I'm Yours (WindMash)

The original idea is to mash up I'm Yours by Jason Mraz with The Show by Lenka, this idea dwelt in my mind for so long. Well, I went on youtube recently and found that a lot of people already did this cover (what do I expect? Both songs have exactly the same chords progression and they're released almost the same time).

So, to top it on that, I gonna do something more. Seriously, emulating guitar strumming is NOT FUN AT ALL! Besides, both songs have the swing/beguine feel (need to use triplets), it's not the ordinary rock/pop timing, but I'll implement the rock-ish beat in it, another challenge.

A lot a lot of these:

I should spend more time on the planning and arrangement before I start. I was stuck at some point, and spent whole night to think of the arrangement. Trust me, last minute preparation never turn out to be good, I hate my initial arrangement after recording it over night (last night 1 am - 4 am)*EPIC FAIL*

Woke up kinda late today (12 noon) and start recording it again at 1 pm til 4 pm (again...) This time, decided to use something more simple, like I bet the problem was it's too complicated. It's still not good, at least better than the first one.

"David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people."
- 2 Samuel 8:15-

For the talent that The Lord have gave us, pray that we could use it wisely and for only the purpose of giving him the glory. Trust that it's by faith, that our talents and gifts will as well grow with it, as provided by The Lord. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Visiting FCC

I actually said I wanna visit Faith Christian Centre in Subang since last year, but finally able to arrange my schedule to make it there. Aw... I'm suppose to follow Elias there, but he's home, but I still got some KK cell group people there~ Luckily Paul is still around.

Outside the church and its waiting area:

It's another Saturday night student service, and their main service is on Sunday morning itself (just like KAOG). I've been here for a wedding, but it's my first time to the service.

The worship team is great, it's so rare to find a band that blends the electric guitar so well (just that they don't have a keyboardist, on holiday I guess). The sermon was about zealous for God, the preacher said he has no idea why he chose this topic at CNY season, but it just pop out like that (that's how he said it). Seriously, God has been speaking to me through him.

Worship and sermon:

Guess what, I met Reuben and Joanne in the service. They usually attend Sunday morning service, but he has plans tomorrow morning, that's why he's here today (what a coincidence that I'm here today too). After that, we had dinner at Asia City and desserts at Snowflakes. I'm so so sooooo full!

Dinner place:

One of the churchmate, Richard offered to send me home he said it's too late and kinda dangerous to go buy KTM. I had a great time talking to him in the car, drop by his office too for some errand. And finally I only knew that he stays in Cheras =.= OMG! It's a detour to send me back, really really appreciate him.

Real office:


"LORD Almighty, God of Israel, you have revealed this to your servant, saying, ‘I will build a house for you.’ So your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you."
-2 Samuel 7:27-

Lord, if this is what You want for our live, let Your will be done. Maybe You hear our prayers and show us our way. Also pray for the people that is travelling home for Chinese New Year, give them journey mercy. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Crash In A Conference

Today we went to Sunway Pyramid, accompanying Milor for his poster presentation conference. Woke up 7:30 am in the morning (zzz) to meet up with the others in office (total 4 of us, meeting another one at the place). After 1 hours of ride, we're here in Sunway Pyramid.

Chinese New Year decoration:

The conference is at Sunway Hotel, we found our way there and guess what we find~ free food! Actually it's for the conference guests, but I think we can just join. It's my first time in a conference, not my paper, but I finally understand the craving of free food from the postgrad students in phdcomic.

Conference food:

Different from normal conference, this is a poster presentation. Candidates prepare their poster (8 A4 slides) and stick it on their board, then guests will walk around. They should be standing beside their board to explain their concepts. It's truly international, there're people from UK, China, Middle East and Korea.

During conference presentation:

The conference ends at 12 noon, not too long actually. We head for lunch at Hartz, a place for chicken buffet. Surprisingly, we got ourselves 30% discount for lunch promotion! From RM 24 to RM16.80, good day indeed, but I'm still kinda filled up with the conference foods.

