Yesterday's post with vision:

And this is how you know your mum is Asian:

It's 7am and I'm just about to hop into an awakening hot shower when the door knocks:
"Yea?" (me)
"Open up..." (mum)
"Wait, I'm taking a shower in here you know?" (me)
"Yea... Just open up!" (mum)

I hastily put on a towel and open the bathroom door.

"Here, drink this soup... Hurry up! While it's still hot!" (mum)

"...." (me)

God bless all the Asian Mums out there...
Life just hands you a joke sometimes

(I was originally going to post this blog in comic form but photobucket is acting up, will try again later)

After a nap and some vanila tea, I closed my eyes and gave thanks.

This morning I chaired my first youth service at church. It was a nerve racking affair, having planned a few words and demonstrations that convey change which is due, I was uncertain of how my theatrics would be received despite encouraging comments from some good friends. I guess I was nervous mainly because I knew that more likely that not people are afraid of change.
But i feel like a catalyst this year. Change will somehow be my mission.

In the end, I guess you could say the service was a success, what happened afterward was a blur, morning tea, lunch...until I arrived home and crashed onto my bed.

We need to cultivate a new culture of caring.
We have chosen knowledge over relevance, eloquence over passion. Do we look at the silvered screen all day, blind to our brother's tears and our sister's struggles? Have we adopted Marthaism? Moneyism? Careerism? What is the most important thing in our life? Do we stop to ask ourselves that daily, or are we afraid of what the answer may be?
Will we live this only life at the pace set by worldly expectations, tradition only to regret not stopping to see the sunrise?
Some say the sunrise over tokyo is beautiful and with 12 million waking up every morning, how many of those people can say they have seen one?

Yes I am frustrated


Maybe in the end you surrender to death or to life

I'm yearning to be overthrown
But i've only learned to stay afloat
To drown is to win in this
To lose control

Had a day off today and jus decided to laze around the house, doing some sketching, reading and check out any good gigs coming to Sydney.
Turns out there's some kind of underground rock explosion happening at the moment with acts like Taking Back Sunday, Motion City Soundtrack, Coheed and Cambria and Death of Fashion playing the next few months. Must admit I caught a bit caught up with the amount of potential gigs I wanted to go to then realise I shouldn't be spending money so freely on concerts... =S.
Anyway might just go check out Motion City Soundtrack and be content until November, when U2 will return to Sydney (much love goes out to the band, I agree with them, family comes first and no love is lost).
Going for dinner later today with my uni chums who I havent really been in touch with for the last 6 months with everyone's business and all, I wonder if they're still the same...

Have a good day!

Just thought I'd post some pics from the last few months of life, after a friend complained about my irrelevant writings at lunch yesterday, which was a surprise because I thought no one read this blog anyway. Anyway, it's been quite fun, crappy as I am at taking photos at appropriate times...

You created life
Life that was given freely to us
You have forgiven us
You gave your own life to us
In the form of Jesus
And now we give back to you
New life that you bought us
With Your son’s most precious blood

Life is now running toward the light
It’s calling out for the lost around You
Its greatest victory
Is giving it all up forYou

Life is now rising with You in the morning
It’s not moving from this narrow path
Its greatest victory
Is giving it all up for You

Life is now selfless

Everything You are is everything we have

all the time i wish i had more time...
it's in the silence that i see that everyone is moving so fast and everywhere
it's all for something (i hope)
that will lead somewhere worthy

in the car on the way back home after picking up my sis from youth group had a rare discussion about her bible study that night about how to tell if a christian is mature. it kind of derived from her study from john about Jesus the vine and us the branches. i felt a bit embarrased when i told her that from a mature christian reflects God's character and bears fruit... then realising i was speeding.
yes there are certain times when my impatience borders on criminal especially when i'm driving. when it comes to defensive driving my philosophy includes "the best defense is a good offense" and "speed limits are just guidelines" for new drivers... i guess it's not much of a godly reflection huh...

and is it just me or do all younger sisters out there think their older brothers are still kids??

Been thinking a lot lately about my own little group and how to really turn things around for a tired, burnt-out group. Personally, I'm willing to spend most of my free time on it but i know that it's God who's going to give me the way. Lately also been feeling like I'm still in Singapore in some respect, still working on sonic fest, sonic edge band CD. Hopefully people will take charge soon and be able to stand on their own feet with things.
This is going to be a testing year...it's like reading some kind of werid horoscope of my life and it reads:
"Look out ahead, work will be steady, your education on hold until certain things align. Your relationships will also be tested. New things will come your way but these may not be expected and will certainly require some adjustments..."
I guess lucky for me I like Hebrews 12, a year of discipline indeed... but I'm still looking forward to my 2 week break in April.
U2 IS COMING....

We are all string
We cannot be pushed
On the floor where we all live
We stay deadly still

We can only be pulled
Where is your hand in this?
Bring me back into the light
To the hills again

Very exhausted from a long day of church then St Jerome's Laneway Festival, tired but satisfied, my ears are still ringing.
The festival started out quite average, a few things I noticed were most of the early bands like Gersy and Wolf and Cub play a lot of same sounding songs and there are a LOT of "OC kids" (you can tell them apart because they dressed in straight out of magazine clothes and the girls wear clothes that would most likely fall off if there was any moshing).
The festival started getting interesting when the Poisies played, they were quite energetic and a tight band in all accounts. Things got quite uncomfortably interesting when the lead guitarist took off his pants and wished the crowd a "good aftermoon" at the last song.
The last 3 bands that I watched were all great. Decoder Ring is a band more people should check out, very simple but emotive electronica with some nice riffs reminiscent of the Edge, one of the songs sounded like "where the streets have no name" with drum and bass parts. Oh did I mention the singer is an awfully cute girl and the drummer is awesome?
Broken Social Scene was one of the main reasons I went to the festival and they delivered a mindblowing set. I don't think I'll ever see another 7++ piece band who'll play with such energy and still produce such a tight sound. Even though they played all the favourites (including KC Accidental!!), it had a completely different feeling from the album. Just watching them changing and even swapping instruments in and between each song was inspiring. All in all the best band of the day for making music so much fun to watch and listen to.
The night ended with the Avalanches, a DJ duo who had some nice mixes but in the end I left early.

Gaining momentum here at home in terms of settling back in to life. I'm glad that I had the week off before starting a 6 day work week next week, even if it's just to take a few naps and to catch up on some reading.

Last night had a strange encounter with an old friend who I ended up having coffee with, the conversations we ended having also were strange and quite beyond my expectations in a good way. I guess I can only really praise God for that.

Mum is trying her hand out with the child care industry, and just finished a 3 day trial today. I ended giving one of her collegues a ride home, who both mum and I agree had a strange resemblance to Suelynn. But apparently my mum did very well at the trial and all the staff there want her back.. haha I guess raising me and my sis has something to do with that....