060109: 100 songs that will save your life

Just got back from Sarangani Bay Festival and I'll not be spewing my experiences here (that will be for another blog entry). I was suppose to post this "100 songs that will save your life" meme I got from Ade last thursday but got stuck when I reached ninety-two. 


So here are the 100 songs that I want my future children to listen during their tender years. I want them to get an idea of how great the music was back then (especially the songs of the 90's). Here goes.


1. Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft

2. Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

3. Silverchair - Ana's song

4. Incubus - Anti-Gravity Love song

5. Imago - Bihag

6. Sugarfree - Mariposa

7. Jimmy Eat World - If you don't, then don't

8. Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness

9. Jimmy Eat World - Work

10. Incubus - The Warmth

11. Cire - Choreography

12. Toe - Goodbye

13. Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home

14. Jeff Buckley - Everybody here wants you

15. A Perfect Circle - Hollow

16. A Perfect Circle - Annihilation

17. A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras

18. Tool - The Pot

19. Tool - Vicarious

20. Tool - Jambi

21. Anthony Green - Dear Child (I've been trying to reach you)

22. Saosin - Seven Years

23. Glassjaw - Motel of the White Locust

24. Coheed and Cambria - Ten Speed

25. Coldplay - Clocks

26. Dave Matthews Band - #41

27. Dave Matthews Band - Crash into Me

28. Incubus - 11am

29. Alanis Morissette - Your House

30. Rico J. