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December 6, 2009
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March 8, 2009
Dinners and beer :3 – Part 2/2 (2 Comments)
Last Feb. 6, Coffee Break Island had a gig in Penguin Bar. Brother was game to it when I told him the gig was due to Bob Marley’s birthday. 
Before that though, I spent some time alone Power Plant — browsed for books at Fully Booked, looked for Keroro plamos at toyshops, and had tea at CBTL. A salesman in a toyshop was goofing around. He accidentally hit me with his whole body (can’t describe it right, sorry). I got so pissed that I elbowed him. That wasn’t really my day. ~_~ Anyway, back to the gig, brother and I left at 10PM. We got a bit lost since it’s been years since we’ve set foot on that area. I was worn out when we arrived in Penguin Bar. I was starting to feel sick, but I tried to ignore the feeling. We had ice-cold beer which I lost count of and nachos which totaled to PhP350 only. *rofl* I was too lazy to compute our bill, yet I did see the waitress made a mistake in charging us with a beer we didn’t order.
Pink Cow — a side project of Reggae Mistress?
Cold, cold, cold Cerveza Negra ♥
There were lots of foreigners, some ganguro, ladies looking out of place (like they were going to a debut), and cool girls who drank beer with their guy friends/boyfriends. SomeONE that night made me want to puke. I was in front of the washroom waiting for my turn. Girls take forever, don’t they? *lol* As if I’m not a girl. XD; While I was standing impatiently, I felt a hand on my shoulder. This hand then rubbed my arm. I turned around to see a very tall, smiling gaijin. O_O I was shocked. He walked in front of me and flashed another smile. What he did brought back bad memories when I was young, so I felt sicker than I already did.
Happy dancin’ people
CBI started their uber long set around 12MN. XD; Gad, am I a super fan of their bassist!
The crowd kept blocking my view of him, but I was too weak to even bother with them. Just before brother and I left, we got to talk with Jun who’s the drummer of CBI. He introduced us to the other band members. Awesomesauce.More pictures from the gig are uploaded here. :3 Come Sunday that same weekend, Phoebe and I met up for drinks in CBTL. We’re getting old that we only drink coffee or tea. Haha~ (Also, I was effin’ sick so any liquor or alcohol won’t do me any good.)
Isshin dinnar~
We also had super late dinner at ISSHIN. Fcuk, I ♥ their tekkadon.
Next dinner out was still with Phoebe at Kabisera right after I watched He’s Just Not That Into You. The movie was so-so. What annoyed me were the people in the theater. I made sure to sit somewhere far from where the people/couples are. But, eventually, I was surrounded with couples effin’ holding hands. Show respect to the loners. GRRRR~
LULz~
Hmm, so far that’s that. Oh yeah, I had dinner with Jaja in Sbarro Glorietta 5 last week. I treated her to blueberry cheesecake
Somebody invited me out for dinner, but I had to decline because I looked extremely wasted that night. I also can’t break my promise to Jaja. ^^ Unfortunately, those guys went to the same resto as we did. So much for ‘hiding.’ XDDD;
February 20, 2009
Dinners and beer :3 – Part 1/2 (1 Comment)
I hadn’t gotten around to blogging about the gimmicks with friends because I was so lazy (other than being swamped with tasks). XD; In this post — band practice, EnSE Rodents’ videoke night, and Checkpoint Bar gig.
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November 8, 2008
October 29 at Mapua (0 Comments)
What a stressful day! I mean, night. *lol* I spent the morning trying to resist the urge of telling my bandmates what my surprise is. I slept in the office, played some DDR4, tried to do some work, and contacted the bandmates about our meet-up.
I was supposed to leave the office, but Carol contacted me regarding Mac. So I OT-ed for a bit while officemates waited for me. (Yeah, they ♥ me that much. LOLz~) We tried to persuade Mac into still performing with us. But he got mad while ONLY me and Carol were just having fun. It’s the effect of Roland + the gig excitement. ^_^V He took it differently. So there. I didn’t want any hard feelings, but that had to happen. Also, we’re the one already asking him to join yet he goes berserk. :/ That’s just too bad. I will miss his singing. *gets thrown at with rocks* ^_^V Anyway, it felt like ages since the band was _complete_. You’ll find out why later. ^_~Reyton arrived minutes after I got home. I only changed into my pants, rested a bit, and got ready. We got stuck for a bit in LRT due to Maru’s cymbal stand. D: We couldn’t get the legs folded. I turned into some kind of incredible hulk in front of the damn guard and was able to fold it. ~_~ Fortunately, we were able to squeeze in the train with the lot of people. D: We arrived around 7:30PM in Manila Uni and met up with Carol + Peli. :3 Then we rushed to the school because we knew that the event will end at 9PM. Yet the party hasn’t started when we arrived there. Maru said it was due to the tardiness of everyone. *shakes head* That doesn’t include us, btw. XD; Also, the rest of the band were surprised when they saw EJ’s name under the guest list. ^_^ They thought it was a different person, then I said, “That _is_ EJ.” I was LOL-ing the whole time. XDDD;
The party started, bands played — some noisy and some acoustic — then it was our turn.
We played Spiderwebs and DJs (No Doubt version). We were supposed to play only, but audience wanted more and also Maru. So we played Underneath It All. ^_^ DJs
Underneath It All
I really liked the fact that the audience enjoyed our performance. One said that their entrance fee of PhP200 only became worth it because of us.
