Focus on Doing God's Will

Some of you are carrying a yoke , a heavy burden of the expectations that were put on you by your parents, or your husband, or your wife, or your children. Some of you are burdened down with a yoke put on you by your boss or by your teacher.

But most of us carry a yoke of burden that we've put on ourselves because of unresolved guilt and unrealistic expectations. We're trying to prove that we matter.

We take on a heavy yoke that God never intended in order to prove that we're important when God says we're already important.

God's yoke is that we follow his purpose for our lives, and when we do that, things work out a whole lot better. When we go our own way in life, we hit one brick wall after another. In a sense, God says, "Put on my purpose, my plan for your life."

How heavy is God's yoke? Jesus says, "The yoke I will give you is light and easy." You say, "But my Christian life isn't easy. My Christian life is heavy; it's like a duty that I have to fulfill."

Then it may be you are out of God's will. You may be doing something that God never intended for you to do. Jesus did not come to give you a burden but a blessing.

Matthew 11:27-30 NIV

"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Earthquake

The 1st time I felt an earthquake termor was in 2004 Boxing Day. That is when an earthquake happen at Aceh.

At that time I was at church attending the Christmas service. I can se the spot light was moving around... everyone also felt it.

After.the service my sister when to Gurney Plaza with her cell member.
Below is the video of Tsunami that happen in Gurney Plaza.... The car that push my the water to the middle of the road is my sister car...

On 11/04/2012 afternoon, earthquake hit Aceh again at 8.6 magnitude. I was seating in the living room with my notebook. Suddenly I saw my notebook screen shaking and the sofo also shaking. All the thing in the leaving room also shake. By that time I knew it was earthquake again. I turn to all the news channel to get the latest news. Getting more and more people report about the earthquake on facebook,

As the news coming, tsunami alert is issue for all country at Indian Ocean. There still no news on the damage it done to Aceh.

I was on my way to badminton session with my friend and I felt the 2nd tremor inside the car. It was estimated that tsunami will hit Penang island at 911pm. All the shopping center was getting ready for the tsunami and close early for the day.

By 836pm the tsunami alert for the coastal regions in Malaysia was lifted.

Home Tone vs. Gig Tone

“home tone” vs. “gig tone”. This is something that experienced performing musicians know intuitively, but which often slaps newcomers to the live venue right in the face when they come up against it for the first time. To preface: there’s so much talk of “tone” these days, and so many guitarists are chasing it for all their worth, but more often than not this pursuit is undertaken in the isolation of a player’s living room, bedroom, home studio, or some other “home alone” environment. There’s nothing at all wrong with that, and these places are where we practice, learn, discover, and sometimes record the results. But honing our ultimate tone in these subjective environments can often lead to disappointment when we get out into the entirely subjective real world. Let’s find out why.

Among the net blogging tone hounds, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on guitar and amp sounds that are “smooth, warm, round, organic…” This might run to everything from the general preference for neck-pickup tones to a love of the round, thick, early breakup of heavily worn-in vintage speakers. Certainly any of these can bathe the ear in their juicy goodness when enjoyed sans distraction, and sound a lot more pleasant than anything that hints at a “harsh” or “cutting” sound. What the ear perceives from a solo electric guitar, however, and from a guitar blended into the mix of a full band are two entirely different things. In the latter, that smooth, warm, round tone too often can become… well, nothing at all.

The fundamental notes—meaning the pure, fretted notes, without any consideration of overtones (harmonics)—of guitars with 22 frets cover the frequency range from the low E at 82 Hz to a high D at 1,174 Hz. It so happens that the human voice has a range from approximately 85 Hz to 1,100 Hz. The human ear can detect frequencies from around 20 Hz (a further octave below the low E on a bass guitar) to around 20,000 Hz (or 20 kHz), but the average human’s hearing is biased toward detecting sounds in the midrange frequencies, which is to say it hears them more easily (they are perceived as louder), while upper-mid and high-frequency sounds will also jump out as being more noticeable within any blend, if not louder in the pure sense. Those midrange frequencies, it turns out, encompass the human voice as well as the guitar. As it happens, they also define a lot of what a drum kit produces (drum frequencies trample all over the spectrum), anything your bassist will create above his first octave or so, and anything a keyboard or horn section will produce. In other words, without some clever tone-shaping to distinguish the note production of each instrument, you can be left with sonic mush.



