Random things

Ever since i got so lost. I think i have really lost my interest in architecture.

Thank God that i got a place in NAFA, but i won't be going there.
I have decided again, to first get my degree.
Then pursue my music.
Anyway, by then i will be on my next train to Berklee instead of NAFA.
$$$ is the problem.

I finally got the book i have always wanted to see.
"Unreel Drum book" by Marc Atkinson
As i rush to flip open to see.. i see the scroll!
The secret to split your brains. If you happen to have any. Hahaha!

First splitting it to control each limb.
Then split again to interprete 2 rhythms simultaneously - polyrhythms
Then split again to interprete polyrhythms in 2 separate time signature simultaneously.

This has been the kind of vocab i long to understand and be able to understand when i hear them! There they are! Right b4 my eyes!!!! Behold! My eyes are rolling. And i am seeing stars!

HAHAHA! I really wanna sit down nice nice... then start to practice these things.
Not that i can apply them in church situations. But just for the love of it. But then again actually i can! Provided i am creative enough to do it without Elim realising something strange is poping out of nowhere.. tat will be my failure in applying if she realise. But then again.. not over playing for church songs too, which i must admit i always do.

I play too much when unnecessary and don't play at all when it is absolutly necessary. Y!

Then again.. Thank God for what he has provided me with. I must not fail to mention this before i die. God gave me nice hands that are really skillful in craft work, or even carpenter work. I was like drilling and sawing and sanding away so happily and... Be hold! God is there to protect my fingers!

There is once when i was changing blade for the saw... I reached for the blade! ANd then! The other hand.. instead of reaching for the Un screw lock... i reached for the Power ON switch! And "ON"!

*RATTLES VIOLENTLY*

I got stuned! But my hands still ok. I know is God's protection. Cuz by the time i know what is happening, i realise my hands are still on the blade! ?!?!??

Thank God for protecting me always.
And also! I am a drum educator in a registered drum school!
With.. around 12 students for me!
No sweat!
Ever since i wrote down this dream in 2007 countdown service.. it has been evolving.. and progressing stately.

I am so happy you can see. God knows. And i always tell ppl this.. i will be a happy man if this is my area of service till i die. drummin profession.

And also the next dream.. of being a Studio drummer. It did happened in a small scale. But i am working really hard to make it to the real profession.


I am so waiting for this Sem to end!!! I want to start my special sem of drum studies under Vinnie and Marc ATkinson and Thomas Lang.. Then of course my physically existing drum instructor, James.

Modules DR1211 - Rhythm scales
DP2111 - Creative control
JA1111 - Jazz techniques by Jim Chapin
JS1541 - Jazz application in chamber situation
DS3121 - Church application

DR1211 - Rhythm scales.
2 hours of studio. Preclusion: If you happen to be a walking Octopus
Students are trained to be an octopus.
recommemded reading: Unreel drumbook - Marc Atkinson

DP2111 - Creative control
1 hour of studio. Preclusion: If you still happen to be a walking Octopus
Students are trained to be an octopus.
Compulsory reading: Creative control - Thomas Lang

JA1111 - Jazz techniques by Jim Chapin
1 hour studio. Preclusion: Needless to say.. walking Octopus
Students are trained to be an octopus tat plays drums.
(If you happen to watch little mermaid - such things exist)
This explains my concern for undesirable candidates.
Compulsory reading: Advance techniques for modern drummers - Jim chapin

JS1541 - Jazz application in chamber situation
5 hours of chamber band situation.
Given 4 people, play jazz atandards. And must show tinsy winsy bit or more of understanding of jazz structure + creative ideas carried forward from JA1111.

DS3121 - Church application
1 hour of coaching from James. Level 3.
Creative application of drumming for church drummers.
This is added on by 9 hours of teaching with due income.
Exam date : Soon

When will this happen?
In a few weeks time!
YEAH!

LONG long.. how i long for this.


In this material world.. i can't help it.

I want.. a DW double bass drum pedal
and a set of Zildjian cymbals - 2 crashes, 1 splash, 1 ride and 1 hi hat.

Thats all.

And maybe a room to practice at 10pm in the night.

I must read my bible.. or else i am going to get fined...
50 dollars!!!
AH!!!!
Anyway! Finally i am going to Tithe with hard earn money... ...

Seriously, i have been pondering the question of tithing when you don't earn and don't receive allowances. With school fees on loan. And money in bank depleting. And if it is not the money that is necessary, well.. i am tithing my time.

Time is more precious to me than money.

Just pray hard i wont hear the question again..
Y are people not tithing?
How much does it speak of you if you don't even care to tithe.
Even Decons are not tithing.
How much does it speak of you.
Are you praying for your church everyday?
Are you capable of this.. that... this ... that...
*Echoes* *drones on*

I CAN'T. Can't live up to expectation. Does that mean i must keep struggling to be what i am not made to be? Of course i do not know what i am made to be.

a hamster?
a rabbit?
a human?

Such questions never struck me unless i am awake.

Dreams are more tolerable then the cruel reality tat torments me the moment i open my eyes.

How often can i talk of my dreams than to worry what's there, and what's not there?

Are worries faces not obvious or pissed off faces not obvious enough to realise the reality is so cruel that i will rather be me than be the ideal me that exist to please not God but the creation of religious rules that defines what God means to us.

Think.