August, 2008

This will go down in history

31Aug 08

I was one of the lucky people who got to go to the Eraserheads concert last night for free. As I mentioned on my post before, I am grateful to Marcus Adoro for the opportunity. :worthy: Entrance wasn’t easy like I expected because I had to wait in line to be served, but I was patient and I got in eventually. But it would be better if I arrived early at the event (like at 4PM), I would’ve gotten a better spot. But neverthless I’m contented.

I saw many people that night. It was a star-studded night, celebrities who I never thought I’d see there like Francine Prieto was there! I saw Dong Abay, Mich Dulce, Marc Abaya, Kat Alano, Aiza Seguerra (lol, no we’re not related), Mark Escueta, Diego of Sandwich, J.Sonic of Pedicab, the others I forgot already. Ack. I saw my online friends, actually, most of my companions that night are people that I met online, LOL. You guys know who you are, thanks a lot for the time.

Anyway, to continue with my kwento.. The Eraserheads concert was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Just seeing the four of the original members of the band that night made me feel proud that I was there, thankful, grateful and simply HAPPY. Who knew they would really reunite again? First started as a wishful thinking for all hardcore fans of the band but it came true, it was definitely a dream come true for anyone who is a supporter of OPM music (minus those pogi rock crappola going on). I got so, so, so happy when they played this songs live: With A Smile, Ligaya, Sem break (I keep stressing this one out, lol, this is the 3rd time I’m doing a Eheads related blog post.. In my case it’s ‘TERM BREAK’), Huwag Mo Nang Itanong, Kailan, Huwag Kang Matakot, Alapaap. IMO, Light Years was the saddest song they played. It was the last song they played before going to the break, before it ended. I read up the lyrics of the song online, and it sounds like it was a song meant for Ely’s mom. Aww.

Unfortunately, as soon as things started to shape up and WE were having the time of OUR lives, something just had to happen. During the 20 minute intermission break, backstage, Ely Buendia had heart attack and had to be rushed to the hospital. And yes, you guessed it right — the show couldn’t go on any longer without the front man himself. Everyone felt a mixture of emotions — disappointment, sympathy, sadness, anger. Okay, people who got angry about the concert being cut short are probably the people who are friggin insensitive and only cares about themselves. Di naman maiiwasan na walang magrereklamo diba? Ely Buendia’s mom passed away on Thursday, if you were in his shoes, would you postpone the concert and probably disappoint a lot of fans? You wouldn’t do that, right? Cause that would be a selfish act. But the guy still went through the whole thing, serving up hungry fans by playing 15 songs STRAIGHT. I don’t want to elaborate the whole thing, if you must know the gist, then click here. Presently he’s doing OK now, he’s stable. Hopefully there will be a Part II of the Eraserheads concert very soon. :pray: And according to their drummer, it won’t be the last, that was just the beginning. :yay:

So this is the original setlist of the concert last night, Part I includes the songs that they played live. Part II, however, are the songs they would’ve played if Ely was not in a bad condition that night.

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I know everyone’s waiting for pictures from the event. Well, about an hour ago I tried my best to install Lightbox here in my domain to make it easier for you to view the photos. But, fuck! It keeps on messing up on installation, I gave up and uploaded them at my Multiply account instead. I really wanted to install Lightbox for a very long time ago, but what the heck I failed. As of this morning, I found out that there’s a Lightbox script for WordPress! Lol. I feel really stupid reinstalling the script itself last night, thanks Juice for informing me. :heart: So no more links to my Multiply, here are photos I took, the best (in my POV) from my mostly-blurred shots, haha. Lightbox-enabled! *dances*

Oh yeah, my term break officially started yesterday! I’m going to school tomorrow to claim my course cards. Hoping I don’t get a grade lower than 3.0, hoping to be a DL.. as if. Okay fine, s’long as I don’t have a grade LOWER than 2.0, I’m contented. :whistle: It’s September tomorrow as well, first -ber month!

