Back in my younger days, that which some would say was a long long time ago, I was a huge fan of a pretty latino gal by the name of Jaci Velasquez. My heart would melt each time I hear her voice. ALso she is very pretty hahaha. Songs from her album especially ‘Crystal Clear’ were songs I would always hear to lift me up until this very day.

So when I got to the stores here I was! Yes! They have the album! I mean it’s just so hard to get Christian Albums in Malaysia, here it is slightly better, only for the popular artists.

So here I am so very excited to hear this album after a very disappointing last album by her during the period of her divorce. I was rather upset by that because that was wrong. Still who am I to judge her. She made mistakes like all of us do. She admitted her wrongs and now I just thought it was time for her to move on as an artist.

This album came out after her apparent remarriage to another artist from the band Salvador. She is expecting a baby too if I am not wrong at this stage of doing this album. So I put all things aside and just focused on hearing the music.

The first song got me feeling like the world was so beautiful. I was literrally dancing to the music ‘Leon style’. As the album progressed I was glad to hear her back to her pop style with a little latin twist to it. Sounds like her early days but so much more alive!

The album though if I may comment lacks the depth I got from my favorite album by her. Nothing really moved me besides the first song. There was a spanish duet with probably her new husband who plays wonderful guitar and played for her album that was rather nice still it just didn’t move me. This was rather disappointing.

Put aside all my expectations and biasness to her previous album, I would say that this album is indeed one of her better albums. If you are a fan this indeed is the Jaci we fell in love with. I’m glad to hear great music by her again at last. Hope things get better from now onwards. I would certainly say this is a good album to get if you like pop music that sound like a little mixture of Celine Dion, a little Gloria Estefan, Natalie Imbruglia and Vanessa Carlton. Hahaha yes she has a sound of her own that is hard to define so hear it for yourself ok?

Album Rating: 6.5/10

Ratings are explained here

This is just an update so that you all will know whats been happening to Leon who has gone missing in action for a long time. It is also to tell you some upcoming things that are happening. You see, before a WHIRLWIND is to happen, something brews and there is a massive amount of silence just before the storm. So this is what has been happening! Therefore weather forecasts on this blog forsees an overload of information sweeping your minds in the coming days! Be prepared! Take heed, for the time has come! Read the rest of this entry »

A Poured Out Life ( 2 Timothy 4:6)

“A life of total abandonment and commitment to Christ”. This was in a way the one statement message which was shared by a missionary to Kenya in our church yesterday. Pastor Christine shared several testimonies but all of them were tied back to the title and her one statement (I emphasized on the one statement thing as that was the only statement that got etched in my heart and mind).

In my notes too was just the title, scripture verse and two statements…one as above and the other….God doesn’t need our talent but our commitment. I didn’t keep track of how long she spoke but that was all I managed to take down between crying and trying to hold back tears each time she share and start on a testimony…and each one so heart wrenching of such unspeakable evil acts. I am amazed at how she could continue sharing and yet remained so contained (maybe I am a crying baby lady) but I firmly believe God had prepared her so.

With what she and her husband went through, it is no surprise when she told God that she ‘resign from her calling’ (and Ps Christine candidly mention if there is such a thing as that!). She felt that she couldn’t continue anymore and this is the testimony which left her so discouraged….

….there was this beautiful 15 year old girl who was staying in the street home (which houses 800 orphaned children) started by Pastor Tony and Pastor Christine. This girl was blessed with a natural talent in singing and dance….perfect pitch and timing (with no formal training)….she was a worship leader in the church which was started by them too. A time came for her (I will call her Helen) to visit her relatives. 3 days after Helen left, Ps Christine received news that she had passed away from malaria. The relatives demanded quite a hefty sum of money from the street home to bury Helen….of course the home couldn’t afford and finally got permission from Helen’s relatives (when they knew that they aren’t getting any money from the street home) to bring her body back to be buried in the church ground. Upon collecting Helen’s body from the morgue, truth was revealed that Helen actually died from infection of being circumcised. That left Ps Christine so torn, how can she go on running the home with so many young girls staying there and knowing they are bound to face this torture at certain age…..so she told God she resign.

