I liked the song Penny and Me but I haven't thought that I would love the band who sang it. There are many reasons to love Hanson: first, their talent; and when I say talent it comes in all caps as in TALENT. They are bunch of talented young men (before it was boys) who perform, write, and produce their own songs. Second, they love what they are doing. It's really amazing how a person or a group loves their own craft. It shows when they perform, you can hear it in their songs, and you can feel it when you listen to their songs. Third, they are using their talents to help unfortunate people from other country. They have taken their music on a higher level; Hanson's music is not just about creating good music and performing it, it's now creating good music and perform it to reach out to other people: to help the unfortunate ones and to encourage those who are able to help.

While implementing corrections, I was watching Taking the Walk— Hanson's Documentary about their latest album The Walk. I am amazed because Hanson really grew up in terms of their music, the songwriting, the voice, and the music itself. When they were starting their career, I didn't actually patronize them (my cousin does). In fact, I find their song Mmbop weird because I can't understand the lyrics. (Knowing me, I'm very particular with song lyrics). But people think otherwise, I heard from an interview with Hanson on 2008 Grammy awards that  Mmbop is one of the most (if not the most) popular pop song. Amazing, I can't imagine that someone around my age can actually write a song that became popular. (I think Taylor Hanson is 2 years older than me.)

The song Been There Before is my favorite in the album The Walk. Been There Before was recorded in Africa with an African children's choir. There are other good tracks like Great Divide, Georgia, and Go. Actually all of the songs in the album are worth listening to.

I visited their website and I found a quotation (and some cute pictures of Hanson) from Taylor Hanson:

"We want to inspire others to look for simple tangible ways to make a difference. It is easy to be halted by the great hurdles of poverty and AIDS, but making an impact can begin as simply as giving a pair of shoes, or buying a song."

I wish that Hanson will visit Philippines and bring "The Walk" here. We don't need shoes, more than money and food, our country needs an inspiration to encourage us to be survivors despite the problems we are facing. Who knows? Maybe the light we are looking for is hiding in the songs of some band like Hanson.

Hail to the musicians who sing for a cause! You rock!

Our sacrifices were paid off by the awards we received last night. No words can express how glad I am to be part of this group. Congrats sa ating lahat! We really performed with our hearts out. Mabuhay ang AB Chorale. 

Sabi nga ni Victor Hugo: "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." Our passion in singing and our desire to win made this victory possible. Maybe words can't justify these things but music does. What makes this victory a "sweet victory" for me is that we didn't expect to win. Ang sarap ng feeling. 

Thank you Lord! Thanks pinakingggan Niyo po ang aming panalangin. Salamat sa AB chorale, tinuruan niyo akong maniwala sa sarili ko. Salamat dahil naging part ako ng competing team. Very memorable talaga sa akin 'to because this compet is my first and last compet. I love singing with you guys! I love our group!

Rock on! Wohoo!

Coalition aims to expose Shakespeare

By D'ARCY DORAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 8, 7:39 PM ET

The bard, or not the bard, that is the question.

Some of Britain's most distinguished Shakespearean actors have reopened the debate over whether William Shakespeare, a 16th century commoner raised in an illiterate household in Stratford-upon-Avon, wrote the plays that bear his name.

Acclaimed actor Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, the former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, unveiled a "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt" on the authorship of Shakespeare's work Saturday, following the final matinee of "I am Shakespeare," a play investigating the bard's identity, in Chichester, southern England.

A small academic industry has developed around the effort to prove that Shakespeare, a provincial lad, could not have written the much-loved plays, with their expertise on law, ancient and modern history and mathematics.

The "real" author has been identified by various writers in the past as Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, or the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere.

"I subscribe to the group theory. I don't think anybody could do it on their own," Jacobi said. "I think the leading light was probably de Vere, as I agree that an author writes about his own experiences, his own life and personalities."

The declaration put forward by the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition — signed online by nearly 300 people — aims to provoke new research into who was responsible for the plays, sonnets and poems attributed to the writer.

Jacobi and Rylance presented a copy of the document to William Leahy, head of English at Brunel University in west London and head of the first graduate program in Shakespeare Authorship Studies, which begins this month.

The document says there are no records that any William Shakespeare received payment or secured patronage for writing. And it adds that although documents exist for Shakespeare, all are nonliterary.

