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Monday, June 27, 2005

Rest for me and resting place for our Father..

today went to report sick from work.. haha dun worry i'm not ill or sick.. just so tired physically and sick of camp.. hehe.. chao geng!! hehe okok i admit but i really needed to rest.. been having 3 hours rest here and there in camp.. and its taking a toil on my body i guess.. so decided to rest at home today.. praise God.. felt good being at home DOING NOTHING! hehe.. well but a good opportunity to spend time with God esp when no one's at home so can play loud loud on my guitar.. body rested and spiritually refreshed..

While i saw just playing my guitar and reflecting on sunday, a revelation came to me.. i just pictured the whole Speedlight on a sunday worshipping God during praise and worship.. some worshipped, some looked around, some even talked and play around with one another.. guess these are the sights we used to see on stage esp for musicians, singers and dancers.. but one think i pictured was that God or Jesus was walking among us... His eyes were searching.. searching for believers who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.. then i ask myself this qns.. why does God want to search for pple who would worship Him in spirit and in truth? then the revelation came..

God is everywhere.. but he wants to be in one place.. in our hearts.. esp during sunday worship.. you see Sunday is a day which God has made for us to rest.. He wants to rest too.. He wants to find a place to rest.. and that is inside our hearts! That is why he is looking for true worshippers who would worship Him in spirit and in truth cause then our hearts will be soft and open to let Him in!! God needs to rest! but sometimes God just walk past us feeling disappointed at some times during sunday... he just walked past us.. maybe there's tears in His eyes.. there're some sundays i believe He couldn't find even a single heart where he can rest..

sometimes when i look at the speedlighters worshipping God on stage.. i feel that our worship lack the passion.. like what pastor chee said.. we got the best musicians and singers we can ever get.. but we lack the passion when we sing.. passion of love for our God.. we lack passionate pple in speedlight.. i guess we need to stir up the passion within the pple.. well the speedlight challenge is on now! its a challenge not just to bring pple in but also to see speedlighters being transformed by God and being more passionate to want to know Him more and love Him more.. To be transform..

i was so inspired by this revelation and God inspired me another song i was doing my quiet time.. will share it during speedlight very soon.. here the lyrics and i hope it'll minister to you as much as it did to me..

I Belong To You

Verse:
Preparing the way
Preparing the way
Preparing the way
For the Lord

Pre-Chorus:
As I lift up my hands and pray
O Holy Spirit come and stay
As I lift up my eyes and see
Your glory come fall on me

Chorus:
Come into my heart
This is where You dwell
Find a place to rest inside my heart
Move within my spirit
Breathe beneath my breath
Fill me right now
I belong to You
I belong to You

Bridge:
God Almighty
Lord of glory
Come and live in me

Sunday.. a Day with the Sun..

here's a glance of what happened on sunday for me..

- booked out from camp @ 0700hrs with only 3 hours of sleep.. and 6 hours of duty from 9-3am..
- on my way back.. received a news that my squadron wants us to mount a 3-1 and 4-1 schedule due to the IOC (International Olympic Commitee) meeting!! which means i have to miss two sundays!! Ah!! and they are revoking the leaves and off during that period! felt down and depress by the news..
- went back home to bath and change up.. no time to rest or sleep! Zzzz... Gave my mom her birthday present.. a Soviet Titus watch.. my pocket on fire already!! haha.. but for my mum who went thru so much to bring me up.. the price tag on the watch is nothing compared.. i love her!!
- went to church and led praise and worship.. thank God everything went out smoothly esp during the medley.. and also for the song 'You Raise Me Up' though i was a little disappointed cause i feel my voice wasn't good on that day.. probably didn't sleep well and warm up properly..
- went to join the musicians for dinner with Ken!! He looks good with his triceps and biceps bigger now.. haha..
- went to meet my parents for dinner at cafe cartel
- went home and..... ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

pictures of a Sunny day..


Celeste, Ken and me

Ken -mando and Me.. a commando-in-training and a civilian-to-be!! haha!!

Gazel n Michelle doing an ad for Colgate toothpaste..

Mich and shimin..

Me and Brother Sam

Aiya!! Gazel knocked on to chiu mian's head!! Ouch!

gazel's short tongue and Mich's wide smile..

Isabel: i can smell Ken's commando sweat!

a smile.. a new man..

two sweet sisters for a sweet picture

isabel and chiu mian

Linda: ni zai pai wo ma?

Linda and her hyundai matrix car.. NO la.. haha.. Posted by Hello

Monday, June 20, 2005

I want to COMPLAIN!!! haha

yes i am going to complain!!???!!! about? well my camp.. sigh.. recently there has been two accidents on our drivers in camp.. one of the driver is my close buddy who is a LOA.. he drove a 1.5 tonners with ten personnels in it.. it skidded on a slope and hit a lamp post.. thank God nobody was injured.. second accident (well actually not really an accident) was that my another friend hit something while reversing..

