More about me and why this blog

Hi

In year 2001, a young prefect boy was sitting by the gate of a secondary school, allowing students whose name are to be recorded because of late coming to enter the school. A senior prefect came along one day, and my world was never the same from that day. It was the weirdest conversation you can find between a junior and a senior prefect. She sat beside me, and started telling me all about this guy called Jesus Christ, how He could heal people, how He lived a sinless life, teaching people, and most absurdly, walking on water. Silly though I was, that was something beyond my belief; still I agreed to go for a musical her church (eventually mine!) organized to find out more about what she was telling me. Before the actual day of musical, I was worshiping together with the casts.

I thank God for the many musically inclined friends He placed around me. In fact most of my friends that I am closed to are all musicians. He also made me with such a great passion for music! My first music theory was taught by my secondary school drum major, Khairunnisa, my best friend. Then subsequently in church, many seniors taught me how to play the guitar. Well, I wouldn't say that when I played the first chords on the guitar was to worship God, but as I progress and learn the instrument through worship songs, I grew in love, knowledge and ability in playing music.

Eventually through prayer, solitudes and studying of God's word, often other times my inspirations comes from friends, I learnt to express it in lyrics and tunes. I really thank God for giving me the gift of feeling music and poems, so much that when I read or write something, a tune seems to be attached to the words. Music has a way of amplifying the message.

I need to emphasise that I am not a professional, nor am seeking recognition or fame through this blog, but a sharing of the songs that I have written in hope of encouraging others through my experiences and inspirations. Each song is not a concoction of just poems and tunes, but my prayer and response to God. Please do not listen to the songs itself (for I don't reckon them as professionally melodious for appreciation) but do read the reasons and explanations of the songs.

Feel free to ask for the chords, just email or sms me for it.

I miss you

Some song writers come about through having had professional training, others through copying, few born with it. In 2004, this was the first song I've ever written, and also the song that led me to discover my passion in writing songs to express myself. Not professional training, neither did I copy other's work, even yet untrue that I have a talent; it was a cry from the bottom of my heart to my best friend whom I have not communicated with coming to a year then.

We both were going through tough times after graduating from secondary school, thus the silence; but one afternoon, I received a sms: "Yihan, the raindrops that you cannot catch, or the stars that you cannot see at night, are the times that I've missed you." That moment my teary eyes stared at those words, every cell of my heart repeated it. I have to let Khai know that I miss her too.

As I began writing what started as a poem, I began to recall the other friends that I missed; penning down all the activities we did together, all the sorrow and happiness we shared, how we never missed a single rising and setting of the sun. The doodles still left in the classes, and the promise we made to be friends forever. Melody began to resound in my head as I scribble the words; finally every tune and words were stringed together by the message I received from her. (Just so you know, we eventually went to the same Junior College)

All you my friends whom I've talked with through the night, who gazed at the moon with me, whom foot prints were beside mine along the beaches, whose names we've imprinted in the classrooms together, this song I've written for you.

I delicate this song to all my secondary school friends.

I miss you

How long was it, since the sun rise have
The company of you and me
Each sunset reminds me of how
The sea splashes on our knees
With the night just moon and me
I wonder if the moon too you see

Chorus:

If you were to, catch the rain with your hands
Or count the stars with your eyes
The drops of rain you cannot catch
Or the stars you cannot see
Are the times that I miss you

Where else have we not been together
Which of your sorrows I did not bare
What happiness had we not shared
And now I wish the phone to ring and through the night we talk

Chorus:

If you were to, catch the rain with your hands
Or count the stars with your eyes
The drops of rain you cannot catch
Or the stars you cannot see
Are the times that I miss you

Bridge:

When school like wonderland
With lessons so sweet with doodles
How we hugged on graduation
With assurance never to part
Now ends of the world we are
I just want you to know that I miss you

Chorus:

If you were to, catch the rain with your hands
Or count the stars with your eyes
The drops of rain you cannot catch
Or the stars you cannot see
Are the times that I miss you
The drops of rain you cannot catch
Or the stars you cannot see
Are the times that I miss you


I miss you.mp3 - Jonathon Teo
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