• last december 26, i had some adventure with kazuo. we had an overnight at our church for some preparations  of a certain event. but then we couldn't sleep and just spent the whole night talking and laughing. then december 27 at around 4 o'clock in the morning, we climbed out the church gate to have coffee at dunkin. (since the gate was locked already. hahaha!) but then we ended up having hot choco instead. haha. that was really fun. and then we met ate kris' ex-boyfriend there.. wuuuu~ and at around 6 in the morning, we walked back to church. haha. it was a fun adventure. :)
• next, our trip to cebu(which was scheduled at january 2 and we already had tickets!!!) to visit my brother was cancelled due to some financial problems (according to my father.. we could've managed.. but.. oh well..)
• so.. in lieu of that.. my mother ask my brother to go home.. and it's great that he agreed. and he was happy too. :) yay~
• so.. last january 4, sunday @ 5 o'clock in he morning my brother arrived. :) wee~
• but then.. on the evening of january 5.. T_T he left and went back to cebu. T_T
• another one... last january 10, i met up with my poki bestfwend. haha. kazuo-kun, and also with aya. we hung-out in macarthur park after being treated to lunch at jollibee by ka-kun. hehe. he brought his guitar with him and along with aya, they made the afternoon really cool by singing some nice songs. :)
• then on the late afternoon of january 11... our house was flooded.. and we had to evacuate..  i stayed in the house of our family friend.. and im very much thakful to them.. and to the people who keptme company thru text messages, comforting and praying for us. you know who you are guys.. :)
• january 15, we're back in our house.. and everything's still a mess.. haha. but it's all well.. although i had a lot of my things wet by the floodwater. including my piano... T_T my brother and i slept on the sala. and i feel like my neck's going to break because of the two sofa chairs i slept on. really small space for me. x_x
• january 17, im back in my bedroom!!! but still a messy bedroom. haha.
• january 19.. im back to school. haha. i feel like i've been in a vacation because of the bad weather.  im glad it's all good now. the sun's up! ^_^,

Makoto Konno, a girl attending high school in Tokyo's shitamachi, realises she has the power to go back in time and re-do things (called a "time-leap") when she impossibly avoids a fatal accident at a train crossing one day.

Bewildered, she consults with her aunt hroughout the film, who then implies that she is the protagonist from the original novel. At first, Makoto uses her power extravagantly to avoid being tardy and to get perfect grades on tests, and even relive a single karaoke session for about ten hours. However, things begin to turn bad as she discovers how her actions can adversely affect others.

Makoto ends up using up more of her leaps to recklessly prevent undesirable situations from happening, including an awkward confession of love from her best friend Chiaki Mamiya. Eventually she discovers a numbered tattoo on her arm which counts down with each leap. She determines that the tattoo indicates that she can only leap through time a limited number of times. With only a few time leaps left, she attempts to make things right for everyone, but impulsively uses her final leap to prevent a phone call from Chiaki asking if she knows about time-leaping. As a result, she is unable to prevent her friend Kōsuke Tsuda and his girlfriend from being killed in the accident at the train crossing that Makoto was originally involved in. Devastated, time suddenly stops.

Okay, so much for all the random musings the past weeks,days,hours,minutes,seconds. Haha.
Time to get serious. Alright. I am now in my sophomore year as a music major student, and it's the second semester. I have 9 music science subjects + my piano lessons and 2 minor subjects.

Theory of Music 1b
Keyboard Harmony
Sacred Music
Dictation1b
Music Ensembleb
Solfeggio2b
History of Music2b
Chorus2
Applied Music Classic
Music Education 2
Piano2b

Psych1
Biology1

I don't know if the teachers of these major subjects are final and it's actually frustrating because until now, we are not having classes still!!! And it's the third week already since classes started. Sheesh. I want to get going already! Lately I've been spending my time eating and just going around the city with my friend Dawn. However, just last week I thought of doing some self-study on some things. Haha. Here I go again. Yeah. Well at least I'm doing some work! I actually planned on doing some self-study about jazz piano playing. For the past weeks I've been really engrossed with the music of Diana Krall, Michael Buble and Sitti! Oh! Michael's really awesome. And Sitti's such a wonderful singer. I love her voice and she has nice accent too when she sings Portuguese. She did Astrud Gilberto's "Girl from Ipanema" so beautifully. I wish I could sing like that. But, haha! I'd rather stick with the piano than with singing. I'll leave that to the singers. Oh well. I'll just sing on my own little world Etherea. Haha. I just coined that word at the moment. From the word ethereal. LOL. See? My mind just wanders on it's own. And I'm straying off topic. Hahaha! Okay, back to the jazz business. Yes, I am trying to learn jazz piano playing in fact I already researched some jazz piano exercises in the net and I'm glad to have found some. One of which that I liked the most is Oscar Peterson's Jazz Exercises, Minuets, Etudes and Pieces for Piano.  Found it on Scribd.com. There are a lot of pdf files there by the way. I didn't print the whole thing yet, just until exercise 6. I'm working on #1 at the moment. Haha.  I am also doing some background study about jazz so that I could better understand the kind of music style. Sigh.
Other than that, the Cagayan De Oro Music Cultural Guild, of which I am part of (haha. right) is busy practicing for the upcoming singing engagements this December. We will be singing Christmas songs! Yay! It's Christmas time! I love singing Christmas carols, it adds to the spirit of Christmas. IMHO. Haha. So yeah, we are singing on December... So far we have 3 invitations.

Saturday December 6,2008 - SM CDO
Sunday December 7,2008 - Kiosko CDO (aka Divisoria Bandstand)
Thursday December 18,2008 - SM CDO

I am inviting everyone to watch. Lol. But if you're really going to watch (and i doubt that. lol) I suggest you go on the 7th of December since there are other schools who are also going to be there. It's really a nice way to spend this Christmas season. Celebrating the season with music! ^_^