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Jay Chou World Tour Concert Singapore 2010

I’m a blessed girl indeed to get the chance to watch Jay Chou concert. A few months ago when the public sale was on for purchase of Jay Chou concert, I could not get any tickets. Everything was snatched within the  first hour of internet sales and many sold the tickets at a much higher price to gain profit. (I also wrote an entry about Ticket Scalping too)This year’s tickets hiked up by $40 as compared to the last one that I attended two years back.

On 21 July 2010, Jay Chou came to Singapore for the first ever autograph session, held at Bugis Junction. In order for you to “gain entry” to the autograph session, you will need to purchase the new album (again) which comes with the authorized pass for the autograph session.

After the autograph session, I saw a lot of photos and status updates from my jay chou fan club friends at Facebook about the autograph session and I was moved. Started to tweet/fb my status to see if anyone has a spare ticket for the concert. Christine happened to have one single ticket and I asked my mum about it. I was shocked when she initiated to treat me for the movie. It’s is a very rare thing k?

So on 23 July, I went down to Singapore Indoor Stadium to queue up to get the concert merchandise. And really want to thank Justin for accompanying me for that 3.5 hours.

On 24 July after service, I rushed down to Singapore Indoor Stadium. Met Esther and her sister on the way to our destination. As we were early for the concert, we cam-whore-ED and went to the washroom before the concert starts. The queue was very long and I nearly waited for 25 minutes for my turn. Afraid that I will be late for the concert, I rushed back to the Indoor Stadium to meet Christine to get the ticket. On the way back, I fell down on both knees on the main road. Luckily there was no car. People around me were staring at me, giving me those pitiful face but NONE came and helped me to get up. The impact was great as I “skidded” for some distance.. Haix.. That time, I could not even bother about my injury and just got up and went to look for Christine. After that, went in for the concert. As I got single ticket, I did not know anyone around me unlike the past two concerts which I went with my fan club friends (but it’s okay, at least I can self-entertain).

Anyway, below is the list of song sequence Jay sang on 24 July 2010.

周杰倫 超時代 世界巡迴演唱會 新加坡 2010年 7月24日

開場短片
1. 龍戰騎士
2. 跨時代
3. 蛇舞 特別嘉賓：梁心颐 Lara
4. Beat Box 愛在西元前
5. 我不配
6. 嘻哈空姐
7. 威廉古堡
8. 魔術先生
9. 黑色幽默 對唱版 特別嘉賓：袁詠琳 Cindy
10. 説好的幸福呢 搖滾版 特別嘉賓：浪花兄弟
11. 地心引力 特別嘉賓：浪花兄弟
12. 春：稻香
13. 夏：陽光宅男
14. 秋：龍捲風
15. 冬：想你就寫信 + 眼泪成诗
16. 免費教學錄音帶+指彈吉他獨奏
17. 時光機
18. 爸 我回來了+心事誰人知
19. 雨下一整晚
20. 愛的飛行日記 特別嘉賓：楊瑞代 Gary
21. 簡單愛+下臺握手
22. 超人不會飛
23. 以父之名
24. BeatBox 開不了口
Encore 1
25. 給我一首歌的時間
26. 可愛女人
27. 說了再見
Encore 2 鼓手熱場
28. 菊花台
29. 雙節棍

The concert was really awesome! Stefanie Sun was there to watch the concert and Jay sang her songs. Screamed, Shouted, Cheered and Sang my hearts out. After the concert, my cousin came and drove me back home. Let me post up some photos here.

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Camp cramps

Oh no.. I realised that I have not been blogging much about my life and updating you guys. Just a few weeks ago, I came back from my church camp and before that I had matriculation camp and was serving as an orientation group leader (OGL).

A few months before the camp, I got “informed” to be the OGL. I was freaked out. Ever since I stepped down from the leadership role in my high school days, I have not been taking up any leadership roles. The leadership skills were rusty. Being an OGL was indeed a challenge for me then. Soon after I got to know that I will be the OGL, I had two nightmares. I think I was too overwhelmed. During the whole period of matriculation, I prayed to God to help me, and be patient with the people. It was really hard to gather the people to stop talking in their groups to listen to me. So, I used my whistle to grab their attention. There were times I almost lost temper. There were times I was pissed off  with myself especially during the last two days of the camp when I completely lost my voice. I pissed off with myself of the lack of ability to rally people(hopefully people did not misunderstand me that I am pissed of with them). I want to extend my appreciation to people who encouraged me and supported me – Jesline, JunYao, Bentay and Liyin. Overall, the experience of being an OGL was great. It wasn’t that terrible, scary thing afterall.   Dont know why I need to fear so much..