Meanwhile, thanks to the range of overtones (harmonics) that any plucked guitar string also produces, the guitar’s frequency range is actually extended far above the frequency of its highest fundamental note, and it takes up a lot more space in the sonic stew than just this chunk of around 1,000 Hz toward the center of the midrange. Put the guitar through an amplifier, especially a semi-distorted one (and most of them are, right!?), and these harmonics are accentuated further.


Revisit that “warm, smooth, round” tone that is so easy on the ear at home, and you’ll find that it achieves this quality by minimizing the aural spikes that strong harmonic overtones represent. Get it up on stage, though, amidst a drummer, bassist, vocalist, a second guitarist and maybe some keyboards, and this spike-free tone is often about as effective as a rubber crutch. Stand back from the stage, and—in a large, loud band, at least—such a tone will often be all but lost when everyone is playing, contributing more to the general sense of low-end presence and midrange body of the band’s sound, rather than ringing as a distinct part on its own. Of course, sometimes that’s exactly what you want, from a power-chord rhythm guitar part or the chunk-metal second guitar that’s backing another guitarists riffs and lead work. Also, if you’re playing in a small blues combo, with a more minimalist drummer and no extremes of volume, your smooth, rich tone might be delightful just as it is. In so many other scenarios, though, you’re likely to be hoping that your own playing will be heard for itself, and that your rhythm and lead parts alike will shine and get some attention out there in the crowd.

Often, a newbee to the live scene will just keep increasing their overall volume in an effort to get heard, which usually inspires the rest of the band to crank up, too, ultimately accentuating the mush. To get that tone heard properly, you’ll want to dial in some upper-midrange cut, some attention-getting shimmer in the highs (though without creating an ice-pick-in-the-ear for anyone in the first few rows), and a firmer low end. This might involve simply tweaking your amp’s tone and gain controls, or selecting a different pickup, but it might also require a total rethink of your rig between the current gig and the next. More drastic changes that can help might include switching to a firmer, punchier speaker, exploring a brighter guitar (or amp) with more harmonic sparkle… or you might simply need to put on some fresh strings. There isn’t room here to cover all the possible adjustments, and I’m mainly getting you to face up to the theory, but you’ll know the condition when you hear it.

It’s important to realize, too, that your tonal requirements will vary from night to night, room to room, and to remain flexible in all gigging situations. All of which is not intended to say that you should entirely scrap that warm, luscious, ear-candy tone that gives you goosebumps in the bedroom, just that you should prime yourself against being too precious about it out in the real world. When you get “your tone” set up and ready to go in sound check, then find it is lost in the ether once the band kicks in, don’t be too proud—or too stubborn—to change it. Dial some punch into the midrange, some cutting power into the higher frequencies, and some tightness into the low end, and get your tone out there to the ears that matter most to the live performance: someone else’s.


Taken from Gibson Tone Tips

RIP Jim Marshall

"The world would have been a whole lot less loud without his legacy!"

Discover Your Gifts by Serving

Many people get the discovery process backwards. They think, "Once I discover my spiritual gifts, then I'll know my ministry." It actually works the exact opposite way. Until you're actually involved in serving, you're not going to know what you're good at. The thing to do is just start serving and experimenting with different ministries; only then will you discover your gifts.

You have dozens of hidden abilities and gifts you don't know about because you've never tried them out. So I encourage you to try doing some things you've never done before. No matter how old you are, I urge you to never stop experimenting.

