hope you guys enjoyed the yu sheng yesterday! :D you're welcome to tell us your feelings for yesterday's session cum lau yu sheng under " _ mmers love this song" okie? :)

hello

hello peeps, happy chinese new year to all! Hope everyones had a great cny.

Remember, even though you lose money, there's always good dinner during cny to fill up ur tummy.
Do take note that i am not promoting you to gamble, it is just what most people do during the new yr - to gamble. x)

anyways. visitation on the 24th is cancelled due to e not-so-good response of e mm. we shall all gather together as one mm family to lao yu sheng after the meeting on the 26th of Febuary. do not worry, we have alr planned e timings so that we won't end late, hokay?

ladies, it's best if u do not wear a skirt for meetings(unless ya just came from work and u were required to wear one), cos we're all gonna sit on e floor during meetings from now. Don't worry, the floor will be mopped by then.

SHOES WILL ALSO BE REMOVED B4 YOU ENTER INTO THE ROOM.

lastly, please respect the altar in e room. haha.

Announcement!!!!

HELLO PEOPLE! sorry i've been on hiatus these few days. been a very busy 21 YEAR OLD MAN (NOT 15 HOR)working my butt off.

this is for you guys to note that there'll be no MM meeting this coming monday night, because of gong see fat chai. instead it'll be postponed to next monday yup. be there!

anyway, i know you guys won't turn up either even if this wasn't announced, you'll be busy making money, i know... :P

HAIRNEEEWAYYYY....

how was everyone's week? good i hope, and i'd bet most of you will be "FINALLY LONG WEEKEND'S COMING LOH".

this is my 1st time since army that i'm glad the weekend's here. before i got a job, i don't even know when the weekend is bacause i've been lazing off since God knows when.

SPEAKING OF GOD..

HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN PRAYING? before you put on the sad face, looking gloomy and mutter "yessssss......" under your breath, HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN REALLY PRAYING?! remember the things you wrote on the mahjong paper hor. saying you wanna feel God's prescence and all that stuff.. how can you do it if you haven't been praying yet right?

the reason why the altar was set up in the MM room was to remind you that everytime you walk into the room, you're reminded that God's presence is everywhere and not just in MM room, but everywhere you go. BUT since i can't set up an altar for everyone to carry everywhere they go, i hope that whenever you enter the MM room, late or not, :D you're reminded that God is looking at you now, hoping that you'll remember to say hi to Him. :)

another very good way of remembering God in your daily lives is to make an altar in your very own room. you don't have to put all the exorbitant stuff for an altar, what chalice ah, 24K gold bible, 6K diamond crusted cross, Gucci cloth...

remember that God looks at the heart. as God said in 1 Samuel 16:7, "... Pay no attention to how tall and handsome he is. I have rejected him, because I do not judge as man judges. Man looks at the outward appearance, but I look at the heart."

as long as you have the intention of talking to God everyday, it doesn't matter even if you take 2 tooth picks and make it into a cross if that reminds you of Jesus right?

so even if you are as handsome as Aloy Ng, but your heart is machiam Hitler's heart, I really pity you.. :) haha.. no la.. you shld start to change for the better right? look like Aloy must have heart like Aloy right? :D

HEHEHEHEHE...

kk remember to pray k! God bless! boss coming already.


sorry, no pictures today cuz i'm using my workplace computer to type this entry :D see! i'm so nice to blog even though i'm so busy. ;D

Greetings!

Hi this is Marcus here. Thanks to BenTan that this blog was done up =)

Dear MMers,

I strongly urge u guys to visit this blog like it is your own. As every information you will get during MM meetings will all be placed right here.

Regarding the fund, i hope you guys will cooperate with our residental loanshark, Kenneth Neo. If you want more changes to the room, all the more we should cooperate=)
(btw, any suggestions to make the room a better place do email me or drop a comment at runningwithmebs@gmail.com)

Lastly, calling out to all guitarists(basists too if u'd like), i'll post links and scores of guitar lessons and pnw chords here once in awhile. Mainly links from www.ultimate-guitar.com and www.pwarchive.com. Any questions about music theory or whatsoever, personally ask Mark Jason or BenTan.

So that's all i have to say for now. So do take care and study or work hard. haha.

Cheers! =)

Life Sucks....

To all the beloved people in MM.. yea the room is done up.. yea we got nice speaker sets and yea, we got a spankin' new altar and prayer corner (no excuse to be LATE thou... you can use it even if youre earli...) alas... i regret to inform the enthusiasts for the 'MM Revival Phase' that has been goin on has to.. STOP for the time being....

