True Colors and Ooh Child

Music for the soul. Someday, things are gonna get easier. Just don't be afraid to show your true colors and be comfortable of who you are. Nevermind the whisperers behind you, just hold your head high and don't let others make you feel so small.

Music with "a promise to a better life to all..."

Shelter From the Storm

24 May 2010. Happy Birthday to Bob Dylan. The legendary man has been in this world for 69 years, still doing what he's known best: making and composing music with his guitar (and other instruments, of course).

Here's an example of Mr. Dylan's genius:



From the Rolling Thunder Revue, at Fort Collins, Colorado, 23 May 1976, Bob Dylan performs Shelter from the Storm, from his album Blood on the Tracks. Just a day before his 35th birthday. The other guitarist, in the blue jacket, is T-Bone Burnett. This one is the electric live version on his live album Hard Rain compared to the acoustic version found on Blood on the Tracks.

A Shot To the Stars

From the artist named Whitley. A great song from a great artist. Too bad he's ending Whitley, currently playing he's last tour in Australia saying goodbye to fans because he is "moving overseas". I just can't get over these songs: the aforementioned, More Than Life, and I Remember. I thought I'd share this video because the song is what currently playing on my mind over and over again and also for whoever's watching to appreciate the beauty of the song and explore Whitley's other songs and projects.

Here is Whitley's myspace music page.

Don't forget to check it out!

The Mellow Show

Funny skit on SNL featuring Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz and the "not-so-mellow" Ozzy Osbourne (It's not really them, well except for Dave--JUST WATCH IT) LOL. This was shown in November 2009. Just thought I'd post it here. Cracks me up everytime I watch it. Instant classic!

Personal Quote of the Day

I'd rather be the ears than the lips.


"The best days are the worst days really are.." -from Fringe

Memories, my memories; how long can you stay to haunt my days...

So I decided to do another organizing-my-boxes. I decided to throw all the stuffs that reminded me of that awful experience about 4yrs ago. In the middle of doing that, and at the same time all the bad memories came flashing through my head I saw this. It's something I wrote, its about trust. I think I wrote it on my freshman English class. I think it's pretty good. I'm gonna type it right here, and show to whoever's reading this blog. And maybe, just maybe someone may like it. I thought it's pretty good, well after I typed it I'm gonna throw the paper out. LOL There's a note on top of it by my teacher saying "Great" and "20/20". Haha. The false hopes *sigh*. Here it goes:

Trust

Trust is a very deep word. My friends and I had each definition to trust. Trust are often found in friendships, in business, in schools and in the family.

For me, trust is the main ingredient of a strong friendship. To be able to maintain a relationship with friends you need to trust one another. Friends that trust each other are the ones who understands the true meaning of their bonding frienships.

For my friends, they define trust as an obligation. When they had given you, for example, a secret, they trust you to keep it and never tell anyone about it ever again unless that friend gave you the permission to do so.

In businesses and in school, trust is when they had given you something to work on and they trust you to do it right on schedule and they had trust that you put some effort to it. Because after all it is your duty and they want to see you at your best.

In the family, trust is one of the top reason for the family to have a close relationship to one another. There's a trust that only exists in the family but not to anything else. It is more of a dysfunctional way as it always does in any family. It involves the fact that in order for a family to trust one another they should understand one another. Secrets shouldn't be kept to one another, unless the secret is known by the whole but no one else outside of the family. But truth be told, sometimes trust in families are lacking especially of one that parents should trust their kids. Why? Because sometimes the kids take the parent's trusts for granted so mistrust results. Trusts though is very important for the family to be even called a family.

Even if there are lots of definitions given to the word trust, one thing we should all remember: trust is needed in order for us to live, in our everyday life. And one fact remains: we should learn to trust ourselves first, before trusting anybody to give our trust.

What if you're stuck and you don't know what else to do?

Funny, cuz that's the exact situation I'm in right now. Nursing or music? Should I choose? When I was young I've always said to myself that when I grow up I want to be a nurse just like my mom. Then came the time where I finished high school, and its really time to face that "grow up" moment. I've been having second thoughts about going to the nursing field. My interest moved from that excited, little child who wanted to be a nurse to that freshly out of high school who wanted to do something in the music field, but which ones I don't know.

I'm embarassed to admit that I want to do something about music to my parents. Don't ask me why, I just don't know. So that time to decide came, I don't know which direction I should go but two years later, which is now, I'm in my second year of college pursuing nursing. I don't know what happened but I managed. I'm still having doubts but somehow my experience when I had my first clinical experience changed something about my confused, lost mind. I felt good, I felt satisfied that I helped someone. Before when asked, "why are you doing nursing if it's not really what you want?" My answer would always be, "I do it because of the money." Well, I take that back now. I'm not doing this because of the money anymore. I realized that it's not really about the money. It's about helping. It's about doing things together with the patient you're taking care of that normally the patient alone could not do. Even the small tasks we always take for granted like eating, bathing, walking, etc.

I'm still not sure what I'm doing here. My mind is still not on the full scale of going the nursing way. I'm still interested in music. I'm still thinking about doing a music career. I mean at night, I would say I could teach music once I got my degree. I don't have to be a musician, just doing something with music is fine with me. And just as long as I can play my piano and listen to my favorite artists and bands I'm fine.

But why choose when I can do both? It's not easy but it's doable. At the end of the day, after a long, boring class I still have my music. I still have my iPod, my guitars and my piano. All I need to do is manage my time. It came to me, that incorporating music to nursing could also be a great idea. You know, music and nursing; nursing and music together. How? That's what I'm still trying to figure out.

I still wake up confused and lost sometimes. Without a purpose. But hey, I'm just trying to go with the flow. Whatever's planned for me it's going to happen. If not, then move on. I'm just hoping that whatever's in store for me in the future, I'll be ready. And I hope, I will never ever have to choose again and the confusion will stop.

peace, to any readers...