Entering Hartz:

Whao... just 5 pieces of chicken, I'm almost done (but I prefer the quality of the previous visit, this time aint't that nice). After a little rest, I still manage to grab some side dishes, desserts and fruits. Chit chat for a while, then continue with some shopping. Haha, we ended up leaving Sunway Pyramid at 4:30 pm, a total of 7 hours in that place.

Struggling to eat more:


"David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals."
-2 Samuel 6:5-

For these four years that You have blessed me, I give thanks to You. Pray that Lord will continue to guide us in everything that we do, study, research, social or any aspect of life. May our life glorify Your name, and bless those that have yet to know You too. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Painting Day

Timotius is back this time in Nilai worship team~ I always love playing with him, coz his the only one that will jam jazz with me. Tinaye brought a Mongolian friend that can play the "horse violin", maybe one day we will have a new instrument in the worship team.

How terrible was is that I forgot to bring my sustain pedal this time, Timotius said my reaction when I notice looks like I was falling down a valley. But engineers are brilliant enough to plug the sustain input with a converter head, so that the signal is always "1" (but can't play staccato).

Horse violin and no-pedal solution:

After that, me and Robert helped Uncle Chan to paint his car park pillars. Painting is actually quite fun, with a brush on your hand, you swept over the old dirty surface and make it look brand new *sounds like baptism*. If human can be as simple, the world would turn into heaven.

Painting the pillars:

After we're done with painting, before going for dinner~ Cheryl let us play with her new collection. A Siberian Husky puppy! Ah~ It's been so long since I play with a puppy. Haha, so bad la, after playing with Husky, Jerry the big fat and blur blur Golden Retriever doesn't look fun anymore.

Playing with Husky:

Sunday service that morning was awesome, it's been a while since I played so heartfully in a worship team. It was quite funny, the bond of the worship team was too good that everyone accidentally made a pause and glide in for one of the song, perfectly. The sermon is pretty good too, and I've knew some new students around. The best thing is~ after service, I went back and play with Husky again!

Playing with Husky round 2:


"You were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful"
-2 Samuel 1:26-

Lord, I pray for the student ministry in Nilai, and also for the people who poured out their efforts and time for this ministry. I give thanks that You had lead the students in Nottingham in the exam weeks, and they have finally finish and have a good time to relax. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Prayer Meeting for Exam

Tomorrow will be the last day of exam, although I'm not sitting for any paper, the feeling of stress still lingers around the atmosphere. Yupz, I've been through those days and it was no fun at all, that's why prayer meetings are actually necessary throughout the exam weeks.

We had our prayer meetings at Joseph and Pei Wern's house:

They just sorta facebook message me "pray?", and I'll move to their house (just 2 houses away). Everytime I reached there, there will be notes and tutorials piling over the table, and a laptop for stress level control. The worse thing is, the super tension faces of theirs.

Our uni actually has language classes:

It needs not to be formal, just a few of us (normally 4, sometimes more than that). The best part is, one of the housemate owns an upright piano. With that and a guitar, we actually had simple worship before we start. Then, we'll just pray for some specific stuffs one by one.

Prayer time:

Even before I accepted Christ, I was told that... someone is praying for me. I used to doubt that but we're actually doing it. Not only us, even ConneXion, Chiaw Min and Melody's house are having prayer meetings too, and I believe this helps to bless the students.

The moon is really nice tonight:


"The LORD has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us."
- 1 Samuel 30:23-

I give thanks for having people around who are faithful, it actually makes me pray more often, even when I'm alone. I pray that through these prayer meetings, the students would be blessed and let us be the salt and light for this place. No matter what happens, good or bad, let Your praises be on our lips. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Kajang Assembly Of God

This week, I'm going to a Saturday service in Kajang Assembly of God (KAOG). Benjamin actually attends this church if his not in KL for the weekend, and just nice Melody, XinYi and Joseph are going there as well due to exam that holds them back in Semenyih.

