Bertram Brandon

moving on

2008-08-29T21:05:00.000-07:00

alright peeps..its time to move on and i decided to use xanga so please refer to the website given below to view it...

www.xanga.com/bertrambrandon

Bertram Brandon

RSAF OPEN HOUSE 2008

2008-08-29T06:34:00.001-07:00

gosh..today is really a blown away day man...it started off with the aerial display which displayed the F-16s,F-15s,C-130 and some ground tactical and also the Apache! (:
Amazing displays of hos fast and swift the SAF performs their duty at times of war or when there is a need for scramble!!!!

took some photos and some are kinda blur cause it was cloudy and the windows of the Chinook was kinda dirty so pictures turn out unclear for some reason but still can see, pictures of the RED LIONS are also blur because of the weather and bla bla...let the pictures do the talking!
oh yes i set on the CHINOOK! along with Ryan, Hannah and Caleb, we went on it and flew around Singapore and i came to realise actually Singapore still has more land space man! and it took only about 25minutes to fly from one end to the other but the scenery was fantastic and the feeling is really SHIOK!!!!! once again let the pictures do the talking man! (:

also it was teachers day and so HAPPY TEACHERS DAY! thank you for the knowledge of fresh juice of knowledge place into our minds everyday! haha....

alright pictures are here....
RSAF OPEN HOUSE

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Bertram Brandon

a place called FREEDOM

2008-08-28T07:41:00.001-07:00

randomness

2008-08-28T06:46:00.000-07:00

Today someone on Earth came to me and say.... toilet got water anot... i say of course la... wad you think so than he ask... is the water warm anot... i said obviously ya...DUH!!!!!

2008-08-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

songs that bring your hope...fling wide you heavenly gates...prepare the way of the risen lord...

one more practical session tomorow and thats closes the chapter for prelims and opens up to a new one for the big Os! so yepp and gonna take a break on friday with Ryan, Caleb and Hannah to the RSAF open house and we get to do real cool fun stuff stuff so watch out for videos and pictures coming your way...

today played soccer once more at sunset way this time...i was on form totally man scoring many goals but heh maybe there were lesser people so heh, yupp but it was fun and will be always fun with Eduardo, Nat, Pritish, Thapana, Shawn and more haha! great soccer guys to hang out with although sometimes they can be abit you know....cocky?weirdos?lame? you got them all hahaha

yupp so that summed the day! but GOD SAVED THE DAY!

-how i wished i could get back the feeling?-
Bertram Brandon

2008-08-26T04:03:00.000-07:00

just got slided back to McFly with their new style of songs...

Everybody knows

things should look at

2008-08-26T02:34:00.001-07:00

all this time

2008-08-26T02:04:00.000-07:00

there you have it...the major papers are over and it left with Science1 and practical and pusic...
it was a very challenging and rough and untidy experience for prelims but i guess it enhances my knowledge. heh and i also do not want to go into S2E, which only helps abit to sure to excel which i also dunno why it is held...whats the real purpose behind it when it feels like an isolated camp...haha

today straight after AMATHS, we had a National Education quiz which i felt it was pretty fun like building your investments for the country and see how it is a strategic spot to develop that certain building or so and it involves liek so many other factors such as religions, social culture. Quite alot of things but as a whole it was fun game and i became a EXPERT builder and all of the whole class was shocked with Thapana getting the highest score or 570k or something like that and its like WOWWWWWW!!!!!

(my reason is probable of his pineapple plantation planning strategies)

after the quiz, it was a time of kicking a ball...to all its called soccer if you did not know and i only scored one goal which is quite okay for me lah cause my shots were used to be rugby shots (some of your will know what i am talking about) and yepp, so now i cant wait to the RSAF open house with Ryan, Hannah and Caleb....

so lets see now i am studying HAYDN for music tomorow so yeah pretty weird to do so cause i dunno what to study but will try! haha yupp. (:

so thats all..

chow...
Bertram Brandon

you are stronger....

2008-08-25T00:46:00.001-07:00

In collaboration with my cg leader's graduation we made our very own cg shirt...WHM! W465!

once more congrats to you Hui Mei and more power pack sermons coming yeah? (:

alright its left with one major paper tomorow which is A.maths...oh well paper 2 is gonna be more challenging and i thini will be able to do it with more practices after this...today was Chinese2 and Lit2 and pretty easy, chinese was boredom but yeah finished it and lit was pretty easy cause of the importance of magic and stuff which i read the night before so it was kinda easy as i vomitted out everything on the paper, i mean vomitted all the digested words from last night, not food. heh

so its off to mug a maths and its the thoughts that counts! nothing less but more!

Bertram Brandon

ARE YOU READY!

2008-08-23T20:54:00.000-07:00

was at CHC SOT 2008 Graduation Service yesterday at Expo....congrats Lynnette and Hui Mei!!!
Not only it was just a graduation but it was a powerful and impacting service...Rev. Alex Abraham spoke and really a powerful man of god! His life story really does show that there is a God and he died on the cross for our sins!

one quote or question that God asked Rev. Alex was, "Where do i live?"
the answer: "the right hand of the Father..."
Friends, thats not the answer although it is correct but the real address of God is in us! God lives in us! We are the carriers of our mighty God. Each day we go out to schools, work, in whatever we do, we are glorifying God! We are the carriers of God's presence, therefore shine your light in the marketplace and spread the gospel! Let everyone know that Jesus is here to save you!

And if you are wondering how am i going to be one that is to help and build God's kingdom?
Its simple...step out in faith and believe! and the next thing is to SERVE!
ARE YOU READY?

At this point time, i sense that Revival is growing in FMSS and the upcoming event is when we are gonna invite you people to come and praise and worhsip God and receive the word of the season! so stay tuned for more info....
Something tells me to call the event...ARE YOU READY!

Anyhoo guys and people around...stay tuned!

pictures from the graduation service will be out soon...
Bertram Brandon

appreciation...

2008-08-22T06:14:00.000-07:00

a renewed heart, i am walking the path you have made, choosing the truth everyday.
couldn't walk away if i tried, your love is better than life....your life lights my step.
cant forget about it! wooooooh woooooooh....

AND ALL YOUR PROMISES WONT LET GO OF ME!!!!

have been really been impacted by songs from desperation band, not that i am desperated but the meaning of each song it carries has a purpose which impacted me much in which i can apply it to real life, and with upcoming events, i can place them to use! =)

With more songs i am writing, i believe it will glorify JESUS CHRIST! although its prelims, the more inspirations i get to pen them down, sleep with it and ding! the words are out and the song is baked....after some time, you will find that writing songs are easy! i mean it is.....give it a go...

with songs written, i get to see the magnificent nature around me. GOD created the EARTH! and everything is so amazing and magnificent man! jsut look at it....

sceneries are nice....

Betram Brandon

i'm ready

2008-08-21T04:34:00.000-07:00

just felt this song in my heart all the time wherever i go...are you ready?!?
take out in faith!

You come like you promised You would
I want to surrender for good
I know that I need You
And I don't want to keep living life alone

So take my heart
and make it new
make it true
And make it like You
Take my hands
I lift them high
They're Yours not mine to do
Do what You will
Do what You will
Do what You will

I feel like a blind man in Your sight
I know that im wicked in Your eyes
So wash me and make me shine like Your Son
I want to tell everyone
that You're the only one

So take my heart
And make it new
Make it true
And make it like You
Take my hands
I lift them high
They're Yours not mine to do
Do what You will
Do what You will
Do what You will

I'm ready now
Bertram Brandon

rebirthing

2008-08-21T04:27:00.000-07:00

swimming

2008-08-19T00:12:00.000-07:00

Portugal crossbar challenge

2008-08-18T23:56:00.001-07:00

ah surprise at the end! really funny! hahah

crossbar challenge

2008-08-18T23:48:00.001-07:00

super happy CHELSEA got ahead with 4 goals in their first match especially Deco on his debut scoring a wonderful shot!

the moments of prelims

2008-08-18T23:07:00.000-07:00

as much as i want to is to do well and i hope i can get those medals of results!

yepp, being catching up on olympics cause thats the only enlightening thing for these few days and one person i would admire the most is the swimmer of all swimmers, MICHAEL PHELPS. really i do.....a great sportsmen of all times, humble and always believing nothing is impossible! its all imagination! ah so now my next goal is to carry on swimming and polo-ing and get better! yupp....

