against the flow

i arrived from subic last monday afternoon.

while in subic, i jetskied! and we went to ocean adventure.. i especially liked the aquarium. i love them little fishies also saw the whale show.. cool..

shopped at those old, forgotten duty free shops.. you could buy better stuff at price smart..

other than the whale show and jetski? im never goin back to subic. nothin else to do!

but i can never stress enough that jet skiing is sooooooooooo cool!

i dropped my guitar! the yamaha one. if you know how precious that is to me, maiiyak kayo! i almost did kanina!

but i didn't cuss, swear, destroyed something.. no haaaay

instead, i ate and watched a movie. school of rock. yeah! watched with the band. cool.

haay

i dint know that the guiatr bag wasnt zipped up.. so when i wore it (it has those straps so u wear it like a backpack), it fell straight to the ground. when it fell, i dint even look at it. just froze there. bandmates rushed to look at it and said stuff like "may nawawala!" and "yung neck putol!" haha i knew they were kidding, but half of me was believing them. i was scared stiff tapos kinda relieved when i turned around and saw that the whole thing was intact.. but with three major dents.

haaaay.. buhay

i just would like to share with everyone that pan de sal and cream cheese is absolutely heaven! smother each little bite with a generous amount of cream cheese and there you go! instant heaven, in a bun!

an yet another sleepless night, literally. i've been online since 10pm. yun. playing ragnarok and yun. aagh.

i'm off to practice my guitar piece for my music audition for the college of music at UST today. i do hope that i get in. unless i would settle for AMA or something. I DID NOT SPEND 5 YEARS IN HIGHSCHOOL TO STUDY IN SOME CHEAP ASS SCHOOL! yun. freakin ateneo rejected me last minute. i was waitlisted then, what the hey?! they reject me. SCREW YOU MICO HALILI!!! pa babble-babble pa 'ko eh hindi mo rin pala ako matutulungan.. pira-pirasong pangako. i have no hatred for my highschool, i just freakingly hate the college for rejecting someone who spent his entire childhood and adolescence in this institution that he came to love and cherish and would want to burn right now. burn the east field. haha. or the highschool track oval. haha.

yun.

my eyes kinda hurt. i need to rest. but if i do, makakatulog ako. and if i sleep now, i would wake up at around 1:30pm. im supposed to meet adrian at shang at 12noon. i'll just probably practice with my guitar till it's time to leave.

wow.

i have a lot of thoughts. for a guy who hasn't slept yet, this is a meaty entry.

ok. i have to stop typing everything i think of now. i may not stop ya know.

My life is rated PG-13.
What is your life rated?

badtrip sila. hindi ako nakilala coz of my super duper mega beard. i was calling them sa carpark ng mcdo where i was supposed to meet them and all they did was stare and look away. they mustve thought that i was just some crazy guy waving at themm haha i am mr suave

i watched the fruits at freedom bar last night. cool. and silent sanctuary was there. cool.

nakasabay namin ni dagul yung Silent Sanctuary dati sa St. Paul senior's party.

so yun, the fruits played.. they had some technical difficulties brought about by the place's poor equipment. they have a watta snare drum and they dont have a watta crach cymbal. drums palang yun ah. and ren had some kind of trouble with their amplifier. good thing they brought their own amps.

so they played, i had some sisig, and headed to MJ's place.

mj's place. wahahahaha. yun lang masasabi ko. wahahahahaha

for undisclosed reasons, di ako pwede mag maneho nung gusto kong umuwi. mga 3am yun. i wasted time watching the other guys play NBA live. im no good. i was laid down on the couch. and soooo comfy too...

then i wake up. oh crap i slept. and the time? 6:30am. crap indeed. what if my mom's awake? yahoo....

i drove like the wind. i took kyle with me. jeep nalang sya from my village coz i was rushing like hell to get home.

i arrive home and see that the gate was open. yahoo! jackpot. i slip in the car in the garage, turned off the engine w/o a sound. got up to my room and slept. slept like no tomorrow.

livingstone was asked to play at dagul's lola's golden anniv. we were happy to oblige.

so here's the plan. meet up after church, dags treats us to lunch, go to his houseby 2pm, go to antipolo for the golden anniversary thing.

what happened? since i came from mj's place, and freakin came home at 7am wahahahahaha i woke up at 1pm. missed church, the free lunch, and i have an hour to go to dags' place. so i had to commute with my semi formal attire on? noooooo..

