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It's a common dilemma between me and a good, childhood (since grade school) gal pal who currently resides in San Francisco, California. She's studying jazz and modern dance, I think. She's always been a dancer since we were younger but she mentioned she wanted to do Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM) in nearby island metropolis, Cebu.

The recent Y! IM conversation we had made me think of what I want to do, what I want to be. I'm on the Special Education (soon-to-be SpEd teacher) band wagon but I have two things---you could say they're skills, too---that I wanted to hone, master and live my whole life doing. They're writing and music---singing, the piano and the guitar, that is. 

I've decided to take a major in Music in one of the good schools up north, NCR. The University of Santo Tomas. I checked on their site long ago and found that I like their Conservatory of Music. UST is said to produce talents like Sylvia La Torre. She's good. I had the opportunity to listen to her singing a Tagalog kundiman---one I, too, was doing---on the radio in my voice teacher's studio. My teacher had a compilation of Filipino kundimans in a cassette tape.

Perhaps I should take things one at a time. I'm not, at all, rushing things I want to do to quickly get into where I want to be. I figure I'll have to finish this course, first. Once I'm through with it---on 2010---I'm going to try my luck with UST next. That gives me one full year to prepare, practice the piano and singing (and hopefully, not miss anymore piano and voice lessons with my current teacher). There're bouts of auditions and interviews to prepare for in that one full year. Hopefully, they'll be enough practice and experience for whatever music studies asks from me. First things first, I have to finish SpEd with passing marks!

I figure I can always take li'l courses on Creative Writing. I always wanted to write creative literature. If I ever decide to take a major in English Literature, I think that will be realized in quite a while. I should focus on something I already started, first, and then go for what I truly want---music---before doing something about the third, writing. Figure I can always practice writing however way I can---blogging, fiction writing (I'm a closet fiction writer O.o and an occasional one, haha!), songwriting among others.

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A more pressing news is, the Cagayan de Oro river's water was said to rise earlier and flood areas like Tibasak and Tomas Saco. They're pretty near where I live. Good thing the flood didn't reach our abode. Hopefully my friends who live in those areas are fine. It has been raining since yesterday.

 

The product of an overworked mind:

"Endless wandering. Traipsing  trails taken by few. A turn here, another there. The end no where in sight. I continue the tireless move from one place and then to another. With the desire to learn how people fare here and there. Seeing new faces, making new friends. Then leaving them behind and as I continue this never ending trek, gaining new ones. Tirelessly, I wander, unraveling little by little nature's beauty hidden from plain sight. Wondering when this wandering ends.

I wander in search of home. That place where I'll finally feel at peace in, settled, comfortable. And I've a theory, a viable one, I think. To explain this ceaseless wandering. Maybe this feeling of displacement is momentary. Fleeting. Maybe home is where I currently stand and that, that I've yet to come and realize. However young as I am, dreaming brightly, settling down is yet a thought so foreign, far fetched. One so far away that in a decade, I'm afraid, I won't, yet, fully understand. And which I won't ever understand.

So here I am, still the wanderer. In search of home, in search of peace and stability in every aspect of living. No...I'm not in a hurry of finding the right place I could call home. I'll keep floating, flying...walking wherever the roads take me. Neither am I waiting for someone to find me. Like a lost soul, forever wandering...a wanderer I remain."
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I rarely do literary writing so I chose to relish this moment and use this raw ability, skill, the best I can. Especially this time when I can express myself creatively, and hopefully, with sense.

Woot! First post for the New Year!

Uhh...no?

Aside from being nasty (losing some organs for cash), I don't think I can stand the pain during and after their removal. O.o I'll look for another way to get the cash I need, then.

