whacky band

I should've posted this on wednesday night after practice.. but i was busy. so yeah.

Every week on wednesday nights calvary church DH musicians get together for our Sunday morning rehearsals. So, we had practice on wednesday. And it was totally THUMPING FUN!!!!!

under normal circumstances i wouldn't ever bother blogging about a rehearsal, i mean how boring is that? but.. this one was different man. Everyone was caught in the groove that night! what with all the head banging and "gorenging" and whatever not.. it's so rare that we're all in that very musical mood and everything just fell into place. We were like coming up with all these random ideas as we went along and it all just worked out.. AWESOME!!. but of course the main big idiots are as follows

NUTTY BASSIST : ADRIAN CHEW

WHACKED OUT DRUMMER : TAN SE KEN

DOWNRIGHT ECCENTRIC KEYBOARDIST : KARL EDWARD

of course there was daniel and jan and chern wei. But they all behaved themselves well.. :)

i had so much fun guys!! we should have more outta this world practices like this.. hopefully pastor Steven don't get a mind blowing shock when he sees our arrangements tomorrow.. which i doubt he would.. and that reminds me. i'm gonna go call him now to warn him.. heh!

But what makes me so proud is that these guys, no matter what we do with the music, realise that we're all about worshipping GOD!!

Psalm 138:1 1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; before the "gods" I will sing your praise.


here's a wallpaper that i think sums it up

PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!!!

i have "the look"

My classmates says that i have a look on my face..it is an expression that i give,very commonly..they call it "the look"..
and every time i give "the look", they would point at me and squeal "Oooo...look look look!!!ruth is giving 'the look' again!!!" and start giggling..
and i will go "what look??" i have got no idea how "the look" on my face looks like..everyone knows what "the look" is, except for me :(
Apparently i give "the look" when my lecturers ask me a question that i can't answer..or i have got no idea what is going on around me..or i don't understand what my friends are trying to tell me..or when my friend gives a crazy statement that completely blows me off..or when i saw something shocking..
Since it is a facial expression that i give unconsciously, it's hard 4 them to explain to me how i look..imitating "the look" and taking pic don't always work..cz "the look" only appears for a few sec..the best solution that they can come up with is....to draw me..

bondi: "i drew u..see???"

monic: "lol, this look exactly like u..it's 'the look' that u always give!!!" *laughs*
bondi:"i totally capture the moment.." *giggling*
ruth: "bt i don't understand, how can this be me????"

monic: "point proven"
i was laughing so hard when i saw that photo bondi took..i can't believe this is how i look..lol..
so this is "the look" my friends have been trying to tell me..

ruth: "y isit so blurr??" (referring to the pic)
monic: "what??the picture or the person??"
ruth : =.='

SO, what is "the look"??? it's ruth's blur look..

bondi - the artist..amazing isn't she??

from left: me..monic..bondi..

my crazy friends..whom i heart..unfortunately :p

roberta and tsun ye

An old school friend of mine had her wedding reception yesterday. And i was invited. Here's the couple.. and the lamp post (myself)



CONGRATS ROBERTA! :) so happy for you

It's so sad that it takes one of us to get married before the whole bunch of us actually get back together. Or maybe it's just me... "karl, you're the one who's been so hard to get!!"


Apparently everyone save myself has over these four years bothered to keep in touch. And i got myself many earfuls for "not being a good friend". But all in all it was done in good light. :) i missed all of you so much. gosh, those days... i miss school.. carefree.

Oh BTW, mabel!! there were extra seats lah.. you should've just come. and it was pretty informal. so you would'nt have like looked out of place or anything.

I learnt a lesson. It's time i started making an effort to keep in touch with these ppl i use to spend my everydays with.. laughing.. joking.. pranking.. studying. being lame.. . getting angry and irritated with.. and everything else that peeps do in school.. so guys.. i hereby promise that i'll NEVER forget you all.. and all the huge number of them who were not there last nite.

IN fact, come to think of it... there weren't very MANY of us there last nite..

anyhoos... PICTURES..

hui sing and soon seng... i actually thought they were together.. n then got laughed at

Qi guangChien yi... after so many years.. you've still got that same sweet smile.. :)

Kah Yin

They were gonna pop the champagne.. note roberta's lookStephen and mabel and ying guo..

THese next few photos. they called them the FACES of karl.. the peeps were talking random shots of me without my knowledge.. like i'm some specimen test subject.. sigh.. i was bored at times.. and they seemed to find it amusing.. and then i found all this in my camera

wall street

The New York WALL STREET. The largest financial center on the globe


It's frightening, and, i daresay, chilling when you see economic giants like the United States of America struggling with financial crisis. For nearly a century, the united states, a powerhouse of seemingly impregnable proportions has remained the world's largest economic force and throughout the years, it has always seemed that no global issue was sufficiently serious to rock it's formidable armor of financial security.