Bahhh, I got sick when I got home from the concert as well. I have mild flu and sore throat. Wish I have loads to lozenges here to take the sore throat away. I hate it, I’m craving for lots of foods right now but I can’t eat properly cause of my damned throat. I hope to get well by Monday at least cause I’ve planned my to-do list for Term Break already. I told mom that I will continue my driving lessons, in between I will try to catch up with my HS friends, practice drawing..

I’m gonna do everything just to feel better.
Okay, not really, I was saying a line from a song.

Finals

22Aug 08

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For the past three weeks I’ve been worried sick about myself regarding how my performance on may ORALCOM¹ finals is going to turn out. It wasn’t a normal experience for me wherein I would have to just sit down for an hour and answer a test paper, instead I would present a skill in class and demonstrate it. Thankfully, things went OK (at least, for me) last Wednesday (the day of my presentation) and I was able to present it even though I was nervous and stuttered at times. :doh: I demonstrated in class ways how you can fold your fancy table cloth napkin, originally I would’ve presented 8 but I only got to 6 because I took up too much of my allotted time, haha!

My *unknown* crush attended class on that day, probably not to watch me but to help his friend, lol. Ugh, again with the crushes?! I’m not gonna say that this is the last time, clearly it won’t be! Yeah so he was there, I didn’t look at him but I felt really embarrassed while going through the whole demonstrating thing, grr. As soon as I was finished, I packed my things and went back to my seat. That night, my friend from that class said I did good, and the professor said ‘very good’ after my presentation. Gah, I was so distracted and busy with packing I didn’t hear the prof say that. At least he heard it and then he let me know about it. ) Here’s me hoping to get a good final grade on that subject, t’was good while it lasted. Seriously, I loved ORALCOM, not because of ….. and …..

Now I’m done with that, I’m insanely worried with my DESPRIN² final project, our own self portrait *insert faint horror screams here*. Never been good with drawing, I swear to God. Okay, so I got to accomplish all 10 required plates on that subject throughout the term but the problem is all of the things I drew on those plates are not people, human or persons but objects and sceneries. I’m not good with drawing people! And now I have to draw myself. Shit. Bet I’ll mess it up, but I’m ready for it! The self portraits are to be drawn on 1/4 illustration boards, I bought 4 just incase I mess the first one up. I really hope I find a way to make a decent output. My hands are not coordinated well with my imaginative brain, you know. :pray:

August is about to end and September is about to start once again. The -ber months are just around the corner!! Ick, I’m gonna turn a year older again. You know, guys. While reading Breaking Dawn (yes, finally finished reading Eclipse, I’m now reading Breaking Dawn!) .. I never really paid much attention to age (cause after all it’s just a number, right? :whistle: ) until Bella started making a big deal of it. I wrote a long entry about my “age” issues on my Multiply account (just sharing) and here’s an excerpt from it:

- 19 seems like a BIG age difference from 18.. same with turning 20, at 21, 22.. and so on.
- I think I wanna be 18 forever.
- 19 seems TOO inappropriate for me. I don’t look 19 at all, do I?! I don’t.
- Damn you Bella ~~Swan~~ Cullen for making age a big deal

I don’t think I’m spoiling anybody here because of that.. we all know that Bella wants to be a vampire so she can stay the same, physically, so that it’ll be the same with dear Edward.

I don’t know if there’s going to be any change at my little life once the clock strikes 12 at MY day. Better or worse? Or still the same? *shrugs off* Dunno what I would do on my birthday, good thing I don’t have any classes on the day where my birthday falls, lucky me! )

During our upcoming term break though, I’m planning to practice drawing (cause I have 2 subjects that are focused on drawing and color rendering), or maybe continue my driving lessons (which were stopped while I was already halfway through it.. only 4 days left and I could’ve passed and learned how to drive by now), or maybe go out of the country. But on the 6th of September, I’m definitely going back to school, not to study but to attend WordCamp Philippines! :dance:

For the meantime, I want to pass this term, receive 3.0 marks on my subjects, be a Dean’s Lister. Hahaha, dream on! Well, I might receive 3.0′s, but there would ALWAYS be a subject where I’ll receive a grade lower than 3.0, I’m sure of it. I’m used to it, too.

