first post

my first post for this year. hehe. i have been very
busy the past months about so many things. at work,
in ministry, lovelife :), personal stuffs, etc. that
i was not able to blog. even my christmas post was
very short. hehe.

january went so fast and it's already february. i had
so many things to talk about the past month but it is
too personal to write it here. they are really wonderful
moments. :) carnival park went into the rehearsal studio
to record 5 new songs for a split ep. we're almost
finished with the songs, recording is to start this last
week of february. grace period is set to do another set
of recording also. we have completed poslishing 7 4 new
songs and we are going to record it this early summer.

i will post pictures of the new youth band im mentoring.
we started may of last year and they will turn one year
old in the next few months. :)

Merry Christmas

i forgot to blog. hehe. i bought a new guitar for christmas!

Merry Christmas!

The Lost Art of Kite-Flying

the kite season peaks in the months of october
and november here in manila. it thrusts into
full gear on the first day of november and it is
the single most important day that i have been
looking forward to when i was a kid. for me it's
more fun than christmas and new year, and i'm
not kidding.

if i were to count the number of kites that i have
made during my childhood years, it would be around
300, maybe even more. this is before i started to
learn how to play guitar, i started playing guitar
when i was thirteen. i can make kites made of
plastic (plastic sa dept store, basura, palengke,
etc), manila paper, newspaper, japanese paper, and
that plastic that they use as yema wrappers. hehe.

somehow the kids discovered some other things to
play with, and unfortunately kite-flying has lost
its audience to family computers and game and
watch (this is about 20 years ago). then some
cooler games were invented and now kids don't even
know what kites are. hehe.

Switchfoot in Manila

music: learning to breathe - switchfoot
mood: cold

we were at the bleachers. yes, got problem with that?
it turned out it wasn't that far away from the stage,
but how i wish we got some mosh pit tickets. i was
trying to see what jonathan foreman's stomp boxes are,
but it was being blocked by the floor monitors.

we had a really good time. we were singing on the top
of our lungs. here's the setlist (stolen from
the official blog switchfootmanila.blogspot.com):

1. Oh! Gravity
2. Stars
3. Dare You to Move
4. American Dream
5. This is Your Life
6. Learning to Breathe
7. Chem 6A
8. More Than Fine
9. Gone
10. On Fire
11. The Cowboy Song
12. Awakening
13. Meant to Live
14. Only Hope
15. We Are One Tonight

you can also check the switchfoot site to check
out some cool pictures of the concert.

what eclipse?

music: helicopter - bloc party
mood: :)

my cousin dors texted me this message moments after the
totality:

doris(in ashfield): Im witnesng a spectacular galactic
event, a total lunar eclipse:-) Its kinda romantic, d
moon 2rning crimson! Sna and2 k cuz. Mis u!

me(in valenzuela): maulap dito. nakakaasar.

under the bright lights

i had my moments. and definitely this is one of
those. as someone who is ending his twenty-something
years, things have been geting to be rather slow
when things should have ought to be rather fast. in
some worst cases, things just don't happen. yes my
friends boredom has become me.

there it is again.. i'm bored to write.

Fred Flinstone Syndrome

while i was watching united's latest dvd and
seeing joel houston talk about their then
upcoming studio release, a thought came to me:
will excessive facial hair work for me? you
know joel has hairs all over his face and yeah
it looked cool on him, maybe it will look good
on me too. so i'm on my first week now, but i
noticed i'm starting to look more like fred
flinstone than a musician. but i'm still giving
it a chance, maybe on it's second week it will
look fine. or wicked. or astig. or not.

have you seen united's album cover? just scroll
down to my cd review and you'll find it. notice
there are people wearing shirts with things that
they stood for. like hope, love, faith, etc. if
i was invited to that photoshoot, i'll will also
wear a shirt that says something i definitely like.

BURGERS.