There's something more to live acts than just merely seeing foreign artists perform right before your eyes. There's some kind of natural high - you're actually looking at the very people behind the songs that you grew up with, songs that define phases of your life, or music that you wished you would have created yourself. I like bands more than solo acts because most bands create their own music. They write the lyrics and lay out the tunes, unlike some solo acts who have composers and all the other people who do the whole shebang for them and their only role is to perform. And just by the songs they sing, you get to have a feel of how these people live their lives, what they go through and the emotions they feel and when you can to relate, you know that you're not alone. There's someone out there, probably in a parallel universe, who's going through exactly what your going through right now. Some lyrics may be a bit obscure, but somehow, you just know - that's you.
Thank God for all the Adam Levines, Brandon Boyds (Maroon 5s and Incbuses) who somehow make us feel a bit better about life.
Below is a playlist with some of the Incubus songs that I love:
Dig - it's about having someone who helps you see things through. If you go astray, you can always count on someone who would 'dig you up from under what is covering' the better part of you. I also like how this song was sung... obviously it could be very difficult to pull off, especially live. I wanna see this covered in American Idol (make or break!).
Oil and Water - two people who are exact opposites but they continue co-exist because they share something greater than what they can comprehend. They continue to disagree (wouldn't be the first time, wouldn't be the last time), but what the heck. This is love. (hehe)
Drive - Finding your place in the world.
Megalomaniac - a bit political. You could say that this is my call to resignation (for the current administration, yes you, Ms. President).
Just click on a song and hit the Play button.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Saturday, March 08, 2008
flavor of the month
'Cause you keep me coming back for more and I feel a little better than I did before...
Here's Maroon 5's own rendition of The Police's So Lonely ocassionally injected with Akon's Don't Matter and a dash of R. Kelly's Ignition. I don't know how he does it but everything he touches is gold! Adam Levine is love.
A few days to go and Happy Birthday to me!
- If I Never See Your Face Again
From It Won't Be Soon Before Long
Here's Maroon 5's own rendition of The Police's So Lonely ocassionally injected with Akon's Don't Matter and a dash of R. Kelly's Ignition. I don't know how he does it but everything he touches is gold! Adam Levine is love.
A few days to go and Happy Birthday to me!
Friday, March 07, 2008
massive hang over
Tap on my window, knock on my door
The Maroon 5 concert here was surreal! About two years ago, I remember watching the M5 concert on TV with colleagues in a hotel room in Hong Kong and the three of us totally went nuts. We were screaming our lungs out inside the room and covering our faces with pillows so the entire floor wouldn't hear. And now that we actually got to see them live here... shit! I can't even begin to explain. It was just... bliss! happiness. Sulit! I've been digging this band since college. I like all the songs and I know the lyrics of most of them.
One of the highlights of the night was when they did the hottest, sexiest version of She Will Be Loved and it's crazy crazy crazy! There's a part there when in the middle of the song, the band stopped playing and all the lights went off except for a spotlight on Adam and he was just standing there staring at the crowd as if he was taking it all in... he looks up, closes his eyes, smiles, opens his eyes again and slowly looks at the crowd from left to right. Heart attack!!! Love love love!
The whole thing was like a roller coaster ride -- that part when the coaster slowly climbs to the highest point and makes a complete stop right before it drops... that very moment! Only this one lasted for almost two hours.
It's been 24 hours since the concert and here I am, wide awake. I was actually smiling all day, still giddy from the night before. After I posted all the photos (not so good, though) and the video on multiply, I still feel it. I feel it! I hope when I go to sleep in a while, I'd wake up and find that it's Wednesday morning still, March 5, so I can go through it all over again. Oh I'm such a fan girl!
I can't focus on anything else right now, Adam, and this is all your fault! you you you.
On Sunday, it will be Incubus. Let's see what Brandon Boyd can do. to me. haha! Insanity. Good thing we've had enough of the Beyonce/Akon/Ne-Yo type. Bring in more of the cool ones! M5 and Incubus are a good start. I wish to see Dave Matthews, Coldplay, Matchbox Twenty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and of course, OASIS (although I doubt it) in Manila!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
{Basket Case} I am one of those melodramatic fools
Disclaimer: This post is completely hormonal.
