Last Saturday, May 19, we had another Oktaves night. The rainy weather did not stop us from watching the Hilera, Sir Nitoy Adriano and Ely Buendia. Only few teammates made it to the gig but still it was a great night.

Oktaves provided an awesome set performing new Oktaves songs like Olivia and “Walang Magawa”, as per Chris of Hilera which he wrote himself. Hilera’s drummer, Bobby Padilla was noticeably great on that night breaking two sticks, or maybe we were just focused on Ely Buendia on our first Oktaves Night, but he was really great.

Even lucky to catch “Guitar Man” on video since I already know what will be the signal – introducing Sir Nitoy Adriano. We also tried the pasta that Ms.Day is talking about, it was good and I remember how Lee described to us how it was formulated, and the story was quite not convincing. We actually went to the gig for a special “reason”.

It was a great night meeting new people liking Oktaves and able to notice how good 70s Bistro really is. Okay, I admit it; it was hard for us to appreciate the place on our first time because all we want that night was to watch the Ely Buendia and Oktaves. It was another great Oktaves Night.

Tomorrow is Mother’s day – and this is my little tribute to all the mothers out there - especially to my friends, Titas, Grannys, cousins, my sister-in-law and most especially to my ever loving Nanay ♥ — hope you like it :)

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nine months in your tummy
even the environment seems so slimy
we can still feel how you care
and how you wait for our delivery
we were given to you
and your caring hands start to move
you delicately touch us
and protecting us even from dust
you know when we are hungry
or when we seem so sleepy
you’ve waited for our first smile
and guide us to walk miles
as we grow old
and your grey hair seem to be doubled
you still keeping on hold
the LOVE for us that is so BOLD

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“Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person’s fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read,[1] and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.” — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia

I was not aware of this disorder not until I watched it in the show of the late Ernie Baron, they tackled the common thing on Tom Cruise and Albert Einstein, and it is dyslexia. After hearing the symptoms, I realized that I do have that kind of disorder. I confirmed that when I read the journal I had when I was in high school as well as the compositions I’ve made. I am dyslexic in a way that I can compose a sentence on my mind but didn’t notice that when I penned it down, conjunction or sometimes words were missing, a difficulty in orthographic coding. I was also curious then why it was hard for me to read fast or rather understand fast what I am reading. After knowing what I’m going through, I was cautious of what I am writing from then on. I remember in College that I do have a friend who will read what I’ve written whenever there’s writing activity to make sure it was correct.
I’m fighting the disorder by reading more and listening to music which luckily my favorites, with those my mind is relax and dyslexic attacks are lessened. I even maintain a blog to practice writing and fight dyslexia although sometimes I edit my articles after posting especially if I was not able to proof-read it. Now, dyslexia is a help because it is triggered by stress & helping me to know when I need to slow down. I noticed it when sentences I’m sentences were erroneous.
As per Wikipedia, there’s no cure for Dyslexia but only appropriate education and some technical aids to lessen the disorders. In my case, I do have books and social media to be well; I think I am lucky enough to be exposed early on reading materials and music, and dyslexia is only a stress indicator now.

Last May 4, Friday, I watched my very first Pupil gig outside Laguna —- yes, it’s another “first time” but definitely won’t be the last —- I used to watched Pupil shows only if it is within Laguna but now with my friends in Team Pupil-Laguna I was able to watch bar gigs :)After April 28 Oktaves gig, we go back to 70s Bistro this time for Pupil.

There were three front-acts, Sleepyheads, Ajka and Kilos, which gave the crowd good sets.

Night before the gig I printed out photos I took a year ago and some from Oktaves night (Ely’s photo for Afrile & Ama) to have it signed by them and they willingly signed it :)

Before the show started, we were able to catch Ely who was roaming around testing his guitar or rehearsing , I really don’t but I really like the guitar.

It was a great set consisting of songs from their albums and some covers that made the crowd to stand on their feet & made everyone sing along.

It was a jam-packed 70s Bistro again and I’m lucky enough to go around and took some good shots of the crowd and of Wendell, the best drummer of all time (for me). And it was nice to know other Pupil fan like me and jammed with them. It was like we are on the same age :)

So far, in every gig I watched they always end the set with “Low End” and lucky enough now that I was able to took video of 20/20 performance - http://youtu.be/cPFel6ODdAY - because I always enjoying the song whenever they perform it.

 It was a great night – a good one before they rock Dubai.

magkaiba ang mundo
iisa ang paghinto
parehong may patutunguhan
parehong may katapusan
pilit mang iwasan ang daan
ibabalik pa rin kung saan
landas na ang magtatagpo
ayon sa ikot ng mundo
pagkakataong ibinibigay
ipinagwawalang bahala na lang
ngunit paulit-ulit lang
hanggang magbigyang daan
anumang hadlang ay walang magagawa
sa mundong itinakda

Last April 28, Saturday, I watched the gig of Oktaves in 70s Bistro together with Team Pupil-Laguna. It was a night of “first”; aside from the fact that it was the first Oktaves gig I watched many more “first” happened.Oktaves is a band consisting of the three-man rock band Hilera, The Jerk’s Nitoy Adriano and Pupil’s front man and Rock Icon, Ely Buendia.

It was almost like another Team Pupil-Laguna meet-up, there were six of us who watched the gig and it was planned back on the first TPL meet-up. For me, it was my first gig outside Laguna since I have started to follow Pupil. We decided to meet in LRT1 station in Buendia since it was the  drop-off point of all. On that day, I’ll be coming from work so I need to map out how I will get there. Call me Probinsyana but I am really one so I asked Afrile on directions if I’ll be coming from Alabang; unfortunately, I was not informed that there’s a faster way to get there so I took the first PUJ I saw bound to Pasay-Rotonda that took the service road which made my travel time longer instead of the one taking the South Superhighway. When we are all there we decided to take LRT1 to Anonas and I admit it, it was my first ride on LRT knowing that I am a claustrophobic. I was lucky enough that I am with them so there’ll be no panic-attack knowing that the cab was congested  but they can’t believe that it was my first that Afrile joked that I will give my blog entry titled as “Masikip, Mainit at Mahirap ang First Time” something like that —-

When we reached the 70s Bistro, place was quite confined but ambiance is perfect for a gig. We were kinda early then but tables were already reserved by others so we asked what can we do to claim the place, the answer was two buckets of beer. We are only six and there were 14 bottles of beer to consume. It was my first time to drink again so I decided to drink one of my favorite together with San Mig Lights –

the Red Horse Beer

–— There were other bands who played before Oktaves which honestly I can’t remember the names, all I remember were the band with guitarist/vocalist in dreadlocks, the band singing “Piso-Piso” and “Mapungay mong Mata” and of course the band of Nitoy Adriano’s daughters.

We were able to meet other Team Pupil members. When Oktaves’ set started, everyone was on their feet singing along. Honestly, some songs were not familiar but still I enjoyed it.

I was really struck when they sang “The Guitar man” by Bread, Chris of Hilera was just introducing Nitoy Adriano as the guitar man then Ely continued by singing the song, it was a kilig-moment —- But most unforgettable one was when Ely teasing Chris to sing a song for the crowd since they were late, Chris sang “Ang Tindahan ni Aling Nena” knowing it was not usually sing by Ely nowadays, he sang with Chris and even sang more Eraserhead songs like a part of “Ang Huling El Bimbo” and “Pare Ko” —- It was a great set and a great experience. — a great night of MUSIC.