SENIORS!

(Wow, its been a while since I used you, Blogspot. xD)

Here are some reminders I would like to give you before we perform. Please remember them:

1. Do not be nervous. Be confident that we could win. Have you felt that feeling we got during our Saturday practice? Yung parang ang galing galing naten na the Juniors were looking at us na. THAT is confidence.:)
2. The voice. Remember to always give off a BIG ROUND voice. Parang yung sa mga Taho Vendors. There are two ways to achieve this: a.)Gigil and b)Memorize the whole piece.
3.  Ang nahihiyang maging pangit, PANGIT. GOT THAT?!
4. Ang unang mag-recite, siya yung tama; The people who are left behind are the wrong ones.
5. Always look/face the audience. NEVER stare at the floor, like we always do. (I am guilty of that, too xD)
6. Always carry your body. That is always your default stance. Walang kuba, walang nakakembot, etc.
7. This is also in the same lines as the 'nahihiya maging pangit, pangit' thing. Facial expressions, try to have them the whole duration of the performance. :)
8. BIG ACTIONS! a) Dun sa 'larawan 3x'. Make your poses funny, but still believable. b) 'Sa di kalayuan naman' yung parang nababaliw na action.
9. Diba pinalitan yung action sa 'Sa luntiang kaparangan', di na hands to waist. The new action is to step and lean forward, similar to 'Sa di kalayuan naman' action.
10. Pag sasabihin na yung title, bagalan niyo para ma-flip pa ng mga nasa third line yung mga cards spelling KALIKASAN. Ganito: "Salamat (1 second) Kalikasan, ni Teresita M. Anastacio"
11. This instruction is targeted at Derick mostly, but the others have some involvement too. After saying the title, diba you have one arm up? That is what you use to bow. So BOW MUNA BEFORE DRUMROLL.
12. Put any bad blood aside, let us all work as one, okay? :]
13. Lastly, give it your best. I know we could do it, Seniors. We can pull this off! :)

"GO SENIOOOOOOORS!" -GIAN :))

NOTE: May pre-show practice tayo at lunch ha. :>

More Paramore!

I've been scanning my collection of CDs from when I was young the other day (by young, I mean back when I was 13 years old), looking for an album to listen to because I was pretty tired of the music currently on my playlist. I stumbled upon the album All We Know Is Falling, the first one by Paramore, one of my favorite bands. This was the disc I decided to put into my dusty old CD player. Out blasted their signature punk-rock sound alongside Hayley William's amazing voice. I was half-shocked and half-amused to find out that I still knew the lyrics to their songs. From the first track All We Know Is Falling to Pressure to My Heart, I was singing my throat off with such mediocrity. Nostalgia took over me. I remember how I got to discover Paramore. I was watching TV and Myx was on, I saw a pretty little lady with fire-like hair and red lipstick. The video was that of Misery Business. I immediately forced my mom to buy me a copy of their album. As soon as I got the CD, I inserted it onto the car stereo system. I automatically loved all the songs. At the same time as being nostalfic, I was also slowly falling in love with their music again. Some time ago, I saw their video of Brick by Boring Brick, and I did not quite like it. It was the "..bury the castle..." line that turned me off. And since then I thought Paramore was going downhill. I didn't even go to their concert here in Manila, which I heard was awesome. I've never regretted not attending. Up until now. Now, I totally want to turn back time and buy tickets. It's too late, I guess. My only hope is for them to come here again. And that may be a long time from now. Sigh, the best thing to do is to download their newest album Brand New Eyes and see how much they've evolved since Riot. :)

I wanna rock and roll all night!

First of all, I'm sorry for not posting anything new these past couple of weeks. It's because I've been busy with stuff and didn't have much time to write. Anyway, guess what? I got a new electric guitar! Heck yeah! This baby could open up a lot of possibilities for me and make my life a lot more interesting. I'm so crazy about this guitar that I decided to name it. I mean her. She's Alexis Silva, born on the 1st of May 2010. LOL. Why Alexis? Simply 'coz I find the name sexy. Silver because her skin color's, well, Silver, and I sort of think that Silva is a cool name too. She's a curvy silver Les Paul-shaped electric guitar. Carrying her is a yellow strap that has a "Police Line, Do Not Cross" imprinted on it. Currently, I've made four covers namely Bad Reputation by Joan Jett, My Life Would Suck Without You by Kelly Clarkson, Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, and the first solo of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. You could check those out on Youtube, or Facebook. Well, what are you waiting for? Check it out. Now. LOL

It was...okay?

