mooncake, eureka, et al.

The weekdays fast like it’s only three days. Sobrang bilis but still payday takes too long to happen. This weekend would end on Monday for the Chinese to celebrate all over China, the Mid Autumn Festival on September 14. In Shanghai, you’d see people in long queue to buy mooncake in the bakery. Today, I felt the mall and the metro were too crowded. People do malling or just going home to reunite with their family for the holiday is traditionally kin day as oriental farmers make a toast to end the harvest. It is also encourage to eat mooncake under a moon this holiday and this I find poetic.

I finally get rid of Windows Genuine Authentication notice in my pc before dawn today. That Microsoft crap was plaguing my pc for months now till today with much help from digital life blog.

Tomorrow, I’m going to Hengdian in Zhejiang Province and would write details to you when I go back..

Photography 101

The ever talented Jamie, my friend who already won 1st prize on national tilt in Manila gave me a small lecture on photography by sending back my pictures with her notes and ideas and humiliation. Joke!





Ok, professor next time I'll do better.

Sa Kabilang Dulo ng Earth Video

While watching some of Howie Severino's docu in YouTube, I stumbled on this video that carry this 4-chord song in A major entitled “Sa Kabilang dulo ng Mundo” by a band called Peryodiko, with former Twisted Halo, Vin Dacel singing. I love the rhyming of Tagalog words in the song which reminded me of Gary Granada or Dong Abay prowess on this. It would go boring for listening several times and with a nice synth drum beat I think you can mixed it with Oasis' Champagne Supernova. But for know I love this song. I like this that I wrote the lyrics in my notebook. Baduy!

E-heads Reunion and Rakenrol

I SUPER envy those guys who watched the Eraserheads Reunion Concert in Taguig City this Saturday. I was watching the gig video from YOUTUBE and Inquirer VDO, with the crowds going gaga singing along with Ely and the rest of the band was both spectacular things to behold. This kind of event made me missed Manila and its music scene more. To most of the Filipinos who grew of with E-heads music the reunion concert is way bigger than Beijing Olympics or Democrats National Convention in the US. Opening the gig with the infamous psychedelic Alapaap, the band performed their songs that took the crowd back to the best of 90’s Pinoy alternative and rakenrol. I was only watching the video but I feel the energy and the excitement with these great four musicians reunited again doing their craft onstage live and made everybody happy hearing and living with them again.

Eventually the concert was cut short after Ely experienced chest problem and rushed to Makati Med. Well, let’s all hope for Ely’s recovery and good health. The historical event was documented here.

Talking of notes and scales, I was exchanging thoughts with Jo in YM about Manila music scene and "good" bands, sorry Cueshe, SpongeCola and 6Cyclemind not included, and send file me this music video from Camerawalls. Clem, after quitting with Orange and Lemons last year, still sounded like Morissey but this song from his new band is really good stuff the title “ Clinicaly Dead for 16 Hrs” is catchy that plays in your mind over and over again that makes it a super last song syndrome.