nothing much to post about, but im jus happy

haha i dunno y la but today for the first time, i feel very much betta than when i normally go to floorball trainings......mayb its cos most of the time i have very little or no sleep (like today, dats the strangest thing) AND normally i oso bring alot of troubles on my mind when coming to the court..........

today even though i didnt have much sleep and all (i feel i didnt sleep at all la, super tired now)........i felt happy coming to play floorball this morning.........we all had great game(S) haha we played 2 on 2 on 2 haha, one goal sub out........winner in loser out haha, we ended up playing about close to 50 games hahaha......shiok la..........and i think i played well partnering with kin yip today, both of us scored quite a few haha, close to the leaders terence and marcus......heh i think terence and marcus, terence scored all or most of the goals at least.........

one more thing on feeling happy and mayb staying happy at least..........its like everything else seemed to fit in really well and everything, quite nice.....i felt very good the whole day today......i guess the choice to stay happy instead of focusing on being down can be quite uplifting HAHAHA! anyway yeah i had a great time today, and i sub consciously realised i smiled more to ppl in general today and after the bgr talk and all i was abit crazy with alethia hahaha, i think its been a long time since i done dat to anyone in particular hahaha, enjoyed dat quite abit haha......

after dat was the worship session for the acm was going to start at 630pm.....haha after staying for dat, they wanted to start the acm at 730pm i think but then the quorum not met yet so they said they wanted to wait 30 mins.....then i so smart i didnt want to wait around for (what i thot was) nothing, so i went out with andrew tan and went for dinner behind church....aoh the beef ee mee was so good la, its a pity i had to rush my meal to (try) get back in time for the acm haha....but they took aliittle longer than i expected to cook the food haha so end up i was late going back for acm, i ate very fast tho (i think)...........anyway by the time i got back they all already submitted their votes ready haha.......zhi wen submitted my empty voting slip cos he thot i had already completed it haha....oh wells jus a difference of one vote........andrew managed to submit his vote cos he didnt ask anyone to keep his slip for him haha so he jus left it on the seat and walked out, then when he come back, jus nice to complete and submit the vote to deacon jeffery....lol......ok im tired, dats all for now i guess........time to bathe and go to sleep.......

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jon chua: haha lol i think dats onli applicable for female dip studs who dun go to uni lol....for ns liable guys i guess we'll be obselete for 2 years ......etc...yeah man i didnt noe rock and roll was so jialat.......

sandra: hey u have a new blog? u want me to relink u? haha let me noe k?

jonlee: haha ur watching the same season as tv? i think cannot be its not out on dvd yet in singapore.....onli the previous season is out haha....oh yeah if ur cousin happens to have lost 1, 2, 3 and the show '24' or 'house' hahaha i am quite interested to watch hahaha............or even prison break season 3, dying for dat hahaha......if have then can lend me? haha....lol less common fields then its not worth mentioning lol, i dunno if i can even get into dat kinda fields......i dun even noe wad i wanna do.......hmm but i guess not all la, those who lose themselves to good music is good wad i think..........

goldie: heyy how have u been freshie? hahah.......i freezed u today hahaha........i will reply more next time....or when i next visit ur blog....

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rock and roll -- the devil's music?

this was an email sent to me by serene........

ROCK MUSICIANS AS MEDIUMS

Updated April 19, 2007 (last updated January 2, 2002; first published June 16, 2001) (David
Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061,
866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org;

In the following statements, rock musicians testify of an outside power that has taken over them while writing and performing rock music. Some of them have actually identified this power as demonic:

JIMI HENDRIX' girlfriend, Fayne Pridgon, said: "He used to always talk about some devil or something was in him, you know. He didn't know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said, and the songs and different things like that © just came out of him. It seems to me he was so tormented and just torn apart and like he really was obsessed, you know, with something really evil" (sound track from film Jimi Hendrix, interview with Fayne Pridgon, side 4, cited by Heartbeat of the Dragon, p. 50).

"In the end you have to look at a song and not know exactly where it came from" (BRUCE
SPRINGSTEIN, Dateline, Dec. 14, 1998).

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of LED ZEPPELIN both claim that they don't know who wrote their occultic song Stairway to Heaven. Plant testified: "Pagey had written the chords and played them for me. I was holding the paper and pencil, and for some reason, I was in a very bad mood. Then all of a sudden my hand was writing out words. © I just sat there and looked at the words and then I almost leaped out of my seat" (Robert Plant, quoted by Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods, p. 164).

