pasko 2009 at pcfi

Celebrate Christmas with the Philippine Cultural Foundation, Inc. at the Bayanihan Arts and Events Center on Sunday, December 13, 2009 from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM. For only $3.00 per person (and free for children 7 and under). At this event, one gets to experience the Christmas holiday,  Philippine style.

“Pasko”, meaning “Christmas” in Filipino, is perhaps the most celebrated of all the Philippine holidays. Religious in nature, “Pasko” is marked by “Misa de Gallo” (Rooster Mass), a nine-day morning mass starting on the 16th of December, culminating in a Midnight Mass on the 24th. Although religious in function, these masses are accompanied by festivals, parties, gift-giving, and of course, shopping. Continue Reading »

One of the usual jokes that I tell most of my Filipino acquaintances is about this guy who, on his drive back home one late night, encounters an old man on a wheelchair at an intersection. At the next light, the old man is there again, looking at him with evil eyes and a twisted smile. Still being there after several lights, the guy becomes so scared he hurriedly speeds up until he gets home. He wearily looks around for any signs of the old man and then starts heading for his door. But then, in the darkness as he nears the door, a cold, sweaty hand grips his shoulder and behind him is the old man on the wheelchair, with eyes so fiery, mouth so slimy with drool and breathing so heavily as he says, “That was awesome, man! Let’s race again sometime!”

This joke sort of backfired on me last Wednesday night. Continue Reading »

“I am the salt of the earth…”

When I was about six or seven, I fell from a seesaw. On that fall, the plank I was sitting on scraped through my right thigh, leaving a three-inch wound that seemed to be the biggest I have ever seen as it seemed to run through the whole upper half of my leg. I felt no pain at first. I even thought I was fine as there wasn’t even a drop of blood coming out.

However, the older women who saw me fall panicked. Continue Reading »

I’ve been in this business for as long as I can remember and through the years, I have developed my own musical formulas that are proven to invoke all kinds of emotions to a vast number of listeners. In a lot of ways, I have become an emotional techie to people who wish to listen to my music.

Lately though, so much have happened in my life and after being choked with too much emotions, the sounds that I hear in my heart seem to come to a bottleneck somewhere in the base of my throat, and without them getting into the mind, there is no way I could shift into the technical facets for them to be realized. Music that I hear inside me comes out in the form of tears and sleepless nights and overflowing ashtrays… Continue Reading »

Just testing how this blogging thing goes. It’s kind of overwhelming, but I’ll manage…

Let’s see… there’s so much to learn and everything looks new to me. It’s harder than I thought.