these two accidents led my OC, S3, CO to stop ferrying us to our respective empplacements which is about 1.5km away from the main control room!! which means now we have to walk for 1.5km just to go to our respective guard post to do duty!!! so ridiculous!! then they still want us to jog 2km on every first day we start duty!! 2km jog and then 1.5km walk to our emplacements??? crazy!! what if someone faints?? are they going to stop us from walking??haha.. well and now my camp or rather squadron is soooooo short of people.. we have to do about 4 duties a day which means 12 hours under the hot sun, rain, mosquitoes and all the conditions!! but those are still tolerable.. but the PC officers!! they say that 3 duties is a luxury and 4 duties is just normal! what????? everyone is so angry by that comment... what happent to care for soldiers??? i mean the PC has NEVER done any duties before and he still can say that! one day someone in my camp is going to explode!! BOOM! haha.. and worse thing is that by august, the strength in my squadron is gonna cut by half.. cause they are going to ORD.. i can't wait to ORD!!! by Oct i can start clearing leave and disappear from my camp.. 1st DEC ORD LOH!!!! WooHOO!!! can't wait man.. but i dunno how long i can last in camp especially under this management without any welfare at all..

give me strength O God.. Raise me up.. to more than I can be.. but still wanna thank God for today for the practise in Speedlight.. everything went out pretty well.. i was afraid it might get messy cause of the medley as i tried something new to the sequence... but God was in control and taking care of everything.. thank You God.. Oh! Happy Belated Fathers' Day God!! thank God for the song You Raise Me Up.. i didn't try that song before other than with my band as we didn't do the full version with the transposition and that time i had the band to sing together.. but thank God He helped me reach the high notes in the song.. high A note!! hehe.. i pray that i can reach all the notes on sunday and that the people in the congregation will be ministered to the song as much as it did to me.. God thank You and I LOVE YOU God!!

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Words of Wisdom

don't talk to people who are not part of the solution.

Saturday, June 11, 2005

You Raise Me Up

You Raise Me Up

When I am down and,
oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up… To more than I can be.

There is no life – no life without its hunger;
Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;
But when you come and I am filled with wonder,
Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up… To more than I can be.

Friday, June 10, 2005

The Guardian

this has never ever happen before in my family or my house for that fact.. but my house was almost broken into! i guess it was when my parents were out for work already in the morning that someone tried to break in at about 10am! Thank God for His protection and guardian angels over my house! He couldn't break into my house but a neighbour from across the block saw it and decided to call the police.. but the thief left..

my parents and i didn't know what happened till we saw a lots of white fingerprints and footprints(done by the police's investigation) outside my doorstep and a concern neighbour came and told us about it.. we were so shock! the funnie thing is that the police didn't even bother to let us know anything.. the evidence is still outside my door.. but anyway thank God for protecting my house and for the vigilent and alert neighbour..

The Lord protects the house of those who trust in Him.. Thank You Lord.. my house is safe once again..

A trip to the Commando Tactic Camp and a farewell to Ken..


here we arrived at Pasir Ris Camp

Ken's home for the next 3 months

The Quek Family

Me and Ken

A WO officer explaining to the questions and doubts of the parents..

Ken's workout place.. a place where the muscles will develope from.. haha

The beautiful view to Tekong.. Greg!! can you see me??

Many parents reporting sick.. hehe..

the sick bay

pi-po! pi-po! pi-po!

a few "jedi" knights in training..

Ken and his place of rest and refuge

Ken and his family

Brotherhood

Gabriel smiles for the camera..

the last goodbye..

Ken:"I'll be back.."

The plegde of loyality to the country.. Posted by Hello

Tuesday, June 07, 2005


I'm reaching out to You from my fears and shame.. Raise my hands up to glorify your name and say i need you Lord.. Posted by Hello

Monday, June 06, 2005

What the world will never take away from me..

well yesterday was a cool day.. we did the song what the world will never take during prac.. whoa man.. the musicians did quite a good job! though need more listening to the song and prac.. but it was so cool! the choir was cute too and fun! i like when they did the kallang wave and the punching in the air..

well but apart from these.. the song.. yes the song.. so catchy and its so fun but amidst of it all.. so meaningful..

What the world will never take

With all i'm holding inside
With all my hopes and desires
With all the dreams that i dreamt

With all i'm hoping to be
With all that the world will bring
And all that fails to compare

Say You want all of me
I wouldn't have it any other way

I got a saviour that is living in me
Whoa! I wanna know
I wanna know You today
You are the best thing that has happen to me
What the world will never take
the world will never take you away

so true it is.. the world can never take God away from us.. and the blessings and promises He has for us too! the world also cannot take away worship from us..

Saturday, June 04, 2005

The debut performance for No Compromise!


The U.S Marines doing their gig at the Singapore Street Festival

Geri singing "My Immortal"

Me on my guitar

Audrey on the keyboard

No Compromise "live" @ Singapore Street Festival 2005

No Compromise

Me singing "Free"

Esther singing..

Yuhui singing "Come On Eileen"

Shing "Bon Jovi"

Geri on the drums..

Special guest singer Engie turning the house down with "shelter house"

No Compromise and Engie

Engie having fun!!

Praise and Worship??

A Night To Remember Posted by Hello

I wanna take this post to thank the people who came down to support us that night..
Speedlight: Engie (Thanks for singing Shelter House - You rock girl!!!), Alvin Ong, Terence, Joanna, Don, Jazreel, Royston, Shirley
FDS: Kelvin, Noel, Kok Tim, Stanley Ler, Colin
and also my mom and dad for coming too!!
wanna thank the great God for this opportunity..

well No COmpromise still has a lot of things to learn.. though the group only start out together last month for the Singapore Street Festival, we still have a long way to go.. but i believe if we press on towards the goal, we will reach for the prize and destination.. and truely make a dream come true in Jesus Christ.. A BIG Thank You for my saviour for all he's done and gonna do.. Amen!