alright its also prelims time so its 5 papers down already and many more to go....as the paper gets tough, the days get darker and the body get tired-er! oh well, thats life i supposed! heh.

so nothing much but all you people, nothing to do is either study or catch the olympics to spice things up if you want! yepp

Bertram Brandon

Maturity does not come with age, but with the acceptance of responsibility

2008-08-07T23:31:00.001-07:00

alright...today is study day and i am sure not many people in sec4 went for the hand holding thingy this morning...shall not say anymore or else...some 'good' things might happen....

so today did finished sciences and some lit essays...abit of maths too to sum off the afternoon tiredness...
a long weekend holiday up ahead till monday so its time to prepare for prelims which is coming up next friday kicking off with Ss and English and so on and so forth...time really flies! i mean literally flies!!! one minute you are in sec 1 and suddenly, opo there you are graduating! too fast man! too fast! kinda furious too! heh

tomorow is national day! so its singing national anthem, watching the skies as planes and helicopters fly by so thats tmorow, a highlight which is kinda the same but i guess different every year! (:

so i guess thats all

ACROSS THE EARTH

THIS IS OUR GOD

Bertram Brandon

happenings....

2008-08-04T00:56:00.000-07:00

alright school was short and after that caught for another time THE DARK KNIGHT....
amazingly, i still went without any feelings so that i could enjoy the show once more. i could not even remember what was going to happen next so yeah...but after all i think the ending could be much better and much more understanding. oh well thats me towards the movie but as a whole, everything was well done. the got the right joker and really scary but heh aint that be the joker's job?!

oh yeah, this morning prayer group got started and a big shout out to those who were supposed to come, WHERE WERE YOU GUYS!!!!!
oh well, its not by force to bring them but i do hope they will come. There were other people there and i believe we all share the same vision for fairfield..the revival, lives changed and many blessed!

tomorrow there is school so its mugging time once more...

- sometimes its hard to get it over, but i ams till trying...-
Bertram Brandon

2008-08-03T03:22:00.000-07:00

Around the world

growing up or growing old?!

2008-08-03T02:21:00.000-07:00

alright FOP was awesome once again with prachute band and reuben morgan...mostly the songs were from the new album THIS IS OUR GOD!!! MSt. Mark Conner also preached up a storm with his humour and the message was simple but influential and inspirational about our lives..

so is it growing up or growing old? No more childish acts guyss.....

tomorow school is super duper short and i am thinking whether should i attend since the lessons are so not worth the time where it can be spent studying on much juicier and effective topics. XD

god bless,
Bertram Brandon

founders day...

2008-08-01T23:19:00.000-07:00

here is what happen...not many shots but enjoy...
just walk around and memories returns...a blessing upon us!
PRAISE GOD!!!

Bertram brandon

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

2008-07-27T06:14:00.000-07:00

Keeping the essence of the remixes and the tune

Bertram Brandon

THIS IS OUR GOD!

2008-07-27T01:42:00.001-07:00

Fire fall down

Your name high

memories

2008-07-26T07:33:00.001-07:00

Lit class has never been the same....

Bertram Brandon

2008-07-26T07:21:00.000-07:00

just got THIS IS OUR GOD!

Awesome worship! Anyone who wants can borrow from me just treat it with care! hahah

Say what they want...we are free....woooooooooh.
lifting your name high...

Bertram Brandon

point of difference

2008-07-22T06:10:00.000-07:00

was it too much to ask for? i presumed it was...
now or you can say that it has come to let it go!

a feeling so strong, one to hang it on.
Buckle them up to see them go.
Watch how they fly up to the rings,
its to let it go.

Alright, came up with that short nonsensical thingy but heh...that is not the way i write songs man...

to let it go...reminds me of one of Switchfoot songs...daisy!

Daisy - Switchfoot

DAISY
daisy, give yourself away
look up at the rain
the beautiful display
of power and surrender
giving us today
when you yourself away

rain, another rainy day
it comes up from the ocean
to give herself away
she comes down even
and all of us the same name
when you give yourself away

let it go
daisy let it go
open up your fists
this fallen world
doesn't hold your interest
doesn't hold your soul
daisy let it go

pain, give yourself a name
call yourself contrition
aberits of fame
giving isn't easy
if anybody'd like to say
if you give yourself away

daisy, why another day
why another sunrise
who's gonna take the blame
for our redemptive motion
and every rainy day
when he gives himself away

let it go
daisy let it go
open your fists
this fallen world
it doesn't hold your interest
it doesn't hold your soul
daisy let it go

its gone and life moves on...

Bertram Brandon

2008-07-19T19:22:00.001-07:00

Your name high

Bertram Brandon

2008-07-19T08:49:00.000-07:00

all i can reflect is what we felt in CHAPELTHON...the presence of god...
WHAT GOD HAS STARTED, HE WILL FINISH IT...

photos...

bertram brandon

2008-07-18T06:24:00.000-07:00

i thank the lord for showing me what life is all about and how we are to live it....today has changed me to become renewed and changed as a whole!

HEALER

You're my Healer

You hold my every moment
You calm my raging seas
You walk with me through fire
And heal all my disease

I trust in You
I trust in You

I believe You're my Healer
I believe You are all I need
I believe You're my Portion
I believe You're more than enough for me
Jesus You're all I need

My Healer, You're my Healer

Nothing is impossible for You
Nothing is impossible for You
Nothing is impossible for You
You hold my world in Your hands
........

i'm sorry....

Bertram Brandon

wash my sins away

2008-07-15T06:26:00.001-07:00

gonna be happy always...

THIS IS OUR GOD!

2008-07-13T03:51:00.000-07:00

On the evening of Sunday, March 9th 2008, thousands of worshippers gathered to fill the Acer Arena in Sydney as Hillsong Church recorded their latest live worship album.

It was an unforgettable night. An encounter with God that left the thousands who filled the stadium humbled and in awe of the wonder and grace of God and the reality of Christ.

We come together and we say, "This is who we are, God. We need
You, we love You, and we're going to give everything to You.
It's actually about the church coming together and singing with One Voice, One Passion, One Heart, giving all our praise to God" Said Joel Houston.

The church was truly united in heart and passion - and the breadth of the hillsong worship team was reflected as a number of new songwriters, worship leaders and musicians joined Darlene Zschech , Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston and Marty Sampson on the platform to capture the sound of the generations old and new together in worship and song.

It was a night of unified faith and expectancy, with moments all will never forget such as when Michael Gugliemucci, who has battled his own health crisis against cancer for two years, walked confidently on stage, oxygen tank in hand, declaring the promise of God and boldly
Singing the words to his song 'Healer'.

The evening culminated with a loud and victorious declaration of, 'With Everything' and a holy moment that all who experienced will remember. As the band left the stage and the name of Jesus on display, the people were not ready to leave and with little accompaniment, they broke into spontaneous song and continued to worship God.

The new album titled 'This is Our God', the 17th live praise and worship album, will be released in July, coinciding with the annual Hillsong Conference held at the Acer Arena

CHAPELTHON

2008-07-12T18:42:00.000-07:00

an awesome encounter with the presence of GOD! =D

the bands, the sermons, the prayers, the friends,the praise, the worship...to worship the king of kings.
It kept on going a level and another higher level and then another higher level. great encounter with GOD! God moved mightily through the segments of the programme. Youthphoria was up first and Ben Ooi got it kicked off, he started the mood and it got better and better! PROMISES!! then it was our turn, amazingly led by Caleb. i just could feel the presence of the lord moving around the hall...people getting touched! lastly was the ex-fairsians band, Joash band, strong presence! worship with the roaring of the crowd, all worshipping GOD!

much practice was placed in it but that did not matter but it was how the heart is. God looks at the heart my friends...
CHAPLTHON tested our faiths and encouraged all of us to know that our GOD LIVES FOREVER! OHHHHHHHH...HAPPY DAYS!!!!

HEALER! by his stripes, we are healed!

