Amazed beyond words ... Steppnig Out

Amazed beyond words ... these are the words that i can only think of at the moment .... not at the stars of the sky and the greatness of the universe . But at the greatness of GOD!!!

Ok ... i know i sound like a preacher ALL the time.. .and bex's friend who read my blog said that i sound like a nun . So what ? Give God all the glory man! GOD IS GOOD!

Yeah so .. i was too sleepy and dejected to post about my college results the previous post because of the discouragement i get from a few things ... but man , i hate the fact that i look at the glass half empty too early . Shouldn't we all learn how to appreciate things in the other way? So yeah ... cut the crap ... i want to thank God that my results were not as bad as i thought it'd be. I didn't quite know what to expect as a first semester student in a music college , moreover in Yamaha Academy where i have plenty of friends and lectureres as fellow colleagues ...

4 distinctions , 2 merits and 1 pass .... isn't that not too bad for a first sem student ? eheheh i never thought i could score a distinction being a music student . But God is great huh ... though i'm quite disappointed with musicianship skills , but i must brush this up .. especially my transposition and hearing and sight reading ! EEUUU !!

Oh and so it was ... collected results on monday ... when i had an appointment to see C.H in school ... i don't know but for some weird reasons i'm ALWAYS CONSTANTLY stressing my nerves out whenever i go for his classes or anything to do with him . I was late for almost every of his class last sem which is SO NOT GOOD coz by the end of it he kind of blacklisted me from being the morning person (when it comes to replacement classes) and there was one lesson he was very pissed ...

Anyway , yeah i'm glad i got the encouragement from Grace to do the MGS arrangement .. because i now gladly announce that i'm 90% done!!! as in including sequencing the background music , programming the sequences and registration ! The only 10% remaining is transcribing the 4 bars i couldn't get just now of fill-ins and recording the whole song's registration so i can play it smoothly . That'll be the last thing coz i need C.H to hear it for editing first .

You know .. i learnt a very very important lesson through this arrangement task . That is to

GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE SOMETIMES OTHERWISE NOTHING COULD BE DONE

That's the very important lesson i learnt ... i don't know where this guts and faith came from but when i decided to start the arrangement i know i have to learn to get out of my comfort zone , which is the fear and rejection i'm afraid of from people outside about my abilities and capabilities in music . In using the electone and teaching it . Those were the days when i was constantly worried and afraid about what others might think of my composition , knowledge and skills on the electone because C.H once told me that we should learn how to set registration (sounds) for the electone instead of just playing songs , which anyone can do! So i agreed but instead of having a formal class for it , i decided to learn it from him indirectly ...

When i took the step to want to meet him on Mon and ask him questions about the electone , i knew i already stepped out of my comfort zone ... and you really won't know what you get in return when u get out of it . He was trully amazing man ... taught me how to do it , and yeah so i came home feeling lost and blur ... tried out on my own... expanding his ideas and really tried to follow the original music closely . The end results isn't so bad but i know there's so much editing to do ... and so much flaws ... in it .. but mum said i'm just being TOO picky and high expectations kill me most of the time . For once she's right .

But that's me ... i guess there's teh good and bad. .. but I'm glad that i took this step and i think i want to say this to ah ger but she might not hear it ... so anyway , yeah i want to testify that stepping out of your comfort zone sometiems helps you a whole load in life . It's a choice between a win or lose battle . I can choose to not ask him ,not wanting to do the arrangement and forever stuck at not knowing how to use my electone at all - just being anybody out there who only knows how to play songs programed by other people .

C.H's quite happy about the original song (MGS Solid Snake main theme) and even asked me to play it for next semester's college exam ... i'm more than glad to hear it ! heheheh .... so yeah once again peeps ... stepping out of comfort zone is good .. when you do good of course .. and that's when you'd be amazed at how God can bless you even more you might not expect .

P;s - When the song is finally done , Grace will be the first friend of mine who's gonna hear it .