Mission Trip To Tanjong Balai (4-6 July 2008)

I know that i have been procrastinating in blogging this entry, so here goes.

Day 1.

• checked into hotel. (there are 2 hotels-due to the size of the team). Mine was the wisma king star hotel. [but it doesn't make you feel like a king though]
• the team is divided into 2 groups. 1st group to go to the church to prepare everything required for the ministry training at night. the 2nd group is to go to the beach to plan for the emerge outdoor activities for the next day.
  
• went with the 2nd group instead as the musician team is only required to send the keyboardist and drummer only. thus, i went to the beach to have fun.
• after arriving at the beach, i took time to explore the place and breathe in fresh air, which was absolutely different from Singapore.
• took bus back to the church and help out with the ministry training thing. all forms of ministry had local members to teach to. Except for the musicians. The musicians just stood below the platform and hang around there. i wonder why. probably language barrier.
• had dinner, and off to bed....for most of us. I hang around the lobby with the rest and listen to the testimony of a local church youth leader. Indeed, i was touched and moved by his testimony.
  

Day 2 (MY BIRTHDAY!)

• Fun time at the beach!! I went to help out at the beach volleyball station and had great fun before they started. But due to my lack of training and months(or year) since i last played, i forgot the correct way and injured my hand. Thank God its not that painful.
• Supposed to go and catch the ball before it roll to the sea, but apparently, Jaime had been snatching my 'job'.
  
• in the end, i became a time keeper and many things happen that really make me change my mindset about leaders. Definitely.
• They celebrated my birthday, was pretty touched though (but i wouldn't if Jaime meant what he said by throwing me into the sea)
  
• It went out of schedule so the musicians quickly rush back to the hotel to get change and i just grabbed my bass guitar, changed and quickly went to meet the rest at the hotel lobby. Our lunch was quick and fast(haven't eaten so fast for so long).
  
• The church that we went to, ain't the same as the night before. Many occurrence of power failures. before our corporate prayer (the musicians, the stage ministry team as a whole), we said that before our prayer ends, we believe for the the power to come back again. true enough, it did. God is great all the time. He is never late.
• Church service went on pretty well with the emerge items but i'm pretty upset about my playing for the 1st worship. it was too loud. i took it for granted by not adjusting it again. haiz.
• anyway, praise the Lord that for the alter call, the leaders step forward to be prayed for. When leaders take the first step, they actually open the doors for their members. Imagine if you believe in something and want to go for it but your leaders remain stagnant and nonchalant about it.
• altogether, day 2 passes by quickly and praise be to God for everything.

Day 3

• musicians, vocalist wake up the earliest to be there at another church for sound checking.
• i pretty much like this church, am fully satisfied with my playing. I did a good job. [pat myself on my back]
• one of the SOT members preached.
  
• everything is basically done by the SOT peeps themselves. they did a great job.
• there is nothing much to shop there, so i didn't get any souvenirs or anything if you are planning to ask me for one.
• getting ready to go back to singapore, the ferry left late. i reached singapore late. reached scape late. took a cab. the cab driver had MOHAWK hairstyle. he is in his 20's. he wore a spectacle. drove Mercedes taxi. he is a gentleman. doesn't use crude words. he took shortcuts. its pretty cheap from harborfront to orchard. amazingly.

Will upload pictures soon. (signs that my procrastination hadn't been cured yet)..


Signing out.

Thoughts

Few minutes ago, i was researching on a psychological problem, Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling disease.(if you want to know more, do read it up on websites. Try googling it). When i was reading information about it, i thought to myself this, "what if...what if someone around me has it? what would i do?" It all voice down to what I believe in.

French mathematician, physicist and philosopher BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662) said that "Man greatness lies in his power of thoughts". If you are having a problem such as Schizophrenia, and you dont realise it, will that make you less greater than others? Will that make you insignificant?


I realise that our thoughts can change the destiny of our lives. If we allow ourselves to be drowned with negative thoughts, obviously, we are being led by the nose and down into the river. Today, that is what happened to me. I led myself to believe that i'm being very weak by doing the things that I did, instead of standing out of the box, and discover that what I did was considered a good will to another.


Well, i always like to tell people about the story of the man who work is related to railway. The story goes like this. A man, who is an engineer of trains(assume to be a railway type of train), will always tell himself at the start of his day that when he see someone who accidentally fall into the railway track, he will save that individual. As days passed, it sipped into his subconscious mind. One day, while waiting for the train to go home after work, a boy fell down to the track and a train was approaching. Without even thinking, the man jumped down and shield the boy with his entire body directly above the boy, while the others at the railway station, they are astound, shocked and while some scream and did nothing, others called for help. However, it was too late. the train couldn't stop in time and it just went on and on. Everyone at the train station was devastated. A minute passed. The man stood up. Both the boy and himself are alright. Why is this so? Firstly, the man knew everything about trains. So he knew about the gap in between trains and the dimensions that he is allowed to maneuver with. However, all this will not work if he did not instill it in his subconcious mind. When asked about why he jumped and save the boy, he couldn't give a direct answer. It was all because of his subconscious. Consciously, day after day, whatever he told himself, that goes into his subconscious.


Our conscious mind can process 16 bits of information per second, our unconscious however can process 11 million. So, if we kept telling ourself that we are a failure, obviously, we will be. The power of thoughts.

Teen book installation

Alright. After 3 day till night rushing through of my work, finally....its 8/10 done. Whew. Another thing to thank God for, is that yesterday, i'm suppose to reach scape early but due to my tiredness and laziness, i said i will reach late and bam, its really thank God that i didn't go early...there's an explosion at power building. (go read the news)


So far, my birthday is just 2 days away(according to the time now..11.51pm) and i have received/fulfilled items from my want list.

I have got a Ipod Nano silver from IML. I won in the monster design. I deserve it(so she say).

I received True Religion jeans from ________ as my birthday present.

Alright. This is the new updated want list:

1. Acoustic guitar
2. Design Books - preferably vouchers from Basheer...as much as possible!!!
3. Borders/Kinokuniya vouchers.
4. Ferrari car models
5. Box set of markers from art friend
6. Art friend vouchers
7. MAC makeup
   
8. Perfumes
9. Money
10. Bags
11. Laptop
12. Camera
13. Spectacles
14. Sunglasses
15. PSP games
16. CSI Box Set
17. Ghost Whisperer Box Set
18. TVB hong kong series box set
19. Supernatural box set
20. Gramophone vouchers!!!
21. F1 racing tickets
22. Tickets to watch a play
    

thats all for now.


My brain is like a vacuum cleaner, it sucks when i used it. --> i saw this somewhere, and i really like it a lot.