Recently, our company decided to resurrect the social committee and I got invited to join separately by HR and my boss. Now this isn’t the first time I’ve been involved with anything social-related. Apparently I am such a social butterfly that I usually get volunteered for these things in most companies I’ve worked for. Take […]
Begin Again {Movie Review}
SYNOPSISThe latest film from writer-director John Carney (Once), Begin Again is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beautiful music together. Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who decamp for New York when he lands a deal with a major […]
I Couldn’t Have Imagined How Good My Life Would Get
The Big Bang Theory is one of my favorite TV shows. I can always count on it to make me laugh out loud literally. But a few weeks ago, they had an episode that made me tear up, not from laughter, but from being touched. This was when Howard decided to celebrate the anniversary of […]
Throwback Thursday | Haven’t Met You Yet
Today’s Throwback Thursday post was triggered by this week’s HIMYM S09E02 “Coming Back.” Ted’s promise to himself reminded me of one of my favorite songs, Michael Buble’s Haven’t Met You Yet. Do you know that song? You can watch the music video below. The song is so Ted Mosby in that the singer is singing […]
{Throwback Thursdays} The Wind Beneath My Wings
This is a photo of me as a baby. My mom is holding me up and hiding behind me, so that I supposedly could stand on my own. It made me realize that this photo is the perfect backdrop for a song that suits her. Wind Beneath My Wings It must have been cold there […]
Valuing Vincent
Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer’s day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Do you know that song? It was one of the songs on our multiplex tape when I was a child. I didn’t like it then. Whenever the tape came around to […]
Thank You for the Music
Today I rediscovered an old habit I had forgotten about – I played music on my phone. I used to do it everyday, and I don’t know why I stopped, really, but this morning when I took my shower it just sort of happened, and as I started singing “I would walk 500 miles and […]
In the End I Wanna be Standing at the Beginning with You
The initial plan was just to have frappes in Starbucks (our favorite creme brulee is back!) which somehow ended up with Maya and Gay sleeping overnight in my living room. The next day we ate danggit for breakfast and maggi curry for lunch, played around with my Mac’s photobooth app, recorded a song, shot a […]
Huggables for Good
Zenie dedicated the song “For Good” from the musical Wicked to Maya, Gay and me. I listened to it for the first time yesterday and cried. These girls were my barkada since college, then we all moved to Makati and became roommates there for four years. The lyrics are spot on. So I made a video using […]
My Mother’s Bisaya Folk Songs
When I was a child, or maybe I should say ever since I was a child because I still have a problem until now, I had a hard time falling asleep. So my mom used to sing me songs while patting my thigh to lull me to slumber. Her songs weren’t exactly your average songs, […]