太难了

最近比较频密地使用苹果“爱疯”（Iphone）来记载心路历程。
它的确是非常地方便与快捷。

可是问题来了。

它只限于用英语来书写才会感觉到那种行云流水的畅快感。

若果转去中文拼音书写，立时感到那种莫名的顿挫感，拖泥带水的，好痛苦。

再加上最近真的比较忙，鲜少让我有时间好整以暇地以电脑来写部落。

暂时只有手机式书写部落才能符合我的要求。

所以最近比较少以中文来写部落。

也罢，藉此机会锻炼一下英语的文笔也好。

哈哈。

Life's Clock

Life's Clock
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

12:09 p.m.
30 Sept 2008

This is one of my favourite dish.
I found it in one of the home style restaurant at Subang SS 15. It is as tasty as Sxxxxx Rxxxxxx's award winning lamb shank, but half the price of it.

The owner of the restaurant is a Phillipine lady who had stayed in Malaysia for 25 years.

While we are having our sweet time with our meal, Dennis ( our mentor ) shared with us regarding the human life's clock.

It sounds like below:

20 years old - 11:08 am
25 years old - 12:25 pm
30 years old - 1:25 pm
35 years old - 2:59 pm
40 years old - 4:16 pm
45 years old - 5:43 pm
50 years old - 6:50 pm
55 years old - 8:08 pm
60 years old - 10:11 pm
Above 70 years old, approaching midnight.

Thank God that for me, the night is still young and there is a lot more time for me to run the race.

Now while we are discussing this topic, a waiter ( I supposed the owner's husband ) approached us regard what we are talking about.

After we showed him, he told us that he is in traffic jam category. We all stunt for a while, then realized that he is referring to 5:43 pm ( 45 years old ).

We all laugh aloud that it is really a traffic jam hour. Not only in the real world context, but in the life's goal context, a lot of people is facing the challenge of traffic jam.

With an age of above 40, it is a new beginning of our lifetime. It is the second half for us to fulfill something in our life. It is a turning point for us to change whatever is inappropriate previously. It is a platform for us to jump higher.

Some of us until this age had already passed certain stage to the destination, avoid from getting stuck on the traffic, ready to the next destiny.

Some of us might get stuck in the middle of the traffic jam, can't turn back, can't reach to the destiny. It really STUCKED!!!

40 years old is a crucial point for us.
It maybe ours starting point for something remarkable and significance.
It maybe a point where we put a full stop.
It also a turning point for us towards our destiny without seeing our past failure.

It is all depend on our attitude.
But the most important is, the attitude of letting God to direct intervene in our life, where we decrease and Jesus increase more and more in our life.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

New World

New World
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

7 p.m.
29 Sept 2008

We found this small studio which I mentioned in the previous post.

We had roughly tested the sound system of it. It is pretty good. Most important, it is new compare with the other studio where we used to go frequently last time.

Nowaday kinda hard for us to get together for jamming due to work and some member had left us. But the heart of music within us will not die, that will continue to Rock 'n Roll.

I'm thinking to engage the remaining member and invite some youth that we had been train past few months to join us for the jamming.

I think is a good platform for both party,

For us, it will lead us back to the passion of jamming together among the band member.

For youth, it will be a different place and environment to expose them and nurture them for how to get together in music.

Hope we can turn it on.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Old Friend

Old Friend
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

6:25 p.m.
29 Sept 2008

I found this old friend from a unique store which I mentioned in previous post.

He is the electric guitar version of the same series as my bass guitar, Ibanez Roadstar II.
The colour is gorgeous, in vintage style. Surely an old buddy due to the manufaturing year.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

A Treasure Hunting

A Treasure Hunting
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

9:20 p.m.

This is a place full of treasure where I found when Rick and I went here looking for a help from a guitar techman to save the life of a guitar, after it fell down and broke its neck.

The owner is called John, whom I bought my "antique" (1982 made) bass guitar from. He is a talented skilled young man expertised in guitar tech. I rather label him as a young entrepreneur because the business that he is doing, the market that he is targeting is very niche. And yet, he got the vision and passion. I still remember the first time I met him, during that time he run his business in his home. I can feel the fire is burning within his heart when he shared with me.