Having said that Ps Christine continued with her other ministries.

In Kenya, when you have visitors to your home, it is expected of the host to serve coffee or tea with sugar (Africans love sugar). One day Ps Christine was expecting some visitors and forgot to replenish the beverages on her way back. Being tired and all, grudgingly she was about to leave the house again when she noticed some plastic bags thrown over her gate (people usually leave bags of used clothes and any usable items at their gate for the homes that they run). She took the bags in and going through the stuff, right at the bottom of one of the bags was a bottle of coffee, tea and sugar. She stood crying in the kitchen holding the bottles in her hands.

Ps Christine knew then God was telling her that He provided without her asking. All God wants is her poured out life (2 Tim4:6 was the verse God gave her and for some time she just didn’t know what God was trying to tell her though she read it over and over)….now she understood. No matter how she feel, a life of total abandonment is what He wants and He will provide the strength. She just need to commit her life in totality to Him….she withdrew her ‘resignation’ from God and the street home.

Other testimonies (summarized):

The Breastless Women….. During the fightings, women were raped, some got impregnated and to avoid them nursing the babies when born, these women’s breasts are cut off. Thus unable to nurse the babies, the babies eventually die. These women scarred physical and emotionally for life, need to be reached and know that there is a God who loves them. How?….when all they see are evil doings and hopelessness.

The Charred Youths….. Some children are kidnapped at an age as young as nine or ten. They are then fed drugs to get them high and dependent on these substances. The motive of this? Train these kids to commit crimes, heinous crimes. How can a child of such a tender age perform such task unless he was high and ruled by drugs…..Years later when they are freed, they appear expressionless and emotionless. They are horrendous to look at and there is the hollowness in their eyes. Their souls charred and destroyed by all kinds of brutality they were forced to commit….they are known as the charred youth. They need to know there is a God who loves them and forgives.

The Armless Women (I can’t remember the term that Ps Christine used, I was concentrating on fighting backs tears but to no avail)….. Women were forced to kill their own children….if they aren’t able to or won’t (which parent can?) their arms will be chopped off. Many were forced to witnessed the killing of their child and then still have their arm chopped off, when they can never kill their own. No children and no arms…..what is being alive to them? These women need to know there is a God who loves them and had not forsaken them.

All the above encouraged Ps Christine to continue pouring out her life depending on God no matter how painful and torn apart it is for her because He had quipped her and will continue to equip her.

What about us?…..I am reminded of Leon’s post - ‘I know nothing, I know nothing’. …..People need the Lord…..They need to know there is hope….hope from God through us.

Ps Tony and Ps Christine are continually challenged in their ministries in Kenya and outside Kenya and God continued to show them His works….one of which was when a boy under the care of their street home was miraculously healed from full blown aids.

The above is penned down in my own words as how I remembered or forgotten between tears and tissues.

- Africa’s wars in the 1990s were all very different in their specifics. But they shared a number of important characteristics. First, one of the main underlying causes of these wars was the weakness, the corruption, the high level of militarization, and in some cases the complete collapse, of the states involved. Secondly, they all involved multiple belligerents fighting for a multiplicity of often shifting economic and political motivations. Thirdly, they all had serious regional dimensions and regional implications. And fourthly they were all remarkable for the brutality of the tactics (ranging from mass murder and ethnic cleansing, to amputation, starvation, forced labour, rape and cannibalism) used by belligerents to secure their strategic objectives. - excerpts from Crime of War (War in Africa-the magazine).

Africa is a huge continent. What about the world?…..(let us live a poured out life as He equips us). We do have a lot to do……maybe start with our neighbor?

Leon says: Lord use me!

I came across this article the other day and I think this should be read by everyone. It is important as musicians to really see this perspective but overall this has a principle of life that is very true to me and should be to you too. Are you listening or hearing? Enjoy your reading!

