Topic: My first gift of the Holy Spirit- tongues Date: 24/6/07 Time: 04:37:50 PM

ka-di-ani-a-ar-dia-si-nia-i-a-dia-ar-nia-si-ni-ha-dis-ta-ea-ani Oh Holy Spirit, Hallelujah!!! Rain down on us! Oh the same He who filled people since the Pentacost, the one who stirred up the charismatic movement, Oh fill me now, Holy Spirit, for you are the same yesterday, today and FOREVER!!! For you said Romans 8:26, "We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. Oh those groans Lord, speaking in a new, heavenly language; a new tongue. For the spirit prays for us when we can pray no more. Oh ha-ni-adi-ha-na-shi-ni-a-dia-ar-di-si-di-a!!!!! Oh Lord have mercy Lord, have mercy on Aunty June. The last time I prayed for her in-self was two years back! Oh I ask for your forgiveness Lord, I have taken things for granted!!! Oh Holy Spirit intercede for me, as I speak this tongue, a prayer for this Aunt of mine!! I curse every sickness and pain in her right now, and put your healing hand on her, SHOW YOUR GLORY LORD!!! For I felt the Holy Spirit say to me, "She'll be fine, but instead die a peaceful death in years to come!!" I ask for a word of revelation; give me a confirmation Lord, a passage from the Bible. Finally, bless her, Father. I have nothing more to say, but now Holy Spirit descend upon me, and intercede in prayer!!!! MERCY!! MERCY ON MY DOG, ARROW TOO LORD!!!!!! AR-NI-A-HA-DI-SHI-NI-A-DA-SHI-BA-DA-HA-IA-SI-NI-IA!!!!!!!!!!KA-LA-SSAN-IA-AR-DI-SHI-NI-A-SA-NA-NA-AR-DI-A-HA-DI-FRA-SA-NI-DI-AN-DA-HA-DA- OH LORD, have mercy!!!!!! You hear my cry!!! Thank you Lord, HALLELUJIA!!!!! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: HAHAHAA HILARIOUS Date: 13/6/07 Time: 03:06:40 PM

HAHAHAHAHAH YOU GUYS WHO PLAY VIDEO GAMES SHOULD WATCH ALL OF THIS!!!!!!! THIS IS SOOOOO FUNNY!@#!@! http://videogames.yahoo.com/ongoingfeature?eid=516738&page=0 I'm nearly dead. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: 2 weeks more Date: 06/6/07 Time: 03:12:26 PM

Alright man its 3.12am now I'm not tired don't know what's going on inside of me, kinda like you know, a flu or something. Well, lets put computer games aside for now. Mid-year exams are coming in less than two weeks time! I'm not stressed or whatever you call it, yeah leonard? Now all I have to do is mentally preparing myself. Even if all I do tmr (or rather later today) is go through my examination time table for 10 minutes. Well, I take that as useful. Perhaps, maybe you don't. But at least I've got my brain defragmented!!! *Points finger, "hahah lame.."* YEAH OKAY LEONARD YOU GET IT *wobbles head* HAHAH Just kidding. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Goodbye again Date: 30/5/07 Time: 07:23:03 PM

I'm going off to malaysia again. I'll be back on friday night. Goodbye guys God bless. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: No updates? Date: 21/5/07 Time: 09:39:58 PM

You guys must be thinking, "hmm, no posts?" Well A LOT happened. On wednesday night when I came back home, my mom told me my uncle had passed away due to a heart attack. Then on thursday night, my family left for malaysia to visit his family. We were there all the way till last night. Well these the details are personal, only between all the Christians in my extended family. So I shall not give out any details unless I know everything that has happened within the four...perhaps five days. Sorry to keep you in suspense. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: 30-day fast Date: 15/5/07 Time: 10:14:16 PM

Alright my church organised a 30-day fast for the youth sector, and it has been going on for 2 weeks already. I'm finally settling down to discipline myself into doing this. Well, not exactly fasting from food, but whatever that stands in the way of creating an intimite relationship with Christ. That's why I'm leaving. If you get it :DD God bless. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: sleep Date: 13/5/07 Time: 09:15:21 PM

I just woke up not too long ago since 2pm just now hahahah nowadays Sundays are just like days to recover my loss of sleep in the weekdays. And yesterday I woke up at around 12.20 pm and guess what the minute I switched on my phone, my cell leader called me out for lunch. "Erm..ahem.. so you'll pick me up at 12.50?" I literally had to rush outta home immediately. Maybe you guys don't know but I go to church from 3 to 8pm on Saturdays so yesterday was completely taken up for Church. Also, I attend 8.30am services on Sundays. Then I'll get back and slack and sleep till 9pm or so. It's like a routine impossible to correct. I'll be going out to eat with my family in say 20 minutes plus I haven't wished Mom her 'Mother's Day' yet =\ Well its finally come to the final week of the term. Terrific. I can finally adjust my sleeping time back to how it should be. Then saturdays and sundays won't have to be 'homework-less' days anymore. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: drumming Date: 10/5/07 Time: 10:01:33 PM

Well its two more days to 4 months of drumming!! I thought I miscounted hmm Jan 12 to May 12 isn't that 5? Didn't I recently tell someone in PJ Live that I was only drumming for 3 1/2 months? Wasn't that so wrong? Nah. That's right :D Oh yeah my battery charger is dead. My mp3 player runs on AAAs, and I hate it. All my family's got is a 128mb mp3 player? That's really terrible for me especially when I play along with songs. So I'm doing away with the mp3 for now. Today's definitely the noisiest drum practice I have had. I was kinda literally papapadundundundoondoondoonboomboomboom BBBPIISSSHHH@!$#@. Yeah I remember posting about noise issues my parents were concerned about when I'm training without the mp3. But this is what I call real training. Familiarisation with the physics of the drums. Can't emphasise enough everyone knows playing along is fun but it's completely COMPLETELY POINTLESS. That's why I go bomobmodomdundunbhapapa pppisshhhh yeah hahahaha that's the way to learn how to groove. It's really great I'm finally getting the french grip on my left hand!! Next up, heel-toe technique for bass. Then I'll soon turn into sorta double bass drummer :D And yeah after my practice my shirt was DRENCHED!! Plus I got real bad blisters on my left thumb and index! As soon as I get the grip it'll vanishhhhh =P The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: one-hand pull-up Date: 8/5/07 Time: 12:30:49 AM

HAHA I just found an old video I took last august!! Kinda funny struggling my way up :) The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: NAPFA Date: 7/5/07 Time: 12:30:49 AM

Wow kinda long since I last posted. Well, its napfa tomorrow. I should have practiced my pull-ups last week. A couple of us couldn't do last week cuz there was too little time. Yet I didn't make use of the week! AWW!! And yeah, 2.4km. I have never gotten a A for it. Average run is about 11.5 minutes I think? Well, my bro told me to run 60% stamina during the first round, and 50% for the next 5. Plus he got an A, rougly 10 minutes? I'll make sure I try what he says. Hmph. I also edited the previous post. They're in bold. I seemed to miss out quite a bit. But still, God bless you Yik Seng!! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: My first seed planted Date: 1/5/07 Time: 06:10:20 PM