Thanks God that he owned a shop now, pursuing his dream. He sell vintage guitar, amp, all kinda gear, and also running a band room for people to jam music, music lesson. He also customize and create his own signature guitar. Wow, this is awesome.

Ya, everyone of us have a dream in his or her heart, at least have had a dream. We are born with certain talents, and we have passion about doing it.

But the problem is not many of us know our dream. Not all of us acknowledge our dream.
What is dream and vision?

Simple word,

"Vision is seeing the invisible and making it visible."

I strongly agreed this statement.
For John Sculley said,"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."

For God said,
"We live by faith, not by sight."
-2 Cor 5:7

But the fact is, we are so used to the environment that tend to mold and shape us to think base on the circumstances. We were so easily loose our dream, vision and passion.

The cost of life is the major fact that pull us down, because money is the key factor to maintain daily life, this is so called "reality". And when deal with dream, it is always linked with "unrealistic".

I'm used to be the dreadful person, dead by dream and vision. For the past few years, I'm living my life without a dream, I mean the dream that I really passionate about.

But thank God that He found me back, and j found my true identity in Him. By His grace, love and power, I'm now pursuing my dream, which something dealing with music, art and teaching. I really got a lot of resources and networks that God had put in my way within this 2 years, to enable me to pursuing my dream, for Him.

Sooner or later, I'd learnt that when we had captured the vision, we must find ways to handle it, to communicate with people.
We need to,
"see it clearly"
"show it creatively"
"say it constantly"

Basically, John did inspired me a lot for what he is doing now.

We need to be the DREAM CATCHER.
In order for that, we need to be the RISK TAKER, because we know that we become failure when we fail to take risks.

Treasure hunting is excited, hunt for the talent inside of us and hunt for the treasure lie behind of it.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Our Beloved Indian Friend

Our Beloved Indian Friend
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

3:30 p.m.

Finally I got a chance to make sure myself waiting here for the car to get clean. Is been quite some time I didn't get my car to be clean.

Thanks a lot to the lovely Indian car cleaner.
Regarding our Indian friend, I have some words about them. We've been calling them "Keling" since our grandparent generation without knowing the meaning behind this calling, at least I used to be one of those.

In order to know this, we need to track back to the history of Malaysia, where when the time the Indian was introduce by the Great British to this land. During that time, they were introduced as the rubber estate worker and railway track worker. A lot of them also become the slave for the upper level of society. And to avoid them to runaway, the introduction of metal chain was put on their legs. Now, when they walking with the metal chain on their legs, it will sound " kling......kling......kling......"

So, sooner or later, we, especially Chinese call them "Keling", due to the sound when they made when walking.

Now the problem is, a lot of us are still calling them as "Keling", which actually are making shame of them base on their slavery tragic history without our knowledge. I'm not sure the later generation of Indian friend know about this or not, but I'm sure that for the older generation, they will not happy about this calling, because of this will remind them about the painful history.

Actualy I used to calling them as "Keling" as well, but when the time I get to knew this, I told myself I need to change, for the sake of respect and love upon them.

Ya, honestly I do not like some of them due to some reason, especially the body odor. But God love everyone, included them, our beloved Indian friend. I learnt to love them by showing respect and understanding to them.

"Loving a comfort and lovely thing only is not a true love."

" TRUE LOVE is loving somebody, or something which you are not comfortable with, can't withstand, or even hate of."

At least this is what I'd learnt after going through some circumtances and hard time.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

The True Leadership Must Take Place.

3:45 p.m.

Just now I'm just met with some secondary student from a school at Puchong Wawasan. The purpose I met them is to lay some foundation into their life before I start a program with them.

What I can see into them is the potential of being the future leader in this land. In fact not only them, I strongly believe that all the youth have the potential to being the leader if they found their destiny, the purpose of life, their talents, weaknesses......etc.

We are called to be leader. We born to be leader. But don't get me wrong that the leadership that I'm talking about is not what we were so used to it that, it is not about power to command, control, and manipulate, not about age and experience, not about corporate position, not about societal status, not about fame. Just not only this. All these that I mentioned is just part of it, in fact it is not the important part of leadership.

