Blessings...

Truly, truly I have been blessed so much these past few weeks.

I know I have not been blogging for quite some time now, but yea, cause I have been really busy, with work and play ...

Play...maybe not that much, but for the past few weeks I have kept myself busy with projects upon projects of my own. The designing of my friend's Christian Band logo, the designing of the icons for Change The World website, the illustrating of children stories for a friend of mine. Yes I have been busy.

But don't get me wrong, these are not freelance works. I don't get paid for this, but I'd gladly give my time for such things. To be given the opportunity to serve and contribute for God the best way I know how is surely a blessing.

When I do these things, there is no doubt in my mind I am truly happy with what I'm doing. You can even say that I'm living a fulfilled life. Cause I'm living that purpose that God has given me, and I am living it to the full.

I have also been busy searching for the passion that I've longed for and so far I came across some really interesting ones, one being t-shirt design and the other comics... We'll just have to see how it goes.

One last thing before I end this.

I recently attended the XEE training programme, and yes, God has further blessed me even more in those 3 1/2 days. It really transformed me in my understanding of evangelism and reaffirming my faith in the Lord. I pray that I may utilise and implement this in my church in order to spread the glory of God.

I didn't really get to take too many pictures , but I did manage to get a lot during the graduation night of XEE. You can actually find them in my facebook account.


All who participated in the XEE training ( Trainers and Trainees alike)

I truly enjoyed the experience that I had in those 3 1/2 days, and I have made quite a lot of new friends in that short period of time. I have to confess I am really starting to miss them already. I pray that the guidance and help that they have given me will never be forgotten and that I may use that new tool to its full potential. Darleen and Stephanie, thanks for everything, and God Bless you! Not to mention my prayer partner for the whole programme, Poh Chin, God Bless you too!

Well, that's it for now . Till then, God Bless

SHADOWssssss

Good Friday, we had a drama. FCC had a drama( performance). Yes, I was involved, as I've mentioned soo many times before. I am beginning to sound like a broken record.

Speaking of records, you know how they say " So and so has broken yet another record!!!" I used to think someone actually up and broke a record, by record I meant those big black discs our parents used to listen to lah. Actually I used to listen to them to,and I still have a collection of them..haha.. Yea, I thought they were breaking those things I called" Piring Hitam".

Sorry, lost track.. Anyways, Shu Jun has been kind enough to post the Good Friday performance on Youtube.

The first time I heard it, I couldn't believe that's what I sounded lie, I know I ahve a deep voice, cause that's what everyone has told me, but this is well, I find it funny lah..hahaha..

Anyways,do check it out...

Let's see if you could spot my voice...



The drama hasn't even started yet..hahaha

Check out the rest on youtube lah..not gonna post everything for you...haha

Till hhen, God Bless!!!

Acoustic Session witb Alarice

I just came back from an Acoustic Session... or perhaps what my friend's church would consider Track of Talents. What is T.O.T? Well is a day every once a month where they will organize an event showcasing new and young talent, not just in music but also other things like graphic design, flash animation, dance and so on.

This was my first time at the event and my first time at my friend's church, my friend being Daniel Krishnan and his church being Eagle Point Christian Fellowship (ECF).

It was a really a surprise when the first person they introduce was Yap, another friend of mine from FCC, my current church in Sunway, he was presenting his portfolio. Then they presented a Ugandan named, James K. I believe, he demonstrated his skills on the keyboard and man was he good... really good... hard for me to explain how, ask me and Ill describe it to you... Then there was this young boy who could play bass, haha..but I forgot his name, sorry boy...

Oh, before I forget, I got to see my friend's band perform 2 of their songs before they introduced the first person, which is Yap..

Now to the important part, the reason why I went to the event.

Daniel informed me about this at the last day which was yesterday, meaning Thursday night which somehow cause me to reschedule my Share Group appointment , sorry guys..haha..

