Aiiyyaaaarrr....check this out!!
This one’s for all the parents out there who will inevitably have to deal with their child going through the ‘I wanna be a drummer’ phase. Instead of having to shell out a ridiculous amount of money for a drumset that will be forgotten in 2 months why not instead shell out a slightly-less ridiculous amount for this electronic version.
Besides taking up far less floor space than a real set this USB drum kit is also completely silent save for the quiet thumps of drumsticks on the rubber pads. It connects to your PC via included software where the actual drum hits are converted into one of 233 realistic drum samples which can be heard through the computer’s speakers or even better, a pair of headphones. The kit’s six playing pads are also velocity sensitive to adapt to your playing or music style and can be even be choked (stopped) by grabbing them with your hand.
The USB Drum Kit can be found at Firebox.com for USD$244.10.
Woahhh this is wayy cool....a USB drum kit set connecting to the com....and it's wayyy cheaper than the ones found at yamaha and all.
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh......I want ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!
*ahem ok ok, compose yourself man...*
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....I still want ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Oh man...someone please tell me that this is available locally?
Hmm...it has been kinda chillin' for the past 2 weeks. Seems to be pretty much filled with food and rest days mostly? Rest days from the holidays, and falling sick.
Anyway, my colleagues and I popped over to this western restaurant, 'West End', on last last friday. I must say, it's a really cool place!
It's actually a movie themed restaurant...really nice romantic ambience
Oooh...check out the Lord of The Rings poster
Serviettes that look like a menu
Tried the garlic steak...and I must say, it's one of the best steaks I've ever had!
Very nicely done, even for the side dishes
A really cool classy hexagonal coffee cup :D
Have been wanting to try the food there ever since seeing some photos of the food there.
Menu not as overwhelming as Botak's, but still a fine variety
Tried the cajun chicken...pretty good I'd say. But I think I was spoilt by the earlier better lunch I had....oh no...I think I'm another step away from my aim to train up for IPPT. Oops.
How I wished for the ex-PAF people to be around...just to have the time with each other again. I missed those times. It used to be hard, to go for the sessions from army camp. But now when I have the time, everything's changed.
Sighh. Even for the current group, with talks about transition and all, I wonder where it all leads up to next. Oh well.
Ooh...I had the honour of playing drums for Chris and Siew Choo's wedding. Congrats to them. I must say...it must really be so awesome for them. Just the thought that as they started into the service...what is on their minds? I mean...they're only a few minutes and a vow away from a life changing moment where they make the committment to journey together....to be united as husband and wife. Woahh...kinda blows my mind as I thought about it.
Kinda reminded of an image as I looked at this...
..an image that's...well... =)
Had the chance to stay overnight at yanquan's house for a movie marathon. Mmm....don't really have the time for such stuff ever since I started work...where time isn't as free as they used to be. And even if I had the time, I'm usually half dead from the work for anything else.
Errr...no...that's not me waking up in the morning with bad hair...
She just couldn't resist my soothing touch =D
"Aiyoo...so shiok. Don't feel like getting up man.
Maybe if I act cute, he will sayang me moreee."
"Chh'...acting cute just to get attention...tsk tsk..."
"Eh...who you saying acting cute huhh??! You want to fight is it?!?!"
Oh, I finally got the chance to try the N.Y. Pizza. But didn't quite turn out as hoped though...
Happy sister and happy brother
Please don't try the spicky chicks if you can't handle spicy stuff,
we all had hotdog lips after eating it. =S
When you've got food infront of you, and the people are more concerned
with taking photos, it says alot about the food =D
I wonder if those activities above combined together caused me to fall sick over the last week. Oh well, but it gave me a really long break. Basically only had a 2-day work week. Was kinda glad to be back in office for work on Friday...heh..weird...
Casual and blackie in office. I LOVE fridays in office =D
It's been cool ever since my colleague collected her new car after an accident,
been driving around to places for lunch, especially on Fridays.
(Did I mention that I LOVE Fridays at work?!)
Ehh....
...a carpark for boats?
This could only mean...
...lunch at SYC again! =D
Simple beef hor fun, but it's nice! Mmmmm...
Seems like a cool place to chill out at...but I think it should be pretty ex.
Well well...the haze has finally let up. Things are getting tropical again....instead of being like hazy genting highlands. The sun is out once again. A cool time of rest it has been....but somehow, within, still plenty of thoughts and all running around. Stillness within, I'm still longing for.
Find rest my soul....in Christ alone.
I look around....and I see much to lament about. Many a things to cry for...for grace, for justice, for pardon, for fairness, for deliverance, for answer, for vindication...if I would have the strength. I was feeling so tired, and frustrated with the things around...but then I read, and I see all their online outcries of pain and loneliness, of dejections and helplessness...how can I leave them alone?
But I'm not a savior. I have not what it takes to save them or turn things around just like that. I am not any better, but I understand how it feels to be lost and alone, where people and things around you just move on without you, leaving you the stranded remains of what happened, to face the reality with. It is a familiar path.
What can I give? I look within and I find not a word of cheer to lift them up with, nor a shoulder strong enough to support them.
So I turned to His words, and onto my hands, He placed these it seems, unto me and my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ I believe. May you who chance upon these words by His grace, find comfort in them. I shall let His words speak for themselves, ending my post with the hope for the day to come, where together with my brothers and sisters, we approach our Savior, recounting the days on earth, sustained nothing more than...His amazing grace.
