current music: Dashboard Confessional - As Lovers Go
She said "I've gotta be honest,
you're wasting your time if you're fishing round here."
And I said "You must be mistaken,
cause I'm not fooling...this feeling is real."
She said...she said "You gotta be crazy.
What do you take me for? Some kind of easy mark?"
"No, you've got wits, you've got looks,
you've got passion, but I swear that you've got me all wrong."
all wrong.
all wrong.
but you got me...
i'll be true, i'll be useful...
i'll be cavalier...i'll be yours my dear.
and i'll belong to you...
if you'll just let me through.
this is easy as lovers go,
so don't complicate it by hesitating.
and this is wonderful as loving goes,
this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?
and I said "I've gotta be honest
I've been waiting for you all my life."
for so long i thought i was asylum bound,
but just seeing you makes me think twice.
and being with you here makes me sane,
i fear i'll go crazy if you leave my side.
You've got wits...you've got looks,
you've got passion but are you brave enough to leave with me tonight?
tonight.
tonight.
but you've got me...
i'll be true, i'll be useful...
i'll be cavalier...i'll be yours my dear.
and i'll belong to you...
if you'll just let me through.
this is easy as lovers go,
so don't complicate it by hesitating.
and this is wonderful as loving goes,
this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?
this is easy as lovers go,
so don't complicate it by hesitating.
and this is wonderful as loving goes,
this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?
Friday, April 21, 2006
Monday, April 17, 2006
Cross-Posted from my LJ... A Tribute to 3 "M's" for the Past 3 Days
current music: Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What A Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
wow. coincidence kaya puro M?
Monday
Michiko, this really isn't supposed to count, given that I'm still bound to see you tomorrow! but thanks for brightening up an otherwise VERY dull day! pansin ko for the past 3 years, walang LnK summer na di tayo nagkwentuhan, and i'm grateful to be blessed that way.
This is for time hanging out at della, for RENT, for english exam paper grading, for "friendly letters" from our students (tulad ng "magbago ka na!" and "i know you're fat!"), for "unfinished kwentuhan", for photo ops at katipunan (kasama nina Paeng, Migi, Rio, et al), for helping me find a ride... thanks. and God bless sa Days mo this weekend! :)
Sunday
May, thanks for Starbucks last night! Thanks for remembering me after your friends backed out, for making that phone call, for letting me rant about my kid brother's icky "isyu" with Julie, and for all the Venti's our planner stubs afforded us. I barely slept last night because of all the damned coffee! Asar! pero oks lang, enjoy pa rin.
Thanks for manghuhula spreads, for informally inviting me to your debut (kahit baka hindi matuloy, hehe, it's still nice to be invited) and for that keychain from baguio. sayang lang yung Baguio gimik mo hindi naging okey. pero di bale - sana kahit papaano, bumawi ka sa 'bad trip' kagabi.
Saturday
What's left to say? I love you Mela Dearest. You're the best. :) Sana nag-enjoy ka sa iyong one-day vacation. Thanks for being an angel to everybody there, for iPod music tripping, for all the catching up, for letting me see Dimitri, the laughs, the ideas I can use for my job, and for your company which I treasure.
Oo, medyo nabanas nga lang ako nung hapon/gabi [kasi nawala yung aking cross...and it embarrasses me to remember why it got lost in the first place...:s]. Still, I had a blast, and it wouldn't have been anywhere near as nice without you. [at wala nang bola yun. hehe]
Oh, and kindly thank your folks for me too for letting you come along, and for being so nice to me and my family. And I hope your first day at work rocked! :D
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Sa uulitin muli...
current music: Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What A Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
wow. coincidence kaya puro M?
Monday
Michiko, this really isn't supposed to count, given that I'm still bound to see you tomorrow! but thanks for brightening up an otherwise VERY dull day! pansin ko for the past 3 years, walang LnK summer na di tayo nagkwentuhan, and i'm grateful to be blessed that way.
This is for time hanging out at della, for RENT, for english exam paper grading, for "friendly letters" from our students (tulad ng "magbago ka na!" and "i know you're fat!"), for "unfinished kwentuhan", for photo ops at katipunan (kasama nina Paeng, Migi, Rio, et al), for helping me find a ride... thanks. and God bless sa Days mo this weekend! :)
Sunday
May, thanks for Starbucks last night! Thanks for remembering me after your friends backed out, for making that phone call, for letting me rant about my kid brother's icky "isyu" with Julie, and for all the Venti's our planner stubs afforded us. I barely slept last night because of all the damned coffee! Asar! pero oks lang, enjoy pa rin.
