Flybar live at SAC

Ok, as I'm typing this, Flybar is setting up for their set at the Art Cafe. Ben (Tay) is playing rhythm guitar for his band, of which he helped found some time back. After the requiste interview with Jon, the band started with "She's so lazy", an original that will be featured on their upcoming album, "Scream Without Raising Your Voice", to be released in January, so looks like things are heading up. "Staring at the sun" was next. Unfamiliar territory for most of them, as they are not that acquainted with the song, but still, it's not bad. Jon, their lead guitarist, rocks. "Unforgiven", the first track for their album came up after. "Heaven Sent", and "Wherever You Will Go" were up next. Ian tapping on Jon's knee to increase the latter's slow tempo was hilarious. "Mystery Train" was next in the set, a song about finding one's way in life. My kind of song, musically wise. Slow and heavy on guitars. Their last song was "Beautiful Killer", which will probably be their 2nd or 3rd single for their album. Ok, skip that as the last song. Encore song (saboed by me and Jon How) turned into Don't Look Back In Anger, a refreshing version in F (?), with nice solo riffs by Jon. Whole set rocks.

That aside, well, things are kinda dazed for me of late. Some work needs to be done, with Eliz providing advice on Monday when she dropped by to visit the club. Well, just hope to finish up soon. Like someone always says, playtime has ended.

"What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." Romans 6:1-4

In a Psalm 61 kind of mood

Been feeling like this yesterday, and some parts of the afternoon today. Where I just do nothing but listen to Psalm 61 (Hear My Prayer) being played over and over again on my mp3 player. Last count, the figure's hitting close to 1 thousand, so it's the most played song on my creative zen micro. Which also means it's the most played song for the past year, when I ripped it from a MS dvd in August '06 (oops..). I would put it at about 1.5k loops, including being played on my pc and laptop. What's so nice about the song? It's really comforting, with Pastor Rony narrating Psalm 61 (KJV) before Pastor Pacer started to sing. Really nice duet. Search my blog for the lyrics. Need to draw closer to God. Feeling a bit lost lately. Mainly cos of the (sick) feeling of having to catch up with 10 weeks of psychology. Just realised I may not have time to also finish my projects, even if I send it over to London myself instead of sending through SIM. Maybe I should have done what Seb suggested, that is collect signatures of those affected by the ecr glitch and write a letter to the Straits Times and Newpaper. Time is still passing by too fast for my liking. Discounting this month, I estimate I have about 4 and a half months to get my projects done, print them, send them to London, and prepare for 3 exam papers as well. I really need a miracle.

Seems like I'm more tired than I realise. Saw the chords for one of the songs Wayne was supposed to lead for this week's cell, (which got cancelled now that Aaron's fallen sick, do keep him in prayer) and I couldn't recognise a chord or two that normally I'll have no issues with. It's only when I checked an online chord chart that it dawned on me what chord that was. Been typing incoherently (grammatically wise) in here as well before I realised it and went back and checked my words. Not to mention I'm closing tabs in my web browser pretty often by accident when I'm clicking on them (double click is the command to do so). Shucks.. I need to head home and crash soon. Lectures from 8.30am till 3pm, 2 hour guitar meeting after that to discuss about the upcoming concert, and then a very late lunch. On the bright side, I managed to ask permission to borrow the club's amp for this saturday's wedding rehearsal. Which will save quite a bit of costs for Ben. Still trying to coordinate a audio setup for his wedding that won't go beyond his budget. Also coordinating for some birthday gifts for ex-cell members, and a christmas gift for an ex-lecturer as well. If there's ever a professional job for a coordinator, do let me know. I might just apply for it, heh. Thank God Ben (Tay) agreed to head the concert planning, else I'll really be digging my own grave and burying myself in it soon. Ok, maybe not to that extreme, but you get the picture.

Still want to find inspiration to write poetry and songs again. Again, ideas aren't flowing straight, only floating around in my head and in my notebook. And no, I'm not gonna apply the garbage can model of decision making here. Will make for yucky writings. Ok I'm being lame. Time to end here and head home and crash. Good night.

"Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. " 2 Timothy 2:22-24