Rock On!

It's been a while since I last posted something. I have been very busy lately. Ok, so maybe not too much. I was just off in a new world called flyff. I'm a tough and burly mercenary there in the name of Grupples. Cool huh? Anyway, I was mentioning that one of the busiest was yesterday.
I was the overall in charge of the band to represent Sakya at Baden Powell's Day. We were given a chance to show off. Talent's no question, the difficult thing there was they had no musical equipments for us. So we had to carry all of the instruments (the amplifiers, guitars, keyboards, and DRUMS!!!) to St. Stephen (the venue) and back to our school. And we even have to be the one to set it up. What a day! But then again, all our hard work paid off after the performance. Everyone was shouting for more! Everyone were very excellent audience. They cheered and paid attention.

We were supposed to play 3 songs.

• Crazy For You
• Narda
• Tara Lets

We started off with Crazy For You. As the title goes... Everyone was nuts over us. And then we quickly moved to the second song. From playing Bass Guitar, I and Aimee quickly switched guitars. So then I was holding an electric guitar and she had the bass. Everyone rocked with us in Narda. Unfortunately after the 2nd song, the host finished us up. We weren't done yet... we still had one more, Tara Lets to rock everyone.

Oh well, at least we did a great job. We showed how Sakyans can rock.

Battle of the Bands Outcome

Battle of the Bands was far over. It's been a week since the competition. We only placed 3rd. It's really disappointing for me. We've managed to endure minimum bloopers out of the rest but we weren't credited for that. Anyway, our teacher said that we could have won if our song was a little more difficult. That's what he said... He said that the winner won because their guitarist did a very well job containing Smooth, Santana's song featuring Rob Thomas. We were the first to perform. At first I was nervous... But it can't be helped. We'll try better next time.

FinaL Line Up is In!

Due to the overlapping of the supposed-to-be schedule for audition of the Battle of the Bands and the Music Department's dry run practice, audition was moved to lunch time. We started out with the sensational intro of the dramatic I'm Just a Kid (Simple Plan) and continued on to the invigorating chorus and the rest of the song. Mr. Capobres (our very talented all around music teacher) then told us to wait for further announcements which he promised to be the day after. I'll be adding up more of the details about things when we win... I don't feel the fervor of winning yet... so what's the use of telling you all about it without winning the no.1 spot first? Anyway, due to the delay of our keyboardist, we had to repeat the audition all over again the next day, where Mr. Epres (our very kind and considerate science teacher) gave us 5 minutes to have a try again. This time around, we had more audience. Things weren't perfect as the practice we had during the weekend and I've been a little nervous as well... I can feel my heart pound from inside like the bass of the drum hitting hard. After the second performance, Mr. Capobres announced that our endeavor and talents qualifies us to the main battle. We'll be having another practice tomorrow as we have not had the time today. And regarding our local song pick, we are holding it concealed for now and shall be intimated soon.

More Band Updates

With only a few days left before the music band eliminations, we've been preparing. We've thought of the worst to happen. But I reminded everyone in the band to just hang on and have the confidence. We knew we would win. The elimination wasn't what I was worried about. I was more worried with the competition. Elimination hasn't even begun, but I've seen people from other years with great potentials that I know we'd be crossing and go up against in the competition. To those who are from another band at school. FinaL Line Up is not a band you would want to trifle with and go easy on. I wish you lots of luck. Work hard. We're all given equal chances. Make good use of that. We'll work much harder as well right after eliminations are over. It's time to shine!

Earthquake.... School... Music

Finally, things have been working again!!! It's been a week more or less since the earthquake that hit Taiwan had affected the whole internet! That's the reason I wasn't able to update at all.... Well enough of that, what's important is that I get to post up again!

School's back again... and I guess it ain't as bad as thought it would be. The New Year's over and I haven't even greeted you guys! I hope my belated greeting still reaches ya'll.