It also points to his detailed will, in which Shakespeare famously left his wife "my second best bed with the furniture," as containing no clearly Shakespearean turn of phrase and mentioning no books, plays or poems.

The declaration names 20 prominent doubters of the past, including Mark Twain, Orson Welles, Sir John Gielgud and Charlie Chaplin.

It argues there are few connections between Shakespeare's life and his alleged works, but they do show a strong familiarity with the lives of the upper classes and a confident grasp of obscure details from places like Italy.

"It's a legitimate question, it has a mystery at its center and intellectual discussion will bring us closer to that center," Leahy said. "That's not to say we will answer anything, that's not the point. 'It is, of course, to question.'"

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On the Net:

Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, http://www.doubtaboutwill.org/

++++ The people behind the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt do have a point. But I'm not yet convinced. I think I need to see more articles related to it. What do you think?

Before I update my blog, I read first the blogs of my friends hoping that they are happy. I'm glad Fatats and Fata are doing good. Go guys! 

I'm still pesimistic about what's happening in my life. Sabi nga nila praning ako. Pero sino ba namang hindi mapapraning sa kinalalagyan ko? Well thanks for understanding that AngGe Patatas is a lunatic. Just pray for me. Ipagdasal niyo na sana hindi ako tumalon sa building or magpasagasa isang araw, or worst ibenta ang kaluluwa sa demonyo para makamit ko nag mga gusto ko. Yes I'm lunatic but I still have 25% of my sanity that's why I will not do these silly things. (Thanks for my friends for adding another 25% of my sanity.)

I finished reading two novels when the vacation started. Both novels are love stories written by Jude Devereux. i wonder who's that author. Basta alam ko favorite siya ng lola ko kasi majority ng books na nakuha ng ate ko sa bahay nila lola puro ka Devereux, nagdodoble pa nga yung ibang books eh. The first novel i read was "Someday My Prince". it's a about a princes who fell in love with a mercenary. Falling in love with the wrong person. After i read this story, i concluded that bad guys are interesting. Hahaha... Sabi na nga ba eh... The second story, "An Angel for Emily", is more like the movie "City of Angels". Kaya ko siya binasa, maliban sa kadahilanang "City of Angels" yung dating, Michael kasi yung pangalan ng angel. So yun... Guardian angel ko kasi si Michael the archangel. Wala lang... I wonder if there's someone who will give up immortality, power, and life in heaven just to be with me? Is it too much to ask? Yes t is...

I'm now reading 'Beneath the Blood Red Moon". I'm not sure if I reember the title correctly. Basta, it's about vampires.

Speaking of vampires, I told one of my friends here that I am looking for a vampire boyfriend. I found one, but I doubt if we can be together. Why vampires? Because they are beautiful creatures. intelligent, bedcause they lived for many years, marami na silang alam sa mundo. They traveled in places I wish to see. They loved. Some of them died but they keep on coming back. Cool diba? Yun nga lang, they are bound to drink human blood and live in the darkness. If you're asking if I'm serious, yes I am. Well half serious. Mga 60%...

Sino ang vampire na tinutukoy ko? Well balak ko siyang makita sa Saturday. may plano din akong maging stalker niya kung kaya ko. hahaha... Madyo joke yun... Pero seryoso, mukhang nahuhulog na ko sa "vampire" na 'to. Kung iniisip mo na siya ay vampire na sumisipsip ng dugo, malay ko. Pero malamang hindi. 

Sabi na adik ako eh...

1st mission accomplished. After waiting for one hour , I finally found ma' am Pusta! (Putek kahapon ko pa siya hina- hunting.) After she signed the letter of Fatats,  I delivered it to the dean of Nursing. Ang sungit nung clerk. Hehehe. 

Matt and Kirstie saw me waiting at the pav. They both teased me: "Uyy hinihintay si ma'am." Adik...

2nd mission accomplished. I replied to the comments of my editor. My poem "Speed dating" a.k.a "Amats", according to ALex, is about the relationship of Luna and Me. In short lesbian relationship. He was teasing me and asking who is Luna. I answered, Malay mo si Luna lalaki pero bading. And he started mentioning names. Anak ng patatas naman yun... Pero in fairness natawa ako. I don't want to explain what the poem is all about. If you're interested, just read it then tell me if it is about a lesbian relationship. Open naman ako sa comments eh, actually I like comments about my poem. Pero promise hindi talaga lesbian relationship yun. 

