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2006-10-18 @ 11:25 p.m.

Isn't it a bit paradoxical if we don't sing songs just because they're not familiar to some people in the congregation? In that case, they'd never become familiar with the songs precisely because nobody dares to sing them, for fear of getting no response from the congregation. Besides, if I decided that I didn't want to sing anything I wasn't already familiar with, I'd never have sat through some of our services, especially those with all the hymns. (I don't really like hymns; I think the way they're sung is incredibly draggy and I'm pretty sure people back then liked to have fun with their music too, so they couldn't possibly have sung everything at some insanely ponderous tempo!) One of the reasons people my age don't like going to main service is that we find it boring. From the songs they sing to the way sermons are preached, everything feels like it's stuck somewhere in the last century. I'm not saying old is bad. As everyone knows, vintage can be valuable, but we should at least be more open to new stuff. If you're happy singing the same thing week after week, month after month, year after year, suit yourself because I don't want to lead such inflexible people. I don't see why you'd need a worship leader then, since you'd be perfectly capable of leading yourself along. Mind you, this isn't a personal attack or criticism. It's just my own observation, specifically relating to worship, which I think I'm qualified to comment on, having been involved in both youth and main worship for not a few years now.

In case you were wondering, setting up drill was awful. The trainees were slow in both sense of the word, to the point that I couldn't make up my mind whether to speak to them in English or Mandarin, since neither seemed to generate anything much beyond a perplexed expression. Thank God we don't have to take them for a summary exercise, just a connectivity exercise on next Monday. Otherwise, I'd just kill myself! Plus it didn't help that one of our own specialists was being a pain in the arse. I can't stand people like him, who perfectly demonstrate what is known in military lingo as "wayang". Like I told a couple of my trainees, such anal people are what you get when our esteemed organisation pays people to do nothing. They start poking their noses everywhere, and pretty soon, they're involved in everything but not making things better. He couldn't even remember something as basic as zeroing the mast, and you tell me this is someone in regular service? Incredible.