-deqi
Encourage those who are struggling.
Don't know what to say? Then open your bible...
To the grief stricken: “God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you’” (Heb. 13:5 NIV).
To the guilt ridden: “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1 NIV).
To the jobless: “In all things God works for the good of those who love him” (Rom. 8:28 NIV).
To those who feel beyond God’s grace: “Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NIV).
a Max Lucado devotional,
28th Oct
[Amazing Grace] - John Newton
Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.
'Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear,
And Grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come.
'Tis Grace hath brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me.
His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun.
"Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us,
so that...we might have hope."
(Romans 15:4)
Boy....it has been really quiet in office this week.
With 1 colleague away in India for 3 weeks, another 1 on leave, and 1 on MC...it's deafeningly quiet in my office area. Add in the bad haze...we've got ourselves a gloomy start to a week man.
Had a late relaxing solitude lunch as I wanted to avoid the lunch crowd. Thankfully this eating place had a fish & chips set lunch for the day...helped to perk up my day. =)
A fish & chips set with soursop drink for $4+. Pretty cool.
Really loved the relaxing environment here.
Would have stayed longer to chill, if not for the haze.
Managed to have a chat with evan over the weekend after our worship prac, which was cool. Didn't really have much chance to do that all along. Sighh...we're all so busy, busy....
Have been kinda reminded lately of some people whom I've lost touched with.
Saw Grace on 1 of the evenings on my way home. Though I have her friendster, it's really great, seeing her again. Brought back memories. Wonder how all those crossroad people are each getting on.
Bumped into Alex as well. And...woah...I'm really surprised at where he is at the moment. I've been pushing back our meeting up....cause I don't really know how to say things to him...what's happened and all. But seeing him again, makes me wanna. Really miss the times we've shared. Guess it's time soon, to meet up.
And on Sunday, hearing the lady share her precious moments with the church...I couldn't help but tear. When they were younger...how things were...how things could have turned out to be. We come to realise that certain diverging paths in life, once taken, never leads back to the same path again...no matter how much we hope.
But no matter.....as long as we walk in the same direction, the reunion at the End destination is much more important, and worth looking forward to, in the face of differences on this side of life.
Oops...I'm rattling again =D
Well....found this whole bunch of snapshots taken along the way through this few weeks. Just some daily simple moments in my simple life. =)
A simple supper with the peeps after Paf one night at Simpang Bedok.
This "Plaster Prata" I had....which I kinda regret every trying looking at the picture now again.
A haze-y reservoir. It doesn't smell nice...but it looks cool.
'Light of the world'
Breakfast in office, with a dose of spiritual nourishment
If only recognising and following our calling is so straightforward and easy at times huh?
Ever get the feeling of homesick....being fenced up and kept away from 'Home'? Kinda like our life on earth...it's seeing our destination through the fence that keeps us perservering on till the end...isn't it?
The bird's perched on a line...seeing the world go by all around him...
Another one of those 'lunch-alone' meals at a simple cafe next to NUS. Pretty good =)
Taking the narrow path one Saturday evening after worship prac
A death outside my house.
For something so fragile, He certainly took the effort to decorate and beautify in creation.
On Sunday morning just before service started.
Expressing and reflecting all of me in the drums...unto Him.
Well well....our 2 reporters, Ah Qi and Ah Lup are back from their dinner with botak.......Botak Jones that is.
With all the recent hype surrounding the stark, mane deficient 'egg head' famed stall...our 2 reporters decided to brave the storm (haze, more like it) and the crowds to get the scoop on what's the big deal about this western stall in a heartland coffeeshop in clementi.
Our 2 work-day battle worn hungry beings met and made their way over to the coffeeshop. It wasn't long before a neon sign greeted them.....
......perhaps it was the hunger pang.
Perhaps it was the haze...but it seemed to be just a blur blob of bright light....
....until they took a closer look....
...ah hahh!! There it was.
The unmistakable roundish egghead and "Botak Jones" staring at them.
It's dinner time!
Apparently not....
Before our 2 reporters could get their hands on the food...the final test of perserverence and desperation was the seemingly endless crowd of patrons and the 40 minutes wait.
Well...they could have just settled for a bowl of bak chor mee without hum for dinner....but nooooo.....these are 2 reporters who stopped short of having "Professionalism" for their middle names whom we are talking about. It's either the Botak way, or no dinner.
The reporters caught a glimpse of the company owner, who was indeed a hair-deficient caucasian...cool. :D
Take a look at the range of choices offered in their menu...
And finally, after some drinks, some chatting and a roll of popiah, their orders came....
Ah Lup's order of Cajun Chicken.
Succulent spice/sauce covered chicken breast meat,
with in-house topping fries and coleslaw.
Ah Qi's 'Double Botak burger set', with 2 beef patties covered in melted cheese, seasoned buns and the usual sides.
The beef was tender and juicy, goes well with the cheese.
At this moment, there was a break in transmission of the reporting mission, and we only received 2 following shots, with loud muching sounds drowning out our reports' microphones...
Well, the final field report of the food, was that it tasted pretty good and decent. But the main selling point would be its serving size....which is HUMONGOUS. Please do not attempt to eat there if you're not feeling famished or near the point of dying from starvation.
Oh and if you're going there on weekends, bring an encyclopedia set to read or something.
It could well be a long wait.
Our 2 reporters signing off.......
