For those who were wonder which uber old song we were singing during Service 2 on 4th Dec 2010, here’s it.

It’s got the “Benny Hinn feel” to it, though in reality it was composed by on Karen Clark Sheard.

Lyrics as below. Enjoy.

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Oh the glory
of Your presence
We Your temple
give You reverence
So arise to Your rest
and be blessed by our praise
as we glory in Your embrace
as Your presence now fills this place

While I still have the brainpower, here’s something that I thought up in church just now.

We all know that today’s a magical day, or so some people say. 10th Oct 2010. Lots of people getting married, babies born today are geniuses or something, amongst other stuff.

But personally, I think the best way to describe 101010 from my point of view is as follows.

10th October 2010, 10:10:10am. I, together with millions of other Christians all around the world (in their own time zone), will be praising and worshipping Jesus in church.

I think nothing beats that. God clearly planned his days out well. Enjoy a wonderful Sunday!

Sung a new song in service over the weekend. Hillsong’s The First and The Last. Below are the lyrics, plus chords too!

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Hillsong – The First and The Last
Capo: 4
Key:(B)G

Verse 1:
Em D C
You are the First and the Last
G D
Beginning and the End
Em D C
The promise of wonders to come
G D
The future is in Your hands

Pre-chorus
C Em
Caught in the light
C D G
With all the Earth we will sing

Verse 2:
Em D C
You are the Author of love
G D
Our freedom is in Your name
Em D C
Embracing the cross meant for us
G D
And bought us to life again

Pre-chorus
C Em
Caught in the love
C D G
With all we are let us sing

Chorus:
G D
God our Hope and our Salvation
C G Am
Worthy of all our praise
Em D
Be our light everlasting
C Em
Great is Your name
C D G
Jesus the First and the Last

Verse 3:
Em D C
Show us the way of Your love
G D
Lead us towards the truth
Em D C
Stir up the fire in us
G D
To live out this life for you

Pre-chorus
C Em
Caught in Your name
C D G
Jesus forever we’ll sing

Chorus

Bridge:
C Em D
Every heart every nation will hear the sound
C Em D
As the light breaks through the darkness and Your name rings out
Am Em D
Every distant horizon will meet as one
C
Singing holy is Your name We sing holy is Your name.

Ending: (Spontaneous)
Em D
You are
C
The First and the Last
Em D
You are
C Em D
You’re the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End
C Em D
Our salvation You bring freedom God Your grace it knows no end
C Em D
You’re the name above all names the Lamb that was Slain
C
You are, Yeah
Em D
The First and the Last
C Em D
You are the First and the Last.
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Quite a nice song actually. Had fun directing for praise today too, though quite.. messy.

Many would remember singing this *ahem* (tribal sounding) *ahem* song during CHC weekend services over the weekend of 24-25 July. Lol. If you didn’t know, it’s part of Hillsong Live’s new album The Beautiful Exchange, which is nonetheless, beautiful.

Okay tribal sounding is just a random thought okay. Let your imagination run wild. But it’s a damn good song too!

Replaced blog song with it. Super awesome. Lyrics below. Chords even further below.

Lyrics

Chords

Verse C Am F G
Chorus C G Am G F G F G F
Bridge Am F C G

CHC’s 21st Anniversary is coming up!

Past couple of days has been challenging in a sense. After the first day of excitement, being part of what is probably the largest church conference in the world, meaning Asia Conference and Church Growth International, the reality sets in, that this is not just about doing your work or job right, its about doing it for the glory of God.

Schedule was pretty much the same for second and third day. A morning opening session, then another mid day session, then a elective in the afternoon, followed by a night session. Of course with all e different speakers. Only thing is that I didn’t exactly get to listen to most if the sermons. So decided to go get the DVDs. Kept thinking to myself if it was the right choice to make. Cos, it doesn’t come cheap either. But okay, since now I’ve already pre-ordered it, there doesn’t seem to be a turn back point. God bless my building fund after this.

Learnt a lot of new stuff these couple of days. Mostly tech related, but also got to try out ‘live’ directing during the electives. Was kinda thinking like since there isn’t one needed, why not just try eh? Not a bad experience too. Playing with side LEDs is definitely fun.