Have you ever noticed how an impression of a song or album can change with repeated listens? Thank goodness it doesn’t happen too often for me, but there are times when I’m nagged by the feeling that I got a review wrong because my opinion of the album has since changed. Depending on that change, I call it erosion or accumulation.

Erosion occurs when an album I initially love begins to wear on me—not within the first two or three spins, but maybe after five listens, or a year after an album’s release. I don’t want to give examples here, but I’m sorry to say that there are a few discs we’ve put on our annual Best Albums list that I’ve enjoyed less with time. I’ve also noticed from my own listening that erosion happens a lot with modern worship music—so many new songs remind me of great songs from five to ten years ago that I end up growing tired of both the new and the old.

Accumulation is the opposite of erosion, occurring when albums seem to get better with each listen. I typically notice this with dynamite songwriting, when a strong lyric suddenly resonates more because I hear it in a new way or it takes on deeper meaning after a new life experience has occurred since the last listen. It also happens with newfound musical nuance in the performance or some “hidden” layer to a textured production. Though I’m still only on my third listen, Brooke Fraser’s Albertine continues to connect with me more and more in both ways.

It’s only natural for our tastes to change with time and repetition. Sometimes it’s because of changing musical trends, sometimes we simply outgrow the music, and sometimes we hear music with new ears or a fresh perspective that causes us to reconsider it.

One thing I miss about the Top 40 radio of my youth is that it forced people to listen to things repeatedly, enough to form an educated opinion one way or the other. Today, I wonder if we give things the same due attention with our information-overloaded, sound-byte-packed, quick-to-blog culture. A friend of mine said it best: With so much at our disposal, it’s as if we’re more interested in hearing than listening, always eager to move on to the next thing.

If that’s the case, what does that suggest about our pursuit of meaning and substance, not just in art, but in bettering our faith walk? It scares me sometimes that we become so obsessed with the new and the instantaneous that we miss out on deep and lasting truths by judging things as too simple or too subtle, based on things like an artist’s performance or a pastor’s presentation. After all, while some things lose meaning and erode with repetition, others take root and accumulate with time.

Hence, why I like to revisit the albums released and reviewed within the year they released. While driving home from a recent concert, my friend and colleague Andy Argyrakis asked, “Why are you still listening to that?” referring to an album that we had recently given a less-than-favorable review to. I told him I was just making sure that I wasn’t missing anything.

God bless,

Russ Breimeier

I have taken so many things in life for granted. Especially God’s blessings. I do exactly what I’m not supposed to do many times but somehow grace abounds. Since I have stepped out in believing God I must say He has been more than good. I still need to change so much yet He doesn’t wait until we are totally changed to let us know He loves, He cares for us and wants the best for us.

I realise I have to change so much. I mean I am not competent enough in so many things. Character wise I’m not sure if I’m much of a good reflection of what a good Christian should be also. I certainly strive but I find myself failing miserably.

I’m in the process of reading the book Heart of the Artist of which I would review later on to really start the habit of reading again. I want to be a better person. You may ask why this sudden motivation and change? Well it is not sudden. I just been blind to see everything because I was just simply looking at myself and not God.

Now the evidences are clear  how can I not see? Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. Yes He is. Now I’m talking in the perspective of a just materially only. This does not mean that it is the yard stick in which we measure God’s blessings. But to deny God’s blessings and not give Him the glory would be the most selfish thing I could do. I have been blessed with a new phone, new shoes, new clothes, new notebook, new work desk, and the list goes on and on until yesterday a NEW GUITAR. I mean, all this in a month!!! I came here with absolutely no money at all of my own. Instead now I have everything! It is like a dream!! One that I never want to wake up from.

