WHAM! Happy birthday Noah! Don't have a triangle head like your dad!
We see lots of this very often.
Alright there! 1st installment of the weekend!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-05-21T11:15:00.016+08:00

Hello everyone! The road has been long and the sunset is always beautiful. I have been really busy with stuff but I guess sometimes it's good to be back on the road doing simple things. Check out the pics below to know what's going on!

Yueze looks sad during our music and movement class. HAHAHA!

CHINA WOMAN! YOU SLEEP!!!

Alright man! I took a break and went to Ubin with my gf!

We were greeted with lots of flags. They were having a opera over to celebrate some festival. Cool!

The water near the quarry is always clean! My gf and I washed our feet there!

Spot the SPIDER!!! It's the size of my palm!

Eigene's best friend was found at the Malay auntie's house! HAHAHA!!! Everytime I go Ubin, I will come here for a drink.

Look to the right of the pic. Can you see that now they don't use generators but solar panels man! Ubin also kena upgrade but the beauty is that it is still very very rustic.

I love this view man. I like the wild and the forests. I love kampong and I love relaking.

So we left Ubin and went back for dinner.

Nice right? Sitting on a boat and enjoying the wind is relaxing.

The next day my gf and I went to the Asian Civilazation Museum. It was a cool place but cannot take too many pics in there. We went to look at the Kang Xi exhibitions. Very nice. Very in-line with what we learnt in Church.

This bridge is really old and we cross it all the time we go to Boat Quay. Nice. Our history is pretty interesting!

Look at LEE! He got a new haircut!

When the morning greets you in such a wonderful display of light, all I can say is life's good!

Well, the break I took is just fantastic. I feel happy just thinking about it. The next break I take will be even more awesome.

Sometimes we take breaks for a reason. Sometimes for no reason. But I love breaks and a break after 2 years helps a lot. I feel recharged but usually after that, there is a MOUNTAIN to climb. Next year I will do that!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-04-30T18:33:00.012+08:00

Hi Folks! I'm back and can you dig it?! Well, we are nuts and yes I'll stay nuts and I have been very busy with playing guitar. In fact, I played till I got very sick and I just fully recovered from a very bad throat inflammation. Well, enjoy the updates and the pics!

Mervyn was obviously very tired after playing for 2 weeks in SOT. We played for the morning prayer meeting then after that SOT all the way till 1pm and on Wed, we stayed all the way till music prac. We were underground from 6.30am all the way till 11pm that day.

I think snails are slimey but they move in style.

We celebrated Stephanie's birthday, the one from Ngee Ann and POS, not the Chan Mali Chan, and we had a blast of alcohol and sabos!

Some things just don't change. 1 year ago, it was like this, but 1 year on, after an annoucement has been made, these punks just refuse to go away. Well done!

Look at the Merc cab next to the black car. If you look carefully, the entire bonnet is charred and burnt, probably due to the engine overheating. WE NEED A GOOD LONG DAY OF RAIN!!!

And it did come, but it was short lived. You should have seen the phenomenal movement of the rain clouds moving in man.

I like this pic. The lift looks cool but it does look MTVish.

Even the birds needed a shower to keep cool! Guess...what was I doing?! TAG!

This guy slept in style man. He held the seat in front so he could push himself back up when he leans forward too much. It was super funny watching him look like a crash dummy!

And this is the moment! The rockers with the ultimate rocker. We had a guitar clinic with Dave Holmes, and this is a showcase of all the beautiful guitars! From left, Alan and his Tele Thinline, me and my ES135, Dave Holmes and his Gretsch White Falcon, Yenhao with his Duesenberg Carl Carlton Model, Poh with his American Deluxe Strat and Weisheng with his Gretsch Duojet!

Alright guys, that's all for now, I hope I looked thinner over the weeks of insane training. I have dropped from 82 to 77kg and I need to drop more or at least start getting those muscles and packs in order! Love all of you!
Some stuff to sidetrack. I realise that people are placed in your life to bring out the best and sometimes it does show the darkside of things. To be honest, I was a little disappointed the last 2 weeks but I guess that we got to grow out of disappointment and move into delight and joy in doing the things that you love. Nobody's perfect. Even I am a piece of crap but sometimes, crap does make people laugh!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-04-06T11:08:00.011+08:00

Hi Friends! How's everybody mun? Like my snakes and lizards? Cool? HAHAHA! Guess I have been silent for a while and now, IT'S TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE!!! ARRRRGH!!! HOOOO!!! Enjoy the pics while I update you quickly. BTW, what do you call a white snake? Please tag! Educate me!

We have been rocking out in church and Mervn is loving it! HAHAHA!

I took over this black guitar! HAHAHA!

Next to Liang Hong is Eigene. Serious.

Crossing the causeway to KL. A group of us went there to play for CHCKL. It was fun.

We ate some really really good nasi lemak and Schumann has to take a shot of the food and me of him.

Look at Soo Huei. About to kill the chicken. Woah man!

YES! We did it again! HOOO!

Weisheng tried the big fishes with me. Most of them did it for the 1st time and they had a itching good 1st 5 mins and after that they got hooked!

Weisheng got the guts to take the anaconda and not go EEE YER...EEE YER...hahaha!

So it's back to JW for morning prayers and SOT. It was crazy and fun looking at strange ppl taking pics of me and vice versa.
I love being at JW, coz I am perpetually stuck there from 6.30am to 7.30 for 3 days in a week. Power right? I also think it's very power. More than that, I think this week is power because in SOT I met interesting people and talented people and I enjoyed playing music this week more than other days simply because I could flow and I could enjoy and listen to ppl sing and friends playing and enjoying each other. Awesome! That's what music is suppose to be. Fun and Fun!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-03-12T15:00:00.014+08:00

Hi Friends! I'm back. Well as you can see, I've been busy preparing my own meals and right now I'm on a hardcore exercise regime to lost 12 kilos in the space of 10 weeks. I wonder how is it going to happen but so far, I have been running and swimming on alternate days and I have lost 1kg already. It can happen! That roast chicken wing is the last of it's kind. Going healthy and GETTING STRONGER! ROCKY!!!

I have been reading blogs and I got to say that the whole of Singapore saw the same rainbow. Beautiful

We had sound check at expo and here is Charles enjoying himself, by himself. HAHAHA!

I like cats that sleep on roofs.

We had our version of SCHOOL OF ROCK on Thu and the result was phenomenal.

Look at Charles. He's a natural ROCKER!

On Monday it rained so heavily that Ben and I got caught in the rain together.

This is he and I sharing a gay moment under a small umbrella together. WOAH MAN!

More SCHOOL OF ROCK!

Here's the boss, Mr KC showing Adi...THE WAY!!!

And here is Soo Huei in the p.s position! HAHAHA!

I love this band.

And here am I cycling home after swimming. Make a guess, was I riding with hands or no hands? TAG!!!

Alright there friends. Most of you saw the previous entry and are wondering what on the blue earth happened to me and my family? Well, we got robbed and my mum got assaulted as a result of the robbery. Thank God that she is well and she is recovering well. Right now, we hope that justice will come upon the robber.

Then again, he could be desperate. At the moment, we see that people are resorting to such methods to gain money. Be strong during this economic crisis and pray that $ will come to you.

Don't worry about us. We are strong as a family and God makes the weak stronger! We will fight and whatever we lost we will earn them back a 100 fold man. ROCK ON!!!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-03-06T12:55:00.002+08:00

Well, many people wonder why the silence, why the angst, why the glum look, why no blogging, let me just say, bad things happened to good people. Let me give you a list of people that I met along the week starting from Sunday.

1. Taxi driver to JW
2. CHC musician and singers
3. CHC congregation at JW
4. Pst Tan
5. My GF
6. Medics
7. Singapore Police Force
8. Mum
9. Dad
10. Gavin
11. Neighbours
12. Forensics
13. Superintendent of Bishan Police HQ
14. Benedict
15. Sister
16. Sister's friend
17. Thai Express waiters
18. People walking by
19. Mum
20 Neighbours
21. Police
22. Benedict
23. Apple shop people
24. Starbucks people
25. Orchard Towers people
26. People walking by
27. Police
28. Dave
29. KC
30. CHC staff
31. GF
32. People walking by
33. Mum
34. Police
35. Dave
36. KC
37. CHC musicians and singers
38. Soundcrew
39. Prata shop people
40. People walking by
41. Mum
42. Police
43. CHC musicians and singers
44. Soundcrew
45. TV crew
46. Prata shop people
47. People walking by
48. Mum
49. Neighbours
50. Police

You must be wondering why the 1st 16 are so dramatic and the rest becomes like routine. Do you think having to see the police every single day is a routine? NO. As for now all I can say is, safeguard your family and loved ones.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-02-23T13:51:00.000+08:00

It was my birthday on Sat and someone showed me this pic of me and my new guitar. I must say. IT SOUNDS GREAT!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-02-19T14:56:00.016+08:00

I'm back in technicolor!!! Can you dig a LED screen right behind u? NO! Because it is buzzing and it's HOT! Well guys, finally the pics are up and it's time to give everyone an insight since CNY till now!

Someone living in my block ran into trouble. I know who the punk is but man, it's been a long time since I saw such a sign. There was a time in my life when I was the one doing that. THAT'S ANOTHER STORY!

So on the 2nd evening of CNY we feasted at Mervyn's place. Look at Gabriel. How intense he is digging into the meat and look at Stephanie. She's staring at Benedict's food probably thinking," I'm going to go for the next chicken!" HAHAHA!!! STEPHANIE! CAN YOU DIG IT???!!!

They went on to play guitar hero and you should see the real rockers messing up at this game!

Weizhong departed for China and this is his last piece of primitive action with us. He's a great friend and he kicks butt at BBQs!

GUESS WHO WAS SLEEPING?! TAG! GIVE ME THE ANSWER!

Merv and I went up to the roof garden before the Chinese sv prac and we kind of missed this view. Nice right?

So now, this is my task every Sat. I listen, monitor, correct and sometimes BLAST them! But I got to say they are doing a good job.

Guess who was singing for the prac! It's not Poh, it's ALAN!

Mervyn's 27 and we will help him fulfill his birthday wish. HAHAHA!

So the boy in Expo had no head.

We tried transplanting one but the body just wouldn't budge. Darn!

This is Anthony AKA ROGER! He's the funniest soundman and he's teaching me basic tamil! He can play the flute and he makes interesting quotes. Who can remember it? I wrote it somewhere in my blog a couple of months ago.

So we play soccer every Sun at Kismis and last weekend's view of the skies was just simply awesome but my phone camera just CMI. To all my soccer kakis, every Sun same time same place.