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
I hate it when 'this' hits me (and I don't even know exactly what 'this' is). Today is one of those particulars days when I just feel that my life sucks. Well, not totally. Just kind of. It's one of those days that couldn't have been salvaged by alcohol. It just feels so awful. I get thoughts in my head driving me to do things and make decisions hastily and I know that I'll regret these later on. I've been in this situation one too many times and the sad thing is that realizations always come in the end -- when I realize that I could've handled things better. The good thing, though, is I've learned to deal with it. I'm proud to say that I've successfully convinced myself not to act on impulse. I had the urge to finally decide once and for all to free myself from whatever, and imagined myself spending long days just watching TV, going out, doing absolutely nothing for the next six to twelve months. Or I can pass time learning to play the violin or some weird non-mainstream instrument, help out with a NGO, learn a new sport or something. teach in a pre-school... I don't know.
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
I just want something new in my life now because I kinda feel that I'm doing things without a purpose, with no real reason and no real motivation. What's in it for me anyway? The sorry part is the more I'm becoming entrenched, the more I realize that this isn't what I want to do. I don't know what I want to do exactly but this doesn't feel like 'it'. This serves me well at the present perhaps because of the fact that I CAN do it and if I choose to, I can excel. If I'm right for this then why do I feel so restless and not so into it? Or could it be that I've become so comfortable and now I want to leave my comfort zone?
It all keeps adding up. I think I'm crackin' up
This blog was locked for a time until I cleared everything I wrote from the last time I posted in December. It's just not for public consumption and I don't want people to come across it and misinterpret everything. Moreso, I don't want to be so vocal about what I'm going through because I don't want to rub it off on the those around me. BUT those people shouldn't be fooled because beneath the exterior, I'm just someone who hasn't got a clue. Oh yes, yes, yes. I'm overrated and I know it. haha
(Am I just paranoid?) I'm just stoned.
Still and all, this is just one of 'em days. I know one day soon I'll wake up and feel perfectly fine. It's all just a cycle.
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
I hate it when 'this' hits me (and I don't even know exactly what 'this' is). Today is one of those particulars days when I just feel that my life sucks. Well, not totally. Just kind of. It's one of those days that couldn't have been salvaged by alcohol. It just feels so awful. I get thoughts in my head driving me to do things and make decisions hastily and I know that I'll regret these later on. I've been in this situation one too many times and the sad thing is that realizations always come in the end -- when I realize that I could've handled things better. The good thing, though, is I've learned to deal with it. I'm proud to say that I've successfully convinced myself not to act on impulse. I had the urge to finally decide once and for all to free myself from whatever, and imagined myself spending long days just watching TV, going out, doing absolutely nothing for the next six to twelve months. Or I can pass time learning to play the violin or some weird non-mainstream instrument, help out with a NGO, learn a new sport or something. teach in a pre-school... I don't know.
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
I just want something new in my life now because I kinda feel that I'm doing things without a purpose, with no real reason and no real motivation. What's in it for me anyway? The sorry part is the more I'm becoming entrenched, the more I realize that this isn't what I want to do. I don't know what I want to do exactly but this doesn't feel like 'it'. This serves me well at the present perhaps because of the fact that I CAN do it and if I choose to, I can excel. If I'm right for this then why do I feel so restless and not so into it? Or could it be that I've become so comfortable and now I want to leave my comfort zone?
It all keeps adding up. I think I'm crackin' up
This blog was locked for a time until I cleared everything I wrote from the last time I posted in December. It's just not for public consumption and I don't want people to come across it and misinterpret everything. Moreso, I don't want to be so vocal about what I'm going through because I don't want to rub it off on the those around me. BUT those people shouldn't be fooled because beneath the exterior, I'm just someone who hasn't got a clue. Oh yes, yes, yes. I'm overrated and I know it. haha
(Am I just paranoid?) I'm just stoned.
