| a day late

Christmas and all it's festivities are coming to an end. The short-lived enjoyment that were reflected in the eyes of the MMU'ians are like an awakening from a love sweet dream into a terrible nightmare of reality. Nonetheless, we had some good fun.

MMU Christian Society's Christmas partay~

Bette et la Belle

Church had Elvis singing them into Christmas morning while the Teo family had turkey for us. It was naish~ Licking, singing and fishing were great fun. Stynie~~

into the teo's house

picture courtesy of aiaibook

My Christmas night was spent eating some delish' BBQ chicken wing, lamb, pork, potato, epic cheese spaghetti, rat's tail noodles, lots of beers, a bottle of black label and half a bottle of swing. Can't wait for FYB (Final Year BBQ) comes along and another chance to get Wayne to do his final year thingy~ heh~

fan the flame

my epic bbq wings that blew myself away

Saw this thing in church today under the Tiun's bag. Thought it was funny for it to be there in church.

Last night's dinner, feeling the reel from the BBQ, I thought to myself, "Might as well do another family BBQ", and thus, it came to pass.

yes, using the mini-batt fan saves trees

this was sunday's dinner - drool nau~

Well. Assignment due dates and exams, here we go.

To all final year peeps reading this, save up RM 15-20 and we'll do one last epic BBQ kay? This is for ya, lulus~ hehe~

Nite peeps~

| santa did not die for my sins

Cyber's cfMMU peeps were selling really cool t-shirts last Thursday. One of them had the words "A Blatant Christmas" and a picture of cartoon Santa Claus, sitting down lifeless with a spear stabbed through him. At the back of it, is this post's title. Real cool t-shirt indeed.

This Christmas God has blessed me with things that I've missed out during Christmas a few years already. He gave me a beautiful and serene Christmas. More so, He gave me an abundance of delicious food to eat - all the good stuffs. Christmas eve dinner, I had awesome char siew fun in the shop that's just outside my taman. Good stuff though the price-to-quantity ratio isn't really good IMO.

love-the-fat-love-the-fat-love-the-fat-love-the-fat

Two days before Christmas and on the eve, I spend the entire day cleaning up the house - both indoor and the compound. So finally, on Christmas day, my family enjoyed a good day of eating Some Good Food®. For lunch we went to Bunga Raya to eat some good, old school mutton soup.

old-school kopi-c

old-school mutton, baby

Family came back home, watched some t.v. and napped till dinner time. Dinner's the highlight of the evening - it's Christmas after all. Unfortunately, my family can't afford to buy turkey and stuff, so we headed down to our good ol' family friend's restaurant, Tai Pan Seafood Restaurant and ate to our hearts content. Ordered kangkung belacan, BBQ spare ribs, beancurd, oatmeal prawns, and sweet & sour crab. Real good stuff!

mm mmm~ yeaaa~

right now i pity you.. yes, YOU.. /pats head

that's a big crap crab

Okay, the last one was a lil' cheap. Anyway, to increase the festivities, the owner who's in his mid-thirties whom we call kor which means big bro, open up a bottle of wine for us, gave us free fruits and desserts. Yeap. He rocks alright. Almost every time we eat there for a celebration, be it Chinese New Year, Christmas, birthdays, etc, he'll always throw in good stuffs on the house.

dad says its rather fruity but honestly, it's just dry

some.. sort.. of.. dessert?

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a good Christmas dinner as a family; five dishes - RM120. A bottle of Australian wine, fruits and desserts - on the house. Hope ya'll had a blessed Christmas too. Remember, it's not what you do, it's who you do it with.

