AMALAYER

It's not how simple the situation is, not how small or big a deal a predicament appears, not who takes on the role of the underdog or the aggressor, or not who we can sympathize (or empathize) with or against in the picture.
 
Crises have their way of putting a person's character to the test. HOW WE REACT to them tells much of our UPBRINGING and of our VALUES. 

And SPECTATORS ARE NOT EXEMPTED from this measure. Why or how we share a story taken out of context likewise conveys a sense of our personal MORALS. 

While most of us detest trial by publicity, how come we, ourselves, by virtue of social networks and self-willed democracy, inadvertently seem to be a WALKING CONTRADICTION?

If you believe I am mistaken, then tell me #AMALAYER

Music Therapy

I enjoy and am soothed by music from various genres, various sensibilities, various sexes, and various forms. 

Even the choric undulation of the trees palliates me. What am I saying? I'm hungry, tremendously late for breakfast, a tad early for lunch, and damn excited for midnight (forget dinner; sure to have it even if all the hours in the world perish to a nanosecond or two).  

Going back to my soul-palliating musing, my newfound and old catalogues below are but a part of me allayed, if not satiated:

Take Over

This is the point when COMFORT FOOD has to take over.

Speaking of taking over, this epiphany's just in:
"Having to deal with a controlling leader should be more than enough reason to kill yourself and leave no one the chance to control you. But what good is taking your own life when someone will surely be controlling you how to do it, what to do after life, do this, do that, blah blah blah!"
LOL

Undo

This is one of those days you want to press UNDO.
But of all the "misses" that happened today - misleading, misunderstanding, misalignment - it's calls from friends I truly miss who seemed to have an iota of familial intuition to ask me, out of the blue, if I'm okay, that make me wanna press REDO on the other hand. 
This shall pass.
Don't know how soon but what good is a rollercoaster ride without the highs?
Had enough lows lately; time to piece things back together and spring into the light.
Maybe I just slept on the wrong side of the bed or woke up to a wrong day. 
Hello night, replenish me.

Sold!

Sanctuaryo.
Tamarind.
Mini.
Peri-Peri.
Happy Lemon.
Ahavia.
Sold.

Spiderman's Amazing!

Okay, I admit it: I was initially skeptic about watching The Amazing Spiderman. Thought twas too early for a remake (or a "reboot"). But after finally giving in to growing raves, I was simply swept away by how AMAZING the DIRECTION is (fittingly helmed by Marc Webb), how AMAZING the SCREENPLAY is (well-timed humor, sensible drama & rollercoaster ride-like plot points), and how AMAZING an ACTOR Andrew Garfield is. In a nutshell, the movie HUMANIZED Spiderman - got drawn more to how feasible Peter Parker's story in real life is than to how high-tech effects make a movie one whopping visualfest. 8.8 out of 10 stars!


Favorite tearjerker scene: The "He made you promise. Didn't he?"
Favorite comic scene: Stan Lee's cameo! 
Favorite scene: Stan Lee's cameo!!!
Favorite PBB Teens Scene: The "Don't make your promises you can't keep. Those are the best kind"

These Things

A lot of "things" have been going on in my life this month. I was able to bake my first pizza in years, got my first fatal taste of Starbucks Ice Cream, and an equally fatal taste of addiction to Diablo (III), finally received my Mini Cooper (S), and even got to guest with VFort on Ms. Sharon Cuneta's, yes the one and only megastar, new show Kasama Mo, Kapatid. I must say every candle I lit in Baclaran on my weekly novenas proves to be a light shining to and from the heaven. I mean, if God has orchestrated all these awe-inspiring "things" to make one unlikely person happy, then He must really be the most only perfect architect this world could ever have. Yes, I prayed, I claimed, but I never wished for the impossible; just things that can make me happy even in the most unlikely ways. And to share all these "things" with my loved ones is a blessing-turned-bliss. How unlikely is "unlikely"? Come June 3, we're opening the night for New Kids On The Block & Backstreet Boys on their concert here in Manila!!! How cool is that! I mean, I know I've been singing to their hits back in high school, even as far back as elementary days, but to be their Front Act, less than 2 decades later? Come on. But yes, it's happening. And it is LIKEly. These things indeed, are likely.

Dreaded Opportunity

I never thought singing the National Anthem on national TV would give me the longest, most nerve-wracking 1 minute of my life. 
Now I can sympathize w/ Christian Bautista wakeke ;-)

Then again, I thank God for eventhough I zoned out before (& during!) the performance, I still "survived" that much-dreaded "opportunity." 

Whatta way to realize how blessed I must've been to have had that once-in-a-lifetime chance to lead Smart Araneta Coliseum w/ the song we all thought we knew like the back of our hands.

Thank you PBA (the Commissioner congratulated me right after. Thank you sir!) & Viva for trusting me w/ that "dreaded opportunity" =)

Video below: