Bohemian Diary

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Hiling

Lahat na andito sa music video na ito... Kilig, patweetums, iyak, away, drama, lungkot, galit, hinagpis, kawalan, pag-iisa, pagkikita, at pagwawakas. Sana'y magustuhan niyo ito, Hiling ng Silent Sanctuary

Gusto ko lang ishare, paborito ko ito kasi. Kung gusto niyong manood ng telenovelang maiksi lang, panoorin niyo ito, mahigit anim na minuto lang, maraming emosyon ka nang mapapanood o mararamdaman.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Encounters with a Yeti

I often blog about my favorite bands. This time I am going to blog about one of the few local bands that always give me goosebumps whenever I watch them play live. They don't have vocals and they creatively use some sort of visual distraction to their audience... Sort of a visual element to their musical poetry.

I first watched Encounters with a Yeti in Saguijo one night, during one of my episode induced streetcapades with the Goth Chick. At first, I was kind of weary listening to them and waiting for vocals to start, a few minutes later and no vocals still, I was caught standing in the middle of Saguijo's tightly packed little room, slowly swaying my head backward and forward and my body from side to side. Everyone's quietly swaying, and after the first song that the band played, everyone clapped as loud as they can, cheering. Never have I experienced such voiceless musical ecstasy until I listened to this great indie band. It was like literally drowning in music and your mind playing images of sorts as one grasps and divulges the produced sounds from these artists.

When I discovered their myspace account and learned that they are streaming their music for free, I quickly bookmarked it. Their music is best listened to when one is tired from a long day and just sipping a cold beer or a glass of fine wine in a cool weather. Their music is one of the few that I listen to when I want my mind to unwind and stop thinking for a while.

Below is their myspace URL. My favorite tracks are:

Alloys bring the future closer
I too am a vineyard
Feathers of knives
All your children want for dinner is you

http://www.myspace.com/encounterswithayeti/music

Friday, January 7, 2011

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Gigabytes from Drummer Boy!

before the year closes last year, this was around the last few weeks of December, my friend the Drummer Boy gave me 2 DVDRs containing huge amounts of the music he listens to. He gave it to as a surprise for the holidays, because he knows I have been wanting to explore more of the different genres of music. because he knows that he can influence me so much on the music he listens to, he gave me 8 gigabytes worth of music that he has, and he says until I buy an external hard drive for my mac, he will not burn me more. @GBs of music is a whole lot! When I got home that day, I was very excited to scan and play the files Drummer Boy gave me. As expected, they were really good. I think half of the 8 GBs of files he gave me are artists that I already know, but songs and albums I did not have, yet... There were new music that are fresh to my ears and band names so new to my music vocabulary.

My favorites were...

Armor for Sleep, kinda punkish in a rockish kind of way, but generally alternative. My kind of music.

The Black Keys, I did not know that the band only composed of two members until I googled 'em. They sound old school like the 70s, and their music sounds like it was recorded using 70s style and 70s era recording equipment. They sound a bit rough, but that's the great appeal about them. They're literally a garage band, sounds like a garage band and they look like unclean geeks that decides to play the guitar and drums. Lyrics are nice, sound is great, a refreshing addition to my musical vocabulary.

Sinosikat?, I have heard about this band for a very long time, but I never had the time or did not pay attention in giving their music a listen, until that day. Jazzy and "loungy" beats with a hint of pop and alternative.

Maxwell, I love Maxwell's music, but Drummer Boy gave a copy of all of his albums, except the latest one. Maxwell is the only singer that can pull off excellent vocal calisthenics from super high to ultra low notes in a very smooth and sexy transition.

Tori Amos, I got all of her albums now!

