I have been on the road since last thursday... been great.
Started off with the Alpha retreat on Friday and Saturday in Vellore. Good times with the group and Mathew. Then met Suma aunty at the Guidance Centre. Later in the nite, had to board a train to bangalore at 1:10am from katpadi. woke up at 1am... and received calls from Stanley saying that they are already at Katpadi.. Have a gr8 auto driver who takes me there in a jiffy... I run to the station, the train honks to leave... and i manage to run into a compartment... whoa... that sure was a BIG miracle!
Sunday morning was in Bangalore... thanks to the kindness of Henry, the band has an apartment to refresh before heading to Lemontree for the service. Was great being at Bangalore, seeing Henry and his son helping us out with equipment.. I was reminded of earlier days in college...when we used to assemble and dismantle the drums regularly..and.. here i am at Ashraya Bangalore...what a blessing to play the drums with the band! was a gr8 service! Mike's message was super coool... dunno if i have a better word... so timely! Bert led the ministry time... wow! Blessed!
(was great to jam with Marcus, Kavi, Hans, Sneha and Stan the Man!... and oh my,.. the TAMA kit was amazing... i am always inspired by the tone of instruments... the tom-tom tones were excellent... i guess whenever the instruments sound gr8... i get to express myself a lot better =) Bob did a gr8 job on sound too!)
The next day I was in trivandrum... dont ask me how... last minute bus journey =)... oh i love these last minute adrenaline rushing life... itz so so coool!! Thanks to Tomz kindness I have a place to refresh and sleep... Wow! the water was amazing... kerala is the place... ur body will thank you for it!
Later...I attended Donnyz wedding. Met up Ishana at her Big Big house =)... went to meet Abraham.
Had a hilarious dinner with Tom later in the night. We have this waiter who responds to our malayalam words with highly accented english words... whatever we ask in malayalam...he responds in english... gud enough to cease our hunger for the nite! finally... tom says..." chetaa... the chicken was spicy"... and our waiter in sudden surprise says .."Thaney...."!
oh we laughed!! all the major english words had jus disappeared for the poor man.
The next morning... we had a get to-gether at Ishanaz place with a time of singing and worship with Abraham and two of his UK cousins... if you dont kno....Abraham is like Father Abraham.... he has like endless number of cousins =)...yea...no joke... everyone happens to be his cousin!! lunch courtesy - ishanaz mom =) great lunch!
met Vijichan later that nite. Was great meeting him after a long time. Also met Tomz friends Hari and Hisham.
Ystrday I got to Cochin. Went for worship service at Exodus... was great! Chinnu was leading worship...nice to see him after a long time... he also invited me to sing a song during offertory. Wow! What a blessing to sing at church after a long time... I used to be a part of Exodus btwn 2003-2006... I enjoyed singing 'Lord I am amazed by You'... (again excellent sound... good sound appeal a lot to me!) Thanks to Bibin who helped me on the keys! Gr8 guys @ Exodus!
Now... I am sitting at home...listening to Mikez msg again from last week. Jus happy and blessed at what God is doing in my life! =) Thank You God! You're amazing...Words cant tell it enough!
