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Remembering last Christmas

Thought I would just share these photoshopped pics I did for the marketing of our group’s Christmas party. It would’ve been such a waste to just throw these away – so I’ll use them to test the lightbox grouping method. When viewing with a browser, click on any one of the pictures to engage the lightbox, then it should should tell you whether you can click to an “adjacent” picture when you mouseover to either side of the image.

Don’t be surprised if it breaks once in a while, after modifying the script to accommodate my dynamic Flickr linkbacks, I wouldn’t be surprised if it messes up some functions… I just hope they’re only cosmetic issues – so I can fix them with simple CSS.

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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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Busy day

You know what? I never knew what my adorable readers wanted to hear more. Is it my life in general (actual kwento), or my perspective of life (my discussions of the issues I see over the net)? But being that I probably only have 2 avid readers/visitors (one being myself), this whole question probably isn’t worth asking in the first place.

Anyways, I plan to talk about my day since a lot of stuff happened.

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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!