oh and by the way...

I LOVE CONDUCTING. now, i'm slowly getting the hang of it. hehehehehe. woohoo.

gloria... gloria...
sing we all noel...
hallelujah have you heard.
angels...

surprises... surprises...

i'm just amazed that my last entry was back in december 12. hehehe. nagalit lang yata ako nang sobra sa blogger kasi nung nagtype ako nang pagkahaba-haba, saka biglang hindi ba naman napublish? hay nakoh. another thing, puro carolling nights. hirap magblog pag pagod ka na. hehe. also, noong 23, i got sick up until noong 26. grabe talaga. ayoko nang magkasakit!

oh well. this evening has just lots of surprises for me. i don't want to enumerate them all, baka may magalit. hehehe. pero, sometimes, good surprises are good for people. minsan, mapapaisip ka na lang kung ano pa ang pwede pang mangyaring bago. with that in your head and heart, napupuno ka ng pasasalamat sa ganda ng buhay. ang ganda kasi ng mga ganitong pagbabago at ganitong bago.

short lang muna.

i am just relishing the second to the last carolling evening. oh well. quoting cas, "good food. good music. good company. san ka pa?" hehehe. no wonder i don't feel like missing a carolling night. kasi bukod sa tatlong ito, marami pang surprises. woohoo. hehe.

yun lang muna.

da BEST carolling...

hindi ako patatawarin ng konsensya ko kung di ko ito nablog.

it was the usual sunday evening carolling problem. walang tao. mas malala nga yata yung ngayong gabi. dumating ako walang kababaihang naroroon at nagpapractice and it was dark already. medyo nakakatakot, nakakalungkot at nakakakaba subalit, the show must go on. when all the reinforcements (as if ang dami. hehehe) came in, we practiced. although medyo down and low sa simula, we slowly gained the confidence and the rhythm for this evening's carolling.

what happened? what did we do?
SIMPLE LANG.
WE ENJOYED and WE HAD FUN.

simple lang ang sangkap ng isang magandang performance. todo-bigay. masaya. magulo. maligaya. the essence in carolling, i believe, is not in the perfect and clean performance but it is in the emotion that you impart to your audience. tipong, malinis nga ngunit nakasimangot naman lahat kayo. kahit hindi masyadong pulido naman, masaya naman ang mga inawitan niyo dahil masaya rin kayo.

i think that capped our whole evening. we did it because we had fun. we made the most out of it. to think, all the cards were stacked against us. 2 soprano, 3 altos, a set of basses and tenors. masaklap pa, tenor ang conductor, 2 tenors ang gitarista. hahaha. hey, we pulled it of. that includes songs that we don't usually sing (such as, gumising and ang aking pasko).

even though there were stressful moments and moments that you would want more people to participate in this event, we just made the most of what we have. it turned out to be one of the best performance, though undermanned, that the aclc carolling had for this christmas. masaya eh. nadala ang tunay na diwa ng kapaskuhang dala-dala ng mga awitin.

sabi nga ni fraggy, we ended in a high note. pun intended.
masaya. kay saya. ang tunay na diwa ng carolling ay nasa kaligayahang taglay ng mensahe ng mga awiting inilimbag at isinulat. masaya ako. masaya sila. sana ganito lagi. masaya ang magcarolling.

oh, by the way, i just enjoyed how we spent our last minutes in ateneo taking pictures and viewing the wonderful performances we did for the two houses this sunday evening.

SING WE ALL NOEL!

BLOG boycott

as you may have noticed, i was not blogging for many weeks now. i did it intentionally. i wanted to boycott blogging because among the things that irritate me, one is when i write a very long blog and it won't publish and when i hit , everything that i typed disappeared. damn! i hate it when that happens. that night i happened to have no backup of that very long reflection.

tama na muna. nasasayang oras at pagod ko. hehe. wala lang.

paying my BLOGGING debt

i felt that i owe this blog lots of stories. for the past two weeks, i had encountered different experiences that changed my life. but, i was not able to blog all of them. nakakatamad minsan at minsan, wala na talagang oras at panahon. oh well. hehehe.

from this blog, i will have multiple entries.
here goes!