against the flow

every tuesday, i need to get up earlier than 7am to get to my 7am class which is rondalla. it ain't that bad aside from the fact that i have to carry a guitar to class on a ten minute class going to school. the class itself is just an hour long. the prof speaks bad english but still he tries, which makes it worse. magtagalog ka nalang, please lang. "it's not that bad," you might say, BUT MY NEXT CLASS IS AT FREAKING 1PM!!!!!! sure thing my prof at my 1pm class isn't strict about attendance and it's just an hour and a half long so i get off at 2:30pm, BUT I HAVE ANOTHER CLASS AT 6:30pm!!!!!!!

why are there smilies that frown? shouldn't they be called frownies?

anyway, at least i did something productive on my morning break, if productive can be described as eating healthy. after class, i exit the room to find out that heaven was pouring down on earth. those were massive drops of rain bombarding the ground, man. i wait it out because i don't have an umbrella and went through the rain at the first sign of some sort of decrease in intensity. i make for the nearby overpass and buy a cheap umbrella. i walk to the condo and try to get some sleep... but i can't. so i ate away. a salad, some banana bread, and an orange. huwaw hume-healthy tayo ah. i pretty much didn't do anything then until now.

asd

i just made a post but every time i try to click on "post entry," i get directed to a page saying that i was trying to log out. i was testing it again with that asd post. bleah. i wasted 30 mins making a post. i don't feel like retyping all that again.

the title said it all. i am so busy, i have barely enough time to enjoy myself. here's what i've been occupied with:

- music theory homeworks. the resolutions of the "dynamic chord" the doubly diminished leading tone seventh chord to be manipulated so that it will be resolved into the tonic chord of your preference. simply put, use it to modulate.

- studying my new piano book (which cost me a lot. more on that later) and TRYING to master it the way my teacher played it. i can play it, but only 1/20 of the speed that my teacher played it to me. she's awesome. i have new respect for her and for that, i dedicate at least two hours everyday for practice alone.

- studying my snare drum piece. i switched minor instruments to percussion. i gotta perfect my single stroke, double stroke, and 5-stroke roll.

those 3 alone are taking up most of my free time. whew. i need a break.

 

flashback:

last tuesday, i went to Raon with Jonah coz he asked me to accompany him to buy his lyre. i went with him coz i had to buy a book for my piano lesson. we went to richard's shop. richard is a childhood friend of Jonah's and was our former band's former vocalist. it was hellishly hot that day and walking to raon made it even worse. we get to the shop and went straight to the office where richard was. it was airconditioned. wee. we hung around there a bit. it was better there than anywhere with the heat. he showed me the book, 15 exercises for the piano by J. B. Cramer, and told me it costs 380 pesos. "what??" i only had roughly a little over 800. crud. so i handed him 500 bucks and gave me 200 pesos change. oooh discounts are fun.

so there, i get to my piano lesson and slaved on my new book as i TRIED to play it. i barely could. it was like nothing i ever encountered. it was very difficult. piano lesson was an hour so after an hour of trying and my teacher correcting me, we were preparing to leave. i asked my teacher if she could play it so i could at least know how it would sound if played correctly. she obliged and sat on the piano chair. with a thundering pound, she started the piece fortessisimo with extended c major chords on the high and low registers. then comes the flurry of notes that composed most of the piece. her fingers fluttered accross the keyboard like a pair of spiders, vigorously spinning webs. man, oh man, i was in awe. after she played the piece which was just more or less a minute long, i suddenly had a new respect for her. it was the first time i heard her play after all this time. i am inspired. i will improve my piano playing. that is a promise.

so i only have roughly around 500 pesos on wednesday and i have to make that last until saturday. i pretty much didn't do a good job at that coz i only had 100 left this afternoon and spent most of it on commuting going to GCF.

it was a gloomy afternoon. windy, very very light and tolerable showers, cool breeze, it was a pleasant day for walking. after classes, i changed clothes and walked for the pedicab station. feeling lazy, i flagged one down and asked the guy to take me to the LRT station. i realized after getting inside that i would spend more by taking the pedicab. 20 pesos down the drain. now, taking 2 trains to get to megamall would be more costly so i opted for the FX, which turned out to cost pretty much the same only with less walking. good call, i guess. i wouldve saved more by taking the bus to Galleria, that's only less than 20 bucks, but i had a lapse in judgement. I... am... sorry. i buy a lumpia from a vendor on my walk from megamall. -5.

ok, so i was expecting food at the AG but there was none. it's all good. i'm there for the spiritual feeding that i need more. after some discussion about discipline the food came! halleluja! i think i ate too much though. there was none left for jourd, isaac, and angel. i didn't know they didn't eat yet. oh well. off to the youth center. more food! there were expecting 50, but only half the number came. oh well. i stuffed my face with all that i can and listened to pastor ed's sermon. i liked his sermon. it was basically the same, about discipline, except that he has a more radical application and different verse. i enjoyed this night.

after 2 free dinner meals and 2 bible studies, off to UST once more. was looking to hitch with anyone passing by anywhere that has a route going to quiapo and the yu brothers readily obliged. took me to e. rodriguez and dropped me off there. rode a jeep and ready to sleep. for some reason i only have 31.25 left.

i'll make it home tomorrow, there just better be some food on the table.

i was parking our van at millenium place before attending the morning service. i turned really sharp and it being a van, things were gonna get nasty. there was a concrete barrier at the turn and i caught much of it. haha. there's like a dent a foot wide and a foot long on the right rear door of our L300 van. and it goes about an inch or two deep too. yikes. when i first saw it, i just sort of laughed it off. i was smiling. when in the service though, i was overcome with fear, fear that i might be deprived of driving privileges and such. i was so uneasy for hte next hour and a half. when it was time to pick up my dad at the main building, i saw his face. hahaha, it was so funny! he had his hand partially covering his mouth and his eyes wide open. i thought i was gonna get it. surprisingly, they didn't get mad at all.

 

wee!

i was so unproductive during the 2-day break we had due to violent winds and rain. my vacation went like this:

- Pangya

- DotA

- Eat

wee.

a lot has happened this weekend but i just can't find the energy to type it all down. i barely even made it to class. i'm such a sloth. i hate it.

it feels sooooo good though to just stay in bed all day.

God, i need you to help me in this problem.

routines. i hate them. i hate having to go through a schedule that i do not want. i hate having to follow a set of rules. i hate it.

i hate chaos too. that's just plain ironic, isn't it?

i have to drop a few things in my routine to become the student that i want to be. i NEED to drop these things that hinder me from being an effective student.

i just saw advent children this afternoon and WOW. that's just about it to sum it all up. never in my wildest dreams did i imagine that the fight scenes would be THAT intense based on the old video game. the action is just so JAW-DROPPING. the characters themselves were so beautifully created compared to the polygonal models in the video game. oh my. i want my own copy! and i want to play FF7 again!