I thank God for a blessed, safe and fruitful trip. I do my personal retreat once in every year since after i graduated 2 years ago. Last year, I went up to one of the mountain in Malaysia . I took my guitar, journal book, bible, and laptop and went up with my car.
However, this year, I have decided to backpack one of the state in Malaysia. Merely travel based on public transport. Because of that, I did not bring my guitar and laptop. But I got my DSLR camera, a book (The Journey by Billy Graham from uncle and aunt for my baptism's gift) and new journal book along with me. I was looking for a place surrounds with Malays and a nice beach.
KUANTAN.
I had a great time with God.
Taking a Break from a normal routine.
Do my personal reflection (my past successes, failures, mistakes and etc)
Planning for next year direction,what's next coming and the future.
Planning for ministries.
Re-prioritize my focus and schedule.
Being silent and have Heart to heart talk with God.
I praise God and by the grace of God, I know how to play couple of instruments by now. My passion for music has grown since I started performing in a band 3 years ago (it was my childhood's dream). Blessed with a vocal teacher for training me more than one and a half years.
With that honor and privilege that God has blessed me, I am worship leader today. Guitar is like my next best friend. We do things together. He accompany me when i was upset, we worship God together, he helps me to be creative at times, worship lead with me drawing people into the presence of God, celebrates with me for the victories and he never fail to lift me up when I was down. I love my guitar.
The next instrument that I really wish to play it well one day.
Its Saxophone.
I have the passion for saxophone since when I was in high school. I some how, just really fall in love with Sax. I love the sound, the body, and I think it is absolutely SEXY :)
Sax has a sweet and smooth Jazz sound . It can be very relaxing, and help focus to the listeners. Some people say Sax produces a sound that is very close to the sound of the human voice, because of that, they produce such an emotional charged sound.(correct me if I'm wrong)
Honestly, I have no idea how to play the Saxophone as for now. I have tried playing the flute, and it took me quite awhile just to learn how to blow the sound out technically. And I believe it is not easy for Sax.
Saxophone PERSONALITY: Mellow IMPRESSION: both brass and woodwind instrument
159 years ago, Saxophone was invented in Belgium by a guy name Adolphe Sax in 1840.
Fingering system similar to both clarinet and flute.
The sound is produced from a reed made of cane, held on the mouthpiece by a ligature. Your air causes this vibration which goes through the horn.
There are four major type of saxophones which are alto, tenor, baritone and soprano
Good brands for saxophone are Yamaha, Keilwerth, Selmer, and Yanagisawa.
However, with that excitement, I am looking for the day to come.
God has been constantly reminding me to be faithful in little things and the things that he has entrusted me. I hope I am faithful and pleasing God.
Few months ago, I resigned from my first job due to some reasons. Then, I was uncertain of my direction. I had pondered about it what I want to do in this economy downturn season. I was praying, fasting and seeking his will in my life. Dad and many friends of mine were supporting me to follow my dad's footsteps in his business. I never thought of doing this at this early age, but I had tried for 2weeks working for dad. As you know the feeling, it was really tough working for your “own dad”. Yet, I was working hard with a teachable attitude eagerly to learn more of skills and get familiar with the industry.
Things were in progress until one day; my beloved mum told me that she wanted me to find a job to work. I felt that she was very selfish. Honestly, I was so upset and angry. I did not talk to her for few weeks. Ever since I was high school year 3, she always put criticism every time I told her of my dreams at every stage of my life. However, with a step of obedience, once again I obeyed my parents as God tells so. God has opened the door and blessed me a job.
As I remembered I was crying out to God of all my hurts and sufferings, “Why My Mum Is So Selfish?” I believe God has answered my prayer recently and he is teaching me to have the “Balance”. Many times in the past, I had the gang-ho spirit to come out and work on my business plans and to pursue my dreams. But today, I know that God has putting my mum to have this “Balance” in this part of journey of my life. She is stopping me from going wild, aggressive and making unwise decisions. She is helping me to go slow at times when I was impatient; humble myself to know that I am not ready for the big things.