Ok frends. I guess it's great to see the pics again and the funny captions that come along. My colleague made a very interesting comment the other day. We were talking about guitars so I just mentioned if should I buy a $4000 acoustic guitar? He said," Buy something that is recognized because now, you are recognized as musician." It was a huge complement and what's the next upcoming gear? STAY TUNED!!! As of now, let there be ROCK!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-02-10T21:54:00.003+08:00

Hi Friends. This was me when I was 3 or 4. I'm in the midst of restoring my IBM because after much use and abuse, it has finally crashed and now I'm trying to take and load new pics for the very next entry. Well this week is morning prayer week and it has been challenging for us to wake up early, discipline ourselves, to play and to pray.

This week I was having a chat with my 2 colleagues and bosses. We were talking about friends and people and about the years of experience they went through. Years of mission trips, gigs, playing of music, writing of songs, lauching of albums, also mean years of hard work, blastings from the big boss, sufferings, sai kang, target for whacking from other people, getting marked, losing of friends and colleagues, etc, etc, etc.

What got me thinking a lot is that, definitely, the bad outweighs the good, but the satisfaction of the good outweights the bad. Despite years of nonsense, these guys stuck around and are FAITHFUL in doing the things they have done before. What's even better is they are MULTIPLYING their TALENTS. From just being good at their instrument, they went up a few levels to be good at song writing, arrangement and directing.

Sometimes we get whacked here and there, the leaders of people around us may never ever understand a thing about what we say or do, but the bottom line is; you are not serving them but you are serving God. It is above all else, in every sense of the word and the song. Taking my 2 bosses as an example, I think they are evergreen. Being evergreen is to be able to produce new leaves after it wither. They never die. They keep producing new things and they don't bother about murmuring.

Can you just say murmuring 1000 times very very fast? It already sounds irritating.

Moral of the story; STAY EVERGREEN!!!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-02-04T00:48:00.002+08:00

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!!! You guys will only get the see the new guitar on the weekend and the sneaks tomorrow if you are coming for music prac! HAHAHA!!!

If you were wondering why I didn't update this for a long time, it's because my IBM finally crashed big time thanks to a drop from me and now it's up and running thanks to my girlfriends hard-disk. In a way, it's like her heart is in my body. OooOoo...CHEESY!!! hahaha!!!

Today I was watching LiveNLoud and I found a number of my friends playing in local bands. I saw Joseph Saleem who played drums for Jack and Rai, I saw Shawn Soh who is the keyboardist of Vertical Rush and I saw Rudi who used to work at Ebenex and we traded a couple of cool pedals before.

Well, as I see these guys, I realise that music was really in us since we were in Pri Sch. All of us have grown up but the love for music grows on.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-01-19T23:46:00.002+08:00

Hi folks! How's the week been for you? The last few days had some major developements in my music gear and I think I am going to downsize my rig and be a bit more sensible. Well many of you think I am a punk or very fierce and all that, but I want to see who's the smart guy who can find me in my P5 pic. The 11 yr old pic. Come on!

This is my dad. I think my dad looks cool and he looks 15 years younger than his actual age and I think it will be great if I inherit his charm. He worked hard at a young age and is still working hard. I love my dad and I think I want to watch him grow older so that I can take care of him and give him back what he has given to me and that is a good life. RESPECT TO THE POPS!

Well this post only has 2 pics as I don't have newer ones at the moment. I guess most of you know by now that I will be selling my Tele, that is the white electric guitar for those who don't know much about guitars. Reason being, one fine day, the sound just didn't make me feel good so it's time to search for a new sound in 2009 and hopefully one that will last for eternity! As for now, I wish that the upcoming CNY will be a big haul of $ for everyone!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-01-13T16:26:00.021+08:00

Hello My Friends! How are you guys and how has the new year been? Well as for me, It's been cold and It's been fun so far and I think it's going to be crazy coz I have finally written a song and maybe you guys will hear it! HAHAHA! Enjoy the rest of the entry and remember to tag and do the survey if you are a dude or a babe alright? CHEERS!

Sometimes when I go past the art museum and I see wat's in front of it, I can imagine St Joseph saying," Eh what is this lah?" If you notice, his hands are always stretched out at the stuff in front of him. HEHEHE!

China Woman fell asleep! HAHAHA!!!

Luohan just keep quiet. She should just stay in the fish tank. HAHAHA! OOPS! NOW EVERYONE KNOWS U R LUOHAN!

So the Law kicked in and now all the smokers got to go 5m away from all exits. Cool. But it means even before I enter the building I'm smelling more smoke first. HAHAHA!

So my girlfriend and I took the Friday off and we walked the southern ridges. Who can tell me where this bridge is at? Which park? ANSWERS ON THE TAGBOARD AND YOU STAND TO WIN...attractive prizes...

So we started our walk on the ridges. I got to say I really like hiking. I grew up hiking, climbing mountains, walking in rivers and all that expedition stuff. If you like to do these kind of stuff, please call me along.

Signs that never fail to amuse us. It's actually quite polite.

Even the National Parks asked us to take care. Our fathers and mothers don't even say that sometimes. See! We have a good Park organisation, or whatever you call that. HAHAHA!

Now we know how they catch monkeys in the park. HEHEHE!

Hi name is Kancheong. He is a spider who is quite big. What do we call him? TAG!

This is the top of the Telok Blangah Hill. Very nice view eh. People say you can see a full view of the island here in the early days. Nice try but too many flats and buildings now.

So my girlfriend got a nice photo!

As usual, I'm da punk!

Then we walked on the Alexandra Bridge. Very nice woody ones.

It's woody, wavy and very high up.

This is at the top of Mount Faber. That is Sentosa.

The view all the way there is very nice, but this is the best view :)...hahaha!!!

Nice flowers too.

Alas, the end of the walk.

And there you have it. ADIOS AMIGOS!
Alright there my friends. I guess recently as you know the new year has kicked in and all that stuff, but the thing I want to ask everyone is this, have you started kicking in your resolutions for 09 or are you still delaying? I suggest, DO IT! DO IT NOW! If not by the time you start doing it, it's 2010,11,12,15,20...you get the idea. Till next time!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2009-01-08T23:54:00.002+08:00

Hi Guys and Gals, Boys and Girls, Men and Women!!! How's the holiday season for you? For me it has been great and awesome but the smartest thing I ever did was that I accidentally erased all my insane pics from my phone and so this will be an all word post.

The last few weeks has been spent clearing out all the old stuff to make space in my room and in the storeroom for my family members. Well the interesting part about throwing stuff is that sometimes parents find it hard to part with useful stuff that aren't used at all. How many of you can identify with that? I see your hand; I see your hand. Well that ain't all, you stumble upon things that once was an integral part of your life.

I found a rusty parang, my first pair of soccer boots, old pictures, video tapes of the good old Mount Kinabalu trip we had when I was 16, pictures of old flames, my first book of songs that I wrote which had one titled "Flying Saucers" [Alvin, Joe, Ben and the gang would remember this once top hit in the jamming studio of Wee Lee!], My old sumo wrestler piggy bank which had all of my guitar picks that I used before, old toys ranging from Silver Hawk to Mask to Transformers, and much more! WOWOWOWOWOW!!!

I am amazed that if you actually did calculate the value of everything, it would amass to the range of tens of thousands!!! But the value doesn't just lie with these objects. The value lies with the memory stored in your head and the experiences you have just etches itself in eternity forever.

Over the week, I had an interesting discussion with a friend and he was saying why when we play a song we got to follow exactly according to the CD. My take is this, the song is eternalized the moment it is recorded. If you play it but you don't record it, it is just a one off and sometimes, it can never be heard again, but once it is burned, print and pressed, it is recorded and it will live forever and that is the desire of the artist who did the music. The only thing we can do is honor the artist and make a worthy replica that he would be pleased with if the artist ever hears it. Well, there's a lot of things we can say about this. Debates will never end, but music is the essence of every soul. Love it, Live it, and...LOVE IT!!!

ROCK ON!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-12-26T21:00:00.019+08:00

Hi folks! I'm back from tropic thunder and I look like a balonglong soldier! Ok Christmas has just ended and I guess most of us have finished opening up the boxes and some gifts makes you want to box people. Go ahead! HAHAHA! Enjoy the pics to get an idea of stuff with a lame story at the end.

We sleep.

They gamble.

We went for a tour at the army museum. The multimedia display would have won over those who haven't went into army.

My formation is the one in the middle. Combat Engineers!

The boatmen were involved in the floods. Being a bridging engineer, we were trained to drive a boat.

I think the uniform on the left is the best. The new one just look weird and we are going to be issued with those in the next few ICTs.

Ah, we realised that birds can be traded. So when your sister or brother is going on a journey, you can buy birds from here to wish them good luck. HEHEHE!

CG had a Christmas gift exchange and here's our stack of presents and the model as well. NO THE MODEL IS NOT THE GIFT!!!

And of course we had food! There were chocolate salty balls in it.

And a kid is learning how to strum the guitar. Cool!!!

The day the earth stood still. Guess the location! TAG YOUR ANSWERS!!!

Ah! Christmas lights along Orchard Road is always nice, but not the crowd who makes the place darker.

Candlelight sv is always an awesome sight. Jurong already looked this good. Imagine expo.

Nice! Nice!! NICE!!!

So Mervyn had lots of roles on wed and thu. Starting with MR BEAN.

Then SLEEPING BUDDHA and his devotees. TAG...WAT WAS USED AS THE JOSS STICK?!

Then he became the 1000 hand fella.

And I found enlightenment.

OK FOLKS! That's all for the pics for now. More coming up on NY day and CNY and 2009 man!!! I've got to say, 2008 has been an awesome year. Here's a lowdown:

1. Got a beautiful, smart and adorable girlfriend [don't give me tat mushy crap. I'm hardly mushy so let me gloat for once].

2. Graduated from SOT.

3. Graduated from FSV with a diploma in film sound and video.

4. Went to; Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

5. Played for Asia Conference.

6. Anchored the Jurong sv [it is an awesome privillege to serve great people there].

7. PASSED MY IPPT!!!

It's great to see that all these has been accomplished, but really, satisfaction comes only when you know tat every thing that you have done has a purpose and every purpose is served.

The fact of life is, you have never achieved anything yet because there is yet another day to live but if you die, make every day before you die count.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-12-11T12:24:00.002+08:00

Hello my friends we meet again! It's been a while and where should we begin? Seems like forever. Folks! I'm back and I'm ringing the bell. Woah I can't believe that the 1st 2 or 3 lines of songs can be used for entries. It's great to be back after in the month of Dec and I've got tons of stuff to inform u all about the crappy one.

1. Next week, this nutcase will be going for reservist! I'll be meeting the guys whom I slept with in the jungle [what you all thinking?], dig trenches, build bridges [literally] and shed sweat and blood with for 2 years. Somehow I got this feeling it will be a big reunion and it's gonna be fun. I really enjoyed my army days coz this bunch of other nutcases are nuttier than me.

2. I'm stuck at 79kg and I need to shed another 7kg to reach my ideal weight. IPPT is in Jan and the fitness progress is not a problem but the weight is a burden. I can't run as fast and jump as far and pull as much coz, well, simply, gravity is against me and I need to feel like I'm on the moon so 7kg more! SHED SWEAT AND FATS BABY!

