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CHAPTER 1: Paper, pen, guitar “Geng check your mail. I finished a song.” It was recorded via a regular audio recorder so it was really raw and I may even have heard a dog barking in the background. But I was excited. It was the first song that she finished writing after almost a year’s hiatus. While listening to the first part, I was like…oh it’s a happy song. And then she sang the first line. “Hello tears, you’re back so soon.” This song eventually became Track # 5 in the album 0:00:00. It’s not every day that I get to witness an album unfold before my very eyes. And that’s why I am thankful for those seemingly mundane events that led me to become part of 22 Tango Records – a registered independent record label created by Cebuana singer and songwriter Cattski Espina. I first heard Hello Tears about 2 years ago. We knew she was going to make a fourth album but we didn’t know when it would happen. We were working on other projects that time a...

Before you judge me based on the title of the post (if anyone even reads this at all), let me just say that I do have some close female friends, but they're: A. Spread all over the country B. Married C. Eccentric Geniuses. I'm not complaining. I love all of them dearly. I tell them important things about my life and I get to talk to them every once in a while. On a regular basis, however, I hang out with four computer geniuses and video-game loving straight guys. We'd meet in a coffee shop, and I'd listen to them talk about video games, the latest viral post on reddit, North Korea, gym and whatever topic that fancies them at that moment. We'd have a couple of drinks and we'd also talk about life and stuff that I can relate to and bicker about religion and analyze each others' mannerisms and habits, watch How I Met Your Mother together and what-not. I'd go on out of town trips with them and it would be fun and fine and I'd feel like their pr...

I don't really follow telenovelas. Sometimes I watch the beginning part but I never really get to finish them because the story ends up being too typical or the plot just suddenly gives me goosebumps (in a bad way) and I'd just cringe at how it all ends up to be. But the formula of a good telenovela in the Philippines is having a saintly protagonist who has all the good characteristics in the world but somehow always manages to absorb all the bad luck the world has to offer. He/she is preferably poor who will someday end up to be someone else's rich son/daughter. A good antagonist (in the Philly) has no good features at all, has nothing but evil schemes in his/her mind and wears really bright red lipstick (if female) or really lousy goatee (if male). They also have goons who happen to wear leather jackets all the time.  The protagonist always ends up rich or married while the antagonist ends up either dead, in prison or poor.  Now let's talk about Glee. I'm no...

When all that stares back at you is a blank page and a blinking cursor, And the only voice you hear in the room other than your own cursing, is the dj on the radio Talking about love problems and giving out advice and shit as if they knew everything, When you lay in bed with nothing beside you but the clothes you wore the other week, And the floor is just a sea of shoes and trash and dust and accumulated hair, When the cobwebs grow thicker and you can barely see your reflection on the smudged mirror, When luggage from the other year’s travel remains unpacked for months, And everywhere is where it used to be when it shouldn’t be there anymore When you have actually managed to make time stop… You look around you long and hard enough to realize you’re inside a fucking aquarium Located inside one big museum And you see yourself outside, staring at you inside And you ask yourself, where do you want to be?  Photo Credits:  http://www.petitescargot-photos.com/

I have been working at the same place for almost four years now. Since there's only less than 20 employees here, practically all our life stories are open books already. For the sake of easier blogging, I shall call our company "Company X". Lately, me and my colleagues have been joking about the so-called Company X Curse. Work in Company X and its almost always guaranteed that you'd lose a girl/boyfriend. Why?  For starters, its the odd working hours. Nope, I do not work in a call center. But I do remember my boss telling me though that all of us here are on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Because of our unpredictable schedules, many personal plans (READ: Dates) get postponed or cancelled.  There was one time that I spent Valentine's Day sleeping at the office floor together with one other officemate because our work finished at 2 in the morning.  And so because of this, we end up spending more time with each other than with our significant others. A col...

DISCLAIMER: I really wanted to do this but I got so lazy to come up with a more coherent post with pictures and all so I made an outline format of my memorable 2010 moments. If I sent you the link then it means YOU are very much a part of it. :) January: Lost my phone during Sinulog. Sprayed Tequila Rose all over the parking lot of One Mango Avenue. Eeew. February:  02/13/10 = L . Good friends visiting Cebu! SMBPP Racket :D Bohol à Snorkeled for the FIRST time! March: Cattski Ten!  RCTV & PLDT Live & Loud.  Kumpara 63 Racket. Rode AND drove an all terrain vehicle for the FIRST time! April: Self Imposed Isolation for Holy Week. Birthday Surprise with people I barely knew (at that time). PARADISO! RCTV VJ Screentest! May: Artist Ko PMES. J Hale Manna. First Automated Elections à Team Galing at Talino! June-August Island Hopping with Screentesters. <3 The brother staying in Cebu for review à Another FIRST (having relatives in Cebu for long periods of t...

Today I attended another wedding. Its actually my third this year. All three had red as the motif. Its supposed to bring the couple lots of love and luck. Last year my parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. The motif was blue. Our gowns blended with the decoration of the reception place. But there was unlimited wine,so it was still awesome. This year my pseudo parents (in Ubec) decided to put an end to their marriage. With a little intervention and help from my real parents, and a little fixing on their part, they finally decided to just work on it. Many people do not understand their relationship, its too easy and too obvious to say that they should just quit, but for some reason, I think they shouldn't. At least they're trying. I am 24 years old. I have been in Cebu for 8 years. I am home now for the Christmas vacation. In Kalibo.  And every year, every time there are weddings HERE in Kalibo, people would always ask me: "Hay ikaw Ne, san-o ka man masun...