Entries for April, 2007
April 3rd, 2007
of danger and dreams POSTED AT 12:37 AM in thoughts I nearly died today. David's driving almost gave me a heart attack. Haha. Yeah. He's the official owner of a 'P' licence... and a car. THE ROADS ARE NOT SAFE... REMEMBER... the roads are NOT NOT NOT safe. --- I wanna be Lea Salonga. *pouts* --- dance. Just one word. dance. In the deepest core of myself, I can feel it. I want to dance. I need to dance. Not the dance of the superficial - the choreographed moves, the performance faces. There is a need in the church for the dance of worship. In Moses' time, Miriam led the women in the dance of victory - a tambourine dance. King David danced when they brought the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. dance like no one's watching I watched Sarah (I think that's her name) dancing for OCOV. And I watched her at Sat night service. I just got this feeling that if she could just let loose and dance in the service, that would be the most personal worship she could ever offer. Don't ask my why I thought so... I just did. dance like no one will We did this "spontaneous dance" workshop a few years back during the CDFM conference in PJEFC that I went to with Renee, Charlotte and Henry. I was fine with the workshop. It was something different and unique. But I balked at putting it on show. How do you "practice" a spontaneous dance and "showcase" it? I believe there is a place for spontaneous dance. That's when you just want to move, and dance, during worship. When you know God is there. When he just moves through you. You can't take that up on stage. You can't put it there and say, "here, we learnt about spontaneous dance. This is what we did." I refused to join the presentation. I cried. I don't know why. The guy said I had issues. I suppose I did. I suppose I still do. You dance over me The next question is, as always, how do we then begin? How do we start? Where do we start? How do you bring something contemporary, something spontaneous and outrageously personal into a corporate worship setting? How do you bring something like that into an "established" way of worship? I don't know. I supposed that we would start with tambourines and flags. Now I want to start with interpretive worship dance. I don't know. But we need to dance. We need to bring life back into our lifeless church. Tambourines. Flags. Slow. Fast. Jazz. Tap. Ballet. Interpretive. What defines you as a dancer? A bit of break dance. Exuberance is needed! (I do think krumping is a bit too aggressive though) But the main focus is this: using your bodies as a living sacrifice. You are giving back to the creator what he has given to you. Your rhythm. You are not drawing attention to yourself, or your body. That's where most dance goes wrong. It draws attention to self. It draws attention to the body, and to sex. But it NEED NOT be that way. "To the pure, all things are pure, and to the defiled, all things are defiled." What are your eyes trained to see? --- Side note: Wiki says Krump has Christian roots?! What the...? "Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise (K.R.U.M.P) is a dance style with Christian roots." Huh... that must have been way before it evolved to what we saw on Stomp The Yard. I didn't read the rest of the article though... too long... too sleepy... Thinking too much. Good night! 1 talked!
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April 4th, 2007
pursue POSTED AT 09:45 PM in thoughts The question sometimes is this: do you really know what you really want? How hypocritical we really are! We say we want A, but our actions show that we really don't. The thing is, did we really think that we want A, or did we just say that we did because everybody else did? We say we want to pursue this and that. It's our passion. But how long will our passion last when we face all the obstacles that life throws at us? We'll never know until we try, true. But what happens when it really isn't for us? What if you had just jumped blindly in? What then? Some days I feel that I want to throw in the towel on audit and accounting. I want to really work on my creative arts. I do want to do that. But I don't think that now is the time. The long term plan goes something like this - earn enough to finance a degree (or something) in (something along the lines) performance arts. In the mean time, I'll do what I can to hone my skills, to serve in church, to do things. See if I can be free enough to go for dance classes, vocal classes, etc. It just feels like I know what I want to do, but I feel underqualified and underprepared. But it is something I want to do. I just don't know how. I think I've been saying that a lot. I want to do it. I just don't know how. When will I know how? But no matter how much I say I want to do it, I know the time is not yet "now". I don't know when it will be, or how it will come to pass. But it will. Because His Word does not return to Him void. |
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April 11th, 2007
life POSTED AT 11:16 PM What happened to my life? It disappeared somewhere out the window while I was sleeping. I miss you. --- Watch this! =)
