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The SST is Mine! , HopeRoad.net, and AACF@SJSU CD Release Info!!

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Hehe, yes the news is, that I bought the Chet Atkins SST model guitar. I bought it actually the week of Thanksgiving, that tuesday before hand I believe. It ends up that it was the same day that I recieved my Taylor last year (It was shipped to my parents house the tuesday before thanksgiving last year).

I’ve been playing with it a lot, and I really like it. It has SUPERB tone, almost bettering the Taylor (course I’ll always love my Taylor, it’s my second baby, hah, guess what (or rather who’s) first ; ) ). Anyways, yes, it’s a very nice guitar, and I’ve used it a few times now for worship already, and I really enjoy using it. Though I better keep switching between the Taylor and the Chet, because when I was playing the Taylor the other night, it felt funny to play such a large bodied guitar, since the Chet is really thin.

Met some new friends online recently. I was searching for Chet Atkins SST reviews on the net, and I happened upon a guy’s webpage that bought one for a cd recording he was working on (sounds like me, hah). I continued reading about the cd recording, cuz, pretty much, that’s what I’m doing right now. It ends up that he was doing a worship recording with some friends (hah, sounds like me again). Anyways, I’ve been talking to him (Wei) and his friend and drummer (Victor) for their ‘band’ Hope Road.
Oh, forgot to mention that they’re all asian too, and Christian, and yeah, so weird. Oh, and they really like Passion. It’s like another version of me over in the East Coast…but not….hah.

Now on to the exciting news. I’ve collaborated with myself, and the new release date for our AACF cd, will be Monday, April 1st, 2002. We’re finally heading into the production stage of things soon (within a week or two) and I’ll be recording all the guitar tracks, then we’ll work in the vocals, then bass, electric, drums, and percussion, and also maybe a lil piano, but it may be sparse, haha. I’m a guitar kinda guy. =) So yes, be on the look out of the newest AACF@SJSU CD coming out Spring 2002!

current mood: excited
current music: 01 – David Crowder DC-LA
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Charlie Hall @ VoP, and other weekend type things

Well some big news is that I got to see Charlie Hall again at an event called “Heal Our Land”. What a timely event named that. The pastor who organized the whole thing, actually started with that theme name 9 months ago, but only God knew of the incidents that would happen in America, just 4 days prior to the concert of worship.
Charlie did an excellent job as usual, and Lisa came along with me to see. He did some newer stuff (King of Glory, Psalm 126, etc), and also did some other interesting songs like Let My Words Be Few (penned by Redman) and God’s Romance (by Martin Smith of Deliirous). Very interesting that he did God’s Romance, because I haven’t heard him do that one at all before, hah. I knew that I knew the song when we were singing it, but I couldn’t remember where it was from till the part of the bridge where you sing “Holy is the Lord.” Anyways, over all it was a good night, and I got to talk to Charlie a little bit, but couldn’t get a picture because we forgot to check if the camera had film in it, hehe, oh well. =)

I’m learning how to cook! whoooo. I’ve been making things like Potstickers, hotlinks, lap chueng, hamberger helper, and pasta roni. Much better than last year when it was just frozen hambergers and ramen all the time huh? hehe, I’ll continue learning new things how to cook too.

Worship on Sunday went ok. I didn’t think it was spectacular or anything, but I got some compliments on it from people in the congregation. *shrug* All glory to God though. I just didn’t feel like it was the best or I personall wasn’t able to experience God fully through the worship that morning. Maybe my heart was still concerned about Tuesday’s events… I dunno.

Pastor Kevin asked me to babysit the boys on Saturday. Not sure if I’m going to do it yet, guess if he can find someone else, I probably won’t (unless I just drop by some to hang out with them, they are pretty fun, hehe).

AACF BBQ is tommorrow night. Got some drinks for that and stuff. Ahhhhh. Dunno who’s doing worship yet for next week, but I guess that’s something gotta talk to Erica about. Hrm, I brought down my amp here for no reason, other than just to play louder with, oh well. I like the sound of acoustified sound. =) Doesn’t that sound redundant? Ok, well off to go do some reading…

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Beauty of the Cross

Hrm, after a talk with Lisa today, I think I’ll release a few of my songs/poems on this LiveJournal thingy. Enjoy, give your responses to me on AIM (WarbladeX) or leave a comment. =) Oh and of course these are as always a work on progress and never finished till I say so. =)

“Beauty of the Cross”

I’ll meet You at the cross, Lord
Because that’s where You want me to be
You were brusied and beaten
It was here You died and set me free

Let me dwell on the beauty of the cross
The cross on which You died.
Let me come before You humbly
Just to bow and worship at the foot of the cross
Just to worship at the cross

Copyright Randall Wong, written 3/9/01.

current mood: artistic

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More weird dreams and long nights and good weekends. =)

Hah, wow, I’m a sucker. Last night I fell asleep at 9pm watching X-files. I woke up at like 12pm, then went back to sleep until about 9 this morning. How pitiful. Seeing how I usually sleep at like 1-2 on most weeknights in San Jose, it’s pretty funny.

Friday night’s “Sanctuary” went really well! I was kinda surprised, but I absolutely love the team of guys and girls that I work with for Sanctuary, cuz they’re just awesome. Helen plays piano, Ed plays drums, Tiff and Janet sing, and I was leading and playing guitar. We only had one practice, that happened a few hours before, but it went really well. Mel Tang and Pablo spoke for us in the middle of the sets and spoke about Walking in the Spirit. They told about how in everyday situations we should be set on God and be walking in the ways of His truth. Anyways, it was a real blast, and happy, but also sad, to say that it’ll probably be my last time leading “Sanctuary” as I believe Eddie and Tiff are ready to step up to leading for that. Dawn and I always intended for it to be eventually led by their own peers, and next times the time for that. =) It’s a good thing.

Sunday was the usual thing. I was asked to help in a short skit about camp doing a parody of “The Weakest Link”. It was quite interesting and funny, heh, but I’m not really too into that show (watched it maybe once). We got the news that Pastor Valerie’s father passed away this last week. I was thinking how it’s probably really rough on them right now. I believe Valerie is the oldest of the family, and she’s still only about 25-26ish. Her youngest brother is 18 or 19. Can’t imagine losing my Dad at an age like that. =( If ya read this, lift up a prayer for Pastor Valerie and her family.

Now on to my weird dream, hah. I seem to be remembering more of my weird dreams as of lately. From what I remember of the dream, we (a bunch of us from church, Tiff, Janet, Justin, and I remember seeing Millie and Tim too) were at some shopping spree type thing at a Target/Kmart type shop. You were able to pick up up to 500$ worth of stuff and only pay 100$ for it (was with some coupon or something). So we were running around the store trying to find stuff to buy. I remember I ended up buying just like a whole bunch of stuff that I needed for the house in SJ. My price ended up being like 480$. Janet was running around and was trying to find a camera she wanted to buy. The thing is there were some limitations too. Like you couldn’t buy anything over 100$, and you could only pick up a maximum of 2 objects each.
Justin was trying to find all the expensive stuff so that he could return it later and get store credit, LOL. I don’t remember what Millie and Tim were buying, but remember them being there. It was just a funny weird dream, hahah.