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A Million Flames

17Aug 08

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Finally Rico Blanco is back on the music industry! After leaving Rivermaya and going soul searching for a long time, he finally decided to enter a recording studio and make real music again. Actually, I have no idea what he did when he left. All I’m aware of is he did some fashion designing stuff (for Human), and did a mini show for the farmers once (I’m not very sure of this but he DID, my fact is not that accurate, my apologies). I’m sorry if this offends some RM fans but after Rico left, it really wasn’t Rivermaya anymore. I don’t know, maybe Rico IS Rivermaya alone. The new Rivermaya is just not Rivermaya, its just the name but the music is very different.

And let me share you something, there’s a guy in my school who looks a lot like Jayson Fernandez (present vocalist of Rivermaya)! ) It’s embarrassing but sometimes, when I see him in the hallway, I can’t help but stare at the guy. LOL. Quick 5-seconds stare though, I believe he has buddies that I am classmates with in two subjects, so no long stares. While I’m at the topic of celebrity/musician look alikes.. here’s my recent findings: We have a Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria) look alike. He’s not my classmate in any subjects, but I see him in school often. He has THE Claudio hair, for the most part, and his body is Claudio-ish. I know Ian couldn’t agree more with my statements about his favorite artist’s look alike. The only thing missing is a guitar and a microphone for our Claudio look-alike. He really looks convincing, I stare at the guy longer than the Jayson look-alike. ;;) Last guy on the list is the look alike of Paul Yap (Up Dharma Down bassist) in my DESPRIN¹ class every Tuesday. That’s all.. I love my school! :heart:

So yeah, back to Rico Blanco. Along with his new song, comes a new album as well! It’s also titled ‘Your Universe’. I’ve heard some songs off the album already from imeem and I liked them a lot. On repeat for me, besides ‘Your Universe’ is his song titled ‘Ayuz’, really catchy. I didn’t post it here though because it’s not in English, so my foreigner readers (if there are any) might not understand so I posted the English song instead. I hope you like it guys, I did! :dance: Have I mentioned I don’t have the CD yet? Ugh. I wish I found out about this days ago so I could’ve searched the malls for the CD since I’m too lazy already to go out today.

I might go to the Eraserheads reunion concert after all. The sad thing is, I won’t be enjoying the night of August 30th with my brother. :hmph: I did whatever (polite) I can to include him, but they’re really strict that only 18+ year old people can go to the event. Oh well, safety measures I suppose. I owe my brother big time, I promised him if Coldplay or one of his really favorite bands comes here in the Philippines I will treat him! No, not VIP tickets.. I’ll try my best to give him the best accommodation of the show by means of getting a good place in the venue for him to watch the band. I hate that I had to break the news to him when he just woke up hours ago, right now he’s back to sleeping. ) I’d like to give a big, BIG thank you to Marcus Adoro for the ‘invite’. :heart: Forever grateful to him even though he doesn’t know me. :worthy:

Yup, my post for today ends here. I’m still practicing to stylishly fold table napkins for my ORALCOM² final exam this Wednesday. Please wish me luck, I’ll really need it. ;;) Thanks a lot! Just in case you are wondering what my title has to do with the entry, A Million Flames is the Multiply site of Rico Blanco. Till next time!

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Back to Forks?

10Aug 08

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I’m being patient for the Eclipse to end so I can witness the Breaking Dawn
Warning: This post might contain spoilers for Eclipse.

Last Tuesday I bought my copy of Breaking Dawn at the bookstore just beside my school’s main building (DLS-CSB). I carried the book, along with my sketchpad and coloring materials all throughout Vito Cruz and the SDA building back and forth ALL day. I never thought the book was THAT heavy until I put it with my other drawing materials and carried it. Also, I went home late because my friends and I had to shoot a top music videos countdown kind of video for our class next day. Imagine how much of a hassle it was to carry around that plastic bag with a heavy book, haha. so the short and short of that experience was .. I should’ve bought Breaking Dawn the day after that, Wednesday.