When one says summer, the first thing that comes to mind is spending all day at a beach somewhere far away from home. That's exactly what happened today, April 24 of this year's summer. Dad had an office outing to a beach somewhere in Batangas. He tagged Gab and I along as it was for free anyway. Like any other outing, we had to wake up super early, as in 3:30am early. We left the house at 4:30am, I think. It was a little ironic that my bro brought more stuff than I did. I only needed the PSP, swim wear, sun block and food. Yes, I didn't bring a camera. You may be thinking what a wasted opportunity this was not to take pictures of the beach. It was. And my mom is to blame for that. She was being a paranoid again with the out-of-this-world worries. Anyway, we rode a rented bus to the resort. The inside was freezing cold. And since my dad told me that it was not a good idea to bring a jacket, or even wear shoes, I didn't. Which resulted to my precious feet get chilled to subzero temperature. 3 hours-ish later, we arrived at our destination, a resort named Laiya blah blah. I don't remember the whole name. LOL. I got to the water as soon as I could. Unfortunately, the beach felt weird. The sand wasn't fine, and there's a line where the ground just turns into very soft mud. Plus, there were minimal waves. Long story short, this beach sucked ass. I like the beachside pool better. (It was conveniently hot. I wish that was because of the sun's heat, and not the other factor........) Depending on where my bro wanted to go, I switched from pool to beach, beach to pool. I was his only guardian, after all. Dad was with the other Insular Life employees, having fun. It was their outing, after all. Being Gab's care taker, I had to release my toy loving child inside of me. My lil bro had brought a lot of toys, mostly military stuff. He tried to recreate what he saw in an episode of The Pacific, which I thought was cool, and cute at the same time. haha. Fast forward to 4:00pm when we had to get prepped up for merienda and the trip back home. By this time, I had a lot of sand on where man does not like sand on. We ate a plate of Spaghetti for snack time and then boarded Bus #6 again. It took longer going home because of traffic. Then... I got home... I can't say if this was a great day or not. All I can say is that this was no bore for sure. :)

Bohemian Rhapsody by QUEEN

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy (Poor boy)
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, ev'rybody
I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh (Anywhere the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening
(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro
Magnifico
I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Sparing his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
Let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Let me go (Will not let you go)
Let me go (Will not let you go (Never, never, never, never))
Let me go, o, o, o, o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh mama mia, mama mia) Mama Mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me

Any way the wind blows

Man, I love this song. Probably the best song ever written. If you haven't heard it yet, please do. :)

We are LIVE!!!!!!

Today I felt like I wanted to achieve something. And one of the best ways to feel like you've achieved something is to be honored with a trophy. As hard as that may sound, getting trophies is just a piece of cake for me. All I need to do is to turn on the television. I'm serious. Achieving PlayStation trophies, that is. HAHA. Thought I was a bit too cocky there weren't you?

Okay, getting them ain't as easy as I described. There are some missions that are hard, and some that are as easy as reaching a certain level of the game. I decided to go for UFC '09 trophies today, and got a lot. But one of those trophies took a lot of effort, the one where I have to beat an opponent in less than 20 seconds. That's easier said than done. I couldn't do it alone so I asked for Steven's help. We used the strongest fighters out there, like Rampage, Anderson, Rashad. We even picked the weakest opponents but still no luck. Thankfully, we got the "That was easy!" trophy after 30+ tries with GSP's high kick. Heck yeah! Another summer memory. :)

glee!

I saw Glee last night on its 10pm time slot on ETC, and was blown away as usual. Everything I loved from the first season is still there. Nothing much has changed, except parts the storyline of course. Rachel is still naive, Finn still absent-minded, Will still..err..Will(?), Emma still weird, and of course, Sue is just as annoying as she was last season. Maybe even more. Uh oh. But I still am disappointed on not seeing Quinn so much. Oh well. I can't wait to see more of this show. :D