3rd mission almost accomplished. I am doing a research anout my Lit report. I was assigned to report about the French author Colette. Her short story in the reader is quite boring for me but when I read her biographies I was intrigued with her life and relationships. According to the biographies (mga tatlo yung nabasa ko) she had lesbian relationships. For me, "mahalay" siya. Bakit? Abangan niyo na lang sa report ko.

4th mission. Rehearsal. Shit makikita ko na naman siya. He was wearing a red t- shirt yesterday. Bagay sa kanya kasi maputi siya. Hehehe... (Lalaki 'to ha hindi babae!)

Lesbian. Almost everybody was asking: "Tibo ka ba?" At dumating sa punto na pati ako nagtatanong sa sarili ko kung tibo ba ako. Ang sagot isang malaking HINDI. Graduate na ko sa "identity crisis". (Thanks to my crushes.) May natitira pa akong bait sa sarili ko. Siguro nasasabi nila yuin kasi nga astig ako magkikilos at magsalita. Tapos ang laki pa ng boses ko. Pero hindi naman sapat yun para husgahan akong tibi di ba? Hindi ako nao -offend, in fact natatawa ako kasi ang dami- dami kong crush (na lalaki) tapos sinasabihan nila akong tibo. Boyish siguro. Hindi Bi ha, boyish lang. 

Pinaplano ko kaninang ilagay ang nasa isip ko tungkol kay... Pero nagbago ang isip ko. Naduwag. Oo duwag din ako. Kala ko nga matapang na 'ko pero duwag pa rin talaga ako. Duwag kasi ayokong sumugal.

Kaduwaan ba o pride. Aba malay ko. Pwede both?

I decided to go in the lib with Scent (the Backstaber queen... Hehehe... Joke) after class. Wala lang, hindi ko pa feel umuwi.

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Naiisip ko na naman ang mga gagawin. Malapit na kasi ang prelims eh. Well good luck sa ating lahat. 

Pero kahit busy, maraming reasons para huminto para tumawa at makinig sa musika. In love? Oo, in love ako...

Sa music... Basta... Parang tulad din ng nahuhulog sa isang tao, nagising na lang akong hindi ko na maalis sa sistema ko ang musika, ang pagkanta.

"Halina't sumayaw sa ilalim ng araw maghawak- hawak ng kamay at isigaw ng sabay- sabay, Kapayapaan...
Kulay man natin ay iba- iba mundo natin ay iisa, maghawak- hawak ng kamay at isigaw ng sabay- sabay, Kapayapaan... Kapayapaan...
Lupang uhaw sa pag- ibig, 
Naghihintay sa halik ng langit.
Kapayapaan...
Kapayapaan...
Kapayapaan..." 
- Tropical Depression

Hindi matandaan ng mga tinatanong ko 'tong kantang 'to dahil bata pa sila, kami, masyado nung narinig ko 'to. (Grade 3 yata...) Kung hindi ako nagkakamali reggae yata 'to eh...

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(except the music)

Nabitin ako kanina dahil tapos na ang time ko. Nakakatuwa kasi nandito pa rina ko sa humanities sa parehong computer unit.

Ang dami kong gustong sabihin. Pero bago ang lahat, ito ang hindi ko dapat palampasin. First time this year, (first na naman...), palabas na kami ni quennie ng lib nakita namin si "dragon slayer" nakapila para manghiram or magsoli ng book. (hindi ko natanong kung anong pakay niya. Naunahan ako ng kilig...) Tinatawag ko siya, ('di ba lakas ng loob) he was looking pero lumapas yata yung tingin niya, e di kinawayan ko. Siguro mga three times kong tinawag pangalan niya bago niya na- realize na may tumatawag sa kanya. (Jengots...) Pasigaw na nga yung huli e. As in "Hoy ****!" Adik... Lalabas na sana kami ni Quennie ng mapagtanto ko na kailangan kong mag- cr. Balik kami tapos napansin niya, tapos nagtanong siya, e di sinagot namin, nakalimutan ko naiihi nga pala ako. Hindi ako gumagawa ng paraan para makita uli siya, talagang naiihi lang ako. Thank God wala na siya after namin mag- cr. Hahaha...

