Let's learn how to write song!

There are couple of thoughts that stuck in my head these couple of weeks. Apparently my brain is very active (seldomly so)...On of the most current one ....Songwriting. So i googled it and got this from wikihow: 5 steps to write a song:

Steps:

1. Everyone knows how to write a poem, right? Well, start off with writing a poem. Try to make it rhyme. You should make it come from your heart, like what you were feeling that day. It should be about 4 verses long, but you can do as many as you want.
2. After writing the 1st verse, write the chorus. It should be the main part of the song, like what it's about. The chorus is usually contains the title of the song. For example, in the song Tattoo by Jordin Sparks, the word tattoo is in the chorus. The chorus is usually after every verse.
3. Remember to come up with a melody. After you're done writing your song, keep singing it over and over so you don't forget it.
4. Now, here's the tricky part. It will take time and patience. Sing the first note of your song and keep holding it out. Start by hitting the middle C note on the piano. Go up if your note is higher, and go down if your note is lower. Don't skip any keys. Continue this step until you've done all your notes. Don't forget to write the notes down next to the word so you don't forget.
5. After your done, play and sing the song. If it sounds right, then you're done! But if it doesn't sound right, go back and try again. Remember, it takes time and patience.

Tips

Warning:

• It's really hard the first time you do it, so don't get discouraged.
• If you're not the kind who can wait, then this isn't for you. You need patience. It could take months to write a song!
• Do not get fustrated if you mess up the first few times, keep trying.

Things you need:

Note: you need SOME SKILLS...hahaha happy trying guys and girls!

Viral Selling

(sudoku of Jesus's age - Sagrada Familia)

Viral Selling...the contagious selling strategy.

Was attending the business seminar of Tanadi Santoso today. A great speaker, low profile and interesting way of teaching and communicating points through the audiences. There's a lot of psychological points you can grasp from his seminar from the Jung personality test look-alike to the WOM (Word of Mouth). I think this can be a good psche major thesis.

People would more likely to sell your product gratis if you have used it and believe in it. Me and my mom have been a good ambassador for L'Occitane i think, it makes me think why some of my friends slowly add L'Occitane product to their vanity drawer. What makes me eager to advertise for free....

In the Seminar we were discussing about the 4 different personalities. I used to be only in the Influencer and Steadiness but i discover that my personality becomes widely scattered across all 4 spectrums. My experience in Citi demanded me to be a Cautious type to fill the Compliance officer role. My experience in Shanghai church developed my Dominance type to fill my role as leader. Who would've thought 1-2 years experience could change your personality. Now i'm confused....i am personality-less since i'm everything hahaha

btw...got this from the seminar...if you haven't watch...it's pretty cool.

"Frozen Grand Central"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0U_kp1saG-g

Anyway back to my everyday life, I'm currently in the probation period of how discipline i can be in my swimming programme. Am aiming for 3 times per week schedule. Tomorrow will be my 3rd times, another 3 weeks to go if i qualified for real member in the club. I change my sports club back from Fitness First to Bimantara again. Last Saturday when i first step my foot back to Bimantara after...let me count...14 years....the feeling is like i've come back home again. Although home is so run down, toilet still "aiya" condition but there's no feeling to describe the fresh air, peace and generally....hmm solitude? maybe this is the word. Anyway i'll update again if i successfully qualified after 1 month of trial hehe

We are going to Hits concert Number 2 this friday. Should be good, assuming from the first concert. I geret a lot of people to the event since Concert is something you would like lots of your friends to go together and enjoy the time together...right...hehehe trying to justify my action. I'm happy my friend is coming too. She just lost her father and i would like her to come so at least she can get her spirit lifted maybe even a bit but it helps hopefully. I'll have to work out all the transportation twists tomorrow...wow...time flies....another week almost passed again.

Next week there will be KKR by Philip Montofa for kids with special needs. Would like to help in the session but i don't know if i'm strong enough emotionally not to cry hahaha. We'll see how my schedule goes this 1-2 weeks.

Jakarta So Far....

Wow I haven't been writing in this site for quite a long time. Again who knows when i'll drop my footprint in this site and write again. I've been quite busy with work since coming back from Shanghai. It's really different being in Jakarta. When you were out there, you thought about hanging out with A-Z but once you slowly settle down to your routine, you actually will only hang out with the same people again and again everyweek. Unless you make the effort to break free from that routine, which means....uneasiness, uncomfy, etc etc symptoms that usually accompany getting out of your comfort zone.

I've settle down in the church and has started my ministry in guitar. Right now they want me to become one of the leader in the caregroup. From my past experience i know i don't have the compassionate heart required to fill this position nicely. I was having quite a big argument with my brain about whether to do it or give it up for someone who has the heart for this position. The answer is of course for me to go for it first. Don't give up before it's even starts.

A lot of wedding had passed: Meih's in Nov 2007, Sophie's in Dec 2007, Ellen's in Dec 2007, Henny's in Jan 2008, WChang in Feb 2008. Jessica's coming up in March end. A lot of Condolences has been flying around too this past 2 weeks....

Suity and  Sam are here til this saturday. This trip is to design my parent's apartment and go shop for all the furniture, material etc etc...This week really is hectic. i can't even believe tomorrow is the last day for this week. We'll have big family gathering on friday. Saturday they will be heading to Singapore again then back to the States.

