New Year's eve. I cannot believe it. Everything happened so fast and just when I had the slightest motivation to write in this blog again, 2010 is already coming to an end...TODAY. It's like I've been heavily sedated and suddenly been awakened in the last days of the year, still disoriented by the motions. It's not that I've been living a drone-like robotic existence, it's just that there's a huge gap of inactivity (aka, just working my arse off) in between the awesome stuff that I did this year. It's like one extreme or the other.Still though, I think I've had a good time in 2010 than I had in 2009 so let's see what I accomplished in 2010:
1. I did some guest vocals/spoken word part for my friends' metal band called Meaning, in their latest album called "Brand New World" which was just released last November 17th under Pizza of Death Records. It came out pretty good, as expected, and the album artwork was hella rad too.
2. I got the full-time teaching gig in kindergartens, which I highly prefer over elementary and junior high schools. Remuneration is quite decent too, which helped ease out some financial constraints I've been having for the first half of the year. And of course I get to hang out with little kids who are less annoying and easier to manage than the older kids I used to deal with. They're way cuter and some of them randomly give me letters telling me how much they love me and every adorable thing possible, making me love this job even more.
3. I went to the Philippines for a visit and recorded our new material, supposedly for our full-length album, but decided to release the songs in two splits instead. One in a 4-way split, an idea which sprung up in a screamo message board (CMHWAK), with Viceversa (Denmark), Lizards Have Personalities (USA), and Orion Pax (USA). Another split is with this other Philippine band called Juna, whose members are heavily influenced by Botch, Converge, and a truckload of mathcore. Both splits would be released in early 2011 though but heck I still finished tracking my vocals in August 2010, so this counts as an accomplishment this year, at least on my part.
4. We released Caitlyn Bailey's Anthology CD and did a release show for it. It wasn't the best set we've played (our bassist quit and Francis had to play in his stead), but it was all good still because after almost a year of being away from my band, I get to scream with Francis again and just go apeshit all over the place with my dudes. We hung out like there's no tomorrow 'cause I only had three weeks to do everything I had to do for the band before I go back to Japan and be a sweet quirky kindergarten teacher again.
5. I finally bought myself an iPod (iTouch) this month, which I intended to do earlier since it's long been overdue of a goal but couldn't 'cause I wasn't making enough with my part-time teaching position in the first six months of the year. But here it is now and it's been very useful and it's really cool that it has a wifi feature too. I do not intend to get an iPhone simply because I do not really need it. I just need music everywhere I go and the iTouch fits the bill for that.
I guess that's pretty much it. I know there's not a lot but I did enjoy this year all in all. And as misanthropic as I've been feeling within the last quarter of the year, I think it's only fair for me to admit that entertaining new people in my life isn't that much of a bad idea after all. I just needed to carefully choose those whom I deemed deserving to let in into my life. It's all good though. 2010, you're okay. Good bye.
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