September 30, 2009

最近9月1日在拿督程铁健的生日兼感恩庆典上，我带了例外人，还有教会舞蹈团员去助阵同庆贺。。。

本来以前都很受欢迎和很带动气氛的舞蹈“笑眯眯”，竟然給他们男生跳的像“肉密密”！“笑眯眯”原是活力十足、充满动感的舞蹈，可是这一次看来看去总觉得他们跳得很吃力也很累！原因是五位男舞蹈员当中，三位的身材仿佛最近都有些走样和过重！甚至身体某些部分还有下垂的迹象，跳来跳去好像都离不开地球的表面！

“观赏”或应该说“忍看”了他们的舞蹈过后，我就下令：你们三个马上給我减肥！

请不要误会，我并不鼓吹“瘦骨仙”或“纸片人”；但实际一点吧，若要在台上表演，尤其是舞蹈，身材的一些基本条件是应该有的吧？除非是看马戏团的大象或河马在表演翻跟斗，要不然一般人看舞蹈都会比较欣赏健美身躯的，你说不是吗。。。。？

所以我说，你们三个！若还想跳下去，就马上给我减肥！( 话虽如此，十月十日的表演我已删掉“笑眯眯”了，因我没把握他们赶得及减掉那些肥肉，尤其是”Ed”，下巴和颈项都几乎没分界线了。。唉！)

( 注：喂，夸张的言词只为滑稽效果，希望你们三位别太在意哦，哈哈。。。)

Recently on Sept 1st, at Datuk Tony Tiah’s birthday cum thanksgiving celebration, I brought The Remnant and some dancers from our church to support and celebrate together…

The dance item “Happily Smiling” ( Chio Bi Bi ) which used to be so popular and infectious each time they performed somehow became like “Heavily Meaty” due to the male dancers! “Happily Smiling” was supposed to be very lively and energetic, but this time it appeared they were panting and struggling for breath! Reason being 3 out of the 5 male dancers recently seem to be rather out of shape and overweight! Certain parts of their bodies even seemed to help prove the law of gravity is indeed real ‘cos no matter how hard they danced, they didn’t seem to be able to break away from the surface of the earth!

After being “entertained” or should I say “tortured” by the dance, I issued a command: The 3 of you, I want you to lose weight immediately!

Please do not misunderstand, I’m not encouraging anorexics or skin and bones, but let’s be practical, if you want to perform on stage, especially dance, you should have certain prerequisites physically, right? Unless you are in a circus watching some elephants or hippopotamuses doing roll-over, otherwise most people when watching a dance would prefer trim and fit physiques, don’t you think…?

So I said, the 3 of you! If you want to continue to dance, I want you to lose weight immediately! ( Having said that, I have cancelled the dance item “Happily Smiling” for Oct 10th ‘cos I don’t have the confidence that they will be in time to shed their extra fat, especially “Ed” whose boundary line between the chin and the neck has almost disappeared…sigh! )

( P.S. Hey, the exaggerated descriptions are just for comic effect, hope you 3 do not mind, haha…)

以下的照片跟以上的文章完全毫无关系。。。  The following photos have got nothing to do with the above article at all…

吃力之舞：“肉密密”       Exhausting dance: ” Heavily Meaty “

这是毅伟，若有人加入他的“行列”他最开心。
This is Yi Wei, he is most happy if anyone is recruited into his “category”.

毅伟:说再过十年，他的儿子就会高过Edwin了,他的儿子现在两个月大。
Yi Wei said in 10 years’ time his son will be taller than Edwin. His son is currently two months old.

你们觉得哪一位是Edwin？  Which one do you think Edwin is?

还敢没穿衣服拍照呢！后面那个比较聪明。
Still dared to take photo without his clothes on, the guy behind is cleverer.

咦？奇怪！伟宏的照片怎么也会在这里？    Huh? Strange indeed! Why is Wei Hong’s photo here?