Thanks for manghuhula spreads, for informally inviting me to your debut (kahit baka hindi matuloy, hehe, it's still nice to be invited) and for that keychain from baguio. sayang lang yung Baguio gimik mo hindi naging okey. pero di bale - sana kahit papaano, bumawi ka sa 'bad trip' kagabi.
Saturday
What's left to say? I love you Mela Dearest. You're the best. :) Sana nag-enjoy ka sa iyong one-day vacation. Thanks for being an angel to everybody there, for iPod music tripping, for all the catching up, for letting me see Dimitri, the laughs, the ideas I can use for my job, and for your company which I treasure.
Oo, medyo nabanas nga lang ako nung hapon/gabi [kasi nawala yung aking cross...and it embarrasses me to remember why it got lost in the first place...:s]. Still, I had a blast, and it wouldn't have been anywhere near as nice without you. [at wala nang bola yun. hehe]
Oh, and kindly thank your folks for me too for letting you come along, and for being so nice to me and my family. And I hope your first day at work rocked! :D
------
Sa uulitin muli...
Thursday, April 13, 2006
current music: Quiet - Rachael Yamagata
Okay. Let me tell you a bit of a story.
One ordinary, nondescript day in the life of me and my blockmates, two of my classmates in our practicum class gave me CD's of music they liked. This was on the heels of me playing a burned CD of mixed music in the FA Theater's sound system, and thus inspiring varied conversation among us on our musical tastes.
I learned about certain 'signature tastes' to the Block E people: Anna loved Brit rock, characterized by Bloc Party. Geopet loved Pinoy indie rock. Benny was a metal fan. Chino, the blockmate who left Ateneo, loved classic rock (Led Zeppelin, et al). Yumi loved classical piano, especially from the old maestros (Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin). Edlyn was the one who had scores of musicals in her iPod, Jason liked pop music, and Jihan liked Hale. I happened to be the only true fan of hip-hop, even if I listened to practically anything and everything else (be it the 70's, the 80's, OPM, grunge, disco, liturgical, video game soundtracks...you name it).
Those two I mentioned gave me CD's for different reasons. One, Denrocs, a girl who liked to talk to me about life, movies, music, and palmistry, handed me a mix of electronica, her favorite kind of music, in hopes of 'expanding my horizons'. It showed on the CD - she wrote on the thing itself a note:
Aug. 30, '05
Dearest Raph,
Expand your horizons. Electronic music is not so bad! Take care! ΓΌ *heart* Denrocs
And for the most part, I liked it. It had Bonnie Bailey, Benny Benassi and Felix da Housecat, to name a few. Mostly, they were upbeat, party music you'd be playing while twirling glowsticks in a club with friends. Although I confess I wish she'd given me a CD of more easy-going sounds - man does not live on trance alone. I wished she picked out the Chill Out music selections for me. But her choices and my biases didn't stop my "growth"; I ended up taking to Faithless and Timo Maas really quickly.
Then there was Monette.
I had my reasons to try and be 'closer' to Monette back in the day - she was the girl who sat behind me in the first class I took with Block E, an Economics class where I sat in front, but made few friends. I had often found her to be quite pretty, and even once or twice contemplated asking her out for coffee or something, but I was *kind of* involved with somebody else at the time (this was 2nd year, in the heat of a troubled...well, nevermind). At the few times we talked, I found her to be sweet. But it pretty much ended there, as the other 'core group blockmates' in Yumi, Cerz, Jason, Edlyn and the like tended to absorb my attention more, them being really very welcoming to me, a future shiftee.
It never happened, this being friendly with that girl. I had never quite gotten around being 'closer' to Monette for reasons that elude me. Maybe it was because I was busy making friends (or being friends, I couldn't tell which) with the others that I hardly ever got to chat with her. Or it could have been how I had me some of her old friends from high school, some she still kept close ties to, and whom I personally didn't find too pleasant for company (there are airs, you see). Or maybe it was how, whenever I'd try to strike conversation, she'd be so quiet, or that we'd have so little to really chat about. It'd be idle small talk, and we'd hardly ever get around anything more playful, or more personal; only to a certain friendly but noncommital kind of cordiality.
When I played music, I told her I had a fondness (among many fondnesses) to acoustic, adult-contemporary sounding music. Damien Rice being my current poster-child at the time, was what was playing in the background. She offered to make me a mixtape of music, and she did. It didn't come with a tracklist, and I only recognized James Blunt's "You're Beautiful", at the time a really big, brand-new hit. I asked for a track list, and she said she'd give it if I returned the CD. I ended up misplacing the disk for a spell of months, and since then, us two went back to our happy silence/non-committal chatter, all the way to the Graduation Day march just a few weeks ago. I haven't heard from her since.