Hahahah it's been a week since the last post! Anyway I just woke up about 3 hours ago!! Last night there was an overnight prayer which lasted from 12 all the way close to 5.30am!! I was able to stay really awake till about 3.30am. There was a coffee break and I probably just ate too much! After that it was group prayer so each one took turns. It didn't work out for me because I just couldn't hear what the others were praying about 'coz the place is kinda noisy actually with everyone shouting out their prayers and speaking tongues. My mind kept on drifting away I just couldn't meditate on the Lord when praying in groups. So I spent most of the time praying by myself, just between me and the Lord. I felt I could express my feelings to the Lord that way, because many times we hear people saying things that we don't quite agree in prayer. I mean "sometimes". I know it's powerful, but I just love praying by myself. Well anyway, I've recently been spoken to by the Holy Spirit countless times. I've got a friend in school who was just so receptive to the bible. It all happened last week when he sat at my table. I saw that he was bored, so I passed him my bible. I was doing my homework at that moment, but what I realised was good about him is his ability to imagine things. He loves art, and he's read the english dictionary. Sometimes I would see him talk to himself, trying to figure out the colours of the trees and all that. The first time I saw him do that I thought he was just too techincal in his art, perhaps too observant. But it's great, because he simply turned the bible open to Genesis. He didn't have to go straight into the climax. He didn't have to turn to the Gospel where Jesus lived as a man. He just wanted to know how it all started, fundamental basis of Christianity. At the end of it, he asked me, "Where can I get a copy?" Then I knew immediately that the Holy Spirit has touched him. So throughout the entire week, I was thinking about getting that friend of mine to be my first convert. I have never in my life tried to tell a friend about Christianity, because I wasn't very well at all grounded in the word, even after attending Sunday School week after week up to secondary school. During that period, the Bible has never appeared to be real to me at all. Only now does it because (I hate to say this but it is true) I switched from my Presbyterian, to a Char1:42 AM 5/7/2007ismatic Christian. I truly do not wish to offend any Presbyterian Christians in any way, but their conservativeness don't quite work out for me. They hold back the spiritual reality of the Holy Spirit, and never have I knew about his gifts, blessings, baptism until just recently, because parts of the bible which have to do with the powers of the Holy Spirit have NEVER been explained to us. Not at all. Now that God's word indeed THE Living Word, everything happens almost like coincidence. When I went for service last Sunday, Pastor Derek was speaking about how to win souls over to Christianity. It was exactly what I needed to win this soul of my friend over. Again God spoke to me that day, and I knew through the Holy Spirit, that it is indeed time (God's Will) that I have to get a Bible for him. Well so I went to Juring Point get him a Bible at Life Bookshop. I got lost on the way there so I met up with my brother. Initially I only had $15 with me, by God's grace my brother followed me along. Where do you get that kinda price for a bible? I don't know what I was thinking all the while, you couldn't get a bible below $16 dollars there, except those mini-size ones. But it was great that my brother came along with $25, God's Will. So we entered the shop and began looking through the Bibles. After looking through all the bibles, I asked him, "Hey this one looks good." "How much is it?" "There isn't a price tag on it." *Takes another Bible* "WHOAOWW!!! 55 bucks!!! How much do you have?" "Lemme check. Ermm.. $25 only." "HUHHH.. $25??" "AWWW we should't have bought the spring rolls and curry puffs!!!" "What should we do awww..oohh noooo.." So we went on looking at the Bible for close to half an hour until my brother got fed up. Real mad. "Just take one!!!" "ESV is $45.90. Even then we don't have that amount." "NIV NIV!!!!!! The one you like with red highlights" "But that's $49.90!!!!!" "Come on lah just take lahhh!! Otherwise get it another day larr!!" I knew this wasn't God's Will. I knew the Holy Spirit said I should get it today. So I cried out within me, "Lord if it is your will, do something so that it may be fulfilled!" So I just grabbed the NIV, terrified. We were shot of close to $10. I was hoping some other Christians in the shop would approach us to pay for that amount. And all this while the shop keeper was just beside us. She knew we were distress I think, staring and discussing about Bibles for the past hour. Finally I took it in my hand. I said, "Lord, if it is your will indeed." "Hi, ermmmm... we would like to purchase this bible, but we've don't have enough cash." "Not enough? How much do you have?" *Begins digging out every cent from the wallet* "That is it." *places 5 cents on the table* "Lemme count. Okay. You are a student, right? So you've got a 10% discount. That's $5 dollars off." *half of my heart finally starts beating* "You've got $41.70. Okay so that's $3.20 short." *She takes out wallet* "Aunty will pay for you. Not from the company. I will pay." "WHEWWW", *sighs of relief* saying to myself, "Praise the Lord." "This is for?" "For a friend of mine." "Okay there you go." "Thank you so much!!!!!" "Ya welcome." "God bless you!!!!" x2 *shakes hand* x2 Indeed what a miracle. That aunty saw our need, our distress, and God's LOVE and GRACE was shown through her! Completely Miraculous!! The Holy Spirit works in SO WONDERFUL WAYS!!!! Well. Tomorrow will be the day, the first time I will share God's Word to magnify his kingdom. Ways to win a soul over: 1. Know their values and characteristics 2. Respect their decisions 3. Do what you want them to do to you. This is SO exciting. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: don't know what to call this Date: 23/4/07 Time: 11:14:19 PM

Oh yeah NAPFA test is coming up next week. Oh boy I could only do 13 pullups during PE!! What's this? I did exactly 19 last year, just 2 away from breaking the record. Mr Hiap never said a word the previous weeks, and all of a sudden he says it's happening next week. AHHH I gotta start pulling everytime I walk past my door!!! Anyway my bro just came out with his class' website. Kinda late for that isn't it. Anyway, he's been setting up home private servers for my fav mmorpgs 'Redmoon' and 'Helbreath' for the past few weeks, and it all started after he set up his first server for the racing game 'Live for Speed', all of which are hosted on his computer. He recently managed to open one of the ports to allow singnet users to connect to his computer, so now even the class website's hosted on his computer!! BTW last year he did set up a class forum just like my current class did, but there was only one entry posted per quarter of the year! Perhaps that's why he's beginning to revisit his work recently, hopefully able to set a spark going. BTW Hosting 24 hours is great. But not after we realised yesterday that the gfx card's fan spun itself out of its shell =-? Oh yeah and GJ and I were 'punished' by Mr Paik for entering the class 20 minutes late. Gotta write some reasons why it happened and I remember him saying that its a 'letter' to the principal? OH DEAR -.- Okay whatever. God Bless. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Just an update Date: 19/4/07 Time: 10:23:15 PM

I'm so bored right now. AWWW. I just remembered there's PJ live tmr. ANOTHER LATE NIGHT. Heb 12:14 - Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. I gotta live by this verse =D The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Withdrawn from SYF Date: 15/4/07 Time: 10:44:50 PM

Actually I got a message at Friday night after the syf training that I had to leave because there were too many percussionists. Why then did they ask for so many of us? In fact, the teacher-in-charge said the percussionists didn't know what they were doing. But guess what, they're SO much better than PJ live percussionists. So actually they did have enough percussionists, just that they didn't know how to split the percussion parts among the percussionists. I have been going for the trainings for the past two weeks. It's not that I'm down with nothing. Yeah in a way I lose out not having something written in my testimonial? But I tell you my stick control improved so much seeing how the band's percussionists control their strokes on the snare. I honestly have learnt so much, especially when it comes to drags and rolls. I'm so much more consistent and confident now. But now what I need as a drummer is to do exactly that not just on the snare, but on the tomtoms, bassdrum and cymbals. I have work to do now, for the Great Commission. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: It's tiring nowadays Date: 10/4/07 Time: 09:43:25 PM

There're SO many things going on now. Band SYF, PJ Live, purchasing of DRUMS, EXTRA classes, BAPTISM classes..whew can't name them all. I've got NO time to update all the time, so I'll expect a drop in entry frequency. I'm just plain exhausted. I needa draw God's strength. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: It's Good Friday. Date: 5/4/07 Time: 11:19:45 PM

I'll be heading to church tomorrow for a 'vigil' prayer. Finally, I can find time to draw closer to Him. And today I got scolded for not doing my physics tutorial. But I'm glad I traded the morning break for doing my quiet time instead =D Fellow visitors, DO remember the Lord's death during this day. God Bless You All. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: I have had enough Date: 4/4/07 Time: 09:25:25 PM