Next, was the uni camp (16-18 July). It was my first uni camp as a member of the SIM family. I missed the one last year but I attended one uni camp before with the NUS group (with my brother and calyn) two years back at St John’s Island. Both camps gave me two different experiences. 2008, I was a blur girl, who just joined the NUS CG not long and went for the camp since I had nothing to do. This year (2010), I cannot be blur blur, xiao mei mei as there are new people in the group and I got to embrace them, and at the same time support my leaders. This year’s unicamp, I started to serve in areas such as the multimedia and be a support singer in the singing ministry. From this, I see how I’ve grown in my walk with God.

Though the camp was fun, and with the new structure in the ministry, my heart was much burdened for the people. Things I eagerly wanted to do for the group during the camp were restricted by other stuff. Was very affected by the restrictions I faced, the lack of control that I have, the vulnerability of myself, the inadequacy. As I was sharing with Jesline on the way back from service, I broke down. Thanks Jesline for listening to me and asking me to look at the situation from different direction.

[26072010] Music Cover: You and Me

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Hey guys, I’m here to post my latest music cover. This song is titled “You and Me”, sang by Olivia Ong. I managed to record within the night – with the main melody and the harmonizing. I do not own the background sound track.

You and me
Originally sang by Olivia Ong

Taking a trip down memory lane
Things have changed
One thing remains
That they will always have each other

And even though those days have gone
They know here is where they belong
There’s some kinda magic in the air
Feel the warmth
That only summer breezes can bring
Sweet little notes of spring begin
Nothing to fear

Taking one step at a time
Walking hand in hand
1 2 3 4
Cheek to cheek
And they’re learning
How to do that dance
Let this love be forevermore they say
I wish for this
To be true for you and me

Holding her close
He leading the way
Out at the park
Enjoying the day
And you can tell they’ll be ok
Feel the warmth
That only summer breezes can bring
Sweet little notes of spring begin
Nothing to fear

Taking one step at a time
Walking hand in hand
1 2 3 4
Cheek to cheek
And they’re learning
How to do that dance
Let this love be forevermore they say
I wish for this
To be true for you and me

Taking one step at a time
Walking hand in hand
1 2 3 4
Cheek to cheek
And they’re learning
How to do that dance
Let this love be forevermore they say
I wish for this
To be true for you and me

To be true for you and me
To be true for you and me
You and me
You and me

God’s Armor Bearer Book II

For the past three days, I have been doing some reading up of Christian books. I “kop-ED” from my brother since he has a library of books. So, I picked three books at the moment and started to read about this – God’s Armor Bearer Book II. This book is written by Terry Nance. While reading, I jotted down some points out from the book as I can share it with you guys what I’ve learned.

Every one of us is very precious to God. We are not here by accident but created by Him for a purpose for us to fulfill. God is the best “chess player”. He knows how to put you where He wants you. Each and every one of us is called for a purpose. We function as different part of the body of Christ. Each of us has different talents, different abilities therefore we have different ministries such as Multimedia, Usher, Singers, Sound etc for people to serve in.  If you want to fulfill your part as the Body, you must stop looking at your inabilities and start using your abilities. Some times we do not understand why we are caught up in the situation, why certain things happen in this way. Every Christian will face situations that forced them to make a decision whether to trust God or man. If you lean toward man, then man will be the limit of your supply. What we need to do is to TRUST Him, and we will see in the end that He was working out His divine plan.

My Reflection: One thing that I learned from the UniCamp was : “Your weakness is a sin”. Why is it so? No one is perfect, we have our strengths and weaknesses. Most of the time (or every time), we will want to show others our strengths, telling them how strong we are in that particular area and we hide what we do not want people to see – our weaknesses. We always say things like “Bo bian..This is my weakness. This is me. Take it or leave it.” We should not give such excuses and leave our weaknesses just like that. As much as I want to use my strengths to help in the MM ministry, I want to go through the pruning journey with God.I want to see myself serving in more areas.

