Got this really awesome card from Hei Man today at Tech65‘s 100th episode event at Geek Terminal. She actually made it all by herself! According to her, she learnt how to do from this website. Thanks Hei Man, I really liked it.

I had an awesome time yesterday at our event and everything went better than I expected it to be (apart from the small technical hiccup at the start of the recording).

That wasn’t the only gift I got today though…

To tell the truth, the event wasn’t supposed to be the way it was yesterdat. Originally, we were gonna be in the upper deck of Geek Terminal, and I was personally hoping we could use the screen and the sound system. The night before, NTT and I went over to Geek Terminal to discuss some final details of the event today with Michael, the operations manager there, and discovered, to our horror, that he wasn’t aware of our event, and that the place was already booked at the same time as ours. We knew the mis-communication was our fault. Michael was really awesome though (that’s why I love the guys there, they just can’t stop being a blessing to me), and offered an alternative solution, which is to turn the front of the bar into our event area. In the end, the new layout made everything cosier, and made the atmosphere a lot better than it would have been.

I realised that I still panic when stuff don’t go right, even though I know that all things will ALWAYS work together for good for me. The night before I was worried the event would get messed up, but now that it’s over, I look back and see Daddy God’s finger prints all over!

Fingerprint 1: Geek Terminal was supposed to be closed on Friday, yet when I arrived, I saw Michael there. According to him, he was supposed to leave and close up the place a lot earlier, in which then we would have missed him and result in totally chaos the next day, but because the people he was supposed to meet were late, he was still around by the time I got to Geek Terminal. In fact, he closed the place right after NTT and I left. He then came up with a solution for us, and NTT and I thought of ways to take advantage of the change in location.

Fingerprint 2: The event was obviously a lot more succesful thanks to the new layout! That’s when I realised how perfect things went for us. In Christ, even our mistakes prosper. To me, that was the best gift from Daddy God that I could recieve for our 100th episode, His presence.

I find it strange how our emotions somehow take a while to learn the lesson, despite the endless flow of testimonies and Him redeeming me everytime without fail from circumstances. The good news is that things can only get better, for my God has seen my future, and He declared to me that it is good!

In His love,

Daniel

Something weird started happening to my 2 year old 5th gen iPod’s display. It started with a small spot, and within a day became a whole bunch of lines. I watch a lot of video podcasts (hey, to make good shows, you gotta watch good shows too, you know) during my free time at work, so the lines became very obvious and very distracting. The funny thing is that they disappear after the back light goes off.

I guess that means I’ll be receiving a new iPod soon (I got this one for free, a miracle, like many of the gadgets I own…) I hope it’s a 16GB iPod Touch! Thanks Abba!

P.S.: That album playing on my iPod is “Restore” by Bob Fitts. He visited our church again last Sunday and I loved his music, so I bought it.

In other related news, Edwin has also written us a brand new Jingle for 65bits! It’s pretty cool sounding and finally something unique specially for us! We’ll probably only use it from Episode 52 onwards because NTT wants to do some levelling on it first (an audiophile is always an audiophile…) I’m not gonna spoil it for you, so just wait for it next week! Thanks again bro!!

That day’s service was awesome, and I believe it has set me free once more. Praise the Lord…

When I was back in Tech-whizz, I lacked many things. The most important thing I lacked then was probably the revelation of Jesus Christ and His finished work. Without that revelation, I always felt that I had to work hard for things to work. It wasn’t so bad though, because ever since I was 12, I have been growing up with “The Secret” thanks to my dad’s job. The guy I worked with felt that way even more strongly about working hard. He even wrote to ComputerTimes (the then digital life) and got them to interview us. Talk about thick skin. He was also very money minded. To him, Tech-whizz was a business opportunity, not a work of passion. Needless to say, by 2004, Tech-whizz faded away into the dark corners of the interwebs, soon eaten up by the vultures of the webs, the domain squatters.

In mid-2004, I finally discovered the truth, the secret behind the secret. That is, the revelation of the finished work, how a perfect man hung himself on a cross so that all of mankind will be set free from the curse of man and the curse of the Law.

At end-2005, that guy I worked with approached me again. Back then I thought that it would probably work out better if I worked with him since he had the cash, yet I knew our beliefs clashed. So I asked God about it and He said “Don’t worry, I can make you succeed regardless of the circumstances“, and thinking the “circumstances” referred to our clashing beliefs, I said yes. That was a misinterpretation I was meant to make. Because during the few weeks I collaborated with him, 2 things happened. God began bringing to me resources by letting me be at the right place at the right time (seriously, I got S$450 from a place I never dream I’ll ever recieve from), and that guy’s greed for money an his true motives for asking me to work with him again began to appear. That’s when it hit me. God had meant that even I had no money, he could make me succeed. I didn’t have to rely on that guy just because he had the money! That was an awesome revelation! I told that guy enough was enough, and started Tech65. How’s that for a miracle?

Because of the fact that it was God who made it even possible for Tech65 to even exist, that’s how I’ve run the site all along, with a rest knowing that it’s not my works but His that will make this big. I never actively promoted the site, or went out to look for people to sponsor the site.

At the end of 2006, Tech65 began to grow at an accelerated pace. Jerrick came back from China to serve NS, and back at Tech-whizz, he was the only guy who had the same genuine passion for tech as me. So I asked him to join me at Tech65. I remember that the decision to do a podcast was made only within a few days, and our main reason for doing so was simply that I got tired of writing, and we didn’t have the time to do writing. What’s more, we loved to talk about tech! So why not?

Since then, there have been so many amazing things happening with the show. For example, there was once, our schedules clashed badly one weekend, so we tried to do our show on skype. Skype failed us badly (and I now know that was intervention from God because skype has never failed us since) so we were forced to go outdoors to do our show. Apparently, that gave NTT the opportunity to join our show after he found us on Google. That is another miracle. I think NTT was another great gift to us. Ever since then, Tech65 really grew thanks to the Ping.sg community that we would otherwise have never known existed.

It was this song that made me wanna write this today:
“Jesus, your Grace has raised me up,
Jesus, your truth has set me free…”
- Living Word

Thank You, Jesus. That chorus really describes what I’ve been through in the past 3 years. Without Him, we won’t be able to do what we can do today. Life can be supernatural, do you believe it?

And this is just the beginning… I know no matter which direction Tech65 goes in the future, it will be good. Amen.