This is Yuja Wang playing some Mozart thingie.

Every good and perfect gift comes from the father above. You may not have the same but may yours also been given room to fly.

Video of one of my favourite kids worship songs by City Harvest Children’s Ministry.

Artist: Crosby Stills Nash Young
Song: Teach Your Children

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well,
Their father’s hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you’ll know by.

Don’t you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of tender years,
Can’t know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.

Counter Melody To Above Verse:
Can you hear and do you care and
Cant you see we must be free to
Teach your children what you believe in.
Make a world that we can live in.

Teach your parents well,
Their children’s hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you’ll know by.

Don’t you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Wikipedia’s definition of Desperado “(’desperate’ in Spanish — this is an old and now incorrect usage of the word, today desesperado is the right word) means a person who cannot wait for something to happen, and sometimes may recur to violent or reckless actions.”

1. Desperation leads to not listening to truth

2. Desperation leads to making moves that is detrimental

3. Desperation for something is a true sign of a need for something else

4. Desperation for the something else is the real cure for desperation

Whenever we are desperate, turn it into the desperation to find the real need for something else. For example if we are desperate for a cigarrette, be desperate to find a solution to healthy relief. Spend some money to enrol yourself in a sport or activities that you will really like that takes you away from smoke.

If we are desperate for a job, don’t try to grab a job, but turn it into the desperation of being a useful person. Learn how you can contribute and be interested in the company more than in yourself.

If we are desperate for a boyfriend or girlfriend, be desperate to find the true solution to loneliness. Be desperate to be a better person and secure person. Be an excellent friend to people who are already around you. Don’t go after a person thinking he/she will give you happiness.

If you need a sugary drink or a latest tech gadget or a great handbag, just go for something else.

Above all, the best desperation for ’something else’ is the desperation for the voice and touch of God. After all we go through in our journey, we know that it’s the voice and the healing touch of God that always trustworthy.

“Brother’s Keepers” - Rich Mullins is playing in my iTunes

This must be one of the most under-rated album of Rich Mullins. And I understand perfectly why. The first few times I listened to it, I was absolutely disappointed. Years later, I think it contains one of the most insightful and inspired set of Christian songs Rich has ever written and recorded. It doesn’t have immediate appeal but these songs will grow on you more on each listen. Today I absolutely loved it.

My favourite line is from ‘Wounds of Love’ where he sings

“If faith is all we got, maybe faith its all we need”

He’s spot on, as most of the time, faith is all we need.

The late Rory Gallagher is one of my favourite guitarists I listened to growing up. Together with other things irish like Van Morrisson, Gary Moore and U2, Rory was my teenage thing.

This one is a gem of him playing an acoustic version of As the Crow flies.

31st May to 2 June 200.

Moving moving on…the Big Dreams Kids Camp, here we come

The Dreamer’s Anthem is just been mixed and released…music by Wan Yueh and words by Rags.

It’s just a tad more experimental and modern compared to last year’s Wondrous Word of God

I was You-Tube searching for Trijntje Oosterhuis or Traincha singing Bucharach’s “God Gives Me Strength” from this CD I’m listening to the past 2 days.

Instead I found one of her singing Sting’s Fragile.

It reminds me of the recent Myanmar’s cyclone disaster, how connected we are and the fragility of life.

Recently found a CD copy to replace my version of Paul Simon’s Grammy Award winning Graceland. Those South African rhythm gives me goose bumps.

What rhythm. What great song. What amazing performance.

What if everyday we live an inspiring performance for God. Will God too get goose pimples?

Mag gave me tickets to THE POLICE LIVE! Reunion Tour for my birthday. I sold them to someone last week.

Instead of being there, I had a leader over for dinner and were suppose to visit a girl who used to come to church. After dinner we had her mother called to cancel, just minutes before we left the home. So my evening ended prematurely.

As I’m writing this, Sting, Andy Summer and Steward Copeland (or collectively called THE POLICE) is right this moment performing their only South East Asian show in the indoor stadium and I’m at home.

Did I regret selling the tickets? A little bit, … but I think the evening was worth it, catching up with people and now reading for my kids. I’ll also probably wind down later with my Sting “Bring On The Night” DVD.

Found this old Police clip. Andy Summer is playing a sunburst telecaster and I really wonder if he’s playing one right now at the stadium. It makes the feeling just a little bit more intense.