My mom says this, God spoils me. I think so. You think so? I think so. I mean I am so blessed that others keep thinking I’m rich. Some people keep calling me rich. Others say I only have to ask and I sure get. Some cry not fair. I really don’t know. But I’m certain I’m not rich. It is all God’s blessing. I certainly don’t deserve it but I must say thank you Lord. Thank you very much

There are posts I promised to write and I have done so, it is just not ready for publishing so please wait patiently ok? I scrapped the job/occupation post as I have no time to do the research. Upcoming posts:

Erosion vs Accumulation

Taylor 514ce - a very simple review

Jazz Chords

Album of the Week - Love Out Loud (Jaci Velasquez)

Book Review - Heart of the Artist

Ok ok that is a lot of work for me. If, just if I don’t sell off my HP 2133, You will see a review of it too!! I am now wondering if I should sell…..Oh well Cheers everyone!! I’m still dreaming…..la la la la la

Dear Miracle,

Your dearest God-daddy is writing to you to tell you how he is here over in Singapore. He has been reading up everyday about you on your fathers blog but your father is too busy to update everyday about you and I understand. He is a great man serving a great God. Please do not give him so much trouble ok? I know you are testing your boundaries now in this world that is full of excitement but you must always remember that both your papas need you to be a good girl.

I been watching you grow and been seeing you become even more beautiful each day. Thank God you look like your mom. Haha. Your father always claims he has dashing looks but….oh well let’s not go there. I don’t know whether you understand this letter but I guess I wanted to be the first to write a letter to you Do remember to exercise also.

Looking at your smile in the pictures can only brighten my day. Often times I have felt like life is a pain but when I see you, I can only say LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Remember this, Life is Beautiful.

Well daddy here is trying very very hard to be a man that you will be proud of one day. Trying his best to do what God plans for him but you must always remember to pray for daddy ok? Daddy will be here praying for you everyday. Praying that you will grow in wisdom and stature with God and men. Also praying for God’s wisdom for both your father and mother to bring you up in the ways of the Lord.

Remember dear, pray before you eat. Read your bible before you sleep. You cannot put your leg up on the table….nono. Keep dancing to the music! Music is God’s gift in life. Remember an important key to life is to listen. So listen dear and remember to obey your father and mother and ultimately God.

He has a great plan for you. I can’t wait to see you spread your wings and fly one day.

Remember, don’t fall for guys on motorcycles ok? You can ride but be careful ok?

I love you and certainly miss you very very much. Daddy’s got to go do work now. He hopes to write to you more often and soon. Daddy’s doing really great so don’t worry ok?

With Lotsa Love,

Leon

I am sorry but I missed last week because I totally haven’t got the time to concentrate on listening to music.  I didn’t want to ruin my mood.  I am about to hear one of the albums I have been really waiting to hear.

Presenting to you…..Overdressed! Clap! Clap! Clap!

Have you ever had moments where you waited and longed for something so much but in the ended got really disappointed with the result of it?  I have experienced that many times.  Somewhere in the back of my head I was really worried that I had too high expectations for this album.

I mean I have been looking for albums that blow me away.  Honestly there aren’t many.  Although you may see that many of the recommendations I’ve made I have been blown away by the albums, these are the few of the hundreds of albums I have.

Over the years I’ve learnt to know how to pick good albums and honestly you still get disappointed many times. So here it is, I pop the CD in and it starts off with a clean, crisp acoustic guitar sound…..I’m so jealous because I’m dying to own one now…..

Let me give you a brief introduction to Caedmon’s Call.  They are the band that I probably love musically the most in the Christian Music Industry.  I have almost all their albums and I have loved everyone of them.  Their style is that of Folk-Pop genre.  Why?  They mostly use acoustic instruments.  Lyrically they are the best! Honestly the best.  Their folk influence drives them to have great lyrics because of their story-like texture to writing and using words.  The lyrics are so real and honest.  So alike the psalms in the bible in modern language speaking to God.  The lyrics are not out of the world but just honest and human that makes it so easy to relate to.

Their vocal harmonies and blends are just heavenly.  The arrangements extremely creative and original.  The quality of the music is magnificent.  I mean this is what art is.  I respect them as singers, musicians, artists but most of all Christians.