There are still a lot of music to explore in those two DVDRs. I don;t have enough space in my Mac to transfer all the file 'though, sad. That's why I really need to buy an external hard drive as soon as possible.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Diet failed

Day one of the fruit diet failed tremendously. When I woke up yesterday afternoon, I ate a bunch of watermelons. When I got to work I ate a lot of bananas, 6 pieces to be exact plus I have several oranges with me. Whenever I get hungry, I eat, I drink water. But come around 2 AM, my heads is already spinning and aching so bad I feel like I am going to faint. I was not able to stand it so I stood up and hurried myself to the pantry at the ground floor. My floor is just at the 4th so I used the staircase with my hurried steps towards the pantry. I spotted chicken, white meat. So I ordered it plus one rice. There were still pieces of meat waiting to be eaten after I finished my meal. I ate them all, but I did not order a second serving of rice. That's enough.

I am not sure what happened, but perhaps my mind and my body was not able to handle the stress at work plus the added stress of hunger because it is not getting the usual foods it is given. This afternoon I am going to try it again, but I am going to start my day with a whole lot of oatmeal. Then will buy some apples and bananas for work, and I'm going to start walking, no elevators for me.

It's time for me to lose weight and act now. This is just a matter of discipline and the mind must focus itself. Of course, everything being done must not compromise my already weak immune system.

This is it, let's go!

5 new books

This past holiday season, all I wanted in my "kris-kringle" wishlist are books. So I got all the books I wanted after a few kris-kringle thingies at work.

Here are the 5 new books I have right now, others still sealed in plastic.

1.) Buddha - Deepak Chopra
2.) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
3.) Veronika Decides to Die - Paolo Coelho
4.) The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
5.) Basic Japanese

We'll blog about the books once I finish each one!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Of plans and goals, cycle 2011

Ah... 7:30 Am on a Tuesday morning, I woke up earlier because of hunger, first thing I saw on my table was a piece of pear so I grabbed and munched on it. This is day one of my fruit diet. Yeah, nothing but fruits to eat, of course acidic fruits are not allowed, as well as dairy... For three days.

It is now 8:39 AM. After drinking my protein shake and after being distracted by Facebook and reading some new online photography gear sellers, I am back to my blog. Back to the diet plan. According to my online research, the Fruit Cleansing diet is recommended for 3 days, but it can be up to 30 days. In my case, since I already had undergone a liquid diet back in 2009 (which I lost 30lbs in 1 month), this will not be that difficult at all. Besides, everything is just in the mind anyway. I am prepping myself for a 10 day fruit diet plan and then slowly progress to vegetarianism. Once there, meats of any kind for me will be treated as luxury. I will still eat meat, but only in certain occasions, special occasions that is. So to lessen temptations, less eating out.

Last year, I had plans, I had goals; none were met. This year, it's another cycle, of plans, goals, and turning them into reality. I looked back and assessed, what hindered me into reaching my goals? I dare say not, not now anyway. So here I am again, blogging about my goals... This year it is less but the less goals I have, the more I can focus into each one of them. Actually I only have one major goal for this year, that is to save money. It has been 5 years that I have been working, and no significant savings yet, It's about time I have.

1.) Have significant Savings
2.) Complete my photography gear (lenses).
a.) Canon 28mm F2.8 lens
b.) Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 lens
3.) Buy and learn to play a guitar
4.) Have a passport
5.) Lose weight and maintain 125lbs of lean muscle (that is the lightest and thinnest I will ever be), I am only 5'3".

For months now I have not had any inspirations to shoot, I just don't. So Xian has been sleeping quietly in his drybox for the longest time, ever.

9:14 AM, after eating a bittersweet grapefruit I am again back to my typing. I just love my new keyboard so much it induces me to just type even if I don't have any thoughts to type about. My old keyboard died on me in the middle of December. I so I have to replace it with a new one. I looked so hard for any third party keyboard can be compatible to my old Mac, but I ended buying the original Apple keyboard. It is quite expensive, but it is just so beautifully thin, and light on the fingers, and very quiet. The keyboard itself is heavier than most keyboards and but it so thin... I think this is just 1/8th of an inch thick.

So there, those are my thoughts so far and my plans for this brand new year. This time I will practice what I should have done long before, and which I lacked everytime I have plans... FAD (Focus, Ambition, Discipline). Oh yeah, I have ambition, but I lack the F and the D. This time, there will be the three.