Guest Appearrance:
Ooi Eow Jin (piano), Kazue Yamazaki (flute), Juan Pablo (guitar), New Contemporary Ensemble

Date: 10th October ‘08
Time: 8.30pm – 10pm
Dress Code: Smart Casual
Venue: Dewan Putra 1, Kolej 13, UPM, Serdang, Selangor

I’ll be on e. guitar for 3 jazz songs and on classical guitar for a duet piece. See you there!

p.s. I designed that poster… haha…

Some people scream when they see rock stars… others faint when they are near there favourite TV serial drama actors…

But for a thing so good, it just makes me want to cry…

Introducing,

God loves tech people. Amen!

My first published chinese, yes the chinese sounds weird. Almost didn’t finish the song because my vocab is as large as I thought. hahaha… it’s a scratch track recorded at 2.15am on Saturday in the middle of the field.

Comments? hehe…

I’m exhausted. But I have to continue to push on. So I need your help. Yes, you can contribute to Cheng Yee’s quality of life by watching out for these symptoms:

1. Cheng Yee stands in the middle of the room for no apparent reason
Wake him up, he’s fallen asleep.

2. Cheng Yee keeps saying, “hmmm….”
Be patient and nudge him from time to time, his brain is taking a nap during the ‘hmm…’ It’s the new ‘Zzzz…” for overly exhausted people.

3. Cheng Yee for once agrees with everything you say without saying anything lame
He is nodding because he’s falling asleep. Advisable to drop the conversation and slap his left arm followed by a loud “Oi!”

4. Cheng Yee is playing the same phrase over and over and over and over…
Either he’s practicing diligently or his fingers are asleep. Remedy: Grab a french horn and blow really hard or you could just whack him with the french horn

5. Cheng Yee is staring into space with a sleepy look
He’s probably trying to persuade/debating with himself that it’s better to be awake than to sleep. Support the affirmative, speak good debate points to him. The side of his brain that wants to be awake will try to incorporate the points. If the opposition asks for the debate to be adjourned, it’s a trick don’t fall for it!

Thanks lot’s look forward to being blown away by a french horn, slapped at the arm and winning a very difficult debate!

For the first time, we had orchestra rehearsal with UCSI. We ran through 7.5 of the 8 movement Peer Gynt Suite.

I was the only double bassist. Wonder what happened to the UCSI d.bassist. Half way through “The Dance of The Mountain King” I turned towards the Bassoon player behind me and asked,

“Hey, have you seen any fingers around? I think I dropped mine…”

Yes, when I was collecting my teh tarik from the cafeteria after practice, I was struggling to hold onto the cup.

Are my hands really that tired?

As my lecturer (teaches double bass and cello) puts it, and I quote,

“If you put all the strings on the cello together, it’ll only be as thick as one of the double bass strings…”

Alright, bedtime. Night!

I was wondering the other day what is sex all about. Is it what it’s made up to be? Would my future wife want sex as I do? How am I suppose to approach such a sensitive issue? I’m pretty sure that if I walk up to my wife and say, “Hey, can we have sex later?” That would seal my fate of having to sleep on the sofa for the next month or so.

But something in the Bible caught my eye,

“Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the Lord.’ ” Genesis 4:1 – NKJV

Isn’t that amazing? The Bible didn’t go all National Geographic on the subject of sex. It couldn’t have been written as, “And now, eventhough in a less natural surrounding compared to Eden, the man engages in intercourse with the woman causing the woman to conceive.”

I realised that the word “knew” was used. And I think it’s beautiful in this context. Sex is in general, physical intimacy. And physical intimacy without real substantial emotional and spiritual intimacy, is at best, just superficial. That would be sad.

Now I know it’ll be a bit daunting to think that everytime you feel attracted to your spouse, an angel will pop out of no where, holding a clipboard and start asking questions like, “What is her 3^rd auntie’s name? What time did she have lunch today? What was the highlight of yesterday? Is she still thinking about the issue you discussed with her a week ago? How did she feel about your appetite on Friday?” Well, a bit daunting is definitely an understatement.

But this does not mean we shouldn’t get to know our spouse and leaving sex for last every single time! Because it’s not the sex that we should be desiring, it’s our spouse that we desire. What do you do when you want somebody? You’d go and get to know the person. And if we missed the point of the act, we missed the point of doing it at all.

