Well, it's a lovely monday afternoon now the 31st of December. The very last day of the year. Usually we like to take this day to reflect on what God has done for us all year and boy do I have a lot to reflect on.
Starting with this very website's content. The Revive Concert 2007.
It has been quite a rollercoaster ride really. There have been tremendous ups and tremendous downs. Some of which I will not go into detail. Firstly the overall picture. I believe it went well. I believe success doesn't have to be defined by how many people turned up. I believe success doesn't have to depend on how many people turned to Jesus that day. Sure it was an evangelical event but I think God is smiling on our efforts. I did mention to some of the crew before - if all fails and everything is rubbish at least we learn from it. Which is exactly what I've gained from this experience. I've learned so much about myself and so much about depending on God to do the miracles. I remember what Pastor Timothy said in his prayer with us before the concert and also what Mark Hall of Casting Crowns said - God doesn't need us to do these things. He's going to do all these great things and He just wants us to come along.
Quite alot went wrong on the concert day. Firstly, the warm up practice started a little rough. Then Adam's string broke right before the song that needed him for the intro. The microphone sounds in the front were too blaring and the sounds at the back were to muffled. Not many people heard what Nigel had to share. I caught most of it. You can ask him to enlighten you if you didn't catch it. Nobody responded to the call for prayers but Pastor Tim prayed for everyone nonetheless. We had an encore that none of us prepared for. I was entirely out of breath and my stomach was hurting nearing the end. I don't know how tired the other singers were but I was entirely out of breath. And my throat was incredibly dry.
Still, despite all these things, I have to say - a job well done. As you will see in my testimony later on - which I promise will come - there were several aims in this concert. One was of course to evangelise to the public. But there was another - to learn how to conduct something of this magnitude in order to do it again in the future for the benefit of the College ministry that will happen in the future. Now is the time to start. Though those who are in the current group may not be here when the Taylor's College opens (me included) we will use this experience to teach those that will be here when it opens. It has been a great learning experience. It has been an amazing challenge for me, putting this thing together. Countless times I was completely clueless about how to go about doing things but the Lord has provided endlessly. The Lord took charge of Saturday's concert.
Above all, there was one more achievement. The bonds of friendship between everyone in the concert team has been strengthened by an incredible bound. I rest easy knowing I have brought such wonderful individuals together. It has been a blessing working with them, jamming with them and praying with them.
That's it for the live updates this time around. For those of you who've enjoyed the concert, drop a comment. And don't tune out yet. There are some more updates coming your way. My personal account of how the concert came to be - I'm sure you're all waiting for that. So stay tuned.
-Kj out.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
I haven't been updating for a bit.
We've finally got ourselves an LCD operator. That problem has finally been settled. Praise the Lord.
There are however some other hitches. We've had some more practice sessions after Christmas. Friday's another one coming in a few hours from now. The major problem I have now is that the sound is crappy. We don't have a proper sound techie at the moment and Uncle Chris is perhaps the only one who can save us now. We've got 1 more day to sound check and see if everything works properly. Other than that we're getting along nicely with the songs and arrangements. Adam was the next one to fall sick. I myself haven't completely healed yet. My nasal cavity is still clogged with the biggest amount of goop you can imagine.
There are some leftover fliers and I have no idea what I want to do with them. I expected some response from the other churches but I guess we're on our own this time around. No posters and fliers circulated anywhere else. I'll just paste the rest of the posters around the place and distribute the fliers to perhaps a last housing area or something.
I do hope we can sort out the sound system in this final practice session. It's only a day away. My nerves are starting to get to me in a way that I've never felt before. I'm just shrugging off every question I've got. I don't know who's coming. I don't know if it's going to work. I don't know if they'll like the music. I don't know anything. I just know we've got to do this.
Come to think of it, I'll be writing 'aftermath' posts soon enough. And my personal testimony isn't up yet. So wait for that. I'm sorry for the extreme delay. It'll be up soon. I promise.
-KJ out
We've finally got ourselves an LCD operator. That problem has finally been settled. Praise the Lord.
There are however some other hitches. We've had some more practice sessions after Christmas. Friday's another one coming in a few hours from now. The major problem I have now is that the sound is crappy. We don't have a proper sound techie at the moment and Uncle Chris is perhaps the only one who can save us now. We've got 1 more day to sound check and see if everything works properly. Other than that we're getting along nicely with the songs and arrangements. Adam was the next one to fall sick. I myself haven't completely healed yet. My nasal cavity is still clogged with the biggest amount of goop you can imagine.