Hmm....honestly speaking i really missed my colleagues, my boss and Shanghai in general. i think i should just shut up and be thankful of my situation and environment now. Up til now i am fully conscious that i'm very blessed with everything around me. Thank you, Pa! I feel that there will be a big change this year. Things gradually shift to the not so comfortable zone but i'm looking forward to my lesson this year. A lot of promises will be fulfilled and i need to learn a lot of guitar!

Quote of the day: It's not because you are rich that you give, it's because you give that you are rich.

October Autumn

As i have predicted, when october comes, i can relax. What's up Shanghai and Dream On retreat just over last week. It has been a very hectic experience these couple of monthes. Looking back, it would be a very wonderful experience i've learnt during the process.Editing booklet content for What's up Shanghai and editing the color and design with velly til 3am in the morning. That was my first time to stay over in China. I'm still amazed with how God works in both our party and retreat. We only have a solid week to sell ticket, advertise and planned the whole 3 days of retreat but we manage to sell all the tickets. I was very blessed with my team and their hardwork. Thank you guys and gals! This retreat is the lightest but also the busiest i've ever attended. It's truthfully the most fun retreat i've ever been.

I'll try to backtrack what happened since July til today. I spent my birthday in the office and oh! Edmonda came over at 12 am on my birthday to surprise me. That was really nice of him. I still have his homemade cake preserved. Should take pix of it before i eat it all. The next day, i got manipulated by Carlo (my boss) to go bowling or else they would postpone the bowling, again blessed by so many nice colleagues. I managed to get Carlo to buy me a fire proof cabinet hooray!!! Now everytime he sees me, he'll give that defensive hand kungfu action in case i want to ask for anything else. He's really funny. Then came our What's up shanghai and Dream On retreat. I'll try to post some of the pix. I can tell you i do look much younger than my age hahaha. Me and Shirley took some crazy pictures. You should see shirley with her superman pose haha. (you don't post, i'll post, shir haha)Last week i invite some of my friends over for my belated bday dinner and they paksa me to wear skirt so i do wear skirt with sweatshirt on top hahaha. smat huh!

These couple of days, i've been reflecting a lot and i do realized that i'm in my comfort zone right now. Part of me long for God to shake me up but part of me is getting very very comfortable and that's BAD! even 40 days fasting is no longer something that really hard. I'm using more of my own power to go thru the fast. need to pray more ar!! I'm predicting that my "bored" characteristic is going to act up soon. I'm starting to reflect on what i'm actually doing here in Shanghai other than my work. I really want to decorate my house with photos, and presents from friends but no such luxury exist here. I feel very useless everytime i go home and nothing to do. Since Julian is going home in a month, it does wake me up and realized one day i might be going home too and i really really unsure what my life will be like. It's so different being in other countries for so long and realized that i might go back for good. The life at home as i knew it was restricted to home, school and 3 malls. Thinking about it makes me suffocated. I know and i believe God has all the way opened up for me if i am to go home next year.

Being 24 is quite annoying by the way because people start to pair you up, or anything you do, people start to suspect whether you have romantic intentions. Personally, 30% of my feels like it might be good to have a boyfriend but the other 70% of me feels it's not the time yet. Granted i have so many guy friends but i'm really frustrated being paired up whenever i go out with a guy. I missed those time when people don't see me as "the age" and can let me be. At least now i actually have more girl friends than guy which is good, or else, i'll be deemed a playgirl huh. With me being 24 and still pose like those pictures up there, when do you think i'll get married people? hahaha i'm looking at 28-29 minimum. Anyway, it's true that we are not suppose to pair up people, might get the result we don't want.

How Is Everything?

Superb! Fine! Fabulous! so atan just enter the workforce and how is she? Felt like a year working there already haha. so busy so hectic but i love it! working 12 hours a day, jumped out of chair just realized it's almost 6pm, not aware it's almost thursday and the whole week is almost gone. hmm just nice. the time flies here. Adjusting slowly but surely to the environment here. Still itch from not having the convenience of Puxi but maybe it's just me not use to Pudong. Colleagues all very friendly and nice, workload i don't think need mentioning, bosses super nice. that's all update from work side of me. boring :)

I did have a week break to Indo about 2 weeks ago, got a big family reunion there. Feel so blessed and after 4 or 5 years that was the time where i felt God slowly but surely fulfilled His promise to me in 2002. It was the first time a lot of my cousins gathered after so long and we are all grown up as you can see in the pic :) I didn't accomplish what i wanted to do. maybe i'm not ready yet to do my mission in Indo at this time. Hopefully God still permit me to do this mission next year.

Today is also my first time to lead the caregroup in pudong. It's really a big challenge for me to be the cg leader here. i didn't prepare the sermon til this morning. back in my mind i thought bout letting this responsibility go and just give it to other people but the other part is screaming saying if you're too tired maybe it's time for you to take your workload less per day. I start thinking about balancing everything in my live now. there's so little time for everything i used to do and truthfully what i will sacrifice most is usually time with God. is it worth it? When i was sharing tonight i felt exhilarated. What's this means? :)

I think by the end of one year, my chinese will become more singaporean like and my english will become more and more singlish. haiyo! anyway Princess gone, Jeffy gone, Darwin and Ping gone but will be back, Brandon will be gone in Aug 8. Quite sad too when i think there wont be anymore princess to bug. Do you think i should find someone i can bug? no lah. should refrain from bugging anyone here :) hahaha Me getting more busy liao with the welcoming party and church retreat. Anyone crazy enough for me to recruit? need another helen around here...URGENTLY! haihhhh...helen wish u're here!