the poetry of me

hey guys, how’s the week been for you? I hope everything is fine and dandy. Anyway i should explain my absence for these past few weeks. Have been busy with last minute touch-ups on my assignments and tomorrow’s the last day. Yippeee! Definitely looking forward to the coming hols though i most probably have to work but i figured it’ll be great spending christmas here and all. And speaking of christmas, today in church there was an announcement for recruitment of choir members for the coming christmas to sing carols in federation square. So me and my lovely jan thought why not? we should give the audition a try. And we got thru! It was an awesome time of nervousness while we were waiting to be called upon to be auditioned one by one. First we were tested by simply picking out a chorus of any song we like and second he was gonna test our vocal range, I did ‘Lean on me’ by Al Green and after i sang it the judge, Ronald, was like ok you’re in! (even without testing my vocal range). I thought it was awesome cuz’ i wasn’t really sounding all angel while singing, had a sore-throat. Not only were we singing carols, but we were also included into the worship team and the choir in Richmond is awesome kay! They really sing parts and when they sang some songs from israel houghton’s album, they sounded alike to the album. One of the reason why i thought of staying back and learning as much as i can to bring home some knowledge and bless others in the music ministry as well as to the people. So that’s roughly my main highlight for the day and of course spending time with my baby after church! I have to say it cuz’ if not she gets angry! hahahaha You guys have a good one, cheers!

This blog posting goes out to abang liang, just wanna congratulate you on your album release and that i’ve always had faith in you to achieve so… just that it’s a matter of time. Sure missed the times we sang together as a group, and that either one of us has got to get out, and you did. Just wanna let you know that however big you get not in size but popularity and fame, remember your humble beginnings. Real happy for you and i just wanna encourage you, now that you’re up there, SING BROTHA SING!!! Let that black man out of your chinese klang body and teach the guys how to groove man! Take it smoooth and eazy allll the way!

And guys if you wanna know more, you can check out the links below:

http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2005/10/10/music/12244781&sec=music

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http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/Features/20051012145909/Article/indexb_html

Ladies and gentleman, i give you…. the nightmare from HELL! Yes, it’s a Hello Kitty ferrari, really goes to say that rich people are really stupid with their money. Unique nevertheless but STUPID! Well, enough said, i think the rest of the criticism will be filled out by your own thoughts on this catastrophy. I mean i know that armageddon is coming, but this? It’s really a sign for me to repent my sin and make sure i go to heaven.

As for me, well the week has been a long and tired one, working my butt off 24/7 just in time for today’s 15 minute presentation, not marked by the way. But yeah besides the effects from my tiredness, it was a good 15 minute, me and my group did well, greatest team i’ve worked with, ever. Now just down to one more assignment and a scrapbook and i’ll be done for the semester. Looking forward to really have sometime for myself. How are you guys doing on the other hand? i hope all is well. Anyway it’s late and i’ve got to catch up with some zzzzs in order for me to consider my work done in the coming days. You guys have a good one… ciaoz!

I believe this is the most morbid design i have ever created. Thanks to the inspirations from Ju-On, i’ve not only had sleepless nights but recurring nightmares as well. Anyway this is a project given to me by my Uni regarding non-profit organizations, and i got GREENPEACE. Anyway to cut the long story short, Greenpeace had support problems in terms of fundings/donations for their seal clubbing campaign, so we decided to change their target market to a more higher earning target market, rich people! So what are one of the events that attracts rich people?… a Ballet performance!!! So me and my team mates decided to come up with a ballet enterpretation regarding the realities/horror of seal clubbing activity. I was in charge of the publication side and this is one of the medias used to invite our audience… a flyer! Share with me your thoughts. Have a good one, cheers!

It’s one of those nights again when home seems like a fantasy, to be turned to reality would only be a dream. I miss the eating at the little shack in Old Town with the smells/aroma of Bak Kut Teh just tickling your senses and teases you as the fried Yao Cha Queh is dipped into the ever so fragrant medicinal soup. That’s home, something that we’re familiar with, something that when the world goes wrong, you still can recognise it’s scent calling you home. *sigh* Funny how we only take for granted when things use to be comfortable and familiar, shows how much we barely appreciate it only when it’s taken away from us like family, friends, the things we love doing, the things we share with another one who we treasure so much. My mission has now fallen on the thought of taking in everything i have right now and just appreciating it, weird, rather funny, but it’s true. So my friends… i apreciate you and as the potential that you are, don’t let ppl tell you otherwise, to my family… it’s been tears, joy and love… i appreciate ya’ll, thank God we’re blood, i know and recognise now that the same blood runs in my vains and i am proud to be apart of the creation. To my leaders in church… ya’ll have been my voice of reason, encouragement, comfort and cheer. To God… i’d rather be alive to experience the joy, peace, hope and love in my life than to not even be brought into this world as you breathed life into good soil. And to everyone who reads this…. may you find true blessing in what you already have right now and appreciate it. I bid you good night! -adieu!

Hey guys, how’s the week been? It has been a seriously painful weekend for me, i had pains from here all the way to timbuktu man. Slowly recovering and at the mean time workloads piling up on me. Finals are in 2 weeks time and i’m freaking out! Anyway, beside uni stuff, i’ve been trying to get into the church’s choir group and finaly i’m gonna have an audition for it, hope it all goes well. Other than that i was thinking since i’m gonna be sweating all thru summer, i should get a job instead of lazing around and getting fat. So there are two options, one: i got a job introduced to me working in a restaurant, good thing bout it is that i get to improve my PR and plus learn some recipes that i can cook for the time i’m studying but the pay’s low. Two: i go fruit picking out in the country side, i’d have to stay in a hut throughout summer, the good thing, is that there’s no contract involved, i get to see the countryside and the pay is crazy, $90aus for a day of three bins of fruits that i get to fill and i can do more if i’m up for it, so if i work 5 times a day i get $1800aus a month. Amazing huh? and it’s gonnabe between nov - dec, which is my favourite fruit season, CHERRIES. So i might steal a bite or two while i’m out picking And i gotta be out of town too cuz’ it’s just too far for me to travel back and forth everyday from the city to kansas farmland! What do you all think? oh yeah and plus it’s gonna be summer at that time so while i’m out labouring, i might get to build my packs a lil’ (that’s if i don’t steal too many bites at one go), and get free tan. Vain i know! Tell me what you think, have a good one, ciao!