3. It's been a long time since I posted a funny story and I've got inspiration! HERE IT GOES!

Once upon a time there was a giant and a group of people. The giant is a friend of the people. When he walks the earth will tremble because there is a lot of bass when he stomps the ground and even more deadlier when he farts.

One fine day, when the earth is rounder then ever and the weather is more screwed up than ever, the giant decided to take a huge dip into the pool of gargantuan simply because only a gargantuan pool can fit the giant lah, so, SPLASH! The big splash came back to life and to mark the opening of it, the decided to put Carl's Junior there to feed the giant, who's way huge and of course after a gargantuan swim, way hungry.

As he was swimming, a small little dog called Rover run to the side of the pool and barked and aimed his trademarked one-hind-legged dog pee and the giant and said," Hey Great One, aren't you gonna run? I'm so gonna pee at you!" The giant replied," Eh wat hey hey hey, what's your problem? Go and pee at the tree lah! Why you pee at me?!" Rover replied," Can't you see you stupid big creature! After you took your plunge, the big splash has no more water! It's not a big splash anymore!" The giant look around, confused, replied," Yeah hor. Eh but wait, how come you can speak so good English? What kind of dog are you?" Rover," I've travelled the world. I came from China, went to Italy, then relocated to other places and finally, Starhub hired me so now I'm in Singapore. Cut the crap giant! I'm still so gonna pee at you!" The giant replied," OH! YOU ARE ROVER! I've seen you before. Come here Rover. I'll fill the pool with water and you don't have to pee at me anymore. I'll make the the big splash splash for the people to splash so they have something to splash about and they won't have to worry about no more splashing coz there will be too much to splash!" Rover replied," Cool. It's got to be fresh water." Together they went to fill up the pool and ate at Carl's Junior happily.

Moral of the story:
1. Rover is back! For a detailed history of Rover, please read the post on the 23rd of October 2004.
2. Don't be a giant. Be a human. Be a giant slayer and a dog lover. No more dog meat!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-11-25T14:13:00.002+08:00

I hardly get sentimental in my posts here, but I've got to admit that when Asia Conference ended, I was sad, but all good things come to an end.

I got a bit of scoldings in between the conference as I was not so on the ball but it shows I'm not a robot and there's room for improvement. I love my job and I love the people whom I take care of and I love the CHC band and our album.

When the final pyro was fired and the balloons and confetti fell from the roof, it was like a blanket of success and dreams coming down onto people who will take the next generation by storm.

I have a dream that Asia will enter into phenomenal revival. Time to write new songs.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-11-17T13:08:00.006+08:00

Hello everyone. It's been almost 3 weeks. See! I blog a bit more often nowadays. I'm putting effort! Well, Asia Conference is coming up and I'm the musical instrument techie and I love my job coz I get to play with superb guitar amps and effects. Well, we managed to squeeze some time for June and Brandon's wedding.

This is the view from the restaurant which is at the top of a building in the CBD. Very nice place. Exclusive.

So here they are. Happily married. I think they will be very happy for damn long. God bless you 2 man. Damn happy for you. I was there when he proposed in Taiwan and it was fantastic to see it come to this stage. Congrats again!

Mervyn looks very happy when he SMS. Why ah? Hehehe!

So my girlfriend and I went to get our legs fed by fishes. It was her 1st time and I put her into the bigger fish pond. There was noone else there so all of the ikan bilis went to eat her and man, they were hungry! I only had a couple of fishes!

So I transferred to the small fish pond while she was behind me in the big fish pond. Woah! Look at that! My legs become APNN siah!
Well, the last few weeks has been eventful. Been doing a lot of stuff and practising guitar really hard, making the best out of every little time I have. Recently I heard an interesting quote but let me paint you the scenario then you will find it interesting.

Scenario 1- Guitarist asks for IEM sleeves as those give to him were the wrong size.

Guitarist: Eh Roger [this small Indian boy from sound crew], the IEM sleeve you give wrong size lah.

Roger: Sigh. Sometimes in life there are ups and downs [At this point the guitarist froze. It wasn't me btw].

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-10-27T11:49:00.013+08:00

Hi friends! How have you been. I've been running like a dog, swimming like an ikan bilis and sometimes, dead like a potato! Life has it's ups and downs according to Roger. Well the last 1 month has been crazy. So check out the pics and let me give you a low down. Being stuck behind a cage ain't fun. Hehehe!

Let me introduce you to my current 3 axes. One more to be added in. Hoo!

So I took a bus that's themed to be like a lounge. People were extremely comfortable. Check out this dude. He slept all the way through the journey and he still got off at the right stop. Fantastic!

Front of the bus. Pretty neat eh?

Sometimes you don't need a bus to sleep in. Just a chair and a table would do as demonstrated by China woman!

My cg went to Qianhu fish farm and we became fish food for the day. The guys went to sit in the big fish portion of the fish spa. There was one the size of a luohan and another one the size of my forearm. Not kidding. Thank God the big one didn't chump off my toes but they did a good job in cleaning up the mess that we can't clean. Well done fishy fishy fishy. Luohan will be proud of her friends.

Speaking of luohan...Hehehe! Eh Luohan, your friend right? HAHAHA!!!

This was the scene of the Suntec area just 1 day before F1.

This is the scene of the Suntec area just 1 day after F1. Fast man. Of course. Look at who the contractors are? We're fantastic! HAHAHA!

Mervyn and I just love this fountain. It can shoot up 7 stories high.

Met up with the newly weds and had some fried mars bars. Interesting find and feed. Coolly hot. Whatever...just eat lah!

Spot the Gabriel aka Moley trademark and tag! Those of you who know!

This one is just for Benedict and Mervyn and my gf. Enough said.
Ah. I guess crapping is a very important part of releasing my daily observations and thoughts. To the pure the pure will always be pure! Sometimes I prefer to colour them up a bit. Creative people just got crazy ideas. Life has it's inspirations all around us. It's just about your perspective. Cheers!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-10-10T14:56:00.002+08:00

Hi folks. Recently I haven't had any pics to take as I'm feeling down about things. There are many positive things that happened but the number of negative things are weighing me down. I'm feeling burnt. This is the phase where we got to force a smile out of the tough times and try to get on with life.

The last wish of a friend is to see that everyone lives a life full of purpose and happiness. I think that his last wish came true for him. He lived life happily, was generous and helpful. If only I can see you in heaven. I think you really rocked when we hung out together in the ulu places. Take care bro.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-09-25T01:14:00.010+08:00

Hi folks, here's the OVERDUE pics of KL and others. Very great to be back here. Finally found some time before it's back to business and busy-ness.

So E.T was in the da house in KL.

We found some free time for fishes to eat us.

And they also ate the singers!

I let the big one eat me. Look at the one just above my left feet. It's the size of a luohan! LUOHAN WILL LOVE THIS ONE!

It was Malaysia's National Day. The Sunway Skating School had a special item for the shoppers. Cool.

My good buddy got married to Vanessa! CONGRATS BRO!

See, Ian was nervous. Gavin and Vanessa were super nervous!

HAHAHAHA! Sleep again!!!

This is our SOT grad pic taken together. :) so proud of you. This person can make me go weak on my knees. :)
So what has my life been? Busy. Work. Life. Love. Everything! I talked about music and talked about everything, but life is never whole without love and without God doing the stuff for me. I really love my life at the moment and I think that nothing beats doing the stuff that has been ordained for me. Be inspired.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-09-06T06:24:00.002+08:00

This is the word post, simple because I haven't had time to upload pics these few days. Well SOT ended and by the very next week, the team went up to KL for Emerge. I promise to upload the pics in the next few days! I got to say it was hard going on the first night but the 2nd morning and night was just awesome, even better than the finale itself.

Well, the last few weeks before the end of SOT, I've been challenging myself. Recently there's an opportunity that opened up to learn music and I'm very keen in it but sometimes I find myself on the incompetent edge of things. Well, you may say that I am already a very good guitarist. Problem is this, church and friends constantly provide very positive feedback and flak, but when you are thrown wide open for the world to hear you, man, the criticism is just insane. I'm thinking; how to play better; in improvisation, sound, hearing, reading notes, writing notes, styles from rock to pop to even jazz, etc; who knows? I'm desperately looking for a teacher that can take me to the next level for at least the remaining of the year or if possible, as long as possible!

The other thing that I've been thinking about is my skills in music production and audio post. I've been revising all these skills again but the speed is just not cutting. Need to practise like mad. Looks like I may even end up helping friends to edit audio and do music production so that I can keep myself on the edge of things.

The other thing is in song writing. As you can tell, most of the songs we sing are written only by KC, Dave and Brendon. What about me? What about the people my age? What happened to the 20 somethings that are supposed to be the next generation but yet to rise up? Time for us to kick our pantats and do something. If nobody's gonna start, I'm gonna do it. Time to borrow materials and start doing some stuff.

Mission for the remaining of the year: Play guitar like nuts and improve melodically and theoratically; edit one video or 3 music tracks that are industry standard; write 1 song.

DO IT!

Something crappy: The other day I was in the train and I saw a guy dig his nose, farted really loud and then cleaned his nose crap on his pants. hehehehe. I can only identify with the farting part.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-08-25T12:32:00.014+08:00

Hi folks. Well well. Many of you know that SOT has ended. This post is a tribute to all my SOT friends. IF YOU ARE FROM SOT AND YOU ARE READING MY BLOG, PLEASE TAG ME SO THAT I CAN GIVE YOU A BIG SHOUT THAT YOU ARE AN AWESOME FELLOW CLASSMATE!

Well I went for a dinner here sometime and look at the difference between the signboard and the shelter. Spot the difference and tag your answer.

Ok now for the SOT tribute. We won't get to see people sleeping in class for a long time now.

When you take pics you won't face so much pandemonium.

Ah...nostalgia...all are warriors. We battled prayer meetings, assignments, bible readings, preaching tests and exams! And we won!

I sneaked this pic at the very end of exam. HEHEHE! So this is how exams look like heh. Fierce. And it's really quiet. This is our last paper.
Then we had a dinner at the padang. Nice view right? If my camera ain' t crappy, it would be AWESOME!

Food glorious food.

So we had a dance item and I can see my girlfriend dancing some Indian dance. HEHEHE!

So this is a coincidence. We had our dinner at the padang on a day where fireworks were on display. Awesome sight. SOT really ended with a huge bang in the sky for us.

This is our dancers from all the nationalities. I'm so proud of our batch. We are spiritual and yet talented.

I'm very proud of my team. We are the most one kind but we are crazy and I love them. Awesome!

