An attitude of excellence and of a conquerer!

This is the first thought that I had on Monday morning. I was thinking that a lot of people in life, when problems come their way, they find it too difficult to cope. They somehow see a big mountain (Rong- don't make fun of me, k?) in front of them and they feel discouraged. They thought that this is the dead end so they make a U-turn and go back to the same routine. But let me tell you something, I am not like that!

Why do people give up so easily? What are they afraid of? Is there any solution? Well let me tell you what I think. A lot of people see the big mountain as a problem that is so big and so huge that they think that it's impossible to climb. I see this big mountain as a opportunity to breakthrough. I see every problem as a challenge to overcome. We ought to see every problem as an opportunity else we can't move any further.

I saw and met a lot of people having difficulties in their lives and they are just negative thinkers. They cannot overcome their big mountains. Somehow you must spoon-feed them so that they can move on. But when you don't do anything about it, then they are stuck there. Ok you may not understand what I'm talking about. Let me give you an example. I have this friend that I'm training how to sing, so I'll tell the guy, "Hey I know you can do it, just give your best." He will tell me, "Ok boss, I will do it but every time I keep trying I can't do it." I really really really hate people who has this kind of mindset. If you want to do something that you have to overcome, you must come with an attitude of excellence. Don't come to me and say that you will do it but... blah blah blah... I hate the word BUT when you got to overcome something in your life. If you ever someone tells me that he can do it BUT something something something..., then I'll kick his butt!!! Sorry for the expression but it just make me feel that I'm wasting my time. Well I'm not being bad here. I'm just saying that people tend to forget that they have the ability to overcome and become a conquerer. It's just that a lot of people they don't see their potential to be one, which is pretty sad to hear that.

Well for all the losers and give-upers out there, my point here is that you all have a potential to overcome and become a conquerer. Once you become one, you're being this attitude of excellence within you. See every problem as an opportunity to breakthrough! Don't stay as a newcomer, now it's time for you to be an overcomer!

She's small but powerful!

Her name is Zoei Toh. She's small but a strong and powerful kid! Here is few of her cute videos! :) She sings a bit out of tune but it's very cute. She's a kid, what do you expect her anyway?
The Lord's Prayer


Amazing Grace

2nd voice - Part 2

In my previous post I was saying that 2nd voice can be sung by everybody. Well the fact is that it's the truth. I've finally reached a level where I can sing 2nd voice in some songs, especially the song Freedom! Well it was become a trend in our church now, that everybody has been singing this song in their head over and over again since last service.

Anyway why did I say that it can be sung by everybody because people felt discouraged when they know that they can't sing 2nd voice. Well to tell you the truth, I was among those people. Back home in my church, I was in the worship team and a lot of them can sing 2nd voice. When I tried to sing 2nd voice, I was being rebuke because I was not singing it in the right tune. People never taught me but they taught others. I felt very discouraged at that time. It's like nobody ever care for me. Maybe somehow I was being too superior in my things, that's why I felt kind of rejected in some ways. Well you might not understand what I'm talking about right now but just imagine this scenario. You try to do something that people is doing, but you get scolded for doing it wrong and they never correct you by showing you how to do it properly. How do you get to know how to do something in a right manner if nobody corrects and show you the proper way of doing it? How would you feel that you got rebuke for doing wrong but never ever helps out? Some sort of rejection right? Well that's what I felt in the beginning. But now I don't bother about it anymore. Like Pastor Kevin said, "God can forgive and forget but humans can forgive but cannot forget!" Not in a way to revenge but it's in my memories that I can't forget it.

I'm not boasting now that I know how to sing 2nd voice. I'm just sharing how I felt before and now I'm feeling now. Now I finally can sing 2nd voice, it's quite easy. I had to go through a lot of training but I finally got it. I learned a lot through the choir practice and this enlarged my capacity. I've finally learned some singing techniques as well. As you have heard this: "Practice makes perfect". Since Saturday I've been practising and practising again and again, until I can sing the 2nd voice of some songs, which is a new beginning for me. :)

Everybody can sing 2nd voice!!! :D We don't need to have some special kind of talent to be able to sing 2nd voice. Maybe to some people they can, but not everyone is skillful in music right? God has given each and everyone a special talent. So don't let it die, use it!!! If we're not skillful in one particular area, it doesn't matter. We don't have to be discouraged, but press on. As I used this expression in my presentation last week, "Fake it until you make it!" You have to fake your emotions and your capacity that you can do it and indeed your effort will be fruitful. It's just like my 2nd voice singing.