There are some leftover fliers and I have no idea what I want to do with them. I expected some response from the other churches but I guess we're on our own this time around. No posters and fliers circulated anywhere else. I'll just paste the rest of the posters around the place and distribute the fliers to perhaps a last housing area or something.
I do hope we can sort out the sound system in this final practice session. It's only a day away. My nerves are starting to get to me in a way that I've never felt before. I'm just shrugging off every question I've got. I don't know who's coming. I don't know if it's going to work. I don't know if they'll like the music. I don't know anything. I just know we've got to do this.
Come to think of it, I'll be writing 'aftermath' posts soon enough. And my personal testimony isn't up yet. So wait for that. I'm sorry for the extreme delay. It'll be up soon. I promise.
-KJ out
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Well, I haven't written anything about the past two days' practice sessions. I've been sick as I think you already read previously, but it is slowly escalating to something worse. My throat is incredibly infected, my nose is blocked to oblivion and I'm developing a cough. And the doctor said my tonsils are swollen. Sounds like I'm dieing doesn't it?
Anyway, I have faith that somehow or other, God is going to heal me and get my singing voice ready for the 29th. But that doesn't mean I'll recklessly eat all my curries and scream my lungs out everyday. No, I have to take care of myself too but I have faith that my recovery will be in time for the 29th. It's a terrible time to get sick and some of the other crew members are sick as well. I think Nigel is ill too, and Adrian is just recovering. I pray no one else falls sick in between this time.
We've started going through the entire concert on Thursday. I tell you, the stamina that some of these guys have is incredible. Particularly Isaac. After 2 rounds of playing the ENTIRE concert program he's still got energy to muck about and do nonsense. Sure we've all had a good laugh, but I never thought I'd meet a real life energizer bunny. The practices are going well. Some of the songs are still a bit rough. For the most part, it's moving relatively smoothly. We've covered the entire program 4 times already I think. It's all coming together slowly. We've got a couple more practice sessions coming up. The only thing remains is for the rest of the crew (including me as well) to memorize everything. Chords, lyrics, rhythms, intros, outtros, when to come in, when to stop etc etc. Once we get that, we're ready to rock and roll.
Flyers will be distributed to PJS today. We've just started printing the copies - 1500 of them. The leftovers will be used to distribute at tonights caroling and also if we have the time and extra flyers we're going to venture into the shopping malls. Isaac is adamant we should try the shopping complexes and I think it cannot go extremely terribly. In the event that we'll get chased out, at least we'll get some good exercise running from Security.
We still need people for the Sound/Light and LCD. The LCD operator is becoming more and more important as I view the priorities of recruitment. If we don't have someone for LCD, we're pretty much lyricless for everyone in the crowd. Still a hitch there. But I think that can be solved tomorrow.
I realise that the entire concert now is only exactly a week away. At this time next week we will be all nervous and preparing to get things done and preparing to go on stage. At this time next week everything will have finally worked out and the concert would be in full gear. There's no pulling back now. And I still have no idea what I'm doing. I guess when all this is over, my testimony about how God works would've just grown 10 times over.
That's it for this update. Merry Christmas in advance and see you on Boxing day.
-KJ out
Anyway, I have faith that somehow or other, God is going to heal me and get my singing voice ready for the 29th. But that doesn't mean I'll recklessly eat all my curries and scream my lungs out everyday. No, I have to take care of myself too but I have faith that my recovery will be in time for the 29th. It's a terrible time to get sick and some of the other crew members are sick as well. I think Nigel is ill too, and Adrian is just recovering. I pray no one else falls sick in between this time.
We've started going through the entire concert on Thursday. I tell you, the stamina that some of these guys have is incredible. Particularly Isaac. After 2 rounds of playing the ENTIRE concert program he's still got energy to muck about and do nonsense. Sure we've all had a good laugh, but I never thought I'd meet a real life energizer bunny. The practices are going well. Some of the songs are still a bit rough. For the most part, it's moving relatively smoothly. We've covered the entire program 4 times already I think. It's all coming together slowly. We've got a couple more practice sessions coming up. The only thing remains is for the rest of the crew (including me as well) to memorize everything. Chords, lyrics, rhythms, intros, outtros, when to come in, when to stop etc etc. Once we get that, we're ready to rock and roll.
Flyers will be distributed to PJS today. We've just started printing the copies - 1500 of them. The leftovers will be used to distribute at tonights caroling and also if we have the time and extra flyers we're going to venture into the shopping malls. Isaac is adamant we should try the shopping complexes and I think it cannot go extremely terribly. In the event that we'll get chased out, at least we'll get some good exercise running from Security.
We still need people for the Sound/Light and LCD. The LCD operator is becoming more and more important as I view the priorities of recruitment. If we don't have someone for LCD, we're pretty much lyricless for everyone in the crowd. Still a hitch there. But I think that can be solved tomorrow.