The band to perform after us was afraid to go onstage because they found us “professionals.” *rofl* We didn’t practice those songs, but I’m glad we were able to pull it off even with a bajillion mistakes.
October 13, 2008
Mash It Up! gig + busy, busy week (1 Comment)
I have so much to blog about, but I won’t talk about them in just one post (this might up 100 pages long or even longer).
We had a practice before we headed to Bela Bar. We practiced 3 songs; songs that we weren’t sure if we’ll add to our playlist. We had to just in case. ^_^V We left later than we wanted to. Hil, the gig organizer, was asked me our whereabouts because we were asked to be there early for opening act. ^_^V Rain poured when we were halfway. That, the traffic, and our indecisiveness caused major delays. We arrived between 10-10:30PM — tired, sleepy, and I was in a bad mood because of a small fight w/ bf.
In the MRT
Anyway, Hil, the gig organizer, told us we can start setting up and doing sound checks. Commuting on a rainy night is tough, so we said that we wanna rest first. Also, we’d rather play right away instead of the pasikat moment. LOLz~ Then Hil offered us free Red Horse that mostly just went to waste. You’ll know later on. :/ Another band did the opening which is good news for us so we can prepare properly. I wrote down our line-up and tuned my guitar. The first band didn’t play long. We did our set-up duties that took us a while because the equipment weren’t that good. The guitar amp was wonky. Setting the volume at 1 already sets the amp at full blast. ~_~
I’m emo-ing with my guitar XD;
First song = disastrous! The bass amp Rayton used kept going off for more than half of the song. The audience was still nice to applaud us. The fucked up equipment killed our mood, but we continued. The guitar amp went wonky as well, similarly to Rayton’s bass amp. The sound will cut off at every strum I make. Specially on the solo part, I played like some wannabe n00b guitarist. ~_~ How embarrassing! It was also cold in the bar that my hands were freezing. That our first time to play for Bisikleta Productions and our performance sucked. I hope we get invited again, but not with the Oi! bands plox. ^_^V I have nothing against them. I just don’t like their pushing and pushing in a small dance floor that they accidentally hit our table. My beer went to waste because of their so-called dancing. ~_~ They were amusing though. I guess that kind of made up for the wasted beer. >_>
Contras at Bela Bar
I hardly remember the sequence of events that night. I think it was after one of Contras’ songs that the bar owner went to the dancefloor. He told the audience that the dancefloor isn’t that big, so they should go easy on the _dancing_. He even had a gun tucked in his pants. D: Those in the dancefloor didn’t move a bit when they saw a gun. I expected them to behave, but nuuuuu~ They knocked our table a lot of times. One big man accidentally pushed the bar owner as well. The very pissed bar owner took out his gun and pointed it to the big man. Most of the customers went out while we still sat there. Aside from “guns blazing,” a “clash of knives” also happened. *rofl* I was actually clueless. I also wanted to join in their riot because no one replaced my beer. >_< We got home around 3AM and very much amused by the events. XD; Hil apologized to me the following day, but not for the beer. Yeah, I still have an “anger hang-over” from that.
Whew, that’s one blog topic done. ^_^V Climate change papers kept me from blogging. I had to do a quick research about climate change, Makati’s adaptation and mitigation process on it, and contributions for the Mayor’s speech for the World Bank CC program. I had to work on a Saturday night with no extra pay. Only free dinner from boss. I remember there were about 10 speeches made from different people and offices. The final speech was like a combined force. D: I asked help form the WB Manila folks to check it. I’m afraid it’s full of fail, but boss said that we got a good response from the Mayor’s presentation. I wonder if he presented the WB-edited speech.
September 19, 2008
DVD writer + K. Wasabi video and pic spam (0 Comments)
I notice there’s always something bad bound to happen at least once a week. After Allie’s death early this month, my DVD writer shattered a CD into a lot of pieces rendering it useless. ~_~ Of course it’s not as bad as Allie’s death. I only had no budget for it being that it happened so suddenly. I was planning on buying a memory card for the PSP even. ~_~
I inserted an OLD mp3 CD inside the DVD writer. I eventually got busy Plurking, so I have no idea how many minutes passed. Then I heard a bang that I thought was my battery charger since I was charging the digicam’s battery that night. I checked my plugged gadgets, the lights, and even the kitchen. I didn’t see anything wrong. Wanting to forget about it, I carried on to looking for mp3s to upload for the band. I opened my DVD writer and there I saw where the bang came from. The writer over-spun the CD. I read that it happens when there are cracks in the middle of the CD, too dirty, or it isn’t meant for fast DVD-roms. ~_~ I opened the DVD writer in hopes it will work fine as long as CD pieces were removed. I couldn’t remove all of them. The writer wouldn’t close anymore even, so it was goodbye. I got a new one the second day after the incident happened. I had to buy right away because you all know I download like mad. *lol* I now use a Samsung again. My old DVD writer was only with me for less than 2 years. WTF!? ~_~
I finally got copies of the videos and pictures of our Aug. 29 gig at One Luv. All thanks to Peli for being our cameraman.
The pictures are yet to be organized while the videos are already up in my Multiply and K. Wasabi’s Facebook page. Embedding them here too for those too lazy to check my Multiply nor their Facebook accounts. Even though it pains me to do so considering I’m conscious about my site’s xhtml validity. XD; (Read more…)
September 19, 2008
Mash It Up! (0 Comments)
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