HAPPY DAYS

PROMISES

FUNFAIR

2008-07-05T23:43:00.000-07:00

Oh well a tiring and exhausting day...running around, mending stalls, performing, dunking teachers... everything is soo tiring!

nothing much to say but i think we made good business for both GAMES AND FOOD! haha

ms hia came back... was great to see her and suan her abit but yeah she dunked her favourite friend too...go guess it?!?!

Pritish, Thapana, Bertram, Ms hia and Ivan

oh ya and tomorow is funday with the guys at east coast! CAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Bertram Brandon

2008-07-04T07:07:00.000-07:00

FUNFAIR IS TOMOROW!

Gonna perform with Caleb, ZJ, Jim, Hannah, Mag, Nat, Myra and Mr B. Tan! Yupp...he can sing man! although it took time for him to learn up the proper tune....

today wwas also the recovery of my guitar after a slight ding when the strap attachment pop-ed out and it was shocking...scary especially something precious, something valuable to you gets into some little missy trouble...but what change my mindset is what MR ooi told me, its not about how it looks, ita about how you are going to serve God. I caught that instantly and thats when i decided to not care about anymore on how the guitar looks, but focused on how i am gonna use my talents to serve GOD! as a matter of fact, since its fixed, i'm happy too...
i have a safe ensured stamp chopped that it wont popped out after Mr Ooi took a look at it and resolved the problem...a friend, a helper, a teacher, one great FRIEND!

alright back to funfair, finally sponsors responded man after so much emails went out and no one replied only 2 coming in to accept 2 days before the Funfair and wow! we got it! after so much time! so its a guarantee we have good prizes installed for all of your to come and play!!!!!!

gotta get back to preparing the prizes for tomorow...super late in the night and so much more left!!!!!!

oh well,
gotta sign off now,
Bertram Brandon

the only moment we were alone

2008-06-27T20:11:00.001-07:00

the sound of soothing music...

Bertram Brandon

scrubs best friends...

2008-06-27T07:54:00.000-07:00

welcome to reality...

2008-06-27T07:28:00.000-07:00

alright school started and pretty the work hasnt been done and now additional work loaded onto me.
nothing much to say but its just mostly spent on FUNFAIR practice and especially...
O levels Chinese orals was today man! the question was whether YOUTHS HAD NO TIME FOR VOLUNTEERY WORK! and i was like ah, i was crap why this question!!! but i guess i did it the way its meant to be done as practiced during Chinese lesson...

next week is funfair and its gonna be another week under the leadership of ZJ so go for band practices for the event! maybe its a sign for me and maybe not...but in any case theres nothing to stop him from not going for prac so its jamming time! =)

now the thing i hope is to do well in my Chinese and move on with the other subjects! think of it PRELIM are coming and what are we doing?!? much to learn from....crazy little stuffs that drive you not to study but what is needed is to prevent that from happening is study!

haha as matter of fact my O levels coursework for Music is coming in next wednesday and its kick off the start of the paper! composing time! hope i will be able to compose one after writing kinda a few songs hahah its all the best to meeee...

guess theres nothing else to say

signing off
Bertram Brandon

reflections

2008-06-25T06:53:00.000-07:00

God knows what bests...
the outcome comes from him...
To love you from the inside out...
EVERLASTING GOD!

Bertram Brandon

the end of school....beginning of school

2008-06-20T07:28:00.000-07:00

today was last day of S2E..i hoped... and next monday is school reopens! how time flies past so quickly.

spent the day with morning S2E then after heading to the hall for band practices, gonna do From The Inside Out and particularly i feel its the song for the season man! After coming back from service learning, holidays, focusing on God! yeah! thats the song!
after that was funfair band practice and whoosh we sound like one great one! hahah yupp that was the day!
i am left with Chemistry homework and i am bored to do it so i hoped i can finish it (:

thats all for now i guess, my brain is currently at 1025pm so its the tired mood.

God Bless,
Bertram Brandon

2008-06-18T21:40:00.000-07:00

i always thought that those songs on FIFA'08 were not of the real but was looking around youtube and i came across one of the songs, and i was fascinated.

here is one...

DRAMA QUEEN

LOVE ABUSE

DO YA

DISCO ESEMBLE

Bertram Brandon

here we go now in the falling sky and the rain...

2008-06-17T05:36:00.000-07:00

spent the day having music during S2E, learnt alot and then headed of to Caleb's church to practice for the audition for funfair. Nat sang superb well and i really enjoyed it! the next thing is whether we are able to do it well during the auditions. Hannah and Mag were Nat's singers too so the band consisted of me, zj, jim and caleb. Ivan was there too, helping us out with the PA stuff! yupp, we did the song over and over and over again to perfect it and it just got better and better!

yup that was it!

i just got used to this habit of saying yupp alot and i have no idea why! hahah
a few more days and school reopens. the learning journey begins once more and yeah we gonna whack the Os real hard and get A's man! hahah

still trying to finish up my 2nd song which is really kinda hard because of time man! busy here and there so just cant seem right to get inspirations to come so gotta wait!
oh well its more days of S2E-ing and yeah going school is a habit too and i kinda enjoy S2E, helps you to finish your work.

Cheers,
Bertram Brandon

Doyle Dykes's Most Memorable Taylor Guitar Performances

2008-06-15T20:56:00.001-07:00

Waltzing Matilda

Bertram Brandon

a purpsoe to hold onto

2008-06-14T06:15:00.000-07:00

think of this for a moment...
would it be bright or darkness without God?
would it be happy or sad without God?
would it be grace or ungrace without God?

oh well you should know the answers my friend..With GOD, things are possible! Through Christ who strengthens me!

today celebrated Father's day at church, amazing felt God's presence tangibly as TRUE WORSHIPPERS lead! They were awesome too! Pst Kong preached Fathers day message and the sermon was good! yupp!
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alright its the last week of PRAYER SEASON! its amazing to see how each one pray and slowly build up their spiritual life!
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So theres one more week left before school reopens and homework is halfway done thanks to S2E. i think S2e Does really help in making you study.

Went on a guitar hunting tour today to BGW played some TAYLORS and whoosh i finally met my "date", 1997 Taylor 422 Limited Series. Grand Concert. i loved it but i wanted to hunt for more before setting my mind on the perfect one.
The next visit to Sinamex, i shall close my eyes and ask them to place any Taylor in my hands and i shall play them to find the perfect one! really one will match me soon enough, needs time heh! XD

yupp tried the 512CE Full Mahoghony and it was more a strumming guitar, real loud but not much of plucking so nah...heh not what i want!
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anyway i have pursued happiness and now its found in me! not gonna let it go! yupp

Signing off,
Bertram Brandon

This is our God

2008-06-12T20:33:00.000-07:00

If i were you i will watch the previous posts before listening to this posts.
Previous posts was the videos of Hillsong Conference opening. AMAZING STUFF!!!

Now these songs are coming out in the new album from Hillsongs...
Run - Hillsong Live

Your Name High - Hillsong United

Bertram Brandon

Amazing grace

2008-06-12T19:10:00.000-07:00

man i love this...wishe we could something similar in school for some special occasion thingy =)

Bertram Brandon

syndrome...

2008-06-11T01:20:00.000-07:00

from the inside out

alright thinking of Nepal and back to Singapore, the little kids and big ones too...

Bertram Brandon

learning

2008-06-10T01:48:00.000-07:00

alright it has started and will carry on for 2 weeks...S2E...how i got in was seriously you can say suay. i got 25 and teachers said at first above 25 then they change it to 25 and above

so every morning 8am-130pm its down to studying and doing work! glad it is in 1st level classrooms if not we will all perspire! alright morning, everyone is like really studying (i hope so) and then when it comes to the 2nd self study after the tutorials, which are not helpful at all, everyone becomes restless and does their own things and the teachers really closes one eye on us! really she does!
i can say that both S2E is beneficial and nonsensical. Why nonsense? because of the stupid clogging thingy that you must sign heh! Goodness man! haha =)

anyway i have finished my SS and Geog holiday homework! so its left with English, Sciences, and the Maths too!

nothing else to say already but to everyone, have a blessed time in S2E if you are and if you are not, enjoy the holidays!

Bertram Brandon

WALKING WITH ABUNDANCE WITH GOD

2008-06-07T06:23:00.000-07:00

Let me share with you what i've learnt at church when Rev Dr Robb THompson came..

