William Chong

Hello! Trying this out, the full version of “Birthday Wish”. I uploaded a 10-second clip on my site’s previous incarnation, but yeah. That went away, and now a full uncut version is in its place! I tend to work this song on Easters, it seems – wrote it a few Easters ago, performed it for the first time some birthdays ago, and remixed it during the most recent Easter weekend (2007).

If you’re keen on more music, I’m working on it – in the meantime I’ve got http://williamchong.com/music-collection/ up.

Anyways, have a listen and comments and constructive crit would be much appreciated!

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Birthday Wish – WILLIAM CHONG
Lyrics

You were selfless when you had Your will be done
Graceful when they didn’t know what they were doing
and perfect at “Father into Your hands You commit Your spirit”
I wish I could be as selfless as You
I wish I could be as graceful as You
I wish I could be as perfect as You
For a start I’ll praise You and wish You

Happy birthday dear Jesus
Born to take our sins away
Happy birthday to You Lord

You were helpless when you entered the world
Punished for our iniquities
Yet you loved us so much
You raised Your hands on top of a hill to give up Your spirit
Oh I will try really hard to be as loving as You
It’s the least I can do to show how grateful I am
And thank You for giving me the greatest birthday gift
to spend forever with You and wish You

Happy birthday dear Jesus
born to take our sins away
Happy birthday to You Lord

On Saturday afternoon I attended the wedding of one of our ballroom dance tutors, Maugan.  It’s weird because his wife Joan I used to call Ms. Edington, back when she taught Space 4 in Wakaaranga Primary.  It’s the oddest thing to remember, because I’ve even got a certificate from her (they were highly-prized when you were 10) commending me on some amazing bit of homework.

Heres a couple of things I noticed:

•  A Catholic priest holds up the sacrament and wine and it transfigured into real flesh and blood (hmm.)
• CCM is not just an American evangelical thing.  The residing Father did a pretty powerful “Shine, Jesus Shine” (you know the one) – Hillsong numbers like “Shout to the Lord” also present.  You really need to be in a Catholic church to break the preconceptions that their services consist of Medieval plainsong, so I’m glad I was there.
• Maugan and Joan = cool match
• Flowergirls are adorable in any shade of wedding.  Why argue shades of grey (semantics of salvation, true) when you have such moments as these:

Anyways, hope *my* father doesn’t walk me down the aisle – that’d just be strange!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Let me first apologise for all this to-ing and fro-ing that has been going on. Bad William, for trying to change to other free web servers. Tommy has kindly hosted this wordpress thing, and I’m getting the hang of crafting a website (yet) again!

Still gotta figure out how to get music back onto this site again… but it’ll happen.  Just you wait.

But yes. Site down for 3 days was my fault entirely. Thanks Tommy!!!

In 4 hours I broke down a full score of “Another One Bites the Dust” into individual parts. Involved a lot of notes being put in… I believe Deryn (my “client” per se) will be fine with a quick n’ dirty, not engraved to the max version.

(washing machine whirrs)

I’m also looking out for a bigger site to host on… I’m getting the feeling 50 MB will only last for so long!

Gonna play squash tomorrow, ballroom practice, hit Sylvia Park, maybe drop into Nyonya to organise some more at some stage. Have a good day!

I’ve just been on the phone with my dry grandma (???).  She lives in Vancouver, is effectively my dad’s dry mum, and since we were kids has always sent us birthday cards without fail.

She has a really rich, cultured Mandarin that I’ve never heard from any other Taiwanese person.  Oh and she uses lots of big Chinese words.  In any case, we had a good long chat about how to approach my dad as his child, and also as a fellow adult.  My dry grandma raised concerns about whether my dad would remarry, and I found unexpectedly that all the way in Vancouver, someone’s praying for our family.

In other news, I’m on holiday!  Well, midsemester break: which effectively means assignments to be working on, revarnishing that deck this weekend, work, and lots of other things I’d like to get done these holidays.

One thing I’ve already achieved can be seen here!  I’ve finally gotten round to making a proper mix of one of my songs.  I chose “Birthday Wish” since it’s Good Friday today, and apart from amateurish vocals I think it turned out okay!  A slice from one of my compositions last year has also been put up.

So yes, I’m hoping to build up the music section of this site.  Stay tuned!

I’m pretty sure I didn’t dish any April fools’ jokes out today.

Here’s a selection of study notes from my papers:

“Lactate Threshold” is the point at which during incremental exercise the increase in arterial blood lactate increases disproportionately (i.e. exponentially).

???? – This phrase means that something is “well worth reading”.

Qualitative research is inherently biased.  The postmodernist point of research is now not to be a neutral observer, because no such thing exists.  Rather it is better to simply state your bias from the outset.

?F = ma; at the ankle joint COM this includes mg, GRF/shear, joint reaction forces.  Rotational formula: ?M = I?.  M = F*d.

After Wednesday I’ll be much more relieved!  Hope you’re all studyin’ hard!