I found the CD just this evening, and decided to decipher the tracklist on my own, an act I should have done months ago. I played the song, and typed lyrics on Google as they raced across my head. One song at a time, and I was done. And I listened. And I love the music, and...well.
The whole thing reminds me of High Fidelity. Now, I feel like I've known Monette a WHOLE LOT DEEPER. After all, mixtapes say a lot about a person's taste, and more importantly, about the way a person thinks, feels, hopes and dreams.
Maybe if I had better listened, maybe I'd have learned to know Monette a whole lot better. And maybe I'd be able to understand her gift of song for me.
Okay. Let me tell you a bit of a story.
One ordinary, nondescript day in the life of me and my blockmates, two of my classmates in our practicum class gave me CD's of music they liked. This was on the heels of me playing a burned CD of mixed music in the FA Theater's sound system, and thus inspiring varied conversation among us on our musical tastes.
I learned about certain 'signature tastes' to the Block E people: Anna loved Brit rock, characterized by Bloc Party. Geopet loved Pinoy indie rock. Benny was a metal fan. Chino, the blockmate who left Ateneo, loved classic rock (Led Zeppelin, et al). Yumi loved classical piano, especially from the old maestros (Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin). Edlyn was the one who had scores of musicals in her iPod, Jason liked pop music, and Jihan liked Hale. I happened to be the only true fan of hip-hop, even if I listened to practically anything and everything else (be it the 70's, the 80's, OPM, grunge, disco, liturgical, video game soundtracks...you name it).
Those two I mentioned gave me CD's for different reasons. One, Denrocs, a girl who liked to talk to me about life, movies, music, and palmistry, handed me a mix of electronica, her favorite kind of music, in hopes of 'expanding my horizons'. It showed on the CD - she wrote on the thing itself a note:
Aug. 30, '05
Dearest Raph,
Expand your horizons. Electronic music is not so bad! Take care! ΓΌ *heart* Denrocs
And for the most part, I liked it. It had Bonnie Bailey, Benny Benassi and Felix da Housecat, to name a few. Mostly, they were upbeat, party music you'd be playing while twirling glowsticks in a club with friends. Although I confess I wish she'd given me a CD of more easy-going sounds - man does not live on trance alone. I wished she picked out the Chill Out music selections for me. But her choices and my biases didn't stop my "growth"; I ended up taking to Faithless and Timo Maas really quickly.
Then there was Monette.
I had my reasons to try and be 'closer' to Monette back in the day - she was the girl who sat behind me in the first class I took with Block E, an Economics class where I sat in front, but made few friends. I had often found her to be quite pretty, and even once or twice contemplated asking her out for coffee or something, but I was *kind of* involved with somebody else at the time (this was 2nd year, in the heat of a troubled...well, nevermind). At the few times we talked, I found her to be sweet. But it pretty much ended there, as the other 'core group blockmates' in Yumi, Cerz, Jason, Edlyn and the like tended to absorb my attention more, them being really very welcoming to me, a future shiftee.
It never happened, this being friendly with that girl. I had never quite gotten around being 'closer' to Monette for reasons that elude me. Maybe it was because I was busy making friends (or being friends, I couldn't tell which) with the others that I hardly ever got to chat with her. Or it could have been how I had me some of her old friends from high school, some she still kept close ties to, and whom I personally didn't find too pleasant for company (there are airs, you see). Or maybe it was how, whenever I'd try to strike conversation, she'd be so quiet, or that we'd have so little to really chat about. It'd be idle small talk, and we'd hardly ever get around anything more playful, or more personal; only to a certain friendly but noncommital kind of cordiality.
When I played music, I told her I had a fondness (among many fondnesses) to acoustic, adult-contemporary sounding music. Damien Rice being my current poster-child at the time, was what was playing in the background. She offered to make me a mixtape of music, and she did. It didn't come with a tracklist, and I only recognized James Blunt's "You're Beautiful", at the time a really big, brand-new hit. I asked for a track list, and she said she'd give it if I returned the CD. I ended up misplacing the disk for a spell of months, and since then, us two went back to our happy silence/non-committal chatter, all the way to the Graduation Day march just a few weeks ago. I haven't heard from her since.
I found the CD just this evening, and decided to decipher the tracklist on my own, an act I should have done months ago. I played the song, and typed lyrics on Google as they raced across my head. One song at a time, and I was done. And I listened. And I love the music, and...well.
The whole thing reminds me of High Fidelity. Now, I feel like I've known Monette a WHOLE LOT DEEPER. After all, mixtapes say a lot about a person's taste, and more importantly, about the way a person thinks, feels, hopes and dreams.
Maybe if I had better listened, maybe I'd have learned to know Monette a whole lot better. And maybe I'd be able to understand her gift of song for me.
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