It is important that we know who we are serving. Bear in mind, we are serving God. Many people have fallen into sin as they substituted ministry work with intimate relationship with God. It is good that we are excited to do God’s work, to do what He has called us. It’s good! But we should not be over-zealous until we get off track what He has set for us initially. Dream big dreams, but dream it with God. Dreams that do not have God in the picture are not God’s dream.

My Application point: Always make a quick check of my motive of doing things. For my own benefit? For my gains? Or for God.

Really excited to see how God can use me

Surrendering to God

The key thing is about “Complete Surrendering”. It is not just surrender but COMPLETE. We tend to surrender to God things we find easy to surrender, but difficult to surrender to God the things we value much (possessions, job, family, fame, security), or within our comfort zone. “Control” is the last thing we want to give up. God doesn’t want us to surrender a little bit here, a little bit there but He wants us to surrender ALL. Complete Surrender to God brings complete life.

We often get confused that we need to give up those things we enjoy in order to surrender all to God. This is a misconception. If God has given you a talent, maximize it and use it for His Glory. Example: If you like to sing or play music, use them to glorify God, serve in the singing ministry. Be a good steward of our time, thoughts, talents, and treasures because they belong to God and are to be used for His glory. When you submit to God, you come to a point where you ask God to use you for His will. God has a great plan for you.

Proverbs 3:5-6 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

[08072010] Music Cover: Times of Your Life

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The first time i heard this song was from one of the Taiwanese drama – Calling for Love. So I started to google for the song and fell in love the first time I heard it. I tried to find the minus one track but in the end, I recorded my voice over the original song (plus harmonizing).

P.S.: I do not own the original song.

Times of Your Life – Original by Joanna Wang
Good morning, yesterday
You wake up and time has slipped away
And suddenly it’s hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember, do you remember

The laughter and the tears
The shadows of misty yesteryears
The good times and the bad you’ve seen
And all the others in between
Remember, do you remember
The times of your life (do you remember)

Reach back for the joy and the sorrow
Put them away in your mind
The mem’ries are time that you borrow
To spend when you get to tomorrow

Here comes the saddest part (comes the saddest part)
The seasons are passing one by one
So gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life

Gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life
Of your life
Of your life

Renovating my room

Still remember that I want to renovate my room after exam? So for the past few days, I tidied up my table, removing those unnecessary notes that I will not need it anymore. (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2010/05/27/r-i-p-gui-gui/) It’s just like doing some spring cleaning before chinese new year.

Wiped my cabinet, shelves.

And take a look at part of my hello kitty collection:

Today, I went IKEA with Mummy. We spent the whole day walking around and looking out for inspiration for the design of my room. In the end, I got this wall shelves at $49 (with the frame) and I will use it as a rack to display all my Jay Chou collectibles. (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2009/01/17/happy-30th-birthday-jay/) But before I mount the shelf to the wall, I’m going to paint my room first. It’s gonna be a massive makeover of my room and hopefully it turns out great.

And, a few days ago, I posted something on my Twitter and Facebook asking people where I can sell or give away my story books. I have a lot of story books but I dont think I will use them anymore. Initially, I wanted to sell them away to earn some bucks. But I think donating them away will be more meaningful. The books can bring smiles to the children, benefit them. It is much better than having these storybooks on the racks of the bookstore and waiting for people to purchase them.

So, I went online to search for some charity organisations – Salvation Army, Singapore Children Society etc. I got to chance upon this charity organisation called BooksToRead (http://www.bookstoread.org.sg/). This is what they said on their official website:

Millions of children in Africa today are struggling to receive the benefits of a good education because they have limited access to key educational materials such as textbooks and storybooks. Elementary education is scattershot and illiteracy rates are high even in the wealthier nations. Higher education is almost unheard in majority of the Sub-Saharan regions of Africa. We at Books to Read believe that all children should have an undeniable right to good education and want to help children unleash and achieve their true potential in society.

Books To Read humble beginnings started in Singapore in 2008 with a group of committed young adults who believed in the power of education and the importance of helping the less fortunate in society. We begin collecting text books and story books for school children in Africa under our flagship project SAIL (Singapore Africa Initiative for Learning). What started as an initiative to help children in Africa has transformed into a long term commitment to empower students in Tanzania and Zambia with the means to eradicate poverty. Through our dedicated volunteers and generous books donors, we have been able to supply more than 13,000 books to six schools in Zambia and Tanzania in 2009. By 2010, we hope to raise more than 50,000 books.

