Tomorrow marks the 17th year
since I left the Philippines.
And as I think about all those years,
I started having an avalanche of memories
from when I used to live there.
Allow me to write them down
in no particular order,
as they flow through my own personal memory lane.
It’s quite a long read, so maybe you should think twice about it.
After church, my son and I walked by a fountain on their grounds,
and he wanted to throw a coin in and make a wish.
So we got some coins in the car,
and had this conversation.
He said, “Okay Dad, we got two coins. One for me and one for you.”
“You can have my coin.” I answered.
He said.
“Why? Don’t you want to make a wish?”
Jokingly, I said. “It’s okay. You can have my wish.
Mine doesn’t always come true. Maybe it’ll come true with you.”
He insisted I throw my own coin and make my own wish.
I gave in.
So, we got to the fountain and he went first.
Closed his eyes.
Concentrated.
And threw the coin.
Then looks at me for my turn.
As I throw my coin, I said to him.
“I wish for your wish to come true.”
He screamed, “NO!”
“Why did you wish that, Dad?”
“Why not?” I asked.
He answered,
“Because that was my wish for you.”
That’s great.
Now we just cancelled each others wish out.
And we’re out of coins.
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Sweet kid though, huh?
I forget some of the songs I have covered sometimes,
and I only get reminded of it when my iPod hits them on shuffle mode.
Also, I am in the process of changing some of my gears and recording gadgets.
So, I’ll probably start making more as soon as that gets settled.
Anyway.
Here’s a Flashback of a song I covered a long time ago.
In 2007, as a matter of fact.
And I was reading my original post, and I saw that it was still when my dad used to
listen to my stuff and read my site, before he passed away.
This one is called
“Every Time I Look At You”
by KISS
Voice and Guitars by Ty Martell
A Classic KISS song.
I put a 12 string effect on my guitar
and improvised a Skid Row-esque lead on the solo.
Lyrics start here
You have no idea how excited I am
to finally finish this song project.
I would like to introduce to you, Chanel.
She is the lovely daughter of my good friend, Anne.
I asked, Anne a long time ago that I would like to cover a song, and have a young girl sing it.
She recommended Chanel, who is kind enough to agree with my little plan.
I am very proud of this collaboration and
this is definitely one of my favourites as well.
It’s an old song from the Philippines, popularized by Ms. Lea Salonga.
Here is
I Am But A Small Voice
Voice provided by – Chanel Alcaraz.
All instruments and backing voice by – Ty Martell.
Thank you so much to Chanel, Anne and their families for being nice and supportive of me.
I truly appreciate it.
Check out Chanel’s Youtube page.
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Lyrics Start Here —
(more…)
I have mentioned here before the catering business of my best friend Darwin and his lovely wife, Belle.
Give them a try if you are in Manila, and in need of food services.
Follow them on Twitter too
@Kubyertosfood
And like their page on Facebook
Catering by Kubyertos
Check them out.
You’ll be glad you did.
//and that's why I'm not replying to a tweet. #notworthit #
Well, apparently the Feedback section hasn’t been working properly
so I had to change a couple of stuff and am trying a new plugin.
I seem to like this one with a little anti spamming feature.
Not that I get a lot of feedbacks from that page.
I do once in a while, that’s why I never found out that something was wrong with it.
So, let’s give this one a try.
I wasn’t really planning on this one.
The one song I wanted to play didn’t really want to cooperate with me.
I played this one because it was on the next page of my songbook.
I know I promised not to do anymore videos for a while.
But what can I say?
Making these videos are not as time consuming.
Hopefully when I use Garageband for my song editing
it’ll be more easy and quick.
But I guess I have to get the iPad first huh?
Oh well.
This’ll do for now.
Here’s
I’ll Always Love You.
Music by Michael Johnson
Covered by – Yours Truly.