Today I got back from school after syf practice and PJ Live. It was still quite early, around 7.20pm. That's about 2 1/2 hours for me to drum before it's too late. Guess what. I can't drum again. My aunt is sick and she's occupying the room. I was so frustrated just now. I literally wanted to pull off my hair. I was in a eyebrow-raising state of disbelief. I just stood in the living room, SULKING. It'S SO SO DRAMATIC. I just got so tired for standing so long until I finally sat down on the floor against the sofa. It was as if I had LOST A GIRLFRIEND. In fact that's how much I wanna drum, really. So after that I knew nothing can be done. My mom said I just have to quit drumming for the rest of the week. Then I went to check the room. Lights out. But I told myself, "NO WAY." So off I went to my bedroom. I just rearranged everything like my study table, clearing lotsa junk at the same time. I've managed to get half the drumset in my room, and I vow to be drumming in there tomorrow. HMPH. =((( The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Oops not again Date: 3/4/07 Time: 05:05:25 PM

I just got chased outta my drum room. Duh. School ended early today and to my surprise there was no one at home except my sis reading the bible as usual so I decided to drum. It ain't even an hour. I drum along to songs, so the total time's only 30 minutes =/ Alright then I shall go shower and play some games. I'll definately drum again later. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: OHHH NOOO Date: 2/4/07 Time: 08:49:15 PM

NOOOOOOOOO MY AUNT IS IN THE ROOM NOW. I CAN'T DRUM =((((  I just got back from PJ Live. Now it's already 8.50pm. I'm almost done eating while typing this, and especially repaired this computer the minute I came home by kicking the entire casing. Now I've done my job. Now what I want is an hour of drumming. Can't I play?? Oh man nowadays my aunt's getting fussy about me occupying the room. It's supposed to be my sis' room, but she has taken over it and has been making my sis sleep in our room =/  Ever since she moved in, I never drummed as often as before and my bro and I hardly talk to each other in the dark before sleeping. I guess this will go on for whoever knows when. Looks like no drums tonight. How depressing =/ The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Time management Date: 1/4/07 Time: 11:42:30 PM

It's already April. PJ Live is making my weekdays all packed. It's now on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. There's church from afternoon onwards on Saturdays and from morning to afternoon on Sundays. Also, I gotta get back to devoting myself to quiet time everyday. I'll either have to do it in school every morning or in the bus when I'm heading home. It's so hard to make time for God. In fact I don't have much homework nowadays. Imagine when I get towards the end of the year o.0 I'm dying =/ The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: My New Crash cymbal is here!!! Date: 28/3/07 Time: 09:22:05 PM

After more than two months of crashing only one crash cymbal, finally, my K Custom 17" Crash is here!!! HAHA it sounds so good! Great match with my A Zildjian & Cie Vintage 16" Crash!! When I was heading home my bro told me he had something for me :D I thought it's gonna be some vanilla ice-cream or sth, but lol it's my crash!!! I'm just done drumming btw. I got back about quarter to eight and lol my bro surprisingly led me to the drum room. I thought, "Heh, since when he's so into drums?" LOL the moment I looked into the room, there was another crash beside the drums!! GREATT =P Anyway it was CCA trials today but I spent half the time drumming on the floor, learning and teaching stick techniques. Today was great. Great playing, everything. At last tranings are running properly. LONGGG day tomorrow. UGHH. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Well Date: 27/3/07 Time: 06:18:15 PM

Bad news. PE is on Monday and Tuesday mornings. I don't have two shorts please :/ Gotta work on my math. I'm taking it seriously this time. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Long day no. 2 Date: 24/3/07 Time: 01:31:58 PM

Off to cell now. I'm not even contacted on the time so, I'll be back tonight. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Longgg day Date: 23/3/07 Time: 09:23:50 PM

Today I had lessons till 12.30, then I just talked with guangjun, shengrong and my drumming student yik seng. At around 2+, murale came and entertained me with some percussion =D was so fun. It's great to have so many drumming friends. Anyway CCA started at 3+ and then we jammed till 7.45pm. This is gonna be the official time for us every friday. Aww busy day tmr. Church cell and all that. There goes my saturday =( The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Super short day Date: 22/3/07 Time: 10:21:55 PM

Yeah there were lessons today till 11, then I left with the J2's at around 12 xD Then I drummed from quarter to 3 to about quarter past 4, and slept all the way till half past 8. Life's so stress-free nowadays, but it's not gonna last. From next week onwards will be proper schooling, and I had better prepare myself for that. Hey J2 physics takers, all the best!!! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: 1st meeting for JAE Date: 21/3/07 Time: 8:33:10 PM

Well today was PJ Live's first meeting for JAE! But there were only 4 new people who turned up. Kinda sad, but outta that, 3 of them are drummers! Two of them are better than me, and the last one only with the experience of percussion. Anyway we had a great time! I spent about 2.5 hours outside the PJ Live room doing rudiments with them, first on chairs, then on the floor! I know I did gain a lot from it, cuz my drags and flams are getting more accurate! Plus all the drummers are nice people, really. They're humble, except for one snobbish fella that failed the auditions because of his attitude xD I am just done with drumming, since 6+ when I got back. Surprisingly, I'm only a two month, 1 week old drummer!! Time's passing so slowly?? HAHA I LOVE MY KIT. Ooooohh dinner dinner. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Class Date: 20/3/07 Time: 9:18:35 PM

I haven't got to know many people from my new class. And I hate it when people start judging them at such a early stage, saying these people are lifeless, proud, unsociable and all that. Awww man stop it. How can you judge others when you haven't got to know them? Look at the plank in your own eye. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: School Date: 19/3/07 Time: 12:35:20 PM

New class tomorrow. I hope they're gonna be great people for the next two years =D The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Prophet Kobus van Rensburg Day 2 Date: 14/3/07 Time: 02:16:45 PM

I must say I didn't get it wrong yesterday. The "room" he refers to is, in fact, physical. He used several bible verses to prove his definition of "room" and "space". The KJV puts the words as "space", and since it's closer to what he believes in, he says it's a more accurate translation of scripture. Regarding the healing of the paralytic, here's a portion of scripture he used: A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” -- Mark 2:1-5 Notice the use of the word "room" here. We read it as the physical space, but he refers it to the physical space that the spiritual realm is in. Yeah you may say, "It sounds relevant. Com'on, isn't it like in God's house, our Churches?" Truth is, God IS everywhere. This is directly putting down the very nature of the Trinity. Also notice the part which says, "When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven." It was when Jesus saw their faith that the paralytic was forgiven. It wasn't because they entered the spiritual "room". Absolute misintepretation of scripture. That's not all. This prophet also claims to have healed several times more sick and crippled people than Jesus has. God did not say it's impossible for us to reach that kind of level, but this man's a showoff! Not only did he claim that he has more power than Jesus had, he believed that if we have our conscience "cleansed" by the blood of Jesus, and our minds renewed, regardless of the degree of our transgressions, we will still be able to do signs, wonders and miracles all because of the grace of Father who chooses to "not remember our sins" through the death of the son Jesus Christ. How then, may I ask, is he so sure that he is doing the will of God? Just because our God is a merciful God, does it imply that we can do away with confession of our sins? And where in the Bible did it state that God specially exists in a physical space of spirituality, just because a mantle or chair belongs to a prophet? Matthew 7:21 NIV. “Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." Quote from http://en.bibleinfo.com/questions/question.html?id=739: Tragically, the counterfeit Christians will in all sincerity regard themselves to be genuine believers actively doing the work of Christ. They will even prophesy in the name of Jesus, cast out demons in the name of Jesus, and work miracles in his name. It's in the Bible, Matthew 7:22 & 23 NAS. “Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.' ” The followers of the false Christ practice lawlessness. They break God's law, they disregard the commandments of Jesus. In contrast, Jesus declares in John 14:21 NKJV, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” I pray, I pray, that God will protect Shis church -.- The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Prophet Kobus van Rensburg Date: 13/3/07 Time: 08:30:40 PM

