One Redeeming Moment....

I've been to the toughest and fiercest choral competitions in the world, lost it and won it, breezed-thru it. But I have never been this nervous and happy to this one specific competition I have ever joined, the UST Intercollegiate Choir Competition. Funny eh? Peculiar? Maybe its just a so-so local university competition but because in this case, I am the one who is handling and conducting the choir...It is totally different from singing as a chorister as to handling the whole group organizationally and musically. But dont get me wrong, all the achievements I got as a chorister will never tarnish and are all special and irreplaceable!



It's been real time stress for me since I've got all the odds prior to this competition. Had family problems, personal and professional issues, crisis and all that hula-baloo, but lo' and behold, we still won! I felt, it is such a personal achievement handling and training these especially talented people whose careers are geared towards medical and paramedical sciences but shares the same passion with mine.....Music.



I congratulate you all my children - the present bacth of the UST Pharmacy Glee Club. I love you all!

Rants Outide my Comfort Zone

Truly, we appreciate things if they are already gone. Taking things for granted has always been part of dealing with circumstances, situations and events in our lives and we usually accepts it as if we were bound to do it. On a personal note, I am guilty of this and I am very much sorry for myself, for letting me get ‘used to’ things which are tangible and important to me and ended up crying-the moment I realize that they’re gone.

Troubled times and chaotic situation nowadays has made me melancholic. I’m on a situation wherein I realize that getting back to your own-self, alone, is imperative. Never did I plan it nor ask it; all I realized was that, I’m all alone now. No, not totally and permanently, but the idea of being alone makes you want to crawl down to bed and just sleep it over and wake up the following morning with a fresh new start. How I wish it is that easy, but it’s not.

These made me think, that all the while I thought I was strong and independent, I was not. Reality bites. All these times, I gathered that I was just hiding inside the four walls of my comforts. Who doesn’t want to feel comfortable, anyway? No one in this world wants discomfort that given the chance to bum around the box of comforts would be the easiest and smartest way to feel secured and okay.

It’s a cliché to say that when one is growing up; he should learn how to be independent. But what can you say if you already thought you were but you suddenly realized you weren’t? Complex!? It simply spells F-E-A-R. Fear always gets in the way especially when we are most unprepared. It strikes like a thief. Just when we thought that everything is perfect in life, suddenly fear pops up our head and starts to attack our sanity and integrity. This makes us weak and lame and ends up being losers. Again, I thought that if one could learn to fight his fears, then life would be simple and easy.

to be cont'd.

couldn't be more proud....

Damn! She's a Filipina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOORDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEXANDER EDWARD DELA CRUZ DRILON!

YAN NA YUNG CAKE MO SINCE BAKA WALA MAGBIGAY NG CAKE SAYO JAN!

I got the ultimate WICKED Video Clip ever! bleeeeh!

Finally, I uploaded one of the most important videos for me.

----------------> see it! love it! (its right under my profile - WICKED CLIP)

how do u spell S T A G N A N T ?

The 25th Annual Putman Spelling Bee is making waves on Broadway while I am sucking my own time, thinkin'.....what the fuck is making me so lazy to write anything in here!?

Ponder these pictures...

Guys, look at these pictures, two gay teenagers were subjected to Death Sentence by Hanging. This horrific and disturbing picture was taken minutes before the actual hanging (July 19, 2005).

These two boys were only indentified thru their initials, A.M. who is 18 and M.A. who is about 16 or 17.

These boys, according to the Iranian Government, committed the "crime" of homosexuality. These "crime" is subjected to Death Sentence to any form. Consensual gay sex in any form is punishable by death in the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the website Age of Consent, which monitors such laws around the world, in Iran "Homosexuality is illegal, those charged with love-making are given a choice of four deathstyles: being hanged, stoned, halved by a sword, or dropped from the
highest perch.


This second photo was taken while the two boys are being transfered to the Execution Square where the whole public can witness the execution. Look at the apparent grief that is evident at the faces of these two young boys.

However, the Iranian authorities are putting out a cover story that the two boys had participated in the rape of a 13-year-old, but report affirms that this accusation is a smokescreen for inhuman conduct and is without foundation.





According to Iranian human rights campaigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs seized power in 1979. "Altogether, an estimated 100,000 Iranians have been put to death over the last 26 years of clerical rule. The victims include women who have sex outside of marriage and political opponents of the Islamist government.

What can you say about this? This is a total crime against Humanity. We cannot bring these boys back to life. The injustice against them is complete, total, and irrevocable.