Android on Blackstone - the Prelude

you know what is "impossible is nothing; nothing is impossible"? Today I saw it. Android in Blackstone by Tuxhero.

Although it's still in Alpha stage and there are still a lot to work on, but well done to all those that worked hard for it. And to those who thinks it's only a talk... haha, here's Android for you =P

Here for the download

Here for the xda-Developers thread.

Good job and keep it up.

tick tock.

For every choices that we have made, there are price to pay.

Not a choice can make everyone happy, we can only keep the dissatisfaction to the minimum.

We placed our living time as the mortgage in exchange for experiences, but are we gaining them equivalent to the time we spent?

We're not as young and lovely as yesterday. I talked, but if I didn't do it, what's the point?

And in the end, those who succeed in life are because they're ahead in steps. But am I? Maybe that proved my failures.

When one thing came down, there are price to pay. You'll be looked down, laughed at from behind, or criticized. You will hear them directly behind you but you just can't say anything nor defend nor explain yourself.

You can do nothing, but to taking his advice, to keeping quiet, to prove you are better, the next time... Maybe that keeps one going. Maybe that kills one too.

I... feel the stress. Don't pick up if you cannot sustain. But if in order for you to move forward, picking up is the only way, thus you have to choose what to give up. Then it loops back to the first question.

I hope I made the correct choice. I'm not superman.

Nuch And Markus's Wedding

..::*+ Small Talk +*::..

LoL, after reading what I wrote, I feel like I supposed to give this speech like Chuck Bass did for his father during the wedding. You'll follow what I'm talking about soon.

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When the first time I met him, he surely left me the impression of being loud, and perhaps, acting like a kid. And so I was placed under his house church. And so the process of knowing each other grew.

He is a wise man. A follower of Christ, a faithful one. As a leader of MM-House Church, Markus Motz really guided the fellow sheep towards maturity in Christ. As one of the first-and-a-half-generation of church members, he had brought up a lot of potential people. As a teacher, I learned a lot about God from him. As a flatmate of Daniel, well, I always anxious when overnighting at Dann's place because Markus will always ask me to sleep in his room instead of Daniel.

"Markus, du frisssssst!" - Markus, you eat (people). "Du frist immer noch =P"

Here is my seat =)

He is a great leader. I remembered last time when we (as in me and the Oracle Jia Jin) talked about leadership, and he told me that Markus is one of the good examples, especially in leading younger baby in Christ. And on the 3rd Oct 2009, he became a man of a family, and for sure, he will become a good leader in his family, and in the future, a wonderful father.

Take my hands and dance with me

He picked the date 3rd October, and it's more than just a normal date. It's also the unification of Western and Eastern Germany, or the Germans call it "Tag der Einheit". As for him, a marriage of two different souls separated by a very far distance. To be exact, he took Nuch, a Thai Christian, as his wife. Think about the distance, think about the troubles that they went through before finally being together, and most of all, think of how God worked His plans out for the two souls. Ahhhh... Simply amazing! How great is our God, amen? =)

Although it was a seriously heavy and tiring day for me, because I worked for the technics and sounds during his wedding ceremony, but all these tiredness were simply paid off by the smile one the face of both of them. In fact, as Nuch walked into the church, Markus was crying, tears of joy. And by the time he hold her hands, his eyes were red. I felt stressed throughout the whole day, some sound-system error, recording error, slides error, cable not enough long error... But in the end all these were not even worth to be compared to the joy that they have.

"I will be with you forever until the day when Jesus comes back for us."

I... really liked the song 月亮代表我的心. I played guitar while Long Yun and Dann sang the song, in conjunction with Mooncake Festival which happened to fall on the same day. The wonderful melody and the praises that I received... Awwww... Not to say I'm proud of myself but sometimes, things like this are like the motivation for me to face all the sours and failures. It's like the light in the dark. Normally, for some talented people, these praises might just be another-praises from other people, but for me, my heart lifted up. The thinest ray of light can only be noticed in a dark room. That's best described what I felt.

At first, I thought that they are a bit too fast to get married. But then again, God proved me wrong, and proved me wrong again during the dinner. They played a game to test how well they knew each other, and although they're not facing each other, they got the same answers. =)

Oliver and his team as the "Quality-Control Officer"

Markus is someone who is very caring of people under him. I remembered that he always called me during friday prayer meetings to check if I'm going and if I'm not, he'll ask for reasons. Honestly at first I felt very annoying, but later I realized that this is his strong point - a responsible leader. He might sometimes to be pictured as the bad guy, but in the heart of people who know him, he is not only just wise, but also very nice person to everyone! I'm sure he'll soon be proved as a great leader of his new family.