WALKING WITH ABUNDANCE IN LIFE

All of life revolves around the fact that God does not lie! everyone should know that..if you don't, check out NUMBERS23:19...

alright 4 keys in walking in abundance:

1. Your prosperity is the product of your own construction.

you reap what you sow my friends...

2. Those who prosper in life make decisions that create the future they desire, while those who lack make decisions that create the present they desire.

Proverbs 11:24-25 (New King James Version)

24 There is one who scatters, yet increases more;
And there is one who withholds more than is right,
But it leads to poverty.
25 The generous soul will be made rich,
And he who waters will also be watered himself.

3. IF you think like you've always thought, you'll get what you've always got.

John 6:63 (New King James Version)

63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

4. Everything in life will remain a seed until the moment is sown.

John 12:24 (New King James Version)

24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

Friends 4 very simple principles to unlock the doors in life! God wants to bless us so lets sow our seeds and let see God's abundance grace and love flow through us!

alright, back to where i am! this is home! searching for a place for my own! this is home, yeah this is home! i done all my searching, after all my questions i found things, brand new mindset!

Kinda inspired by the song THIS IS HONE by Switchfoot who did the soundtrack for Narnia! yeah i mean the songs really tells us how we found our home and how much we treasured for now we know this is home! the real meaning of spending time with our family, where we found peace! i mean if you dun think abt the song now and you think of your real home! i mean life happens at your home! your parents are there! your siblings are there! everyone is there! the place where you sleep, eat, rest, work, enjoy! its a place where we belong yeah!

hmmm next week is S2e! heh oh man i got in very unexpectedly.. it was to be above 25 and then it changed to 25 and above for L1R5 so yeah here i am and foop, i am in S2e....oh well hope i am gonna benefit more than at home doing work! haha

2 more weeks and school starts once again!

i mean school life reopens again! after Nepal, i began to appreciate much more from studies ever since i was surprised by the Nepal little students from their smartness! i guess they are like almost our standards or maybe better for some! i mean they study real hard to achieve what they want and what are we doing now man!

in the past it was like if i didn't know any question, i would jsut heck it but now i must understand the qs before moving on man! its a totally different mindset! changes mentally, spiritually and physically man!
Nepal indeed tested us when we were there although it was service learning and yupp we all should learn from experiences yeah!

God bless all as i am away now...

Bertram Brandon

2008-06-06T05:51:00.001-07:00

Prince Caspian

2008-06-06T05:43:00.000-07:00

Watched the show today and yeah kinda liked it but i think the book illustrated it better! hahah

"ALL YOU KNOW IS ABOUT TO CHANGE!" Aslan

Yeah the show was good but i think representation could be better with the water thingy heh but the plot line was similar to the book and yeah i liked it! FOR NARNIA! the new character Caspian was the right guy for it especially with the accent sounded real like one of them and yeah they chose the right guy!

GREAT SHOW!

oh yes THIS IS HOME was like the end so if ya wanna catch it, you gotta wait till the end or else buy the CD from popular! yepp

ps. those who want see Nepal pics, go to facebook.

Bertram Brandon

NEPAL 2008

2008-06-04T20:46:00.000-07:00

i dunno how, why, what, when am i going to get on and move on but it just seems like each day since i came back, it kept on reminding me of the work we did. Each day i on the mac and look through the days photos and it justs leaves me with the compassionate love and care for the kids. Although it was just service learning, i think we did serve the kids well and yeah, i mean we did it!

Spent the day thinking of seriously great words for my new song title COMPASSIONATE LOVE. yupp and it is currently baking in the oven so i would get the band to play it soon!

some thanks to some peeps for the trip (in no order of preferences)

1. THANK GOD!

HE gave me the vision to see kids and we blessed them with what talents we had to provide for them and indeed we served them! loving GOD loving PEOPLE!
Durin devotions i shared this!

PEOPLE WONT KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CARE FOR THEM UNTIL YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CARE FOR THEM!

2. THANK MR DEEPAK

He planned everything so nicely for us to work, play and enjoy ourselves! each day went so perfectly well and we finished our job and we emerged as being a good finisher!

3. THANK TEACHERS

They were the ones that kept us going especially sometimes with eye power but they also helped us! they lead us with great example and they encouraged us to preserver on and not give up at all! they were the ones that drove our axle to work on!

4 THANK FRIENDS

alright i shall go specifically down to those i really knew your well!

CALEB
Great guitarist! carry on serving God with the talents you have. Your devotions were great and i am sure people caught hold of the principles and they were blessed with the devotion on BREAD!

HANNAH
one great leader. lead praise and worship lead devotions with the compassion, willing to impact the community and those around her! one warrior for Christ, going all out to serve him! thanks for the encouragement and willing to sacrifice time to help out with the shirts and devotion meetings.

YILIN
Another great leader! great sharing and indeed everyone caught hold of the devotion on the VALUES BUILT TO LASTS! SPiritual family, fairfield family. Everyone was part of it! the kids too...amazing devotions. carry onserving the lord!

JOEL
he and hs nonsensical jokes that made people laughed especially last day on the plane, i sat beside him and he started getting high and fat ni mai apple tiako or something like that! hahah
it was something to like ask for more apple juice but heh i think he made it very funny and also in the hotel room trying to play chinese chess! hahah you know what i mean dude! another great leader also! he led well and i really consider him one of my best friends!

GLEN MOK
Although bullied alot i think the fun was there! without him, no fun hahah one huge mass took so long in the bathroom hahah
one great friend too!

i think there are more and let me know if i missed you out! i cant think much now! tell me if i missed you out so i can say something yeah!

NEPAL awaking!
back to song writing and holiday homework yeah!

Bertram Brandon

Nepal 2008

2008-06-02T23:39:00.000-07:00

alright just got back yesterday on the 2nd june at 1055pm. Trip overall was amazing for me as i got to know many new friends that went for the trip as well as the Nepali young kids. Keff, Jasie. These 2 little friends were smart and cute haha. Oh well, we started off doing the digging and we finished digging half of the way, and the rest of the groups carried on the rest laying the pipes and it was beack to us to cover up the pipes.
We taught the young students Maths and to our surprise, they were indeed very smart! Primary 5&6 students really know how to do BODMAS (order of operation) and even all those huge numbers things man! amazing kids!
We also painted their school building and it was painted blue for the windows and inside white walls and we did the cememnting of the floor!

Each day ended off with a reflections for us to reflect how much work we have done and how we have impacted the kids and to me, i felt that what i did was benefiting the kids for their future.
CARPEDIUM! i mean seizing the moment. Mrs Lyann posted a question to us whether did we convey a msg out to the kids and whether we had any regrets...to me, being one that paid the trip using my own, i believed that i made full use of what i had, my talents placed in me and used them to bless the kids with new facilities. i managed to get the msg across one kid. here how it went.

Kid: Hey man, why are you doing this?

Me: We are here from Singapore, and we are helping you to build better facilities for you to learn better in a good environment!
You know kid, what we are doing is to help you but the other portion comes from you. You must seize the moment always. ( i told him the word CARPEDIUM)

Kid: seize! seize!

Me: yes you must always do that! do your best and achieve your dreams, Yeah!

It ended off with a handshake and he thank me for what i did for him and i hope he would carry on telling his friends or at least he himself pursue on, achieving his dreams!

the day we left the school was the heartbreaking one. we saw the students just happy to see their new school and also seeing the new water finally available at their school. seeing their smiles was a happy one and i really felt that what we did was really going to stay in our hearts forever! i mean that was all about service learning! SERVANTHOOD! service! learning!

indeed we have brought the kids into our fairfield family and the kids are going to be in my heart and i will remember my conversation with the kid on the last day!

CARPEDIUM friends!