POS was fine I suppose.though, it wasn’t as good as the previous Asia Conference in 2008, but given the time constraints and the lack of rehearsals and proper working environment, I suppose it should be fine eh? I don’t know. Or it could just be another one of those ‘i think I can do a lot better than what I just did’ syndrome. Argh. It’s kinda frustrating actually, lol.

And right now, being all alone at home, the feeling is weird too. Especially with all that happiness in the hall during the night session, somehow just wasn’t able to relate to it at all. Result? Lost and feeling lonely. Again. Not the first time, been kinda struggling with that since young I suppose.

But can it be healed? Then i got reminded by what one Pastor said before. That every successful person always have a weakness that tortures them their whole lives. Could this just be it?

Oh wells. Sometime really love to have some company. But then. Again, I’m picky in the kind of company I want to hang out without too. Irony?

God bless my sleep. Just wanna cry in your presence and feel Your love. Do You see me? I hope You do.

Okay, gonna find time to just blog short entries everyday of Asia Conference, then probably do one with pictures when the whole thing is over. Haha.

In case I forgot to put it in my blog, I’ll be at Hall 8 every single day of the conference, serving in TVMinistry as tech ops. Cool eh? It’s kinda cool in a sense where there’s a problem that requires attention, someone goes to fix it, and no one else knows about it, because the event or service appears to run perfectly. Awesome.

Day 1 was okay I suppose. Total of 4 sessions in Hall 8 itself. Started of in the morning with a “record breaking” service, *ahem ahem*, (for more information, please ask those around), with Dr Cho. What a priviledge to listen to him, though it went crazily over time.

Second service was by Pastor Phil Pringle. Really engaged the crowd and stuff.

Third one was actually an elective I think. Steve Munsey did his famous Hollywood/Broadway style preaching again. Really love his preaching, presence of God just smacks down instantly. And here’s the cool part, the altar call, like the fastest ever. Within 15secs, the whole front floor area is crowded with people answering the altar call. And we tired folks in the control room were like, “what’s going on”?? LOL.

Last one, night session. Managed to grab some time to go out to the queues to meet up with some folks, mad hot out there actually. Thank God I didn’t have to queue up out there, otherwise I might just melt, cos I was wearing blazer and stuff. Pastor Kong preached. Pastor John Avanzini shared about financial prosperity when collecting the offering. (Oh everyone pretty much jumped awake during the offering. Oh you know why…..)

Anyhow, time to sleep, gonna wake up in 4 hours to go Expo again for Day 2!

Everyone seems to be really busy with Asia Conference. Especially the ministries and church staff. How could they not be right? In addition to Asia Conference, we’re also hosting Pastor Cho and Church Growth International this year! How cool can that be?

Anyhow, managed to go down for much of the prep, setting up of all the tech stuff, running of videos, creating POS videos etc etc. Test  this test that. And not to mention, we have Hall 7 to set up from scratch, and Hall 10 as well?

Testing testing the video, color balance all.. Oh did I mention we have a new crane? Fantastic stuff. Now can dutch roll all. Had fun playing with the crane man…

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Remember you guys saw the American Idol-like stage last weekend? Remember this on the floor?

Just guess what it is. Just make a big guess.

And no, it’s not going to open up and reveal Pastor Kong or Pastor Cho or Sun being elevated up. Though that would be quite cool too.

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Went over to help set up the TBN News Studio at the conference rooms. Really nice right?

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Helped set up the editor’s workstation at TVM’s control as well. These workstations weren’t there before today. Like, they were only there at around 1am in the morning?

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Oh and guess what I got myself at 1am in the morning?

Woo! City Harvest Church’s new album REIGN! And see that whole rack behind me? Awesome!!

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Really cranky after that. I mean, left expo at like 3am, and there were still editors editing the videos for Asia Conference. Finally reached home at like 3:30am after a nice cab ride. But then, gonna cab back to Expo at 6am to be there for the first session. Man, this is gonna be fun.

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Interesting sight.

glow in the dark portaloos! at 3am in the morning! hahaha..

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Happy Asia Conference all!