Well I found this prophet making up a whole load of made up stories, with no miracles done yet. Yeah it's a miracles "conference", but it didn't make any sense when I found out that I had to pay to listen to this for these two mornings, when the admission to the miracles session for the nights are foc. This is happening for two days, and I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TOMORROW. However, since we've paid, is this prophet gonna treat us specially with something he refers to as "the anointing"? Guess what, I have skipped the miracles session tonight, not knowing that I would find something so clearly said about these prophets. I find that these prophets are ALL FALSE. I don't care but I'm gonna have to especially include TB Joshua and Benny Hinn in this list. Not too long ago, my new Church, Church of our saviour, had both of them coming to do healings. What I found was astoudingly true about TB Joshua with what I saw is described here. It's kinda scary seeing those voodoo things played around with the sick people. The worst part of it, submission to "God" by suffering. This is indeed questionable. Prophet Kobus van rensburg mentioned the anointing of Elisha from the Bible. He claimed that when Elisha picked up the cloth of Elijah, within that "room" in the room they were in, he received double the anointing of what Elijah had. Here he refers "room" as space. Similarly, he gave a story of this 18 year old man who had to take the place of a prophet one night. In front of 14000 people, this 18 year old man knew nothing and was absolutely stunned. And then came a voice(which is claimed to be of God's) saying, "It doesn't hurt to act like someone else." Apparently, this guy was commanded by God to sit on the chair of the prophet, and put the cloth that the prophet used around his neck. Prophet Kobus implies that the chair and the prayer cloth is the "room" where true anointing takes place, where twice power is transferable from the prophet to this man. NOW THIS IS IN FACT UTTERLY SENSELESS. Now where in the Bible did God say that he is present HERE? Or THERE? Matt 24:23 says,"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not." Now IF you have the time, do read these resources below: - This link has some stuff mentioned by prophet kobus today: Prophet Kobus - This one's on anointing: Here I'm really hoping that nothing gets done to me tomorrow. I pray that prophet will not place his hands on my forehead whatsoever. In addition to that, I will record down whatever he says, and meanwhile, stay clear from all these falsehood. To me, leading a simple Christian life is good enough. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Holidays Date: 12/3/07 Time: 10:05:40 PM

It's the holidays. It's a period of rest for me though. I don't think I'm gonna study much. Anyway had lotsa fun on saturday. It was the finale. But only 1/3 of my OG turned up. Kinda sad, but let's face it. The leadership workshop's the cause. My classmate, being a really serious guy, skipped it that morning and instead found evidence against these sorta workshops, known as Large Group Awareness Training (LGATs). In fact, he has decided to meet up with the principal sometime this week to tell her about these scam programmes. It's a huge sum alright multiply $42 by a thousand odd, plus the subsidy from the school. No way we're gonna allow next year's students to pay this sum again. Not even through edusave. These companies don't deserve the money!! Quote from http://skepdic.com/lgasp.html: Nevertheless, despite the lack of proof that these programs work the way their advocates claim, and despite the fact that many trainers are overly zealous in their recruitment of participants in seminars and advanced seminars, many participants feel they benefit greatly from such programs. However, research has shown that the feelings of having benefited greatly from participation in an LGAT do not correspond to beneficial changes in behavior (Michael Langone, "Large Group Awareness Training Programs," Cult Observer, v. 15, n. 1, 1998). Also, many of those who feel they have benefited do not understand that others may not feel they benefit at all from such programs. To their healthy friends and family members, the zealot may appear to have been brainwashed. Their enthusiasm seems unnatural and disproportionate. If they were unbalanced before taking the program, they may appear to have gone beyond "breakthrough" into "breakdown." Looks like it's solid proof xD Anyway I'm going to church tomorrow and wedmesday for some miracles conference!! Haha I'm gonna check this prophet out! I wanna see God's healing hands take place in frontta my eyes =D The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Leadership workshop Date: 09/3/07 Time: 08:48:53 PM

Just as I said, this programme's a complete wasta money. $42 of brainwashing for everyone. I went through all that from morning till about 3+, then skipped all the way till it ended at around 6. At the end of everything, attendance was taken. However I didn't manage to sneak into the hall to get it taken. But you see they gotta understand that I have already gone through this last year. I actually doubt anyone will take anything back with them. They've probably been made to deceive themselves, imagining doing things far from their capability. I honestly don't get why the school wants everyone to go through all these. It's similar to the special orientation programme I had at the start of the year. =X There's orientation tomorrow as well. The brainwashing stuff is gonna go on for the first half of the day. Oh well. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Orientation Date: 08/3/07 Time: 10:12:25 PM

Yesterday, everyone had to sit in the hall for a total more than of 5 hours. Nowadays i'm getting this upper right back pain, kinda excruciating. Especially when I sit down. I just can't alter my body's sitting position to free the pain. Then there was mass dance towards the end, and finally some silly OG performance. Then today I purposely didn't bring my PE attire to skip those water games. I'm currently not in an orientation mood, and I'm trying hard to stay away from it. I know it's kinda uncooperative of me but you gotta understand that it's time I get serious about my studies. Anyway there's gonna be this stupid leadership workshop tomorrow, which all the j1s had to go through last year. By the way all of us paid a whopping sum of $42 just to go through some "shouting and expressing yourself in front of everyone" business. Furthermore, if I still can remember how terrified my classmate was when he was asked to do that in front of all the J1s last year, how much greater was the fear in him!!!! And this year, all the j1s gotta through this pointless workshop as well. The school thinks that this one "special" day's capable of making them leaders for life? Come on, chew on it! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Open house preparation Date: 06/3/07 Time: 07:31:58 PM

I went to school to prepare for PJ live open house. We managed to get a mixer and speakers for open house! It was kinda crazy to carry them from the room beside LT4 to the PJ Live room. Nevertheless our efforts paid off. Now we're all set to receive a whole lotsa students joining our CCA! Drummed for about an hour and a half. It was SO COOL!! I LOVE DRUMMING =D Orientation two's happening tmr. Awww boring. And I wonder what the school's doing. They screwed my combination up! The notice board outside the general office stated that I'm in arts stream!! Those fella's doing the administrative work, you guys want me to fail j1 again, huh? *rolls eyes* The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Another day Date: 05/3/07 Time: 09:12:16 PM

Well it was a typical Monday in school today, just that I skipped econs for the first time to watch a chinese movie with my classmates. After that it was PE, and well we played handball, followed by captain's ball with some students from other classes. Then it started to drizzle at 6pm, so we had to stop. School posting will be out tomorrow. It's supposed to be an off day but guang jun and I gotta settle our pj live stuff with all those teachers-in-charge. Aww I can't sleep :/ Anyway, all the best 07s26. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Celebration Date: 05/3/07 Time: 12:08:28 PM

Just got back from dinner outside. Well my family ate at a japanese restaurant near I don't know what road. Lol sorry. Apparently I know how to get to these places but I'm not good at remembering road names. Anyway it was $30 per head. It's sorta a "buffet" but ala carte style? We could have as much as we wanted from 6.30 all the way till 10.30pm. Of course, I couldn't stand staying so long in there. I can't stand having long meals. I can't chat for hours in restaurants. Well I haven't included this in the "ME" section, which I would these coming few days. So like you guessed it I was the one who wanted to make a move after eating. Anyway after that all of us were thirsty, so we headed across the road for ice-cream. It was at....ops I forgot the shop name xD. It was recommended by my sis anyway. Ice-creams were sold at $8 per tub, and all of us shared. My brother and I didn't like it. My mom HATED it. Frankly, the one we bought tasted like strawberry yogurt, and all three of us were SO DISSATISFIED after finishing it. After all that, we headed to Mcdonald's, which was just beside that shop, and the 3 of us got a 50c vanilla ice-cream each. WOW IT WAS REFRESHING!!! HAHAA. The benefits(which economists refer to as satisfaction) outta these outweigh those of brands like ben & jerries and the one we ate, and very often my brother and I use this knowledge to prove our point, which does makes sense doesn't it? Well all is great. School later in the morning. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: It's thursday Date: 01/3/07 Time: 11:10:58 PM

