SGEN Battle of the Bands 2012 Champions!

Last Friday September 28, 2012, the elimination of SGEN Battle of the Bands 2012 happened. There were a lot of members joined, 10 bands tto be exact. 5 bands in junior division and 5 bands in senior division. But only 1 band stood out in the event. 

"Wal-wal", a band that represented Southville International School and Colleges and became the champions of SGEN Battle of the Bands 2012. Wal-wal is composed of 5 members, Raphael del Prado (lead guitarist), Julian Sobremente (rhythm guitarist), Vince Mojica (bass guitarist), Lynyrd Matias (drummer) and Milan Virtudes (vocalist). They sang In bloom by Nirvana, Be quiet and Drive by Deftones. Wal-wal caught the attention of the judges and the audience. I think it's because of their performance level on stage and the connection of the band to the audience not the song, because for me it doesn' matter what song you play as long as you can make a connection with the audience the performance will be awesome.

Congratulations Wal-wal band for winning SGEN Battle of the Bands 2012!

It's your Birthday!

Today we have celebrated my youngest brother, Joshua's, 11th birthday. Quite frankly, we didn't plan on celebrating it this day. But we prepared one, anyway. And although everything was prepared like we had chased a bullet, everything went just fine! We did it all just for our "bunso", Joshua. But who is Josh anyway?

Josh, as I mentioned is the youngest of us 4 siblings. He turned 11 today. But not only in our family is he the youngest, but also among his classmates. See, as young as he is, he's on his 6th grade already at Academy of Jesus. Traditionally, kids at 11 are only at their 4th or 5th grade. But he's a little ahead of that. 

Also, as everyone would agree, being the youngest has its perks. They always get the best from their parents. In most cases and as seen on TV, they're the spoiled ones in the family. And I think I'm starting to believe that because Josh who always gets the best of favors from our parents. Not that I'm jealous because I understand that he's our baby, our youngest and he won't be forever spoiled anyway. But part of being spoiled is ask anything he wants, whenever he wants it. Although he doesn't get them all, being the bunso, i must say he's got the best of guts to ask. And that's what brought about this party. 

Originally, the plan was to celebrate it in the church. Everyone was in agreement including Josh until today, obviously. He had thought that he wanted to celebrate it with us, his family, exclusively before celebrating it with other people. And since that's not such a bad idea and in fact it was a good one, we prepared one. Although the call to celebrate was sudden and the preparations were rushed, everything went fine. The food tasted great, relatives came over too to celebrate with us (which is very rare). Everything was good. 

I realized, if Josh hadn't been born today 11 years ago, if he hadn't been the youngest and he hadn't been as he is now, we might not have had this sudden celebration that turned out to be the one of the most worth remembering. 

2011 Battle of the Bands

Last year Southville International School and Colleges held its very first SGEN Battle of the Bands. There a lot of bands joined the competition, 13 all in all, so you can imagine how long the battle was. I'm also part of the band that joined the competition.

Stringless band, originally is composed of 5 members i was the drummer before kevin was the bassist and JM still in lead guitar. 1 of us graduated already, our vocalist Pat so we need to replace her and our rhythm guitarist before was Keenee, she stopped school so Me, Kevin and JM are left. We recruited new members in our band and now our band is composed of 6 members Christian our drummer, Mike our keyboardist, Matthew in rhythm guitar, JM in lead guitar, Kevin our vocalist and me the bassist of our band. We first held our auditions last year of october, and we played Stars by Callialily and Mr. Clay by Bamboo. Out of the 13 bands that got in, our band got the attention of the judges, im not sure why but yeah we got in the competition. December 1, 2011 the actual battle, our band was 2nd to perform and my other member are nervous that's why i felt kinda nervous as well because of them. We sang Frailty by Urbandub and Mr Clay by Bamboo, but we didn't just play the song, we change some parts of our song and played our own version of the songs. Maybe that's what got the attention of the judges, because of our originality. So while we were playing Frailty which is our 1st song, the power was cut and we can't hear our instruments, even the microphone was cut but the only thing that still has an electricity were the drum mics. After how many minutes the power was fixed and played the songs again til the end. So after our performance some of my bandmates thought it was a set up because we all know that we have the judges eyes on us. But we're not sure until the show ended and we got 2nd runner up only, but its ok for because i thought we wouldn't get any place because our band was the only band the had a power cut. So because of that we thought we're robbed and until now we still think that we're robbed but we already moved on. LOL

So out of 13 bands we got 3rd place and its better than have nothing right? This coming SGEN battle of the bands 2012 our band was invited to have an intermission number. We want to join again but we can't because already won last year and they want us to perform to represent the bands that performed, and won last year.

Mentoring on the spot

"You are an irrational person just like me. We both think fast, like when writing we already finished reading the sentence in our mind but the hand is still writing. We are both thinkers, we analyze things first before talking, in everything we use our brain first and conduct an analysis then come up with a correct reason or statement."

