the Drift

d r e a m

we try
but we don't belong

you'll know where you are

mmm. cookies.

Fender CIJ ST71-93TX | Yamaha AES620
Line 6 M13 > ^Effects Loop In > OM Labs Sahasrara > Xotic BB Pre-amp
Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret > Tech 21 Liverpool > Effects Loop Out^ >
Stereo Out >> Boss FV-50L > Vox AC4TVH 4W amp & V112TV 12" cab
>> Vox Pathfinder 15R

ASIO bit-matched WinAmp > ASUS Xonar Essence STX >
Denon AH-D2000 | Audio-Technica ESW10jpn | Nakamachi Soundspace 1

iPod Touch 2g 16GB > Sennheiser IE8

Total Damage: $7010+++

Other notable gear I own or have owned/loaned/tested extensively -

Epiphone WildKat | Monsterpiece NPN Fuzz | Goosoniqueworx Boosty | Visual Sound Route 66
Voodoo Labs Tremolo | Electro Harmonix White Finger | Electro Harmonix Mini Q-Tron
Red Witch Medusa | Death by Audio Total Sonic Annihilation | Line6 DL-4
ProCo Rat2 | Tonefactor Huckleberry | Boss CH-1 | Boss DD-20 | Yamaha Magicstomp
Empress Effects Tremolo | Boss RE-20 | Moog MuRF
Vox VBR-1 Brian May Special | Blackheart Little Giant & 12" Cab

Audio-Technica AD700 | ALO Cryo SXC 18g| Ultimate Link Silver Master-i | Crossroads XBi
Sony MDR-EX71 | Westone UM1 | Etymotic ER6i | Graham Slee Voyager
Mogami 2549 OFC IC | iBasso D3 Python

Feel free to ask me for mostly unbiased reviews in proper english - with pratical considerations from the viewpoint of a budget-conscious student

but for now we are young
let us lay in the sun
and count every beautiful thing we can see

012

Sunday, August 17, 2008 ( 11:12 PM )

Service was great today..just such a refreshing time, especially when my QT felt abit dry the past week, probably cos 1st week of tutorials and havent quite gotten used to how little "free time" i have. Enjoyed Judy's sharing as well, on worshipping in Spirit and in truth. Indeed, how exhilirating it is to truly worship God, and enjoy His presence. It is unfortunate that we so often take worship for granted or even hold a jaded outlook on knowing God better. I think young adults are often most suspect in this regard, cos its easy to feel as if we know enough, and are fairly mature spiritually; and at the same time mounting concerns with tertiary studies, career and BGR often supercede our desire to develop a more intimate relationship with our Father.

.."Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him." For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

-1 Cor 2:9-11

What the mind can't fathom, the spirit can - with the help of the Holy Spirit. How exciting it is when God's spirit discloses revelations to us, speaking to us in a fundamental way no cognitive or emotional process could explain: this is true "spiritual discernment". The heart is deceitful above all; and no man can discern even his own thoughts and intentions. As we worship Him may the Lord reveal our own hearts to us.
1 John 3:18 reminds us to "not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth". The reality of truth in our worship can only be manifested in our actions, and the lifestyle or worship depicted in Romans 12 - a perfect picture of worshipping in spirit. I know I myself have often been distracted or conformed to the expectations and pressures of this modern world..even so early in the semester I have allowed work and lack of time to peg me to a state of passivity. If you have ever felt similarly, take heart and lets pray for each other, remembering how much Jesus desires to spend time with us and form a wonderful friendship. Let us not worship from afar, but draw nearer to Him everyday; and in so doing be compelled to shine His light wherever we may be called.

But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

-John 4:23-24