I'm glad it's thursday today. There're only 3 periods of computing and gp, and the lessons end at 1. Today was kinda chilly though. I couldn't get those hands outta my pockets. I've been experiencing social problems with my family these past few weeks. I don't greet my mom when I come back, which I think she's very particularly disappointed with. But 5 seconds later my dog comes to me and I don't fail to say "HEYY HI". Ever since early secondary school, my bro and I always get real mad with my dad when he wakes us up, which I know wouldn't happen if we had slept earlier. Then we'll just keep silent when he drives us to school everyday. I'm trying to work on it and make sure it doesn't stay like this. Pray for me, if you could? God bless. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Finally Date: 28/2/07 Time: 10:14:34 PM

Finally I'm getting better at drum fills. Creativity doesn't come any easier than learning those rudiments. It's close to two months since I have started playing drums. But it was 2 years of air-drumming in the head. I've figured all these out over the years, especially the 4/4 beat. I didn't have to have a teacher. Neither did I check for resources online until the middle of last year. I must say I'm a listening-learner, not a reader. PJ LIVE ROCKS. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Prison Break Date: 26/2/07 Time: 12:51:47 AM

Dude I spent the whole of today watching Prison Break lol since 2pm in the afternoon till now wow lol it was SOO tremendous hahaha just couldn't stop watching =PP But I didn't get a chance to drum though =( I'll continue tomorrow :DD The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Date: 23/2/07 Time: 10:10:00 PM

hahaha today my parents were out so i was drumming for quite long. But I started at around 8 and it was kinda late so I spent most of my time playing along. don't think i gained much though =( Anyway, I was looking through my korea pics(which we have yet to upload on theohbrothers.com) and i found this: LOL $8 WOWWWWW~~~~~~HAHAHAH..SINGAPOREANS. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Here it goes again Date: 22/2/07 Time: 8:03:55 PM

Went to swee lee after school with couple of dudes in PJ Live. I got my new 85A Vic Firth sticks. So of course I wanted to try it out. Guess what? Both of my parents are complaining about noise again. My mom said,"How come you could play properly last time then cannot play properly now??" Well. My reply was, "Look, this IS real practise." As I said earlier there's no way I can learn to be creative unless I go through all these rudiments over and over again. Just playing along WOULD NOT HELP. Really. It's pointless to play along songs like "The Reason" by hoobastank. COMPLETELY POINTLESS. Then just a lil later my dad said,"Your that drum(snare) really loud, can you soften it? It's REALLY LOUD!!" Well I kinda innocently ignored him. Why? Well, let me put it this way: I'm not disobeying him and... that snare HAS NEVER CHANGED!!! It's not like i'm doing a fullstroke on it from half a metre above my head, nor has snare switched from 10 ply to 20 ply or from mahogany to steel shell!!! I've een playing the same all the while!! It's simply because of rudiments and non-stop hitting of the snare!!!! ddduuuuuhhhhh~~~ T.T This can't be haapppennnninnggg The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: No good Date: 21/2/07 Time: 8:35:28 PM

Had pj live today. Before it started, I went to my friend's place to get some stands and sabian cymbals =D Well we were at the bus stop waiting to take 985 and so the bus came. He slowed down but he drove off!! No reason to! HAHAH AND WE HAD A GREAT LAUGH. So took a cabbie back to school and jammed. When we had the drum set up, Murale(the pro indian drummer) was jamming with his band and later on taught John and I various stuff. After that both of us taught one of the girls how to drum, and she's good!! It roughly took her about 1/2 an hour to get the basic rock beat. However at the end of it I advised her to practise handling her sticks since she had a pair of them at home. And of course, AIR-DRUMMING!!! It's in fact the most effective way of learning drums since she can't be on a set for the entire day in school. Right after she left, I jammed with Guang Jun. By that time my other friend John had to go home so it was back to pearl cymbals =( But honestly speaking I didn't especially like his sabian 17 and 18 mid-thin crashes. They just lack the body my zildjian cymbals have. Well so after jamming and Murale's advice, I kinda couldn't wait to come back home to drum. So I got on the drums the moment I came home. Drummed for about an hour plus. Practising stick control and rolling of toms and adding the bass drum for extra groove. I must say I feel much more confident now xD BUT UNFORTUNATELY MY DAD FOR SOME REASON GOT REALLY ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED AND HE MADE MY MOM FEEL THE SAME WAY TOWARDS MY DRUMMING TODAY. IT'S PROBABLY HORRENDOUS TO THEM. THEY CAME IN THE ROOM, WITH A FLUSHED DOWN FACE, and said ENOUGH, CAN'T STAND IT, FEELING TENSE AND ALL THAT. I WAS THREW OFF LIKE THAT!!! DAMN I'M SO UPSET!!!! You know how discouraging that is. SO SO I TELL YOU. How'd I learn to drum well if I don't do all this?? HMPH. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Back Date: 20/2/07 Time: 11:39:30 PM

Actually I was back yesterday evening. The minute I got back, I sat on my drumset and started playing. HAHAHA I MISS DRUMMING SO MUCH!!!!! I had a good 4 hours with my brother, taking turns and such. Well it made my day on Sunday 'coz my bro started to show some interest in drums! He was air-drumming the entire night while we were at my aunt's place in malaysia. It's very very encouraging to me =DD at last I'm no more the only drummer! He would air-drum quite occasionally, usually with the STICKS, although it would be better without, but since he DOESN'T know how to handle them well then it's UP TO HIM then xD Well anyway yesterday we drummed till one of the neighbours complained. Now and then my dad would scold me if I play after 9.30 which I'm SO SICK OF. But this is during the afternoon!! They had peace the last 3 days, so give me a break now!!!! So my dad asked me to stop!!! You know, this isn't against the law, so if they complain there's nothing the police can do about or will entertain it!! So I don't care. I LOVE drumming, and I WILL ALWAYS DO =P The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Leaving for Malaysia Date: 17/2/07 Time: 09:59:19 AM

Well nowadays I don't seem to have anything to blog about. But I'll try to keep updates going as much as I can. So just an update: My family will be heading to Malaysia later today at noon, and probably we'll be back on monday I guess. Hahaha I'm gonna gorge on all the goodies!!! This is gonna be great. hahah. Have a prosperous CNY xDDDD!!!!!! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: 'O' Level Results Date: 08/2/07 Time: 10:17:28 PM

hahahah finally! I still can recall the day I went back to Hillgrove to receive my results! It was shocking that I got 17 pts from 26 for prelims! I studied really hard the few days before the Accounts paper. I still remember that while I was in the examination hall, that Lydia(one of my classmates) asked me just before the paper started, "What grade do you think you can get?" "At least an A", I answered, at the same time reassuring myself after so much hard work. "Woah you're ambitious eh?" "Yeap thanks. All the best." Anyway on the day of release, when it was my turn to receive my results, my form teacher Miss Wang already had that smile on her face. I didn't have to desperately look at my results because her smile told it all. I was eligible to study in a junior college. That 9 pts cut was because of firstly, for Accounts, from a C5 to A2, Combined Science from a B3 to A1, Biology from C5 to B3, and finally HUmanities from C5 to B3. That's 9, yeah. Great eh? Probably coz I didn't study for my promos. I got some stupid $150 for edusave because of great improvement hahaha. Well then so later I got appealed in to PJ(which I couldn't have entered otherwise) with the help of my brother. Quite a long story, so I'll drop it xD So all the best to everyone in my new class! As well as those from my OG! God bless you all with excellent results yeah?? The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Another usual day Date: 05/2/07 Time: 09:39:47 PM

School's as USUAL AGAIN. Well when I got back, it was half past 7. Great that Dad, Mom and Crystal were waiting for my brother and I to come back before we started having dinner as a family. Well right after dinner it was around 8pm so I rushed upstairs to my drum room. Same thing, rudiments after rudiments. So I drummed for about an hour and a half. Well there's a new CCA set up by one of my classmates, known as "PJ Live". No drumset at the moment, and the teacher in charge just couldn't and wouldn't care less about helping us in funding. I need one or else what's the point of me joining! Duh gotta wait how long?? =(( The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Cheezy beats Date: 03/2/07 Time: 11:22:06 PM