Still and all, this is just one of 'em days. I know one day soon I'll wake up and feel perfectly fine. It's all just a cycle.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Spotted
When the punishment fits the crime, there's no reason you can't celebrate your sentence in style.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Microserfs
Microserfs
By Douglas Coupland
When you're a tech geek working for the world's biggest software company, it's already understood that you don't have a life... or at least in this book. What really matters, the author says, is your brains. Never mind that your hair grew wayward, that your working outfit consists of the usual khaki slacks, company branded shirts, white socks and Birkenstocks, as long as you're a think tank that never runs out of bright ideas. One of the philosophies presented in the book is this: If you can't make yourself worthwhile to society, then that's your problem, not society's. People are personally responsible for making themselves relevant. I agree in a sense that you really have to make an effort to make yourself useful at home, in the workplace, to your friends... otherwise, you'll become redundant such that people will begin to forget you. That's the basic principle of mutualism -- give and take.
Geeks graduate from college, get hired at Microsoft or Apple or any similar company for that matter, work their asses off and think that relationships will happen naturally. Next thing they know, they wake up at thirty and realize that they've never been kissed.
This is a really fascinating (and sometimes funny) read about a fictional bunch of geeks who worked at Microsoft, obsessed about Bill Gates, and eventually decided to leave the comforts of having the coolest, high-paying jobs in search for what they call a 'life'. Although written in 1995, it remains relevant today except for the technologies mentioned (if you're expecting iPods and the like, well, it didn't even talk about Windows XP, to say the least). The book was written in first person, a journal where the day-to-day undertakings of the characters were recorded. Most of the journal entries were just observations but it was through these that we get to pick up a lesson or two about life.
For example, it is said in the book that work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable even though the external particulars of life are, at best, random. Quarter-life crisis, is that you?
There's no major issue or event in the book that needed a resolution -- it's just filled with thought-provoking statements, almost a collection of musings, aphorisms and reflections about technology, work, work-life balance, families and relationships, that paint a picture of what some of us are probably going through, or went through in life.
By Douglas Coupland
When you're a tech geek working for the world's biggest software company, it's already understood that you don't have a life... or at least in this book. What really matters, the author says, is your brains. Never mind that your hair grew wayward, that your working outfit consists of the usual khaki slacks, company branded shirts, white socks and Birkenstocks, as long as you're a think tank that never runs out of bright ideas. One of the philosophies presented in the book is this: If you can't make yourself worthwhile to society, then that's your problem, not society's. People are personally responsible for making themselves relevant. I agree in a sense that you really have to make an effort to make yourself useful at home, in the workplace, to your friends... otherwise, you'll become redundant such that people will begin to forget you. That's the basic principle of mutualism -- give and take.
Geeks graduate from college, get hired at Microsoft or Apple or any similar company for that matter, work their asses off and think that relationships will happen naturally. Next thing they know, they wake up at thirty and realize that they've never been kissed.
This is a really fascinating (and sometimes funny) read about a fictional bunch of geeks who worked at Microsoft, obsessed about Bill Gates, and eventually decided to leave the comforts of having the coolest, high-paying jobs in search for what they call a 'life'. Although written in 1995, it remains relevant today except for the technologies mentioned (if you're expecting iPods and the like, well, it didn't even talk about Windows XP, to say the least). The book was written in first person, a journal where the day-to-day undertakings of the characters were recorded. Most of the journal entries were just observations but it was through these that we get to pick up a lesson or two about life.
For example, it is said in the book that work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable even though the external particulars of life are, at best, random. Quarter-life crisis, is that you?
There's no major issue or event in the book that needed a resolution -- it's just filled with thought-provoking statements, almost a collection of musings, aphorisms and reflections about technology, work, work-life balance, families and relationships, that paint a picture of what some of us are probably going through, or went through in life.
Dedication
Dedication
by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
I just needed something to do while having my hair treated at the salon and so I bought this book on a whim. The cover gave the impression that it's a light read and it was.
