Awesome man. i am so not gonna blog bout the whole day except for the SONICFEST 2005!! woah it was really really awesome. although the spiritual atmosphere and level wasnt as high as church camp, the everything else was like super lah. haha. Met Melcher at Dhoby Ghaut and kinda went a little early to Fort Canning Green. was kinda surprised to see many many of our Hope brothers and sisters there, which includes Freedy and Clarence and some other sisters who i duno their names. wah awesome lah.
went i reached the main stage it was Vertical Rush performing. can see everyone just sitting down and kinda waiting for it to be over. firstly, coz they were like doing some rap without giving us the lyrics and their drums were so loud, plus the blarring of the guitar, i could hardly hear the artist singing. okay, maybe he was shouting more than singing. secondly,
it was Planet Shakers coming up next!!! haha. but their last two songs were impressive lah, Vertical Rush i mean.
i mean, when Planet Shakers came on stage, can see the
whole entire crowd automatically standing up. haha. oh yeah, its like kinda downslope so hard to jump for many people. Thank God Melcher and i managed to make our way to the front, which had like half a metre of flat land. Awesome lah. first time seeing Planet Shakers live yeah. really praise God as one voice. with songs from
Open Up The Gates,
Running After You,
Always and Forever, etc etc. how can it not be totally overwhelming?? people all over were all pumped up with the Holy Spirit lah.
Next up was none other than my old-time favourite... SONICFLOOd!! ahhh!! they did 3 new songs from their 2005 album entitled
This Generation, of which i bought bout 1 month ago. haha. Thank God lah, know how to sing their songs, esp parts when they didnt have the lyrics.
They did many many awesome songs too lah, even
Cry Holy,
Here I Am To Worship, This
Generation,
God is Here, etc etc. i just cant explain wad its like lah, u got to be there yourselves. jump untill both legs kinda sore yeah. screamed and shouted untill i lost my voice. halfway through, Rick Heil(lead singer of SONICFLOOd) shared about his own life testimony. about how he contracted Crohn's disease, a painful intestinal disorder he’s lived with for years. and how God had healed him. “Normally, you have it for life,” Heil explains, “but I was in the hospital in March and one of the top surgeons went through all my intestines and said there was no disease to treat.” it was truely amazing lah. everyone, and i mean everyone, paid absolute attention.
then they had altar call, for both believers and non-believers, initiated by SONICFLOOd. they made us move back bout 10 steps to leave a gap in the front to get prayed for. i felt the Holy Spirit really urging me to go forward. there was so much to thank God for that i just didnt know where to start. anyway, responded to the altar call along with about 30 others. it was overwhelming lah. i cried during altar call. nothing much of an amusement now it seems. okay anyway after the whole concert went to the 'Life Tent' for prayer.
there this girl, no actually woman prayed for me. her name was Kim i think. then after she heard my prayer request(which i am not gonna tell you), she kinda prayed for me and all. okay after it was done talked a little. then i found out that she was churchless. so i kinda invited her over to Hope, and now that i think of it, i didnt tell her the time... then i was like still suffering the aftermath of concert blues, i said alot of wrong stuff lah. coz she asked me where is my church, then i was thinking i cant possibly get her to youth service, then it struck me that i didnt even know her age how to bring, so kinda insensitively i asked,"How old are you?" she abit stun lah. i asked," coz we have different
talks and courses for different age groups.." actually i meant services lah. then she kinda told me her convertion story, about how she played traunt when she was 14 and met this street evangelist who told her she could be freed from her sins and guilt. she was like super guilty so wala, there u have it. wadeva lah wadeva. haha. okay fine lah, strolled around the place with Melcher. wasted, i should have brought my SONICFLOOd CD to get it auto-graphed. oh well. many stuff on sale, and some real cool shirts.
oh man. no voice to energy for Bio remedial at 8.30am in school tomorrow. gotta be at church by 11am. see how lah, thankfully my Bio teacher's a Christian too(yeah she is if u havent known already), so see how lah.
u all just gotta be there. But dont worry, if u are the type that dont go a Christian concert once a year will feel terribly guilty, and u just cant make it for SONICFEST.. then... go for Festival Of Praise!! coming soon in August, with
Hillsong and
Delirious coming down!!!! see ya all there.