Change topic...

2007 na. Hindi ako gumawa ng resolution dahil hindi ko trip. Tsaka ayokong mapilitang gawin ang isang bagay dahil "New year's resolution" yun. gusto ko kapag trip ko na talagang magbago yun na yun. Hindi ko na kailangan ng ganun dahil nakakafrustrate lang kapag hindi ko nagagawa.

Siguro ang dapat kong gawin, pagbutihan kung ano man ang mabuting ginagawa ko. Magsaya, matutong tumawa, at maging adik sa musika. (Yun new year's resolution ba yun?) Hindi ko siguro kailangang i- prioritize na magbago ako. Gagawin ko kung anong feel ko at siguro, sana, susunod na ang pinakahihintay kong pagbabago. Parang isang surprise, malalaman ko na lang, magugulat na lang ako bigla, pagkatapos ng mga ginawa ko. Hindi ko kailangan planuhin ang pagbabago, ang kailangan kong planuhin ay ang mga aatupagin ko, susunod na dun ang pagbabago. Tama ba? Ewan ko... Basta para sa 'kin ganun yun. Ayokong magbanggit ng mga bagay na, "magpapakabait na ko this year," (imposible yun). Ayokong munang mangakong gagawin ko ang isang bagay. Basta kapag feel ko na gagawin ko din yun.

Vampire Hunter D 1 (may 2 na daw kasi eh...)

Hindi naman nakakatakot. Pero ewan ko ba kung bakit ako natatakot. Siguro dahil nanuod ako ng 12am tapos patay ang ilaw at ako na lang ang taong gising sa bahay. Alam ko hindi pa rin nakakatakot yun, sadyang matatakutin lang ako. Binuksan ko na yung ilaw bago matapos. Nung natapos na, binilisan ko talagang mag- toothbrush tapos mega takbo ako pabalik ng higaan ko. Nung napatay ko na yung tv at ilaw sa kusina pati sa cr, nahiga na ko. Pagkatapos ko mag- pray may narinig akong ubo ng bata sa labas. Waaah kinilabutan talaga ako, kasi wala namang ubo yung mga kapatid ko tsaka sa labas talaga nanggaling yung sound. Tapos shit talaga, parang nakikita ko si Dunbir sa bintana. (Parang bata, kung anu- ano nai- imagine...) E di todo kwento ako sa pinsan ko nung umaga. Kala ko dadamayan niya 'ko. 'Gaga si Shingha lang yun...' Anak ng patatas yung pusa namin, feeling tao paubo- ubo pa. Yun lang. Napagtanto ko hindi ako dapat nanunuod ng mag- isa at madilim pa at madaling araw pa. Duwag talaga ako.

Maganda naman yung story. (Mahilig ako sa Vampire stories eh) Ang cool kasi si D 'damphire' (di ako sure sa spelling nakalimutan ko. Sa Jap yata Dunbire yun eh, yung name mismo ng character) siya. Ibig sabihin half- human half vampire. Mas malakas siya sa karaniwang vampire kasi nakakatagal siya sa araw. Immortal siya kaya ang sad yung namatay na yung companion niyang girl dahil sa katandaan yata tapos nasa funeral siya tinupad niya yung promise niya sa girl na kapag namatay yung girl dadalan niya ng flower sa puntod. Madrama talaga. Napaka mysterious niya. Tapos bihira siya magsalita. (siyempre misteryoso nga) Ayun...

Ay nako makauwi na nga...

***Your Power Color Is Gold***

At Your Highest:

You are engrossed in passions that mentally stimulate you.

At Your Lowest:

You seek thrills and neglect what's important in your life.

In Love:

You see dating as adventure and approach it with an open attitude.

How You're Attractive:

You passion for life makes others passionate about you.

Your Eternal Question:

"Am I Having Fun?"

What's Your Power Color?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyourpowercolorquiz/

***You Are A Realistic Romantic***

It's easy for you to get swept away by romance...
But you've done a pretty good job keeping perspective.
You're still taken in by love poems and sunsets
You just don't fall for every dreamy pick up line!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?
http://www.blogthings.com/areyouromanticorrealisticquiz/