Well, as you can see, I really summed up the events. All I can say is that SOT has been a life changing event for me. I feel that I have grown on the inside and I'm not as crappy but I dare say, I'm still crappy. I really hope that these bunch of 6oo over students will keep in touch somehow and I have a dream that this batch will be the new generation leaders, pastors, marketplace people who will take the WORLD by storm.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-08-05T19:06:00.037+08:00

Hi friends, fans, and buddies. How have you guys been and as you can probably see, I'm balancing the world at my finger tips and it's pretty tiring. I have to cope with travelling, playing, work, SOT and of course my family. I guess as you grow older, responsibilities come and you got to do what you got to do. Enjoy the pics for a glimpse of my life for the last 1 month. Cheers!

So I went to Korea this time. I got to say it's a great EXPERIENCE, both good and bad. Generally, it's a mind blowing experience.

So we went for a conference at the prayer mountain and we played for Pst Tan and Pst Kong.

So we were supposed to stay here but the conditions were not friendly for the ladies.

I went to take a walk and I found benches in the woods for people to sit and pray.

And we found the famous prayer grottoes [something like that].

You can only sit or kneel. Forget about standing or stretching out your legs. It's small but people come here so often to pray and they get a strong encounter.

Imagine, these guys own a part of a mountain dedicated to just prayer. Awesome.

Our supposed rooms. I kind of liked the idea but not the ladies. HAHAHA!

So we headed down the mountain to a hotel and we had some food at 7-11. Sean is now in the army. Punk!

The view of Seoul from our hotel. It's water everywhere.

Look carefully. You can see the barb wires and fences. Behind that is the DMZ and across the river is North Korea. So near, so hostile.

We went to pay a visit to the glorious dead on the prayer mountain.

And this is the service we played for. It's a 8000 strong crowd.

And Pst Tan preached a great message. He's getting better and better. Awesome!

We went to eat Korean BBQ and singers do what they do best. HEHEHE!

So we went to the foot of the cross.

No introduction needed. Awesome!

Merv and I were stoned in amazement.

So we went into the hall. It's really a mind blowing experience.

Their music team is an orchestra backed by a choir. Old school and grand. Check out the organ and it's pipes above the choir.

Boss preached and it really blessed the people.

We went for a tour and I liked this guys hair. HAHAHA!

So we sat at the foot of the cross. We were amazed. These guys pray overnight, 5am, 6am, 7am, before serving, go up to the prayer mountain via a 2 hour drive and pray very regularly, have a TV station that had colour before Korea TV, have a printing press, have services from morning till evening, walk to church even if it means 1 hour of walking, etc etc etc. I'm blown away. Really. No wonder they have 750,000 members.

So I pondered and put the railing in my mouth.

Merv tried to swallow and airplane while stuck in a jam.

We were invited to dinner by another Korean church and Boss is really good and QnA. Respect. We had a great time knowing these bunch of guys.

So the next morning we went to pray with Boss and we saw this along the way out. Cool.

They've got cool buildings. Nice.

My public enemy! I just hate him. Don't ask why. I'll eat you!

Sean went back too early. Punk! HAHAHA!

At the airport before coming back, we saw interesting names. Hmmm...HAHAHA!!!

Bad spelling is common.

So when I came back, I saw a loan shark's van. HAHAHA!

I got to congratulate these 2. Congrats! Next year Colin's gonna drink a lot and Cherry is gonna sabo him BIG TIME! We're ON!Ok folks, this has been Korea and my life. I've been busy with lots of stuff since. SOT is ending in 3 weeks time and I'm beginning to miss the people in there. I love those guys. I enjoy spending time with my beloved. Everytime I meet her I'm happy and I'm recharged and I can do my work faster! HAHAHA! Motivation siah. But I need to lose weight. I'm back at 82! Aim was 72! Ditch 72! Let's just go for 75 first. Guys you got to help me. Keep tagging me to check the weight status. I've got lots of clothes but I can't wear coz I'm getting fatter. HA! Alright guys! Time to finish up some work. Ciao!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-07-13T21:13:00.042+08:00

Ah...I'm back! As you can see that I have an apple over my teeth and I look like a baboon. You can guess that my teeth are extremely tired as I have been playing solos with my teeth in Taiwan and now in SINGAPORE! Well, the trip has been great and I really thank God for it. All I do is fot the glorifying of the church, my pastor and God. I love doing what I do and if it means I use my teeth to play the guitar, I will. Check out the rest of the pics to know wat happened in Taiwan.

When I came out of the airport in Taiwan, I saw this drug sign. I had a great laugh. It really said that drugs turn you into a prick. Literally.

So we saw this belt. Woah the luggage is maxed out one man.

On the way to the campsite, we saw bridges being built.

Merv was fed up with me shining light at him.

So it was night and we went to a street to eat. They had great Yi Mian and Xue Pian there man. Can fight with the shilin one.

So we know where mats get ideas to design.

This is the view of the river from our hotel room.

There was a relic of a monkey in the hotel. Actually we were all behaving like monkeys.

We went to dan shui lao jie and we saw a nice sampan.

This is the four of us that went. We didn't really tot that everything will be fine but lo and behold, we did really well.

So we went to eat at a restaurant selling spanish food.

We were waiting for pastor so Matt decided to help us with the food.

We started to goof around until...

Pastor showed up and we had a crazy meal. This is an awesome team of singers and musicians. We really bonded and had great fun.

So in the evening we saw the campfire. It was awesome.

Then we headed to Kaohsiung for the next camp. As you can see...they girls...sigh...TAKE PICTURE TAKE PICTURE TAKE PICTURE!!!

So Ariel fed this "Airway". It was such a poor thing...so I thought maybe just let me eat her! HAHAHA!

Merv and I shared room again. This time you could see that the toilet door's pretty funky. GAY SIAH! Merv sorry about this pic but...HOOOO!

Everyday on our way to and from the hotel...we would see a train passing by.

So it was time to go back to go get some food. We really behaved like monkeys. So in Kaohsiung we don't need a relic. HAHAHA!

We had this beef with noodles for dinner. Couldn't beat the one Alvin and I ate at Hualian.

So when camp ended we had to take a group photo. Look at the flags of the teams! So nice.

On our way back we saw...

Bing Lang mei. Merv...HOOOOO!

This is the bridge tat separated us from the hotel to the airport. We will ride on it in a few days time.

So we went to dan shui lao jie to take a walk and this time we took time to explore and found an old cinema. Cool man. Look at those projectors. Old Skool.

And we got to see the sampans in the river...not in the middle of the road looking like man power...Merv...HOOOOO!

One thing was...the weather was SUPER HOT. The heat was intense.

In the camp they had this dying ant trick. When the camp commandants shout." Si Ma Yi!" They all act like dying ants and I found this really funny. Coz in army we did dying cockroach. Quite similar.

In this camp Pst Tan preached a message and at the end of it we witnessed how 12 plates of bread fed 600 ppl. 12 plates of small bread. Now we fully understand sacrifice, giving to one another and muliplication can happen. I fed Dan and Dan fed me and I fed my beloved and she fed me. Too bad we didn't take tat pic but it was so sweet...

So FIR came to perform at the 2 camps in Taipei. In the 2nd leg he borrowed my effects and guitar. What happend was he left his effects in the taxi and feier forgot to bring his guitar...so here's the alternative.

They were fun man. The band, with special guest acoustic guitarist Matt with FIR. COOL.

When we were about to leave for our last session, we saw a crab outside our hotel. It must have siamed all the traffic and climbed out from the river all the way. This is a brave crab. You deserve some of my crap. Well done!

When we were going to the airport, we saw this guy singing with a super cramped face.

Then in the airport we saw a very very very vulgar pig.

And we saw cheese puddling for sale. Cool!
Well folks tat was a very very brief idea of the crap things that I've observed. On a more serious note, the camp went really well. The youth were challenged and they were revived. We witnessed the miracles of 12 plates of bread being shared and there were many leftovers and we felt a greater unity and enjoyment when we play. It's no longer the same and I really felt myself being stretched and I see myself going to the next level.

For more ideas about our life in taiwan, visit http://www.merf.mecrus.com/ and see our crazy Taiwan trip.

I was blessed.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-06-28T00:48:00.011+08:00

Hello everybody. I can sense that my one month absence is kicking in among some of the ardent readers and here I am to save you all from boredom and let's all re-enter into the world of mad observation and crappy photos of life. Well this is how our Wed night music prac looks like and we have been ending really late so as a result...

Even the rest of us who are not really playing at that time are stoning!

Every morning I'm greeted by this queue outside our church in Jurong. These are the super ON SOT students who come at 7.15 to queue for the gate to open at 7.45 to get the front seats. Trust me, they are really ON.

Every weekend this is how the artist room looks like and we have Benny Hinn of sound in da house! Woah who can wear like tat man? Benny lah!

This is Weitian's bass without the pickguard. I really think it now looks more killer and it sounds as killer. Weitian, just don't kill people ok? HAHAHA!

I helped out in a youth camp and these are all the young men and women taking a group pic. I can't help it but also say that they are very ON.

We celebrated Jeremy's birthday...

Eigene's birthday, which we ate and ate and ate and she got lots and lots and lots of gifts coz many people really love her man! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! YOU ARE 23 BUT YOU'LL NEVER REACH MY HEIGHT!

China woman slept in cg as usual. Oh she threatened to kill me if I put this pic on my blog. I'm scared...

Ben Zhang got married and I mistook the popper for a bottle of wine. LIKE REAL!
Ah guys, this month has been hectic coz of the amount of work in office, SOT and in the ministry. Woah I never felt so stretched in a long time and I thank God for the strength. This period of time is trying, but at the same time, it's fun and life is more crazy because it's unpredictable but unpredictably good! I'll be going Taiwan next and pics will be coming up! CIAO!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-05-27T22:53:00.029+08:00

Hi folks. As you can see, I took this in a plane and I'm really bored. Well, I went to Taiwan and came back and had a lot of fun in SOT. Check out the pics below to know wats up.

Nice view of the ships eh? Reminds me of Masters of the Sea. For those of you who remember, you are good.

So when we arrived in Taiwan, we had a soundcheck and then we went to eat liang mian. So here's Estella and Sean...OooOoo...

This is Ze-En and his kid. Cool yeah? Weitian, please give him back his Gibson!

We saw this last yr at the hotel, but this is a much smaller version at shilin.

Titus, your slimey bro says hi! HAHAHA!

There they go again. Even when we go shilin and eat xue pian also like tat. HEHEHE!

Pure water. This is for Titus again. HAHAHA!

Look at Pst Wayne's wife and check out Estella's phone and her dangling little kittys!

Ah...flowers...

So after the ride from the church to the airport, this is what most of the girls looked like. Unglam! HAHAHA!

This is Hello Kitty gate in the airport! Yes a gate full of Hello Kitty and she's loves it!

This is part of it.

The left side.

The right side.

So this is the year of the rat. I think MRMAN has definitely no more rat blues. HAHAHA!

Look carefully at the words in English and tag what's wrong!

The best cosmetic brand. It will makes you...tag again!

So we took the jet back.