The true leadership is about influence, which rooted in LOVE to bring people to the right direction of their life.

"True leadership must be for the BENEFIT of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders."

Leadership, is a matter of:
You see the need,
You take the lead.
To serve the need,
To fulfill the purpose of the need.

In this context, leadership is about the heart of "to serve", and not "to be serve".
A leader, he will serve the needs of others, and he love to. He will serve the purpose of others, helping others to fulfill the purpose.

"It's not enough to finish the race yourself. To be successful, you must take somebody with you across the finish line." John C. Maxwell

We need people with strong leadership, in our family, in our society, in our land. We need them to penetrate into every layer of the society: family, business, government, media, art & entertainment, education.
For the better future, is not only depends on the next generation, it is a combination between the older generation and the new generation that will yield good result.
We need restoration and reconciliation to the generation gab.

True leadership is crucial for us.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Fruitful Day

1:25 a.m.

Today is a fruitful day for me.
God is always good, all the time.
By God's empowerment of the spirit of creativity, I had finished the multimedia video in 2 days.

This is something remarkable for me myself, cause this time I'm just got the idea and resource in one day, then work it into video in 1 day. It is a breakthrough for myself cause previously I'm totally blank in idea, though I had given 1 week to finish it.

I knew this is simply the creativity from the Lord, for I seek from Him regards this, and He gave me what I asked, according to His time, way, and will.

He lead me how to use simple and limited resource, to create a video that will inspired others, will made them feel awesome and touch. And my client feel that I really should go further for film production due to my talent (I have no professional training).
Well, this remind me about my passion, dream and vision. Thank you God for you working in me.

I'm happy and joy for this, and yet more to the work of the Lord through me to bless others.

Glory to the Lord.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

China Student in Malaysia

Chinese Student in Malaysia
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

1 a.m.
I'm just got a chance to sitting down, settling myself in front of God.

God is great, and He's always a lovely Father that treat us so good. At least for what I knew through the testimony from this few lovely China student.

They are currently studying in UCSI, Cheras. Some of them had been saved by Lord, some are not, yet. But they had a opened heart to the Lord God, for this is needed by the Lord. Of course God chose us first, but He need us to respond by CHOICE, either choose to believe or not, choose to open the door to the Lord or not.

Everyone of us is living our life by choice. We choose to or not to, even choose not to, by itself is a choice and decision as well.

Christianity is a matter of relationship. A relationship between us and our Father. To enable the relationship to take place, it need us to open our heart first, same to the normal social relationship. Once we open our heart to Father, He Himself will lead us to know about Him, Holy Ghost will start working inside of us.

Ya, relationship is a matter of choice.
To love is a matter of choice.
To care is a matter of choice.
To believe is a matter of choice.
God given us free will to choose, to choose to go back to Him, or choose to ignore Him. He won't force us, because He is the God of Freedom, true freedom.

Thank God that when I called upon the China student unbeliever after I shared with them, they willing to receive Lord into their heart and life, to let God teach them how to know more about God Himself. By the prayer that I'd lead them to pray, God will make a way in their life, because this is the promises by God.

"seek and you will find"

"knock and the door shall open to you"

There is nothing for God can't do.

God can't do 1 thing, HE CAN'T BREAK HIS PROMISES.

Of course we need to pray for their life, for the principalities of dark forces will try to capture them. But Jesus came to set the captive free.

Thank you Maro for giving us the chance to meet and fellowship with all the China student.