Anyways, he told me that there was going to be this international Christian singer coming to perform in this event. Her name was Alarice ( Eh- Luh- Reese). Yea , I thought it was like Ala- Nasi...haha.. I checked her out on her site, and yes, she's attractive, that's the first thing that caught my eye, give me a break I'm a guy. But I also realised that she has a good voice, nice song and all that..sort of the complete package, worth checking out I said to myself..

So, back to the event, it was finally her turn, she performed about 5 songs I think. I sort of lost count when I started sketching, yes, I was sketching her. Come on, I'm an illustrator, I sketch when I can, and her singing and looking good makes me want to...sketch..hahaha

I can't remember my favorite song that she played cause I wasn't really listening to the titles and all haha, but she did play a really good rendition of Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson. I remembered when I bumped into her right after she finished performing and we talked a bit, mostly me doing the dumb talking but hey, when you have the chance, just do it... haha.. Yes, Darren soak it up, these moments don't come as often as they think...

Bought her CD, cause well, she can sing, and had it signed, yes , I am a happy man now..haha. Too bad she's taken already, cewah...

All and all, it was a great night, with great performances, really glad I get to join in the event, made new friends, met new people, had interesting conversations and most importantly, got the chance to catch up with my old friend Daniel, it's been awhile man.

Well thats it for now, will paste that sketch I drew of her soon, for now , you'll just have to do with her website..haha



guess what I found...

Till then, God Bless!!

Singing In The Rain

It was quite a different night for me.

I have been watching some really great movies for the pass few days..perhaps even weeks..some are blockbuster ones, some old cult ones, some of them sheer classics. But most of all, the movies which Ive been watching were sheer violent, Graphic goriness in full technicolor...that's how I would put it..hahaha.

Let's see, there was that ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs, the soldier killing and decapitation in Apocalypse now! , There was that crazy axe scene in The Shining, the human burning and eating in Doomsday.... well, Let's just say Ive had my fill of blood lust lah...

Yesterday I watched Singing In The Rain. Why, well, the song was stuck in my head, right after I've watched Clockwork Orange. Clockwork Orange was yet another sick movie, but still very good, hahaha..



Anyways, I didn't know what to expect when I watched it, all I could say was I am quite familiar with the song and nothing else.

What I must say, it was actually really entertaining, I never expected myself to be soo entertained by it.. So far, the one musical that I've been really familiar with is Sound of Music, and I liked it, but now not as much as Singing In The Rain...

I suggest that you watch it for yourself. I actually wanted to post a clip of the lead actor , Gene Kelly singing the main title song, but as I was writing this post, I decided against it, I believe that it is best you watch the whole thing fresh, and decide for yourself.

I like it, I think Ill watch it again tonight...

I wish I could sing in the rain, but well:

1. I can't sing
2 The weather is just too hot now in Malaysia to rain.
3. If it did rain, I wouldn't want to climb up lamp post and all, not with our lightning storms in KL.

Oh hey, this isn't the original clip but a tribute done by Usher...not bad..but of course you can't beat the classics, but it was good though.. enjoy..



Till then, God Bless!!

Something to share

Materialistic World

An eighteen-year-old girl tells her Mom that she has missed her period for two months. Very worried, the mother goes to the drugstore and buys a pregnancy kit. The test result shows that the girl is pregnant. Shouting, cursing, crying, the mother says, "Who was the pig that did this to you? I want to know!"

The girl picks up the phone and makes a call. Half an hour later a Ferrari stops in front of their house; a mature and distinguished man with grey hair, impeccably dressed in a very expensive suit, steps out of the car and enters the house.

He sits in the living room with the father, the mother and the girl, and tells them, "Good morning. Your daughter has informed me of the problem. However, I can't marry her because of my personal family situation, but I'll take charge. If a girl is born, I will bequeath her two retail stores, a townhouse, a beach villa and a $1,000,000 bank account. If a boy is born, my legacy wil be a couple of factories and a $2,000,000 bank account. If it is twins, a factory and $1,000,000 each.. However, if there is a miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?"

At this point, the father, who had remained silent, places a hand firmly on the man's shoulder and tells him, "Then you try again."