so i call them up. they were at dags' place already. sunduin daw ako sa bahay. coolness.

i dress up and wait. 2pm came and they still werent picking me up. it actually took them about 2 hours to get to me. driver problems daw. wahtever. hehe.

they finally arrive only to see them na naka pambahay lang. ako mukhang tatay. i rushed back in to change. i wore my bro. eddie shirt, favorite pair of jeans, and slippers.

the ride. nothing special about the trip except that we saw this sign that says: NAGHAHASA. we are the tulisans

we arrive at the place. its called the lopez center or something. and the word to describe it was WOWAWEE. really posh place. and i was in my jolog attire. hahaha. and so were my bandmates. hahahha.

we try to set up but there were so much stuff na kulang. wala man lang amplifiers. and there seemed to be a lack of wires and stuff. basta yun.

we dress up. and janny just borrowed his slacks from dags. parang elephant jeans. haha

the program starts and the technicians were still figuring out how to plug all of our instruments. well, they did eventualy. yay. as the program ended, the eating began. and so did a steady drizzle. i saved my guitar from the barrage of raindrops. the rest of the band pitched in the transporting of the drum set.

the light shower died down so we decided to eat al fresco where all the tables were. i sit down with my food, ready to dig in, when the shower resumes. crap. i brought my plate back indoors. going inside meant going up a flight of stairs so it was really a hassle. bringing up and down musical equipment and now my food.

but the food was good. the main highlight was the crispy crablets. magnifique.

we played, we saw, we conquered.

and dags said na may mga pinsan syang nagka kras sa aming lahat. except si aids. wahahaha. gotta love the bigots.

gig? i really wouldnt call it one.. hehe.. but yeah it somehow felt like one.. booze, food, people not listening..

so ian asked me a coupla nights back if the band wanted to go to an open mic thing in his village, philamlife homes. since the band cant go, i said i'd go solo.

ok, so on the way kanina, i picked john up at his place coz i asked him to go and watch.

so we arrive, and see that it was a basketball and volleyball league awarding ceremony and the open mic was just a part of it. so there were a lot of kids. and free food. and free beer. waaaaat?! kids and free beer?! hahaha.. ian and i saw this little boy skipping and hopping in front of us with a plastic cup half filled with booze shouting, "beer beer beer beer!" repeatedly. it was funny.. where the heck are this boy's parents?!

we ate while the awarding was goin on. boooring. i dint expect the atmosphere to be like this. all kiddie and parenty and stuff. and guess what? someone told my grandma that i was playing in the thing so she was there! she lives in the village. good thing i dont know anyone from there. hehe

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spongecola played! cool. natuwa si john.

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i played! i couldnt see a thing coz of the lights and couldnt hear anything except my voice and guitar from the speakers. i had this feeling that all eyes were on me. well, of course i was on a stage malamang eh noh? but i knew they were laughing at the bigots. DO NOT EVER MOCK THE BIGOTS. so i start, and the familiar intro of "crash into me" by dave matthews band flooded the covered court. people cheered. i dunno if they cheered for the bigots or the song, but whatever the reason, astehg. and the cheering ceased and was replaced by LYRICS! whoa! coolness indeed! midway through the song, the drummer of spongecola played with me! coolness! he rocks. even more sang when i played paolo santos' rendition of "seasons of love" by rent. and i think i did a good job at "your body is a wonderland" by john mayer. it's like an anthem to me already. i love that song to pieces, even though i've no one to sing it to.

but i freakin bombed man in the mirror. DAYM. nag "more more" pa kasi sila. eh i dint prepare anything else. tapos may sumigaw ng "man in the mirror!" si ian ata. so naisip ko, "oo nga no" o de sige binanatan ko. SABOG. basta sabog. wala ng praktis, sabog pa. pwe.

after, i talked to john about the performance. may kumakanta daw ng mr sauve habang nagpe prepare ako. letse. pero sila din daw yung mga kumakanta, so cool na rin.

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i went home.

i'm sitting in my sucky chair again and im gonna play my game ^_^

this is a follow up to last night's entry

there was one thing that really flattered me. there was this guy that i met, ezra, who asked me, "san ka pume pwesto?" meaning where do i play regular gigs. wow! the guy actually thinks i play somewhere! he's nice. he also told me that tuck andres was here and performed last week at the meralco theater. i dint know. i wouldve fasted for a week just to buy a ticket, but i dint know. oh well.

yihee, someone thinks i'm THAT well!