Hope I would be the prettiest in someone else's eyes

                                                     
Hope I would be the prettiest in someone else's eyes
A girl he wants to be with when he is in the sky
A girl he would catch when she falls in the rye
A girl he would sing some sweet lullaby

Hope I would be the prettiest in someone else's eyes
The girl he wants to save when attacked by crocodile
The girl he wants to sit beside in a roller coaster ride
The girl he wants to be his bride

Hope I would be the prettiest in someone else's eyes
A girl he wants to be with when the police passes by
A girl he would make breakfast even if it is night
A girl he would promise he wouldn't make her cry.

Oktaves Album

Before the year ends I was able to get the OKTAVES Album. I've been dying to own this record.

I have nothing but plenty of good things to say about this album. I like it, not because Ely Buendia is a part of this super band. The album is just plain great. Composed of Cris Padilla (currently of Hilera) also on vocals and guitars, Nitoy Adriano (long-time axeman of The Jerks) on lead guitar, Ivan Garcia on bass (Hilera) and Bobby Padilla on drums (Hilera) and of course Ely Buendia on vocals (Pupil).

The album started with "Gone, Gone, Gone". I heard myself saying "Ah This is the song they sang at Starmall show". I thought it was a cover. Can I hear "Poorman's Grave" riff at the beginning of the song? It is a cool song. Maybe i will like this song in the future.

"Hold on Tight" by Chris Padilla. A song that I will skip but it is as very cool song. I think the song is Rated SPG haha. With the lines "Show me your junk and I'll show you mine".

"K.U.P.A.L." is a song that makes Myx shortened its title to "K.P.L". I haven't seen the video via Myx so I'm not sure if some words are bleeped. Anyways, this song is in time because Election season is here again. Let us not vote for the K.U.P.A.L politician. And what we will do with the K.U.P.A.L. that is currently elected, Ely has a suggestion "Sipain na yan hanggang sa buwan".The song is very easy to understand and to listen to. It reminds me of "Pare Ko" with it's sheer honesty. The song is very catchy and I hope it will do well in Charts.

"Walang Magawa" a very short but catchy song by Chris Padilla. I think the Hilera boys are known for short and catchy songs. The song reminds me of "Wala akong Alam" by Hilera
"Olivia" is a modern version of "Toyang" or an easier song to listen to than "Dianetic". So Ely likes writing songs about girls. haha. The chorus goes "Olivia, Olivia, won't you come back to me and make a brand new start. Olivia, Olivia, Lord have mercy on me i'm falling apart"

"Get You" It's like Hilera song but more in the "rock" side.

"Paakyat ka pa lang, Pababa na Ako" for me is a song about being mature means being ahead of everything. "Marami na akong nagawang ayaw ko na ulitin pa" I think I already heard Ely say that in an interview. ;

"Ikot" is one of my favorite songs from the album. Written by Chris Padilla. It reminds me of an old song I can't really pinpoint. Ang galing at ganda lang sobra! I hope they will make this as a single. 

"Detox" a short song by Ely. It's clearly about Ely's health (well I think). It starts with these lines"Baby don't you worry about nothing, the medicines working I'm gonna be all right". It's good to hear it from him. I saw a picture from his Instagram where he is cutting this greasy lechon. I also saw a picture he is eating those bad liempos. hehe. stalker lang ang peg? (sorry for using the word peg.. haha)

"Standing On My own" By Chris P. reminds me of Rainy days and Mondays... haha.. maybe it's just me. I also like this song. Chillax song. A song you will like to listen to during night, maybe when it's Monday and raining... haha.

"Bungo sa Bangin" A song that made Ely retweet my tweet haha. But here in the album it is just Oktaves. In the original version Kat Agarado of Sinosikat and Sara Gaugler from Turbogoth are part of the song. I must say I like the original version. I like the adlibs of the female vocalists. 

"Langit Express" a sad song. A short story with the line "Umuwi ka na nanay mo'y nag aalala Magkita tayo Alas otso huling byahe na ng langit express". Don't blame me but I hear some eraserheads vibe with this song.

I love the album very much. I know I am not a good album reviewer so that is all I could say. haha. Right now I am LSS-ing over "Ikot". I really hope that this album will do well. If the K-Pop album or those freaking One Direction will sell more than this album, then let's already end this world. Please I am begging you by original album. Buy this album it is only 300 pesos. KPop or One Direction albums is worth 350 plus I guess.. haha... Please Please Please buy this one! Hindi kayo mag sisi.

For Eraserheads fans buy this album. This is Ely's first time to be closest to the eraserheads sound. Well don't get me wrong it doesn't sound an Eraserheads album but it is the closest I guess... or if you disagree.. then well just buy the freaking album.

The year that was... 2012

This a breakthrough year for me. A lot and I mean a lot of things happened unexpectedly. 
From the first month of the year I won an Ipad. Maybe that is a clue for me that this year will be oh so exciting.

So I've been transferred to 3 different department this year. Now I work for the company's client. And it's been the longest one for me, 7 months. 

I'v been to different local concert... free concerts :) and I'm looking forward to watch more next year. Greatest disappointment for me was not to watch Morrissey's concert here near our place. the ticket is oh so expensive for me eh. :(

2012 is definitely a memorable year for me . I learned to socialize.. hahaha... I able to feel that some people like me to be around them. I always remember those shrieks of my officemates whenever I have the chance to visit the company. I was tagged as the "bully" of our group. To which I am keeping the role and practicing and living it up with title that was given to me. haha.

2013... it means I'll be turning 23 in a few weeks. 
Hope I'll be a better woman.
  

Oktaves

"Sipain na yan hanggang sa Buwan... Wag kang hangal.. Wag kang Kupal"

3:00 pm Shaw Blvd Station- I saw a familiar face. I can't believe it at first because he was riding MRT like me. It's Nitoy of Oktaves. I followed him because I don't know where Starmall is located. Thanks to him I arrived at the venue without not using my legs that much.

3:10 pm - I walked around the mall and looking if I could buy something.

3:30 pm - Decided to go to the venue and find a seat.

4:03 pm - Ely arrived in the venue.

4:40 pm - The show supposed to start around 4pm, but like any other concert it started late.

I don't know some songs that they sang. I think some are covers? Oktaves album is not yet released so it is understandable that people will not jam with them or they are not familiar with any of their songs. But I really love their tagalog songs. Even the song Chris sang. Their sound is in old school style. Well, i think....

I sat somewhere at center where ely could see me directly. I sang along with songs that I know like "Bungo sa Bangin", "K.U.P.A.L" and "Paakyat ka palang Pababa na ako". I think I am the only who knew some of their songs. I also think he saw me singing. Ely has a perfect view of me.. hehehe

The crowd at Starmall was not that good. But the performance of Ely Buendia and the Hilera boys were so great. They are so energetic and their performance were so alive.

I remember I saw a video of Pupil at Zirkoh. They captured the whole performance. What I observed is that their performance was not so great not so energetic as Oktaves.

Oktaves didn't sang an eraserheads song. I was waiting at least one song from the heads. I'm quite disappointed but I understand them completely and as I said their performance were so great.

I love Hilera. I actually joined a contest and won an album of Hilera last year. But unfortunately I didn't have to chance to get it. haha. You all know I love Ely, and I love Pupil, the Mongols and of course the Eraserheads. Oktaves is the new super band. I don't know why they have that mall show in Starmall. The mall is not that great ala Glorietta or Mall of Asia. Well I read Ely's interview when Pupil was starting out. He didn't mind starting out again, having gigs in unknown places, few audiences... and he love doing those things again...

Oktaves is such a great band. I'm not biased.. I think... They are tagged as the new "super band".  I hope that their songs will be a hit because they deserve it...

Love maker

Up and down
Side by side
Soft embraces
Tender touches
Enigmatic chats
Superb kisses
Sweet caress
In a night that
i can't be depress
Love is all we need
Love is shall we breathe

Closer

Hold my hand
While we dance in the moonlight
Embrace me
While we play with the rain
Come closer
I dedicate every beat of my heart to you
Touch my lips
Until i surrender myself to you
Come closer
I can't wait any longer...