My tags and all access pass. woo!

My tags for Asia Conference and Church Growth International 2010. Will be serving TV throughout as tech for all 5 days, anchored at Hall 8.

Gonna be fun, really looking forward to it. Especially Dr Cho’s sessions.

Come find me if you can!

This is going to be a short post. Or at least shorter than the previous one. Haha.

Anyhow, good the weekend is here again. Best time of the weekend as usual, but this weekend with a difference.

I’m being transferred to serve in S2 instead of the usual S1 in preparation for Asia Conference. Cool eh? It’s a wonderful experience I suppose. Don’t really get the chance to serve in Expo often except for times like Easter or Christmas.

Luckily, I’m not the only one being transferred there. Zining also came to S2 to serve too! Learning how to use Cam1 and Cam2. Nice!.

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Me and Zining early at Expo to help with the set up. Especially since we just shifted back to Hall 8, there’s bound to be teething issues.

True enough, there were issue by the time we got there. The lobby plasmas weren’t showing anything, and the Nursery’s sound feed was cracking like mad.

So went to troubleshoot the cracking sound first, but initial adjustments didn’t really help the issue, in fact, think it got worse.

Anyhow, went over to the lobby where Attributes was, to troubleshoot the plasma TVs. Turns out the first converter’s adapter was loose. So tried to fix it. But in the process, tripped a switch that turn off power to Attributes too. Whoops. My bad.

Managed to get it fixed eventually. Haha. And get the plasma TV’s to show something other than noise and black. Cool eh?

Then something struck me, of all the people who come to service, how many actually think about the folks who spend so much time setting up the place, troubleshooting problems and stuff? Even though I may not be the one to fix the lobby plasma issue, but someone else would anyway. But it’s still someone who did the job, so that people walking in didn’t see a blank screen instead.

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Anyhow, went to set up the rest of the cameras for services. Played around with Cam 1 and Cam 2, teach a bit of the operations to Zining, since it’s her first time serving at Expo. Haha. Quite cool.

That’s Zining with Cam 1. Compare the sizes of the two of them! HAHA!

But then again, everyone pretty much looks the same way too. Lol. Even me.

Moving on to other cameras.

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Helping to troubleshoot Cam 3′s tilt issue.

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My head looks dislocated in this photo. Haha…

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After the tilt issue was fixed, I had the chance to have a go at the crane.

Tried small slow shots, trying to get accustomed to the controls, counter-panning against a fixed object from a distance while craning as well. Quite challenging, but a good one.

That thing is huge… Beats the jib I used to use hands down.

And the jib didn’t even give me the effect I wanted.

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Swung it over to the other side…

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Ooh, Bryan helped us take this pic.

And Karen says Zining looks like she’s being hung from the crane. LOL. Didn’t even realize it. Haha…

Hung on the wrong side of the crane though. LOL!

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After finishing everything, went back to control booth to FINALLY have my lunch. Haha. Subway sandwich again. Long time no eat.

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And Zining spotter the DSLR! And started to play with it. Haha. Interesting piece of technology it must be for so many people to see it, and get interested in it. Cool.

Control room, the same way it was in Expo Hall 1.

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Anyhow, after that went for service, was on Cam 8.

And during sermon itself, went around the hall to take B Rolls. Random shots of people listening to the sermon, reading the bible, writing notes etc etc. Think many people would have saw me. How not too right? Some lone fella with a camera, tripod and media tag going around the hall, planting himself at odd locations to take a couple of shots? Haha.

You DEFINITELY saw me.

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Anyhow, after service, went back to control, debrief and stuff, then went off with Zining towards town.

While on the train to town, can’t resist some camwhoring eh?

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If I remember correctly, Melvin did suggest that the two of us push the train back to JW. Not sure how we’re going to do that though.

But we’ll be back with ES1 after AC.. Come on, that’s not that far… LOL.

But we miss you people at ES1! Does that help? HAHA!

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More camwhoring. Here’s a very good profile photo for a fashion designer eh? Really natural look.

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And that classic “two hands outstretched holding a heavy camera” shot. Doesn’t really work well on guys though I realized. Perhaps I’ll try it next time. Haha.