Hey guys I recorded this with my REAL BACKWARD 128mb mp3 player lol sorry the sound quality sucks and I only thought of recording it at that moment and there wasn't a function to change the record quality and volume.. and it's reallyyy cheezyyy coz the moment i pressed the record button i had to get into position and I WAS SO NERVOUS lol I didn't want to hear myself play like some noob after recording haha but this junk came out ahaha. Check this out: Just an idea of how I poorly improvise when I'm nervous hahahah. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: It just hit 10 Date: 02/2/07 Time: 10:10:32 PM

HAH!! Just came back from the campfire for j1 pae students. LOL there was dance after dance but what I thought was ridiculous was the time wasted from 4.30pm to 7.45pm. That was kinda like 3 hours wait for the campfire!! Well during that time we had barbecue for each og. BORING. Can't remember how I killed the time but most of it was spent daydreaming 0.0 The best thing was I caught up with a few of my og mates, and I didn't even realise some of them were in my og!! Coz the retainees had this "special orientation programme" and we didn't participate much in the orientation. It's kinda a wierd feeling when I walk past them in school with a hint of recognition of their faces, but yet at the same time, I can't remember how I met them before. Some of them didn't turn up today but at least I'll be able to say "Hi" confidently to them during their final 4 days in PJ next week. And oh yeah most of my OG mates said I didn't smile at them when they said "hi" to me. And lots of them say,"Hey I keep seeing people who look like you." HAHAHAH WELL IT'S MY TWIN BRO GUYS!!! LOL EVEN MY J2 OGL NEVER REALISED IT!! THIS IS DOWNRIGHT WIERD. Well, if I know you I WILL SMILE. Else the person you're saying hi to ISN'T ME. GOT IT?? =PP HAHAHAA Anyway I just got back exactly but IT WAS 10PM!!!! NOOOO!!! CAN'T DRUM AHHHHHHH!!!! *gone nuts* Well tomorrow then.. I'll make up for the time loss! =))))) **I've taken the background music off due to copyright issues. I'm actually kinda afraid the host would close our account down. And I know that some of you guys hate the autoplay and looping. But you see I was reasonable. The music wasn't noisy was it? It was lovely XD The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Infrequent updates Date: 01/2/07 Time: 11:58:27 PM

Nowadays there really isn't much I can talk about. Perhaps drumming is the only thing I could talk about since it's the main thing I devote my time to after school. I'll usually just put on earpieces without the mp3 player to act as my earplugs =P HAHHA. Then I'll do a couple of strokes on the snare to get used to the volume, and then I go off 2 hours into solid rudiments on the toms. I don't know if I'm driving my neighbours nuts but it seems fine and my sis never complains about it at all. Apparently, what I would do is just shut all the windows and doors. That's more than enough to keep the sound from projecting outta the drum room to my sleep room which is just beside it. lol I can say no more. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Well... Date: 27/1/07 Time: 10:12:10 PM

Can't believe its been a week since I last updated my page!! This week just kinda swept by! Anyway, school was great this week. Not that something good happened, but rather nothing bad happened ;P . My classmates really give me the respect hehe.. they're all so nice to me!! Just by looking at them enjoy their time in JC makes me recall the times last year.. I didn't even skip a lesson i tell you! And I can remember I was in orientation mood till around July..I knew nuts about what was happening to my studies. Especially since my class is the computing class, and everyone's new to computing, my classmates have been asking me again and again what its all about; it's syllabus and also..Mr Fong!!! HAHAH!!! EVEN THEY, AFTER JUST 3 WEEKS OF SCHOOL, KNOW HIS FAVOURITE PHRASE: "MAK SURE YOU TINK BEFORE YOU ASK THIS EH..QUESTIONS.. DON ASK STUPID QUESTIONS IF YOU NOT LISNING..AND USE YOUR COMMON SENSE~~" Well everyone knows that asking questions is the best way of learning, and Mr Fong's style is to make you feel stupid asking those questions. Then he scolds you and NO ONE ASKS HIM QUESTIONS. Yeah and also after every topic whether content or c++ he'll go, "So, any questions?" LOL WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THAT SINCE EVERYONE'S AFRAID TO BE SCOLDED?!?! Questions after questions my classmates ask challenge the way I respond to people. Speaking on my judging nature.. notice that I'm not judging Mr Fong and telling them that he's dumb. But rather I'm judging on his way of teaching. There's no better way to learn than to ask. So that's the worst flaw in Singapore's education =(( And of course I've never missed at least an hour of drumming!! JFust practice, practice, practice. Rudiments after rudiments. Soon I'll be rolling on the toms like never before. HAHHAHH. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: 7 days old Date: 20/1/07 Time: 10:35:05 PM

I realise I'm really getting an idea of handling my toms hahah. When I'm alright doing grooves from the snare to the toms and back, then I'll start working on my left hand. It's rather weak and I've got slight problems playing a quick paradiddle. It's just so fun hahahaha I'm gonna play along with some of my songs again tomorrow ;DDD Also, I've shifted the positions of my drums a little, especially the angles of the toms, height of snare, and of course the cymbals. ARHH AND OF COURSE I'M GETTING USED TO MY KICK PEDAL!! Low tension = SPEED. HAHAHAHA. Here's how my kit looks like now: The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: lol again. Date: 18/1/07 Time: 11:49:27 PM

Today all I did in the entire afternoon is jammin on the drums. I'm finally getting a great feel on them. haha. What I'm frustrated now is that I've got only 1 crash. Yeah the sweet ride is crashable, but no fun. I need my K Custom Dark Crash NOW!!! AHHHHHH!!!!! lol. I'm just not used to one crash. That splash is just for special added effects so I don't quite use it. Now the problem of my drumming is tom toms TOM TOMS HEAR THAT. I just hate mounts I have to angle my toms so exaggeratedly its just so uncomfortable!!!! But lol I have to live with this..guess I'll just have to learn how to roll down on 'em properly then. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: Just as usual Date: 17/1/07 Time: 10:38:18 PM

Well today's normal again. I've got nothing to write about. Heh. Perhaps the only thing I've gotta tell ya is I've finally fine tuned my drums. And of course, I'm improving my speed and technique now ;PP not forgetting my tempo too. I realised that the less groove I put into the drums, the more groove there is; especially when the hits are just at the right tempo. School's as usual today. Nothing special going on. That's all. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: It's just brilliant Date: 16/1/07 Time: 12:20:16 AM

Well, today I spent about half my afternoon trying to get my snare drum tuned. I've got a very common problem of buzzling snare wires when other drums are hit. This problem arises when the other drums produce just a right frequency and volume to cause the snare wires to resonate. It really gets on my nerves. Well I only decided to tune the snare in the afternoon coz it sounded downright wierd. There were ringing overtones and, you know, it's not the kind of "snap" I want. Well it took nearly an hour. It sounds great now. At that moment I was very sure I was not gonna tune the toms anymore for the today coz I was getting really tired. So I took at nap at 5. Then I got up for dinner at half past 7 and went back to the drums. When I began hitting the snare, then transitioning to the toms, I was VERY unsatisfied with the toms compared to the snare. Now that I've tuned the snare so well, I thought,"Well they don't sound that good why don't I give it a shot?" Throughout the past two days of playing the drums, I was learning more of getting how to hit them properly, focusing of techniques and making sure bad habits don't kick in. Now my ears seem to be more sensitive to sound, and so I got them tuned! However it's not perfect though, and the resonating snare wires are still a problem. But that's not really the problem because lots of drummers face that problem as well but the mics don't pick them up. It's not what the drummer hears, but the audience. At least I've got the resonance minimized now. I'm happy with most of the drum sounds except my floor tom. It just doesn't give out the punchy sound. Well for now, I'll just live with the muddy sound. But I'm gonna tune them lug by lug the next round. So today's been a been a really relaxing day for me. Spent about 5 hours in total playing and tuning them, and of course, maintaining them. Really looking forward to playing them again tomorrow! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTSSSSSS IT'S HHHHHEERRRREE!! Date: 13/1/07 Time: 10:04:52 PM

