As promised a day by day account of The Edge Conference from preparation Monday all the way to Friday night concerts as I remember it.
Monday – 31/5/04
All of us reported for “work” at about 9am. Took a short breakfast with the whole crew and we were all off to one whole grueling day of work. The whole church office was in a buzz. From sorting out name tags to doing the database to signage to packing the folders. First boo boo to happen. Scott accidentally erased the phone numbers from the database.
My highlight of the day was trying to get unc remy. You see he was suppose to take a workshop on mixing sound but the day before he told unc fred to tell me to postpone his class because his plane only arrives 2 june mid-night and his workshop is 2nd june 11:45am. At first I thought of calling each of Remy’s participant, after the first 10 calls, nicci, chu yeh all came back with all sorts of feedback. Mike, Scott thought it was really impossible to postpone his class. Anyway to cut the long story short, I found out later that his plane arrives 1 june 12noon so that means he can take the workshop. Pastor Mike called him and managed to persuade him to stick to the workshop. PRAISE GOD!!!!
I was getting real stress at night already. My band had a practice session in church that night, I curi tulang and went and joined them for 15 minutes to relief some stress. Jamming with them for 15 minutes sure helped man.
Anyway we wraped up and went home at 12 mid-night. 15 hours of work!!! Now if only I was this passionate for my secular work.
Tuesday – 1/6/04
THE DAY!!! Wah lau!!! Helter skelter man the first day. But it’s usual lar for the first day of a conference to be like that. 40 name tags went missing so yeah some participants were without name tags for a while.
The workshop venues weren't ready in time too. My boo boo for the first day of the conference.
1. I lost the whole YC mike box but thank God Chuckie found it.
2. I accidentally left the DVD player in one of the workshop rooms and didn’t realized it until that workshop ended. Thank God no one walked away with it because I just left it on a seat.
3. The location I allocated for Glenn Lim’s workshop was too small. People had to seat in the corridor. I didn’t expect last minute so many people turned out for his workshop. Had to shift them to Chapel for their second session.
First night’s concert was okay… sound was very bad!!! I tahan until cannot tahan I marched straight up to the sound console to interfere already and guess who beat me there, David Gary, the bassist for Altered Frequency. He also said he cannot tahan liao.
The Desperation Band was good. They got the crowd going on the first night.
Wednesday – 2/6/04
Things went a whole lot smoother today. Organised the workshop a whole lot better, no major boo boo for the day. Remy turned up for his workshop thank God. Was so afraid that his jet lag would take a toll on him. It did lar, but it wasn’t so bad until he could not come.
The second night’s concert was so much better, the sound was just awesome man. It’s really a sense of security when Remy does the sound. Everything was crystal clear. You hear the sound really steam man!!! It just sends you pumping!!! It was as if you were listening straight from the CD.
We spent the whole night assembling PCs for Scott’s class the next day. We encountered a lot of problem but thank God for Tien Ming and his MCSE knowledge, he troubled shoot everything. I didn’t had to crack a brain cell to think. Tien Ming just came to me with a problem with a solution attached to it. You really came through Tien Ming.
Joke for that night
1. David tries to assemble a PC. Big error words “Keyboard and mouse not attached” he turns around to Anand and ask “How ah?? How ah?? How ah??” Ai yoh!!! Only know how to play guitar and loose hand phone but fix keyboard and mouse????
2. Anand slaps Scott on the face and a road runner and coyote cartoon emerges.
3. Turning all the lights off and left scott sleeping in L4 hall after assembling all the PCs. If not for the good conscience of Anand, Judah and I wanted to just leave him there till the next day.
Thursday – 3/6/04
I came down with fever in the late morning but I decided to tahan through the day. Took pockets of nap here and there to stay alert.
Things went quite smoothly the whole day. Everyone was on top of everything. I did 2 boo boos though:
1. I put Ross Parsley workshop in Chapel and it was like sardines in Chapel. You could not even walk without hitting someone or something. I should have learnt from previous days that Ross Parsley workshops equal more than 200 participants.