Working Class Hero

"I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart"

I am working for only 10 months but I experienced 3 different jobs. I was a data analyst for sometime, payroll associate and now payroll/hr support.

My first position was data analyst. The most boring job I know. Until now I can't see the need for such position. All I did was read an executive's bio and paste it somewhere on their database. I never experienced being stressed but I never experienced sense of fulfillment.My work was very easy for me. Just read their bio and paste it somewhere or just merge duplicate data.  I stayed being in that position for almost 3 months until my manager talked to me and said that "I am not fit to be a data analyst"   I was depressed for about... 3 minutes while she was talking to me. She immediately said that I could move to different department since I am an "okay" employee. 

I was interviewed by the manager of the payroll department and lo and behold I became a payroll associate. For the first 3 weeks or so, what I did was to staple the 2316. Of course my pride kicks in. I graduated from an exclusive school, I earned hundreds of units and now all I did was to staple and cut the damn 2316. But I said to myself even actors became an extra in their acting career. Even rock stars had a dozen audience in their gigs at some point. 

Then after 3 months my new boss talked to me and said that i will be with  the company's client. They said good things to me blah blah... those things are nothing to me because it is not in monetary value and it means i will be separated with my freaking friends. I can't do anything but to accept the challenge. I was transferred to another dimension and this time I am a payroll/hr support. 

Me an hr? what the?? I don't like talking to people.. I don't like explaining things... I AM NOT FIT TO BE AN HR... but see I am doing this for 4 months the longest among those positions I mentioned. 

What I  really wanted to be is to be a web designer. I wanted to deal with collor pallets, flash animations, css javascripts than computing someone's salary, counting their leave balances, and signing their clearances.  

I am still young... Have tons of energy... I could be the person I wanted to be... I promise that...

6 YEARS

my creepy blog is 6 years... how time flies so fast.. i remember writing my first post here. i was still in college and crazy over spongecola and some bands i regret loving.. haha..

if this is a person he/she is already in grade 1...

wow...

My Silence is Deafening

"Sound the alarm 
What we have built is gone
Our battle has just begun
Mayday! Mayday!"


My "new" office mates perceives me as a quiet, serious and boring lady. I don't really talk to them because I don't have any good things to say to them.  If they let me talk they will hear lots of "bleeps" in my sentences. haha.

 I feel like sometimes people expect me to talk and talk about whatever because its the normal thing to do. When someone like my co worker who has to make sarcastic remarks about how quiet I am, it just creates this image about me, and I feel like I have to live up to that image. It just makes me act a certain way, even though I do try to socialize once in a while, people don't realize it and still perceive me to be a certain way.

But in reality I am funny as hell. ask my real friends. they know. Well my friends from my company took sometime to be close to me. Because I really don't talk a lot

In sociology that it's called labeling theory. We are shy around people before we get to know them, therefore they label us as being a shy and quiet person, therefore we act how they expect us to and stay a shy and quiet person around them.

OPM Once again once more

"Ito ay para sa mga masa
sa lahat ng nawalan ng pag-asa
sa lahat ng aming nakasama
sa lahat ng hirap at pagdurusa
naaalala nyo pa ba
binigyan namin kayo ng ligaya"

For the past few years my love and undying admiration for OPM died a little bit. Blame it to my thesis, constant travels, closing of NU 107 and job hunting.

I haven't bought any OPM album. Unlike before, when i was still in highschool and my only savings are coming from my school baon, i still have the chance to buy an album worth 250 to 300.

Now i have work and I'm earning, i haven't bought any album.

I remember buying Pupil's "Wildlife" and "wildlife Repackage" Album. That's how fanatic I am with opm bands/music. Now they released their third album last year and still haven't bought it.

But now i'm starting to watch gigs again. I think my love for OPM is coming back.

Right now I'm reading articles about OPM. Like the article "The Life and death of OPM" and "OPM isn't dead you idiot".

For me, OPM is alive and it is slowly  recuperating from a deadly disease.

Well network giants, movie outfits are reviving OPM classics like the songs of Eraserheads and APO.