Bertram Brandon

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2008-05-19T05:06:00.000-07:00

possibly i havent been logging on so thats why i havent been updating. oh well no new photos either than with Mr Ooi! oh my he is leaving! i mean so short time spent with us and he is leaving so quickly. A great encourager, a great friend, a counsellor, a person we can always go to whenever we faced any problems or so whatever. like what he always says, he is the young ZiJie and hmmm i have not seen that hahah XD but anyway the band in which ZJ called it Hillsongs Singapore consisted of Me, caleb, hannah, ZJ and jim, we all wrote a short note of appreciation and presented it to him in a card and it was amazingly done by Hannah!~ one great person in our lives will remain in us although he is leaving! sadness...

alright next, have been studying the compositions for Chinese Os and beginning to score in it as i practice in them!heh cloze passages still horiibly done! havve no idea whats going on! hahah

next, Nepal preparations are done, just waiting for the shirts to come in on Wednesday and that means i need help to sort them out! anyone who wanna help out please let me know asap! we do need people to help! reallyyyyy...

todays is Vesak day so was spent at home family timing together! and now in my room, going to fall asleep after eating so much and really i wanna sleep so see ya peeps!

Bertram Brandon

everything

2008-05-11T07:03:00.001-07:00

would you take me in? take me deeper with you! you turn my morning into dancing, coming back with love and grace, how can i stand here without you? cause you are the one i need, you are all i need, things hope for and things dream true!

alright that was some words for the song i am writng yeah! need more inspirations, cant be dry!
today went for tuition and after that buy some things i needed so yeah now i am tired, studying Chinese! learning new words and trying to find a way to apply them into compo! hahah oh well, tomorow is school! another week of boredom and another week than we fly off to Nepal! heh! cant believe time is flying so fast! oh well, planning for Nepal has ceased for my committee! we done the shirt, we done devotions, we done the journal, we done songs! yesh! finally! relaxation man!

just beginning to like LIFEHOUSE alot, the soothing music and upbeat rhythm kind of songs! yeah awesome group!

Bertram Brandon

prince caspian

2008-05-09T07:14:00.001-07:00

2008-05-09T05:46:00.000-07:00

time is ticking by! what are we doing?

havent seen much other service learning countries doing work and i think Nepal is doing lots of work man! different groups preparing their teaching materials. saw them making a set of teeth to teach hygiene! kinda cool and you should know what the topic is unless you are really having some disorders in learning!

devotions are done and finally the Nepal Shirts have been ordered and today the picture of the design is up so you can take allok at it and imagine it on your back when you are on the plane, walking around and yeah you knwo what i mean!

busy doing some work, tomorow theres band practice, and music piano! next week is practical exam man! argh! plus my 2 part writing also and yeah!

16 more days to CHinese Os and 17 more days to Service learning, NEPAL!
here we go...into all the world...shining God's love to the people!

Bertram Brandon

time is running out

2008-05-06T06:51:00.000-07:00

busy spent day today!

had school then rushed queensway to check out shirt shops for the NEPAL shirt tee! heh cam beack to school to tell the teachers the real chear prices offered! oh yes for your info!

THOSE GOING FOR NEPAL SERVICE LEARNING, PAY $9 TO TREASURY PEEPS FOR YOU TEES!

should take about 10days to do up the shirt and i believe the design is coolios and peaced! so expect it to be great!

had my HepA and Typhoid jabs, it waslike ant bites man! not what i expected! my worst enermy...you can guess what is it already! hahah

alright results results! fairly done-ed.
Physics - top the class with 52/80 (still bad!)
A Maths - 50/80 okay la XD
E Maths - 45/80 oh barma! really bad
Geog/SS - NA
English - NA
Lit - NA
Chinese - overall 49! needa 1 more mak man!
Chemistry - 34/75 that makes science low! hope the practical would push it up man!

although its not the standard mistakes can be corrected and yeah it aint Os yet so i can do it?!
hahah oh well next thing to do is revise Chinese Os, with the guo-du-ju and sutff for compo and yeah practise some papers?!?
yupp yupp!

tomorow is gonna be another quiet day and a looooooooong day i suppose!
cant wait for PE for soccer! been practicing my shots and yeah the curls are getting there! gonan try them out on thursday if i can haha

alright singing off
Bertram Brandon

what on? off?

2008-05-04T07:21:00.000-07:00

hey people....

not much for a long time heh!

oh well received maths and chinses and oh my gosh! not my standard man! freaking 46/80 man!bad bad! chinese pass by like 3-4marks?! hope the rest of the papers can be done! oh well thats my best and its not the results that matters but what i have learnt from it matters the most! mistakes can be taken into practice and corrected but marks, it just remains there and leaves a mark there!XD learning is the expereience gain man!

alright enough of results. time for upcoming events in detailed studies:

1. Chapel
Whats to say but focus in and press on into God presence! AMEN! cant wait for that day to see!

2. NEPAL
preparing devotions are really important, its the booost given to us each day so i am gonna prepare good ones for the days spent in Nepal!
also working with my deisgn commitee! designs are coming up very nicely drawn and hope i can get the photos up soon!

3. CHinese Os
oh yes the killer! get this done and thats left with 7 more subjects to go! hahah still alot yeah! so mug alright!

oh well CCAs stop and it feels weird without them! haha but sonner or later will get used to it! haha

i guess thts all! i am a bad blogger man! but who cares as long it shows haha XD

see ya around

Bertram Brandon

helium time

2008-05-04T05:55:00.001-07:00

2008-05-02T21:15:00.000-07:00

this week is kinda a lax week i must say with the mid years gone but upcoming events such as CHINESE Os! however the reward comes immediately after that with the NEPAL'08!

i believe many things are going to happen! been praying about my devotions and i believe it will be a blessing to many! pursuing of excellence, the heart of a servant for christ, servanthood, thinking with excellence, persereverence! all these will indeed be great sharing of the word of God!
BEing devotion IC is one thing but what is important that what i will be sharing will help us to grow physically, mentally and spiritually! its not about sharing the word of god but its also the heart of one who is willing to serve god and give out out best! its the same as serving people! just like what jesus did when he was on earth! going around helping people! serving them! providing for their needs!

after hearing so much things that we gonna do in Nepal, i really believe that what we do will touch lives! AMEN!

so we are looking forward to it! what about you!

Bertram Brandon

kings of kings

2008-05-02T06:05:00.000-07:00

i commit everything into your hands, God!

cant wait for NEPAL'08! with all the discussions with my design and devotion commitee, everythings sounds fun! and i am sure you peeps who are going nepal will like the shirt, specially designed by Mr Lim too! (:

met them today and it was a fruitful to start off the plannings! oh well looking forward but there seems to be a blockage, hmm CHINESE Os man! one day before we leave lah! raah! why like that?

anwyay gonna do my best in it too! yeah

alright gonna prepare more devotions!

bertram brandon

2008-04-30T05:41:00.000-07:00

a real exciting match man! amazing! both teams were powerful! wham man utd is in finals! yippeee!

2008-04-29T01:45:00.000-07:00

ever heard wah for piano! i mean for a grand piano!!!

thats all about muse! new things man! exploring things unseen!

another of my favorites!

purely sound of music!

a distorted!

2008-04-29T01:36:00.001-07:00

2008-04-29T01:30:00.000-07:00

i dunno whether is it true man!

man utd

2008-04-25T06:56:00.000-07:00

alright lets MAN UTD!

man utd vs barcelona

2008-04-24T06:58:00.000-07:00

2008-04-23T03:59:00.001-07:00

James 1:2-4
2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

2008-04-23T03:53:00.000-07:00

you alone are God above, you alone are worthy of and with all i am my soul will live your name!

this was what i always had in my mind and even through chapel, there were walls after walls of breakthrough! the spirit of opposition was there, it was not technical but it was tough to breakthrough! having a chance to lead the school in a time of praise and worship was great however, the expetantcy wasnt there! my passion to see revival was coming but i believe it will move slowly! amen! that was chapel and also with my mic kinda going bonkers for the first 2 songs in which i worked so hard to get the voice or marty sampson out and it wasnt heard hahah! XD

oh well its the season of the exams too! went in with the lord's guidance as he guided me through the papers and there was nothing i could fear of because he was with me!
thats all for now!

bertram brandon (:

lets guitar!

2008-04-19T20:33:00.000-07:00

guitar #1:

guitar #2:
August Rush - Dueling Guitars

guitar #3;
August Rush

the trailer...