Good nite peeps and once again, twas a Blessed Christmas.

| the silent christmas : part 2

| how well did we tata? part 2

It was a great choice for Saturday to be the resting day with no practices. Though the cantata was at the door, I believe the CF'ers needed a break to do some shopping, take the kids out to the park, sort out their lives.. you know, the usual. heh~ Me? I followed my dad and bro go jalan-jalan to do what they wanted to do - just obliviously tagging along.

a quick mc oreo flurry does wonders

I guess many already know, that particular Saturday was a special day to somebody. Vijay's getting married!! It's Vijay's birthday!! He's finally 21 years-old and now holds the key to his virginity.. Mann, that was jaded. Jokes aside. He can now be taken seriously as a man- I mean he can taken seriously before too but now he can be taken more seriously.. yea, something like that.

almost the entire CF people came!

the wise goes straight for the mutton

That Saturday night, VJ invited the entire CF to his birthday party. Those who were doing their industrial training were sent special invitations too. Though I came late, the food was still plentiful and I waste little time and dove straight into the goodness of fat-curried-mutton. GerX noted that the whole scene looks more like a kenduri for some newly wed or something like that *koff*. The whole row of houses came alive that night.

im the victim.. *sad*

Blessed Birthday VJ. May your path in life be clear and God-directed and may He shine on you always; now and forever. Continue to bring joy to those around you and may you and Stef treat your slave better. heh~

oh, what a beautiful morning.. *sigh*

Sunday came fast and something rather funny happened to me. I slept the previous night around 3am+ and for some weird reason, as I was setting my alarm clock to wake up for chinese service, I kept thinking that the van will arrive at EP at 7am. Thus, I set my alarm clock to ring at 6am. I awoke, washed up and sped there reaching EP at 7am sharp only to find an empty and very, very quiet SFC. Called Jason Leong up. He sounded groggy. "The van will be at EP at 7.45am" he said.

Bummer.

At church, Jason told us to play our best as our practice last Friday midnight was rather unenergetic, and he doesn't blame us either. It felt rather funny when he asked me to crank up my rock mode. I'm not used to having Jason tell me to pump my volume up. heh~ It was a good Sunday service. Played a few good carols and had a good worship too. Soon, church was over and work set in. Picked up the Clavi from CCC, brought it to Pahlawan Mall, set up and waited for our slot to begin.

sorry, didn't take any pics of the cantata
i was busy playing my instrument.. heh~

Aiai, Elvi and Elys posted good pictures of the Cantata, do check it out ya?

PG165 did a great opening with Mercy Me songs. The music was loud and great but perhaps too loud for the older people there. You should've seen the look on my mom's face - priceless. A few the Wing's Graduation Ceremony for special kids and donation to the needy it was time for MMUCF to come up the stage to throw their best and bless the city.

-insert great pictures of CFers singing, dancing and playing-

The narrator spoke his best, the conductor electrified his best, the choir sang their most in-tune'est and the band played their loudest.. and best. Alas, for the band we did a few mistakes here and there, hitting the wrong note and chord. Juju did a really, awesomely funny mix-up but was covered up very well, I guess we played pretty tight together as a band. It was great to serve with you guys once again.

Deric makes a short come-back! w00t korean hunk!!

PG165 came up after us and played another few numbers. It was really great, their volume were better balanced and their songs were greeted well by the crowd. It was pretty cool and majorly funny to see Justin rap. Couldn't understand half of what he was rapping other than '..prince of peace!' in the last line. ahaks~ Their showmanship's getting better gig after gig. Jason jumped off the chair, kicked the amps and smashed his guitar! and did the cha-cha. He-wanna-do-a-da-cha-cha.

the lius/liews!! too bad billy wasn't around

pastor releasing the news

It wasn't over yet for us. Pastor Joanne said she wanted to see everyone. As everyone assembled she told us that we're gonna go to Hotel Puri at Jonker Walk to do some good ol' caroling. We took plentiful of pictures, packed our equipments and got ready to move our butts to Hotel Puri, Jonker Walk. Aloha Pei greeted us and thanked us for coming to bless the visitors and people in the hotel. The SATBs sounded better here than while we were practicing as I could clearly hear all their parts. I guess no matter how good a sound system is, nothing beats the acoustic sound of vocal chords vibrating in the voice box.