I don’t really regret anything. Actually, I’m pretty happy that I did bought that book on that day. Who knows, maybe it’ll be sold out as soon as the week ended? And if I didn’t bought Breaking Dawn, I wouldn’t be motivated to get back to reading Eclipse after 2 months! Hahahaha, I am INSANELY a slow reader. I just started reading again Friday night, I was in chapter 3 then.. now I’m at chapter 20! :dance: If you must know, yes that is an accomplishment and an improvement on my part. =))

Oh yeah, Breaking Dawn is still on the plastic with the receipt. I have never opened it nor removed it from the packaging ever since I got it. I promised myself that I’ll only get the right to open it if and only if I finish reading Eclipse. Probably I’m the last person who’s going to read this.. well, not including the group of people who’s yet to read Twilight or the earlier books.

Lemme share you something: I wasn’t anticipating the launch of BD here in the Philippines. I didn’t notice August 4 came in this early and I depended on them to find out how’s the storyline and stuff. I didn’t care. I wasn’t that addicted, hell, I haven’t finished Eclipse in a span of weeks like my friends did. I read spoilers and stuff, it did not bug me, not once. Perfectly fine with spoiling. I’m like “Oh, okay, Breaking Dawn’s finally here, cool.”

Until one of my ‘Twilight Recruits’ (some of my friends who got hooked to Twilight and Edward Cullen cause of ME) asked me if I have the book and I told her I didn’t have it yet.. And I said I’m not that excited about it at all, not because I was discouraged by the outcome (I wasn’t) but ..just not. She then said this:

You’re the one who recommended me this book and you’re the one less excited about the new book? Are you crazy?

That made me laugh. =))

Eclipse On with Eclipse.. So far so good, I think I’m past by the boring parts already. No offense to “Team Jacob”, if there is one. Jacob’s point of view really bores me, its like reading New Moon again on that one chapter when one of the seniors of ‘Team Jacob’ was telling a story about their kind. I don’t know if he goes on to my I could care less list or Must read more about this person list. I like him in parts where he and Bella talks, and when Edward has something to do with Jacob.. But when it comes to story telling about Jacob’s kind, it gets really boring which sucks. Well, I’m 8 chapters away from the ending so I’ve yet to finalize my thoughts on Jacob. For now, 50/50! ) I don’t want to storytell any more, I might spoil you and I’m not really good with sharing stories about books I read. I tend to just visualize and forget about explaining it.

It’s the 2nd week of August and there’s 4 weeks left of schooling for me before the first trimester of my Sophomore year ends! We’ve been insanely busy with ‘activities’ the past weeks. I’m sort of confused why we’re not being dumped with projects, yet we have a lot of activities instead. Methinks ‘activities’ is the new word for ‘projects’.

Schedule encoding was last week. I’m happy that I got the schedule I wanted, and I’m happy that I am sure that I have classmates that I know in all subjects. I’m parting ways with my usual companions in classes in 3 subjects, but I hope I won’t regret it. I mean, I hope I don’t get sucky professors and stuff. What I do know is, I got the ‘bad’ professor for COLREND¹ according to my friend — well thanks for the heads up, man. But I’m with my usual companions on that subject, so we’ll stick together like glue! :pray:

I’ve this thing to demonstrate for my ORALCOM² class, it’s for my Speech to Demonstrate, which will be our Finals exam for the said subject. We were to choose skills and/or ideas to demonstrate in class and I chose to demonstrate the different types (kinds?) of table napkin folding. Y’know, the ones used in fancy restaurants, not the tissue napkins, haha! So there, I’ve been looking for semi-complicated to complicated folds online and in YouTube as well but so far I’ve only found intermediate level folding videos. Would you know a better source site for this? Perhaps with video tutorials?

I’m trying my best to learn as fast as possible, I think right now I know around 3-4 already. But the demonstration should go on for 8-10 minutes.

Anyway, that’s all for now. Here’s me hoping for a smooth flow week ahead of me.

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