I realise that the entire concert now is only exactly a week away. At this time next week we will be all nervous and preparing to get things done and preparing to go on stage. At this time next week everything will have finally worked out and the concert would be in full gear. There's no pulling back now. And I still have no idea what I'm doing. I guess when all this is over, my testimony about how God works would've just grown 10 times over.
That's it for this update. Merry Christmas in advance and see you on Boxing day.
-KJ out
Monday, December 17, 2007
Today's another day and another practice session. I wouldn't say it was a bad day, just a slightly rougher one. I believe the devil has started his offensive. Typical of him to be a procrastinating bozo but last minute attacks are still attacks.
The first form of offensive has taken the form of a slightly rough practice song. There's just one particular song that started getting on nerves today. We will get it right, eventually, but it's so frustrating to hear something and not be able to come close to what it really is when you play it. I think it really is all in our heads. Sure it has to sound good. But that doesn't mean it has to sound perfectly like the original. I have to think up some ways to make the song our own.
Which is going to be really difficult considering the second attack the devil has given. I'm falling sick. I'm not sick yet. It's just that feeling you get when you know you're going to fall sick. Your throat starts acting up and your head feels a little light. I can't afford to fall sick now. Not so near the 29th. But thinking on the bright side, if I recover before the 29th, I won't be ill ON the 29th. But that's just very very positive thinking. I'm going to take some rest, drink a billion liters of water and sweat myself healthy. And pray that God get rid of this pathetic attempt to slow me down. I shall not be moved. Practice continues tomorrow and I will be fit as a fiddle. That's not a particularly good comparison by the way. A fiddle is a big chunk of dead wood with some metal strings all over it covered in varnish. I don't want to be some dead wood. I'm going to be as fit as a ... fit thing.
Pray for me that this sickness doesn't affect me for the 29th. Pray that I might get well immediately and pray that no one else in the crew catches an illness.
-KJ out.
The first form of offensive has taken the form of a slightly rough practice song. There's just one particular song that started getting on nerves today. We will get it right, eventually, but it's so frustrating to hear something and not be able to come close to what it really is when you play it. I think it really is all in our heads. Sure it has to sound good. But that doesn't mean it has to sound perfectly like the original. I have to think up some ways to make the song our own.
Which is going to be really difficult considering the second attack the devil has given. I'm falling sick. I'm not sick yet. It's just that feeling you get when you know you're going to fall sick. Your throat starts acting up and your head feels a little light. I can't afford to fall sick now. Not so near the 29th. But thinking on the bright side, if I recover before the 29th, I won't be ill ON the 29th. But that's just very very positive thinking. I'm going to take some rest, drink a billion liters of water and sweat myself healthy. And pray that God get rid of this pathetic attempt to slow me down. I shall not be moved. Practice continues tomorrow and I will be fit as a fiddle. That's not a particularly good comparison by the way. A fiddle is a big chunk of dead wood with some metal strings all over it covered in varnish. I don't want to be some dead wood. I'm going to be as fit as a ... fit thing.
Pray for me that this sickness doesn't affect me for the 29th. Pray that I might get well immediately and pray that no one else in the crew catches an illness.
-KJ out.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Yet another practice session.
These practices are really tiring. Anyone in the concert group will testify to that. It's taking a particularly large toll on my voice. And my back. For some reason, my back is aching. Nigel's as well. Funny... I always thought back pain was the sign of old age. But then again, white hair used to be the sign of old age but just today I realised what a lot of it Ivan's got.
Well, seamless it isn't but the flow of the songs was there today. They seemed to blend well. I would consider it pretty damn good already. Boy are all of us in for a night of really good music. And I'm not just saying that because I know this band. They are really good. Better than my own group back in 2006's New Year's Eve concert.
Had a minor setback today. The girls couldn't make it and we were planning to do 2 songs from Mabel's selection. Sadly something has come up and they had plans. We went ahead anyway with the first 5 songs. Nothing too major yet. Just pray that this doesn't happen all that often.
Speaking of other plans, we've got a big practice stint coming up real soon. It's a daily practice from Monday to Friday. I really hope that we get some real commitment so that we can get some things done. It's going to be particularly stressful for all the vocalists. Me included. I was so out of breath after going through the first few songs I think 4-5 times. Let's hope my stamina holds up.
We are still looking for volunteers to help in the select few areas that require lots of aid. Particularly now (and I've realised how urgently we need this) the sound and light and LCD operators. Pray that God will put it on someone's heart to serve as a volunteer in this area. And also the other areas - Traffic Control, Crowd Control, Manual Labour and Clean Up.
