Breakfast Chats

Wholesale Insurance have been the breakfast topic for the past couple of weeks. Being seemingly aware of what would his life would be in the future, Tony is making sure of everything. Tendering an ample amount of time taking care of his sick mother and guiding his father with his new venture on stocks, it came to him that it is time to think about what would help him make his life a lot easier. He is at his marrying age, but the demands of his mother’s condition is somewhat pulling him to grab the opportunity of him finding a suitable mate. It had been years since he last dated someone. The thought of having his partner worrying about him and, the more, his family is quite unbearable so he chose to not be involved, making him set aside things that he thought is not important. The insurance topic was raised by his father. His father never had the chance to save up for his own insurance. The thought of lacking security and being the worry of his family scared him and he doesn’t want his son to share the same fate.

September 2010 Gigs: Up Dharma Down

I made this poster to promote Up Dharma Down’s gig schedule this September. I like making these posters since it becomes my Photoshop practice, hehe. Been managing the band’s Tumblr site since early this year and having these posters to promote their shows had been a big help. I am not getting any toys or something similar; I am doing this out of pure love and admiration for the band's music. A lot of Tumblr users are reblogging/reposting this on their page. The gigs have been pretty much crazy these days because of the good turn out of people who read about the gigs on Tumblr and also in Facebook and Twitter where I also post these promo materials.

Swing Me Baby!

I wonder why we do not have toys like this adorable wooden swing set when I was little.

Look at that mini-tree house! And of course, the swing and the slides. My seven-year-old self would love to spend the whole morning just lazily sitting on the swing with my best friend. The sand box underneath the mini-tree house would be perfect for our messy castle-building game. We were two princesses in a lost kingdom, and building a castle will restore the palace and everything in it.

Ah, children and their imaginations :)

Big Fish

My friend Macky loaded 57 movies on my laptop. Now I don’t know how long it would take me to watch every single one of them. I started watching the first on the list: Big Fish.

Tim Burton as the director of this film caught me by surprise. I’ve been hearing about the film before and thought it was from an Independent director. The movie is more than two-hour long narrative of Edward Bloom’s life, played by Ewan McGregor. I do not remember finding any loose diamonds anywhere in the movie, but this flick is definitely a treasure.

I’ve never seen that much metaphor in a movie before. I told my mother Big Fish will be a perfect subject for film review if ever she’ll have a lesson about death and after-life.

Hello

It had been a while. Thursday had been a drag. I really hate the fact the our IT Administrator blocked Blogger at the office. There are moments that I want to write something on my blog, but I can't since the feed from my Windows Live Writer cannot got through. All of the things I need to document are already done and had a lot of free time in my hand. I'd have to wait to reach home before I could write apidexin reviews that my friend have been telling me about the other day. She needed a  lot of information about it for her project and found the things that she read really interesting and thought she’d share her new found knowledge with me.

August is almost over. The 8th month of 2010. I still cannot believe we barely have five months to go before this year ends.

Blog Hop

Having to always think about what to write about during weekends can be pretty tiring. It's a very bad reflection of the one who write on this blog too. I read other blogs and would really love to share all of the things I have been reading since 11am this morning. I normally spend most of my time reading posts of the people I follow on Tumblr. The blog networking site is the most diverse site I have been subscribed to. The bloggers from different walks of life post something as generic as where one could find a wholesale apparel to the best tips one could have in snagging that guy/girl. Aside from reading posts, I also manage the Up Dharma Down Tumblr page. I created this poster to promote the band’s gig this August. Do drop by if you’re around the area of these venues:

Liar

I normally am very fond of everything that has to do with fixing beds. My mother asked me to buy mattress a couple of days ago, and was I excited. A trip at the mall's home section has got to be the highlight of my day over the weekend. The smell of newly folded pillow cases and bed sheets was pretty inviting, lying down for a few seconds to see how it felt was nice. The neatly pressed fabric and the magic it does to one’s skin is still a mystery.

Up Dharma Down’s Tadhana

Up Dharma Down released their new song /new single today. The song’s entitled Tadhana (Destiny). It’s the theme song for GMA 7’s new show, Ilumina. This band will never-ever-ever fail to impress me. Their new song sounds ethereal. Been playing the song on loop the whole day, and still can’t get enough of it.

Up Dharma Down - Tadhana

Words, Keyboards by Armi Millare
Bass by Paul Yap
Guitars by Carlos Tañada
Beats, Keychain samples, Synth by Ean Mayor

Sa hindi inaaasahang pagtatagpo ng mga mundo
May minsan lang na nag-dugtong, damang-dama na ang ugong nito
Di pa ba sapat ang sakit at lahat na hinding-hindi ko ipararanas saýo
Ibinubunyag ka ng iyong matang sumisigaw ng pag-sinta

Ba’t ‘di pa patulan ang pag-suyong nag-kulang
Tayong umaasang hilaga’t kanluran
Ikaw ang hantungan at bilang kanlungan mo
Ako ang sasagip saýo

Saan nga ba patungo, nakayapak at nahihiwagaan
Ang bagyo ng tadhana ay dinadala ako sa init ng bisig mo
Ba’t di pa sabihin ang hindi mo maamin
Ipauubaya na lang ba ‘to sa hangin
‘Wag mong ikatakot ang bulong ng damdamin mo
Naririto ako’t nakikinig saýo

For more on Up Dharma Down, you may visit their Official Site. They’re also on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

*image by Everywhere We Shoot