In parallel, God wants us to know Him. Sadly, often times we treat our quiet time to be a chore. Something that we do. We treat prayer like a chant of a list of needs. We sing praise and worship songs that we like to make ourselves feel high and good. No one is perfect, one time or another we fall into complacentcy and make it about us. Well it’s not. We’ve got to know why we do things and do it for the right reasons.

I want my wife, that’s the reason I want sex. I want God, that’s the reason I pray, sing and read the Word.

hehe… I’ve been trying to avoid this topic for long time now since it seems to be a bit cliche. I guess it’s inevitable.

Well, if I have to describe Uni life, I wouldn’t bother. But I would say this, and you can quote me:

“I have never worked harder in my life…”

It’s totally different from the relaxing way of life of secondary and primary school. Because instead of a big bang exam at the end of each year, we have tests every few weeks that contribute to our final. In other words, I have to actually work and earn every individual point! Arrrgghhh

That said, one of my coursemates related an interesting comment her friend made, :

“Why you so busy one, even us vet students also not that busy…”

For the uninitiated, vet students are usually as busy as medic students, only difference being that their patients have two more legs.

A tribute to my UKM poli-science friend: Hey, the food here very Uni le.

I’m tired. I’m broken. I drinking from the cup that I deserve and it is bitter indeed.

I am very much confused and lost. Yet, as I have sung many times in church:

Blessed be the name of the, Lord

God You give and take away. My heart now says, blessed be Your name

I have often wondered if my decisions were right. Should I have pushed myself so hard to do my brother’s wedding slide show? Should I have written a song? Shouldn’t I rest more? Should I have rushed back for Jaeson’s wedding? Should I have played for his wedding? Should I have spend more time studying? Should I sleep less?

Yes, that’s a lot of questions. It’s only the tip of the ice-berg. But often times, it’s not what I do that I’m sure of. Rather it’s who I do for that is clear to me.

I didn’t do music just because I like music. It’s because I love God.

I didn’t push myself for the 2 weddings that took place this week for my own glory. It’s for my brother and for Jaeson.

Increasingly I find that pain is ever more apparent. But what comforts me is that God is with me. I just want to be where God is and to do what He has in mind.

On a side note, I have no idea why God plan my brother’s wedding this year. Because this is the year when I lost faith in true love. I did ask God why. But all I felt was a smile that seem to imply, “take it, face it, I am here.”

Thankfully, the sweet in bittersweet was much more than the bitter. I find that because these are people I loved, I was able to share their joy. I am truly happy for them. That is a miracle by itself.

p.s. I got B- for solfege. That is from a F to a D to the B-. God is faithful. That’s all that matters.

Woohoo! My brother’s married.

*Dramatic low voice* “It is done.

Hehe… I’m seriously bombed out. At least I got the title of Best Man for a day. I get to say totally egoistic lines like, “Nobody better…”, “The best there is…” and “I can’t get better, I’m the Best (man)…” All this with out a hint of guilt. haha… sinful indulgences.

I did one 10 minute video slide and wrote a song for my bro and Esther (his wife) and helped out with miscellaneous work (comes with Best Man title). A little about the revelations of the stuff I did (ooo… post mortem… who’s the dead guy? lame…)

From the slide, I learnt that Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 (its acronym is APE 4.o, what a coincidence, should do a video for monkeys some day), can no longer take the amount of layering and animations I do. I had to cut the video up into half just to export it. Then piece it together later. The programme doesn’t know how to push data into the harddrive when it’s runing low of RAM. Sad. Wait… or is it that I’ve out-grown this laptop…. “Dad & mom……”

From the song, I’ve learnt that Daniel can do falsetto… can’t imagine right? But he is good. Plus, he’s professional… got the song down in a week with minimum practice… Thanks man!!

From the title of Best Man, I realised that God just did a miracle in my life. I still can’t believe I did all that I did. Insane amount of  work.

From the whole event, that there are so many people who are so helpful and willing to help. Fantastic people… will honour 3 who helped me (doesn’t mean I forgot you)… Daniel, for helping with the song… Zhi Howe for last minute transport and helping man the presentation… and Johnson (my cousin) for being the driver, ever so jovial and glad to help… thanks!!

Alright… have a bus to catch… *tag*… the bus is it….

ARRRRGGGHHHH crazy bus trying to run us over!!