problems are gifts

baybeats was a blast. it was my first time there and i only caught 2 items. pretty stupid to be in the city with jay and ken in the afternoon to loiter around the wcg area and to find daphne, which turns out that she's not in good spirits due to the lack of sleep so i kinda left her after i said hi, pretty bad me i think. got home and stoned till david elliot pestered me to go for baybeats, to catch blindside. heavy metal christian rock band from sweden. so, called up kian and jay, met them up and went to esplanade, catching up was ken when we're in hmv and qiang qiang in the nokia stage. the nokia stage was the wrong venue! DUDE! some solo acoustic guitarist was there playing some slow contemporaries. but the good thing is, i saw a really cute girl, can't help myself to not stop glancing at her, ken even caught me alot of times when i turn to my left to have a glimpse. very cute and pretty. it's that kind of environment where you are in some soft acoustic music and you saw this pretty girl. pretty romantic eh? sounds pretty lame too.

and of coz, we realised that we're in the wrong venue when it's 10.40pm and the guitarist was still playing. jay helped me to seek the real venue and we rushed there, missing out the mosh pit and was really at the back. i could see elliot being carried up and after that he stood just under the nose of BLINDSIDE! OH MY GOSH! this is the first time i have enjoyed metal so much. it's very good. christian (the vocalist) sings and screams with quality. really good live, really good. they probably started out from live gigs and now with 9 albums. got their album after the live, the great depression. WOOT! rocks. it's not too heavy for me and i kinda progressively liked it. i'm not too used to metal yet, so i guess it's a great start. they dun have alot of solos to begin with, most of it is the choice of chords and notes, very good stuff.

thanks jay and ken for the part sponsor of the album. superb stuff.

was in church today. don't really know why i actually wanted to go and do sound duty in replacement for meng yock. i don't know why am i called for this ministry either, it's the most humbling ministry ever. i think this is how i get my composure. i can safely say that only hardcore ppl enjoy doing sound duty, and darren, you're one hardcore lad, it's a good thing. got there and God was ahead, i can feel it. i wasn't sulking or not wanting to do, i was actually quite enjoying it till i have to go down to youth for drumming. got back up after drumming for michael watson's sermon. really superb, this is one of the times where i feel that God welcomes me into church. i felt really blessed as his sermon applied directly to my current situation, which i really thank God that i actually came up to main service for sermon. God's way.

problems are gifts. like an eagle, we can't just stay in the nest and be spiritually fed, sleep and spiritually fed again. we need to move and grow, like how eagles learn now to fly. we need to grow.

if God is with me, project will not be against me. lets go PV05, complete the project tml.

packing up is pretty good today too, not sure why, it's God. bless Him.