Sunday, June 11, 2006, 11:11 PM

Edge Church Men Event June 2006

Done editing the photos, took me quite some time...around 4-5 hours in total I guess... But it was fun though. It was so fun during the Men Event, the only problem is lighting, since it's not such a big event like the live recording and the coming conference, so basically my church uses the normal lighting (the one they used during normal service). So it was pretty bad until I realize it's not a concert and I'm allowed to use flash.. (not realized actually, I saw two of the church photographers uses flash, so I just followed them hahaha lol)

So now into the report. The event starts at 7pm, and I'm going out from my place around 6.20pm, which quite late, then I think if I took the bus, it's gonna took me another 15 minutes, and the next bus will be around 6.40pm, so I just took a cab ride... Well... another $10 gone... hahahaha but I'm okay with it, my own fault anyway lol... When I reach there it was so dark (actually around 6pm it's already dark) so I decided to not take the church building photo since I got no proper tripod (I had one but it's for my pocket camera, it's too light to handle Steph's camera...

The front desk people before the service starts
Ps. Nick arrives
People wait for the service
People wait for the service
Drummer
Bassist & Keyboardist
Simon Malcolm as the MC for the event
Contestant supporter
First match (very aggresive)
Blue sumo pushing
Hit the spectator
Judges deciding the winner
Judges decided the winner for first match (look at Dave) haha
During the break, musician plays music
Judges
Judges
Ps. Steve with Italian Stallion sign
Spectators
Everyone jumps on blue sumo
Judges decided the winner
Second match contestant
Third match, the blue sumo is so into it and had to be stop by others haha
Third match
Jump on them
Blue sumo won
Drummer
Fourth match hasn't started yet (Ps. Nick - The Itallian Stallion vs Ps. Brian - The Black Pearl)... Everyone had to separate them haha
Fourth match... Fight!
Fourth match... Fight!
Ps. Nick fell into the spectator seats
All the judges jump on Ps. Nick
All the judges jump on Ps. Nick
Ps. Brian Gabriels (The Black Pearl) won the game
Ps. Nick & Ps. Brian
Judges
Worshipping God
Ps. Danny with Jesse's afro hair lol
Ps. Tim in worship
Ps. Danny preach the message about champions
Ps. Nick looks like he's picking his nose...lol
Ps. Danny preach the message about champions
Ps. Danny preach the message about champions
Ps. Danny preach the message about champions

Sorry for the long post... If you want the higher resolution (900x600) you can go to my gallery here. I can't remember the whole message since I didn't take down notes, I was taking lot of shots and quite tired after that.. But what I can remember is it's about fighting.

Each of us will have our own fighting. But the good thing on this particular fight, is this is the fight that we can win if we rely on God... We can also choose to finish. It's a choice.. You can fell down into sin and just decide to finish it in that way, or you can choose to go back up and repent and follow God, ask Him for help for the fight and finish it strong!

Just like David, even he messed up quite some times, but he decided to repent and he died with honour, rich & reap old age. Even if you messed up, but if you get back on track, you'll still honoured.

I guess that's to finish the post for today... I need to take shower and go to Steph's place to watch War Photographer... It's gonnabe so fun hehehe... Oh yah, once again thanks to Steph for lending me her camera once again hehehe...

Friday, June 09, 2006, 9:41 PM

Edge Church Men Event

Yo... tomorrow Edge Church is having a Men Event, and it's gonna be fun since got Ps. Nick & Ps. Brian sumo competition... It's really gonna be fun I think hehe..

Just got back recently from Steph's place, borrowed her camera for tomorrow. I hope I will take a great shot for tomorrow...

Hm...what else... Exam is coming soon, need to study. So far I've studied quite efficiently, so it's good..

Ok, now I really feel my blog is getting boring... Anyway, Steph's dad bring War Photographer DVD by James Nachtwey, and it looks very good.. Gonna watch it next week after study..

Ok, I better get back to study... Photos will be available by Sunday night (hopefully)

Sunday, June 04, 2006, 3:13 PM

Mich's 21st Birthday & Tiring day

Today is Michelle's birthday. Me, Masa, Steph, Miin Huey, Elsa and Amanda suppsed to surprise Michelle at midnight.

While Masa & Miin baked the cake, I was just doing my assignment, and now finally I finish the assignment. And me & Steph just watching random shows, and we ended up watch half of Madagascar with Amanda as well.

And then around 23.30 Miin, Elsa & Masa finally come and bring the cake, then we went to Mich's place and surprised her.. It was fun, got some pictures here (higher resolution can be gotten from here)

After the surprise party, I record a bit of video of her, where she supposed to give a speech, but the speech was very good! It was so simple "I don't know" hahaha lol


Elsa super close up, shot by Masahiro Tsuchiyama
Random shot of 4 of us in front of mirror..
Amanda Tsui
The birthday girl
Mich & the cake (made by Masa & Miin)
Mich & the cake (made by Masa & Miin)
Michelle reblow the candle (both me & Steph couldn't take the picture of her blowing the candle, so we decided to light the candle again hahaha
Everyone
Masa (he made the cake! Looks not appetizing but taste good) haha
It's me & Steph, picture taken by Amanda Tsui

And then I got back home around 1.30. And I remembered that I got a roster on my church as a cameraman. This is my first time got roster on my church and I was so excited, but then I checked the bus timetable to my church, and the earliest bus is at 8.40..I supposed to be at church around 8.

At that time, I was thinking of not doing the roster, I even sent an sms to the multimedia guy, that I'm can't make it to arrive at 8. It was so bad, until then I pray before I go to sleep and God spoke to me to not give up, and suddenly I think I can take a cab to go to church, coz my place got lot of cabs around... So I did

I woke up around 7.45, then I just brush my teeth & go to the church straight, at the beginning it was so fun and interesting. Bit nervous though but it was so good, until my pastor preach. Coz I didn't had enough sleep, I was having a really really bad headache when I'm doing the camera, and even worse, it's only one camera, so the picture on the screen all depend on me... And my head hurt so bad I can't even concentrate, can't even catch up with my pastor movement (he keep going to the left & right).

And then I really can't stand it, I asked Aaron (the lighting guy) to switch with me. Luckily it wasn't praise & worship time, so the lighting is just static. And when finally Aaron switch with me I really almost faint.. I can't even see clearly, but then after I sit for a while (quite long actually hehe), finally I recovered and I switch back with Aaron.

I feel so bad coz it was my first time and during the preaching I keep losing sight of my pastor...It's really bad.. Then I apologize to all the production team, and told them I got really bad headache... Well, it won't happen again next time...

Then when I reach home, I edited Mich's 21st birthday pictures and having my lunch (KFC) and it tastes good....

That was my lunch... hehehe.... okay, now I'm going to sleep... Really need a sleep right now...