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Jetlagged

Here I am at 5:00am composing this entry. I don’t know when sleep will get a hold of me but in any case, might as well blog.

To say that I had a very unfortunate incident, would be an understatment – I lost a TON of cash at the airport before I left the country a couple of days ago. I don’t really intend to expound on it as it really depresses me to think about it, so I’ll leave it at that. Suffice to say that it was enough to “ruin” the tour spirit in me. But God has some weird way of showing you the brighter side of things.

Initially, I was really stoked on going on tour, then plummeted right down to 0-motivation that fateful day, now I guess I’m back up to about 80%. I’m not so sure that will get any higher – while I do enjoy the whole BP-tour side of everything, having that amount stolen is not something I could just brush off. But nonetheless, I’m not a defeatist, and I do acknowledge the “lucky” breaks we’ve had after the incident.

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Yesterday…

I’d like to congratulate Bukas Palad for a well executed Choir Convention yesterday. A pat on the back for everyone is very much deserved.

The facts:

  • Easily over a thousand participants. 700 pre-registered, and 600 or more additional registrants showed up on the day itself.
  • We started promptly at 12 noon, and the “convention” part ended at 8:30pm, then we had a mini-concert with special guests, which ended 10-ish. I hope Les (our photographer) was able to get a picture of the people at the the very end of everything because I kid you not that there were still a lot of people who stuck with us till the very end.

What does this imply? It’s obviously a successful 10-hour event! What are the other “extremely long” Catholic gatherings one can think of? World Youth Day would be one of them hahaha. Which is why we’re so proud of pulling it off.

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The truth may or may not set you free

I received an email of someone admitting being responsible for the things I’ve discussed in my past post. I’d have to admit, the story is a little far-fetched, but as long as I can’t get to talk to the person in person, then we’ll never know now will we?

In the spirit of DECENCY, I will still keep quiet about the evidence we’ve found/gathered, hence nobody has to worry about anything (that means you to, mr/ms. hacker) as far as exposing people. Fair enough?

I need to discuss this however, because quite frankly, I think you take me for an idiot. You actually expect me to believe that story you gave? I’m 25 years old, not 5. I’ll believe it when I see the proof, everything you mentioned fits perfectly as far as any “contrived” story which attempts to come up with one central theme to tie up all the other “loose ends” conveniently. So I reiterate, it’s convenient, but far from believable. You probably had a better chance with a much, much simpler story.

But for the record… I would like to say that regardless if I believe your story or not, I appreciate the fact that you admitted your fault – and I, at the very least, want to believe that you truly will not try disrupting people’s lives again. With respect to that, I’m officially calling it quits. Don’t bother us again… ever – unless you’re prepared for an all out public investigation, and all the consequences it will have on the people you know.

And yes, I forgive you 🙂 I also politely ask you to get on with your life and stay out of mine/ours. You’re still free to post in the other site, as long as it’s constructive. Only a trusted few know which accounts are in question, so you can pretty much continue posting as a regular boardmember.

You could stop reading my post now… but if you’re curious as to why I don’t believe the story, then read on…

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Copyrights anyone?

During a wedding, friend/choir member had mentioned The Philippine Daily Inquirer publishing an article with dubious facts. I checked out the website, but didn’t find a match… so I Googled it.

Check this Google-cached article (which my sister confirmed to be the contents of what was in yesterday’s paper) Take note of the part that says:

PPF eventually branched out into the realm of musical plays and concerts. In 1990, PPF waxed its first album, “Ama Namin,” under Ivory. Interestingly, PPF was the first to sing “Tanging Yaman” during mass service and weddings even before it became the theme song for the hit movie.

Gee!, and I thought we were the one’s who owned the song… Fr. Manoling has a lot of explaining to do! hehehehehe

Jokes aside, they should’ve phrased that bit of info along the lines of: “They have been singing the song Tanging Yaman even before it became the theme song…” That would be correct – and incidentally, would apply to any choir who had sung the song before the movie came out.

The Tanging Yaman album was released 1989, The song Tanging Yaman, was composed by Fr. Manoling while in the novitiate in 1986. Now unless we haven’t been informed of such an arrangement with the PPF, we’d be inclined to believe that Fr. Manoling’s choir would get to be the first to sing his compositions.

It’s all good fun though, we BP don’t intend to make a big deal of it – that’s why I’m not posting this in the Ministry’s official site. It’s just an interesting bit of trivia – you know us net-freaks… always keeping an eye out for some fun!

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Why do I even bother…

For the most part of yesterday evening (yes, that’s a while ago). I’ve been trying to pinpoint some “suspicious” characters in the internet. I’m positive they’re reading this… so might as well give it out straight.

This site has it’s share of comments in my posts that usually try to “attack” me as a person. Or at least aren’t constructive at all. Which is perfectly fine. I mean what do I care if you don’t believe in the same things I do? To each his own.

I’m also willing to forego the useless posts in the Guestbook which do not contribute at all but instead try to troll on some issues.

Anyways, I already had an inkling since last year, but I never really concerned myself with it. Quite frankly, I’m still bewildered at why I’m actually acting on it (or have to act on it for that matter). Recently, some users at the other site I manage are reporting some rowdy “posts.”

When I say rowdy, I simply mean that their posts seem to be trolling – you can check here for its definition.

Anyways, since that site is supposed to be a decent site, and a site I’m supposed to be “managing,” I decided to have a look-see.

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