MY PEARL SESSION BIRCH DRUMKIT IS HEREEEEE!!!!!! CHECK OUT THIS BABY!!!!!!! WITH ZILDJIAN CYMBALS!!!!!! WAHAHAHAHA NEVER KNEW THINGS HAPPEN SO UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!!!! TOTAL COST> PEARL SESSION BIRCH DRUMKIT + 5 ZILDJIAN CYMBALS + 1 BOOM STAND + THRONE = $4800++ I GUESS =DDDDD HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OF MY KIT!!!!!!!!!!!!: overall look from front. from the back this time. beautiful finish isn't it? well check out what it says too. my lovely 21" A Sweet Ride which I got from the display(last piece) from left: 14" A Custom Hi-hats and 16" A Zildjian & Cie Vintage Crash. and of course the bright sounding 10" A Custom Splash. LOL IT SOUNDS AMAZING.......THE FINISH IS AWESOME!!!!!! ITS TIME TO ROCK THE NEIGHBORS UPSIDE DOWN!!!!! lol hehe. Anyway I was constantly thinking about it since last year. The Pearl Exports never arrive, and Swee Lee never knows when they do. Well, guess what. I told mom yesterday we're really gonna head down to Swee Lee to get myself a drumset.. I've been even planning it before hand, see entries below. It's not that I already knew they were definately gonna sell it to me.. I called this morning! I emailed them on Thursday and they won't give me a reply. So I called them and to my surprise there were Pearl Sessions!!! I told the guy I'm gonna head down and he didn't even say bye just hung up straight away. LOL when my mom, bro, sis and I went there they were busy! Perhaps that's why he hung up. There're really lotsa customers there. I was kinda unsure whether I can actually get the drumkit at all! Then I asked him again about a pearl session drum kit and very quickly he told me it was just upstairs in the warehouse. He was so fast to respond and all that! I was like asking about the drums then the model then the finish and then he told me everything I wanted was available! Then very quickly I told him I wanted a throne and one more cymbal stand, and he got them ordered right away! LOL then he called the delivery man(dont know if it's right) and he was told the drums could be brought to my home straight this afternoon!!!!! At the end of it I was kinda surprised! Then we quickly headed down to Yamaha to get my zildjian cymbals! But..it was terrible there. Service was worse than Swee Lee, the company I thought had the poorest service but changed my thinking otherwise because of today. Those part timers were real slow at doing things. However, you know the most silly thing I saw was that Yamaha still uses a C dos based program! At least Swee Lee uses Access for their databases!! LOL and my bro and I were checking out the cymbals we're like whacking all the displayed ones for about and hour(reached there about 4pm). But the next two hours.. we spent that amount of time ordering. You know it takes such a long time for them just to sell 4 cymbals to me! Sad thing is, there wasn't any stock for the new beats hi-hats. There was but those hi-hats only came with sets like 3 in 1 box going for $1000. I asked several salesmen to just take out the hi-hats and sell it to me separately for $600(its like bribing in a way)but they wouldn't allow me. And also my favourite crash, 17" K Custom Dark Crash, wasn't in stock. Anyway it has been preordered and I'll just have to wait for it to arrive.. So I bought 5 cymbals, bringing back 4. While we were in the car heading home, I suddenly realised one major thing i didn't confirm with the Swee Lee salesman. THE DRUM SIZES!!!!!! HEY I TELL YOU I WAS SO FRIGHTENED I WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE PEARL DRUM CATALOG AND THE RECEIPT AT THE SAME TIME TO SEE IF THE INCHES OF THE DRUMS WOULD BE WHAT I WANT. 12" AND 13" RACK TOMS, 16" FLOOR AND 22 BASS! WELL I TELL YOU I WOULD HAVE CRIED IF MY DRUMS CAME WITH 3 RACK TOMS AND A 20" BASS DRUM! Well when I got home, I was looking all around. "hmm where're the drums?", i thought to myself. Then I just went to the dining area and there it was!!! My Pearl Session Birch Drumkit in vintage wine finish!! With 2 rack and 1 floor tom!! and a punchy 22" bassdrum!!!!!!! WHOA PRAISE THE LORD!!! The salesman knew what set-up I wanted?!? I'm lucky enough to get the drum sizes which I wanted!! yeah it was there!! Then I hopped on it and started to play them without cymbals. Wow it just SOUNDED GREAT!! My sis played the piano and my dad was like,"his drums ain't that loud after all. In fact, your piano seems to be cancelling them out." LOL its true!! Later after dinner I brought my kit to my sis' room. With the door shut, my sis listened closely the volume from outside the room. Well if it was loud she would have said to me,"crazy lah!! super loud neighbour sure cannot sleep!!" Nah it never happened.. instead she came in so nicely, gave me a smile and said humbly,"can hear a little little lah." Arhhh that's the way. Great thanks a lot! I'm more confident of playing louder the next time! Anyway, that's about it. I've got what I've always wanted to play music. THANKS MOM!!!!!!!!!!!! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: WOOOOOOOOTSSSSS!!!!! Date: 13/1/07 Time: 11:57:35 AM

HAHHAHAHAH I JUST CALLED A GUY FROM SWEE LEE HE SAYS STOCK FOR PEARL SESSIONS HAVE ARRIVED SO I'LL BE GOING DOWN RIGHT AWAY AFTER LUNCH AND GET THE HOLD OF THAT BABY The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: My current life Date: 08/1/07 Time: 10:35:23 PM

Well, if you've been wondering what's up with my life lately, yeah this is a sum up of it. Now I'm thinking things in series of whichever comes to my mind first. Alright. I'll rank them like this: 1. Loneliness/boredom in school LOL or sad? I'm sad to join in J1 orientation, but I LOL when I see my old friends again ;))) YOU GUYS ARE GREAT JUST BY SHAKING MY HANDS IT DOES MAKE MY DAY THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2. Rudiments & Drum beats In fact something that is constantly in my head wherever I may be and especially when I listen to music. I don't believe you need to air-drum to get it although it does help. It's more like right brain training; whether or not you can send the right signals to the different muscle groups of your arms, hands and feet. AND I'm prolly getting a drum kit with zildjian cymbals this saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and leonard a bass guitar!!!!!!!!! 3. God Oh boy this was frankly what's up with my relationship with God. I think I'm losing faith. You know as I type this I'm reflecting on myself. Why am I losing faith? Kinda simply because I'm not quite believing about myself staying in the JC and being able to make it through. And now that I have to make new friends again and my brother's support, it just doesn't feel right, although I got an answer from God in 1 Tim 1:18(just the post below). You know I'm kinda confused now..should I really believe what uncle Adam says? Or rather It's more like should I believe this is an answer from God? I need restoration alright QT after this. 4. Okay what now...can't think of anymore. Those 3 are the top on my list. Maybe you guys can seriously do some reflection everyday. You know like when you're alone; in the bus, walking down to school and back home, lazing in your room, having a shower. Often I find myself actually lonely - now that I'm without my brother - and what I tend to do is talk to myself? Yeah I KNOW SOME OF YOU THINK I'M CRAZY OR NUTS no I'm not joking. I speak to myself just like how someone will speak to me. Asking questions and all that. Well it does work! You get to share your feelings with yourself and you kinda feel better later. Now I tell you I'm serious now and I'm speaking directly down from my heart. Okay if you think I'm stupid then go talk to your dog then, you find it's similar. Just that you can't bring your dog everywhere you go(which I think is a great idea what nice company!!) And the pros of this is you get to do REAL reflection and then you find yourself not alone. Well it's God beside you. Prolly this would work out for some of you guys well it's up to you. But you know something? What I think I'm talking to is my spirit; it prompts me and talks to me like a friend when I do something wrong, say i judged someone by his looks(which I think is very wrong but I have been doing all these years). What's great is that my spirit(guided by the holy spirit) tells me to stop judging people ALMOST IMMEDIATELY and tells me to LOVE THEM LIKE JESUS DID and I would be stunned almost at an instant shocked because I realise how terrible it is to judge people like that and especially when I did it since young. It's like "WHOA you think your that kewl?" kinda feeling and you stare into his eyes "hey I'm betta off than you?!" you know. So this person I've been talking about can do wonders in your life if you allow it to. It has radically changed me. By doing all these things, I find the root of my problems: pride and judgement. It's all part of my old self. Find out your problems with the help of the holy spirit. Just go to school, talk to people, mix around and you'll realise a couple of flaws you deem to be normal in everyone because everyone's doing it kinda thing. Well these aren't normal. You have to combat those problems. Together lets throw away that hat of our old-selves and put on the cap of our new-selves. To show HOSPITALITY and LOVE. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: My answer Date: 04/1/07 Time: 01:58:06 PM

