Friday, December 30, 2005

Happy happy!

Hello all,

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

This is just a short note to greet everyone an awesome Holiday. We're currently in Las Vegas right now spending New Year's (second year in a row). I'll post some pics when I get back since Internet access is scarce, but meanwhile hope you all have a great New Year's!

Lots of kwento when I get back next week :)

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Some days...

Overheard from a teenager on our walk back to the car from Albertson's:


"Oh wow, this is so awesome. I can already smell Christmas!"

That was two weeks ago. In the dimly lit car lot, she could actually smell Christmas. Amazing. You should have seen her too. Despite the dark, I could clearly make out the smile on her face. It was such a genuine excitement, and I felt so envious.

I wasn't in such a joyous mood that day due to an unpleasant incident at work, but the girl's remark kinda hit me. It's funny how feeling the Season was so much easier when you were younger, and so elusive as you actually got older. So many aspects to it, really. For one thing, feeling isn't so much the point any more when you're an adult, especially when you've come to understand the real Reason for it all. The holidays now extend beyond mere tinsel and lights and big presents.

Honestly though, some days I seriously feel like life would be so much simpler if our senses just sparked the emotion and have that be enough. Just like when we were kids. We see the Christmas tree and the colorful decor, and automatically it triggers some "happy signal" and we're instantly excited. That's all it seemed to take. You see the sights, and you feel Christmas.

I wonder how life would be like if we remained that way... Living life with no expectations from you, no obligation to dig deeper, and no urgency in making life count. Just excitement and happiness based on what is seen and what is told us.

Honest questions I'll never know the answers to. What I do know is that this adult life needs working at, and that there is no stopping till.

...I do wish we could take a breather from the toiling every now and then.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Alanis doublebills with Switchfoot.

Two awesome performers in one concert. I didn't think it was possible, but thank God Radio Alice put it together. I must say that gig more than made my evening.


Alice in Winterland presents:
SWITCHFOOT, baby!





And the phenomenal
ALANIS MORISETTE, no less:





Saved the best for last, ofcourse:





Four happy ducks after a phenomenal Wednesday night rockout.

More of the fun stuff HERE.
That gig was so awesooooooooooome.
I think I may know now how I got the sore throat ;)

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Crazy sick.

And not the good kind. Sigh. :(

The flu bug has gotten the better of me yet again. I haven't been sleeping very well because of it either. Sleep at 1230mn, wake up at 230am, force myself to go back to sleep at 3, wake up again at 5.. and so on and on, until it's actually time to be up.

It sucks, I'll tell you that. I can hardly breathe from the clogged nose and my thousand and one meds aren't helping any. The coughing's nasty too; my poor throat's taking such an awful beating from it. This needs to go down soon, as the Christmas concert is nearing and I can't afford to still be ngongo come weekend. Help, Lord! I can sure use a miracle right now.

In other news, I have some photos to post from the Alanis and Switchfoot concert last week. This whole fever-flu-cough thing's been keeping me from doing a lot of stuff, but I should be able to upload them soon. I also have a video clip of Alanis rocking it out. It should knock your socks off.

Also, I got to watch the long awaited Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe over the weekend. Hmm.. It was a good attempt, although I feel they sacrificed much needed dialogue and background explanation in order to cram the movie in two hours. They should have extended it another thirty minutes, or a full hour even, to make the film well-rounded. So much was lacking for me. Some of the sets too were a little too unreal, in fact they looked exactly like that: sets.

The kids were definitely a redeeming factor though. Lucy and Edmond are great and very well played. Great character development. No complaints on the Witch either and Liam Neeson as Aslan's voice. He was perfect, although he needed more lines in there.

All in all, it's still a must-see. It might leave a lot of questions though to those who may not have read the book or seen the old cartoons. Still, it's worth watching.


Friday, December 02, 2005

Thanksgiving weekend in pictures.


They're finally uploaded! Complete with captions too (hehehe).

As promised, here are the pics from last week's four-day Thanksgiving Holiday.
Click on the photo to view the entire album.


Uhm... Don't mind the momoy behind us.