a silly conversation i thought of several hours ago: person 1: this lake is so pristine. person 2: pristine as in pristine hermosa? person 1: no, pristine as in pristine reyes.

sinilip lang kita, nag-hang na ang PC ko. ganun katindi ang dating mo sa akin.

at the back of my mind is this song

this is a song by one of my favorite bands, Ash. sobrang nagagandahan lang talaga ako sa kabuuan niya, from the lyrics to the melody to the music. i think that Tim Wheeler and Charlotte Hatherley had a great guitar harmony here. siyempre, solid rhythm section pa rin sina Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray. sana bumalik sa kanila si Charlotte (wishful thinking). i won't tell you that this is a good song, you just have to listen and be the judge yourself. bottomline is, i love this song. =O)>

Shining Light

Ash

Roman candles that burn in the night,

Yeah, you are a shining light.
You lit a torch in the infinite,
Yeah, you are a shining light.
Yeah, you light up my life.

You have always been a thorn in their side,
But to me you're a shining light.
You arrive and the night is alive,
Yeah, you are a shining light.
Yeah, you light up my life.

We made a connection,
A full on chemical reaction,
Brought by dark divine intervention,
Yeah, you are a shining light.
A constellation once seen,
Over Royal David's city,
An epiphany you burn so pretty,
Yeah, you are a shining light.

You are a force
You are a constant source,
Yeah, you are a shining light.
Incandescent in the darkest night,
Yeah, you are a shining light.
Yeah, you light up my life.

We made a connection,
A full on chemical reaction,
Brought by dark divine intervention,
Yeah, you are a shining light.

A constellation once seen,
Over Royal David's city,
An epiphany you burn so pretty,
Yeah, you are a shining light.

These are the days you often say
There's nothing that we cannot do,
Beneath a canopy of stars
I'd shed blood for you.

We made a connection,

A full on chemical reaction,
Brought by dark divine intervention,
Yeah, you are a shining light.
A constellation once seen,
Over Royal David's city,
An epiphany you burn so pretty,
Yeah, you are a shining light,
Yeah, you light up my life.
Yeah you are a shining light,
Yeah you light up my life.

purple kush: revised, 10-3-2010

i posted this revised version on my YouTube channel earlier. here's the link and a short write-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy9VF0LcY38

this is a revised version of purple kush - a video i made a week before - with a basic structure. i decided to do this with a clean tone, i.e., no overdrive effect, as i like to have it as stripped down to the basic as possible. my playing still sucks, but this isn't final yet so just cut me some slack.

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purple kush

posted this on my YouTube channel earlier. here's the link and a short write-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ya0UIfulZ0

this is another song idea but i haven't decided on the final structure yet. i was just tinkering with this E chord and somehow came up with a rough pattern. i couldn't come up with a title so i decided to use "purple kush" - i've been playing this game in Facebook called Pot Farm and it's the highest strain of marijuana that i've unlocked - i have no idea if it's a real variety or just a fictional one. anyway, i put two different rough takes together - the first was unplugged as i was just tinkering around, and the second was done with an amplifier and overdrive effect (the effects settings was just done on a whim, with no reference whatsoever)

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Sunshine, i miss you...

welcoming the new, but keeping the old

pa-pampam ang import function ng Multiply albums kaya i had to do this the hard way. ito yung album na inupload ko sa Facebook kanina lang:

just a few snapshots of my guitars and amplifiers:

Dimitri (my old reliable RJ Stratocaster)

Pot-Pot (my old Dean Markley K20BX amplifier)

Juno (my newly-acquired Fender Stratocaster)

and Nicky (my newly-acquired Dean Markley K20X amplifier)

i bought my new babies from Packy, and it was worth every centavo. =O)>

p.s. the album title was based on a speech by Dr. Steve Rood on SWS' 25th anniversary celebration - i myself have been with the institution for about 10 years now.

para kay Jhen

nai-text ko na ito kanina, pero i decided na i-post din dito para pwedeng lagyan ng picture.  have a meaningful one, Jhen.  =O)>
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hindi ko alam kung paano ito gagawing kakaiba,

pero sana tuloy-tuloy ang mga biyaya

mo at hindi mo na kailangang magtanong kung: “may kanin pa ba?”

sana ay di ka na masaktan

nang kasing saklap ng: “lintek na spageti yan!”

kagabi ay kinausap ako nina Funshine Bear at Piolo Pascual,

ang sabi nila: “pare, si Jhen ay espesyal.”

hindi man nila sinabi nang literal,

pero sa panaginip ko, yun ang kanilang ini-usal. 

so, before your inbox is full,

i would like to wish you a great 3-0,

if that’s cool with you. 

but deep inside, i know that no celebration

can ever be as wonderful as you. 

these rhymes may be lame – and the lameness part is probably true –

but i’d write over and over again, only for you. 

if i seem like a corny rapper or a wack MC,

let me end this for now with a simple

“Happy Birthday, Jhenskie!”

p.s. yung pictures sa collage karamihan ako ang kumuha, pero yung dalawa sa Ilocos, kuha nina Doni at Ronnel.

galing kay Nanay

nagulat ako sa text ng Nanay ko kanina lang.  share ko lang sa inyo.  para formal writing style, i.e., yung mga shorthand at jejemon-isms ay inedit ko.  here it is:

’Nak ngayon ko lang nabasa sa internet yung mensahe mo sa akin noong birthday ko.  Sobrang natuwa ako sa ipinaabot mong mensahe mo.  Alam mo kung ano yung pinakagusto ko sa ugali mo?  Yung pagiging mapagmahal mo sa amin ng Tatay, hindi ka madamot at maalalahanin ka.  Alam mo na mahal na mahal kita at ina-appreciate ko lahat ang pagiging mapagbigay mo sa amin ng Tatay.  Ang maigaganti ko lang sa iyo ay ang lagi kong pagdadasal para sa safety mo sa araw-araw at lagi ko din dinadasal n asana makahanap ka na ng faithful na girlfriend at mamahalin ka ng tapat at totoo dahil kapag nasasaktan ang anak, sobrang lalong masakit yun para sa akin.  Muli, anak, maraming salamat at love na love kita – alam mo yan.  Mmmwaah!

naantig ang puso ko.  alam kong cheesy at emosyonal, pero kahit papaano ay naibsan ang pagkalungkot ko… paminsan-minsan kasi ay naaalala kong wala nga pala akong ka-parehang babae – sorry boys, hanggang friendship lang talaga tayo.

pero gaya nga ng pinaniniwalaan ko, lahat ng bagay may panahon.  may panahon ng paglalahad, may panahon ng pagtatapat, may panahon ng paghaharap.  at ang mga panahong iyan ay darating.  hintay lang.

para sa mga hindi nakakaalam, ang mensaheng tinutukoy niya ay ito:

http://lambanogpusher.blogspot.com/2010/07/para-kay-nanay_8116.html

kapag nag-carbo loading ako sa aking puso't isipan, sigurado akong ikaw lang ang nilalaman.