But like in this article said, OPM isn't dead because OPM is not just about the music you hear in the mainstream, there are lots and I mean lot's of good music waiting to be discovered by Filipino fans.

You know how much I despise K-POP music. I can't understand why we Filipinos are into KPOP songs where we couldn't understand a single word. Well, their title of the songs and chorus or at least one word are in english pala. haha

I couldn't take it when people buying KPOP albums instead of OPM albums.

Could someone give give a reason why should I listen to KPOP?

PS: I promise I will love OPM music again like I did before :)

My Silence is threatening

You don't want to hear me talk
Because only the truth shall i say
I won't join you in your walk
So conversations won't be in our way

My silence is deaftening
I say things in my head
My silence is threatening
Run fast ! Go ahead

When watching a gig sitting...

"Gusto mo bang sumama?"

So I wasn't able to watch Ely's Hardrock gig because it's my friend's sorta despedida. So when I found out that he will have Ayala mall tour, I said to myself I should go there 'bout fucking time :)

So last Aug 17, Ely was at Glorietta. The show starts at 6:30 and I left my office at Taguig around 5:30. Silly me, I didn't take the free shuttle because my office mate was there. So I took the MRT instead and... sobrang jam packed parang nasa mosh pit ako grabe. Since sa Edsa naman ako sumakay at sa Ayala baba dun lang ako sa bukana tumabi. Pero nung pagbaba na sa Ayala... Sardinas pre.. di ako makababa.. good thing there was a lady who tried pushing me in a good way. She is so nice. Sabi niya pa may baba pa oh. Eh since I am so small may nagsabi na "Nasaan?" haha. Buti talaga naka baba ako.

Anyways, I arrived he was singing "Higante". I found a spot at the side. I could barely see him, good thing there was a huge screen. I didn't mind if I will be watching him through the screen na parang youtube lang. gusto ko lang naman siya marinig. I don't know if the sound system is bad or because I'm behind the speakers... I couldn't hear his words when he is speaking to the audience. I was just standing there and feel na feel ko yung mga songs niya. I KNOW ALL OF HIS SONGS THAT HE SANG SA CONCERT. Pati yung sa Wanted Bedspacer. Unlike yung iba puro eraserheads songs lang ang alam and for me they don't deserve to be there. 

Yesterday I watched again his gig sa Trinoma. I told myself dapat makaupo or makabili man lang ako ng ticket. you just need to buy worth 500 from any Trinoma merchants. I bought memory card worth 400. so I need 100 more naglakad lakad pa ko to search for 100 worth na bagay. But I am getting tired so I went to the activity center and just wait for the concert to start. I am little bit disappointed because I already bought 400 worth item and I just like to give the people there my 100 just to have a ticket. Good thing is there were lots of empty seats. So nagpapasok na yung guard. Nakpasok ako!

So I was seating and patiently waiting for Ely.

Then he entered and his first song was "Alapaap" and followed by songs from his Wanted Bedspacer album and In Love and War.

Pangit pa la pag nakaupo di ko masyado ma feel unlike nung nakatayo ang ako. I like to stand but bouncers wouldn't allowed us.




I like his new version of Magasin. Thanks to the "madalian orchestra". Actually Magasin is my least favorite song. But when he sang it Live... It so different I love it very much.

Then sa Trinoma this time I could understand his words. I can see him.

 I know Ely doesn't talk much sa gig with Pupil. Madalas si Yan ang nag e-entertain or nag sasalita in between songs.Since this an Ely Buendia show he needs to talk. At first medyo hesitant parin. his first words sa crowd ay "Hello!"... Hello Kitty?.. Haha.. But I don't mind. I am there because of the songs and not about him talking...

But he is funny naman...

Merong instance na in the middle of the song natawa siya because some guy ay nagsabi ng "I LOVE YOU ELY". natawa ako sa reaction niya..

Anyways... his last song is "Ang Huling Elbimbo". And it is nakaka tindig balahibo talaga.