The final stint of the concert advertising is about to begin. With the posters up, we'll have them around the area soon enough. Let's hope we've made them attractive enough to really draw people in.
So, still alot to do in this short time. I suddenly realised that the concert is only 2 weeks away. Yikes. We're really treading in deep water now. If the Lord hadn't gone before us, we'd be seriously lost. Funny story though is how sometimes I get asked how we're supposed to do certain things and the only answer I can give is 'I don't know'. The best example of this was when we were giving out flyers the first time around. Edward and Nigel mentioned 'We should plan first how we're going to do this' and I'd just go and say 'Let's just go and do it!' and they'd ask 'how?' to which I'd give my famous shrug and 'I have no idea'.
In truth I really have no idea how this works. I have never done anything like it and have no idea how it will all come together. But trust in the Lord that it will. It is his plan after all. I think.
So pray that the small details will be ironed out soon enough. Before we really come to crisis.
-KJ out.
I'll post up some pictures in the next post for you to enjoy. Pictures of the flyers and posters.
Well, seamless it isn't but the flow of the songs was there today. They seemed to blend well. I would consider it pretty damn good already. Boy are all of us in for a night of really good music. And I'm not just saying that because I know this band. They are really good. Better than my own group back in 2006's New Year's Eve concert.
Had a minor setback today. The girls couldn't make it and we were planning to do 2 songs from Mabel's selection. Sadly something has come up and they had plans. We went ahead anyway with the first 5 songs. Nothing too major yet. Just pray that this doesn't happen all that often.
Speaking of other plans, we've got a big practice stint coming up real soon. It's a daily practice from Monday to Friday. I really hope that we get some real commitment so that we can get some things done. It's going to be particularly stressful for all the vocalists. Me included. I was so out of breath after going through the first few songs I think 4-5 times. Let's hope my stamina holds up.
We are still looking for volunteers to help in the select few areas that require lots of aid. Particularly now (and I've realised how urgently we need this) the sound and light and LCD operators. Pray that God will put it on someone's heart to serve as a volunteer in this area. And also the other areas - Traffic Control, Crowd Control, Manual Labour and Clean Up.
The final stint of the concert advertising is about to begin. With the posters up, we'll have them around the area soon enough. Let's hope we've made them attractive enough to really draw people in.
So, still alot to do in this short time. I suddenly realised that the concert is only 2 weeks away. Yikes. We're really treading in deep water now. If the Lord hadn't gone before us, we'd be seriously lost. Funny story though is how sometimes I get asked how we're supposed to do certain things and the only answer I can give is 'I don't know'. The best example of this was when we were giving out flyers the first time around. Edward and Nigel mentioned 'We should plan first how we're going to do this' and I'd just go and say 'Let's just go and do it!' and they'd ask 'how?' to which I'd give my famous shrug and 'I have no idea'.
In truth I really have no idea how this works. I have never done anything like it and have no idea how it will all come together. But trust in the Lord that it will. It is his plan after all. I think.
So pray that the small details will be ironed out soon enough. Before we really come to crisis.
-KJ out.
I'll post up some pictures in the next post for you to enjoy. Pictures of the flyers and posters.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
POSTERS!
The Posters are finally DonE! I will be posting up some images of these things too on the website. Maybe I'll even use it as the background. But anyway, big big big big big humongous round of appreciation for our very own Adrian who has toiled endless nights to bring satisfaction to my standards. I did warn him that I'd be particular about how it looks. But I guess 80% is good enough. I'm really really pleased with the end product.
Let me just tell you guys about the process of making the flyers and posters right here.
I first approached Adrian to do the flyers because he's done stuff like this before. I'm not one for design. I only know how to tell you how it's supposed to look like and not really how to do it. I can draw on paper what I want, but putting it into actual digital imaging? I can't do that to save my life and anybody else's. Anyway, we both met up (with Edward tagging along and alot of subsequent ridiculous joking that invovled fido dido. You don't want to know about that) and I drew him a quick sketch of what I wanted it to look like. And when I say quick sketch, I really mean quick sketch. For him to turn my sketches into reality is just amazing.
To understand how much work was truly invovled, you can ask him. You can also ask him how much sleep he's lost. I presume it's alot since he does have a day job (sometimes night shift) as well and I take almost all the rest of his time to do these things. He does what I tell him to do and sends me a sample. I tell him what I want corrected and he goes back to work. And again and again and again. Each one takes maybe a couple of minutes? But the entire conception of the ideas takes days and days and days. In my computer folder of test subjects, I am happy to report that we made a grand total of 13 samples for the flyers and 3 actual ones, 21 poster samples and 1 actual one, and 5 miscellaneous tests. Anyone who knows about photoshop can perhaps understand how much work Adrian has put in to this. that's a total of more than 40 photoshop creations.