And over the weekend, I got this from a double tackle, which resulted in a sandwich, which caused one leg to be stuck in the ground while I was trying to move it out, and then...SNAP!

Oh yeah scooby was sent back from Indo for a treat for "manager". He loves it.

So we had mock cg just last week and I managed to lead games, worship and testimony. It was a new experience and it's definitely different from playing guitar! I was a nervous wreck on the inside but somehow when it was time to deliver, everything went well. Thank God man!

So we went to celebrate Zachary's 1st month and here he is, sleeping in Angie's arms. Such a handsome kid. Oh yeah, when I first met him, he farted. Well done!

So we sat around and ask stupid qns.

And she fell asleep! HAHAHA!

I made a new friend in the small kid on the right. He's a punk! I like punks!

Ok folks, that's all for now. It's time to sleep. Where's my specs?!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-05-19T17:15:00.055+08:00

Hi everyone! The LONG awaited pics of KL and Japan has finally been revealed! I've been extremely busy since returning and I went to Taiwan 1 week after Japan! So, enjoy the pics!

We took Solitaire this time and man, the seats are the 1st class kind. Huge chairs, tv, adjustable foot rest and all tat jazz. Really good stuff.

I watched Evan Almighty!

June KO-ed

So after 5 hours, we are pretty near.

We stayed in Sheraton Subang and this is the suite! Not our room. Guess who lives in there?

Didn't have the time to take a lot of pics in KL, so here we are at KLIA with our luggage and gear and we are about to transit to Singapore and off to Fukuoka!

Ah, this is near Fukuoka already!

It really felt familiar and not too long ago since I stepped out of this airport.

The "soccer ball".

We took a ride to Fukuoka Harvest Church and rested there till about 1 something.

Dan, Merv and I kicked some ball and we saw this centipede. Nice one man!

So this is our lunch for the day.

We headed to the mountain resort, Kumamoto, for the first meeting and it's a 1 and half hour drive. Along the way we stopped here for a rest and man, they got loads of nice food!

Check this out man! Oh this pic did injustice, there were about 20 different vending machines!

So this is where we stayed at.

This is our room. It's shared among 4 guys and this is just the tatami section. There is the bed section which Dave slept at.

Check this out, a room full of sweets and drinks for us! HAHAHA!

We were there to help out in a youth camp. So here are the youths taking pics with us and me taking pics of the photographers!

Ok, if you all hear mountain you guys must be thinking there's nothing at all. Put it this way, it's a city on a hill. Really. We went for some coffee at night and the temp was about 19. Shiok!

They are very very specific about their opening and closing times.

Along the way we saw this bank. I won't put my money it it. Loser bank! HAHAHA!

So here are the youths having a prayer meeting.

The theme of the camp is I CAN.

So this is the final time we had with the organisers of the camp. They appreciated us and so did we. Very nice and very cool people.

So the kids cried.

Well, not really.

But we got quite a sending off.

So Estella bought a Hello Kitty gum and she didn't want the gum! I helped her finish the gum and she took the bottle.

Everyone's zonking out.

But not me!

I was irritating Merv half of the time.

So we were heading back to Fukuoka and this is what we saw. Nice view man. I kind of got reminded of 7 Samurai, mountains, dojos, rice fields, samurais!

Once again we had a stopover and we ate some ice-cream!

All those stopovers got these fish signs. If Luohan in Japan she sure very happy. HAHAHA!

These are wild flowers outside our hotel in Japan.

Here we are in Fukuoka Harvest Church, after Kumamoto. We were in a leaders conference.

We had some ramen nearby and Merv found his old time Japanese brother behind him! HEHEHE!

So the next day we ate something else. BBQ food!

Part of the menu was pig tongue. It's a bit tough though.

The same slippers we wore in Nov.

So Pastor preached a great message and there was so much that the youths gave up their seats and sat on the floor in front of the stage.

So we went to eat the very nice ramen again. I thought of June, Brandon and Eigene.

I ordered extra egg!

So this little girl looked at me and I took a pic of her.

They had Mega Mac, it had 4 beef patties. Big Mac can close shop!

On our last meeting, Pastor Kito took pics of us and I took a pic of him. He's a true servant, extremely humble and nice. He helped us with transport, food, sound, video and even shopping. He may be trying to be like the pope in this pic, but to me, he's a true servant!

So Dave, Glyn, the bbg gang and I went out to eat on our last night and we saw some old men fishing for UNAGI!

Coooooool! After fishing, they bbq it.

And we ate at this restaurant again. Very nice beef! I'll comeback here again!

The name of the famous restaurant. In Japan, sometimes they pronoun R as L. Enough said.

So here we are, ready to leave Fukuoka at about 6am. All are stoned!

This time I gave the window seat to Merv.

Alright man. All I can say is, I love Japan and I'm going to bring my lover there!!! HAHAHA!!!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-05-10T11:27:00.015+08:00

Hello everyone, I just came back from Japan so there will be 2 entries. 1 in the morning and another in the night. This is obviously the morning one and it's gonna show u the stuff before I left. ENJOY!

Muzo pracs with babies are interesting. Here is Dylan, aspiring to be Bob Dylan. Cute huh?

And here is Gareth, showing wat it's like to be a little man. He's tough but a little sticky.

So our cg went for Emily's wedding!

Good looking couple eh? The husband is working in Japan. He's cool man.

Time to goof around for the dinner. I said, if the bear is the tea bag, surely when the butt goes in the tea will be browner. Think about it. hehehe!

This is a must. Showcasing the chicken head!

The eruption of the dry ice!

Marina Mandarin had some chirping sounds and I thought it was some fake sound then I realized, IT'S REAL BIRDS!

Nice huh?

The ladies with the couple. Congrats Emily!

So we went to our cg members place to visit her 1 week old baby boy, Zach. He's cute and when I went into the room and tickled his feet, he farted really loud and smelly! THIS KID GOT POTENTIAL!

China woman can't sleep coz of Golden. She's scared of big dogs so we tried to help her overcome her fear.

Well, she ran out of the house.

Golden,"This China Woman, really CMI. Chinaman eat dog but this Chinawoman scared dog. gorblok!"

Then she ran into the baby's room to siam the Golden.

We walked over to downtown east. Woah the place changed a lot man. The got pasir ris flyer siah. HAHAHA!

Ok folks! This is installment 1. Installment 2 later when I get back in the evening. Work dah!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-04-26T23:19:00.024+08:00

Hello friends! I promised pics and here they are! Well, As you can see, I lost A BIT of weight thanks to bad coughing for the last 3 weeks. Well, I've been in SOT and all I can say is that hearing the Word daily is good and helping the preacher to minister is better. Life is getting exciting. Well, the pics below will give you a good idea of what has been happening. ENJOY!

We went for Sherlyn's wedding! CONGRATS MUN!!!

But one thing, don't mix pink with white...881 man...

So I took a walk in school before meeting Lionel and guess what I saw? Keith's old posters! Best thing was that some punk called me and asked," Are you looking for a band?" I replied," Graduated already." HAHAHA!

The rejected poster still rocked in my opinion. You all got to read and get the meaning of the ad. Oh btw, Maximum Aural Stimulation was the original name for the Ngee Ann complilation album. Right now it's called Audio Infection. It should be on sale at the end of the current semester. It was my final year project. I loved it a lot!

So will these games really make you more intellectual?

The other day I mentioned I went to Beijing for one night? Well here are the pictorials for my "ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING!"

I didn't take this plane though. HAHAHA!

Ah. Sunset in the nightsky. It was extremely cold outside and it was extremely beautiful too. Too bad I can't get a shot of the stars in the night.

So I arrived in Beijing T3 and it was HUGE!

So I got out and this is a view of the taxi stand. The moment the plane arrived, woah! The taxis came like in a super huge fleet!

So the next day I headed back home and here is just an outside view of the airport. It's really insanely huge as this is taken from quite far away.

The amt of ppl going for the flights are insane too. And for international flights, you actually got to take a monorail to your gate. Huge huh?

Well, morning lethargy set in on everyone. There's my plane that will take me home.

Window seat again.

I concussed until I saw land. It means we are very near home!!!

The next day I went with my cg to play games. So here we are playing Jenga!

As usual, China woman slept!

So here's Francis, pulling out the pieces and...

JENGA!!!

The beast has awaken from thy JENGA!!!

This is for Chewy. Nice huh? HAHAHA!

This bike is travelling the world and it has stopped over in Singapore. The owner is a very brave man. He's deaf and mute and travelled from Minsk in 2000 all the way to N and S America, Europe, Australia, Asia and now he's here.

And here's the very courageous man, Vladimir Yarets. I really respect him! He's a living example of pushing the boundaries and living life to the fullest!

Next up, KL on Fri to Sun and then Japan from Sun to Thu. CHEERS!!!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-04-16T16:24:00.002+08:00

Hello folks! Well today is the word post coz no pics lah (duh)! Well right now I'm at T3 waiting for my flight to Beijing which is at 1655hrs and tomorrow I'll be back by 1600hrs latest. Crazy! Ok Lah! I got to go into the stupid plane already. China cannot blog. Ciao.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-04-13T10:13:00.023+08:00

Hi folks. I'm back and I promised pics. Here I am in a 24hr supermarket getting lots of coke for Dave Dan Sean and myself. I got a bad cough as the result of too much sambal. I guess by now the WHOLE church knows that I ate dog meat. So let me show you the adventures of our trip and the adventures of the appetite for crazy food!

Upon reaching Surabaya we went to eat Apeng Kwetiao. Obviously it is kway teow lah! Woah but I tell you it's very very nice. Indo food has risen up in the ranks of my deadly appetite!

So this was our purpose for the next 4 days. We came here to impact the pastors who will then in-turn impact their churches. Even though I heard this message many times, it impacted me again and again. It's true that the Word of God lives through daily and it never ceases to amaze and implode in our hearts. Awesome

Ah After the 1st night, we went to eat lots of Ayam. Soft bone Ayam and as a result of this meal and the attack of the sambal, I got a cough.

The chicken bones can be eaten so I ate everything including the head! HAHAHA!

It's weird to see Indo girls wearing cheongsam. Just weird.

On the 2nd night Sean and I went out and we sat this taxi service. Hokkien ppl will find this amusing. Hehehe!

I miss A&W man! And of course the misadventures I had in those restaurants when I was a teenage punk! HAHAHA!

We went to this church on the 3rd night. This church started and entire movement and revival in Indo. Happening place. Historical place.

So I went to the supermarket to get some lozenges and saw some bunnies for sale. They are meant to be pets, not food! HAHAHA!

So how do you spell arcade?

And this car is still using a CASSETTE TAPE player! HOOO!

On our way to another city we went past one of the biggest mosques in the country.

I love this kind of view.

We were pretty near the mountains. We didn't go there though. Look like those Japanese paintings eh?

Plaza Tol fella caught winking. Hehehe!

So we entered Sidoarjo. Ready to impact another church.

