"Welcome back to the jungle" That's what's running through my mind this morning. After having been out on my own with Oops! Asia & Four Forty Records it'll be strange and a BIG BIG adjustment to going back to working for someone.

Juwita & I have been mulling over the finances of Four Forty Records and how to alleviate the financial strain on our "baby". Being a young start-up we've gone far but the industry is a difficult one. On a personal note it's been a struggle to manage with the small salary that Juwita & I decided on but God has been good and I survived 2007 intact. It's been a year of sacrfices and now that I've tried things out full-time for a year I realise that the reality is that there is still a need for us personally to have day jobs while we continue to grow the business.

The music industry is an exciting one but with world-wide shrinkage on music sales it is a challenging one. The English market is a niche one in Malaysia and in a country of 26 million people the numbers are really small. After much deliberation & prayer PLUS numerous discussions with my mentor Ps Mike I made active effort to look for part-time work at the start of 2008 so here I am at the start of something new.

Everything happened so fast. I called my new employers a few times to follow-up on the job opportunity for almost a month plus and finally got called in for an interview this week. Met up with one of the directors on Tuesday and arrangements were made for a 2nd meet-up with the team I'd be working with. I met them yesterday over lunch and in the evening I was told that my appointment letter would be drafted out and I'd be picking it up today. I'll be starting April 1st!
It's gonna be a challenge to continue with Four Forty Records on the side and for the first few months I'll have to concentrate on my new job to adjust to the work culture. It's both exciting and scary at the same time. It'll be a BIG change and after 3 years of managing my own schedule and being so flexible, structure is something that is most welcome now. And with all the experiences I've had in the past few years I know that I'm a much more valuable person to have in the workplace compared to before. It's been a tough 3 years and hopefully the next 3 would be easier.

Till next time! Wish me luck! Lots of prayer would be great too!

Blog Clean-up And Easter Sunday Happenings

Mua ha ha ha ha! I spent the past 1 or 2 hours cleaning up all the posts on my Multiply account and tagging everything more cleanly. Everything's spick & span now. As you can see from the tags on the homepage; the blog's gonna be more streamlined now for easy access to topics of interest. A blessed Easter to everyone of the Christian faith as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus today.

It's been a long day today, I got up at 5am to go help out at DUMC's Easter Sunrise Celebration. Didn't do much there but help arrange some chairs and directed traffic a little. We had a good turnout today and it was nice to be at a sunrise service that is so very Methodist. I didn't realise how much I missed Easter sunrise services until today.

Dawn of War: Winter Assault

When we were done I spent the better part of the morning with my best bud J-son at a cyber-cafe! Ha ha! I know it's Easter but since I had time to kill till my 2pm lunch appointment I just hung out with him. It was nice to just hang back and chat while playing video games. J-son was playing Dawn of War: Winter Assault while I played Hellgate: London. The cool thing about cyber-cafes these days is that you can actually save your games states with this nifty piece of software. Very cool ... maybe I'll go back again to TBun in Aman Suria to continue from where I left off. Hellgate: London was pretty fun cos' it reminded me of my Diablo II obsession back in 2001 or was it 2002?

The NEW Diablo!

I'm looking forward to catching 27 Dresses in the next two weeks or so. Katherine Heigl is such a bombshell and I am SO up for a romantic comedy. I'm not a fan of Grey's Anatomy and the first time I saw her was in Knocked Up which surprisingly I kinda enjoyed. Anyone up for 27 Dresses? I'll go get the tickets!

27 Dresses Anyone?

Till next time ... Cheers!