Well to conclude this post, I don't have the skill to teach 2nd voice yet, but it will come soon! So in the meanwhile, just do your best as your side as well. Do your best until you excel. There's nothing to be ashamed of when you become the best. You don't have to be so humble. hehehe...

2nd voice can be sung by everybody! :)

Well I have not been blogging for quite long, I know that I've been quite busy lately. Since I've been promoted to be the new sub team leader for the choir ministry, my capacity has been stretched and increased my level of faith as well. Well it's a challenge for me but it's all good! :)

At home, during my free time, recently, I've been practising my guitar so that I can play during choir practice on Sundays. Actually I go on both days, Saturday and Sunday. I enjoy going on both days because I just enjoy helping out people. I really like the Sunday team also because I see them, most of the time sleepy. Of course our practice on Sunday is at 8:30am and we all have to wake up very early. Some stay very far from church, so they have to wake up at 6AM or 5AM. Well depends on the area they are. For me, I have to wake up at 6AM so that I can get ready to come on time. The reason that I love to see those people is that they come on time to stay our practices although they have a sleepy face. I'm happy to see them in their sleepy faces, coz I will wake them up! hehe... I will greet them aloud! :)

I don't only practice guitar at home but I've been in choir for quite long now and I've learned that everyone can sing 2nd voice, which is either Alto or Tenor. Recently I've been practising the 2nd voice in quite a few songs and lately we sang the song Freedom by CCC and it's really amazing I must say. We had to sing it during this weekend in church and nobody knew the song. Well I tried to find the song and went on this and that website and suddenly I found a Youtube where it's a singing tutorial. (I never thought that there was such thing before)

So here is the song Freedom by CCC, singing in parts! :)

Enjoy ^-^

Good news and Bad news

Hey hey hey!!! I have a lot of things to share for today. Well a lot of things happening to me, good and bad. Let's hear the bad news first...

Emerge, as I said in my last post, was great! Before Emerge, I had to go through a lot of problems with the renewal of my visa. If I don't renew my visa, I might be deported from Malaysia. If you don't understand the word deported, it's like being kick out of the country in a literal way. I'm not sure how they will do that. Maybe pay me a ticket to go back, or just throw me into the oceans; which is very scary. Anyway none of these has happened. I had to renew my visa and there were a lot of procedures to be done. I had to go to the Records Office and count my attendance of the past 1 year in UCSI. So I had to look through all the piles of files of attendance sheets from 2007 till now. To tell you the truth, it's such a waste of time. Like Malaysians will say, "Haya very mafan lor!!!" (which means it's very troublesome). Yes!!! Very mafan!!! Not only that, I had to the finance office there so that I can chop from them and come back to the Records Office. The problem is that I haven't paid the school fees yet for the next semester(which is this semester), so they won't give me the chop. I told them I can't get an amount any sooner and I really need to renew my visa. Guess what was their answer??? You try to guess. This was the worst answer that I could ever get from someone that I really feel like punching. The answer was "Sorry you have to pay the school fees, I can't help you in that, it's not my problem!" WHAT??? NOT YOUR PROBLEM??? So all you think is just money and money and money??? I tell you, I wanted to slap that lady but I didn't because I don't usually slap ladies ok? I'm a gentleman!!! hehehe... Anyway in the end I went to Immigration department and explained to the malay lady there and guess what was her answer. It was also not her problem according to what she said. Well I'm quite disappointed with the attitude of some Malaysians. They don't really know how to speak to people, especially foreigners.

After few days, I could finally resolved this problem. I had to talk to the Senior Director of Student Affairs to help me to solve this problem without having to pay for any late fee fine for the renewal of the visa. He talked to the Senior Director of the Immigration to grant me a plead for not paying the fine and giving me time to pay for the school fees. Well it will only be granted if I would write a letter of appeal. Indeed I wrote the letter and all the problem was solved. I tell you, I really praise God because I don't have to pay any fine for the late renewal! :)

Ok another bad news is that I was sick for one whole week, which is quite sad to hear. I had all sort of sickness such as Flu, Fever, Coughing, Dizzyness, then I felt very weak throughout this week. Well I was struck by all these kind of sickness since Sunday. That's why I couldn't make it to church on that day. I tell you, if you were struck by all these sicknesses in one day, you would definitely stay in bed for one whole day, which happened to me. From morning till night, until the next day, I was in bed. I almost didn't eat because I didn't feel like eating. Just imagine how weak I was. So you pity me or not? haha!! Well you shouldn't because now I'm fully recovered already! hehe... Praise God! I just got fully recovered today! :)