Bertram Brandon

2008-04-19T03:05:00.000-07:00

we are here for revelation not information!

amen! today chapel practice was great! cant wait to lead this coming tuesday with the electrifying power of Jesus to move through the people! i will sing his praise and will sing forevermore! captivated y the love you gave to me!
yupp!

also had my chinese test today and oh my...i needed so much time to understand so many words but as a whole it was okay! well hmm thats 1 down and a few more to go in the following 2 weeks man! cant believe it!

looking forward to Nepal trip too and Os levels! hahah (:

yepp well now is the time! we must shine for jesus christ our lord!
writing more songs! cant wait for Chapelthon too! yeah

oh ya DEBATE news! we won the finals!!!! we finally won it and amazing praise to be unto the lord! really the team did well but i could not film them because the camera died on me! heh bad thing man!

well i guess thats for now!
GOD BLESS!

Bertram Brandon

2008-04-15T04:25:00.000-07:00

long time ever since posted so place some photos of soccer dudes from 4B heh! plus Jim too...

been praying these days and i feel things are working out as God guides my days working in ways in which are remarkable man! i dunno how to place it but indeed he is an awesome God!'

alright time for school... mid years are coming and mugging time for all! heh its time to get down to studying man! so i guess thats all for now!

bertram brandon

takeover

2008-04-05T06:17:00.000-07:00

aint it pretty long ever since i updated...almost more than a week hahah (:

anyway thats because have been really busy with homework, tuition, classes and so on and so forth! apart from that many things happen during this period, some were good and bad news.

not mentioning too about today's human badge making process as the head start of Fairfield's countdown and it was kinda hot with the sun but it was nice as we counted down and balloons flew up into the skies! after that went to help Mr Tan show the previous days debate to the debators to do a short debrief on what happened and yeah, after that i went to church and now back home getting down to work once again!

well enough of school, i always remembered what this person always share with me as i co-wrote with him songs that he always place thoughts in my mind that would always encourage me and we will always achieve it! with our goals planned, we will get there!God is an awesome God! our savior lives!

alright time for some pictures!
Pritish and Dexter were playing Chap-tek so i took them playing!!!

Bertram Brandon

a day of agony or a day of enriching?

2008-03-25T07:17:00.000-07:00

Enriching day i must say with all the stations for NAPFA tests, just left with the 2.4km run in which i think can be able to get a B in it! Today as earlier have been said, NAPFA tests and i got all As for it man! Pull ups was great, standing broad jump after a few tries got the grade, shutter run was naturally there, sit ups was kinda nonsense but i did really the A grade standard kinds although some of them were counting abit too fast or a little slower but i shant mention them cause they did not cheat!

oh man...also a grueling day man! i have been like nagged and lectured about my studies and yeah, gotta have some salt and hardwork into it man! where is the aspiration man?!?!

AFter NAPFA, heated myself with deep heat and it felt really shiok! till the after effects came i think, my chest started to ache and my arms began to slowly not move as quickly as the muscles tensed! basically i was playing caps against a team which had more than our team and it was a game so we just played for fun! great time!

Now i am sitting like a dead duck trying to fly on my bed, reading my bible and preparing a sermon for some groups of people and as well getting inspirations for my new songs which i am co-writing with faithful LAI ZI JIE! i must say he has a great future ahead of him! AMEN!

Bertram Brandon

get low down to studies guys!!

2008-03-19T06:17:00.000-07:00

alright after a day of studying and sporting, you become tired!
today school was kinda different starting off with the human crest making session with primary school. hmm weather was particularly hot and i mean the primary students were like having so much fun whacking NAthaniel and Dexter, apparently calling him lobster and its kind funny for a primary student to do so! hahaha sorry dexter and nathaniel!

hmmm no more tests for this week and its kinda slack but still must study yeah! i mean mid years are coming, prelims are coming, biggy Os is coming! hahah

yeah, cant wait for easter! salvation is here people!

Bertram Brandon

2008-03-18T05:21:00.001-07:00

tests....

2008-03-18T05:10:00.000-07:00

alright i guess i would be able to reach the passing mark for SS seq and sbq...oh man i mean the questions were not what i expected but i think i did them OKAY-ily and i think i can only pass? XD
Anyone knows why is SS called social studies? isnt it supposed to be like learning how to socialise or even learning about how social life is doing? oh man why is Singapore, terrorism classified under social studies?!? WHY WHY WHY!its a thought to think of but its the thoughts that counts yeah...

alright moving on to chapel, oh man its really funny today! the band consisted of Joel, Kenneth, Nathaniel and firstly, Kenneth just tuned his bass while the song was playing and that is kinda fascinating and secondly, me and nathaniel swap places for the drums for the last song in which was not played because somehow they wanted to give principle more time and the teachers to teach us games which is like how easy man...and furthermore we are to play it with the primary school! time to meet those buddies if i can find him/her! hahah
oh well, that was chapel!

now, ended the school wanting to study but instead it was fun time with my favourite buddy who is one encourager, motivator, warrior for Christ and a fellow composer to me, no other than LAI ZI JIE! I mean you people must really sometimes tahan with his nonsense because his nonsense are rally abit kinda sensical(not sure if thats spelt that way) but anyway he is a nice guy lah please..your people dont know how much joy and laughter he brings man although sometimes it gets irritating but its fun to have him! i really thank god for him! yeah =D
oh well spent time with him composing our 6th song and it turned out well with the interruption of Titus but he helped us record with his beautiful singing in which cant match to XJ and me so since he can sing we got him to do the recording with us too and the sound quality wasnt good because its a good recorder for a good recording man! hahah but at least we accomplish something great out of it!
so much so for Zi jie!

tomorow suppoed to wear some black or blue shirt so i guess will be wearing my sec2 class jersey and yepp, its blue with abit of red but its okay as long i dun get caught! muahahahah!

so i guess that all for now!

Bertram Brandon

2008-03-16T03:43:00.000-07:00

ever thought whats so special about SS (social Studies)?

people see it as to know their country better as well as see how much the country or other country has develop their nation! also we see like the different cultures in diff nations and i mean there are so much concepts to take note when it comes to studying for ss plus remembering the formats of SBQ and SEQ questions because there is a procedure to follow when answering! oh my! why is SS like that when its just lerning about Singapore or other countries! i mean its like writing a story when it comes to essay man! a story on how development of strategies and i mean weighing the factors plus saying your stance! oh man! oh BARMA!~~~~~~~~~~

thats how much SS is all about! haha plus when it comes to not having a good teacher then its creates more trouble! unfortunately i must say a portion partial fraction of it is happening now!

its busy time mugging for Chemistry and SS for this week! and not sure about other tests but if its physics that is no problem for me! i can do well for that subject!

time to really study hard for Os man and also serve GOD too in my ministriesss!!!! yeah! easter is coming soon! yipee!

and now its back to studying! mugging you can say that too!

Bertram Brandon

2008-03-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

school is about to begin and homework is rushed through by many! still left with music and studying for SS test is a killer! needs medicine man!

oh man Pst Phil preach a wonderful message and i loved it! ohh...great sermon!
offering message was also great! began to put my trust in God!

today was also spent on shopping for new stuff.
1. bought 2 skinnies and yeah kinda getting used to it
2. bought 1 skinny ties (my favourite)
3. bought long sleeves.
and rally i thank my parents man for so much blessings! bought them from topman and pull and bear. nice stuff!

well now is mugging for tests this monday which is chemistry and SS! oh barma! gonna be tiring!

thats all for now!

Bertram Brandon

2008-03-14T04:26:00.000-07:00

what more can i say that holidays are soon over? have we done anything? i hope everyone did...everyday just makes me wanna sleep more, dream more, eat more, exercise more, work more but indeed it can be done! thats what holidays are for.

spent the day with Shaun and Zi jie today at Buddy Hoggies, studying for music test tomorow! our theory is tomorow! same with Shaun and Zi Jie was like "DONT MUSIC ME AH!". In the end, Shaun asked him whether he wanted to join our band because due to some reasons we needed one as we planned for the After O-levels lists of things to do! CHARISMA is something i would wanna carry on as we worship God through our own composition and indeed Zi Jie and I have been doing so ever since i told him a suggestion in composing and ideas have been flowing as well as Shaun writing Poems! SOUNDS EXCITING!