CUZ WE AINT GOT NO MORE MONEY!!!!! yea pple... our MM Fund is officially BROKE!! (after the $$$ our dear Ben Tan H.K spent settin up the altar.. nice touch dude... but you didnt think of our financial status BEFORE setting it up.. hah..) oh, the horror, the horror....

So, for now... we will stop the revampin of the rm.. bear in mind that this is only temporary!!! So, come 26th Feb, i will start collection for Mar n Apr, which will be under the new price of $4... as agreeded in the past (i just never carried it out) So.. if you do wan our rm to be better, pls contribute to us in a timely manner... and OF COURSE, love offerings are also accepted!!! (Commander-in-Chief, you DID NOT see this, yea??)

haha... well... tts all folks.. hope you had a smashin time this week.. tune in later (how late i dunno, depends on my mood) for more details n the latest updates and patches.. WOOT!!!

LoanShark, OUT!

THE room (part duo)

feeling dry lately? been looking for a place of solitude to reflect?

LOOK NO MORE.

your jesus corner (temporary) is done up for your spiritual needs!








NOW EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE LATE TO BE AT THE PRAYER CORNER! :)

THE room

hey peeps, still unconvinced by what the loanshark said in his previous post? see for yourself!













well... at least it's cleaner than before.. :D







but wait! what better way to listen to P&W songs with friends and this:










HOHOHO....





if u wanna thank us in any way.. just close your eyes, and thank God for giving us an MM room and thank God for aloy for donating the speakers and thank God for everything else in your life. :)


UNDER CONSTRUCTION: PRAYER CORNER for all your jesus needs! :)


btw: there is a Youth Rally held in CJC auditorium this coming saturday, it's a very good opportunity to experience Jesus and to feel his presence for those who wrote it in their spiritual needs on monday :) and also meet the youths of other parishes!


for those interested, it'll be this coming saturday. meet up at Mary's shrine at 5:30 sharp. the YC has chartered a bus for 50 of us to go. so if you reach there at 5:31, you can walk over to hougang interchange and take 153 :)


hope to see you guys there!

PS: sry forgot to make this announcement on monday.. but anw.. spread the word around! :)

Picture moments! :)

thanks to dear angelina the faithful photographer of MM for sending me these pictures and asking me to post them up! :)



*warning* not for the faint hearted...

WE PUT THE "M" IN YOUR USIC!

we still put the 'M' in your usic!

we put the music in your mass too!

DARLIN... u must be tired after putting the "m" in your usic :)

uh...

i wonder who is this... OH.. it's your 总统!

the daydream auditoriumers

ben yeo, this is not free kick hor.

half of girl band!

iggy, why did your bro pang seh u?

we said it once, n we'll say it again: we put the 'm' in your usic!

aloy, don't emo on the cake....

emo on jeremy. OH JEREMY DON'T GOOOoooo....

thanks angie! :) keep the posts coming guys! :)

Sound System!!

For those of you who are observant enough, you musta wondered what the heck we were doin wif those tall speakers up on the stage, and how come there was a black box like thingy with many buttons, dials and knobs... well, fret not!!

Today, today, the 6th of Feb, the combined forces of Your friendly Debt Collector, Ben Tan H.K. (find a better nick dude), MJ and the Commander-in-Chief rallied to bring order to chaos and succeeded in setting up our very own sound system!! Woots!!! Yee-haW!! So, TV (Check), DVD Player (Check), Sound System (Check)... right on!! the MM home theatre system is up and runnin!! Now, any suggestions for the 1st Public screenin (MM-exclusive, of course) title?? suggestions, people?? We await your replies!! Spam the tag board, add comments or even hack tis page and vandalise it wif your "Most Wanted Title!!"

For those of you who have nice PnW songs that you wanna intro to the group, you could burn a copy of the cd or a whole compilation and leave it in the MM rm to be played before the start of meetings and all.. For the greater good!!

RULES RULES RULES.

sorry for being the spoiler, but rules are rules. :)

here're some rules for this blog:

1) this blog is temporarily managed by the core team members: marcus, ben, isis, christina and kenneth
2) anyone's free to use chatterbox for mindless chatting or what not. please keep it to NC-14.. (the youngest in MM :D) any language deemed unsuitable will have the post taken out and if spamming occurs, cbox will be shut down. (those who find that they cannot chat on the blog can go "hamtam" the fella.. i'm blind and i won't be able to see anything :P)
3) for personal comments to the post, it can be done at every end of the post. just click on the "_ MMers loved this song"
4) any personal sharing/reflections/announcements/pictures or what not can approach any of the core team members and/or send .doc documents so we can just copy and paste onto the blog. these posts will be greatly appreciated so pls keep em coming! :)
5) announcements made on the recent MM meeting will be posted on the side bar labelled "announcements"
6) as for the skin, anyone willing to do a better skin will be greatly welcomed to do so. :) thanks leslie! wahahahaha..
7) links of personal blogs will not be posted on the blog to avoid overcrowding. however, links of other church groups/reflection websites will be put up for you guys to visit. you can link this blog to your personal blog too. SPREAD THE LOVE! :)

yup this is basically what this blog is all about. sry if it's too "auntie" for you.. but let's try to keep this blog clean n keep it going too!