Haha I don't really understand it... but... hahaha... it's cool. "With this irony in mind we wanted to make a video that doesn't take itself too seriously, even if the song itself is dealing with weighty issues... to make a music video that tells a different story than the song is already telling us." (Right.) |
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April 15th, 2007
randomness POSTED AT 02:46 PM Anyone wants to take dance classes with me? I am contemplating it. If I have time. Or if I can reschedule my life. Also, there seems to be some sort of drama classes on at ARECA Performing Arts Centre. Interested. Will find out more. Also too... I want to watch a movie or something. I feel like I've been working too much. Also three, wondering if we could get up a workshop in church and ask Footstool players to come? Another thing... I was searching for some stuff and accidentally stumbled upon a wikipedia entry that says that Fish Leong's real name is Jasmine. If you have such a nice name, why on earth do you want to be called FISH just because that sounds like your chinese name?!?!?! The idiocy! These have been the ramblings of a tired mind. Haha. I am going out. For jazz. =) |
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April 19th, 2007
updated. POSTED AT 11:56 PM I have been staring at this page occasionally for quite a while. During the "other" whiles I have been slowly, patiently clearing out my Lycos inbox, which I think I haven't actually "checked" (I did browse for important stuff but didn't read anything) for at least a month. Don't mail me at lycos! You'll never get a reply. Life is... work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep. Boring, yes? But ohs! I haven't blogged about Sunday's jazz jaunt. Hm. What to say? I reached there at about 3.25, and Judson arrived shortly after so we made our way in. On sitting down and looking around we were like "what the... what's Kelvin Yang and Scully doing here?" HAH! So we actually went to an ARECA Faculty Jazz Ensemble... to watch Kelvin and Scully. Hahahahaha. But they were great. Well, the highlight of the day (really) was after those who signed up went for their short little workshop, and then they came back and just jammed for us. Coolness. The cool one was the little kid (Jordan Scully). Eensy weensy little boy who doesn't look the 12 years they said he was who played the drums and didn't look like he could reach everything. Haha. I have a soft spot for little boy drummers. Especially the cute ones. Hahhahahahaaha. (Now you know I really need a life) The guy in charge, Wilson, is really a teacher at heart. He had so many things to explain and talk about jazz. He has more than a passion for jazz. He has a passion to teach. LOL Well, that was all. No pictures because I didn't bring my camera. It's on the blink. Haha. And I don't have time / am too lazy to do anything about it. I took some random shots on my phone but there again, I'm too lazy to do it. Hahaha. |
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April 22nd, 2007
April 28th, 2007
on books POSTED AT 10:58 AM It's been a bad, bad busy week. Oh well. But I finished my first draft! Whee... Hahah... I likes it, but I doesn't as well. Hahah. What I don't like about modern books nowadays is that they have perfectly nice story lines, and perfectly good ideas, and wonderful romance, really... and then the authors go and spoil it all by being too... descriptive. Which really lowers its standards. And makes it sluttishly crass. Why can't people leave well alone? Haven't they learnt yet that less is more? Bah, humbug. |
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April 28th, 2007
thought: POSTED AT 01:58 PM in thoughts I've been looking at my story again and it's such a DUMB story! Never mind... kids are dumb! Hahahaha.... It was just a thought... (not a toilet thought this time, but a driving thought) that sometimes God puts disabilities or disadvantages in our lives to make us push all the harder. If Stephen Hawking hadn't been paralysed, would he have been such a great physicist? For all you know, he could have just turned out to be a normal, if somewhat brilliant, businessman? I don't know. It's just a random thought. I need to press on. Much harder. |
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April 29th, 2007
hmmss... POSTED AT 08:22 PM
"J2L Jass 3o, a Penang-based jazz trio will be organising a jazz jamming session. The group was formed in 2005 and was performing at BAGAN. The group consists of Leonard (piano), Jonathan Chen (Electric Bass) and Jonathan Scully (Drums). Currently the group is performing with Coleen Read at Audees' Jazz Bar. sourced from: http://alldatjazz.com/index.php?itemid=1251
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May 1st, 2007
dance POSTED AT 12:44 AM I believe in spontaneous dance as a worship, but not as a performance. I believe in spontaneous dance as a worship, but not as a form of ministering to others. I still don't believe in dancing angels, even though I do believe that God inspire your dance steps. I still have issues. And I don't believe you really care.
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