My boyfriend :D

My boyfriend taught me how to use lightroom :’D 

Last Thursday!

Hai guise. This is a shameless post of a photo of me singing. 

Thanks @makuzcortes for inviting me to play! Also, Foc Fashion’s set was awesome. 

I’m tired of people (including myself) complaining that their mind always goes against their heart. That only means they will never be able to make decisions because their mind and heart are at war with each other. Making decisions is hard because it requires peace within yourself, and making reckless decisions while you are at war with yourself will never do you any good.

Your mind says, “It’s a stupid thing to do, don’t do that, you’ll get hurt, you’ll regret it, you’ll hurt other people too”. The heart suffers when the mind stops it from seeing what the world has to offer. The heart says “I need to do it or I’ll get hurt, and I don’t care what you (my mind) think. I’ll do it because this is what I feel like doing.” The mind is deemed useless once the heart refuses to listen to it. The heart and mind needs to compromise in order to make decisions. The two must cooperate and seek for a common ground, one strong enough to hold them both. 

CHAR. 

Impromptu: Drops | astrangertotears

Impromptu recording. Two weeks ago. I don’t remember the chords I used. Also, I can’t make out the lyrics :))

Ivory Tower | astrangertotears

Err. Some track I recorded using my mom’s macbook. I don’t like my voice here. :p

Hulog ka ng langit. 

This is where I work. No, I don’t teach here (yet). I’m an all-around girl — I help out in the office. See that tarp? I made several versions of that. They finally approved this simple tarp that now serves as our temporary signage. 

This is where the turtles (I named them Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael) live.

The playschool has a lot of room for the kids to run around and go crazy. 

The piano arrived in the playschool today, and it took seven people to carry it to the music room. As soon as the piano got inside, I sat down and played it. One key needs to be tuned, but it’s a beautiful piece of instrument. 

This is Ate Michelle, she’s in charge of landscaping. The amount of energy she puts in her work is tremendous. Yey for the citronella. 

This little guy is one of our students. He tagged along with his parents to get a glimpse of the school before classes start on Tuesday. 

Walking around the playschool, I had Kim & Jessie on full volume. I swear that song’s still stuck in my head. 

Although I love Cebu with all of my heart, Manila is still my home, a place I’ll always go back to.

I miss being able to ride the LRT - MRT for no reason at all. Riding it alone, thinking about things, my eyes scanning each building as the train passes by it. I miss cramped space, I miss the people who give up their seats for me. I miss the city lights that blur as the train speeds on the rails and how it reminds me that some things in life can be easily forgotten if we move on fast enough. 

photo from google search

I miss the place and how big it is, and the small possibility of bumping into someone you know and suffer the pains of being ignored; Manila is so big, that when people bump into each other, they give each other at least a minute a minute or two of their time. There, you would have to think twice about going out of the house if you have nothing important to do.

Small places make me feel free to roam around as much as I want, but at the end of the day I realize that I’m alone. 

photo from google search

I miss the abundance of things to do, the many places to go and how the traffic consumes a lot of your time; It makes me feel that I should only move for something really important, otherwise I should just stay at home and lock myself in my room with my guitar. 

I miss the sunset and the warmth I feel when the sunlight hits my skin. Manila bay may be overrated, but to me, it’s the one place where I feel peace within the busy city. This is where you’ll find me when I want to start crying my heart out for what ever reason.   

photo from google search

On top of that, I miss these people.

1:46 PM, Cebu City

This is one of those impromptu recordings that I do for fun…you know, I record stuff…impromptly… Impromptly? Is that even a word? Geesh. lol. Okay. You will notice that it fades out before the ending because 1. I ran out of ideas 2. My 12-yr-old brother started coughing in the background and I got distracted and you know how it is.

LYRICS:
and I’m tired of being stuck in this world

and I hate the sight of everyone that surrounds me

and I will do everything to break away

cause I’m tired of the same things

over and over again

im tired im tired im tired

who knew this would be something i’d regret

don’t be afraid, just calm your senses

…and then my brother started coughing.