Going to Africa for mission trip  has been something that I would like to do. When I was young, I saw documentations and TV shows showing about the people in Africa. I do feel for them and it interests me a lot to help  the people there. Greater chance that I will donate my books to BooksToRead but I will need to find out more about it. If you have any information or comments about BooksToRead, to let me know.

R.I.P Gui Gui

Actually, now exam is over and I ought to be happy and relieved. Perhaps the holiday mood has not sank into my head or I’m just depressed over the loss of my family pet. (Actually I don’t see IT as my pet but I see HER as one of my family member who accompanied our whole family for the entire twenty years)

Yesterday’s last paper ESAP was manageable for me. I spotted the right chapters and focused the right ones. Really thank God for the nlb sg peeps. I never knew studying at nlb would be quite fun with this bunch of serious muggers. For the past 9 days, I’ve been slogging hard for ESAP with Wendy. Monday(25 May 2010) was the last day of revision and as usual, I went nlb to study. In the midst of studying, around 11, my mum called me. (I thought it was just random call asking me what time I will reach home for family dinner later on) The first thing my mum told me was ‘Mei, how? Our tortoise(wu gui, but I usually call her guigui) is not moving. Do you have any solution or remedy?’ The first reaction I had was ‘huh? How could it be?‘ When my mum woke up in the morning at 11am, she saw my wugui overturned, upside down. When my mum turned her around, she was just lying there motionlessly. It was exactly the same kind of feeling I was having a year back (http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-%E9%BE%9F%E9%BE%9F/)

OMG!! Why did it happened? Why did it happened just one day before my paper? I started to think the last time I saw my wu gui. It was two days back in the morning when I was preparing to go out. Because I have been staying out late, by the time I reached home, I was super tired to even give my wu gui a glance. After giving me a call, my mum called my dad and he went back home. My wu gui actually waited for my dad to reach home and then she breathed her last.

At the point of time, I wanted to rush home to see my wu gui for the last time. But my revision for ESAP was bad. I didn’t know if I want to go home but my heart was telling me to stay on at nlb to study. I knew that my heart could not take it if I see my wu gui lying there. I don’t want to be involved in the burial ceremony. (I used to have another tortoise, who was my current wugui’s companion. He died and we buried him at jurong garden) In the afternoon, daddy and mummy went to bury wugui and took the picture of the burial place. It looks peaceful.

Although this tortoise belongs to my da ge(he bought 20years ago at those wet market. It grew from a small small size to a palm-sized), I do treat her as my own family member, my own pet. I used to take care of her when my da ge was serving ns. I remembered the tasks I need to do- wash the container every day, scrub the shell.And I still remember that when I was scrubbing the shell, my wu gui bite my index finger and didnt want to release. I had to shake her off.

This is a photo of my gui gui three years back:

Whenever I am bored, I will find my wu gui and talk to her. The container is placed under our basin so everyday rise and shine, I will see her when I’m brushing my teeth, washing my face. Now that she is gone, the container is gone.

For the whole afternoon, I tried to tell myself to concentrate on my revision and chuck everything about my wu gui to one side. But there was a point of time I could not take it and went to the toilet for hard cry.

Time to go home, I dragged my feet back for family dinner. It was the actual day of my parent’s 30th wedding anniversary. How are you able to have the family dinner when you’ve lost one of your family members?

I told myself to be strong (at least in front of my family because I didn’t want to rub salt into the wound as I know my parents were very upset) but when I reached home, I couldn’t control myself and rushed to the bathroom to shower. I really couldn’t differentiate if it’s water from the shower tap or my tears. No matter how hard I told myself to stay strong, I could not handle my own emotions.

Family dinner was awkward to me. It was hard for us to enjoy dinner like this.

Alrights, exams over. I should also blog about my plans and things I want to do this 3 months long holiday. But first, just wanna blog about my expectation of the papers I took. I did the same thing last year(http://www.simplyjas.com/blog/2009/05/22/exams-update/).

5 May 2010: Principles of Accounting
Before paper (my target) – >50%
After paper (my estimation) – >45%

7 May 2010: Management Mathematics
Before paper (my target) – >50%
After paper (my estimation) – >50%

17 May 2010: Principles of Marketing
Before paper (my target) – >60%
After paper (my estimation) – >40%

26 May 2010: Elements of Social and Applied Psychology
Before paper (my target) – >50%
After paper (my estimation) – >50%

Things I want to do:
June will be a break for me, to do things I always want to do before I start looking for a job. This will be my last holiday before I graduate. Once I graduate, I think I will start looking for job and really enter into the marketplace and there will not have time for me to relax, and enjoy.

