and so sumahdi is back from indonesia!!

met him at around 4 on friday and played a soccer match with andrew's friends. long long time since we last played together man. oh and andrew invited two saints to his team, matthew and bob. sumahdi's off form already lah. haha cant believe he's fairer than me. but we won nonetheless. 6-1.

i managed to get $250 from my dad. and that was after much of his talk and lecturing. like why in the world would i want to learn singing at this point of time, rather than to buy a electric guitar from swee lee's 60th anniversary sale, all items going off at 50%. he told me that he didnt want to pay for it, cause he just got me my acoustic. that's another story. the common agreement was that he pay half with me talking to my brother bout how he could improve his life. sheesh.

woke up at 7am and dragged myself to city hall mrt with kaiwen. met sherman, the lead guitarist from Redemption band from Bring It On, and went to swee lee together. we reached at around 8am. wah the queue there was LONG LONG LONG. i would say its like even longer than hello kitty sale by so much. met daniel leow, simon, jovin, and other WAM people there. apparently they been queuing since 12am..

the shop opened earlier than the expected 9am, and the queue was crawling at such a slow pace. one hour and it moved like a mere 1.5 metres. so we eventually thought it would be a good idea to get the WAM people to get it for us. okay so they got in the shop and i was staring at the white flying V i wanted from outside the shop. what took them so long to get it! everytime someone walked near it, my heart skipped a beat. imagine seeing so many of them pointing at it.. then simon came to the rescue and took the guitar off the shelf. haha awesome.

rayson came to join us when he finally woke up. met evan and his mom with his churchmate there. and eliana with her churchmate who looked really familiar, my neighbour, some saints, and some other familiar faces.

then they queued for over 1 and a half hours to pay.. it was already 12.30pm and service was starting!! so kaiwen and i cabbed to nexus while rayson stayed behind to wait for my guitar to pass it to me, cause the WAM people werent going for first service. i was so so sleepy during service, but yeah kept awake. service was great, the presence of God was refreshing. it was nice to hear the song Voice Of Hope after such a long time. God spoke lots to me. sheesh open your spiritual eyes people! cant u just see what's about to happen!

sherman msged me from counters that my guitar was safe and sound at the counter. and when service finally ended, i saw that beauty!!

1958 Korina White Flying-V. but it was in this plastic bag which was torn, cause i didnt have enough money to get the case!! totally broke and in debt. internet pricing was at $650. but at the shop it said $815, so after discount it was $407. ay i think its $650 but they didnt want to sell it at $325 so they jacked the price up to $815. oh well. im in debt okay. $55 in debt, and i aint got money for the whole month.

borrowed money from gerard and cabbed down to bras basah with kaiwen to get the guitar bag. many shops didnt have the bag as it was not a normal shape. finally walked to peninsular shopping center, Davis, and bought a bag. it was this huge explorer guitar bag. i gues im really regretting buying the bag now for $45 as it was not the right shape for the guitar and it cause the tuning heads to lean against the side of the bag!! sheesh lah, i was just so excited to leave the shop with the guitar in the bag. oh well.

had Unit-Core Team Meeting at 5.15pm and then Shirley's CareLeaders Meet at 7.15pm. was really really really exhausted and tired. the soccer totally drained me lah. together with all the late nights from world cup.

went to kaiwen's house after CLM to try out the new guitar, since he is the one with the amplifier and cable at the moment. the sound is great, and so is the guitar. just that it feels kinda uncomfortable sitting down and play. its just the shape lah. waited at the bus-stop with kaiwen for the last bus that neva came. so i called my mom to come get me.

was talking to kaiwen about what would happen when i get back home. apparently my mom disapproves of me getting a electric guitar, and my dad half approves. so yeah that's how he agreed to pay for half the price of the guitar. my mom apparently shouldnt know that i bought the guitar so i was expecting the scolding of my life when she picked me up.

as i was walking to the car, i told God to teach me patience and self-control, knowing what was about to happen. but all seemed well when she drove me home. i guess my dad told her lah. and the test came at home.

showed my parents the guitar and they seemed pleased at first. things were all going smoothly till my dad asked me, "where's the receipt?". and i didnt have the receipt, cause i got daniel leow to buy the guitar for me, remember? and my dad had told me to make sure i get a receipt since i forgot to the last time i bought my acoustic. so i told them that there isnt a need for the receipt since there is the sweelee sticker on the guitar, and it could thus be changed if there were any defects. then my dad started raising his voice at me, which hot-headed me (i repent..) retaliated by raising my voice too..

then my dad went, "OH! so now u raise your voice after u make use of me(he was refering to the money)." that made me super mad. it was really insensitive and cutting. sheesh lah, just forget it. its times like these, that really make me wonder. how much do i love my parents?

woke up rather late today and walked to BCC to study. then the song Voice Of Hope played on my mp3. yeah rub it in God, as in please. remind me of how i could have reacted in a much Godly way.

oh well.