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New Year!

It would be appropriate to write a year-ender entry right now, given that it’s a few hours before the first breath of 2011. Enumerating noteworthy events of the year soon to pass would be timely, I’m finding it a bit hard to figure out where to start though. There’s just too many events that defined the year for me. There were major detours, unexpected directions, serious path-finding, and a lot of growth along the way. Peppered with a gamut of emotions, the coaster did roll, and throughout the cycle, much learning took place.

One of the shallower (much easier to write about) tidbits  of my 2010 that’s noteworthy for me is the opportunity i had to play in a band again. It was fun enough that I got to play after a long hiatus. I missed the jamming, the vibe of the rehearsal studio, the crunch of guitars piped through big amps (really big ones), the fat bass sound and the raw noise of an unamplified drum kit. After the highschool bands I got myself into, I used to spend a lot of Saturdays in the original Sabio garage with a college band, but that was a long time ago. We rotated our roles, and it was more sheer fun than anything else (we thought we sucked).  I had two more opportunities post UST : a serious rock band with younger friends I got to know when I took my postgraduate course, and an acoustic set-up back in 2004. I did vocal chores when I was in HS, and was the axeman for the later groups. Just weeks ago I got to do it all over again, but this time I got to be the official drummer (hehehehe). Now that was fun.

Rehearsal clip! (poor lighting)

So it’s the end of that cycle. The coaster’s prepping up for the next, fresh take-off. Let’s hope the next one’s just as good, if not better. Let’s learn more and grow and knock ourselves out with as much fun we can handle. Let’s hope and pray we do the right things. Let’s hope and pray we survive.

Thank you 2010, and all the characters in it.

Happy new year to everyone 🙂