Yesterday

I've been a fan of the Beatles since I was 3 or 4 years old. My dad would usually play their songs early in the morning before he goes to work and at that young age I always thought that they are pure genius. I love almost all of their songs that at that young age as well, I was already thinking deep of what were the meanings behind those songs.

When I was in highschool I got this thing about Tesla's Time Machine that at that time I told myself that if I could go back in time then I will go back to the time before the Beatles were born and I'll be playing their songs and no one would know that it was theirs. Such imaginations, I know, I'm a kid, forgive me.
But I also thought that if I do that, I might not be as successful as they are. Maybe people will not accept that kind of songs because it would be a different set up if we try to rewrite the past.

So 22 years later, this movie "Yesterday" is doing what I've imagined back in 1997, with just a little difference since my imagination was about time travel while the movie is about a fragment of history lost.

And it's funny how coincidence happen right before your eyes.

I just hope that losing The Beatles will not happen in our real lives cause it would be grievious losing those music that gave us the definition of art.

Weekend painting session

Road to Professionalism

I had my lecture last week about work and ethics which I entitled - "Road to Professionalism". And as usual, the last part of my lecture is always the essay. And upon reading all their papers, one student got my attention, maybe because we've got different point of views in life, I mean, so far different. So I responded her with a simple advice which I do hope would change her views and opinion to be a better person.

First, I wrote her that even though you've learned all the things you needed to know in this world, if you don't apply it, then your learning is a failure because the realization of one's knowledge is how you impart it to others.

Second, yes, experiences, life's choices and mistakes are always the best teacher, and yes, we learn a lot from it, but there are so many mistakes this world has to offer and a lifetime is not enough to commit all those mistakes just to learn from it, that is why there is also a cliche that says - "learn from other people's mistakes". Because if you live your life doing all the mistakes this world has to offer, you'll look back when you're older and realize that you are that one big joke no one is laughing at. And it would be so sad to die in this world without touching someone's life in a good way. If you leave a mark to anyone, make sure that mark is not a scar.

Third and last, we all believe in YOLO (you only live once), we all believe in living in a moment and living it to the fullest, yes, I do agree in all that, I also agree that we should enjoy the present... Yes, enjoy the present but not to the extent that it will ruin your future.

Respectation 2.0

Respect is something you give to others in spite of what and who they are because you have it in you. If you can't respect everyone, it only means that you don't have respect to yourself as well, for you cannot impart something you don't even have.
And respecting everyone even those who don't deserve it doesn't make you less repectful.
Just saying.

First Heroes

My 6-year old daughter asked me why people make mistakes and I answered her - "People make mistakes because we are not perfect. But here's the thing, it's ok to make mistakes just as long as you will learn something from it. Because if you didn't learn anything from it, you missed the point of making one. " and she just said - "ok!"

So here's what I thought about that conversation I just had with her.

We, parents, are our child's first heroes. They look at us as if we are supermen and wonder women. They thought we can do all the things great and small, the possibles and the impossibles as well. Until the dawn of their innocence break and our image shatters and all that is left to see is just plain human being.

But that is how they will grow as an individual. Reality will be inevitable to bite them. They will see the flaws, get mad at it, try to be the best, be independent and strong for themselves. Because after the shattered image, they will learn that love conquers the imperfections and the picture they once saw in you remains to be their hero struggling to become their own image.

So it is very important for us, parents, to have that strong but loving image to our children because we will always be their first real heroes.

Our Cuneta Astrodome Experience

Our Cuneta Astrodome experience...

When your job makes you do what you were doing back in highschool.

Photos during rehearsals.
#ThoseWereTheDays

Everything Life Is

So soft and so fragile
It gives me comfort just to stare in your eyes
It is a need for me to find you
A fight to survive you
A bliss to have you
When I look at me
I don't even recognize myself
I'm so consumed by your fire
That I feel guilty
Whenever I'm happy
And you're not around.
I strive no longer for my glory
But for you.
To make you stronger than I am
Make you brave and independent
So I could peacefully lie down and rest
With a smile on my face in my grave.