That is alot of work. And I am really happy we've finally got it done.
BIG BIG BIG BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ADRIAN!
If you'd like to drop a comment, now is the time to do so and really give this guy a pat on the back. He's entering the hall of fame.. of something.
Cheers.
-KJ out
P.S. I'm writing my short testimonial record of how this concert came to be. It'll probably be up tomorrow.
Let me just tell you guys about the process of making the flyers and posters right here.
I first approached Adrian to do the flyers because he's done stuff like this before. I'm not one for design. I only know how to tell you how it's supposed to look like and not really how to do it. I can draw on paper what I want, but putting it into actual digital imaging? I can't do that to save my life and anybody else's. Anyway, we both met up (with Edward tagging along and alot of subsequent ridiculous joking that invovled fido dido. You don't want to know about that) and I drew him a quick sketch of what I wanted it to look like. And when I say quick sketch, I really mean quick sketch. For him to turn my sketches into reality is just amazing.
To understand how much work was truly invovled, you can ask him. You can also ask him how much sleep he's lost. I presume it's alot since he does have a day job (sometimes night shift) as well and I take almost all the rest of his time to do these things. He does what I tell him to do and sends me a sample. I tell him what I want corrected and he goes back to work. And again and again and again. Each one takes maybe a couple of minutes? But the entire conception of the ideas takes days and days and days. In my computer folder of test subjects, I am happy to report that we made a grand total of 13 samples for the flyers and 3 actual ones, 21 poster samples and 1 actual one, and 5 miscellaneous tests. Anyone who knows about photoshop can perhaps understand how much work Adrian has put in to this. that's a total of more than 40 photoshop creations.
That is alot of work. And I am really happy we've finally got it done.
BIG BIG BIG BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ADRIAN!
If you'd like to drop a comment, now is the time to do so and really give this guy a pat on the back. He's entering the hall of fame.. of something.
Cheers.
-KJ out
P.S. I'm writing my short testimonial record of how this concert came to be. It'll probably be up tomorrow.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Well, minor setback yet again.
Tomorrow is the 7th and it happens to be Taylor's College's open day. I thought of using that opportunity to attack some passerby-s and hand out a ton more flyers. Turns out, I have a problem. Firstly I forgot that I left all the flyers that I had already printed in church. Secondly, my master copy is crumpled so I have to reprint. Thirdly I ran out of printer paper. Fourthly I've been a little busy this week and have had no time at all to visit the shops.
Oh darn.
The funny thing is that I keep reminding myself to nick some paper from my Music School and somehow or other I keep forgetting to do that. I might go and photocopy some tomorrow and attack the crowd on Saturday (still Taylor's Open day. Funnily enough, they have 3 open days so why don't they call it 'Taylors College Open DAYS'?) and I might be going in solo.
Isaac is thinking of attacking the Sunway Pyramid crowd either way. We'll see how that turns out.
The next practice session is a little far off - 14th of this month. It's all Adam's fault.
Just kidding.
Adam is off to school camp and immediately after that, can you believe it, it's Teen Street and Edward and Ivan are going. So we've got an entire bunch of days with no practices and I just pray and hope that everyone doesn't forget what we've already done. So guys, pray that we remember the past 2 practice sessions.
That's it for this minor update.
KJ out.
P.S. If you're from CBC, drop a comment so that I know you guys actually read this thing. And I guess over the next few days, since there aren't any practice sessions, I'll give my short (or not so short) little testimony on why and how I came about doing this project in the first place.
Tomorrow is the 7th and it happens to be Taylor's College's open day. I thought of using that opportunity to attack some passerby-s and hand out a ton more flyers. Turns out, I have a problem. Firstly I forgot that I left all the flyers that I had already printed in church. Secondly, my master copy is crumpled so I have to reprint. Thirdly I ran out of printer paper. Fourthly I've been a little busy this week and have had no time at all to visit the shops.
Oh darn.
The funny thing is that I keep reminding myself to nick some paper from my Music School and somehow or other I keep forgetting to do that. I might go and photocopy some tomorrow and attack the crowd on Saturday (still Taylor's Open day. Funnily enough, they have 3 open days so why don't they call it 'Taylors College Open DAYS'?) and I might be going in solo.
Isaac is thinking of attacking the Sunway Pyramid crowd either way. We'll see how that turns out.
The next practice session is a little far off - 14th of this month. It's all Adam's fault.
Just kidding.