They live their talk.  I mean they go for missions.  Are heavily involved in it. The song ‘Two Week in Africa’ speaks of their experience doing missions.  I mean they are just so creative to write a song that is just perfect to speak of what they saw. They did this in their album ‘Share the Well’.  Show so much their heart for people.  I mean they are not just Christians by name but they are serious Christians.  I have wished to see artist like that in abundance but honestly there aren’t many.

What is exciting about this album is the fact that Derek Webb who left the band is going to reunite with them again!  I’m hearing the album as I write this and I can tell you this.  They are back at their absolute best.  I mean this sounds so like who Caedmon’s Call is!  They have their sound that is just so them.  I’m in love with the song ‘Love Grows Love’.  Their harmony made of two melodic lines are so beautiful. Somehow they are the only band that I have ever heard that does it perfectly all these years.   I could just never compose a song like that.  One day maybe I pray.

I’m so happy.  The sound of the music itself is bringing me to tears.  God, such sweet melodies can only come from You!  Thank you for music!

Please buy this album!  Don’t pirate. It’s worth every cent even if I have to pay USD 100 to get it.  So if you are looking for a nice album that is not a single bit heavy and rock sounding but really really good to hear.  Get this one.  I can guarantee you somewhere in side everyone they will love this album more so, this album ‘accumulates’ on you (my next post, coming soon).  Oh by the way, CCM has rated this as the No.2 album of 2007!!!

Rating : 10/10

I know that it doesn’t sound quite right….but story goes like this. I was pulling myself out of bed (again) because I had to take a ridiculously long ride to church. It takes me one and a half hours to get to church on sunday. I could drive to Ipoh from Kuala Lumpur!!

So there I am early in the morning ironing my clothes and then after that having my nice warm shower until the hot water supply runs out. And off I go on the ridiculously long trip across the Island to Grace II.

For some of you who don’t know. There are two building in this church. Grace I and Grace II. Most of the time I work in Grace I but I serve in Grace II. Confusing yet? Haha. Grace I is an hour from my place and Grace II is an hour and a half.

This is Grace II Sanctuary

We had our service and then after that while having some discussion, I took off my tie. I hate wearing ties. I mean how to feel good with something against your throat….. Oh well I placed it in my shirt pocket and TA DA! I found a RM 50 note in my pocket! I gleamed with joy.

How many of you have experienced this?? I mean this is like the gazzillionth time its happen to me but still it makes me so happy. I always have clothes which I kind of don’t wear for sometime because I always take the one on top of the pile (typical guy?). So now I have limited clothings. I took a shirt I haven’t wore for ages to wear and what a pleasant surprise.

I must start going through my old clothes. So many are back home…..I may become rich soon hahaa. Anyway I’m a happy man now. So easily pleased.

At last behold it is within my grasp!!! Muahahaha

Since even only a few requested I do a review, I believe in the minority vote a lot of times too so therefore I am attempting to write a review that will suite my readers. There are ample techie reviews out there but I want to help you guys see why phone choices are important and how a phone can compliment the user in a very unique way.

Warning! This review is awfully detailed and has a long explanatory of everything. Please proceed if you can read without falling asleep Read the rest of this entry »

I must say I have not really contributed serious written articles like I used to. Time is certainly the factor here. There is also the fact that I am not sure if my readers actually like reading them.

Still I will attempt to do so even now as I believe that there are serious issues that are looming over us and we are not serious enough. If you do not know what is happening in Malaysia right now, I think you are in danger of being a person who is too ignorant. I know politics is not something you are interested in and neither am I really interested but with the current issues at hand. I believe we should do something. Many will ask, what can we really do?

I was so convicted by the sharing by an elderly minister in our staff devotion today. I mean God has been doing things around the world and most of us aren’t aware of it. But he said this one things that struck me. Not that I have never heard it before…..I mean my parents keep reminding me and telling me the same thing but I just never let it set in my heart.