In a nutshell, it tells of a girl who fell in love in highschool. The man of her dreams left her without any explanation on prom night and went on to become a super popular rockstar. All the songs this guy wrote were about her - their experiences together, her mother... One day, the guy went back to their hometown to shoot a special segment for MTV and the woman scorned took this as an opportunity to make him regret his existence, and to achieve some kind of closure for herself as well.
It's a bit something like "if you had a second chance with the one that got away," only the ending of this novel seemed more realistic than the usual happily ever after conclusions. And while the plot was interesting, the mode of storytelling was a bit lackluster and after a while, I got tired of their issues and wished they'd just drop it already. I still read through it (without cheating) just to see if it turns out the way I thought it would. It's nothing like The Nanny Diaries by the same authors. The chapters alternated between timelines from way back when they were in highschool to the present (in their 30s) and it really got me wondering if the characters ever matured at all.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
I'm feeling a little restless lately
and I believe this has got to do with hormonal imbalance. It's just weird that it occurs at certain times of the year and for the past couple of years, I'm like in a quarter-life crisis every first quarter of the year (and I'm only approaching quarterlife... still not there). This is the time when with the trusty SMBs are ever so useful... but this is also the time when I don't feel like going out at all. I just want to be all by myself in my room soundtripping or reading whatever I can get my hands on... watch tv and tearjerker movies like Armageddon, I am Sam, Deep Impact. I don't want to text or talk on the phone or anything. I want alone time.
The reality is that I can never have too much of alone time. I still need to go out, go to work, interact with people... aaaargh. Maybe I need a new environment talaga. Sometimes I just wanna go away from the workaday world and hie off to the woods. I imagine a log cabin and me eating marshmallows by the fireplace, book in hand, earphones on, a bunch of pillows, a comforter and cold weather. Baguio is that you?
So now it's Saturday night and I'm at home watching episodes of Gossip Girl in between other things. I opted to stay-in to give my hardworking liver a well-deserved break. My Dad just got home from playing Golf (and the after-game weekly gulp with his friends) with two orders of Salmon Sashimi. It's been drizzling all day and now it's raining hard. There's something about the rain that relaxes. I don't know if it's the smell or the sound. I just love it when it rains.
Wala lang. Random post... the first for 2008. Thank you.
The reality is that I can never have too much of alone time. I still need to go out, go to work, interact with people... aaaargh. Maybe I need a new environment talaga. Sometimes I just wanna go away from the workaday world and hie off to the woods. I imagine a log cabin and me eating marshmallows by the fireplace, book in hand, earphones on, a bunch of pillows, a comforter and cold weather. Baguio is that you?
So now it's Saturday night and I'm at home watching episodes of Gossip Girl in between other things. I opted to stay-in to give my hardworking liver a well-deserved break. My Dad just got home from playing Golf (and the after-game weekly gulp with his friends) with two orders of Salmon Sashimi. It's been drizzling all day and now it's raining hard. There's something about the rain that relaxes. I don't know if it's the smell or the sound. I just love it when it rains.
Wala lang. Random post... the first for 2008. Thank you.
Monday, December 31, 2007
2007
1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Went to Singapore for the first time.
Not have lunch for five straight days! Pero lunch lang. I think I had bfast and dinner haha.
Went drinking for more than 7 consecutive nights. bad, bad, bad for the liver.
Took a cab alone on the way home close to midnight (I know, ang sheltered ng dating but I've never done that before).
Tried boxing... healthy sana but I was bored!
2. Where did you study/ work?
Same same.
3. Did anyone in your circle give birth?
Yes. There are about 3 new babies - Andre, Diego, and Lucia (in order of appearance).
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yeah. My Lola.
5. Did you go out of town or out of the country?
Hmmm... Batangas, Tagaytay, Cebu, Singapore, Boracay, Boracay, Bohol, Singapore, Clark, Boracay, Tagaytay... and I've been to Quezon for the first time, too, but that's involuntary. We were supposed to go to Laiya, Batangas, but the driver missed a turn. Next thing I knew we were in Quezon.