"I've always considered that there was some way where we were able to channel energy, and that energy was able to be, from another source, if you like, like a higher power or something, that was actually doing the work. I've often thought of us just being actually just the earthly beings that played the music because it was uncanny. Some of this music came out extremely uncanny" (Bill Ward of BLACK SABBATH, cited in Black Sabbath An Oral History, p. 7).

"It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're on stage, I feel like somebody's just moving the
pieces. ... I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic" (Stevie
Nicks of FLEETWOOD MAC, Circus, April 14, 1971).

ANGUS YOUNG, lead guitarist for AC-DC, is called the "guitar demon"; and he admitted that something takes control of the band during their concerts: "... it's like I'm on automatic pilot.
By the time we're halfway through the first number someone else is steering me. I'm just
along for the ride. I become possessed when I get on stage" (Hit Parader, July 1985, p. 60).

"We receive our songs by inspiration, like at a seance" (Keith Richards of the ROLLING STONES, Rolling Stone, May 5, 1977, p. 55).

"I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness ... that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan" (LITTLE RICHARD, cited by Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard, p. 206).

"You can't describe it [playing rock music] except to say it's like a mysterious energy that comes from the metaphysical plane and into my body. It's almost like being a medium...." (Marc Storace, vocalist with heavy-metal band KROKUS, Circus, January 31, 1984, p. 70).

"They [The Beatles] were like mediums. They weren't conscious of all they were saying, but it was coming through them" (YOKO ONO, The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Berkeley, 1982, p. 106.).

"[Of his music JOHN LENNON said] "It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium" (The Playboy Interviews, p. 203).

"It's amazing that it [the tune to 'In My Life'] just came to me in a dream. That's why I don't
profess to know anything. I think music is very mystical" (John Lennon, quoted in "The Beatles Come Together," Reader's Digest, March 2001).

"I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each
inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another" (John Lennon, People, Aug. 22, 1988, p. 70).

"When the real music comes to me, it has nothing to do with me 'cause I'm just a channel. It's given to me and I transcribe it" (John Lennon, quoted by Mickey Hart, Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music, p. 134).

"The music to 'Yesterday' came in a dream. The tune just came complete. You have to believe in magic. I can't read or write music" (PAUL MCCARTNEY, interview on Larry King Live, CNN, June 12, 2001).

"I wake up from dreams and go 'Wow, put this down on paper,' the whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. I feel that somewhere, someplace it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it into the world" (MICHAEL JACKSON, Rolling Stone, Feb. 17, 1983).

"When I hit the stage it's all of a sudden a 'magic' from somewhere that comes and the spirit
just hits you, and you just lose control of yourself" (Michael Jackson, Teen Beat: A Tribute
to Michael Jackson, Summer 1984, p. 27).

"A lot of the songs were written in 15-30 minutes, very stream-of-consciousness, as though
it was being channeled through us" (Alanis Morissette, quoted from Hells Bells2 by Eric Holmberg).

"When the Siberian shaman gets ready to go into his trance, all the villagers get together... and play whatever instruments they have to send him off [into trance and possession]. © It was the same way with The Doors when we played in concert... I think that our drug experience let us get into it... [the trance state] quicker.... It was like Jim [Morrison] was an electric shaman and we were the electric shaman's band, pounding away behind him. Sometimes he wouldn't feel like getting into the state, but the band would keep on pounding and pounding, and little by little it would take him over. God, I could send an electric shock through him with the organ. John could do it with his drumbeats" (DOORS keyboardist Ray Manzarek, cited by Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman, No One Here Gets Out Alive, pp. 158-60).

"That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen--I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music © you can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music" (Robert Fripp, guitarist for KING CRIMSON, Down Beat, June 1985, p. 61).

"I believe inspiration comes through me and that I channel it" (Jim Kerr, SIMPLE MINDS, cited by Steve Turner, Hungry for Heaven, p. 147).

John McLaughlin, leader of MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, testified: "One night we were playing and suddenly the spirit entered into me, and I was playing, but it was no longer me playing" (The Rock Report, p. 58).

Glen Tipton of JUDAS PRIEST says, "I just go crazy when I go onstage © it's like someone else takes over my body" (Hit Parader, Fall 1984, p. 6).

In 1974, JONI MITCHELL told the press of a male spirit who helps her write music. "Joni Mitchell credits her creative powers to a 'male muse' she identifies as Art. He has taken so much control of not only her music, but her life, that she feels married to him, and often roams naked with him on her 40-acre estate. His hold over her is so strong that she will excuse herself from parties and forsake lovers whenever he 'calls'" (Why Knock Rock? p. 112, citing Time magazine, Dec. 16, 1974, p. 39).