blessing the Calanthe Art Cafe peeps

sing sing sing sing noel~

Later we walked to Calanthe and sang there too. It was really great to see people coming from the top floor window, clapping and sing along to the familiar tunes. The SATBs were quite funny as they slowly sang in a lower key and by the end of the song, the tune they were singing was lower then the original starting key. Lucius also lead them to sing a few of the songs pretty fast too. Speed carols mann! hehe~

good bye Pahlawan Mall.. for now

In the end of it all, I guess we did our best to bless this wonderful city of Melaka. Hopefully with what little we did, we touched someone's heart out there and may he/she come to know the Lord. Truly the reason for Christmas is Christ Jesus our King. In all we sing, in all the instruments we play, may we always serve Him. Great job peeps. God bless~

p.s. really wish you were there my dear friend.

| how well did we tata? part 1

Quite a lot happened within the past 3 days and I have a lot to write about. Yay? First off, I'd like to congratulate all those who were in one way or another involved in the cantata event for the really great performance that I believe served its purpose well; to bless the city of Melaka. Great job everyone.

twinzies with the wrong twins

Now, back track 2 days ago. Friday was a seriously wild day for me. Wild as in a semi-positive wild kinda wild, ya know? Remember Ee Jin? My good ol' buddy from NS? Yea, him. He invited me to play some badminton with him and his pals. He gave me an offer I can't refuse. So on Friday, 4pm we headed to the badminton hall along Jelutong. With no warm-up, I smashed my way through a series of matches. How little I know of the consequences that I shall face.

after some close observation,
jingles and joash DO have a lot in common

this baby is on my Christmas Wish-list

Later that evening, after attending baby Aidan's 1-year-old birthday party I headed for practice at Pahlawan Mall for the first time. Sadly, this was the first time I've ever stepped into this building. For a Malakan, that's quite sad but alas, priorities ate up much of my time. There were these dudes from Big Event that's handling the P.A. and sound systems and it seems they provided all of us with amps - a damn good one too. That Fender Amp is definitely on my wish-list. No monnie, no lurve.

juju and the snowman

deric's keyboard ran away with shih wen

satb's on the stage

shout-out to Justyne for helping me take those pics

nicely arranged stage

we are called, 'The Band'

We came and waste little time in setting up our equipment. It's 10pm, customers are ushered out of the complex and we have only less than 2 hours to practice. Lucius made some changes in the positioning of the SATBs, sopranos are on the lower stage, while altos are sandwiched between tenors and bass'. No, not the fish. Sound check wasn't really that good. There was much lacking and loads to rant about. With our amps all miked in, the sound coming out of the main wasn't up to expectation and the quality had the band wishing for SKH to jump in, but alas, we figured we'd give the Big Event people a chance to sort it out.

beautiful wife of mine

PG165 going through their songs

prayer is a necessity in every Christian's life

i have no clue as to what lucius is trying to imply.. hmmm~

We ran through only a few songs then it was time for us to hand the stage over to PG165 to do their own practice and sound-check. We got to catch a sneak peak of the songs they're gonna play the coming Sunday. All carols but different in style. They're also gonna play 2 or 3 songs from Mercy Me's Christmas Sessions. Mercy Me rocks my stereotypical idea of Christmas carol. Cool stuff.

the latest practice ever recorded in CCC history

Though we were done in Pahlawan Mall around after 1am in the morning. A few of us had to stay back in CCC to practice for the coming Sunday's chinese and english services. By then, most of us were dead tired but Jason Leong did quite a good job in giving us some laughs. Never have I hear him asking me to play LOUDER and more ROCK as he wanted this Sunday's service to be more RADICAL.

Wait.. That's not Jason! Where's the real Jason you impostor. ahaks~

There were some good laughs but alas, even before the end of the practice, most of us were out of energy and in walking-slumber mode. Soly and Andrea was sleeping most of the time. Can't blame them though. I too couldn't play with all my heart as I couldn't concentrate that night. Sorry Jason. Crazy day huh?

even Jo-L was battered