St. Cecilia: Patron Saint of Church Music

yoho:D

i'm sure for those of you who joined MM, you have no idea whatsoever who is st. cecilia and all you know abt her is "Dear St. Cecilia, one thing we know........." right? it's ok, no one's looking at you, you can give the "ashamed" look. :D



so be ashamed no more! because here's the lowdown on her, courtesy of http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=34



and here she is:





so here's what the website said about her:

"The story of S. Cecilia is not without beauty and merit. There was in the city of Rome a virgin named Cecilia, who was given in marriage to a youth named Valerian. She wore sackcloth next to her skin, and fasted, and invoked the saints and angels and virgins, beseeching them to guard her virginity. And she said to her husband, "I will tell you a secret if you will swear not to reveal it to anyone." And when he swore, she added, "There is an angel who watches me, and wards off from me any who would touch me." He said, "Dearest, if this be true, show me the angel." "That can only be if you will believe in one God, and be baptized."
She sent him to Pope S. Urban (223-230), who baptized him; and when he returned, he saw Cecilia praying in her chamber, and an angel by her with flaming wings, holding two crowns of roses and lilies, which he placed on their heads, and then vanished. Shortly after, Tibertius, the brother of Valerian, entered, and wondered at the fragrance and beauty of the flowers at that season of the year.
When he heard the story of how they had obtained these crowns, he also consented to be baptized. After their baptism the two brothers devoted themselves to burying the martyrs slain daily by the prefect of the city, Turcius Almachius. [There was no prefect of that name.] They were arrested and brought before the prefect, and when they refused to sacrifice to the gods were executed with the sword.
In the meantime, S. Cecilia, by preaching had converted four hundred persons, whom Pope Urban forthwith baptized. Then Cecilia was arrested, and condemned to be suffocated in the baths. She was shut in for a night and a day, and the fires were heaped up, and made to glow and roar their utmost, but Cecilia did not even break out into perspiration through the heat. When Almachius heard this he sent an executioner to cut off her head in the bath. The man struck thrice without being able to sever the head from the trunk. He left her bleeding, and she lived three days. Crowds came to her, and collected her blood with napkins and sponges, whilst she preached to them or prayed. At the end of that period she died, and was buried by Pope Urban and his deacons. "


for us lowly peasants, though we can't see it, we too, have an angel watching over us. this angel of ours does not need a loudhailer to speak to us like the devil does. (loudhailer being the material wants in this world) if only we listen to our own self conscience and make the right choices, this voice of our angel will only get louder and louder cuz the devil's loudhailer will run out of battery.

more of st. cecilia can be found when u google "st cecilia" if you are interested. :)

so for those getting the sacrament of confirmation this year, i'd encourage everyone to use cecilia as your confirmation name! then when archbishop sees all of you with the same name, he would (as aloy ng would say..) STEAM AH!

kidding la..

but i do encourage you guys to look up on the saint whose name you want to use as your confirmation name so that we'd follow in their footsteps.. Saints were once human too right?

1st Test for me, Ever!!

To all the dudes who know me by this nick.. oh well... here goes... ( im a total bloggin idiot, by the way.. unlike some dude whos in DrugLand now)...

Alright... here goes....

Viola!! (if you can see this, it means im not such an idiot after all, then again, if i didnt, you wont see this post at all. but oh well, what the heck... )

Welcome to the 1st ever, one of a kind, numero uno, MUSIC MINISTRY!

HELLO! :)

for those who have absolutely NO IDEA WHATSOEVER and are thinking of who is the bo liao person who set up this blog for, well.. this is MM's personal, one of a kind blog. absolutely anything abt MM can be posted here: sharings, testimonies, pictures, scandalous pictures, announcements, pictures, shoutouts, more pictures.. yada yada.

and for those who think this blog won't last, HUR! we'll see! :D

OH, n just to let you know, the new core team has recently succeeded the old ones, so.. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

here're the COOL PEOPLE in the core team! :D

our dear 总统: MARCUS CHUA!

n fellow core team members:

CHRISTINA NG
ISIS KOH
BEN TAN

and residential loanshark: KENNETH NEO :D

spankyew for your kind attention :)

love that is kept inside, will surely fade someday.......
the only gifts we ever keep are those we give away. :D