My Favorite Thing: October 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Flowers

"Flowers never emit so sweet & strong a fragrance as before a storm.When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

"I'm not crossing over from anything. I think of it as pop music with different influences."When I walk in the music store, [my] album is under Classical/pop/easy listening. It's hard to say what genre it is. It's genre less. I try not to define what it is. I let the audience decide it. Because for me, it's just me."

"My life is an unfinished product, but instead of saying, 'How do I stop what I've accomplished,' I decided, I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step in the next chapter."

"It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself in to a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, "OK, this is me."

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"Yeah, it's hard to sing sad songs when there's so much love."

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"I can only say so much about how I feel. Music is what I always turned to when I was feeling a certain way. It's been my reason for everything."

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"First and foremost, I'd like to continue taking risks with my music. Everything I've done so far has been a gut reaction, honest and real. And that's who I am. That's what I want my music to always be -- honest and real."

Source of quotes: http://www.iwise.com/dSOgt

videos :

+ Gira con me questa notte
+ You are loved (Don't give up)
+ To where you are

Monday, October 26, 2009

Blossoms

I'm not a professional photographer. This is the first time, I experimented on taking pictures... and I like the outcome of my work. The blossoms in my little garden inspired me.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Hibiscus

"Remember... anything done in anger will always leave a drop of blood in someone's heart, and even an ocean of tears cannot wash it away." - The Legend of the Hibiscus

Hibiscus

Hibiscus the flower of pride
In color you said it right
Bright and beautiful to the eyes
In dignity you stood up right
Smiling and swaying nation wide
Calling all in peace to unite
Unique flower in petals of five
Symbol of Malaysia nation wide

by Mary Das

Hibiscus

Your prostrate self

In the ground did confide

Where you lay down our woes

And diced vanity and pride.

And from the time worn prose

Of the epitaph,

Grew a sacri legion rose

Coiling up a staff -

A stake in the ground

Of an old forgotten fellow,

Where the rose wound

Up in an impudent yellow

Burst of petals.

And the marigold

Sometimes meddles,

Infinitely secure

Under the cherry trees,

Who are spraying heir scents

caught in the breeze,

Like errant fragments

of what you taught,

Wisdom keeps trickling.

Fruits of knowledge

Are pickling, pickling

In jars left infact

That, today, still preach

Light rays which diffract

the myriad peach.

What did blossom in the spring

But the lissome hibiscus?

Five red robes bearing

Your humble hubris.

We drink the nectar

of your reverberations,

Trying to make vector

Of hallucinations

by: loquist62

http://www.poemofquotes.com/members/sad-poetry/hibiscus

Thursday, October 22, 2009

My Little Garden

My Garden

The world is sadly sick, they say,

And plagued by woe and pain

But look! How looms my garden gay,

With blooms in golden reign!

With lyric music in the air,

Of joy fulfilled in song.

I can't believe that anywhere
Is hate and harm and wrong.

A paradise my garden is

And they my day is spent;

A sleep myself in sunny bliss,

Incredibly content

Feeling that I am truly part

Of peace so rapt and still,

There's not care in my heart...

How can the world be ill?

Aye, thought the land be sick they say,

And named into pin,

My garden never was so gay,

So innocent, so sane.

My rose mocked at misery,

My thrushes vie in song

When only beauty I can see,

How can the world be wrong?