2. Glenn Lim showed a movie about himself. I thought no one will go and watch it so I put the show in Chapel. Guess what??? Almost 250 people squeeze into chapel. A whole lot of people just came and went off. I saw the crowd and quickly walked off before anyone complained to me.
I have to say that though Glenn Lim an asian, his status in The Edge was as big a Ross Parsley. I mean everyone just wanted a piece of Glenn just like everyone wanted a piece of Ross.
Hero of the day was Khai Meng. He took his workshop so well man, the way he interacted with the crowd??!!! You won’t believe it’s Khai Meng…. Khai Meng if you’re reading this, you were really good. Every questioned that the audience asked, Khai Meng had an answer and a sample to show them. In case you all are blur, Khai Meng single handedly took a workshop entitle “Turing your home into a recording studio”.
My band opened for Desperation. By the time we took stage my fever was at its peak already, the panadol I took earlier hasn’t taken effect yet. I blacked out 3 times on stage so that explains the 3 bigs mistakes I made on stage. But thank God people still liked our act. Our first batch of about 50 CDs was sold out in the first night.. wow!!! Thank you all who supported her reverie.
Friday – 4/6/04
Last day for The Edge and I was looking forward to it ending but at the same time that all the effort we put in is coming to an end.
It was a very kembang day for me man. 1st during the worship band dynamic workshop, the bassist for Desperation used me as an example for the workshop when it came to talking about how a bass player should play. He said something like “You know Mac Taan from her reverie… he rocked man, he was playing the 8th note………blah blah…I mean Mac Taan just rock man!!!” Wah lau!! Damn malu lar… it’s not to say I that fantastic a player or what…. but at the same time kembang lar… an integrity bassist said I was rocking… hehehehehe…. Hhhmmm… does that mean I am good enuff for integrity??? Hehehehehehehe…..
Second was when Mike asked Scott, Judah, Tien Ming, Rachel, Chuckie, Hock, Terry, Paul and myself to stand out on stage for recognition of our contribution to the conference… ai yah… don’t know about the rest lar… not to sound humble or what lar.. but we do things for Lord and for me as long as the Lord knows of my contribution that’s enough. But it was a kembang day lar…. Esp with the bass playing one not that it made me air headed but to be honest and I think I only shared it with Deborah that I considered quitting the bass because I just felt I was not cut out enough and I just thought I was plain not good. I can’t keep a steady time and how to play bass lar when you can’t keep a steady timing. So to hear Matt Fallentine say Mark kept good timing, he set the groove, mark played some nice interesting bass chords, mark just rock, I guess I just needed to hear that because I was getting discourage with my playing. So guess God knows where and when to encourage me.
The last night’s concert just rocked big time man!!!! I really enjoyed myself on the last night of the conference.
My boo boo for the day was leaving the L5 projector key in my house. Man, I heard that Isaac was raving mad and Mike got all the brunt of it. I am so sorry that I forgot to bring the keys and caused such inconvenience and distress.
Overall, I really thank God for the success of the conference. I really pray the The Edge is a brand now and it can be used even further next year. Just that the logistic work and all just scares you!!!
What touched me was Ross Parsley. Imagine, second in command to one of the biggest church in US, an endorsed Integrity Artist with 3 albums under his belt, I mean this guys is in the same status as Paul Baloche, Ken Henry and even Ron Kenoly. But his humbleness is just can’t be explained. An integrity artist?? Ron Kenoly stayed in a 5 star hotel when he came to KL, but Ross stayed in our house 3 without a complain and even said that he was so comfortable there. He ate in Nathans corner, walked himself to his workshops, walked himself to L4 for lunch, sitting in our old church van and not a big car not needing any escort or what not to take him anywhere. I mean I’ve seen unknowns asking for so much and so much and expect so much and so much… but He told me this “Mark, you don’t have to come and get me, I know the way.. don’t worry about me…take care of the conference and yourself”…. man that’s what I call humbleness!!!! A world renowned Integrity Artist saying that and acting so humble. He is really one act to follow.
I want to Thank Everyone for praying and helping in the THE EDGE again!!!! I seriously hope there will be THE EDGE – Jesus and beyond the Edge | 