Adam is off to school camp and immediately after that, can you believe it, it's Teen Street and Edward and Ivan are going. So we've got an entire bunch of days with no practices and I just pray and hope that everyone doesn't forget what we've already done. So guys, pray that we remember the past 2 practice sessions.
That's it for this minor update.
KJ out.
P.S. If you're from CBC, drop a comment so that I know you guys actually read this thing. And I guess over the next few days, since there aren't any practice sessions, I'll give my short (or not so short) little testimony on why and how I came about doing this project in the first place.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
I meant to post this in yesterday, but well, it ain't that late right? I mean, regular update doesn't mean LIVE update.
Anyway, this is just an update on yesterday's practice session - 4/12/07.
We've finally managed to test out all the songs on our list. Some of them are still a little rough. Edward's bass solo is still in the fog. And there are a couple of things that we wanted to try that still haven't materialized yet. We'll get there I suppose. At least now we know what we'll be singing and playing. Only 2 more songs left to go that will be a little harder to learn. My composition and Adam's composition.
Coming up today is actually Adam's school camp and immediately after that will be the TeenStreet thingie so Ivan and Edward will be away. The next practice session is on the 14th. Pray and hope that everyone doesn't completely forget what we've done so far.
In all honesty, I have no idea how this is going to work out by the 29th, but I have faith that it will. I'm almost 100% sure (we can never truly be 100% sure can we?) that this is one of God's great plans. So, saying this will fail is sorta insulting Him isn't it? So yes, it will succeed and we will do our best.
Continue to pray for us.
KJ out.
Anyway, this is just an update on yesterday's practice session - 4/12/07.
We've finally managed to test out all the songs on our list. Some of them are still a little rough. Edward's bass solo is still in the fog. And there are a couple of things that we wanted to try that still haven't materialized yet. We'll get there I suppose. At least now we know what we'll be singing and playing. Only 2 more songs left to go that will be a little harder to learn. My composition and Adam's composition.
Coming up today is actually Adam's school camp and immediately after that will be the TeenStreet thingie so Ivan and Edward will be away. The next practice session is on the 14th. Pray and hope that everyone doesn't completely forget what we've done so far.
In all honesty, I have no idea how this is going to work out by the 29th, but I have faith that it will. I'm almost 100% sure (we can never truly be 100% sure can we?) that this is one of God's great plans. So, saying this will fail is sorta insulting Him isn't it? So yes, it will succeed and we will do our best.
Continue to pray for us.
KJ out.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
As of 11:32pm Saturday 1st December.
Well, we launched our second practice session, but I kinda call it the first anyway because our Electric guitarist Mr Isaac finally joined in. I have to say, it turned out even more brilliantly than I was expecting. Especially the planet shakers songs. It was a great practice session. My voice is a little scratchy at the moment. I've never usually sung for anything and suddenly I'm singing like 10 songs in a row. Need more water.
Good practice session. We haven't been through the entire song list yet, but this is a great start. The potential is starting to shine through.
Look forward to the concert guys. It's going to be a blast.
KJ out.
Well, we launched our second practice session, but I kinda call it the first anyway because our Electric guitarist Mr Isaac finally joined in. I have to say, it turned out even more brilliantly than I was expecting. Especially the planet shakers songs. It was a great practice session. My voice is a little scratchy at the moment. I've never usually sung for anything and suddenly I'm singing like 10 songs in a row. Need more water.
Good practice session. We haven't been through the entire song list yet, but this is a great start. The potential is starting to shine through.
Look forward to the concert guys. It's going to be a blast.
KJ out.
Another Update folks. It's 2a.m in the morning and I meant to write this sooner. Just been busy getting ready for the practices and all.
We tried more flyer distribution today, but being a Friday (I think that's the reason) it was rather empty around the Taylor's College area today. We barely got any out. But never fear, we have a plan. Taylor's College is having it's open day on the 7,8 and 9 of December. I'm thinking of attacking the area again then. We'll see how it works out.
Speaking of flyers, I guess now would be the best time to talk about the distribution. I guess not many of us have actually done any form of public flyer distribution. It seriously is nerve wrecking. It sounds all so simple and so easy when you talk about it, but when it comes down to doing it, it takes quite alot of guts and some thick skin. Must apply what we call the 'tak tahu malu' approach. I guess in a way, the devil works on our fears to try and stop us from getting these things out. He really doesn't want people coming to this event. But once we get some of that thick skin, we slowly fend off the devil's attacks. The first 2 flyers are probably the hardest to give out. But everything after that becomes slightly smoother.
Don't be fooled though. Just because we've done this twice already, it doesn't mean we're used to it. I still got a weird feeling in my gut Friday morning when we tried it one more round.
