High

So last month, a friend ask me if I can compose a graduation song for her daughter.

I “gladly” said yes, and she told me that the song was her daughter’s project given by their teacher. And the best song will be sang on their (of course!) graduation day!

Writing a song is not that easy, but what I loved about writing songs is that when you finished making one it’s big accomplishment. Well, I can’t really describe the feeling. But the feeling is just plain “AWESOME!”.

I asked my friend what was the theme of the song, and this is what she told me.

“Ang mensahe ay: mag-aral ng mabuti para makatapos at matupad ang mga pangarap tulad ng magandang trabaho, makapaglakbay, atbp. tagalog?“

The truth is I was hoping for a much easier approach with the song, that when she asked me to compose a graduation song, the first thing that came to my mind was Vitamin C’s song “Graduation (Friends Forever)”.

On the first week of the project, my friend asked if I can give her the lyrics of the song because the teacher wanted to check her (I’m guessing the teacher was a “she”) student’s work, and since I wasn’t really quite decided with the music of the song, I gave her the rough draft of the lyrics and told her that I was still working on the music.

Good thing the teacher, gave a thumbs up on the lyrics. And so I got working on the music. I took me another week for the music to be completed. I was quite satisfied with the outcome of the song, although I wasn’t prepared for the deadline, and so the recording of the song, wasn’t really that perfect. During the recording, I had problems with my guitar, my recording device, cables, that night was just plain C-R-A-Z-Y!

And so after two weeks I was done with the song! It was an incredible feat for me. Considering that I wasn’t really confident with my song writing.

Last night my friend tweeted me that our song got picked as their “graduation song”, and they already asked her the chords of the song. WOOOOT!!!

I wasn’t really expecting that our song will get picked. My number one goal when I started making the song was just to make a decent song (para maganda naman yung kalabasan nung project). Up until now I still can’t believe it, and I want to ask my friend non stop if it was true.

*hungover*

Dalawampu’t Walo

“Ilang taon na nga ba ako ulit?”

You shall return…

“I shall return” 

These are the famous words by General Douglas McArthur, when he escaped the Japanese when they invaded the Philippines.

No, I am not going to preach about the history of the Philippines. I’m just going to brag a bit

We should be taking the red pill

I was up until I think 1 am last night, and I started playing chess on my phone. I have recently installed some new java games, so I guess it helps that I have something to do while my mind is wide awake. And while playing on my phone I started thinking how technology evolved in just a blink of an eye.

That felt like… Being robbed!

And so I got a text this morning from one of my bosses to go to their office and pick-up half of my paycheck.