Yesterday i talked about my church mentor and how he teaches me and help me with my problems. My church mentor helps me by giving advice that's coming from the Bible, in short teaching me in a Biblical way. Today its different, I had an on the spot mentoring from a friend. Monday night, I'am with Savipra Gorospe talking about life. He is a Psychology student in Sad Beda College that's why he knows many things in life, but to be honest we're talking about a girl and the psychologicals facts about them. I learned from him that girls balance things especially when it comes to liking a guy. The looks of a guys doesn't really matter to a girl as long as they have the 3 major things balanced, wealth, power and personality. It turned out that my personality is the lowest among the 3. Sav told me that its never to late and that i can still work on it, i just have to work on my confidence but to win the girl i like, i have to show that i'am dominant and that i have the power or that i'am in control.

Talking about it here will take me 3 blogs to finish this topic, bottom line is a had fun talking to Sav because everything he said about, girls, attitude, personality etc. all of them are true, that's why i asked myself why didn't i took Psychology? But 1 thing is for sure, i will work on my personality and add more on my power to get what i want.

My Church Mentor

"Always remember, it's the hardest time in life that teaches us the most valuable lessons, and forces us to realize what's really important. But why wait for difficulties to come before you learn, when Jesus could just ease all in your life while making you the best you can be? Try Him! Trust Him!"

These are the words of my mentor Jessie Alvarado for me today. Jessie has been my friend and mentor for 4 years...i think? or maybe more. He always reminds me about God and that He will never give up on me. He's the kind of mentor that gives an advice with a Bible verse, and most of the time i'm having this guilt feeling because most of the time i forget his advices and the worse is sometimes i don't listen to him. Not literally i mean, sometimes i listen to him but everything he said only passed through my ears and i just nod on whatever he says, i know he knows that. I feel guilty because he always listen to my problems and prays for me and i thank him for that.  

We haven't talked for how many weeks because we were both busy. He's busy with his work and i'm busy with my school stuff. But today i talked to him but we didn't talk that much. I know he keeps on praying for me and i know he understands that i'm busy in school because im a graduating student, but i will surely talk to him again about my life because after i graduate i have lots of things to tell him.


I thank God for having a mentor like him, not just a mentor but a spiritual mentor and also a friend.



#blessed

Fail day

Today is suppose to be the Rexona Fun Run in SM Mall of Asia. Kevin, Mei and I went there 5am in the morning to document the fun run because Mei needs it for her thesis and the run was said to start at 6am. We arrived at 6:00am in Mall of Asia and all the stall stalls are still close, so we decided to wait in Krispy Kreme and drink coffee there because we were so sleepy. We chatted for 1 hour and 30 mins and we didn't notice the time it's almost 8am but the run hasn't started yet. So Mei checked the official site of the fun run and found out that the run was moved tomorrow. Great!. #not

So we woke up at 5am in the morning and went to Mall of Asia like super early in the morning for nothing. I slept at around 1:30am and woke up 3:30am just so we can document the fun run. Well actually Mei didn't sleep at all because she has to do something very important. So she's more than 24 hours awake and went straight to the event without sleeping only to find that the run was moved on the next day. Literally all of us looked like a zombie looking for our tomb earlier. But even though we were tired, since we were inside mall of asia we decided to stay there and walk around a little until we get tired. Mei treated us in Tokyo Cafe just like what she promised. After eating we dropped Mei in her house so she can sleep, then me and Kevin went to our friend (Nick's house) to work on our own thesis. But we were so sleepy and exhausted to do our thesis so without knowing Kevin and I fell asleep at our friends bed. Our friend Nick woke us up because he needs to go somewhere, so Kevin and I went to a Cafe to seriously continue our thesis, Mei was also with us in that Cafe to help us but we can't access the internet.

In the end Kevin, Mei and I have done nothing on our thesis. We tried our very best to make this day very productive but we just exhausted ourselves for nothing in the end. A very very VERY FAIL DAY! So to relieve our stress and exhaustion we decided to just enjoy the night and eat and chit-chat in that cafe.



Lesson learned: I don't know, all i know is that this day is definitely not our day.

Mr. and Ms SGEN 2012

                                                                     Credits to Farshad Behrouzi 

Mr. and Ms. SGEN is held annually in Southville International School and Colleges. SGEN is a competition of all Southville's sister schools inculding Southville itself. Competing with their sister school is Southville's way of celebrating foundation day.

Tonight, Ethelbirth "Iggy" Ignacio and Jael Mendoza were crowned Mr. and Ms. SGEN 2012. They represented SISC and also their own courses. Iggy and Jael received a lot of special awards like best in speech, photogenic and a lot more. Iggy and Jael were Mr. and Ms. SISC 1st runner up that's why they were chosen to compete for the school including the Mr. and Ms. SISC winners Julio and Karina So. Its quite funny because in Mr. and Ms. SISC, Iggy and Jael got 1st runner up and Julio and Karina won in that pageant, but tonight Iggy and Jael got the crown for Mr. and Ms. SGEN 2012, while Julio and Karina got 1st runner up. It's like they planned it or talked to each other and said "ok so it's our turn to win this time because you guys won the last time" hahaha. But, Naahhh, it's not like that of course the competition was judged fair and square so we shouldn't be thinking like that. Also both partners deserve what they got in the pageant and they did their best to get what they have right now.


Congratulations Ethelbirth "Iggy" Ignacio and Jael Mendoza for winning Mr. and Ms. SGEN 2012!