lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Saturday, September 10, 2005
-3:32 pm
Wow! I had a really fruitful time in church yesterday with hannah, pastor darick, bro kevin and bro victor. Sis lorraine was supposed to come but she left to go back to school because she realised that she forgot to do something. So sad. But anyways, it was an amazing time and I learnt so much!
Hannah and I were supposed to play our songs for them to hear and critique. So before that, feeling like a bundle of nerves being thrown into a washing machine with the dial set on spin dry, I headed to hannah's at 5.30 after CIP at woodlands library. There was this huge jam which slowed the traffic to a crawl and I got so exasperated. Thank goodness hannah told me that I would alight at coronation plaza so I walked the rest of the way to watten estate. I got there pretty late and you should have seen us in a mad rush; Hannah was typing her songs out furiously on the computer, trying to print a copy each for the adults but the print was so tiny it was illegible, as for me, I was trying to practice my songs (especially those in E major) on her newly fixed guitar, which sounded a lot worse than before it was fixed. The strings sounded yucky. Anyways, beggars couldn't choose so I chionged all my songs and then passed it to hannah to practice. So there we were, scrambling like ants on a hot plate trying to get ready and get out of the house to reach church on time.
Evidently, we were late and it didn't help that we had to walk the long way by the main road because hannah had to bike home after the session. Before we left, I got pawed by dear old Twinkle, hannah's dog, in the face while I was wearing my shoes and since I had ultra sensitive skin, I ended up with this huge red scratch on my face, which later shrunk to look like a mosquito bite.
Oh wells, we hurried to church 15 minutes late and ducked into the toilet to freshen up before going to the church office. Pastor gerald opened the door for us and decided to play a one-man game of captain's ball with hannah's hair tie which he yanked off. Hannah retrieved her hair tie and we met bro victor and bro kevin before heading to the conference room to have the mini raw session. PDa came along after a while and hannah and I took turns to play our songs. The comments they gave were really constructive and they helped me see flaws in my songs which I didn't realise before that. I learnt a lot from their comments about hannah's songs and all that technical song-writing jargon like metering, phrasing, juxtaposition, gaps, simple verse complicated chorus and so on. I'll need to go polish and improve my songs to make them sound better.
After that, we recorded a few of our songs on bro kevin's pda before all squishing in PDa's car to longhouse for dinner. By then it was really late (about ten plus?) and my parents were doing the nuts about me staying out so late. But I was really starving so I went along for dinner. Hannah ordered just towgay and rice to our amusement and we found out that she had never eaten popiah before! Bro victor and I had the same reaction when we asked in surprise, "Are you Singaporean?"
Late night entertainment was provided by PDa, bro kevin and bro victor and boy were they hilarious! They have the most uncanny chemistry. They seemed almost drunk, saying stuff like, "Would you like a can of Too Full? Where's my Too Full?! I thought I asked you to order it for me?" They were trying to tease Hannah when she said she was too full when bro victor as her what drink she wanted. Hannah and I laughed so hard until we couldn't swallow our food properly (: It was an awesome evening because we were with 3 men tremendously blessed by God with musical annointing. They amazed me with the way they could just change one chord to make the song sound so much better. As bro kevin shared about his experiences and song-writing, I was so blessed by it. I shared a cab home with him since he lives somewhere near my place and I guess I can say that I'm inspired and encouraged to write more songs for God.
I'm humbled by this rare privilege to spend time with these extremely gifted people and I do hope that this won't be my last time (:
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