Tones of Absolution and Wedding bells!

I went back to Melaka last week for a few reasons. One, it was my friend's wedding. Two, it was MMU Melaka's Battle of the Bands, and my best friend is competing in it.
 
Well, one my my seniors back in skool, about 5 years my senior, was getting married. She used to be the CF president then, Form 6 and all...and I was jsut Form 1, fresh out of pirmary skool. She was an awesome person! She was literally a walking testimony, her whole life was an avenue where God was always present. I really admire her Faith and Passion. She was a leader in the Youth Fellowship i was attending as well. After she left High Skool, she went to Uni, and i haven't had the time to catch up with her since then, but ocassionally i would see her here or there. That day, as she stood at the altar, with her husband-to-be, i knew that they were a pair made in heaven. Her husband is also a Passionate-Godly man. and i think they really compliment each other. one thing that their pastor said about them that really inspired me was ," As individuals, they were really great men and women of God". i wanna be a great man of God before i step into anything bigger than i can handle. i inspire to be that! She looked really awesome in her wedding dress...to be honest, that's the only dress i've seen her in:p it was sweet. i wish i could have stayed for the dinner that was after the wedding ceremony. but i had to rush off to the 2nd reason why i came back to melaka. It was really nice of her to send me a personal invitation to her wedding though:) guess she still remembers me:)
 
The Battle of the Bands was really Big! Organised by MMUsic... it was at MITC( Melaka International Trade Center).the theme for the nite was Tones Of Absolution. the let-down was it was Rm 14 ! anyways, the reason that i really went was to support my friends that were competing. Their band was called PG165, the number plate for the bassist's motorbike. 12 competing bands, 3 guest bands, and one darn long nite. basically, majority of the bands sucked! okok! i'm biased!i hate heavy metal...and it sems that nearly all the bands were playing that crap.a big surprise was that there wasn't a single punk badn that nite! the 1st band Vendeta was worth a listen. they were creative, but i felt they woudln't win. after a few hours of torcherous overload of metal crap...PG165 was on. and oh boy! was the live back in me man! the bands prior to PG165 were no where near fit to perfrom...not to forget KRONG, the guest band that sounded like some MEGAdeath wannabees. really! at one point, the lead singer of the band put on a ski mask...wonder y? he looked pretty dumb. later on, he knelt on the floor in front of us, and i had the urge to jsut go up there and give him a kick in his crotch and ask him to shut up. in between Krong and PG165, Tempered Mental was up. They were the 2nd guest band. it was the 1st time i ever saw them perform live. really good music. i was amazed to see how she played the bass so well, with all the funky bass riffs and and sing, like  her hands and her mouth were seperate. i admire her for that.
 
ok, PG 165 really rocked. we, the fans occupied the front row, and did we go wild! Jason intro-ed with "Apa Khabar Semua?", like some ar-mo-lang. then the band went into their Meant To Live frenzy. it was simply rocking. they finished the song clean. moving to their next self-composition, titled Waves of Glory, Jason into-ed his band memebrs one by one, while giving them space to show off their goodies up their sleeves. they were the only band that each member had a solo. really nice tune. their last song was a song that Jason wrote. well, what made it more happening, they it to Jesus. i was like, " Kewl!". they proclaimed the name of Jesus. Some other band sang about a girl called Anna. But they sang about a God called Jesus. and as they came to a perfect close, i felt they were gonna win something.  I'm really glad for u guys! keep on rocking for Jesus alrite!
 
the other bands after that was Candlelite Dinner (Justin's version: One night Stand)...Project 8, Awaken and Baind Mary. well...nothing much to say about them. i personally felt that PG165, Awaken and Prject 8 would be the top 3 winners. and yeah...they were!
3rd place: Awaken. 2nd place: PG165 1st place: Project8.
 
however, PG165 made a clean sweep for Best Vocalist, Best Drummer and Best Composition. U guys are simply awesome!  it was worth the trip all the way down, the RM14 i paid for my ticket and the numerous hours enduring other bands being wannabee-metal screaming bands, just to see PG165 win. coz if they hadn't won, a few of us guys had made a plan to beat the crap out of the PG165 members for making us go through all the crappy bands.
 
a day to remember!
 
well, this entry basically is a tribute to Jason and his band. Keep dreaming big dude!
to you other guys as well :Justin the fag, Vijay and XZ!!