Over the years, I have met many people who discovered hidden talents when they were in their seventies and eighties. In fact, I know a woman in her nineties who runs and wins 10K races; she didn't discover that she enjoyed running until she was seventy-eight!

Don't try to figure out your gifts before volunteering to serve somewhere. Just start serving. Try teaching or leading or organizing or playing an instrument or working with teenagers. You will never know what you're good at until you try. When it doesn't work out, call it an "experiment," not a failure, because it will help you eventually learn what you're good at.

Romans 12:5 NIV

so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

- Rick Warren

Lin-sanity

For the pass 2 week, New York have been hit by LIN-SANITY fever!!!!



Meet this guy, JEREMY LIN.........

Jeremy Lin is an American professional basketball player with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After receiving no athletic scholarship offers out of high school and being undrafted out of college, the Harvard University graduate reached a partially guaranteed contract deal with his hometown Golden State Warriors. Lin is one of the few Asian Americans in NBA history, and the first American player in the league to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.

If drafted, Lin would have been the first Ivy League player selected by the NBA since Jerome Allen of Penn in the second round in 1995. On July 21, 2010, Lin signed a two-year deal with his hometown Warriors, his favorite team growing up. On December 9, 2011, the Warriors waived Lin on the first day of training camp. On December 12, 2011, Lin was claimed off waivers by the Houston Rockets. He played seven minutes in two pre season games with the Rockets. On December 24, before the start of the season, the Rockets waived Lin to clear payroll to sign center Samuel Dalembert. The New York Knicks claimed Lin off waivers on December 27 to be a backup and and people see him as the 12th to 15th guy on the roster.

Lin was assigned to the Erie BayHawks of the D-League. On January 20, he had a triple-double with 28 points, 11 rebounds, and 12 assists in the BayHawks' 122–113 victory over the Maine Red Claws. Lin was recalled by the Knicks three days later.  New York considered releasing Lin before his contract became guaranteed on February 10 so they could sign a new player.

On February 4, 2012, Lin had 25 points, five rebounds, and seven assists, all career-highs in a 99–92 Knicks victory over the New Jersey Nets.

In the subsequent game against the Utah Jazz, Lin made his first career start. He had 28 points and eight assists

Next game against the Washington Wizards, Lin had 23 points and career-high 10 assists. It was his first double-double.

Lin scored a new career-high 38 points and had seven assists, leading the Knicks in their 92–85 victory over the LA Lakers

Lin scored 20 points and had 8 assists in a narrow 100–98 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Lin scored 89 and 109 points in his first three and four career starts, respectively, the most by any player since the merger between the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the NBA in 1976–77. He is the first NBA player with at least 20 points and seven assists in his first four starts. Lin was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week after averaging 27.3 points, 8.3 assists and 2.0 steals in those four starts with the Knicks going undefeated.

Lin scored a game-winning three pointer in Toronto less than a second remaining in a game where he passed Shaquille O'Neal's league record for the most points in his first five games as a starter.

It really touched to see Lin give credits to his team mate and not himself alone and he learned to place Jesus in the centre of his life.

Jeremy Lin's interview with Good TV

"Players playing that well don't usually come out of nowhere. It seems like they come out of nowhere, but if you can go back and take a look, his skill level was probably there from the beginning. It probably just went unnoticed."

                                                                                                      - Kobe Bryant after Lin scored 38 points on February 10, 2012.

"I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore,"

                                                                                                                                        - Jeremy Lin 

Chinese New Year 2012

Time fly fast.... It already Feb 2012.... Chinese New Year is coming to an end....

Din really do anything during Jan other then working...

After got my bonus, I got myself a watch...

Seiko 5

During CNY I having Steam Boat as reunion

Good news.... I'm back in worship team!!

It feel good to be back.... 

When there are CNY eve dinner, we must have CNY closing dinner..... 

Having a good feast!!!!

Got my 1st new Malaysia's Coin...

With CNY coming to an end, it time to start working...