Sharing and the bulletin:

XinYi drove us there, but she's going back to KL after that, so we need to use the bus to go back later. I never realize that there's so many Nottingham students there, it's like a mini CF service =.= There wasn't a lot of people, less than 40 I guess. The message and worship was really great, it also kinda hit directly in me... sorta the things that I've been thinking lately.

The worship service:

The service is from 5:30 pm til 7:30 pm. After that we sorta talk with a few of the UKM students. We left for home by bus. After we walked Melody back to TTS4, me, Joseph and Benjamin took out sweet time walking up to campus for dinner.

TTS4 at night:


"Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say."
- 1 Samuel 25:24-

It's wonderful to see another congregation that is serving so faithfully. I pray that this ministry will be a blessings to the students around, that they would be able to settle worship in this place. Also praying for the last week of exam, that by Your grace they all could walk through the storm. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Invigilating Exam

My first official job after being a research student, is to take over Douglas to invigilate exam. The exam was in F3C09, a big classroom. At first, I was just OK since I got nothing to do and it's only 1 slot of 2 hours. Until I saw the modules, it's Polymer Engineering and Finite Element Analysis and 2 other modules, this should be very interesting.

I don't wear formal by the way:

It was quite a while since I wake up early for work, reach the room at 9 am and there was only me and Priscilla (another invigilator), the lecturer is also invigilating for the first time. After distributing the exam papers, we let the students on. Haha, I'm handling almost 140 students, 1 absent.

Well, my job is basically walking around make sure that they don't cheat. When they need to use the washroom, I need to "accompany" the guyz. Not too bad, I made some new friends too. One even asked "Are you a lecturer? You look very young." *syok*

I noticed students are really funny when they are having exam. There are some that layout their pens on the desk, like their from a stationary shop. There's another one that just keep on staring at me with a blur face (dunno he stress or what). I saw a student keeping time with a gold pocket watch, I guess it's something meaningful to her.

Something like this:

When the exam starts, I prayed for them in the room (silently). The stressful atmosphere is so dense, one of them even keep on asking me how much time left. I actually helped a few of them about technical stuffs if they asked, since I did the paper before.

Stress~ Stress~ Stress~

Just a little note for those who are still facing the giant. Keep your concentration and don't be distracted, it's just one week more. I know it's hard but it's now or never! There are people praying for you and your exam around, all the best.

Something to destress, after this, please go back and study ^_^


"This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said to you, I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish."
-1 Samuel 24:4-

Once again I'm praying for the students here that are taking exam. Pray that LORD, You will guide them and give them wisdom, the determination to break through this hardship. For all the achievements we've made, it's for Your glory. Even though it's not as what we wished, we will still praise You. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

4th Month of PostGrad

It's the work update again, can't believe it's already 1/3 years since I entered this miserable life. The best part so far was... the 2 weeks Christmas holiday. Other than that, I'm still kinda stuck in my lab. Oh ya, a big progress is that my equipment is now working with double solenoid (one replacing the permanent magnet).

Messy lab and new configuration:

Some new toys that I had is the bubble accelerometer, with this thing I could really keep my equipment straight. Also, we bought a lot of crocodile clips, at least the messy circuits are now more safety.

Accelerometer and crocodile clips:

The scariest thing is... my senior that just graduated (now a Dr) is back to Nottingham as a new lecturer. He actually designed a control system with LabView that can replace a DC power supply and function generator *so pro weh~*. Just one simple window, and it's able to manipulate the DC solenoid.

A visual controller through data acquisition:

Well, I really hope that experimental part is sorta done, but this doesn't mean the end of frustration. More to come... is the hate-of-all-time journals reading, and my next stage is to derive the mathematical model. Just imagine I need to write out an equation that describe the solenoids functionality, and solve it with Matlab, Arghhh! Lord... help me.

Annoying paper works:


"And about the matter you and I discussed—remember, the LORD is witness between you and me forever."
-1 Samuel 20:23-

In this stressful time that we face, I pray that The Lord will grant us with wisdom and not make is discourage. Pray for all of the students who are having exam, let it be an opportunity to glorify His name. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.