My Ultraelectro favorite songs na kinanta niya sa concert ay
*Wanted Bed spacer
*Huwag mo nang Itanong
*Huwag kang matakot
*Magasin
*Ang Huling Elbimbo

My conclusion is it's a lot better watching a concert standing... Watching a gig is giving me a different kind of "high".... and He may not be the best singer, entertainer  but Ely Buendia is still the best... there is no substitute for the real thing!... (Take that the reunion movie/soundtrack)

Blessed.

"No alarms and no surprises please..."

Blessed. I am truthfully grateful of what's happening in my life. I may complain a lot these past few months. They transferred me to the client and it means I can't be with my freaking friends. I am awfully sad when I am at work because I miss the laugh trips, merienda, lunch breaks we always share.

Yesterday we had a quarterly assembly. All i know is  that they will introduce the newly regularized employees. I'm surprised to learn that I'm also in the promoted employees.

I realized that... what the hell I'm a good employee... partida i don't talk that much.. hehehe

My sadness truly paid off.

Demented

I am not free as a bee

But I wander like a python

I am not as pretty as I can be

All I have is a stupid fashion

Pare ko

Here is the mellow version of Pare ko...

when i first heard it live was abou last2008 when Pupil launched their 2nd album wild life... i must stay that i had goosebumps and i felt very lucky that i heard him sing that song again...

I haven't seen Pupil nowadays because my schedule won't permit me but hopefully i can go to Ely's greatest hits concert at Hard Rock Cafe on Aug 3...

things are better with me

things are better with me

i will let you enter in my heart

with no hesitations

nor restrictions

with no limitations

thus i am willing to wait

till your heart is willing to love again

i am but an odd girl

who loves everything that is blurred

Greatest Hits

Nagpa reserve na ko kaso di pa nababayaran yung ticket. ako lang mag-isa... Loner mode. haha walang gustong sumama sa kin haha... 

Will hear "Wanted Bedspacer" songs for the fist time na LIVE!! I heard kasama yun eh... Here is the song wanted bed spacer

Nuff said.

Last Nite

LSS  over The Strokes' "Last Nite"

Last night, she said:
"Oh, baby, I feel so down.
Oh it turns me off,
When I feel left out"

So I walked out:
"Oh, baby, don't care no more
I know this for sure,
I'm walkin' out that door"

Well, I've been in town for just about fifteen minutes now
And Baby, I feel so down
And I don't know why
I keep walkin' for miles

See, people they don't understand
No, girlfriends, they can't understand
Your Grandsons, they won't understand
On top of this, I ain't ever gonna understand...

Last night, she said:
"Oh, baby, don't feel so down.
Oh, it turns me off,
When I feel left out"

So I, I turn 'round:
"Oh, baby, gonna be alright"
It was a great big lie
'Cause I left that night, yeah

Oh, people they don't understand
No, girlfriends, they won't understand
In spaceships, they won't understand
And me, I ain't ever gonna understand...

Last night, she said:
"Oh, baby, I feel so down.
See, it turns me off,
When I feel left out"

So I, I turn 'round:
"Oh, little girl, I don't care no more.
I know this for sure,
I'm walking out that door," yeah




I'm searching for a lullaby version of this song but what i found is this: Adele's version of the song! I like it very much! 

Let me know

"So please please please let me get what i want... lord knows it would be the first time"

At first I thought you like me. But according to your facebook status you don't want any commitment. So okay. I'm just here waiting...

and waiting until you will realize that I'm the right one for you and nobody else. I know you are hurt but not everybody will be like your ex. Sabi nga sa mga mall "Try Me".

Our "date" was fun. You are talkative as hell as always :) You've open up to me and you said that I'm like your ex. I don't know if I will take that as a compliment... but who cares... I will let the things go like this...

Don't worry I will wait until the end...

My first post this year...

a lot of things happened. a lot.. i have a job right now. i won an i pad few days after my birth day. i have a social life and love life soon... hehe... i promised not to complain about my job starting today. i know i don't like it that much but i must be contented for now. i also realized that i'm very blessed with people i'm surrounded with. and to the person who is stepping out in my life... i will miss you... we've known for only a short period of time but it seems we've known each other for a lifetime. we may not be what we wanted to be but that is life...