Today, I learn about “BALANCE”
You may be a person who doesn’t wait things happen, you make things happen. Excellent Attitude!!! But there is a phrase saying, “Do not act until God tells you to do so is the act of maturity”. We need Balance!
The books teach us to think positive. But sometimes over positive thinking might lead to over confident and you might miss out some unforeseen circumstances. We need Balance!
No one likes criticisms, and conflicts always create arguments/quarrels. But only through that, things will get better and they challenge us to think outside of the box. Constructive criticisms are good. We need Balance!
And of cause we must love ourselves as appreciation to God’s unique creation. But until you learn how to love others, then you will have breakthrough in your life, by knowing that we are having the same journey and you are blessed by God’s grace. As the bible says you must love your neighbor just as much as you love yourself." We need Balance!
In the corporate world, I learn that people take pride to perform excellent works. But humility is even better; you will gain more as the more you humble yourself. We need Balance!
Giving is blessing others and Receiving is blessing from God. In life, we give and take. We learn and teach. Sometimes we win, sometime we lose. We make mistakes and contribute to success. We get wealth and bless the poor.
In Every Season of our lives. As we grow, whether you like it or not. We some how will make decision. Decision to follow Jesus wholeheartedly, trust in Him, surrender everything back to Him, turn away from wicked sins, what course to study, which uni to enroll, career paths, yes or no to the boy/gal, and etc.
If you're determined to be obedient to God, honor him in every decision you make, I am glad for you. God will not shortage you. IF only we know and so clear of what he wants us to do, where to go and which DECISION TO MAKE.
HOWEVER, the journey in our lives is not as easy as we think, it has been so challanging for me. Especially when we are at the crossroad and God is silent.
After all, I know that God is telling me "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD (Jeremiah 29:11-14)
I remember that last year, I listened to John C Maxwell was talking about Managing Decisions. Some of the highlights in his talk was
The Secret of your successes are determined by your daily agenda. The Secret of your successes are determined by what you do today .
Successful people make important decisions early of their life and they manage their decisions the rest of their life.
Making decisions is overrated, managing decisions is underrated.
Let's hear more from HIM! He is a good mentor. Christian leader and Business Man!
I truly think it is very significant for you and I even at this age to make Godly decision that honor Him with our lives in every decision that we make in every stage of our life and manage them well. So that we can be successful in our marriage, career, to be good parents, in serving God, and more importantly the successful child of God in God's eyes.
There is a saying, the decisions that you made in the 1st half of your life will most influence/impacted of what your 2nd half of your life would be.
sorry for those who are trying to contact me through my hp...
my hp is currently out of service due to my phone's operating system currupted after receiving a sms update from my band member yesterday.
the moment my hp was not working. i started to think of the people in my mind such as.
*my luv one, my parent, god parent, team members, mei, relative, church, frens, and etc
i worry that my luv one, parents and mei could not get me if they having any urgent to update me.
i worry about my luv one, parents and mei, that i could not reach them and tell them what i want to tell them if anything happen to me.
i worry that my team members could not get me for any project update and guidance to carry on with the projects.
i worry about my church, frens and relative if they need my helps or update.
but well besides that, its not much impact to me. mayb im quite busy with my projects at the moment. I don relly bother to get my hp fixed or get a new one or look for an backup phone to use for a moment but i just let it be until i hand up my last assingment on friday. however, i did carry my hp along althought it does not work at all, probably just hope that miracle happen and it is suddenly work well back.lolz! ohh, ya...i can understand how's pastor chew feeling now, living without a handphone...indeed its pretty cool one!!! hehe=p
and just today, i was thinking did i miss out anyone who i communicating all this while. yes, i found, you should know. that is our heaven father.
how awesome that we can communicate with him without a mobile phone or any communication tool. we can talk to him any place, anytime, even in the jungle, sea or cave.lolz! AMEN! Yes, i luv talking to him.