After that went for tuition again for Maths and here i am at home revising for tomorow expensive Music theory test!
Thats all for now!

shall blog more later!
Bertram Brandon

song #1

2008-03-13T07:08:00.000-07:00

Movement of love

This world we live in
A city set on a hill
Violence is on the floor
As we hit the core

All my hopes and dreams
Can they mean a thing
Cause…

Our love reigns, shining all over the earth
Brightening up the days with love up in the skies
Politicians won’t decide the fate
But we will keep the faith

Love reaches out across the skies
What we needed so much more
And all across the earth are looking for meanings
For light will shine cause…

Our love reigns, shining all over the earth
Brightening up the days with love up in the skies
Politicians won’t decide the fate
But we will keep the faith
Do not conform!

A meaning of resistance
Awaits for much more
Maybe all our fears are gone
What could we wait for more
Love is a movement
One love One supreme
One life living it
The movement of love

Our love reigns, shining all over the earth
Brightening up the days with love up in the skies
Politicians won’t decide the fate
But we will keep the faith

-- bertram brandon

guidance from GOD above

2008-03-13T06:42:00.000-07:00

sometimes God plans things to happen...really imparted out something today! Praise GOD! i mean its something that has changed me from inside out...apart from that, today it was something that brought me on to my 4th song composition and i believe this song will impart out true faith and it will bless lives...should title it From God Above All!

today was pretty fun and tiring when it came to the end. met pris, shaun, xing ya for lunch at school before proceeding to vivo and then back to school. ate at some dim sum place at vivo which had to pay 1 buck for ice water to be served so we did not order that much food. pretty bad place! walked around and back to school eating jelly beans from candy empire. first time eating! woohoo...tastes great!

back to school, psp-ed for a while before debate where we learnt about rebuttals and stuff. cool exercise. after that went for tuition and back home! tired and drained out physically but spirtually revived once again!

Bertram Brandon

once was gone, but now alived

2008-03-10T22:16:00.000-07:00

oh mine last night was horrible man. i mean drinking Barcade and bang there i was with Thapana talking nonsense during class BBQ! Shaun then came as really tossed the madness out of Thapana and oh boy, Thapana went really mad with me laughing madly too! Horrendous and horrible and vegetable night! WE were RED in the faces! there were more people also mad too jsut that i cant remembered!

But before that i was basically barbequ-ing the food for 2 hours standing at the pit, cooking the food! i almost wanted to sacrifice myself man! the heat was so hot! plus the weather was drizzling! i think the clouds were drunk too, one minute it was raining abit heavier then subside then again pour like siao! thank god for umbrellas!

okay enough of the bbq, damn it man i think i still have side effects..how many blog posts today already! ah...crapped! okay now having a soar throat!
but as a whole, the bbq was fun i suppose. those who left for i dunno why they claim that they had no food, in the first place, they should come and ask us to cook for them! apparently they waited for the food to come but inthe end nothing came so, firstly sorry for not lettng your know and seondly, next time ask us!!!!!

yeah!

Bertram Brandon

Youth Alive

2008-03-10T21:13:00.000-07:00

What makes me grow closer to God?
its all of the above! living for you! nothing else i wanna to do! give my life into your hands! walk this life with you! you mean everything to me change my life and wash me clean and now i am lost in your love cause you are all the above!

Youth alive - All of the above

Youth alive(Victoria)

Hillsongs new album recording

2008-03-10T21:11:00.000-07:00

Get ready for a new album willl be released soon!

one generation neeeds a revolution

2008-03-09T06:36:00.000-07:00

hello...

!I HEART REVOLUTION!
If we understand what is to love as a generation as God commanded us to do,
to love God and to love people than it would change the world we are living in!
We need to start learning it out and not only jump around praising God but to be changed from inside out, to make a difference,pursue justice, to help the lost,help the broken!

Making a difference in the marketplace is indeed what we are to do.we all have a short time on earth, and when we go to heaven, GOD will ask us what have we done on Earth?
Have we fulfilled our purpose in culture, by impacting the marketplace, penetrating the marketplace.

Lets all go out and do our part! Fulfill the commandments of God!

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Alright moving on,
this week was really i must say long and tiring! Almost everyday had to stay back in school because of CCA or remedials or to study! Last friday had JGs and we won the debate! YAY!!!!!!! after that went for a late dinner with the teachers and i mean it was really late! only go home at about 1am and slept off at 2 am! hahah

Now i am really tired plus planning for Broadcast on wednesday is also another stressed out thing to do!oh well, i hope i wont fall asleep tomorow during my course in the morningg! hahah oh well i guess thats all for this week! holidays have begun!

BARMA!!!!

Bertram Brandon!

funny stuff

2008-03-08T05:13:00.000-08:00

a time for everything

2008-03-08T04:12:00.000-08:00

school days are generally over but work still needs to be done as piles of Holiday homework stacks up with CCA cooperating in with the broadcast in which i must plan for my cca!

Particularly would be the upcoming events that would awaken me up such as this coming monday class bbq and the video shooting of the broadcast.Apart from that, its either at home sleeping, playing or studying! Isn't that what we students are all about? stuck with the Os, on our tables flipping through the pages geeting the facts to be juiced into our brains!

thats for that, now for the JGs! WE WON! yess...was an interesting motion about Size Zero models and yes once again, we won with a close margin! THANK GOD!

today had church. sermon was awesome and i felt bringing myself up to another level of faith! I mean i belive that God will use each one of us to fulfil our destiny! AMEN!

WEll, its down to planning for the Debates broadcast!

see ya people soon!

my future decided

2008-03-05T03:37:00.000-08:00

Revolution...

2008-03-04T04:36:00.000-08:00

Chapel was great! Felt god's presence right from the start from the first song to the last song. praise to be to God that we are stirring up the hearts of many youths to turn to you and praise you and spread the gospel!

The revolution

Bertram Brandon

WWJD

2008-03-03T05:54:00.000-08:00

What would Jesus do tomorow?

Stand up, step out in faith and move with the spirit of God and worship him...
Lets stand together as one to bring revival to FMSS!

God bless
Bertram

Church/To know your name

2008-03-01T20:30:00.000-08:00

Was at church today, caught a revelation for FMSS, caught a vision once more! Shared it earlier in the previous post but now for some fun!

Had fellowship after church and took some photos with the cell.
Lets go through the photos...

Dorothy...have no idea what is she doing. background with Lokies and Carol (:

Carol...some emotional facial expression. Great cell group member!

From right..potae,me,aaron...some nonsense picture..

Me as a father to all of them...

Carol once again...great member!

so thats all for W465! hahah see ya people soon!

To know your name

The precious blood of Jesus Christ redeems,
forgiven I’m alive, restored set free.
Your majesty resides inside of me,
forever I believe. forever I believe.
arrested by your truth and righteousness
your grace has overwhelmed my brokenness
convicted by your spirit, led by your word
your love will never fail
your love will never fail
‘Cause I know you gave, the world your only son for us to
know your name, to live within the saviours love and he took my place,
knowing he’d be crucified and you loved.. you loved, a people undeserving!

i mean how much this song has a great meaning in all of us! LISten to it and you will be inspired and touched!

Bertram Brandon

::SERVANTHOOD::

2008-03-01T06:07:00.000-08:00

POWER, POSITION, PURPOSE

was in church today and i caught a revelation instantly through the preaching of the word on SERVANTHOOD..

John 13:1-3
Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2 And supper being ended,[a] the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

Who are we in Christ Jesus? What are the talents that we have? What is our purpose?

Here we see the creator of the Earth kneeling before disciples, washing their feet. Usually it is meant to be the lower class people as servants to cleanse the guests feet but nonce of the disciples are wanting to do it. Why? I must say they were fighting for their positions. We can relate this to the world where we see people not willing to serve because of titles, fame and things that make us feel so royal but is this what are suppose to care about?
Jesus saw this and he was the one that humbled himself and wash their feet. He served out of SERVANTHOOD The expression of his love is the same as giving to God.LOVE WITH SERVING!

Jesus is our example. We must go out and serve one another in the kingdom of God. Jesus said, "Be a servant of all!"
Like he has claimed in the bible that he would reward us by saying, "Well done my good and faithful SERVANT!" its not well done my good and faithful king, its not my good and faithful president its not my good and faithful teacher. What is it? its MY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT! so are you ready to step out in Faith and start serving God?