To the happy couple, cheers!

NnM

post number 300 =)

Me attending Nuch and Markus's wedding ceremony now. Now I realized that the "ladies first" rule applies here. NnM =D

Oh yea, with my handsome freshly cut hair =)

See ya folks around.

EDIT: OHHH, happy mooncake festival! And happy reunification day for Germany! Tag der Einheit =D

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..::*+ Small Talk +*::..

After nearly 3 days back from Italy trip, at first I thought of blogging out the trip. But then again, I will only blog about it if I'm able to cope with things that are choking me, near to death.

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So such a long time since I last drown myself into my pool of thoughts. Today Roy and I went for badminton. I was and I am still sick. But I glad I went. Because I realized something, something useful.

People always be great. There are people who are genius and successful. There are people who are not that smart but also successful because of jackpot luck of life (yea everything happens for reasons, I know). But most of the success people don't fall in either these two categories. So where are they? It is my belief that they success because they know what they're doing, but of course, also God's will.

Talking badminton, I need to be a bit prideful. Ahem. Okay. A lot of people praises me for marvelous (they did say this) badminton play, in fact I was tagged before as the benchmark to overtake, in badminton of course. Anyway, after nearly a whole semester not touching a racket, I came back tonight in action. And like polishing a rusted knife, it was a pain in ass. I got frustrated when I was playing normal warm-up strokes with Roy. He smashes, I defend, shuttlecock goes into the net. He drops the shot, I return, shuttlecock goes into the net, again. He lobbed it to the back, I return with a drop-shot, the shuttlecock goes into the net again.

Sorry about the badminton terms, but my point is, can you feel my frustration? I mean, come on, as if the shuttle is a metal-headed cannonball and the net is made of wires charged, becoming temporary magnets. But nearly an hour after that, I began to catch back the feel and touch that I once had before. And it was AMAZING.

So as I was playing, I discovered that actually I'm not good in this sport also (wow I said that), as in, come on, I'm a skinny (okay, maybe no longer skinny, touch wood.), talking about returning shuttles with bony wrist. But then I realized that I win points because I was trained before and most importantly, I know what shots the opponents might return. I was there one step ahead to wait for the shuttle to come for my next plot.

Amazing, Qi Hao revealing his secrets. So let's adapt this into our lives. Exclude those exceptions, successful people success because they plan their steps one step ahead of others. They know what is coming, they know what they will react to it, and they know also how the upcoming thing will respond. That's, maybe, one of the reasons people like Bill Gates (hope I didn't bring wrong example here) successes in life so much, that most of us wish ourselves to be enough just 1% as success as him. If you go deeper into his life, you will know how brilliant he is in growing Microsoft. Oh a side note, not the Microsoft nowadays, I meant the WindowsXP era.

So coming back into my life, I find that I am not person who plans for the next step, except in badminton. Okay okay I'll stop that part. I am not the person who knows what is coming and how I should deal with it. So back to my old-time quote: "I didn't know what I should know". In fact, a lot of times I am struggling just to catch up with things. My mom even used the word "brush-up", no offense, mom. I am always behind time, and after I catch back in time, I cross my leg, sitting pretty, as if I own the throne. And what's the best part of MERELY sitting on throne? When you fall from your seat, or dethrone. A fall from first semester, so I worked hard to be back in shape in the second semester, and third semester I screwed up again. Even people around me are more worried than me, as if they are the one failed subjects. Oh I remembered that scene - "DO YOU UNDERSTANDDDDDDD!!!?" by someone. But me, I don't know, maybe the phrase saying not-knowing-hell is best described.

That's the thing I want to change. And I know I've said it every time I fall, which is, maybe hundreds times already? The thing is, I did bad, then I caught up, then I fell back into the hole again. I wish I know the pain so much, that I at least have the phobia not to fall into the pit again. But worst, most of the time I was proven to be consciously dive into the pit that I've noticed. Like Adebayor stomping Van Persie on the recent football headnews. Like stepping into the land-mines. What you get?

Kaboom.

Nice sarcasm now get back to the point. I don't want a life just to catch up after falling behind. And I don't want a life that after catching back with time I chill down and return to the original state. It's like the electron in its orbit. After given certain amount of heat, the excites and jumps to the next energy level. And when the internal energy is gone, they return to the same state. Yes, chemical flame test I'm talking about. Sodium burns with intense yellow. Just that I don't emit that intense yellow result.