I am a CD-42-ian

I have been chatting with Bard, an old friend from TOA quite often now, guy has always been one of my closest friend back in TOA..

Lately one of the things that we have been chatting about has prompted me to check out Friendster. Now I used to have an account but I deleted it since the emergence of Facebook. So basically there was now point of me having both those accounts..

However , when I searched up Friendster, I suddenly realised I had another account, which I created for my class back when I was a monitor in TOA...

Yes, I was the monitor(Class President), for CD 42 back then... For one whole year I carried so called responsibilities of being a monitor, though when I looked back at it, I really didn't do much, though I should've, always felt that I let my class down on this one.

Anyways, I tried remembering the account, and the password. Took me a few tries to figure it out but in the end , I was in...

The last message on the site was in 2007, sent by Melissa, it was right when we graduated.

The site has been dead for 2 years now..



I decided well, it was time that I actually did something about it, technically, one never retires from monitory duty.

So I sent them a bulletin, I have no idea if they will receive it, all 34 members, all 34 of them, but I hope they do... It never really occurred to me the importance of having this site back then

Back then this account was just for me to inform my classmates on the home assignments and messages from the lecturers, which I never really did..haha...

But now, after soo many years, this is all we have left.. I am sure almost everyone of us wouldn't have kept our works back in 1st year... perhaps only some significant ones...but everything else well, mostly will be burnt or thrown away.

Sure, we still have the alumni. we all write blogs, we all have our Facebook accounts, but this is where we all started, fresh faces all scared and terrified, uncertain of the future which awaits us. Unknowingly, we have all been thrown into the same class, a melting pot of personalities and attitudes and styles. A hodgepodge of the grandest proportions.

I believe this solely to be the work of God, or for those who don't believe in Him, Fate.

Maybe it was not known to most of you but I was never supposed to be in that class. The day you met me I was just 2 days away from the last day of NS. I was supposed to join the January intake but I had to defer to the May Intake because of it.

If I had the choice to do it all over again, I wouldn't have wanted it to go be any different. We had all kins of weird people in it, The Anime freaks and the Anti- Animes were constantly at war..haha, There were the break dancers, the hip hop dancing crew, there was the music group who used to hang out almost anywhere in TOA with a guitar and their tags as campfire, and there were those who just did not care...

It was a crazy class. It was the perfect class.

Till then , God Bless

The Red Shoes

Tis a short story written by Hans Christian Anderson.

I suggest that you read the story by yourself no point for e to explain the whole story here..

It was first told to me last Friday, during our Share group session.. We were discussing about forgiveness and the common man's mistake of not really meaning it even though he has asked for forgiveness, which applies to our spiritual life...

and Felicia brought this up... It was then that she told us this story..

I was unfamiliar with this story, but I have heard of that Korean Horror film with he same name.

It started off just like any children's fables then well, it just got weirder and weirder... and it got eerie... Yes, I am one of those people that find children stories eerie... Remember that old animation on RTM? The one with the monkey and the mousedeer, where the mousedeer was persuading the monkey not to eat the chillies... I remember closing my eyes whenever that animation comes out...There's something really eerie about that cartoon... Same thing for that disney Jungle Book...

And this story gave me the same feeling.. That disturbing feeling you know... It wasn't horrifying, blood doesn't have much effect on me, and goriness can only do so much...but this, this was something else... maybe for now I can't really explain it, maybe I will when I can.

Anyways, I was inspired to create somewhat of a movie poster. should this story ever be fully adapted into a movie...



Yea, I know, really looks like Devil Wears Prada... but hey, that's the first design that popped into my head...I still have some other ideas in my head, will post that up some other time...

The story, just like any other has a moral to it, or many morals, Im not exactly sure. But try reading it and let me know what you think, I have already gotten a few ideas about the morals..

I envisioned the movie, if it were ever made, to be directed y Tim Burton..Oh yes, lead female role...hmm...who could it be? Too early to tell..

Well...that's it for now... God Bless...