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I promised my team, this was surely going to be the next post.

"If today was your last day" - Nickelback

Just like any other band, I thought this was just another song, either adventure or romantic. To my surprise, its really interesting. This all started when my awesome english teacher gave us this song to relate to a literature piece, "The Lotus Eater" found in my syllabus.

At first, everyone was like, what song is this? At that point we haven't heard the tune of it, and there were a lot of people like me, who don't recognize titles but recognizes the song. So as teacher played it, we were still blur, trying to follow it, until it reached the chorus. It was so melodious to hear everyone say "OHHHHHH, THAT SONG!" until now, only then we knew what song it was.

Well, it basically was about If Today Was Your Last Day, what are you going to do? The song was saying that there's no more second tries, remembering the past, give all you have away and basically, its like asking yourself, have you done good in the past? Or are you going to look back and sigh? Because if today was your last day, would you change and take the road less traveled by?

The song itself was just fair, but the question itself was good. Few years back, my pastor ask a group of us, If you know that tomorrow you are going to die, What would you do now? We thought, and said things like play non-stop, call friends, cry, ask God for forgiveness and so on. But at the end of it, we asked him, so what would you do? And his answer blew me away, I still remember the voice in which he said it, the smile on his face, and the challenge he posted to us. He said something very simple, "I will like that one last day, like any other normal day"

Now, you would be thinking, WHAT THE!! LAST DAY WOR!! LIVE LIKE A NORMAL DAY? WHY WHY?? But its true, because if we really knew we had one last day left, we would think of the past and see whether whatever we did was worth it. And for Christians, we would ask ourselves, have we glorified God? But the fact that we live our last day like a normal day, means that our "good deeds" has to become a lifestyle. Imagine, a lifestyle, to do good to others, and follow God's path. It has to become a LIFESTYLE. Isn't that amazing? I was blown away, and that one night itself, change a lot of my being, to focus on every detail of my life as much as i can.

So the same challenge to you all now, What if today was your last day?

Love,
Wai Leem

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Posted by whylame on August 17, 2009 at 5:37 pm under Music review.
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One thing i have realized, is that I do not keep myself fully up to date with the latest songs and such, songs such as No Boundaries.

Every time i scan through the online list to find someone to talk to, i will surely come across one or two friends having "No Boundaries - Kris Allen" as the what-i'm-listening-to status. I could not care less, until today.

So i went to youtube, typed in that song, waited unexcitedly for it to load, and soon, i click "play".

Expecting it to be a love song, i was dead wrong. In fact, its like a coincidence that i heard it at this very point in time, expecially when concerning that prefects and such like that.

Seconds, hours, so many days
you know what you want
but how long can you wait
every moment last forever
if you feel lost your way
What if your chances are already gone
starting believing that I could be wrong
But you give me one good reason
to fight and never walk away

Here i am still holding on!

Every step you climb another mountain
Every breathe its harder to believe
You'll make it through the pain
whether the hurricane
To get to the one thing
When you think the road is going nowhere
Just when you almost gave up on your dreams
Then take it by the hand
and show you that you can
There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries

I'm faulting my landing
to stand on the edge
What if today is as good as it gets
Don't know what the future is heading
Nothing's gonna bring me down
I've jumped every bridge
I've heard every lie
I risked being safe but i always knew why
I always knew why

So here I am still holding on...

(back to chorus)

Is isn't it amazing? Let me explain why it is to me personally.

Starting from verse 1
I have preparing myself both spiritually and mentally make it to top ever since form 2, i knew what i want, but it just seems so long, yet i waited till that day. I did not lose my way, that's for sure, but as of now, after the long wait, my chances, are gone, literally gone. Could I be wrong after all, after all this while? Was i wrong? But my passion gave me that one good reason to stay in the board.

pre-chorus
That's why i'm still holding on

Chorus
Every step another mountain is being climbed, whether be it i succeed or i fail, I know that i'm still nearing the tip of the mountain, but it takes every step. At this point in time, the truth, hard truth is still really hard for me to accept, makes every breathe harder, more intense in my emotions. But i suppose i will make it through this pain, whether its a hurricane of emotional pain or image, i will make it through, because i know i will continue to strive for that one thing. When i first knew the results, really, i thought that's the end, the road is going no where, I almost gave up literally. But people and passion reminded me and friends took me by the hand, not literally though, and comforted me and showed me that whoever is at the top, i still can bring change and influence around it. Not that i'm trying to take power, but its about bringing together a unified power and decision to change. And finally at the end, he sings "there are no boundaries" this maketh the song title, but somehow, i deny its existence. Indeed there are a lot of boundaries, whether teachers, my personal emotions and the board's unity plus many more.

verse 2
throughout this whole time, i was standing on the edge, on the verge of getting surat amaran and being fired, have i landed safely? did i fail to land properly? That day when results came out, it was really as good as it got, I was 6th, just a few little votes away. I really at that point do not know what the future is heading, because if i was there, my preparation, my focus was all already set. I knew what i was going to do. Now, everything is so vague, i do not know what the future holds. Despite me not knowing, i'm not going to give up, a normal prefect could actually be the piece of the puzzle that joins everything together and makes it prefect. I may not have jumped every bridge or heard every lie, but i surely have been through the times i stood in front of teacher telling them what's wrong, times when i give seniors constuctive criticism, times when i hear people backstabbing others, me included, and because of all this, i risked being safe, i risked that position of mine, but at least i knew why, i knew why.

(back to pre-chorus and verse)

I know that there is a bridge, but only that part of that song is to me, rather irrelevant for me.

In the end, i like the pre-chorus the most, because I will still hold on.

Kris Allen - No Boundaries

Love,
Wai Leem

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Posted by whylame on July 5, 2009 at 1:44 pm under Music review, Prefects.
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Are you lonely? Are you afraid? Are you terrified? Are you nervous? Are you happy? Are you joyful? Are you excited?

1 Year
12 Months
365 Days
8760 Hours
525600 Minutes
31536000 Seconds

Have you ever wondered whether there was someone always noticing you every second? Have you ever wondered whether someone who understands you totally, ever existed? Have you wondered when times that you were down, someone cried with you. When you are happy, someone laughed with you? Basically, Have you ever wondered whether there was anyone who really cared for us so much, it just can't be described, totally ineffable?

No doubt that time flies, not just fly, but flies very quickly. Nevertheless, our every second in our life counts.

There is this song, its called "seasons of love". (I'll be using parts of it in this post) It said, "525600 minutes, how do you measure, measure a year" then later "525600 minutes, how do you measure a year in the life" finally "525600 minutes, how do you measure a life of a woman and a man" Really, how do we measure just a year of our life, every second, every minute.

Again it says "In truths that we learned, or in times that we cry" What does all these boil down to? So what if we have learned truths, so what if we cry?

"How about love, how about love, how about love
Measure in love, Seasons of love, Seasons of love"
Why don't we consider love! "Seasons of love" does not mean only now you get loved or love others, but now is the time to know what love can do for us and others. Love is the source of all things, it can drive you, it can cry with you, it can shout for joy with you. Then you have to ask, who is the one who loves us? God is the one, the only one, who can love us to a speechless point, that no one can ever fathom.

So after knowing this, what are we to do?
"It's time now, to sing out, though the story never ends, lets celebrate remember the year in the life that we share. Remember the love, remember the love, remember the love"
Our life continues, so lets sing out and celebrate, for no matter how downhearted or excited you are, someone loves you the same yesterday, today and forever.

This is the original song, it was composed when doing a musical


This one is sang by my church!

mercy out,
wai leem

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Posted by whylame on June 26, 2008 at 10:48 am under Music review.
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