GINGER BAKER, drummer for the popular '60s band CREAM, said: "It happens to us quite often--it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us" (Bob Larson, Rock and the Church, p. 66).

JOE COCKER, who contorts grotesquely during his performances, claims that something "seizes" him when he songs rock & roll (Time magazine, cited by Bob Larson, Rock and the Church, p. 66).

"When I'm singing and in touch with the energy I'm generating, I sometimes literally have no awareness of where I am. The ego disappears, and me and my surroundings with it. © that's the reason I'm in music--to achieve that feeling" (Daryl Oates of HALL AND OATES, interview with Timothy White, 1987, Rock Lives, p. 592).

The original recording of "I Put a Spell on You" was done after the SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS and his band members got drunk and "some type of presence seemed to seize him." He began "grunting, growling, screaming, gurgling in strange unknown tongues, and wildly dancing around the studio" (Heartbeat of the Dragon, p. 40).

"Rock has always been the devil's music, you can't convince me that it isn't. I honestly believe everything I've said-I believe rock and roll is dangerous. © I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves" (DAVID BOWIE, Rolling Stone, February 12, 1976, p. 83).

"[CARLOS] SANTANA keeps a yellow legal pad handy to record the music when it comes to him 'just like a fax machine'" (Rolling Stone, March 16, 2000, p. 41).

"I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if
I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is-Satan" (OZZY OSBOURNE, Hit Parader, February 1978, p. 24).

== The End ==

reply to tag:

jon lee: haha ppl busy ma........i think its diff, u probably watching on tv.......i finish watching the season showing on tv ready, waiting for the next to come out lol..........are u sure dip gets higher pay? lol dun hav such thing la.........confirm uni grads get paid betta.........but mayb dip grads get hired more easily hahaha.....

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what is on my mind now

well alot actually.....im sorry for those ppl who have been coming to my blog and not finding the latest post changed, the fact is i haven been blogging about recent stuff.........i've beeen updating about past stuff dat i didnt really find time to blog.............and also i've been sleeping alot and watching prison break on my comm and going out and stuff like dat la.......its like dat la when u sudenly have so much time to do wad u wanna do, the list never ends...........and its like blogging is like the last thing on my mind to do cos there is nothing much to blog about daily, its jus waking up late and watching prison break, then doing abit of nonsense then the is over at 2 or 3 am then the cycle continues until i finish watching prison break and stuff like dat...........

haha cos now im having a break and since im not working and all, im pretty much slacking around quite abit..........its like dates do not really matter to me, its jus the days.........the dates are onli significant to me for my QT lol.........the day would jus be my 'marker' if there happens to be anything on like i going out or have ag etc.........

okk mayb something more recent.........i've been thinking (and mayb fretting) about alot of things lately.........like education in the future, the life to be in army, my career next time, what i wanna do, and how my half would be completed (this is cryptic haha i guess onli i would understand hahaha......) but actually now, at this point in time, i dun think im worrying so much already..........i came across this interesting thing to note, during one o my QTs from the daily bread.........it basically said dat whenever u feel worried about sumtin, like u worried u are going to fail a test or worried if some things would happen, then u say "The Lord is my sheperd ... so i'm worried to death" (or whatever it is your worried about, the worst case scenario).........for me it proved dat that contradiction or mayb oxy-moron really gave me comfort and a sense of peace...............so im not really worried about much realy cos i somehow know God has a plan for me, for everything, i jus havta take dat step of faith to really trust Him...........

hmm some things coming up.......
i will be having my graduation ceremony on the 23rd of may haha......i heard graduates will be wearing a special graduation attire for the first time in tp haha........i wonder wad it will look like haha........mayb a gown with a 'motar' hat......haha then they tell me i dun havta go into uni ready, i will get higher pay than them with this diploma already HAHAHA........how can dat be lol.......

i received my NS enlistment letter ready.........it turns out i will be wearing green uniform by 13th july haha......i got my own apprehensions about NS, its not the training la cos i dun think the training or work will really be dat hard to get thru.........im jus worried about the completion of the half (cryptic again).............there will be events needing ....... aiya i shouldnt be thinking so much, jus trust God la..........

i guess there is nothing much ready.......end here for now haha

reply to tags:

gillian: haha ok....thanks.....

jon chua: gardens got place to play so many things meh? or rather i know they do hav space buit i heard alot of things cannot do or play at gardens at many places cos its new and they dun want anything broken and stuff........eh u sure or not? i thot u hardly updated lol hahaa........

er sao: haha i finally updated.......heh how are u doing overseas? hahaha miss someone (erhem ahem) already? hahaha........

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