So we came to GPDI Sidoarjo. This church went through a lot and now it's gonna experience a new wave and movement man!

Here we are, unable to sit in the sv so we had to sit by the music instruments. No problem man! Just serve and do the work of God.

Most of the churches had crosses like these.

So after the final session, this is the infamous dog meat! HOO!

We ate at the restaurant till it closed.

The next day we were ready to leave for Singapore and here we are with a whole load of crackers and assortments given by the helpers who helped us in our entire trip. We had 13 of those man! Oh yeah that's a trolley full of crackers!

No tv so the stewardesses still had to do manual demonstrations for the evac stuff.

Here are my buddies engaging in a hearty conversation while I snoozed half of the time but the bum of a stewardess kept hitting me so I can't sleep well. HAHAHA!
Ok folks. So I learnt many stuff in this trip, more than the one in Taiwan. I was greatly enriched and challenged and oh, of course I understand the true meaning of eating in faith. HAHAHA! To more pics and crazy moments in life guys and girls. Remember to live life on the edge. Your heart won't stop it will just pump faster and increase your stamina! HAHAHA! CHEERS!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-04-06T13:42:00.038+08:00

Hello everybody! I've been to Jakarta on the 1st till the 5th and I'm leaving later today for Surabaya. Well, as you can see, this pic is rather overdue as it was setup of expo hall 8 the week after Easter. Well, the last few days I didn't have any internet connection there so here are the pics from before and after the mission trip! Cheers!

As I was leaving expo I saw this. Got to take a pic of this. Too nice already.

On the bus I saw this on the last row middle seat. I guess it shows the safety measure to prevent people from really flying to the front when the bus jam break! HAHAHA!

So I'm the roadie and this is a portion of the gear I had to setup. Thank God it ain't as crazy as Taiwan!

Now this is how you relak at the airport.

Garuda! There are stories of plane crashings but who cares. Where we are there the plane won't crash!

So I'm once again near the window seat!

The drink before take off. Sunripe!

Ah cotton candy skies...

So we see a little bit of land. INDO! HERE WE COME!

So here we are, Jakarta before landing.

The van that takes all our luggage and equipment. Look at the police and one of the guys tat help us. Fierce!

This is pretty near our hotel. I notice many of such status along the way. Nice decorations in a very polluted city man.

So in a few hours we had our 1st service and the guys had to wear formal but not the TECH CREW! HAHAHA!!!

Look at Sean. Loving the formal so much. HAHAHA!

They still have tuktuks.

The church is somewhere near the village. Very interesting. Some of the churches are in an all muslim community.

Ah Cold Rock Indo style! I like! It's CHEAP!

So here we are. The traffic in Indo is crazy so we rush to wait and we wait to rush. Thanks to the traffic.

Sunrise along the way to prayer meeting at one of the churches. Nice view. Wakes us up too!

Here we are at one of the churches. Our guys sang Indo praise and worship songs and the people were impressed at how we managed to learn the language and the songs. Well done Poh and Ally!

They have walls for graffi art. Singapore should have something like that. Cool.

Guess who played 2nd guitar for prayer meeting? KC! HAHAHA! HOOO!

The outside of another church. This one had lots of mosquitoes man.

Ayam Ayam you are going to die soon so please play before you get consumed by us! HAHAHA!

Just look at the traffic jam man. It's a daily thing and it's a norm for them. Not for us though.

Their choir. Indo churches have VERY VERY good musicians and their music is ROCK and CRAZY! It's really good stuff man.

This is GPDI Karmel. One of the 3 churches we went to. Old school style labeling man.

So this is their pastor introducing us and our pastor. Nice guy. I love the hospitality of the people.

So this is what GPDI stands for.

The very last day, we had to be at the airport at 5. So here we are catching a glimpse of the sunrise. Looks like an explosion in the sky. Beautiful.

This is how u secure your stuff. You shrink wrap it! HAHAHA!

Ah window seat again. Shiok.

Our guys all stoned out.

Usually we see from bottom to top. Now this view is top to bottom. Look at the amount of land you see. Think perspective man.Ok folks, 2nd installment of INDO is coming up. We are going there to impact them. As for now, stay tuned to the crap of thy crap! OUT!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-03-26T16:22:00.014+08:00

I'm back and I'm eating KFC! Well the absence of the crazy one has been due to the largely work and also the fixing of this laptop. Well, since leaving school and working full-time, it has been work work work and I finally found a little bit of time to blog here, so let me give you a glimpse of my life the last 1 month!

FIR was at our services and it was nice to meet up with Fei-er and Ah Qing.

So after the service what do we do? Mug shots.

China woman's sleeping again!

So I went back to school and finally, we get a glimpse of the 3rd lift at block 53! FINALLY!

China woman is sleeping again!

Alright so after sv last weekend we went to eat some porridge stuff. I still don't like porridge.

China woman is sleeping again!

So this is the place where I am sent to learn some insane music recording, mixing and engineering. I love it. I met a few top local producers and singers. It will be great coming here almost every week.

My family celebrated my mum's birthday and here she is making her wish.

She somehow still got the crappy pattern.

Now you all know who's the mother of all crap? MY MOTHER! hahaha!

1st thing she does after all the cake and stuff, pick 4 numbers for 4D. HA!

So yesterday I got on a bus and I saw a man bringing his transport onto another form of transport.

Hell yeah! Bicycle on the bus man!

Ok folks, more pics more work and more nonsense coming up regularly. I'll be off to Indonesia for 2 weeks to do some crazy work. Be cool and have a crazy time man!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-03-01T22:26:00.023+08:00

Oei! I know I very long never blog lah but I've been busy. Busy with what? Check out what by scrolling down man!

Last Sunday Pst Ulf was in the house and Pst Kong talked to me before the prayer meeting. It went something like that:

Pst Kong: Eh Jessel I heard from David Yem that you stare at Ulf Ekman as if you're going to kill him ah?

Me: No lah Pastor! I think I was just looking at him. No lah!

Pst Kong: Hehehe! Woah you stare at Ulf Ekman leh. You are very bold man brother.

Then he goes out to lead prayer meeting. After the prayer meeting he comes back inside the artiste room and says:

Pst Kong: Hehehe! Jessel, you "bi" [hokkien] Ulf Ekman man.

Me: No lah Pastor. No lah!

He giggles says goodbye and goes off. Man...

So here is a legendary pic of me take off the internet "bio-ing" Pst Ulf Ekman.

When boys are bored what do they do? Climb into boxes!

The most on-time birthday gift. It was sweet!

Below the crest, it used to say," Where boys become men; Men of grace and polish." Whenever I go past this building, memories would flood my feeble mind.

After playing for an overnight prayer meeting, you don't sleep and then you play for children's church followed by another English service, you end up like this. Sean, next time don't do that! Rest!

This is what happens when you get drummers to shift stuff from expo hall 1 to hall 8. They start whacking their stuff.

This is good Tim Sum in Geylang. Really nice stuff!

Singapore Flyer. Someday I must take a ride on it.

So we went to Janice's birthday at Sentosa. She turns 5 (x4) this year. She's a leap year kid.
Ah the birthday girl. In case you all don't know Janice, she's the one that I always say, close your mouth, to. Happy birthday Janice.

So she got thrown into the pool. That's what you get for inviting the crazy guys! HAHAHA!

Benedict and I cooked the whole night for the friends and of course ourselves. We came up with our own version of drunkened chicken; dipped in Tiger Beer! HAHAHA!

Here's Benedict strutting his stuff cooking the drunkened masters.

The margarine, beer and satay sauce. Hehehe! Nice huh?

We went to Merv's house for CNY. I know this is late but this pic is important. The familia mugshot of the crazy musicians and singers!

So this is yours truly's birthday celebration with my cg!

I got a pair of Adidas street soccer shoes...

A hangten t-shirt and my arch-enemy, la pi xiao xing. Don't ask me why but I hate him. It's just the way he talks and acts retarded. Now I got to bear with looking as his stupid face everyday!

The 2 guys and close friends in my cg. Gavin and Colin

The wonderwomen of my cg. Surprisingly, this edition don't have chinawoman sleeping. SHE'S AWAKE! RUN!

Ok folks. Let me tell you something that I have been pondering about. I realise that soon I'll be 30. It means that my "youth" is drawing to a close. So while I still physically able and much stronger, I want to work my butt off and support my family. I guess it's the most important thing to me now. That is excelling in the areas where I'm called to. Cheers man! To more frequent updates!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-02-21T11:39:00.023+08:00

Hello my friends! After a 19 day absence, I'm back again! What have I been up to? CNY, finishing of school work and of course, my birthday celebration. My birthday today is special as it's the 15th of the Chinese calendar and it means there will be a full moon. Woah shiok siah! What I discovered is that it will be the last lunar eclipse as well so I guess my birthday is quite remarkable this year eh. 27 will be the age I'll remember for a long time as it marks the end of poly life; which is a milestone for me after so many yrs of retaking O level and the start of full time ministry. Something that I never imagined myself doing so long ago! For now, enjoy the pics!

We had a reunion dinner and my cousin brought my little niece out. Here's my mum displaying her motherly instincts. My sis told me that she wants to be a grandma, oh well, she's got to wait a while more so in the mean while, she should really dig this moment. HA!

The food arrived late, but 1 dish was premature. Look at the emptiness of the table. Hehehe. When the rest of the dishes came, that plate of vege was cold as...u fill in the blanks!

So this is Angeline. Cute huh? The kid already has talent at her age. She can fart a lot! I guess it's really in the blood! HAHAHA!

The last few days in school I saw sir from outside the 16 track studio and I can't help but to take this pic of him before I grad. Hehehe! KUSU ISLAND!

We had to watch 881 before we grad. No lah you think they so saddist meh? It's some stupid PPP programme and to fulfill the final stage we had to watch a screening by the school and 881 was the final one coz we ponteng all the earlier screenings! Nice show though. I really love it. Hokkien power!

So our cg went to watch Ah Long Pte Ltd. If you all like jokes, you should watch it. Storyline wise it's nonsense. But as a joker, I really loved the show. After that we went to eat prata. I must say this prata stall, Spize, located near Great World is quite happening.

Gavin and I were in the funny mood. Oh wait, he is Mr Funny!

On the 3rd day of CNY we celebrated Mervin's birthday. It was a frustrating moment for him as he thought M was coming. Hahaha! And this is the exact birthday cake his cg members gave him earlier in the day. Zhun huh? Hahaha! Merv, let's continue to make happening music in church. MAT ROCK!

So if you realise some Singaporeans got no brians, you bring them here? All I can say is, this is a stupid name for a development centre!

This pic is for Eigene to swoon over! HAHAHA! Wing came by on CNY sv to sing a few love songs to set the mood for valentines. OooOoo! Actually ah, can see all the girls their eyes were fluttering and they were so mesmerized! HAHAHA!