These are current Idol songs I keep repeating on my player and they're awesome so I thought it better to share 'em =D comment of you take, though ^.~ They're also available for purchase on ITunes =D (copy and paste link to bar and change hxxp to http, too ^.^)

Brooke White - Here Comes the Sun (Studio Version)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/dn0v70

Brooke White - Let it Be (Studio Version)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/rxfdmn

David Archuleta - Long and Winding Road (Studio Version)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/hfc4fs

Carly Smithson - Blackbird (Studio Version)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/65jdvg

Syesha Mercado - Yesterday (Studio Version)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/0byyf8

Ramiele Malubay - I Should've Known Better (Studio Version)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/x562zy

Ramiele Malubay - In My Life (Studio Version)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/6zcb9p

Enjoy 'em and don't forget to comment if 'ya take! ^.~

Figures. Busy life, no time to post...or making icons have just been, like, keeping me from posting. But seriously, from Monday (August 27) 'til today (August 30) I've been busy T.T and will be busy. Yesterday, I was the Officer of the Day (OD) of the Crusader Publication and had to clean the office before I left, checking all the tasks I've done. What else...? Oh! I also helped with the distribution of the first 400/500 copies of the second issue during my 3:00 break and got my grades. Gratifying, really, my grades are. I got one B- and the rest are A and A-. It's Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) aka SpEd 34. I'm frustrated I don't know what to do about that subject. Anyway, to distract myself from that and many other thoughts, let's go on and I'd like to keep this post short.

So...

August 27 (Monday)
'Twas the day before Cagayan de Oro's (my hometown/city) fiesta and it's usually what we call "bisperas" here, in vernacular. The celebrations have started early and a few of my classmates were able to witness the parade on the way to the school since that was like our appointed practice day for SpEd 26's production thing. Tim arrived really late and everyone was going berserk with madness. We agreed upon 8 being 8 in the morning as the meeting and assembly time so we could practice and prepare the props and we ended up practicing around 10: 30 a.m. and the school guards chased us away after a few minutes because Madame President was coming. Yes! As in the President of the Philippines! The result, we weren't able to practice much and instead went out and hung out by Dunkin Donuts. Me, Cacai (Candice Longino), and Ishie did, anyway. Ishie and I waited for Charlyn and I ended up eating a hearty lunch XD.
In the afternoon, we had to do our music video thing for Educ 13, partially, anyway. It was a busy day...

August 28 (Tuesday)
We got an invitation from Tita Merce and we ate lunch in her home as they were celebrating the fiesta. People from the states were actually back home. What else...? Oh! ケイチイーニイーサン　brought along a friend who's studying in Capitol University (CU). His name's ケンジ...I don't know or I didn't catch his last name, silly me...and we're just...almost of the same age! Uhh...he's older than I am, of course, but it's just for a year. Then we chatted about stuff and though he really does have a hard time enunciating English words, I do wish him luck learning the language XD It took me years to learn it well and write well. Or I just picked it up naturally as I usually do the two languages I already have in my belt, Bisaya (Cebuano but I'd rather term it as "Kagay-anon") and Filipino (formerly Tagalog). After chatting, we dropped them off where they were supposed to have their second fiesta celebration, somewhere in Nazareth and I headed back to schoolwork at home or what was left of it. I never finished my schoolwork that day, anyway. I spent a few more times chatting with ケイチイーニイーサン　and ケンジ　during dinner and after dinner since the latter was also present here at home a few minutes after we dropped 'em off. Schoolwork got put off again.
There was supposed to be a lunar eclipse that night as we saw in the news but our house gave us a limited view of the moon T-T All I could see was red skies due to dark clouds T-T

I already did recount my day yesterday, right? But not all of it. In SpEd 26, Tim left me out in naming the group members but, well...that figures, I only manned the music (music and lights director) but I wasn't the one who got the music when it was supposed to be my job as the music and lights director. I just sort of slacked off in the middle of doing the job.

So...I have other things to do...

But first! Right...here are some of the things I've been busy about lately...XD

Kanata Hongou


Tantei Gakuen Q




High School Musical


Hana Kimi


Carrie Underwood


and...

More High School Musical XD


That High School Musical banner could easily be changed into a "Friends only" banner.

P.S.
This month's issue of Crusader is really good. It's REALLY GOOD!! =P A few typos here and there but all the rest, especially the layout are excellenté! Worth checking out. Probably I'll put up a shot of it sometime...when I post again. Count on it!