Honestly I put a wall around myself. I was so upset with so many people that live double standard lives. Compromising our faith and yet be given so much recognition and fame. I just hardly see people worth admiring at all. So I tell myself, I must live a life that is flawless. I must meet the expectations and rise to the occasion. Set myself as a person who can stand up and say follow me as a follow Christ. That was my lifelong resolution at 12 years of age. At 15 when I decided to accept my calling after a huge battle with myself, I started on a journey that has taken me 10 years to understand (I am so stubborn huh? Ha ha).

I do not claim to have full understanding of it yet but I certainly am going to change that resolution. I noticed the harder I push myself, the harder I push others. I get so upset when others fail at the most simple tasks which they can obviously do. Little did I realize that I was looking at the reflection of myself everyday. I’ve failed I must say. I’ve failed miserably. To an extent which I am ashamed to even talk about to the closest people in my life.

This shame and guilt and horrific failure of mine reached its climax not too long back to a point that I felt like dying. It seemed so dark. I was just crawling and begging and though the world was spinning round in all its splendor everything was just a mono color to me. Black.

It was to a point that I was crying God please don’t go away but stay away from me because I am not worthy to be near you. I will die in Your presence. For half a year or more now God has been trying so hard to tell me something. No actually for 10 years now God has been trying to tell me this. Leon, I have chosen you and I have called you by name. Yes simple right? Let me elaborate if I may. I just didn’t get it. I thought that if God chose me, I have to live like some perfect guy in order to fulfill His will. Little did I know that through these 10 years I have done the most atrocious things I could imagine and lost so many things I have held on dearly to my life.

You see I forgot the capital ‘I’ in the calling. The ‘I’ was not me but God. The bible clearly states that our righteousness is in God. It is He that makes us pure and holy. All these years, I tried to be exceptional and it was my works. I’m not saying that we should not do works. I am not saying that we shouldn’t work hard to do our best. But I certainly did my best but that righteousness I was trying to achieve was of my own. In the end, what is the point? Can a man save himself?

Now I get it, each time I do the most horrible things in life, I repent and everything and God blesses me still in amazing ways as you can see on my blog. I never was happy about it. I always condemned myself and lived in defeat. But you know what, I shall fear no more. It is not my kingdom, nor ministry. It is not my name but God’s name. It is not mine, it’s God’s. So as long as He has counted me worthy, I will live as if I am. It is tough as I am haunted constantly by these past things and even present mistakes and I’m sure they will continue to haunt me for the rest of my life and ministry.

I am not going to let others who condemn me for my sins ever stop me from saving the lost. Loving the people close to God’s heart. Honestly people need the Lord and I am wasting time moaning and groaning while there are loads of kids dying and getting raped daily. Wars happening. Again either I could stay here and ask the stupid question what can I do? Or do something. There are bigger matters in this world than ‘me’ and I’m going to do something, I can’t bear to see a child that is as beautiful as that (the picture) die tomorrow maybe even today while I’m moaning and groaning about how sinful I am and not realizing that my righteousness is in God not my actions. Do you know the statistics? It’s frightening. As I typed this blog many kids have died! People need to know that God loves them this much too. I will no longer be the best on my own accord but I will be the best because my God is the best and He loves us, all of us. He is also coming back soon. I just have to do anything I can.

My heart burns when I see pictures like these. God I am willing use me!

In the end though I only know two things in life. Jesus Loves Me this I know, and I love Him too. That’s all that matters. If I truly love Him then what am I waiting for? Do you know Him?

In the quietness of time

Through the vastness of Your grace

I know nothing, I know nothing

You know everything

I ran stubbornly

You waited patiently

Letting me know, Letting me know

You’re all I need to grow

I now see it

And I now will do it

So they’ll know, And it’ll show

That Jesus You’re all they need to know.

I know nothing,

But I know everything,

Because Jesus loves me so

And His everlasting love for me shows

Now this album is not that new but I never saw it in Malaysia. It came out in 2004 and I thought, well why not! I put the CD into my computer, jacked it into my monitor speakers and this cutest voice began to play. They really gave a huge punch to the beginning of this album to kick listeners in. I love that.