September 30, 2009

喜欢用挑起人家胃口的标题，这样才会有读者。。。这一篇“ 你为什么一定要这样？”虽然看起来不是很多留言，但私底下却有好一些讨论，甚至有一些还干脆直接问我。。。多数无不都是好奇文章里的“他”到底是谁。。。继续拜访我的网站和追读我的部落格吧，过几天答案自会揭晓。。。好奇者，耐心等候吧，哈哈！

I like to use titles that stir up people’s appetite to attract more readers… The posting on ” Why Must You Be So Difficult? ” though doesn’t seem to receive many comments, privately it does create quite a discussion, some even asked me directly… almost all questions centre on who the “he” in the article is… Well, do continue to visit my website and read my blog, you will know the answer in a few days’ time… in the meantime, wait patiently, all you curious cats, haha!

September 27, 2009

第一次遇见燕姿是在8月15日在北京她演唱会过后，万万没想到一个月后9月16日竟然会在那么不可能的瑞士雪山上再遇见她。。。对我来说，这意义非凡，仿佛上帝在跟我们，尤其是例外人讲话。。。大家都知道现在唱片市场非常不景气，想要出名和唱片卖得好几乎难如登天，偏偏神又呼召例外人这时候出来发片，走进乐坛！按人的想法，放下稳定工作，成为前途难以预料的歌手是非常冒险，甚至有点“愚昧”的决定。。。但是神的意念高过人的意念，神的愚拙总比人智慧；所以尽管别人不理解，例外人还是选择顺服神的呼召！

这在雪山上与孙燕姿的相遇，神到底在跟例外人说什么？我相信神在暗示他们说，只要继续顺服和信靠他，在他没有难成的事，不可能的也会转为可能！就如在瑞士山顶短短的观光时间怎可能遇见孙燕姿，但还是遇见了。。。“雪山上”代表世界高峰，意思是说例外人的事业和事奉必定为主攀上世界高峰；在世界高峰遇到天后巨星孙燕姿也就是说，神若要例外人成为大巨星来影响这世界也绝对有可能！

就让这预言奉主耶稣的名实现吧，阿们！

The first time I met Stephanie was in Beijing on Aug 15th after her concert, I never expected to meet her again one month later on Sept 16th on top of a Swiss mountain… To me, this is very significant, as if God is saying something to us, especially The Remnant… We all know that the music industry is struggling to survive nowadays, and to want to become famous and have good album sales are like reaching for the stars, and yet God called The Remnant out to release their album and to enter the music industry at such a time like this! Human logic will think it very risky and even foolish to give up your stable job to opt for such an insecure career in singing… but God’s thoughts are higher than human thoughts, and the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom; so even if others could not comprehend, The Remnant still chose to obey God’s calling!

What is God saying to The Remnant with this encounter with Stephanie on the Swiss mountain? I believe God is hinting to them that, as long as they continue to trust and obey Him, there will be nothing that is impossible with God and He will turn the impossible into possible! Just like this rather impossible encounter with Stephanie for those few minutes on the Swiss alp which was made possible… “The snowy mountain top” symbolizes “on top of the world”, meaning The Remnant’s career and ministry will certainly scale great heights for God in the world; and to meet with superstar Stephanie here on top of the world means it is certainly possible if God wants The Remnant to become superstars to make an impact in this world!

May this prophecy come to pass in Jesus’ name, Amen!

在瑞士雪山(Mount Titlis)上与燕姿合照    Group photo with Stephanie on Mount Titlis in Switzerland

右边两位是教会的aunties、燕姿、我 (认得出是哪一位吗？对了，最帅的那位！)，还有三位例外人 ( 有一位没在里面，是哪一位？他在哪里啊？错！他没有在帮我们拍照，照片是燕姿的爸爸拍的。) Two aunties from church on the right, Stephanie, me ( can you recognise which one I am? Yes, correct, the most handsome one! ), and three Remnant ( one was missing, which one was that? Where was he? Wrong! He wasn’t taking the picture for us, the photo was taken by Stephanie’s dad. )