I saw this kid sleeping. Got pattern one u know. He put is racket there so there won't be stain on the glass panel, but when you look closely...[next pic]

Woah seh! The spectacle is a true spectacle! HAHAHA!

China woman came back from China, and after braving the snow storms there...[next pic]

She came back with a China duck for us to eat. Not bad ah! HAHAHA! Oh it's frozen! No, waxed! Whatever! It's Chinese!

Ah, sound the horn for the feast with the cg! Oh yeah, why I can eat so much, coz the day before I GOT SILVER FOR IPPT! Those who say I am fat, eat my shorts! I can run faster, jump further, do sit ups faster, have more arm strength, THAN YOU! HOO!

The group shot! They are amazing. All are young but some are managers, doctors, engineers, scholars, designers...high flying cg with great potential. But with the high flying, we all have lots of crap and jokes to accompany the stress. Balance is essential...hehehe!

Some things don't change. She sleeps before eating...

She sleeps after eating...

She sleeps on the way back! No comment. WOAH PIANG EH!

At JW coffee shop, they had a lion dance troop. Somehow these shows will draw lots of attention. The kids love it, and so does the auntie.

Cowbell part 2. This time the victim was the last cowbell hero! HAHAHA! CAN U DIG IT?!

F1 fever is coming to Singapore man. Look at the cars. Madness. Soon we are gonna hear a lot of noise coming from these speed demons. It's gonna be fun, insane and exciting!

Ok folks, some of you will ask what I want for my birthday; how am I celebrating; are you going to find a girlfriend; etc etc. Well, I'm a crazy guy but I like to keep it simple. I'll probably go out with 1 or 2 undisclosed friends then go home. Gifts isn't necessary but it will be appreciated. The tons of smses and birthday wishes are good enough. I'm happy that you even remember! So THANKS TO ALL THE MEN & WOMEN, BOYS & GIRLS, AUNTIES & UNCLES, ANGELS & DEVILS who have wished me happy birthday! You all rock. When I have a lot of $ I'll throw a party, that is when I am above 40. HAHAHA!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-02-02T11:36:00.000+08:00

Welcome back to the Crap of Crap! OooOoo I have been working out and losing weight but I gained some muscle mass while working out at the gym and I got to say exercising has been fulfilling. It makes you feel sharper and more alert. Read the captions of the pics to get a better understanding of what has been happening man.

So after school I had to rush to do some work and while waiting for the cab at SIM, I saw a rainbow after the rain. Nice siah. Look carefully man. People were wondering what the heck am I doing then they saw the rainbow. Ha! Someone's got to be the first to realise the wonders of nature eh.

She never sleeps, she never slumbers. Somehow, after cg, China woman is caught sleeping at the back of the car again.

When someone ignores you when she is stuck to a computer game...

And another person ignores you as she's on the phone and in the ZSQY mode...

And another stares into space and one prepares for slumber...

And more slumber, you get used to it. Hahaha! Crap man! All you girls, now like that ah!

So one fine weekend when the sv is about to start in an hour, the Fender Hotrod Deville craps out on you, you dig the good old Peavey Studio 60 which has been around since 1993. Old is Gold.

When I'm old I want to be like this guy.

Oh she sleeps before cg...

She sleeps after the cg...

Then we go to eat...

After eating she sleeps again. Sigh.

Why Expo foodcourt so one kind? Nobody clear the plates so everyone dump their plates on this table. Even the woman in blue looks on in...u go and infer. Ha!

I can't help but to realise people who digs their nose on the bus. He must be thinking," I must find the Gold!" Then he tastes the finger...heheheh.

So this is what usually happens during soundcheck. The cowbell vs bass vs reggae guitarist vs insane drummer.

This will be one of the last few times I get to see this sign. I'm so not going to miss this.

A sign of maximum abuse.

So it's time to hit the pool and go for a dip and swim another 30 laps! Ha! Adios amigos!
Ok folks, as you can see, I'm silently enjoying myself. One thing I really enjoy is solitude. I dig being alone and doing things alone. Believe it or not, when I did the minus 1 tracks for the NP compilation album, there was nobody there with me other than sometimes Liana dropping by to help me press apple spacebar or Keith doing his marketting research and daily logs. I find myself most effective when I'm alone. With people around, I zip into the crap zone. Dig it or not, I may be crazy but when I'm alone, I think crazy stuff but I work damn seriously. Ok folks, more pics coming up and CNY is coming; to all who want to lose weight, don't succumb to the food and goodies. Running is a good remedy and good way of disciplining yourself.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-01-30T13:42:00.000+08:00

Hello folks! As you have realised by now, the last time I blogged was 22 days ago. Why did I take so long to blog? Well, let's just say I have been focused on finishing my final year project and my goal towards weight loss.

To date, the compilation album done by THE LABEL is complete but we have to go through administrative heirachies to get the album released so sadly, it cannot be released this semester but next. As for my weight loss, I have been keeping to my goal of 1 kg per week so far. Right now I'm 79 going towards 78. I've been running, watching my food intake, swimming, cycling and later I'll be hitting the gym. It has been awesome to reach the pre-Taiwan weight! HAHAHA!

Another thing is I'll be signing up for bible school. I think it's going to be an awesome time so friends, if you got the books, LEND ME! Ha!

Ok lah, that's all for now. I'm enjoying Dream Theater at the moment. Back to crazy melodies. Lame stories and tons of pics coming up in the next few days! Wait, let me tell you a dumb incident.

The other day, I was walking past one of those carpark attendants. Then one joker didn't put his coupon and the lady was printing the fine. The joker saw it from his flat and threw a piece of stone or something towards the woman. Instead of hitting her, he hit his windscreen and it was cracked. The woman shouted," BODOH! PA JIAO AH!" Man, what a statement. Now he not only has to pay his fine but his own windscreen. Moron.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2008-01-08T23:18:00.000+08:00

Hello guys! Sorry for the absence. I have been doing work and exercising and boy do I feel good nowadays. The ability to run longer distances and lasting 1 half of a soccer match without feeling too tired is good. Well, I lost 2 kilos as for those of you who call me fat especially BEN ZHANG, time to eat your words man! I gonna make you smell smoke man! Ok look at the pics below to get a brief idea of what has been happening. ADIOS!
I was at Seletar Airport with Colin, Ian and Eileen on New Years Eve to just explore the unexplored places and then we met up with Gavin and Vanessa later at Punggol to countdown along Punggol beach. We could see the fireworks from Johor. Interesting.

Joey and Joseph! These 2 kids are Poh's kids. They are awesome. Look at them having fun and Joey knows how to take care of her younger brother by putting him in the locker. Smart move! HA!

Ah! Food! So after service Colin brought us to this restaurant along Katong and I got to say it's GREAT STUFF! No pics of food for now so as not to tempt you all! HAHAHA!

I nearly caught her sleeping again! Darn!

So this was our waiting number. I think girls will like this restaurant a lot. It's called Miss Clarity Cafe. Nice. The food is awesome!

Today I had this woman in the bus telling people funny stuff, talking loudly and behaving funny. The 2 girls sitting opposite me were laughing coz I was reacting funny as well. Ha! We had entertainment with her around but she better don't cross my path or...

This is my 2nd electric guitar and I just got her. She's hot looking, she sounds very bright and cheerful and I like her fair. Mmmm...

Haha! Ok lah folks! That's all for now. I shall be diligent in snapping pics of my daily life and posting it up here. Get ready to hear my voice on the new NP album! Hahaha! And for those of you who want to lose weight, join me in my quest for a year of weight loss!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-12-31T12:32:00.000+08:00

Ah! Food glorious food! But guess what, the Ayam has lost 2 kg already! I have been eating, but no deep fried for a start and no Coke! Hahaha! Alright my friends, I've been gone for 11 days and now, here is an idea of what I've been up to. Remember to read and not just look at the pics! (don't we love Swensen's?)

So there was this Christmas show along Orchard all the way to Plaza Singapura. So when I saw these guys, I just kept asking," Where is Jesus?" Hehehe! And the replies were interesting.

Ah! So we had our candlelight service. Nice sight from the stage. Too bad the music team didn't get to light candles. We were busying playing the carols.

So the next day after Christmas, we went back to expo to setup the stage and had dinner after that. Look at the queue!

Boy the Jones was good! Once again we ate Botakjones! I ate the super huge Cajun chicken and I got to say it is AWESOME!

Merv ordered this gargantuan plate of fries. It took up the entire middle portion of the table. Hell yeah!

So a combo of my plate and the fries. Awesome eh. I was so full, I didn't have to eat the next day! Ha!

So Benedict and I went back to school on Thu and we did a 2.4. We saw a couple of guys re-enacting the "I am your father!" scene in Starwars. Ha! Amusing man.

Oh yes! Sat I had the opportunity to suffocate China woman with my shoe. She claims she loves to smell so hence my offer! Ha!

Then later, she interestingly tookout her baby pics to show us some stuff regarding diameters! Ha!!! I got to admit she looks cute when she's young.

Once again, she sleeps in Eileen's car. Oh wait "resting only". Yeah right.

Ok folks. 07 has been an awesome year. Taiwan, Japan, a job, a Les Paul, playing lots of guitar for the main service and so much more that I can't name. I had my downs too but hey, with all ups and no downs means there is no balance but at the end of the day, the success and failures only make one a better person.

For all my friends; the musicians, my cg members, my FSV friends, THE LABEL; it has been an honour to ever worked with you all and serve you all. I may not be perfect or the best but one thing I know is that working with all of you has been a crazy and fun experience.

Well, may everyone's 08 be an awesome one. I really wish for only 1 thing for everyone; happiness.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-12-20T12:49:00.000+08:00

Oh how ppl go through changes! Ha!Below is a pictorial of the changes of my size since 03 till now. Over a span of 4 yrs, I have changed from 68 to 82 kg! ENJOY!

This is Jason and I. How young were we man. Just starting out in LIFE! 68 kg!

Yr 1 poly before audio tech class. 70 kg!

Yr 2 poly at a dinner with the POS guys. 75 kg! As you can see, the pounds are GAINING! And from there, all the latest pic from my night cycling, I'm 80 and now I'm 82! HA!

Well If I go through changes, so does my guitar! My 1st guitar was a dark blue rosewood neck mexico strat, then I got a red squier strat with tons of upgrades, then I got a sunburst maple neck mexico strat with some upgrades, then I got a sunburst maple neck american standard and then finally, I got a floyd rose classic strat, an ernieball Luke, a 70s reissue strat then the Les paul! This is my current axe!

This is my current board less the SHO and EB vol on the right. Small and sweet!

The old Boss board. This was when they stole my DD20 in KL. Boy was I mad! Ha! But now my board is better and fiercer!

My old floyd rose strat which is in good hands now. It's a heck of a workhorse. A bit regret selling it.

The last 2 before my Les Paul. Luke is now in the hands of a frenchmen. The biggest regret is the sale of the 70s reissue strat. It's killer!