Pray for the numbers. Pray for any number that God wants us to work with be it 50, 500 or 5000. 5000 is abit much, but hey, anything is possible with God ain't it?
KJ out.
We tried more flyer distribution today, but being a Friday (I think that's the reason) it was rather empty around the Taylor's College area today. We barely got any out. But never fear, we have a plan. Taylor's College is having it's open day on the 7,8 and 9 of December. I'm thinking of attacking the area again then. We'll see how it works out.
Speaking of flyers, I guess now would be the best time to talk about the distribution. I guess not many of us have actually done any form of public flyer distribution. It seriously is nerve wrecking. It sounds all so simple and so easy when you talk about it, but when it comes down to doing it, it takes quite alot of guts and some thick skin. Must apply what we call the 'tak tahu malu' approach. I guess in a way, the devil works on our fears to try and stop us from getting these things out. He really doesn't want people coming to this event. But once we get some of that thick skin, we slowly fend off the devil's attacks. The first 2 flyers are probably the hardest to give out. But everything after that becomes slightly smoother.
Don't be fooled though. Just because we've done this twice already, it doesn't mean we're used to it. I still got a weird feeling in my gut Friday morning when we tried it one more round.
Pray for the numbers. Pray for any number that God wants us to work with be it 50, 500 or 5000. 5000 is abit much, but hey, anything is possible with God ain't it?
KJ out.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Phase 1 of advertisement
Well, we've started the flyer distribution. It's been a rough start. But hey I expected a rough start anyway.
Part 1 of Phase 1 involved a super rushed single day advertising in Sunway College - courtesy of our in house Sunway student. *EDIT* Apparently it went brilliantly. I think it was about what 100 flyers? It seems all of it is gone. The Lord is working. We'll see how many turn up.
Part 2 began this morning - distributing flyers near Taylors College. Well it's not to say that near our church, but seeing as how they'll be moving right next to our doorstep, I figured we might as well test it out on the current taylors crowd anyway. I guess we got out about 30 flyers? Maybe more? We'll be continuing part 2 tomoro as well (Wednesday) and see what happens from there.
On a personal note, distributing flyers to strangers seemed so simple and easy in my mind. But in the actual act of doing it, my mouth was glued so tight I nearly had to use a pneumatic jack to open it. But finally getting it open, I guess it went a little easier. I grew some guts today. Yay.
I'm not expecting much from phase 1 of the advertising operation. Maybe 20 people will come? 30? I dunno... but pray and have faith that God will bring the numbers. It's His plan after all, not mine. So knowing that makes me feel secure, knowing that it surely can't fail if He's in charge.
KJ out.
Part 1 of Phase 1 involved a super rushed single day advertising in Sunway College - courtesy of our in house Sunway student. *EDIT* Apparently it went brilliantly. I think it was about what 100 flyers? It seems all of it is gone. The Lord is working. We'll see how many turn up.
Part 2 began this morning - distributing flyers near Taylors College. Well it's not to say that near our church, but seeing as how they'll be moving right next to our doorstep, I figured we might as well test it out on the current taylors crowd anyway. I guess we got out about 30 flyers? Maybe more? We'll be continuing part 2 tomoro as well (Wednesday) and see what happens from there.
On a personal note, distributing flyers to strangers seemed so simple and easy in my mind. But in the actual act of doing it, my mouth was glued so tight I nearly had to use a pneumatic jack to open it. But finally getting it open, I guess it went a little easier. I grew some guts today. Yay.
I'm not expecting much from phase 1 of the advertising operation. Maybe 20 people will come? 30? I dunno... but pray and have faith that God will bring the numbers. It's His plan after all, not mine. So knowing that makes me feel secure, knowing that it surely can't fail if He's in charge.
KJ out.
Monday, November 26, 2007
4:30 am
Yeap, second post in 4 hours.
It's 430 in the morning and we've hit a huge hitch with the flyer. It won't print properly. I'm sticking with it and trying to solve the problem manually.
Hopefully something works... nothing I've tried so far is working.
KJ out.
**
Sub edit.. instead of making another post.
It is now exactly 5:19 in the morning and the flyers are finally ready for printing. After struggling so much with getting perfection, something just told me - "ehhhh, what are you trying to do? Distribute flyer ke impress people how terre you can make flyers?"
So I scrapped the 'borderless' approach and just kept the white borders. I think God sometimes speaks to you in weird ways.
That's it for now.
KJ out again.
***
It's 430 in the morning and we've hit a huge hitch with the flyer. It won't print properly. I'm sticking with it and trying to solve the problem manually.
Hopefully something works... nothing I've tried so far is working.
KJ out.
