Christian the Lion Reunion! True Love and Friendship

This is a true story about two friends being reunited with a lion called Christian after staying in the jungle for 9 months.

In 1969, John Rendall and Ace Berg saw a lion cub for sale at Harrods. It was cramped and lonely in a small cage, so both of them decided to bring it home. But very quickly the lion became too big for their home.

Just watch the videos below. Enjoy!





Even the news and television channels are talking about this story.

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Why Don't You PRACTICE at Home?

Haha... what a lame title I've got there, but this post won't be. =)

If you are a musician or a worship leader in church, I would like you to pay attention to this post, especially to the video I'll be sharing by Paul Baloche.

Have you ever come across that your musician or musicians won't practice at home? Yea I know that sound familiar. In this video, Paul Baloche talks about what the Bible says about playing excellently for the Lord, and the attitude we need to take to put it in practice.

Here's the video...

Psalms 33:3

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.

1 Chronicles 25:7

Along with their relatives — all of them trained and skilled in music for the LORD.

Check out Paul Baloche's other videos here

Feel free to share this post with your friends on your blog or you can just link back to my post.

*Update: Click here for Paul Baloche / Modern Worship Series / DVD Download

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Busy Playing Schedule

Have been playing drums for church services more often compared to the previous years. Almost every week sure have people ask me to take over this service or that. Tired one you know. haha

As I was typing away, I just received a sms for the songs for this coming Tuesday Bible Study. Great... here goes again, but after this Tuesday then won't be playing till next Saturday. At least get to rest. Don't tell me along the week comes another person asking me to take their place. LoL

What to do, I still enjoy playing. =)

Just tuned my snare drum during yesterdays morning practice and I still can't get it to the sound I like. Damn it !! Hopefully can tune it back to my preferred sound soon.

I feel that for me, I'll play better when my snare is in tune. I don't know why, but thats me ok. I don't think it applies to any other drummers. What I can say is drummers will always enjoy playing a well tuned drum. What say you??

OK... here some snapshots of my previous months playing schedule:
- Dark Green is playing
- Light Green is practices

March 2008

April 2008

May 2008

I know some of you also know how it feels serving almost every week. I call this - playing the MARATHON.

I'm not sure you guys remembered me mentioning there is one time I had to play for 8 Sunday services straight. You can read it again HERE. =)

Thats all I have to say for now and Happy Mothers Day !!!


P.S: Just shoot me some Comments if you have something to say.


See Ya & God Bless

- Ben The Drummer

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Reviews On Web Browsers I Personally Use

Here are the web browsers I personally use or used before...

1. Flock Browser
Flock integrates social networking and media services including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, and a lot more. When you log into any of the supported social services, Flock will automatically activate these services within its features.

Flock contains functionality that advises when friends have updated their profile, uploaded photos or other published items relevant to the user. Flock allows media sharing via drag and drop, photo uploading, and a built-in blog editor for posting from anywhere on the web.

I have not used all the functions that are available in Flock but I enjoy using it a lot.

The Flock browser is available as a free download, and supports Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

You can go HERE to download Flock Browser or to get more info.

To get some guide using Flock Browser, click HERE.

2. Mozilla Firefox 2
I've been using Firefox for almost 3 years now and I don't really have any complains, except the memory leakage when you leave in on for some time. I will have to restart the browser again to settle the problem.

I can also customize firefox to my own liking and how I want it to look like.

Firefox is my main web browser and I use a lot of the addons that are available.

Download Firefox 2.

3. Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5 (Portable Version)
I have nothing much to say much about this as it is still in beta and I haven't faced any problems using it. It's faster then Firefox 2 and there are quite a lot of new features.

I'm using the portable version is because most of the addons that I normally use are not compatible yet. So I use the portable version, which doesn't require installation.

Download Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5 (Portable Version).

4. Opera 9.2
I only use this browser for fast browsing. I like the way the graphics are being displayed on Opera compared to any other browsers. This is due to their rendering engine - Presto.

Opera has a lot of built-in features. See it HERE.

Download Opera 9.2.

5. Internet Explorer 7
If you're using IE 6, please upgrade it now to IE 7 !!! IE 6 is really OUTDATED.

For Internet Explorer, I don't have much to say as I'm not a fan of it. So no review here. Hahaha... It's very slow.

Download Internet Explorer 7.

6. Safari 3.1
Safari is a Mac-based web browser. I only used Safari for around 2 weeks then I uninstalled it. This is because it lacks of flexibility to customize it as I like. Even Mac users prefer using Firefox to Safari. LOL

Although it looks good and fast, but it comes in a very large file - 18.62MB !!!