So what's new? Well, it has been announced that the band poster we have submitted will be assessed and I bet we have a big chance of getting a place! It's been announced as well that we'll be having the Musical Band Contest soon. Moreover, it's been clarified that our Music Subject Exam will be another band participation similar with 3rd Quarter's style. We were asked to play a foreign song and a local one. The only difference is that this time, we'll have to work on 4 songs. 2 songs (foreign and local) for the Competition, and another 2 for the exam. This means we'll need to work twice as hard. Let's see what happens... Up on us the only contender is Salt n' Pepper the band we've helped last Quarter. We're up for the challenge and ready to rock the school once again! It's another opportunity to prove our talents and skills once more to the whole of Sakya!

Disappointment...

I was out at Rockwell yesterday. And look what I got home:


Haha! I wouldn't miss the chance to buy the album now! Unfortunately, they don't have her 1st album anymore . However, I left my number instead and got the shop's number as well. They'll be calling me when they get one. The picture ain't exactly alike with mine. It's sort of different as it's a Philippine Edition C.D. And when I got home I figured why it was a little cheaper...It was a big disappointment to learn the stupid Philippine Edition only includes two pages of the darn manual I wanted so much. Why do you think I'd be buying an album when I can just download mp3s from LimeWire? It's because of the darn manual I really want! I want to read her thank you's etc.

*sigh*

Anyway.... I'd be writing a review about this album pretty soon. So stay tune for that.
Currently I've been listening to the following artists:

• Stacie Orrico
  
• Gavin Degraw
• Michelle Branch/The Wreckers
• Teddy Geiger
• Hinder
• John Mayer

*Check out the Review Section on my multiply site for any updates... maybe tomorrow... the day after tomorrow or the day after the day after tomorrow for Music/Artist Reviews soon to come*

Download My Buttercup :p

To download my rendition of the song please redirect here. It's been a couple of days since I made the mp3. I just forgot to inform you guys about it. Please comment up on this post for good and bad reactions about the song. It may be a little slow but I hope you guys take the time to download and hear it. I'll be posting some of our band's renditions this coming year when we get the chance to record up. It's such a shame the recording software I got can't be installed properly (darn cd... no crack with it). Anyway, when I get the thing exchanged and working I'll be informing. If not, we'll be recording in a real studio instead.

New Haircut

After the new layout comes my new haircut... Haha... Sorry ol' pal (you know who you are...) I guess the long hair plan's not coming any sooner. I guess I'm not really on with long hair. I had my haircut just this afternoon. I'm not sure if it looks good... I haven't really looked at my face since. Comment up on me ol' bud I'll be waiting for your violent reaction!

What's Playing this Christmas

So what's playing this Christmas? Here's Jojo's Coming For You


It's a very nice song. Haha... it just keeps playing in my head.

Merry Christmas

Haha! Do you think I'd be missing out a post on greeting all of you Merry Christmas? Of course not!

To all of my friends, relatives and all other people out there...

I wish all of you a MERRY CHRISTMAS :)

Update! Update!

I slept in like 2 am last night just to finish updating all the sites I've been maintaining and layouting of course and up to now I'm still working on it. There's been improvements... Don't notice anything?

Here's a list of things I've done:
New Header(cool huh? got that from here)
Fixed all the links and still adding up more! I've linked all my sites, my friends' and my favorite pages over the net.
Added shout out for quick updates on the latest.
Added Feeds from my multiply site.
Added Stat Counter
Added Logo
Added Copyright
Added viewing recommendations (found below of the webpage)
Added Clock

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That's pretty much of it~

some miracle just happened

I was at the other room when I heard a ring. I came running to answer the telephone. I heard a somewhat familliar voice... But I couldn't seem to recognize that voice until she asked for me. This has got to be one of the days when I felt like a miracle just happened. Yah see, this particular person ... I never expected the day when I'll hear a ring coming from her. She never called me up... ever! And I can't believe she did. It was like.. just impossible... as I've always been the one to call her up even when she was the one who needed me. She would text me on my celfone and ask me to call her up and I'd obediently do! But today, she called up to ask me if I wanted to come along with the rest of the people we usually hang out with. Well, I really wanted to go... It's been always fun everytime we have this "gimiks". But i had a feeling I wouldnt be allowed to go anyway. I tried asking... but I just asked my mom about if she's going anywhere today. Obviously... it's just not my day as my brother's out on vacation and my mom's just busy.
Well, I just hope I'd be able to buy something for the rest of the people on my list that I haven't bought a gift yet before Christmas comes.