This morning i was reading a portion of 2 Samuel, and I came across this.

2Samuel 1:27 "How have the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!"

Today we know that Wall Street is in trouble. We know about the collapse of a gaint and we know about the sell out of the century old company Merrill Lynch & Co. to the Bank of America and all of this are staggering tell-tale signs of danger ahead. What immense uncertainty! And what makes it more painful, is to see the two senators battling it out, rather than trying to find a better solution, it looks as though they are UTILISING this situation to GAIN SUPPORT??? what is going on out there!?

Being human, it is incredibly easy, to allow ourselves to find security in earthly things and take certain things for granted. We don't really have to try very hard to permit our minds to become dependent of things that we consider trivial and, somewhat "taken-care-of".

Truth is, this financial crisis way out there is gonna have an impact on our lives right here, half a globe away. It may not be instant, but it will come, and it's reaches will be far. And it's during such moments when you realize that nothing man made is perfect, no system or ideal or entity that we humans can come up with is infallible. Then you learn to understand why we need God. Why the mighty have fallen. There IS only one ALMIGHTY.

Isaiah 9:6
"... and the government will be on his shoulders...."

This i use to illustrate a struggle that i'm encountering myself now. It's funny how when you think that everything is alright that it's Not. When you mind starts playing games with you, you realise how difficult it is to try and do it on your own. it's by HIs grace that we are saved.. And it's by His grace that we move on. It's tough, what with so much on my mind and so many demands to juggle between, but in moments of weakness He is made strong.

timetable

lo..... and BEHOLD!!

23/10/2008	08:30 AM	331	03:00 hours	THERMODYNAMICS
24/10/2008	08:30 AM	560	03:00 hours	ELECTROMECHANICS
30/10/2008	01:30 PM	566	02:00 hours	ENG DESIGN II
03/11/2008	08:30 AM	282	03:00 hours	FLUID MECHANICS I

this is my exam timetable for this sem.. what i like best.. is exam ends by nov 3.. in fact that's the only thing i like about it. sigh.. i hate exams. so lazy wanna study... :( i think it'd be some consolation if emmy's exam ends after mine, which i doubt cos so far she's been finishing first and ALWAys get's to nana nana boo boo at me first... sigh..

submitted an application to MONASH australia last week. the scary thing is i know that they will grant me an offer. and what i'm so afraid of is that is once the offer comes, will i have the guts to make the decision.. should i go?? really.. should i?? i mean. i honestly don't see a need to.. but it seems like everyone else does, what am i blinded to? experience?? but i see so many people who've gone and spent the thousands and still come back the same.. sigh.. this is so hard..

opening

there's this super cool scoring programme called finale 08.. and it's caused me to fall in love with composing and orchestrating stuff. so cool..

SO.. pastor chris has commissioned me to arrange the music for the opening number for the Calvary 40th anniversary dinner. And i've got this stream of ideas and motives and progressions and what not flowing into my head... and i wish i could write it all down.

but there's a problem

my resources

i've got like 3 trumpets, 1 trombone, some violins... and a rhythm section. and i was thinking like, french horn, basson, oboe, cello, contrabasso, clarinets, timpanis, tam tams, tubas, all that crazy noisy stuff.... i mean.. there's so much that we can do. but if only we had a full orchestra. it would be so much easier to write the music for such a scale as is requested.... in my head i was thinking like... GOSH if onlyi had like the MPO or something at my disposal.

but this is where God teaches me that it's not about the impression. But that as long as i give my best. He's glad.. so i need to learn to put aside my PREFERENCES and face reality to do what i must. even with limited musicians.

and He will do what i can't.



by the way... GO LIVERPOOL!!!.... yes yes yes yes!!!!

vaccuum cleaner

last week my parents came home from shopping and they were carrying a large box. In it was this...



i later found out that it was in fact a gift for ruth. cos her maid's gone and ruth is doing all the housework.. GOSH!! she's so capable.. pretty amazing really.. and plus they live in a bungalow.. so that's big.. I was pretty shocked that my parents, esp mum was in such a good mood.. and they mentioned some stuff like "future in law" and what not.. hahahAH!

so yeah. the princess was so shocked when she saw it. and what reli amused me was her initial reaction which went something like this.. "gosh karl!! it's so cute!" i totally wasn't prepared for that and it really got me into fits, you see, my parents purposely chose a small but powerful unit so that it won't be too heavy for her.. and instanly ruth and rachel fell in love with it.. i mean.. it's a phreaking vaccuumm cleaner.. now it's like the new house pet.. :p


(apparently rachel has been really gung-ho about cleaning her usually messy room since... hehe.. :p... don't kill me yet rach... :S)