Bandaged Soul...so I can open my heart to you again.

My insomnia is back again. Was in school till past midnight as I needed to use my office PC to do some online course due end of the month. At the last stretch of 75% mark I couldn't take it already. My heavy eyelids were making it counter productive so I decided to head home. A couple more nights for me to finish this and another module. I find the subject rather interesting amidst my tiredness. Leadership Without Authority - kinda challenges people to take up leadership position in attitude and action without having authority formally bestowed upon them. Sadly, it reminded me of people who had been officially appointed but not fulfilling their duties. Chest-pounding, blood-vomitting experience. Yet, reviewing the status is easier said than done. But funny how I'm reminded from the module that having integrity would demand that we do what is right, even though it might be unpleasant to have to cut people off. Is there no other way? Yet, it can't be avoided, in the name of f

My car battery went flat on Friday cuz I forgot to turn off the headlights in the morning...it was on because of a dim rainy morning in case you're asking. Thank God help was quite readily available. Then I went shopping at Giant yesterday evening and tripped over a parking brick at the car park when I was transferring the last item from the trolley to the passenger seat. The trip turned into a fall and so there's a bit of abrasion on both knees. The fall happened so fast I can't even remember how I bruised my left cheek and left arm. So I sprained my right foot and I'm now house-ridden (AGAIN!) moving around in my swivel chair. House-visited by the sinseh a couple of hours ago so now my foot is all wrapped up. I'm surprised how I managed to lug my bag, laptop and the perishables up to my house.,,which is not on lift-landing, by the way. And there were a few occasions on the way home that I had to use my left foot to help step on the brakes. Hope I can at least limp

Going to a Jazz concert brings back memories of the once upon a very short period where I used to frequent this place - Jazz@Southbridge . A quick google tells me that this place is still up and running. Contemplating perhaps I should visit it again one day. But got to wait for next pay day at least. Now indoors are smoke free, it'll be more enjoyable. The music there's quite decent. Not sure how it's like now, though. Anyway, back to the free Jazz Concert I just went for at Singapore Conference Hall with Cat, Fay, Sheena, Celine and Hon Choo. The featured was a 5-piece band: Lead/Acoustic Guitarist - Isao Miyoshi (Jap), Double Bass/Bass Guitar - Shigeki Ippon (Jap), Drums - Hiroyuki Noritake (Jap), Piano/Keyboard - Tay Cher Siang (M'sian), and Sax - Koh Mr Saxman (Thai). They're named "Unit Asia". According to the programme, the band was formed especially for this project initiated by the 3 Japs, joined by the other 2. Except for one song, the rest of the

Here's the actual colour of the poster...

Looks like everyone's really blasting TP Band Concert. Guess I shall do the same, since I'm the in-charge...haha! So here it is! Oh...the colours are so different! The orange part has turned blue!... Aiya, nevermind lah. Anyway, the fine prints below supposed to tell you that the tickets are available at One-stop Service Centre on campus. $8. And there's a mystery gift at the door while stock last. So the band kids are going to have their publicity event on 29 Oct 08 at TP Plaza (outside library). There's one more thing that needs to be mentioned here. For the first time, they're going to feature a full section ensemble in the concert, and there's another publicity event on 5 Nov 08 of the clarinet ensemble at TP Library Podium...glad to say that it's also the very first the band has ever done. Both are lunchtime performances, by the way. Speaking of the Podium, I was there yesterday afternoon because T'ang Quartet was performing. It was rather enjoyable

So I went IKEA yesterday after prison visit to get a frame for a picture of Temasek Polytechnic Band taken with the President and the First Lady after the Istana Open House performance on 1 Oct 08. This one was originally cardboard-framed, and the picture was signed and delivered from the President's Office to mine last Friday. Took me half an hour to get the photo out cos it was slightly glued in the centre. Thank God it came out fine without tearing somebody's face out, and the centre happened to be one of the VIPs. Ta da!!!... Hmmm...put where, put where???

I seem to have lost the momentum to blog and msn nowadays. After an episode of very discouraging conversation, I must say I was quite affected. It left me speechless in more ways than one. There were several things that I wanted to do and say, but I was almost immediately smacked in the face with all the "what's the point?" I wouldn't say that I have resolved it totally, though it's not like I don't want to lay it down. Yes, I've chosen to be hurt, and I allowed myself to dwell in it for awhile, maybe longer than I should. It has been a prolonged period of pain. I've forgiven. I have to. But I think what I'm dealing with is the doubts I have about a friendship in terms of how much, or how little, I am valued (if I'm at all valued). It probably sounds silly, really, and I can imagine that it may even seem insulting if my doubts were unfounded. But I can't help it. I cried about it, prayed about it, and I believe God has brought me through th

Proverbs 6:1-5 Dangerous Promises 1 My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger, 2 you are snared by the words of your mouth; you are taken by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, and deliver yourself; for you have come into the hand of your friend: Go and humble yourself; plead with your friend. 4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler. Proverbs 11:15 He who is surety for a stranger will suffer, but one who hates being surety is secure. Proverbs 17:18 A man devoid of understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend. Proverbs 22:26 Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, one of those who is surety for debts... I met up with 2 friends yesterday who had jointly gotten themselves into being guarantors for a friend's 10K loan. It's a friend they trusted, one wh

So I was waiting for my dinner date at T2's Fish & Co. yesterday, during which I was looking around at the interior decor when I gazed up and saw this gross-looking lamp hanging from the ceiling right above my table. I do appreciate the fact that the design's quite apt considering that it's a seafood joint. But somehow it gave me the goose bumps. Don't ask me why. Well, other than that, the place was a bit noisy when the bar started blending some beverage...and irritating when the staff did their birthday thing for celebrating customers. 3 times for the duration I was there. It's like the Kuishin-Bo jingle, but done 'live'. Good food and great company made up for the downsides. So me and TP Band went to Istana on Wednesday for their 45-min 'National Service'. Thank God the DV Camera I brought was supposedly unstable which led me call for a back-up. Know why? When the band started playing, I was told that when the President come by to watch the pe

Only Hope By Switchfoot Sung By Mandy Moore From The Movie - A Walk To Remember Only Hope - Mandy Moore There's a song that's inside of my soul It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again I'm awake in the infinite cold But You sing to me over and over and over again So I lay my head back down And I lift my hands and pray To be only Yours I pray to be only Yours I know now You're my only hope Sing to me the song of the stars Of Your galaxy dancing and laughing And laughing again When it feels like my dreams so far Sing to me of the plans That You have for me over again So I lay my head back down And I lift my hands and pray To be only Yours I pray to be only Yours I know now You're my only hope I give You my destiny I'm giving You all of me I want Your symphony Singing in all that I am At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back So I lay my head back down And I lift my hands and pray To be only Yours I pray to be only Yours I pray to be on

Happy Children's Day Happy Birthday to my eldest sister Selamat Hari Raya ...and all the best to TP Band performing for Istana Open House later in the afternoon! It's going to be a happy day, I suppose, though I'm neither celebrating any of the above except having to work on a public holiday. No, no, no...I'm not complaining. I know it's going to be a fun day doing stuff with the big kids. The first-time opportunity is something worth celebrating. But it's still a fact that I'm working on a public holiday, as much as it is a fact that it's a day I'm looking forward to :) So I find myself waking up early in the morning, anxious to pray and ask Abba Father to do something that only He can do... grant favour for a cooling but no-rain afternoon. Need much faith, seeing the previous few day's weather is nothing assuring. And for smooth traffic on the way, everything pretty, pretty... Me and the band have done what we can to prepare for the performance