Download Safari 3.1.


So for your info, I currently have 5 web browsers on my laptop but I'm only using 4 of them. Guess which one I'm not using. =)


P.S: I hope the reviews of web browsers are usefull to you.

P.P.S: Don't forget to write down your answer on which web browser I'm not using in the Comment box. =)


See Ya & God Bless !!

- Ben The Drummer

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My Reply To Mel - Why UseFirefox vs Internet Explorer

Hi Melvin, sorry for the late reply regarding your questions from my chat box.

Referring to questions 1...


My answer...
I use Firefox to compare with Internet Explorer is because the majority of people are using Internet Explorer.

Yes I know Internet Explorer suck (for now).

I didn't compare it with other browsers is because there are not that many people using Opera, Safari, Maxthon or some other browsers.

For those that are using Opera and Safari... good for them as these two browsers are considered one the fastest. For Maxthon, i have no experience with it. What I know about it is that it uses Internet Explorer's rendering engine and it's only more popular in China.

Referring to question 2...


My answer...
Yes that's true that Internet Explorer still has the most users compared to other web browsers. This is because Internet Explorer is installed along with Microsoft Windows. Unless you're using Mac or Linux.

So this are my reply to your 2 questions. I hope you're satisfied with them. =)


P.S: If you guys have anything to say about my reply, please leave your Comments for me to read.


See Ya & God Bless !!

- Ben The Drummer

*Update: Reviews On Web Browsers I Personally Use

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HELP!!! I'm Having Songs Overload!!!

Sorry guys for not updating this blog for some time.

I will not disappoint you guys for the coming days because I've some really interesting topics and stuffs to share with you all, so do come back to check for my updates.

As you're read my title "HELP!!! I'm Having Songs Overload!!!", I'm really am being overloaded with songs in my head. This is because this Saturday is I.G.NITE! and I've been learning 7 songs within 2 weeks.

Normally I'll just roughly get the drum beats and just play my own way for any new songs, but for this time special a bit ma, it's I.G.NITE!, so I planned to learned up the songs almost exactly the way the songs are played. By the way I wont play 100% the same as of the disc la but can be very close to 100% already la. What you expect ??

So ended up for the past 2 weeks I was busy with my work and busy with learning the new songs that's why didn't really update my blog.

So how do I feel when I'm having songs overload ?? It feels like my brain is going to blow up and can't take in anymore new songs because can't go in already. LOL

Let me put "songs overload" into a perspective for you.

Let's say you're of average height and weight for your age.(growing up stage)

Suddenly you decided to eat everything you possibly can. Why? Because you were afraid of missing some important nutrient in your diet.

So you indiscriminately decided to eat everything you could lay your hands on "just in case" there was some nutrient in there that could help make you healthier.

So that's the same case la so after this I.G.NITE!, I'll be going on a "Songs Diet". to rest my brain... LOL

I'm taking in WAY TOO MUCH information and I'm OVERLOADING. It's just like when you eat too much you GAIN "WEIGHT".

So do you understand how do I feel now or how does it feel to be in this situation.

This is all I have to say for now... I wan't to go and sleep already because tomorrow morning have practice again at 9 a.m so see you guys tomorrow during I.G.NITE.


P.S: If you guys have been in this kind of situation before, feel free to let me know what was your reaction to it or anything la regarding this post. =)


See Ya & God Bless !!

- Ben The Drummer

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Taking A Rest

Hey guys, today I'll take a rest on the computer memory posts.

Happens that some people like it and some doesn't. HAHA....so what say you ??

What an intro that Jim (Joo Tatt) did for me on his blog at tattx-bottledstories.blogspot.com. Lol...can't blame him for doing so because he's always like this la. But thanks anyway for spreading my blog.

The first Ignite for 2008 is coming and I'm still like out of form to play. MAN !! I seriously need some prayer. Have been playing non stop for quite a while already. The record for me playing non-stop is for 2 straight months. Just imagine playing for Sun Service for 2 months but different services la. And I still didn't count those time playing for bible study, prayer meeting and for Ignite Service yet.

What's amazing part is one of the church member came to me and say "Wah you're playing tomorrow again ar ?" when i was practicing. Haha... Even church member noticed I have been playing for so many weeks. Just imagine Pastor Marcus will be thinking in his head "Why is this guy playing on Sun non-stop for the different services?"

Hey, by the way I'm not complaining la but people do get dry one k. Sometimes we need to refill also one ma right.