You see two individuals there but it is the lady who sings. Very nice sweet tone, folk like in texture and has a wonderful soft falsetto to her voice. I was mesmerized by her voice for quite some time. The album has a very nice flow to it all credit to the wonderful mastering done! You will generally see flow that is somewhat like how a worship leader would arrange their songs. Lyrically and musically I hardly noticed the pauses in between tracks when I was just getting lost in the songs.

I will say that some songs even have the potential to be used in our worship service. The range, the lyrics and melody works! They even give a full lead sheet with the CD! I am so amazed. I mean not a chord chart but a full LEAD SHEET! Wow!

I am so captured by the first song! My Covering. Even the second songs chorus just makes me want to sing. Somehow it just sticks in my head. The songs get more reflective on who God is and is just so moving to direct us to just marvel at God. Other tracks like ‘The Glory of Your Name’ and ‘You Come as You are’ are magnificent examples of what great worship songs should be like. ‘Captivate Us’ really captivated me though it was so simply acoustically arranged.

It is a pop gospel album and is probably too sweet for some. Honestly it isn’t so to me though. This album as far I know would be what my youth will like. Now I am not rating these album biased because I bought them not knowing how good they are except for knowing them with some song in the past. This album far supersedes my expectations. Don’t miss this album and start singing some of these songs in your churches! Just a suggestion because these songs have a more contemporary feel to them.

This album Christian Music Today says is their best album so far. They were writing songs and trying to write original songs for some time and I didn’t like their albums then. They recently decided to switch back to worship songs! It’s a wonderful decision as I miss worship songs that are so lyrically beautiful.

Rating : 9/10

I got the Samsung Omnia…..oooooo the phone is sooooooo nice! It’s by far the coolest phone I have ever owned and probably in the world right now in the market! Should I do a review on it? Anyone interested?

Apparently that when you are friends with someone you do things you usually won’t do. In fact, you’ll go places you never go. In fact we would die for them. Gladly lay our lives down for them. But we will never bow before them am I right? Hahaha

Oh well I was thinking I would add an extra to that, you would even blog a tag for them! Hahaha

I guess people want to know more that’s why they tag you but what if we refuse to do? I mean should I get offended if you don’t accept my tag? Hahaha

Oh well, this is for my dear friend whom I miss so much. My blogging Si Fu whom I owe this blog to (thats why no matter how much I don’t want I must pretend to be honored he tagged me). Oops did I type that out? Hehe. Here it goes!

1. To watch or to participate?

I am a keen observer. So watch out I’m not only watching I’m listening. I tend to pick things up visually and be able to reconcile all the details in my head without trying it out. That helped me learn throughout my younger ‘anti-social’ years. BUT now I realise I learn more when I am involved with people. I do not learn about the thing we are doing but I learn about the person. It fascinates me that we are so very different in many ways yet so much connects us as humans. Many of life’s greatest and most important skills cannot be learnt by just observation that is my conclusion. Therefore now I participate…..but be careful, I’m watching you.

2. Malls, catalog shopping, or the Internet?

I love catalogs. I can read specifications for hours. Then when I found the thing I like, I just search on the internet for the best place to get it. Run into the mall and get it then run out! I’m more like a 3-in-1 come to think of it. Hahhaa

3. A bath or shower?

Adino’s creativity to try to make every answer a poem is driving me crazy. How could he do that? Oh well, I will just answer straight forwardly. I love showers. HOT showers. Hot until it steams up the entire bathroom. I could stay there for hours. I usually take these showers in the morning. Ah!!! Just had one this morning.

4. To talk to people by telephone, in person or by email?

Phone…I believe that is the medium in which least miscommunication can happen in my context. I believe that to be the case only when people are clear communicators la. Still it provides the means for the most effective communication in our culture where people hardly have the time to meet.

In person though is the ideal that I would prefer.

5. Typing or writing?

I can’t write for longer than 30 mins now. It hurts like mad….I have only a few pens and the latest gift was from the Ang Family which I am so thankful for as it so useful to me now. So typing is the answer thought then I do music compositions, I prefer writing somehow the flow of ideas are better