1) tidy up my room:
a) to pack the notes to aside and throw them once I got my results- I’m keeping my whole handwritten notes and those theory notes.
b) Revamp my wardrobe- I have a lot of clothes, like more than 80 pieces? There are brand new ones that I don’t think I will wear it anymore and clothes that are old and torn ones.
c) (if possible) repaint my wall to either baby pink or scenery from the beachside. Ha! But I don’t think I’m talented enough. So, I need your help. Talented painters, anyone?

2) Once I got my MacBook pro, I will want to record my own covers. Already told some talented people if they are interested. Up till now, i hve Claris, Sherlynn, Jacky and Caixuan. I’ve seen a lot of music covers done by youtube-ers and really obsesssed with it. I want to master my MacBook skill, know how to use their software for videoediting and audio recording. Oh ya, IT fair coming. Should I get a better microphone and good recording system?

3) Meaningful holiday means doing meaningful stuff. I have been waiting for this holiday so that I can make a contribution to the society. I want to volunteer at the hospital, telling stories, play with the kids there.

4) Bible Study

5) Revamp my whole website

6) Take up photography skills, take photos of scenery, items etc.

6) Work!

I met a strange (or friendly) lady?!

I said I wanted to blog on Wednesday to narrate what happened after caregroup on Wednesday but I didn’t have much time to blog. I’m still left with one more paper – Psychology. There are tonnes of reading and memorizing work yet to be done. I’m now using my iPhone to blog as I’m on my way to have family dinner. It is my dad and mum’s 30th wedding anniversary.

On Wednesday after caregroup, I got my newest Jay Chou’s album from hanyun. While waiting for the train ride back home, I eagerly opened up the package and admired the cd. Suddenly, this lady(CoCo) who was sitting beside me started to talk to me.

Coco: isn’t this jay chou’s album? You preordered it?
Jassy: ya
Coco: wah, you managed to get it? I didn’t preorder so I couldn’t get it.
Jassy: ok

So our train came and she boarded the same train as me. Throughout the whole conversation, our whole topic revolves around Jay Chou. But seriously, I don’t think she is a fan of him? She didn’t go for his concert, don’t buy his album? After 10mins of chat, she asked for my handphone number. What? I barely know you and you want my number? We are just strangers who happened to have a common interest. So I asked her why she wanted my number and she said she wants to make friends with me. Wah. It was a surprise for me as I thought we will just say bye to each other and never see each other. But I didn’t know how to reject her, I gave my number to her. When I was saying out my phone numbers, I felt like giving her my mum’s number or just give her a fake 8 digits. But I didn’t. When Coco realized that I was hesistating to read out the numbers, she actually called my number to verify. Smart!

Besides chatting about jay, coco told her background. She came to Singapore from malaysia ipoh for a year or so. She’s working as an accountant. She told me she is unsure whether if accountancy is what she want. She stays at sembawang but yet she took the green line and up the red one(when she can take the train str from cityhall-where I met her).

The next day morning, went national library to study with Shawn. We studied until 630pm. Knowing that Shawn is meeting his caregroup at commonwealth, I went to buy Rockery bubbletea and surprised my shepherd with my presence and bubbletea. Hope it really blessed my shepherd.

After getting the bubbletea, we went to take a train from Bugis. Suddenly, someone tapped me from the back! Guess who did I see? It’s CoCo!! This is the second day I saw her and to me, I find it scary. Maybe it’s because I didn’t meet someone so friendly in my whole life (like asking for my number after chatting for like 10 minutes?!). Initially, I thought she will follow me to take the train back (but luckily she didn’t cause she thought Shawn and I were together. But never mind, it’s a beautiful lie)

Reached commonwealth and waited for my shepherd’s appearance. Meanwhile, I received two smses from CoCo.

After meeting my shepherd, went back home.

Anyway, for the past few days, I have been going to nlb to study. Made some new friends too. On Friday, we had late dinner together at Nando’s. Thank God for two guys for helping us to queue since 8pm while the rest of us went down at 9pm, after the library closes. And ten of us managed to find a seat at around 945pm.

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