6. Did you move anywhere?
No. Still steady down south.
7. What sporting events did you go to?
UAAP - only one I go to every year! I want to see F1 someday...
8. What concerts did you go to?
Didn't go to any this year. Looking forward to Incubus in March 2008!
9. Who was your Valentine in 2007?
Eeeeeeew. Haha. My Lola was my Valentine in 2007... picked her up and we ate out.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
My ego was bruised! Ek. No...
11. What was your best month?
March. Just because.
12. Where did most of your money go?
shopping, nights out... and other miscellaneous stuff.
13. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
F1! I was super happy on the night Kimi Raikkonen won. That final race was one for the books. I was also excited about the Windows Vista launch early 2007. Sobrang excited akong matapos sha. Haha. I was also excited about Bohol because we're going out of town as a big family again after so many years.
14. What songs will always remind you of 2007?
UMBRELLA by Rihanna for sure.
Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston
The Prayer by Bloc Party,
Before It's Too Late by the Goo Goo Dolls... and so on.
Local: Seven Black Roses by Chicosci
15. What did you do on the 4th of July?
I don't remember.
16. What were the best...
* books you read?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. It's nice to have a glimpse of what it's like to be autistic through the eyes of a child and kind of have an understanding of what goes through their minds.
Time Traveller's Wife. Galing.
Tuesdays with Morrie. Really touching book. I want to have a mentor like Morrie :-)
* movies you saw?
Eastern Promises
Transformers
Die Hard 4
300
Stardust
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Hitman (Timothy Olyphant!!!)
* CDs you listened to?
A Weekend in the City, Bloc Party
In Rainbows by Radiohead (it really wasn't a CD, though)
Echo, Silence, Patience & Grace, Foo Fighters
It Won't Be Soon Before Long, Maroon 5
Chicosci (Self-titled)
17. What do you wish you'd done more of?
uhm... sports?
18. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worrying. haha. less of the 'bad' stuff, of course.
19. How did you spend Christmas?
With the family. Every year, we spend the eve with my father's side of the family and this year is our first Christmas without our Lola... kind of different but it's all good because the family stayed together (and ________ together).
20. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Fall in love? Does fall in love with work count? Eeeeek.
21. How many one-night stands?
HELLO
22. What was your favorite TV program?
Grey's Anatomy, Entourage, The Office
23. Compared to this time last year, are you:
* happier or sadder?
Happier!!!
* thinner or fatter?
Shet.
* richer or poorer?
Richer. Kind of... and then poorer because I spend so much walang natitira!
24. What was your favorite summer memory of 2007?
Going to the beach. I'm happiest when I'm at the beach. The trip to Bohol with the family was really memorable because we haven't done that for a while (go far out of town).
25. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 24. Celebrated with my family on the day itself. With my colleagues the day after, and with my friends the day after the day after.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
IMEEM! haha
27. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most in 2007?
Matthew Bellamy (from Muse), Adam Levine, David Beckham, Kimi Raikkonen, Jude Law.
28. Who was the best new person you met?
Best person I met? Can't remember who's the best but I met a lot of people this year. Wait wait wait... Best person I met? Penn Badgely. I met him but he hasn't met me.
29. Where were you when 2007 began and who were you with?
New Year's Eve with the family -- I was with the people I loved most in the whole wide world.
30. What are your plans for 2008?
Explore. Go somewhere I've never gone before.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Evil Eye Babies
Parents are teaching their kids all sorts of things and then they post it on YouTube. Well, actually the first one below was captured from AFV and then posted on YouTube. The kid knows how to do the 'omen' look. Hahahah he's sooooo cute!
And then the next one, Dr. Evil. Ang saya grabe. Nakakaloko. Kabarkada nung whatever baby in one of my previous posts. I want a baby na hindi tatanda, ever!
Watch this baby's hands!!!
And then the next one, Dr. Evil. Ang saya grabe. Nakakaloko. Kabarkada nung whatever baby in one of my previous posts. I want a baby na hindi tatanda, ever!
Watch this baby's hands!!!
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