Diatribe Of A Mad Bassist

What a week. Really find myself serving more and more. Played for Chinese Service for the 5th week in a row.. and I probably will be playing for the next 2 weeks so its 7 weeks straight. Tired, yes. But I feel satisfied/fulfilled. People always ask, “You spend so much time playing music for the church, they got pay you or not?” Erm… like not everything is about the money. When it’s your passion, your commitment, your conviction, your vision, your calling, your destiny, I’ll gladly pay to be able to serve. And pay we must. None of the people you see serving in the more “up there” places in the church haven’t paid yet. You just gotta pay the price. It’s not just simply going there and see/ observe once or twice and think that it’s way too easy for you and PRESUME that you can do anything they throw are you. Think again.

A simple G Em C D progression may be the most basic and simplest progresion but let two different musicians play. One who has paid the price and another who treats things too lightly (e.g “Aiyah, it’s only G Em C D lor”. The one who paid the price could make you go “woah” (cue the Eigene woah action) and touch you greatly. The other will make you go “Erm” and annoy you greatly. Point is “the price” has to be paid. Whatever your price is. Nothing great/miraculous has ever been achieved without paying the price. Jesus paid our ultimate price for us. It was something great, something miraculous.

Anyway, it’s been a great week of serving for me. After the CNY holidays it was back to work this week. Played in the Chinese Church Performance. Went quite well. Will be performing in Expo next week. Yay.

Got a chance to share the stage with Taiwanese Pop Star Liu Geng Hong and his guitarist and bassist, Wing and Matt. Real cool guys. They are truly the shakers of the music industry in Taiwan. Why? Cos they are all really great song writers and they’ve wrote songs that really can engage culture. Liu Geng Hong and Wing are releasing their albums soon. Above all that, they are still hot on fire for God. Yeah. That’s the way it should be.

That’s me (with my new Lakland baby. Big time blessing. Long story.) and Matt. Real cool guy. Wrote a punk rock song for his church’s Arise and Build campaign.

That’s Liu Geng Hong and his team with the Singers and Musos after Chinese Service. The moment Pst Tan said that they can all take pics with him, the crowd all just ran up the stage..hence that random girl standing behind me. Haha.

Haha.. went out with the Musos quite a few times the past few days.. took group shots that look like class photos.. so here they are..

This is happeningly taken at 1am in Great World City after watching Norbit on 2nd Day of Chinese New Year…

We took this today at Starbucks Fullerton.. Celebrated Jessel’s 26th birthday.. haha.. old man liao… man.. my turn next year.. AHHHHHHHH

Here’s what I received from the Leadership Files that I subscribe to.. think many of us have to read and think about it. =)

If you’re always early you’re never late!

Time is more valuable than money.

People pay money to save time.

When we’re late we steal time from others and ourselves.

Tardiness is the tap-root of a host of character faults.

My lateness says ‘I don’t care about you; I’m more important than you; you can wait for me; I’m disorganised; I’m undisciplined.’

It’s not so much about time management but about managing ourselves.

Love others. Be on time. Even early! From now on.

Yeah.. the title says it all… and for those of you who missed the fireworks display.. here’s the pathetic view that I could see..

Don’t and I repeat once again, DON’T EVER brush your teeth immediately after eating McSpicy. Especially if you can’t take hot stuff like me. I cried after brushing…

Man.. what a week it has been. Been super busy almost every other day with practice for either the Dialect performance in Expo (which really thank God it went very well) or for Dialect CNY service or for Chinese Church performance or for Chinese Church service itself. I really feel like a full-time musician now. But it’s all good I guess. I’m being stretched and hopefully, I’ll be ready to play in main service soon. Haha. But well, I guess it’s still training time for me. I’ve only played in Chinese Svc 4 times only. But yeah, I feel more settled down than the first time where I was nervous like mad. Haha. Guess God increased my capacity.But of course the highlight this past week was my hatch day. Yes, I’ve reached a quarter of a century old on Friday. But due to the crazy schedules that I have, I had to celebrate it in different batches with some of my closer and more important friends.

Starting from last Monday, The HOUGANGSTERS and Joyce.

Bought them supper at HK Cafe.. and they happeningly ordered a birthday french toast for me.. actually it’s just french toast with a candle. And look what they made me do.

Make a Wish.

Blowing out the candle..

Yeah.. finshed blowing the candle.. haha

Then next group was on Fri.. with Lynnette and Jace. We had lunch at Manahattan Fish Market (aka Cheaper Fish & Co.)

Apparently both Lynnette and I did not have enough sleep the previous night.. and so resulting in the following photos..

We both somehow looked like we rather be sleeping at home.. and of course Jace looked the most alive one..

Well.. after that met Xuemin for dinner (which forgot to take photos.. oops) then met my dear Musos at Mind Cafe.

We played lots of stupid games which proved to all of us that the Drummer-Drummer combination cannot make it.. Haha..

Haha..

Well.. that’s the end of the so called celebrations.. Oh the Musos got me a pair of jeans, a belt and a t-shirt to help me in my repackaging plan.. Haha..

Well, I hope this pic will come to past more often..

1. I dun look so fat (yay!) 2. I can play on Expo stage more often.

Haha. Yeah.. Thanks again to all those who spent this week with me. Really grateful to all of you.

As told by a certain song leader today.. we all should do this on our blog.. so here goes..

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

I will not make mistakes in my playing and will be flexible and follow what we practiced.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Here is a really stupid spoof of the Power Rangers or essentially the whole genre about space/power rangers fighting evil to save the world.. enjoy…