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING MAY CARRY MY RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT AND MIGHT APPEAR OFFENSIVE. IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR PREACHING. LEAVE NOW IF INAPPROPRIATE. Alright perhaps I really have to apologise I kinda know everything that's happening in my family and I didn't even give you readers an idea of who this uncle Adam is. As I always put it, it's a LONG STORY. I'm not planning to explain at all. I'll just clarify what I said on the earlier post. Well, this uncle Adam ain't an uncle on the streets or in a church. He's my uncle. Although he's a Catholic, he seems to be so spiritually open compared to biblical-based Christians. Well if you wanna know how it all started, read my bro's entry(Topic: o_O You can call this 50% a testimony 50% an encouragement)here. Now that would definitely clear some of your doubts and misunderstandings. The next thing I want to emphasise on is that, all these prophesies made by my uncle WILL BE BACKED UP WITH THE BIBLE by all the Christians in my extended family, especially my Dad. Anything that disagrees with the bible will simply NOT BE ACCEPTED. Now, there are A LOT of prophesies made about each of the Christians in my family. Let's for NOW put aside the PM thing okay. But what will be happening soon is that Crystal(my sis) will receive EXCELLENT grades such that she will be given a scholarship to go to one of the top universities abroad(either harvard, cambridge, oxford, or MIT). Now, that's just one prophecy. Well, some of you guys know that throughout the holidays I was already deciding to take up the poly route instead of retaining in the JC. What my uncle prophesied is that I should repeat JC1. It kinda shook my faith coz I've already gone to the extent of praying about which course to take up in poly. So that night after leaving my uncle's home, I was shaken in faith. Well, I asked God the next few days and he gave me an answer from 1 Tim 1:18-19: "Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith." Well what God was saying is that I should believe my uncle's prophecy bout staying in JC, so that I can perform better this year compared to last year, and at the same time, gain faith. All the while I've been losing more and more faith, not getting an answer from God. So guess this is it ;) Well the reason why I was and am still feeling hurt is that although uncle Adam IS THE ONE spreading the word through my entire family with the use prophesies from the holy spirit, yet I know people will still think that these sort of prophesies made are from false prophets! So in a way you're saying my uncle's a false prophet? I too, am constantly warning myself to be on guard about false prophets. But I tell you he indeed IS LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, in a way, as the tagger said, "speaking through a medium". Yes this is unusual..but just ask my dad to explain it to you. And a few months back, one of the church leaders in Church of Our Saviour prophesied that uncle Adam will a powerful man for God. Indeed, he is. Well one last thing I wanted to add is this- there's no point arguing over Christianity and Catholism and all the different denominations whatever they are. We're simply one body in Christ. All these things that are happening within my family may be a huge concern to biblical-based Christains. But, the SAFE part is that the prophesies are backed it up with the bible, and the BEST part - is that our family gets to experience the holy spirit at work. God bless you. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: A Need for Clarification Date: 04/1/07 Time: 19:26:46 PM

Alright honestly i'm feeling spiritually attacked after reading those tags by who i do not know..i just got shot in the head..oh boy i feel troubled..now before i give a clear answer to that brother of mine i shall read the holy word for the rest of the night........... PLEASE tell me who you are and God bless The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: ^^ Date: 03/1/07 Time: 01:50:55 PM

Just got back from school. Been there, done that. I've gone through orientation so many times already. It's no more a mystery. A few days before school started, I received this letter saying that retainees gotta meet at LT2 by 7.40am today. Yeah so I went. I kinda thought the number would more or less stay the same. Nah, it never happened. Outta 180 odd students who failed promos, only 40% qualified to retained. Still, that's about say 80 odd students. Yeah but what I saw was that more than half of those left school. Heh. Makes me wonder if I'm at the right place again. Anyway we didn't join the OGs today, and I think we're not gonna participate much for the next few days as well. The school's got some special programme for us, and all we did today was listen to talks after talks, and watched this movie titled, "AntZ"? Never heard of it. A teacher wants us to learn from that movie, but you know, honestly, it doesn't quite fit into the picture. Another few big days comin' up, ain't feeling too good about it. You know its like looking at JC life from a totally different perspective. Frankly, confidence and self-esteem are affecting me quite a bunch. Well no one wants to lose face don'tcha think. But you know, its sorta back to secondary school life. Once again, Without my bro. Purely individualism. kinda boring..no not really. It's more like I've lost some support, in a way. Well, its time I learn my own way of doing things. Perhaps all these years I've been constantly telling myself I'm the recessive twin, and its been going on and on at the back of my head. Really. Plus he HAS ALWAYS been better than me in almost every aspect of my life and that has kinda made it hard for me to remove this feeling inside me that I have had since I was a kid. He is and will always be my greatest competitor. He's still the winner for now. The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†

Topic: ^^ Date: 01/1/07 Time: 01:34:55 AM

Hey visitor!! Welcome to my newly made homepage! Really thank my bro for making me this new homepage after staying up an entire night! *hugs* New year 2007. Wow, 2006 went past like that. Hope everyone's got new hopes and dreams and goals to achieve. I wanna thank the Lord for everything that went on last year. My pledge for 2007: 1.QT everyday if possible 2.Put off my old self I'm going to achieve this alright everyone pray for me too!!!! Just got back from kap. Mom and dad were talking about what uncle adam prophesied..well its a long story. I'm right now feeling not too good coz uncle Adam was spirit-filled and God through him said that i should be staying in JC. Btw if you didn't know I was retained in JC1 simply because I didn't do well enough. I was kinda deciding on going poly all the while and this suddenly shook my faith. I've been sorta praying about it and I've set my mind towards poly lifestyle but well.. what now? ???confused??? Ephesians 4:29 says,"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Don't be misled. I didn't mean to say that mom and dad were talking rubbish. Rather I was shaken in my faith after listening to what they said about my situation. What made it worse is that they told me prophesies such as my sis will be going to study overseas..and in late future, she'll become a PM? Adam himself didn't get what PM stands for, and he said she's gonna be A PRIME MINISTER? lol i thought. ridiculous. yeah even now and then i would doubt it was God that was speaking through uncle adam although prophecy after prophecy have been fulfilled. I believe it a lil but its kinda extreme in a sense don't you think. Well, enough for now. I don't wanna think about it now. As what the verse stated, I shouldn't be listening to all these to weaken myself. I told mom i have been praying about the course that i would be taking up in poly all the while.. not jc anymore!! its out of the question!! and now i'm going back into where i was after the promos? awwww i'm shaken. Was my prayer answered or not? Was it really God in uncle Adam? Anyway I told them I didn't feel like praying anymore, but dad said if that would shake my faith they wouldn't have told me about this jc/poly stuff in the first place. Well....... Now it's only my brother who can encourage me up with this words. Pray for me!! The Oh Brothers™ †HolyApostle†