Glory to the Lord.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Across The Universe

Across The Universe,它是披头四的其中一首经典名曲，它也是Julie Taymore 的最新力作，一套因应披头四的歌曲而启发灵感的一套音乐电影。非常庆欣这套电影出现在马来西亚的荧幕上，这要感谢别具慧眼的电影代理商。可惜的是这套电影在大马可说是乏人问津，与我同座的观众也才寥寥十多位，并且有好几位还中途离场呢。这真不知如何说起，那么别具匠心的一套音乐电影，那么细腻的镜头与剧情铺陈，30 多首动听的歌曲，新鲜耐看的脸孔，隐藏在后对社会各现象的探讨，难道就比不上一般的爱情+动作+喜剧，爆破连场，上天下海的商业电影值得停留我们的眼目？我不懂。至少里头穿插的重新编曲与演绎的30多首经典名曲就值回票价。


电影的配乐堪称一绝，全都是披头四歌曲的旋律，每首歌曲也都穿插得恰到好处，都能切合当时的主题与情景，听起来别有一番风味。好比 Let It Be 这首歌穿插在枪林弹雨而动荡的暴动市区，一位黑人小孩坐在街旁唱起这首歌，无奈与绝望的眼神，悲呛的编曲,唱着 Let It Be, 似在控诉这战争的无情，也在呐喊着万念俱灰的心情----算了吧。哦，原来这首歌也可以带给我们这样的情感，这可真是意想不到。里头所有重新编曲的歌，诸如哀怨的 I Want To Hold Your Hand, 悲愤的 Across The Universe, 雀跃奔放的 It Won't Be Long, 孤独而压郁的 Strawberry Fields, 颓废放肆的 With A Little Help From My Friends, 温情思念的 Hey Jude, 爱与恨相互矛盾的 Oh Darling 等等， 都大大的颠覆了这些歌一贯的情感与意境。


选角方面也非常的出色。在我看来，里头所有主要的角色都具代表性。男主角Jude 深眸忧郁又浪漫的气质，仿佛看到披头四另一灵魂人物---Paul McCartney 的影子。女主角 Lucy 清新甜美又具时代社会的气质，Lucy 的哥哥 Max 颓废奔放而又重情谊的气质，仿佛看到 Nirvana 已故主音 Kurt Cobain 的灵光再现，还有流浪不羁满腹理想的黑人吉他手JoJo(从他身上了解到所谓吉他灵魂论)，吉普赛式思想敢做敢为的女歌手 Sadie，以及纯情可爱寻找被爱被肯定的亚裔越南小女子 Prudence.


故事剧情的主线是爱情，铺以人生的际遇，理想与社会的冲突，也带出了 60 年代动荡暴乱不安的社会层面，战争的无情，民权运动的解放，同性恋与嬉皮士文化的发展，各种所谓新世纪灵魂觉醒运动的萌芽期，在在地让我们重温一次文化大杂烩，消化与否就见仁见智了。
总而言之，这是 2007 年不可错过的作品。喜欢音乐，艺术，尤其是披头四的朋友，千万莫放过。


Let It Be...Let It Be.....
Let It Be...Oh....Let It Be......
Whisper words of wisdom.....
Let It Be.....
战争的无情对比小孩的无奈痛苦。
曲目：Let It Be





Max 与一众美国大兵背着自由女神像。
控诉大美国主义导致美国公民沉重又悲呛的负担。
自由与民主的代价？欢乎？悲乎？








仿效披头四 John Lennon 在天台演唱的一幕
也是男主角 Jude 向 Lucy 表达情感的一幕
曲目：All You Need Is Love




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Across The Universe 相关网站

病态的“铁三角”

