what i wanna be

hey guys now i finally get some time to tell y'all about the week that's just passed.

i just started taking lessons from (2SG) linchow, and it's amazing learning and watching him play. to think that there's actually a guy who's bored(or adventurous) enough to take any piece of rudiment/style and know it inside out, from bebop to ratamacues, dave weckl to lars ulrich. i still got a long way to go, so in a sense i'm safe from the immensurable amount of things i have to learn, for now. he told me to clean up my chops (just like alvin did when i started lessons with him). so now i'm just clicking my hats on 1,2,3,4, the n's, and both combined, playing the kick on the 1/2/3/4, e's, n's, and a's. this particular independence(or unison) exercise is so simple you can finish it in a day, but i (and whoever agrees with me in the importance of it) will be practising it until the day we die.. i'm looking forward to the next lesson (minus the scolding part =X)

it may be too early now to mark it as unforunate, but i definitely feel so about the saf making me play the bass guitar. i mean i respekt bass players(such as victor wooten and ivan yap (heh)), and i acknowledge their utmost importance in a band, BUT i'm NOT the bass player.
i tend to get a bit pissed when mervin asks me to play bass guitar for church service. cause i don't really wanna waste too many moments practising any thing else other than drums. i wonder if it is an issue of pride.
so now the saf is asking me to play the bass guitar. no prizes for guessing when i'll stop.
even theresa's asking me to play bass for her wedding!!(theresa/weiming if you're reading this don't take me wrongly. it's my pleasure playing for your wedding =))

now it's still quite fun because i'm learning how to walk on the bass for jazz and bossa and it's fun too learning some victor wooten bass exercises (mostly for the right hand). but how long will this novelty last, or when will it upgrade to love and commitment, i don't know. but for now i just wanna play the drums.

this, and today's sermon, made me start to ponder what i'm gonna do in life. am i gonna be a drummer, or a bassist, or full-time worker at the loft studios, or a pastor(yikes! hahah), or just something to do in the line of econs? my own business? or get the time-machine thingie hermione got from dumbly-dorr and do all of the above? i mean it all seems like great fun, and greater commitment, but what is it that God wants me to do? i definitely can't afford to go to berklee at this rate(unless maybe if i sign on [double yikes-yikes!], and i wonder if i can brush up my chops in time. does coming to saf ban ds have a part to play in anything?

worries and questions without answers (for now) aside, i'm very thankful to God for my posting to band. i love it here. i get to practise everyday, play music, learn music, and not to mention canteen uncle's wicked-sick popcorn chicken and wicked-sweet milo-peng.

and i also know for a fact that, God gave Noah a seemingly random, and nonsensical mission that'll make him look like Ned Flanders, and Noah, against all odds, did the right thing by walking by faith and not by sight. i think that's one of the most amazing stories in the Bible. may we all walk from day to day in obedience to God.

gtg clean up my mess of a room now. have a great week everyone
life is long don't hurry too much.