In the end, the point of the story is, I know this is another determination of mine, and I know I am super energetic to do this. And I know it is going to be a painful, long process. I want to do this. I want to throw away that unwanted characters. I want to develop the Fruit of the Spirit. And I know I can change. And I know it is hard.

I don't know whether this time is going to be a success or not, which I hope it will. But I do know that I'm serious about this this time. So, if you see anything that might help me, please save this poor. If you see I wonder to the wrong sides, please detour me to the right one. If you see I'm lost, guide me back to the path. If you see I fall into darkness, light my path. If you see I'm demotivated, please cheer me up. I know ultimately I'm the one who should be the one executing everything. But like a troop of army storming the front, they need eyes lockdown, or better, a Warpit. Okay okay that's a Call Of Duty 4 term, eye refers to sniper, and Warpit is an army tank. Please support me. I'm like campaigning for the upcoming Germany election.

Gonna need a lot of strength, and may God bless me.

Hello world!

hallo im in rome, blogging thru my handy. just wanna say hi, so hello! =)

bis heutige Zusammenfassung

Know where this is?

Most of the times we know what we should do and what we shouldn't. Same case goes for me. But after days of activities, it's time for me to settle down, and reopen this pensive to store some life's journey. Well. It's been quite a long long long long time since I last updated this blog with useful informations, let it be my thoughts, or daily activities. It was soooooo long, that I couldn't recall what was the thing that I last updated.

Heilbronn ice-cream is still the best.

No no, not because I'm getting tired of this blog. No no, it's not because I found something new to spend my time. Arh. Fine, let's go back to the point.

I think I'll just make a summary of what happened from the last time I updated my daily activities until today:

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1. European Leadership Conference (06082009-09092009)

errrrr.

I guess this was one of the 'refreshing' time for me, after all the exams and stuffs. Well. In this conference, I was reminded of how small I am compare to God. I think, I got proud of myself because of last semester. I think getting 1,0 for Mathematics 2 made me proud. I realized I have this ego, and like adding oil to a flame, people around me keep on talking about that so called achievements. Although in between I sensed the sacarsm, maybe resisted the first, second, third times... but in the end, I began to felt proud. As well as being tagged 'Oracle-to-be'. I know that's sorta joke but well, I fell for it. That's when I was in the conference, when Pastor Simon from Malaysia talked about being a leader, and I awaken from my disillusion. I felt like wanting to cry out loud, but the other half of me was laughing at me for being so childish. I held the feelings back in. Anyway, I learned a lot during the conference. And, although it was seriously direct after some humty-dumty-sit-on-the-wall-humty-dumty-had-a-great-fall feeling, I felt lifted up, once again. God is good, all the time.

Photo irrelevant to current topic.

Not to mention the great leaders whom I met throughout the Conference: People from all around Europe and special guests Pastor Simon and his family were also there in Berlin. Still missing his Malaysian-style preaching though. What touched me the most throughout the teaching was the topic 'how leaders fall'. I guessed I bingo-ed all the ingredient to fall. Lessons learned, and I just wish people around will still have the trust and give the chance for me to fix things up. Sigh.

Brandenburger Tor.

Things in between I forgot, the following was last week.

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2. Stuttgart/Heilbronn/Heidelberg/Mannheim/Bochum/Essen Trip

Heidelberg Alte Brücke view

hehe.

KaiChiat from ADFP.

Elo =D

Yea, being scolded for this funny unplanned trip. It's like... On Sunday after church we went for karaoke and because of that it was too late to go back to Heilbronn, so I overnighted at one of my friend's house. Then friends from Mannheim decided to pay me a visit, so after I reached back Heilbronn on Monday, we met up and I brought them around my town (or is it called 'city'?) and then back to my hostel. After some packings I was somehow dragged along with them to Heidelberg to walk around and then continued up to Mannheim. Please refer Google Map. This was where the funny part started. I thought I overnighted at Mannheim then Tuesday could go back, but in the end being invited to join the Mannheimers' journey to the north. So we went to Bochum with ICE using Jian Nong's Chibo ticket. We crashed at Eric's place. Well, I was sooo sure I've seen him before but oh well. Anyway, both he and his wife are great persons, not to mention great cook. Yes, they can cook very well. Professionals. Not just that, we also travelled to Essen, since we've been to Düsseldorf for quite some times already.

So why Essen? Well, as name stated, we went for food. Not just food, but Chinese Dim Sum. The last time I ate was like... VERY long time ago? Anyway, here's the Facebook link, and to tell some people that not only them can show off some nice nice food. Then we went to Ikea, which the funny thing is, my Garmin XT didn't have it on map. Weird. After came back from Essen, we cooked Rendang on the next day. Ok they cooked, not me. And some sour sour along with 水饺. Arhhhhhhh, at the first glance it might be a bad choice to go, but it turned out that I gained some experiences that I didn't expected. Not to mention some bond-building in friendships.