**
Sub edit.. instead of making another post.
It is now exactly 5:19 in the morning and the flyers are finally ready for printing. After struggling so much with getting perfection, something just told me - "ehhhh, what are you trying to do? Distribute flyer ke impress people how terre you can make flyers?"
So I scrapped the 'borderless' approach and just kept the white borders. I think God sometimes speaks to you in weird ways.
That's it for now.
KJ out again.
***
Hello All
Greetings to all 2007 CBC Revive Concert Crew/Musicians/Members!
This was actually an idea to keep a log of the work that we (and also me personally and perhaps you as well) of the stuff we went through organizing and conducting the Evangelical concert 2007. I will be recording live updates of the concert's progress as of now until December 29th and also the aftermath. If you would like to pitch in, let me know and I'll turn this into a group log that we can keep. Let's just say I'm writing the Concert 2007 testimony right now as we speak.
So here goes for the first entry. It'll be a long one.
As of 1 am in the morning of 26NOV2007
The Lord has been good. In the past week, we've got the list of songs almost set, we've got the Pastor on board and we've got the approval of the council to do the thing. We've got the flyers out and we've got approval for that as well.
But I find I'm hitting several roadblocks. I planned to introduce a 4 part advertisement campaign consisting of - 1) Other Churches in the area, 2) The PJS community, 3) Colleges around the area e.g Taylors, Sunway, Inti, 4) Patrons of Sunway pyramid.
As of today, Sunway Pyramid has rejected our request to distribute flyers in the vicinity. I'm thinking of a way around that now. They were courteous enough to reply my EMAIL.. how cool is that. Really good management there. I've got great respect for them. But maybe we've got to do it a little differently. We've got the flyers out but I've hit a slight roadblock with the Colleges. Most courses have already ended (I guess we were just too late). But there will definitely be students still around then area. We've hit a small roadblock in Sunway college because as of the time of posting, Sunway college is on it's last day of classes. I don't know if we'll get the flyers out in time. I'm a little bummed out at the advertising roadblocks so far, but have faith. We'll pull through somehow. By grace, The Lord will provide the people to come to this concert.
Another slight roadblock is the fact that practices aren't abundant. So we've really got to work it all out in the coming weeks.
That's it for this entry. Updates on the result of the College dilemma in a few hours I suppose.
KJ out.
___
Aside from posting actual logs, I will also be inserting in more 'testimony' elements into this recording of the Concert process and procedure to fill in some gaps. Daily posting is a must I believe and I've got a lot to write out.
We'll then let this page live forever as a living testimony for our lord Jesus.
Cheers.
This was actually an idea to keep a log of the work that we (and also me personally and perhaps you as well) of the stuff we went through organizing and conducting the Evangelical concert 2007. I will be recording live updates of the concert's progress as of now until December 29th and also the aftermath. If you would like to pitch in, let me know and I'll turn this into a group log that we can keep. Let's just say I'm writing the Concert 2007 testimony right now as we speak.
So here goes for the first entry. It'll be a long one.
As of 1 am in the morning of 26NOV2007
The Lord has been good. In the past week, we've got the list of songs almost set, we've got the Pastor on board and we've got the approval of the council to do the thing. We've got the flyers out and we've got approval for that as well.
But I find I'm hitting several roadblocks. I planned to introduce a 4 part advertisement campaign consisting of - 1) Other Churches in the area, 2) The PJS community, 3) Colleges around the area e.g Taylors, Sunway, Inti, 4) Patrons of Sunway pyramid.
As of today, Sunway Pyramid has rejected our request to distribute flyers in the vicinity. I'm thinking of a way around that now. They were courteous enough to reply my EMAIL.. how cool is that. Really good management there. I've got great respect for them. But maybe we've got to do it a little differently. We've got the flyers out but I've hit a slight roadblock with the Colleges. Most courses have already ended (I guess we were just too late). But there will definitely be students still around then area. We've hit a small roadblock in Sunway college because as of the time of posting, Sunway college is on it's last day of classes. I don't know if we'll get the flyers out in time. I'm a little bummed out at the advertising roadblocks so far, but have faith. We'll pull through somehow. By grace, The Lord will provide the people to come to this concert.
Another slight roadblock is the fact that practices aren't abundant. So we've really got to work it all out in the coming weeks.
That's it for this entry. Updates on the result of the College dilemma in a few hours I suppose.
KJ out.
___
Aside from posting actual logs, I will also be inserting in more 'testimony' elements into this recording of the Concert process and procedure to fill in some gaps. Daily posting is a must I believe and I've got a lot to write out.
We'll then let this page live forever as a living testimony for our lord Jesus.
Cheers.
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