Oh... oh... why am I ending the story? Actually the worst thing that happened during my illness was that I was sick one day and then other day I'm recovered and the other day I became sick again, which I don't know why it came back. So I had to see the doctor. Usually I don't like to see doctors, well who likes it anyway? During the consultation, I told the doctor that I felt very weak, which I don't know why. So he said that it might be Dengue Fever, which Ray, who brought me there, was afraid of it. So I did a blood test, just in case. As a result, no Dengue fever, Praise God! :) The latter came me antibiotics and told me not to drink tap water, etc... So from that time onwards, I buy my own water to drink to fight against any dengue that comes my way!!! AWAY ALL DENGUE!!!

Last but not least, this is a very super duper good news to announce to all of you!!! I GOT PROMOTED!!! Wohoo!!! I'm so happy!!! Today I went for choir practice and this was so unexpected. My choir leader told me that I was promoted to be the Sub-Team Choir Leader. Wow!!! Since our choir is very big now, we had to divide into sub teams, where I am the leader. Wow wow wow!!!! I still can't believe it. It means that I have few peoples under me. I can't believe it because I've joined choir ministry not so long ago I must say. I just joined since May of this year and now it's September already!!! 5months only then I get a promotion!!! How could it be??? I'm overjoyed now I must say. I may sound a bit crazy but that's the way I'm feeling now. But I must really praise God for that, to give me this opportunity to be a Sub-Team leader. This encourages me also because I will have small disciples under me to take care and it stirs me to set the right example to them in everything I do. It tells me that I have a big responsibility now! It may sound insane to you but it's really a privilege for me to serve in the choir ministry in City Harvest Church. Indeed a blessing!!! :)

Here comes September

Hey hey hey!!! Yeah guys, it's already September, I can't imagine that time flies so fast!!! Last month was pretty busy month especially with EMERGE Conference. Well what I can tell you, is that EMERGE was a blast. It was awesome. If you want me to compare Passion Conference and Emerge conference, which one is the best? Well I can tell you that it's 2 different conferences and the atmosphere was different. It cannot be compared which one was the best because on both conferences I was truly blessed and touched by the presence of God and His Word.

In Passion, it stirs up my heart to make Jesus famous in my campus and to share it out to people passionately. Whereas for Emerge, it brought me into a new and higher level. I was taught how to be more creative for God is a creative God. I also learned about social etiquettes and how to choose the right partner during the workshops on Sunday. Lastly I've also learned that how to impact the marketplace. Emerge was 3 days, of course I'll learn more!! hehe... Well during Emerge, God has stretched my faith and capacity within me. I was physically and emotionally tired but God gave me strength in those times.

Well as I stated in the beginning, Here comes September. As some of you who don't know, my holidays were very and superly short that yesterday I'm back for classes already. This semester is a short semester, therefore I'll be busier than before because we have to learn a syllabus of 14weeks in 7weeks. Just imagine how fast it will be. Not only that, this month is also the fasting month for the muslims, which they call it the Ramadan. The interesting thing about Ramadan in Malaysia is this; all the food around becomes very very cheap!!! I don't know why but I can tell you that it's really cheap and this month might be a fattening month for me. haha!!! So don't be shocked if you see me a bit chubby and gain weight, I guess you would do so as well!!! haha!!!

Well let do hope that I don't get lazy as I grow "wider"!!! I know that I'll be busy and I've decided that I'll change a bit. Enough of onlining too much at home!!! I know that I'm always online and this leads me to laziness. Internet takes away my precious time that I can use for other things. Well from now on, I won't be that online often. If ever you see me online, it either means that I'm doing assignment or doing other work or if I put my status online, it means that I'm free to talk and I'm on holiday! haha!! Yeah I know that I'm a blogger and I won't give up blogging, no worries. It's just that I won't use my PC at home. I'll just use the computer lab because I realized that I'm paying a lot of school fees for nothing. I wasn't using library and computer lab often, especially the computer lab. The computer lab is freakying cold here and the internet is super duper slow, unless I get some computer which is slightly a bit faster. But anyway it's still very slow for me. I'll come here more of my time because I got no class in the morning. Most of my classes are in the afternoon and ends at 6pm!!! Can you imagine that? I haven't had until 6pm classes since 2006!!! Well I think that I have no choice, I have only 2 subjects that I have a chance to do and others don't get to do it. (well you know who you are)

Alright, that's all that I got to say here. I'm having class in a few mins. So I better go now. Please continue to read for more updates! :)