This pedal is for MRMAN!

So aside of the revisits to the past, this has been the events that has been filling my week, other than recordings and projects. China woman caught sleeping in Eileen's car...again!

The JW artiste room. I love the comfortable feeling but so far, it has been an adventure! The team would know what I mean. God of Ages HOO!

Once a conductor always a conductor. Look at the hands man!

Jones! Botakjones! I love the fries! HUGE MAN! TNT DYNAMITE!

The creator of the potato is back with her version of a chicken laying eggs. I was debating with her if the ploop means eggs or chicken droppings. YOU ALL INTERPRETE AND ANS IN MY TAGBOARD MAN!

This is an accident which took place at the road junction below my HDB block. If you look carefully, there's a car on the slope and I got to say the driver was very skillful to avoid a road sigh, a lamppost and ppl to actually squeeze himself into that place.

China woman sleeping again! This time during our cg bbq! Woah man! She's good at this...

Got the opportunity to go to Joy's birthday. Happy 21st birthday Joy!

This is for Luohan! HAHAHA! Eat it when you're hungry ok? HAHAHA!Ok lah, that's all for now. More crap coming up in a while man! Go and do some work! Please compliment on my weight gaining expertise in my tagboard!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-12-15T10:42:00.000+08:00

The 1st non-pic post of Nov and Dec! Well guys, I've been busy. Busy with school stuff and busy with work. It's tiring man but it's ending and every moment counts! For once I worked OT in school without anyone and I must say staying alone in the 9th floor can be spooky especially when the lights flickered twice when it's totally quiet! Ha!

The last few days have been a time of revision as well. I realised that I have a lot of stuff to take note when I am using some equipment in school. I'm super rusty! I need to practise using the stuff! My fellow worker is always needing to entertain my queries and I'm getting paiseh already! Ha! You know who you are! Other than that, I guess a good balance of help for each other is good.

I've been also rather inspired by some songs that I heard recently. It made me reflect on life as a whole and I think I begin to know something and that is doing the mundane is always more rewarding than doing the BIG stuff. Why I say that. The mundane is often the thing gone unnoticed but it has a rather lasting effect when it comes to significance but the BIG stuff is just a one off.

Let's just use a lame story as an example:

Once upon a time, Poo was helping Doo with some work. Doo always get the glory for doing all the great stuff and being the man of the hour and stuff like that but Poo always smile quietly at the corner knowing he's the one who shapes Doo to who he is today.

One day, Doo was trying very hard to release some stuff but he gets stuck as he doesn't know the solution and he turns to Poo but Poo happens to be in AlwaysAlwaysCrap land. Doo is panicky and furious and realises that as he is doing the big stuff he tend to skip the small stuff. This is when Poo takes the center stage and everyone knows the importance of Poo as everyone is now looking for Poo for a solution.

Doo calls Poo on his mobile and he reaches Poo and Poo gives the solution in 5 secs and everyone is stunned and solves the mystery and Doo finally releases his stuff.

Moral of the story: Poo regularly or you will be like Doo who is often constipated! HA!
Real Moral of the story: Know the little things before it coagulates and cannot be solved...sounds...Poo-y as well though! HA!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-12-06T23:52:00.000+08:00

Hello punks! I'm back after a 11 day lay off due to recordings, work and trying to keep fit. Read the comments below the pics to get a better understanding of the last few days. Cheers!

This is what I've been looking into for the last few days. Everyday it's either recording, coming out with a melody, arranging music or writing songs till 2 am.

So on the weekends, we get to hear C & C's love story.

Woah very on siah.

And they are still going on...

Woah, on Sunday, I was out with Titus for a while and we saw this old man! I've been searching for him for years! Finally, I found a national treasure. A man with great talent and passion.

Orchard is shiny and bright during Christmas.

The roads were sparkling with light.

And Tangs had the Christmas story as part of their display. Cool!

So back to school and the new lift is being constructed. Finally!

Liana said this is a duck. Keith and I thought it was a potato. Ha!

So on Friday the cg members went for night cycling.

After 2 hours, the girls had to help each other.

China woman decided to act cute at the major rest point. Woah lau.

So we were nearing the end point and C & C had this thing going on for the WHOLE journey!

So I anchored the band for the 1st weekend sv at Jurong. Boy was it packed and I was impacted that very day.

After sv we decided to surprise Ben. He surprised us and so did we! Ha! Ben, you look like a real mangkok!

I helped to play for the wedding of a good friend, teacher and singer. Congrats mun!

I like this chicken head, coz someone thought it was the chicken ass. Brilliant!

An extremely bad joke.

On the whole it has been a tiring and an emotional week. The loss of 2 friends in 2 weeks and the marriage of 1. The news of ultimate backstabbing and the renewal of broken friendships. What can I say? Every cloud is silver lined. The only thing is to ignore the critics and prove your worth. Not every person is technically sound but we make up for that by making important decisions and being street smart.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-11-26T22:54:00.000+08:00

Look at me. I love food. Let's look at the other side of my onion ring and see what's going on 2 weeks ago. *poot*! Sorry I just farted. Onions lah.

Nice right?

This is nicer.

Someone said," I will not sleep!" Somehow, she slept. Ha!

I love ice cream from Ben and Jerry's. It tastes better when VD and MR are around. CB wasn't there for the show though. Ha!

Even the dustbin needs food.

And I did this for a week.

Saboing students and making them sing a karaoke for 2 mins and recording them! Ha! These 2 guys are famous by now!

So that's what has been happening last week. The next 1 month will be crunch time for me as I will be experiencing the full blow of my final year project and work. With Christmas drawing near, it means more deadlines! LET'S GO!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-11-15T00:13:00.000+08:00

Kuah simi? Look at my pics lah! Hahaha! Work has been hectic the last few days hence so few pics, but the pics shall be enough to explain what I have been up to. Oh remember to read the story at the end. You all will laugh like mad.

So I was at this place on Sunday after work with my cg members. Nice hang out place. Very nice.

So a couple of cats came to flirt with us while we were shifting equipment at our shoot at Tanglin Halt.

See! So adorable, but Ben the sick fella wants to slap the cat!

The master, Desh, showing the way to the onlooking protege, Shibing. Don't do a "Sammy".

We had a shoot yesterday. This is Ben the cat slapper.

So after shoot I went for Linkin Park. We waited from 8 till 9 and they haven't come out.

The lights went off. They were coming out. The music's playing. The handphones were whipped out for pics. Yes all the little lights are all handphone lights! They were snapping the same shot as me!

And here comes the bright lights!

Wham! Bam! Slam! Jam! LINKIN PARK!

So the dude told the punks moshing in front to not squeeze people till they are dead. Ha! Nice!

So the concert was pretty good. I guess the music is nice and they had a good blend of old and new music. Nice.

Before I went for Linkin Park, my member was asking me if I would be free but I wasn't sure as I may have to work. So she tried asking another member and you got to follow the dialogue. Have a good laugh man:

Girl: Hey, you want to go Linkin Park?

Guy: Huh? Linkin Park? I know Central Park, Farrer Park, Bishan Park, but not Linkin Park. Must be out of the country.

Girl: I can't help you with this.

Guy: Huh? Help me with what

After that the girl can't be bothered to explain and stopped the conversation. I saw a turtle on the mountain top. Seriously.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-11-12T12:59:00.000+08:00

Hi guys! I'm obsessed with food so much that people around me are taking pics of the way how I devour my food! These are overdue pics. I really enjoy hanging out with my cg members. They rock!

Ah, I'm going down the causeway. On the way to Malaysia! Land of gum and bad english!

A sight of JB. Old school man.

We took a pit stop at Francis house and then headed to this place for some lemak Nasi Lemak but it was closed lah.

Here's the bosses directing us where to go and just when we are about to leave...

The girls decided to do what they do best!

Now we are are really going to our next destination.

GO KART!

We paid for our tickets and we drove...

This kind lah, not the red one! Ha! That one's 16000 ringgit but ours is 30 ringgit for 10 mins.

This one's for Tinkerbell.

Crap photos at the end with only 1 straight face. The ang moh is brother zhong's friend. Nice guy.

The line up at the end. For a first timer, I came in 3rd. Not bad lah and I got no liscense! The arcade approach rocks!

We went to the biggest shopping mall in the region.

It's damn big.

We went to eat. Obviously they are trying to tell us there's no pork here.

YABADABADOOO!!!

Bad spelling. School becomes Skol. Kidding. This is a brand of beer.

Our mode of communications and the supply for my introduction.

My food arrived first. The rest had a LONG wait.

Francis and Zhong waited for an hour for their set meal. Aaron the ang moh and Vanessa too. They were quite pek chek.

Gavin's one was next after mine. We are quite heng.

Our mode of coms. This saved us a lot of $ man.

Gavin was covering his tummy which was violated by Vanessa's insatiable appetite for a squeeze on his tummy! Hahaha!

Poh Heng jewellery's brother is Malaysian. Now we know.

Oh my goodness. Toys R Us. Sigh...

I like the feather on the security's hat. It looks cheesy. French wannabe but cannot be.

Singapore can never have vans like this. Cool man.

We went to eat seafood for dinner.

Nice beer counter.

Gavin tried to pull out the sea creature!

This crab was in a crap mood coz it knows it's going to DIE!

So now we know they have groupies in the sea off Sabah. Hehehe!

Big prawn! BIG!

Woah! Just look at Elvina, Vanessa and Gavin devouring the crab!

China woman, this pic is for you. Why must the crab be taken when it's red not green? COMMUNISM! Hahaha!

Ah, our food session ended and before we left...

We went to check out the crocodile fish. No close ups of it though.

This is an old school pen brand man!

Ok lah. That's all for the trip! It was fun! Looking forward to the next one!

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.

2007-11-11T23:44:00.000+08:00

Hey hey hey beautiful Sunday...

Hi guys! I guess the week has been rather eventful. Today I shall do a word post and do more pic posts tomorrow. How have you guys been man? I guess it has been hectic for some but thank God for Deepavali. We have a holiday to relak and some can take off or leave for an extra long weekend.

Today I met up some of my cg members for dinner. After dinner we left the love birds of our cg and the rest of us went to KFC for round 2. At round 2, we talked a lot about the good old juicy stuff but somehow, most of them are bad memories for me. What's scary is, I realised I'm so shutdown emotionally that I cannot remember the good or bad things that happened in my previous relationship or even the times I tried chasing a girl. (YES I DO CHASE GIRLS!)

I concluded that I avoid getting close to girls simply to not want to risk falling into the "commitment trap" and the risk of getting into bad situations that cannot be solved. I hate that feeling but I guess we all go through this area of suffering as well. The best way to not suffer is not to give myself a chance. I guess it will only take a special one to change that.

Ok lah. That's my 2 cents worth of my look at love at the moment. I'm happy for people. That's the most I can go.

The crapology of good crapping is crapping with a sense of crap that craps you out of your crap.