Wanted.

Yesterday was the day.
I served in Mel's church as her guitarist.
I must say it was quite an experience.
It was the first time I'm attending the church service and I'm playing the guitar.

Strangely, I did not feel like a stranger.
Maybe cause I've already met most of the youths.
Anyway, the service started even before I had time to worry.
I was giving quite a lot of pressure cause the two pianist were quite inexperience.
Things went very well and everything went according to plan.

After a few songs of worship,
The youths gave a presentation of the song 'The Power of His Love'.
It was accompanied by a short skit in front.
I was part of the whole thing.
There were some bloopers but I managed not to laugh.
The first was that I kicked the soccer ball and it hit the mic stand.
There was a loud boom but thankfully it didn't fall.
Then, I forgot that I still had a paper heart stuck to me even as the song began.
It fell off half way during the song, quite embarrassing.

Then a blind pastor from a church in Bedok shared his testimony.
It was really quite encouraging.
It really reminds bad circumstances really enable God to use us more greatly.
I could relate to him cause of my cases of spontaneous pneumothorax.
Just like him, I wanted to be a pilot too but I don't think its possible anymore.
Anyway, one of the guys from his church played the guitar while he sang a song.
He plugged out the guitar that I was using and then plugged in his.

When it was time for the worship team to lead again,
I went up to plug in the guitar.
The church did not use D.I. (direct injection) boxes.
The PA couldn't turn off the Phantom power and there was a loud boom.
Then, unknowiningly, someone had turned down the gain.
I had no time to check and had to start playing.
Then I realised that the guitar was really soft.
James then came over and tried to help me adjust the gain.
But when he touched it, there was a loud boom again.
The worst was that, James mistakenly turn the gain down to zero instead of up.
I couldn't adjust the gain cause I was afraid of another boom.
I kept signaling to Mel's father to mute the guitar for a while so I could turn up the gain.
He insisted that I carried on playing.
I had no way of telling him what was happening.
Thankfully, Caleb came up to play the other guitar.
We switched guitars after the song and everything was fine once again.

After the service ended,
We were all really relieved, the entire youth team.
It was a job well done other than the problems with the PA.

Honeybee then came over to watch Hairspray with me.
We watched the movie halfway then fell asleep.
We woke up only towards the end of the movie.
I didn't get a chance to watch it again after that.

I had a really good experience that day.
I'm really thankful for the opportunity to serve in another church.
I got to know so many new people.
It was not a bad way to visit a church for the first time.

Today,
I met mervyn in the morning to collect the Lord of the Rings Trilogy that Alexis had passed to him.
We then had curry rice with chicken and bubble tea at Toa Payoh Entertainment Centre.
It was quite a big portion for only $5.90.
We then went to Swensens to have Ice cream and Fries.
Thanks Mervyn.

I then went home and met Honeybee at Ang Mo Kio.
I was so happy to see her sitting there.
We then watched the movie 'Wanted'.
We had wanted to watch 'Wanted' for quite a while.
It was quite an unrealistic movie with its concept of faith based on a weaving machine and bending of bullets after being fired.
It had quite a good plot though, with nice twists here and there.
However, I disliked the frequent use of vulgarities.
The F word was used more than 100 times during the show, literally.
Anyone thinking about watching that, be prepared, its NC16 for a reason.

We then had Braised pork Beehoon for dinner and our favourite Honey Chicken!
We then headed home.
This weekend was really one with lots of ups and downs.
But I'm glad for all thats happened :)