Ranting With My High School Days Experiences With Life and Music, Eh...

I was watching some videos of my favourite bands, not actually my most favourite bands, but the bands that I grew up with imitating, singing their songs, even headbanging and jamming with my guitar playing along with the songs. (6) I didn't catch your name. I remember I was still in high school then when this underground-turned-mainstream bands were ripping out the charts. Those were the days of Nirvana's anthemic Smells Like Teen Spirit, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder diving into the crowd from the concert stage and others who were really amazing. Those were also the days of great OPM (Original Philippine Music) Alternative and pop rock bands like Eraserheads' Pare Ko (My Friend), The Youth's Mukha ng Pera (Face of Money), Orient Pearl, Introvoys and a lot of others.

At that time, I learned to watch concerts, limited only within my province (Batangas) though, followed local bands touring, watched MTV channel, joined battle of the bands with my friends and listen to the radio and to my "Sony walkman" (my father bought it abroad) the whole day, pumped up the volume of our stereo playing "Basura" and didn't care about the neighbours, hehe..

But in the end, what happened, hehe?? Well, i was kicked out of the honor roll when I was in 3rd year, fell in and out of puppy love, first love, love of a lifetime, love to die for, love-love; learned guitar and drums, lose the talent in singing (???), and many others I can't recall as of the moment of writing this blog, hehe.. (13) And when at last I find you. It's kinda ride-in-a-caterpillar with lots of different turns and ups and downs, and with many things in life learned, many experiences and memories put into my brain's unmanageable always-free memory cells. Well, let me take you down because I'm going to Strawberry Fields with everything's real.Lot of things to get hang about, my Strawberry Fields is forever. Memories are sweet and sour, some are sweeter but most are sour, make faces but smiling and laughing are easier, hate the world and the world will hate you and you'll be the loser. And what am I doing now? 'Still loving music, looking forward to the future with a big smile and confidence and loving my wife and family and the people around me.