3 keys about servanthood:

1. Servanthood is the key to promotion

Phil2:5-7
The Humbled and Exalted Christ

5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

Let the mindset and attitude be in you! Our attitude determines our altitude! Have the same attitude Jesus had, taking the form of a servant. This is the perfect way of how Jesus humbled himself. You may think that why did Jesus do such a thing? i mean he could have come with so much power like a powerful military general but he took the form of a servant. Someone who serve everybody with no choices at all, for all times.
I must say that his attitude of servanthood was highly exalted by God. Total complete exaltation, total promotion!

God will work in us to shine in the marketplace.An example of JOSEPH is someone we can take as an example for us to question ourselves whether can we even serve non-believers? Look how much God blessed Joseph that made him the governor in the bible.

2. Servanthood is the key to authority

TO be able to serve will be able to provide a reward to enter into the joy of the lord. "RULERSHIP!" God claims this in the bible many times as he served.

Matthew 25:20-23 (New King James Version)

20 “So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’ 21 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ 22 He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’ 23 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

3. Servanthood is the key of destiny

Genesis24:15-20
15 And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. 16 Now the young woman was very beautiful to behold, a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the well, filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 And the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher.”
18 So she said, “Drink, my lord.” Then she quickly let her pitcher down to her hand, and gave him a drink. 19 And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking.” 20 Then she quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough, ran back to the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

HE was thirsty and he thought who was going to be blessed today? there came a lady and she served him and his 10camels. i mean you know camels drink plenty of water so you should expect a strong lady to be helping him but its not only that but its through the actions she did that brought a destiny ahead. Her serving opened the door for prosperity. So therefore if you want to prosper, you must serve. We will manifest Jesus into the marketplace!

as a close, let me ask you this few questions?

Will we serve God wholeheartedly?
Why cant you serve when there are so much opportunities and WISELY bring the presence of God into the marketplace?

Step out of your comfort zone and start serving!

God bless!

A passion

2008-02-29T05:56:00.000-08:00

::PASSION::REVIVAL::JESUS::

Today chapel practice was one of the best, i just felt God's presence fill the hall although it was a practice. We werent practice but we just came together and worship as hannah lead. I believe that we are the people, the people in our generation that is going to make the difference in society. TO share with all, God gave me a vision showing me a bunch of students ready to praise God as we played for praise and worship. I mean i saw many students jumping, on fire for our lord as we lead! Right from then on, i started to position myself to be ready to catch the opportunity God has given to me to lead and play for chapel. To make a difference in the society, impacting through the music as well as we worship him. It was not about the practice but it was the time spent together sharing with one another our visions for chapel and i believe God is going to move in a powerful and miraculous way in the next coming chapels. God is whom we will serve and spread his love around. The presence was to tangible as i stood and worship him.Imagine all of us coming together ready to catch the fire of God and praise and even share the gospel with others. How wonderful would that be to see the lost turn to Christ!

Indeed Jim has spoken something into my heart today and i thank god for the inspiration, i shall not say it here but what he said was really something i also felt in me and we belive along with Zi jie and Caleb that revival is gonna come to FMSS! Stand together and persevere for God is out provider and our strength is in him!

Alright, after practice, i went to follow Zi Jie to his class and i just sat outside their classroom meditating on Gods word. Then Words came into me and i started to write them down and i composed them into the song. Jie and came along and we did up the song and now its almost done. We will record it soon and yeah havent thought of a title yet but it will be something i feel motivation to all of you people out there who has been fervent and loving God! After that, went with his class to IKEA to eat but because he had not enough money, we went to the hawker centre nearby and left back to school, catching a ride from Lynnette!
Today is a long dy but i have learnt alot from todays prayer and worship session.
Praise to be GOD!

God bless all! AMAZING GRACE!

Bertram Brandon

Amazing grace

2008-02-28T05:57:00.000-08:00

I must say this show is really a heart warming one. How can one man make a difference?!? How can one man change the w2orld? God made us to shine for him. Through his amazing grace!
I recommend put anything away and watch his film if you have and be touched by the inspiring story of this man!

Stayover@RYANs/Singapore Airshow

2008-02-23T03:03:00.000-08:00

every day i think about how i have done each day and how i have lived it! i always want to make the fullest of everything and see what results can be achieved.

well one of the things was to be able to spend time with "long lost"friends. i mean it is as a friend that you used to always hanged out with but somehow things changed so both drew away but were still friends! i must say RYAN TAN is one great dude buddy to me ever since i knew him pri.6 i think. Great Friend!

Stayed over at his place on Friday night because we were going for the airshow with Caleb and Tomio the next morning. So Caleb and I stayed over and slept at like 3am because we were watching MI:2! i must say that show is the best o out of the 3 series man! great storyline and excitement is there all the time!

Slept on the sofa till the next day with aircon on, and i was not used to it! but its an experience.

Moving on, the next day Saturday (today), we left with Ryan's dad to Changi exhibition centre and yeah we went to see the static display forst where the models of the planes like F16, F15, and many other helicopters and fighter jets, not forgetting the A380. i remembered clearly the last time i went with Ryan, we could not go on board the A380 because of certain reasons but this time it was only by invitation only so Ryan's dad did his work with his colleagues and we went on board. It was a dream come true! i mean the experience going on board it is amazing man! the interior was great! the cockpit i must say was amzing! i sat on the pilots' seat in which an hour later it was going to be flown for the airshow display! what an honour and yeah it wasnt the ones used for commercial flying but it was the test model that was used to fly around before more A380s were made into flying. I mean it must be proven to be good before carrying on right!
After that we went into the inner displays where it was more of the trade center but we managed to try the flight simulators of the T50 which was Ryan. he aspires to be a pilot so we gave him an opportunity! yeah! (: Well done RYAAN!

After that, we got the small model of the T50 from the directors and we left off to see other booths for more goodies! After that, we went to the chalets. alright before carrying on, i must say that in order to go into the chalets, you need to be invited only and thats why its a privelege to do so. we went into the chalets like the Lockheed Martin, Boeing and i cant rememebr the other one. but as a whole it was great! we had lunch in the chalet with such great food before the airshow display started! I mean we ate alot because it was nice! Yummy!

Alright, then came the airshow display! Started off with the KNIGHTS! i mean they are great with all the coordination and stunts they performed! great display. after followed the F16, T50 F35 and the A380! all great displays and the last display was also the best i saw too, the Australia Acrobatics! they used the PIlatus to performed and really, they were as good as the Knights and that really made me amazed at their performance!

As a whole i must really say, it was like a VIP experience and yeah, if you got a chance go for it! its not to be missed! i will post the pics here on somewhere so you can have yourself a look at the pictures of the planes and the displays!

tomorow is the ARENA and yeah i hoped FMSS wins over NAnyang girls man!

God bless!

2008-02-21T06:03:00.000-08:00

Alright its left with Physics test tomorow and thats leaves lit and a maths next week with the airshow and arena as enjoyment. Pretty tired today with all the ccas, tuitions and waiting for the relaxation to come!

apart from that, today was tiring day la. Nothing much to say once again, borrowing Potae's cam for pictures for airshow so i guess i will be taking alot of pics and yupp, thats all for now.

its HAPPY BRITHDAY to Xue Ning! Rusell! Baby cousin! (:

God bless,
Bertram Brandon

buttleflies and hurricanes

2008-02-20T04:40:00.000-08:00

Love the harmonizing part for the bassist. i mean he is great with his tapping skills!

ceasing the moment...

2008-02-20T04:07:00.000-08:00

"its really what we have on the inside that makes us win!"

Today watched FMSS have their last match and sadly we lost to the opponent. But at least they tried their best, its not to say they are lousy or what but its the endurance they have to pursue on and finish it no matter what. They still deserve an applause for they are the ones that represent the school, the best out of the best.

Apart from that, good job guys!
Their coach was really wanting them to win with his instructions and yeah although some flip flops happen... (:

Well, thats that but after that, i went to play soccer with the sec2 and 3s at the Street soccer court. Basically tired myself out and now i must study for Emaths test tomorow and also my music performing test tomorow too. SCARY!!!

So thats 3 down 3 more to go!

I would like to say this to all..."We must all lean to grab hold of every opportunity that comes, if not your dream will just pass you by!"

God bless!
Bertram Brandon