Cuppy cake-cup.

Kai Chiat was here. She came from UK. It was some great time spending with her, after some years didn't see her. LoL. We might met each other again later in Italy, and Yen Zhao, Etong, Jian Nong, Melina too!

Voon Satu Tong.

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3. Karlsruhe

I took the early train from Bochum back to Heilbronn to help my Mentor Jia Jin to shift his stuffs to Karlsruhe. Well, since that day, he's now officially Karlsruher. During the ride (yes he drove) we had our one-to-one plus half session, Daniel Tang as special guest, whom we called and talked during the car-ride. Oh well, he's as emo as ever. Ermm... not emo, but he's like 24/7 picking fights with everyone lol. That day I reached back Heilbronn around 10pm. Tired, exhausted, and marked the record that throughout the 7 days I had not even 6 hours in Heilbronn.

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4. Saturday, Heilbronn

Had a goooooood sleep until 12pm and woke up to start on my preparations for worship session on the next day. Googled some chords and skills and techniques and mp3s for the five worship songs:

1. Open The Eyes Of My Heart

2. Because He Lives

3. So You Would Come

4. Mein Jesus, Mein Retter ( My Jesus, My Saviour)

5. Your Love Makes Me Sing

And around 4pm took train to Stuttgart for the practice. Then we took out the 4th song and added in "The Reason That I Live". Went and overnight at Esslingen again.

5. Sunday, Hoffnung Stuttgart

Sunday went to church. Well, I'm still as nervous as ever, especially I wasn't performing well during the rehersal. But praise God, because I managed to play the guitar without mistakes.

To be honest, that was another confident boost in me. I felt more energitic, more confident in doing my stuffs now. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

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On a side note, during the one-to-one session, Jia Jin mentioned that my weakness is to blame on other things but myself. At first I wanted to argue, but then I hold it back, because that would be the proof that I'm blaming on other things again. Yes indeed, without knowing it, I built this bad habit inside of me; whenever something happened not as what I planned or expected, I would blame on other people, other things. Blame on classmates, on comrades, on the ICE train, on bus, on schedule... anything but myself. It was good to be tipped because personally I think this is seriously a dangerous habit. Although I heard lots of times that God let things happen for reasons, only we are the one should be aware enough to pick them up. And I recalled what Stephanie taught me long long time ago, that we are all like the radio receiver, and God is constantly broadcasting His Words and teachings, what He wants us to change, etc etc. The only thing that we are to tune in to His channel. It's pointless if God change his frequency to match our receiver but we change our receiver again and again. In other words, not sensitive enough to God and ignoring what He wants to teach us. Instead of blaming this and that, I was reminded to think back of the things that happened, and think why it happened, how it happened, and what God wants to teach me in the situations.

The question is, how to tune in to God's channel? It's simple because you can check if your receiver matches God's frequency by asking yourself, "how is your relationship with God?" It's another question that really poke my egoness. I found that, I'm not as close as I used to be with God anymore, comparing to last year. Which is why, I want to regain this relationship with God, once again. I don't want to wander away from His presence anymore. I want to live out His way, His Truth and in His Light. I am working on it.

Korean bear... Oh you know why.

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As I rehersed for the song "So You Would Come", I couldn't stop to praise God that He is indeed the mastermind behind everything that happened. Everything was done so you would come. During the house church meeting on last Sunday morning, Stefen asked us to think about our B.C., Cross, and A.D. What does that mean? It means life before knowing God, the journey knowing God, and after accepted the reward - eternal life. As for me, I find that God indeed prepared a lot so I would come to Him. I mentioned before last time, and yes, until now, I still find it amazing how God works. We might be someone successful, or someone at the gate of dying, but come to the Father, though your gift is small... Broken heart, broken lies, He would take them all...

I want to go back to that kind of feeling. After wandering away, I want to come back to God.

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Some song still ringing in my head:

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Your love makes me sing~

Yes You make me sing~

Lord You make me sing sing sing~

Yes You make me sing~

How You make me sing sing sing sing sing.....

!HALLELUJAH!

Jesus, You are the reason I live woooohoooo o!

Jesus, You are the reason I live.. YEAH!

Jesus, You are the reason I live wooo hoooo o!

Jesus, You are the reason I live....

YEAH!

Sorry too excited. Hope this long post didn't take you too much time to read, and thank you for reading.