almost blew the speakers....again!

went down to manda today @ kk. the docs removed a 13cm cyst and took a pic of it.i sometimes wonder why they do that. i remember when they removed a tumour from my friends' mom and took a pic of it. it was really huge and gross out. my friend's dad was happily showing it to us, i almost threw up after seeing it. well, his mom is doing fine. manda will be discharged tommorrow morning is everything goes well. pray for her okie, yes i am talking to you, don't pretend to look away now. as long as u don't pray to the underworld, its fine with me, thanks!

i wondered how we had lunch after seeing the pic but we managed to. took a cab to church n prepared for mass. everything was going well until soundcheck, there was no sound initially but managed to solve the problem. was testing the organ first and it went well but as soon as i increased the mic volume for the choir, BOOM went the speakers went. talk about testing the level of feedbacks at the fullest. my first tot was that Pat, my padawan, had touched something by mistake but she didnt. so i did a check again and everything was fine. tried again, BOOM there it is! some parishoners who were there early to pray, started to look back at the choir. told myself this can't be happening, cut down all the gains and tried again, BOOM! . off the phantom and tried again, the feedback was still there. at this point i didnt know what to do, almost broke down. switched off the mixer, pray hard and switched on the mixer again. alas, the culprit was discovered when i switched on the mixer. the monitor which we hardly used was on and the volume was at 90deg, enough to cause the feedback at the level. the monitor is just a few meters away from the mics.everything was fine after that and mass went smoothly. at this point, i would like to thank chris and gab for pointing it to me. couldnt have don't have done it all by myself. good thing it happened before mass, the last time i almost blew the speakers was during x'mas eve mass but compared tot that, this was worse. it was a blessing that the speakers were still okie. i felt much better after mass.

skipped practise and went to town to meet tony and deepak for dinner. saw a lot of weird young teenagers today, doing a very bad impression of angst, grunge or watever u wanna call it. why should you adopt a identity that is so not u. why shld u adopt the lifestyles of the west when u don't know shit what they go through every day. they are living it, whereas you are just imagining it. growing up in a tough neighbourhood during the seventies and early eighties, has taught me a few things. being out after nine pm would be considered suicide. now you can safely walk the streets in the wee hours of morning and not worry about anything. thanks to the goverment for clearing and cleaning up the streets of singapore. so why are u imitating the west who are still going thru it when u wont be able to survive the seventies here. if you got brains, wake up and look yourself in the mirror. is this who u wanna be in ten years time? the world will move ahead but it will leave u behind if u don't do something about it. wake up and smell the coffee, life is never a bed of roses. its either you make things happen or you don't. if you don't do anything about it and yet complain about it, you deserve to be shipped away to some third world country on an exchange programme. sigh, if only the goverment had this kinda programme.

like i was saying, i was out with tony and deepak, we met up at kopitiam. finally we manage to meet up with deeps after going m.i.a for almost two yrs. after numerous attempts to reach him failed as our dear friend here might be the only singaporean without a handphone, or so he says. so tony and i came up with a plan tat i was going to get married and we have been trying to contact him since feb. the mom passed the info to deeps and he finally contacted tony."makal, i heard roch makal getting married, ha?" so the plan was, the 'wedding' was sept 10 and in olsots, but we wanted to meet up for dinner and coffee. so we meet up at kopitiam. found out the deeps got married in dec 2004 n his wife, in fact, works beside my workplace. so he asked me abt the girl that i was going to marry, so i painted a pretty pic for him. half thru the conversations, the two married guys were talking about the right calendar mth to do it or to avoid it. so far i have only heard gals talking about it when they are planning for a kid or the opposite. anyways, at the end of everything, i told deeps the marriage thing was a hoax. it was setup by us to make him surface from whatever hole he was hiding from. so our plan worked and we got his new contact number to his new home. interesting facts i found out today. deeps told me if i was related to a bridget sebastian who lives in yishun and apparently comes to olsots. bridget is a friend of his wife. second interesting fact, tony told me that two girls from his course recognised him n enquired about me, a chinese and an indian gal. told tony to send my regards to them but it would be better if i had some names to it. :p

anyways, so we left and went on our separate ways, both of them went back to their wifes, and me back to work. its been a long day and i am feeling tired and sleepy.... gotta go to st. bern's tmr for a soundcheck for the ordination mass which will be on 28 aug 05. meeting at 12.30pm, which will give me less than 4hrs of sleep only. good thing i am off tmr, night shift for mon & tues and off on wed & thurs. well, thats my life not the routine nine to five life, but i wonder how, if i do find a gal who is having a regular 9 to 5 job, 5 days week. will it work out? any idea? please do leave me a tag. well, its back to work for me now, its been a long day and its just gonna get longer..... i am hungry.