铁三角，顾名思义，超强的要素分占三方相互抗衡与辅助。

三位香港当代影业的贡献者------杜大导，徐大导，林大导。

杜某独特的宿世论与江湖社会观的结合。

徐某超尘脱俗的奇情武侠观与绮丽鬼魅的鬼怪观。

林某别富张力的暴力美学观。

三位独占一方的导演，三位别具风格的演员，再加上很多的绿叶演员，为我们上演了一场极尽放肆，疯狂，玩味，爽快的戏幕。

友人问我观后感，我说感觉上像被高人大大地玩弄了一番，而且被戏弄得很爽快。咦，怎么搞得我好像蛮病态的！

是的，病态是我对这部作品的最佳诠译。

故事围绕着三位主人翁，透过寻宝作套引，进而带出人性的贪念，痴念，逃避过去伤害的软弱，信任与怀疑之间的冲突，一事无成的彷徨，当然少不了人性的美善，知足美德等等。

三个主菜，佐以配料，再以三昧真火文武火催化，一煲五味杂陈的人生杂锦面世了。

有人吃得津津有味，有人食之无味；

有人食而不得其味，有人避而其味。

吾则食之甘味。

循娱乐与艺术的角度，我很享受，很玩味。

循人性的角度，却不得不悲哀与担忧。

戏里头充满着病态的张力。

古天乐的不踏实市井小人物挣扎求生而又不失良善孝顺的两极面。

任达华的老成持重，内敛抗郁实则暴力张狂而又不失关爱知足的两极面。

孙洪雷的高深莫测，执著任意而又不失在紧要关头大彻大悟，悬崖勒马的智慧。

这不就是人性吗？说真的，边看我的心就愈沉重。

现今的社会莫不如此吗？

每位都仿佛化身戏里的其中一位，都在歇斯底里的生活。

哪怕你是为钱财，为权利，为事业，为“爱-情”，都在歇斯底里似的挣扎求生。

今生的骄傲（权力，名声，地位，金钱）

眼目的情仇（爱情，友情，仇恨敌人等等）

有没有发觉人人都病了。

这个社会病了。

国家病了。

全球都病了。

病，并不是肉体的病。

病，乃是心灵的病，那才是最要命的。

我时常在祷告，愿神的灵大大运行在全地全人上，更新我们的灵，医治我们心灵的创伤。

始终人被造乃是完美的，有属神的形象。

只是仇敌撒旦蒙蔽了我们的心眼，用各种物质情欲麻木了我们。

我不是说物质情欲享受不好，我还很喜欢呢!

只是在于别本末倒置，别被它所控制而失去了原先的美善。

我们有盼望，因着神是信实的。

他来临并再次掌权的日子将近（别用人的有限科学时间论来推算）

理想乌托邦将再次重现。

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P/S: 以上纯碎个人感受但绝无胡言乱语。明白真相的大有人在，不明不白不清不楚的有一天也会明白，只是希望不会太迟。我常祷告祝福你们。

I'm just finish part of it

I'm just finish part of it
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

Currently is almost 4am in the morning, I'm just manage to finish part of the multimedia video.

I'm getting tired and still want to finish it, if I want. But I just got to be rest more for my health, since I'm not as young as previous time.

So, hopefully tomorrow will be finish. This time I made a breakthrough that I putting sound effect in the multimedia especially human speech. Guess who is the speech actor? Is me. Haha. I got to be act both old and young man. Funny.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Christ The Solid Rock

Christ The Solid Rock
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

Currently is 19th Sept 08, 1:30am in the morning. It is really early morning while I'm just got back from Puchong.

It is kinda fruitful day for me. Rev Titus and me had visited brother Lim in Klang. We had a sweet time with him and his new married wife. Of course the main thing is we would like to help him to set up an family altar that will use by God, for the purpose of transformation thru his clinic. 2nd thing is to equip him, develop him and nurture him with the word of God, lead him to lay foundation on Christ the Solid Rock. 3rd thing is we want to lead his wife to Christ as well. Thanks God that she is openning her heart to the Lord, that she had invite Jesus as her Lord. But when the time we lead her to pray for set apart from the previous idol worship, she refuse. We knew that this is the manifestation work of the evil force. We need Holy Spirit to confront with it. But at least she had invite Jesus into her life, the rest God will make His way.

Just now, IGnite worship team have had a wonderful sweet time communion with Lord, and I strongly believe Lord had given us the authority to take and dominion the mountain that we suppose to be in it, by the faith inside us, throughout proclaimation from mouth. Rick and me believe that our IGnite team member had already got the vision that Lord put in their heart, which is the same that He put in Rick and my heart.

Thank you God, that we are more than able, not because we are, but You made us more beyond than that.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Now I knew

Now I knew when I'm using flickr account to blog, if I delete the photo at Flickr, it will gone as well over at blogger.

I'm clear now.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Test blogging with flickr mobile mail

Test blogging with flickr mobile mail
Originally uploaded by vandcooler

This sweet little girl I met at Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam, New Life Church during IGnite first outdoor worship service for other organisation.

Love & Blessing,
Stephen Ho from iPhone

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.