- Robert Service

source: quoteandpoem

"In my garden there is a large for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thought and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers and the dreams are as beautiful". - Abram L. Urban source: quotegarden

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses". - Hanah Rion
source: quotegarden

"The best place to seek God is in the garden. You can dig for Him there". - George Bernard Shaw, The adventures of the Black Girl in her search for God, 1932
source: quotegarden

"May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flower". -Thich Nhat Hanh
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"A garden is the best alternative therapy". - Germine Greer
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are". - Alfred Austin
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas". - Elizabeth Murray
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"If you have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door tht opens wide upon lovely garden". - Anonymous
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers". - Claude Monet
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener". - Thomas Jefferson
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"A garden is delight to the eye and solace for the soul". - Sadi
source: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous". - Aristotle
souce: http://www.northerngardening.com/quotes.html

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need". - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Zarzuela de Tigbaueña

TEATRO HANDURAWAN kang TIGBAWAN

Founded 31 March 2008, Teatro Handurawan kang Tigbawan is a music theater company composed of students in all educational levels, teachers in service and teacher retirees; Manila-based Tigbauan artists; culture movers and arts aficionados. In Hiniray-a & Hiligaynon, handurawan means memory and imagination. Teatro Han- durawan kang Tigbawan seeks to recover the memory and imagination of legend that was Tigbauan through the revival of the town’s long-vanished traditions and creative industries. Beginning with the revival of zarzuela Tigbauena as its centerpiece project, the music theater company will eventually evolve a holistic approach to community building through its advocacies in arts appreciation & culture development, environment protection & conservation, values formation & spirituality.

Fiesta de Zarzuela Tigbaueña

Tigbauan, Iloilo

Seven new one-act zarzuelas in Hiniray-a with music ranging from traditional & folk melodies to pop & rock to rap & hip hop were created by the town’s writers, performed by students and teachers and presented free to the public during the two-week festival celebrating the past, present and future of Tigbauan in particular and Iloilo in general.

AH…GALEH?! (AH…IS THAT SOH?!) the failures and triumphs of high school kids wrought in pop rock rhythm by librettist/lyricist Rhea Mae Catera. Tigbauan’s acclaimed pop rock band Dahon Kamote (Kamote Leaf) rendered the rumbling music.

ANG KAMAKAMA (THE DWARF) is a zarzuela for children that sings of oneness with Nature and respect for other beings. It also a musical lesson on healing herbs and advocates homeopathy. Libretto and lyrics by Maria Luisa Tejero Torrento set to traditional and folk melodies.

450 CC., DUGO NGA PUTI (450 CC., BLOOD PLASMA) reports the town’s first death by dengue. It also informs the audience about the killer Aedis Aegypti and how to combat it. Libretto and lyrics by Maria Luisa Tejero Torrento set to traditional and folk melodies. Its finale rap elicited raves from the audience.

ANG PAGKATAWO NI HESU KRISTO SUNO KAY MATEO, LUKAS KAG IBAN PA NGA MGA SAKSI (THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MATTHEW, LUKE AND OTHER WITNESSES) is a contemporary reconstruction of the 1930’s zarzuela Tigbauena performed during Christmas. Set to traditional lyrics and music of Tigbauan’s da-igon (carol) with libretto by Henry C. Tejero. The Shepherds’ Song was blown up in hip hop.

HANDUM KAG KABUHI NI PFC. ELISEO GONZALES TEJERO, 1942 (HOPE AND LIFE OF PFC. ELISEO GONZALES TEJERO, 1942) the nobility and courage of the Tigbaueno during the Death March from Bataan to Tarlac revealed when Eliseo’s straggler best friend Tony returns and recalls their ordeal. Libretto & lyrics by Maria Luisa Tejero Torrento set to traditional and folk melodies arranged by Rhoel Rae Saba. Its theme song Adios, Amigo (Goodbye, Friend) was inspired by a birdcall and composed by Tejero Torrento herself and also arranged by Saba.

ANG MAESTRA (THE TEACHER) about the struggles and sacrifices of a teacher who gave up her love for the sake of her seven siblings whom she vowed to see through college. Libretto & lyrics by Maria Luisa Tejero Torrento set to traditional and folk melodies arranged by Anselmo Patriarca.
ANG SUGUILANON (THE STORY) retells the legend of Tigbauan through three sisters and a boy friend reminiscing about the good old days and the stories of their spinster aunt Tiya Celia. Libretto, lyrics & music by Rhoel Rae Saba.