It's time for us to train up more new musicians because we are really lacking of musicians. It's so obvious that the generations after us is like totally no new musicians except for the girls lo. What happened to the guys !!?? Wake up Man !! It's time to rise up and and to serve God.

Soon I'll be having drum lessons for those that are interested. So those that are interested come give me your names. Details will be given to you soon but I'm planning to train those that already know how to play drums. A separate class for those that are new to drums will be open also, but I have to arrange the time for it. So fear not. =) Btw, it's very taxing one, because I do have my own things to do and I'm not the very free type of person one k.

So this is the end of my rantings. Did anyone closed the page before finishing it?? LOL....if you've had closed the page you wont be reading this part of my post already right. HAHA

P.S: Before you go, can you guys write in my comment box to let me know what you think about the Computer posts ok. =)

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7 Common Mistakes That Are Commonly Made In Listening

1. Prejudging people by assuming what their answer will be.

2. Spending too much time focusing on facts instead of feelings.

3. Ignoring the real meaning of the other person's words.

4. Letting your feelings block our sensitivity to the other person's needs.

5. Being distracted by our own life concerns and needs.

6. Pretending to listen while planning to take charge of the conversation as soon as they pause for a breath.

7. Going off on tangents which do not lead towards Christ.

Listening has been called the supreme communication skill.

P.S: So guys, if you've learned something from this post, just feel free to shoot me some Comments. =)

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Being A Listener

It is amazing how much you can learn about a person with some careful listening.

It can be the person's problems or anything else that others failed to listen to and the person with problems ended up with no help. It's goes the same as in our daily life. We tend to talk more then we listen and ended up asking back the other person " When did you say this? or Did you say this before? ".

Arguments or misunderstandings also happens when someone fails to listen properly.

There is a question we need to ask ourselves: In many of our sharing efforts, do people fail to listen to us because we have not first listened to them?

So if next time when some one doesn't listen to you, you have to recall back whether have you not listen to him when he's talking.

Sometimes it's very annoying when you're talking to this person and this person is doing his things. You will feel that don't know whether did this person heard what I just said. You feel very angry also right because this person has not shown you respect and you feel like just shouting or choking that person. =)

And sometimes there are people that just jumps into answering what you have said before you had even finished talking what you're trying to say and ended up they give you solution or answers that are totally out of topic or not related because they did not listen finish what you're saying. What a waste of time because you have to repeat it to the other person again. So let others finish talking before you give them an answer because this will save both persons time. =)

Most of us also reject people who won't listen to us - because we feel rejected by them.

You can not to agree with what the person is saying or their way of doing things but you must accept them as they are. Don't because that you don't agree with them and you ended up stop listening and respecting them because the other person might have their own problems that's why they are acting weirdly.

Listening is not an enduring quality, but it is a seeking quality that we have to learn slowly.

The quality of listening is also very important when we're trying to reach out to those non believers. This happens when you're trying to reach out to them when they are facing problems but you did not listen carefully to the problems they are facing. Ended up you giving them the answer that is unrelated to their problems.

So if you can listen properly to what the person is trying to tell you, it's much more easier to reach out to them through Christ.

The greatest gift we can give another person is our attention.

Here is a verse for you - James 1: 19 "... Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."

By the way, I'm Not pointing out to anyone here ok. so RELAX la and don't be offended. It's just what came to my mind to write this post.

This is all I have to say about listening so take care.


P.S: So guys, if you've learned something here, just leave me some Comments.

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Learn To Love

Learn to love challenge, and you'll fill your life with accomplishment. Learn to love effort, and your skills will grow more valuable with each passing day.

Learn to love making a difference, and doors will quickly open for you wherever you go. Learn to love giving freely of yourself, and you'll receive more fulfillment than you ever could imagine.

Learn to love being the authentic person you are, and everything you do will be infused with integrity. Learn to love whatever work you're doing, and that work will bring abundant rewards.

Learn to love beauty for beauty's sake, and you'll discover a wealth of it in places no one else would even think to look. Learn to love unconditionally, and there will be no limit to what your love can accomplish.

Learn to love life just because it is, and each day will be a grand new adventure. Learn to love the moment you're in, and you'll find richness in every direction.

Learn to love the possibilities, and you'll make your way to whatever you seek. Learn to love no matter what, and you'll discover what a miracle you truly are.

Last but not least, learn to Love yourself and those that are around you.


P.S: So guys, if you think that this post was interesting, just shoot me some Comments.

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