Wooo hoooo! Finally got my SE C905 all malt black and ready for 8MP of snaps! Guess what its only for $18 dollars! A recontract discount of $200, voucher $300 and an additional reward points of $150 gets me there. Moved my plan to Starhub Ultimate @ $200 per mth subscription and with IBM Corporate discount, I'm paying only $140. Coool! My last 12 mths of Hp bills are average $250 a mth... guess this will do some cost savings together with an assured $500 voucher annually on top of the points redemption.
Lighthouse had a play today in church called "The Journal". Was pretty impressive. A group of youth actors in this drama displaying different pragmatic family values, issues and challenges faced by people today. Seeing the way family members treat each other in the drama make all of reflect upon ourselves, have we been a good brother/sister? A caring father or a filial son? A good spouse? Pastor Ronny's daughter was the Director for the play and I'm deeply impressed with the work and agenda behind. Well done! His Son has came to preach in a very impressive and presentable ending towards the closure and all came into prayers for their family. Overall it was good... although the young chap seems abit too over-selling and not too natural about it. Too much rehearsals sometimes. These things come better when its touch comes from that moment itself. But its all good things and he should be a promising youth.
Recently Jay released his new album 魔杰座 and the song 稻香's MV really caught my attention. With such compatibility of the current economic climate, the lyrics describe the mundane struggles and pains we have in real life while endearing and in hope to go back to our childhood days where home was the castle of peace, love and shelter. Watching the MV makes me even more touched. A middle aged guy lost his job, went into depression and his wife left him together with the daughter. Being sacked and dumped, lost and lonely... he left for his hometown, a village where there are wheat fields where he used to familiarise himself with fun and sweet innocent laughter. These were precious moments that touched his heart once more, and his mother was there in arms wide open, hugging him and cooking his fave foods in welcome. He then felt warmth, love and sense of belonging... away from the urbanised and cruel truth in the cities.
The ending was of course, like most of Jay's songs meant to be... encouraging... Amidst the fun he had with the kids in the village, the wife and daughter came to him and reunited. This song has a sense of sadness and empathy for those caught in the financial crisis and downturn. And it was pretty much written either in coincidence or intended, to keep this people going.
Well... I have a few friends from DBS who were out of the 900 staff cut. It could have been me if I was still there. Even so, no one can predict the future with such corporate uncertainties these days that it wun happen to me or anyone of us, anytime. God bless and help all those who were affected. Amen!
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