Thank God for today. it's 6.45am now. God woke me up. i know im gonna do this. sharing my journey...........
Life is getting busy and Im pretty much enjoying busy. I love doing and working on whatever am doing at the moment. Through study occupies most of my time, and I have sacrificed a lots for it. I know that this is what God wants me to focus on my study and nothing else for this moment or this year. I am patiently to look forward and achieve those I am most desire and wanting for after I am graduated end of this year (Wife is one of my most desire gift of my life).
I am studying in an IT college, through its kind of challenging and I always have to put my self on cracking my head to solve problem (any technical, programming), but I enjoy most of the time. The best feeling or satisfaction is every moment after I solve a problem on my own solution. I am doing BSc (honors) in Computing course. I am pretty enjoying my course, my college, my friends, my lecturers and the environment. Many people comment that IT/Computing courses are one of those tough courses around.
Indeed. But Answer can beYesand No.
I would say its all depends on how you see yourself dealing with it and most important is your interest. If you know me well, I am actually a very business minded person and I have a very big dream to achieve. And I love my dream; my passion grows each day when I wake up in the morning. I am thanking God for laying such a dream and purpose for my life. And he helps me to discover my gifts, teaching me, talking to me, show me my paths, prepare many great mentors to guide me in many areas to equip me, so I can serve in his kingdom and each others. Yet my passion is not IT, but is BUSINESS. Many people have wonder why I am studying IT yet not a BUSINESS course after knowing me have such a big interest in Business and follow up with a question was I chosen a wrong course.
My answers would be “Why you choose to study some thing that you are already good at it?”, “Nope, I have my own plan”
God is always faithful, he provides you the gifts as well as needs to achieve the dreams and the purpose of your life. I have reasons to choose IT as my sub skill/knowledge few years back instead of others course (long to share, probably will be topic in future). Yes, I had thought of studying psychology as well. And in God’s perfect plan, he had chosen IT course for me, and located me in one of best IT College (APIIT) in Malaysia. So I forecast and analyze the future needs, I know IT is going help my business to be more outstanding and no doubt its one of the largest industry in this generation. My business’s passion grows my interest in IT, and it’s equipping me a problem solving mindset for many business problems may face in the future. And now, Im good at both Business and IT.
I read many business books in areas such as leadership, management, marketing, entreprenuership, internet business, financial and etc. I luv it. I had dealt with number of freelance projects in the past, one of the biggest and most experience was a project involved network implementation in my fren's dad issurance company (ING). I led my team, get the job done, left that place with cash. Last year, i was leading a team on a small internet business. we had learned so much and all. we are excited to see the revenue grow each day. Business is all bout pratical and it must involve pratices. you learn most from your failures not so on your success. John c Maxwell, stated in his book that the ratio of a success is 1:7 failure. in another word, most successful ppl experience average of 7 times failures before meeting the great success. Failure is the best teacher. Appreciate it.
If you always have a plan along your journey, I am glad for you. If you make your stand and follow your plan, I am proud of you.
Never follow the crowd. There are no 2 Bill gates in this world. Practice your rights to be unique.Yeah. Here is my Blogging journey started again. And is my honor privilege to share every single bit of my life to everyone in this planet.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically-correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1:>>Life is not fair - get used to it.
Rule 2:>>The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3.>>You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4:>>If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5:>>Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping they called it opportunity.
Rule 6:>>If you mess up, it's not your parent's fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7:>>Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they now are. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites your parent's generation created, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8:>>Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This does not bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9:>>Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10:>>Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11:>>Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Name: Daniel Lo.
I am a Christ follower. I have the passion for business, Leadership and preaching the word of God. I
love reading books, photography, music , traveling, sport, shopping, hang out with friends, serving God and ENJOYING LIFE.
I LOVE PPL!!!
^The beach side of my resort. The environment is superb. Very Nature, Relaxing where I spend most of my time.
^At the left side, is a Sunday bar.