Emptiness and blindness fills my thougths as the outpouring flow of ideas remain stagnant. As time passes each day i begin to reflect in a day that’s overcomed by results of completion. The race is tough and rugged, each struggle, each push can cause detrimental effects on my physical body and i strive to conquer over my fears, doubts, eagerness to just give in, give up. It’s been a day of lazing and grazing, as the channel flickers, my belly grows, hogging on everything i see on the kitchen table, slob’s a word, couch potato is another statement. A day that would seem doomed by the drop of the remote as activeness beg to differ with tiredness to stretch for it. That sums up a day in the life of yours truly. -adieu

Sleep sleep sleep,… it’s what i need, been busy the whole week thru, been sleeping at 3/4am daily. As much as i should be catching some zzzs, there’s a load of work that needs to be accomplished. How’s everyone doing this week? Tell me bout it, your struggles, your disappointments, your accomplishments, all is welcome. Anyway reason me being all worked up is cuz’ the end of semester is coming in two weeks time and the workload seems unaccomplishable, and brain dead is the unfortunate state for me. Pray for me, if you’re free enough to read this blog. hehehe Just a word or a phrase or a sentence not longer than the NIKE: Just Do it tagline. that should do the trick. thanks. you guys have a good one, will wrote something more of substance once i get some blood pumping through my brains again. au revoir!

It funny how we can’t do the above topic, cuz’ if we did, God wouldn’t be God. As much as His ways are to bless us most the time, He does something that’s mind-blowing, He uses the most unpredictable or most unfigured thing to turn our lives around. I’d say let God be God for His ways are much higher than ours, and consider living on this earth a miracle each day rather than question so much. Perhaps i were to say to some of you that the clothes, that job, the house, the car, your career/studies that you have and sometimes cling to so dearly were to be taken away just by a ‘click’ of a button or ‘blink’ of an eye (like the victims oftragedy, Hurricane Katrina and Tsunami), what would you do? Is life really all bout’ those kinda materialistic stuff? Is it something that makes us whole? Is it something that deep down inside at the end of the day makes us happy? or are they just substitute for joy, happiness, comfort, security, power. Pure joy is when we give and bless others, pure happiness is smiling at the people you don’t know as you pass them by everyday, pure comfort is when we’ve build a relationship strong enough that seems as though water can’t mix with oil and the list goes on! Cuz’ it’s when everything else is stripped away we begin to realize what life really means, no high powered job with hundreds of employees under us, no money to buy shoes, no designer clothes and accesorries, not how many ‘chun’ chicks we know can bring permanent contentment but rather temporary disappointments. I’m not against all those, by all means pursue your dreams but when it comes to priority, invest in the things that are more meaningful, things that reap thingys that are much more worth it. At the end of the day, your car will be obsolete but not friendship, your job will only be means to get money to survive but no love or relationship built with your children, your clothes will just end up as rags and the accesorries,to some thinga-ma-jiggy to be sold at a flea market.

Sounds like i’m preaching but if only we are contented with what we have than the things that we don’t have, we’ll begin to see life so much more differently, suddenly helping an old lady/ blind across the street won’t be so awkward, sitting down with a begger on the street to just chat or give him some money for a decent meal which you can afford so much more than just ONE decent meal. Sacrifing a seat in the train for someone elder than you. Sat down with one or two beggars since i got here, was weird but it took alot for me to throw my pride away and sit down with everyone else watching and you know what? they’re seriously no different from me, just that they are not as blessed. In this i learnt to count my blessings and thank God… Just a rush of thoughts… feel free to criticize or comment or maybe insult if you want. hehehehe Have a good one, nites.

yeah finally got something to say, well i went to a John Legend concert the other night and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!! The brotha looks better in real life, sounds better in real LIVE! too, smooooooooooooooooth all the way!. So me and mah brotha Nnamdi was just chillin in a pub as he performed, was worried that i got so into the mood of the songs so much that i might forget i’m chinese and start acting all ghetto and if i’m not too careful i might say the N**** word! Cuz’ ye know when SOME of us(asians back home in KL) talk to foreign ppl (daniel loke is you’re reading this, no offence my chinese brotha), we tend to put on an accent and especially if i have a BROTHA as mah homie suddenly it got me turning into Will Smith in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. (majority of ppl around we’re brothas, don’t get me wrong, not being racial here but i love ‘em brothas, God bless them) Yeah so anyway the nite was a blast and the sad part of it was that i had to leave cuz’ the smoke and the scent of booze all round was getting to me and i had a headache in the following, felt all quizzy and stuff so i left halfway thru the concert. But nevertheless it was a worthwhile experience, i’ve always wondered what i’d be like, and it was whacked man! (not Italian whacked : meaning kill someone! but african-american whacked!: meaning tha bomb!) Especially when tha soul sistas were backing up Johnny singing mah song: "So High". Indeed i was high in tha sky! This is it for now, you guys have a good one. Take care my name is leroy and i’ll see you on the next posting! Keeping it as real as i can. au revoir!