Nov Trip To U.S.

It's strange that I did not miss home and after 2 weeks on the road, I felt I could go on another 2 weeks.

We started the trip with a night and day stop-over at Taipei, visited the night market satisfying tummy with food on the night market and visited some places in the morning.

Then off we flew to New York, After that on big coach to Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Niagara Fall and Toronto. 

Off to another flight to Orlando's Disneyland. Then missed the flight to Las Vegas because of the security check. We were delayed 4 hours detoured to Sharlotte airport and then to Las Vegas, joining all of our other worried friends.

Then on bus again to L.A. and then the 14 hour flight was like nothing. Stayed a night at the airport hotel in Taipei, which is so far the worst hotel.

We have been pampered with The Westins, Marriots, Sheratons, and The Palazzo, sigh.... All the Chinese food were superb except one that actually opened by someone related to a friend from Klang Banting. Small world.

Western food was at the revolving lounge at Toronton CN tower and Swan Hotel World within Disneyland. We missed our favourite Italian restaurant in Venetian because our show to Phantom of Opera started at 7pm.

It was Jersey Boy the night before Phantom at The Palazzo Hotel.

This log is just an outline so I can mark the date. I should return another day to give more description.

God is good. It's a good holiday.

Fête de la Musique

Listening to 92.9fm. Making sure on the phone that bands are there at stage 1 or 2 at Pusat Bandaraya Damansara.

Somehow feel this is another milestone. I have to pause and set up an altar kind of thing.

A Chinese phrase has been in my mind the entire day. Sin Li Lu Cheng. Literally means the journeyor the heart.

Going away to Kuantan tomorrow. It will be a great time to hide away and have quality time with God. He's already moved me just thinking of it.

Of not being there to see Fete de la Musique, is hard for me. To the bands out there, enjoy yourself. Physically not there but know that my thoughts are full of prayer for you guys and gals. I rehearse and see in my spirit what it would be like to be there.

One Year After BthatGuy

You like it or not, it's a generic name now. Iscf Klang, iscf here or iscf there.  

Funny thing is, on the very moment when someone called me to shut down iscf management, it was exactly the moment I heard a familiar voice prompting to a new direction, again but clearer. What I struggled 3 to 4 years looking for new leads to bring iscf there but could not happen. At that moment it became crystal clear while the kind advice was still being spoken. I laughed while that person was still talking on the phone with me. She meant well. But God knew it better. (Laugh because finally it's clear with direction. Laugh because I knew it's not an easy task. Chinese has it said better, "bitter laugh")

But BthatGuy was the beginning to that. No way around it. So I ran the program unless I wanted to spend another 3-4 years in circle.  

Lining up all the incidents up to this date, I could see how God was already there even in the seemingly failure of BthatGuy Conference.

Seemingly (chuckle). Failure. That was my point of arguement with Him. If He wanted me to go on with the program the result would be just bad. But if I cancelled, I could at least save the deposit money for something else. 

Well, I ran the program, anyway, to the faces of opposition. 

Thanks to all the good feedbacks on BthatGuy from all the good people, friends. They just rock. And if I said they said all those nice words to help me feel better it would be unfair to them. Because even the hired technicians (most of them were non believers) were in awe of the presence of God. Those attended commented with saying they felt they were hand picked by God to be there to have an encounter with God.  

Hahaha...I told them, to have spent so much money to have a "private session" for you and God, you ARE very expensive and you must be VERY important to Him. 

I knew they have a destiny in God.

And I have one, too.

MRSC Third Year

MRSC is coming to its third year in 22 more days. I am sick nervous and butterflies flutter so much that my stomach is cramped constantly.

The unexpected is: I think MRSC is going out of hand. I mean after last year, I thought Aha! it will be piece of cake for 2007, after all just re invent. Well, I miscalculated its snowballing effect. 

The best part is : Adeline has come out with new design for 2008 and it is so cool.

The mix feeling is: I am inviting quite many pastors, friends or foes, it's too late now with the invitations already out. I do not know how to prepare for this.  

The craziness is : I can look forward to the finishing of it, good or bad, on the 3rd Dec - a hide away to either lick my wound or secretly celebrate the victory, whichever, a long heave of relief is reality. A relief which has the same likeness when you have a word of prophecy awaiting for its release. When you have summoned up enough guts and awaited the right timing to release it, man, the release of it is a high. So yea, I am an addict. Addict to what I do not exactly know.

Allan called to speak with me. He asked if I have time to speak? (Smile) "I am busy for all of you in the MRSC and when you call how can I have no time?" Allan Cheah is singing YOU.

ONE ROCK

Thought I will dedicate an entry to ONE ROCK. It was last Saturday actually. A new concept, a new beginning of patnership with NGO and governement agancies in an outdoor concert to advocate a drug free generation. I have always wanted to do this (outdoor and anti drug) and tried to find my way to it. What I did not expect is it will one day so soon fall on my lap. God is good. It does not just happen that I was suddenly surrounded by people that will work with me toward the same goal, the favor I have with different parties, the vision that is caught by musicians and the finances that came in to support the event.

I do not know how to describe this exactly. It's like the Mario Brothers computer game. Mario keeps going forward and on his way, he is to pick up things along his journey. Sometimes, we make him take a few steps backward just to pick up something blinking to catch his and our attention. Some of these gifts come wrapped in token of chests, flowers, coins & etc and they will burst into bonus with numerical value when picked.

ONE ROCK is a bonus unexpected. It's not about ONE ROCK but the 'value' that I am benefitting from it. It may seemed like I am taking a detour away from MRSC, but by taking up this project, I feel I am being expanded in faith level, guts feeling, and natural abiblity to do a few other things better. I think they call it soft skills. It's a marked improvement, a something that's not there or insignificant suddenly leap a notch higher and  I actually go, wow, that must be God. 

Disclaimer: I have never sustained playing any computer game more than ten minutes more than one time in any single year. Therefore my description to the Mario brother may not be technically correct. It's used as illustration only because I do not  know what is the other called that has Disney cartoon characters in it but fated into the toil as Mario Brothers. ...Does he really have a brother? It was always a loner I see jumping up and down, going to and fro working his sweat out (assumed) but still smiling all the time?