Mormonism and Musician

Today has been eventful. Meant to blog lots.. but someone got my mood down and dirty and thus, have not much motivation to blog a wonderfully bright and brilliant post. so do excuse and pardon me. :)

first, i'll talk bout my day. today started out quite bad... was late for church coz i msn-ed with debz and blogged after that. so went late... but as always, no problems.. jus guilt. :)

Reached office and spent the day in mindless dealings with flights from this country to tat country... and filled my head, thoughts and motivations on Ravi. His messages are power packed with truths and wonderous lessons to be learnt. today we covered Jonah, Nehemiah, The dying Thief... yeh.. jus selective memory on those he talked bout today...
so i indulged in the sermons and feasted upon the truths in God's word... come lunch time, i watched the next half and almost finished "underworld evolution"... and continued to listen to sermons after lunch break. knowing full well my battery was being drained... i had planned to charge it at 4pm [as always]. so the battery dwindled down to red bar at 4.30 and i decided to charge my zen. to my horror, when i looked into my bag, the jack for the charger was missing!!! that means i can't charge it! so i had a dying zen and an hour's trip to city hall. oh goodness.

cut a long story short, i stopped my sermons there and then and had to take a train instead of a bus due to the lack of entertainment. yeh so that wraps up the work side of my day.

Found Angel dozin off at city hall steps and promptly got the sleeping beauty to excelsior hotel. k, this is where i bore you with the background of the following topic. *flash back*

told lydia i was lookin for a guitar some time back and she gave me the 101 on buyin an acoustic. her info and knowledge was ... immensely useful and beneficial to me. Tian en heard i was lookin for a guit and got in touch with his fren, Kelvin, who works at a music shop. on another note, lydia recommended going Excelsior Hotel coz they had lots of guitar shops there and lo and behold, Kelvin worked there.
so last nite, i called him and we discussed bout what product i can look for there and worked with my budget and all. he gave me some specific ones to look at and i promised to pop by today to look see but he wasn't in.

so yeh, today i went to excelsior and checked out the guits. there were 3 that i was considering... $250 CORT - 2nd hand, plug in, rounder brighter sound
$249 BLAST - 1st hand, no plug in, nicer colour and look
$299 BLAST - 1st hand, no plug in, brilliant sound

so after talkin with the guy there for a while and weighing the pros and cons, i decided to buy tomolo after askin dinesh if church can handle my guit plugged in. but when i walked out, i called my mum and asked permission and dinesh to settle the PA issue. and it was all green lights so i walked back in and purchased it. it came with a free bag and so i walked out $250 poorer but tenfold-ly happy. :) so surreal. the exact amount i budgetted for, God provided a wonderfully "got standard leh" guitar... according to Lydia. haha

On the way to Subway for dinner, i approached a Mormon and spent an hour and 15 minutes speaking with him. My experiences with that is here [click to go to link] in my other blog. go read it. it was an interesting experience.

so we had wonderful subway, which i miss so much, and it wrapped [no pun intended] up a cool entertaining, informative and thought provoking day.

i are happy. i is going to learn how to play my acoustic guit well. :) and i promise to put pics when i have them.