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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.


MAIN THEMES

On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.

On Christianity
I’m convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let’s not plant the cross before we carry it. I’m not trying to con you.

On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.


OTHER THEMES

On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.

On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.

On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.

On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?

On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.

On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.

On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?

On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.


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Friday, July 30, 2004
THE GRACECARS: POST-SHOW REVIEW (OR LACK THEREOF)

Like a bolt of lightning in the sky by the sea, it came and went so quickly. and everything now is just sand and old tide.

The Gracecars have played their first performance. Honestly, i have no idea how well or how badly we did, cos being on stage, i couldn't even really hear Jon's lead guitar, much less get a decent idea about how we were fitting in together. i was afraid of singing cos of the feedback on the song before us (and the songs after us, as it turned out - and no, it didn't feedback on us!). And i was very conscious of not closing my eyes, cos that's just not on when you're playing to any audience in excess of 0 persons.

My friends said they liked it. vernon said i sang loud enough, so i guess my no-feedback volume control worked out fine. some liked the song itself. Jon said someone said the we sounded "tight". Now, i've never played with someone else on stage since the one time in form 4. and to sound "tight" is, i know, one of the best compliments any life performance can receive. so i praise God we sounded tight even though i barely knew what Jon was playing. Rehearsals, it seems, do wonders.

So i wanna thank all my friends who went there and supported: vernon, ash+divya, mel, philip, steven...

my night at church did end prematurely... with a bout of an unfriendly stomach. went to vern's to get medicated before the evening went anywhere else. but i'm glad. and i'm proud of Jon for us working together on this song. i still don't know if it was any real good. but i'm alright.

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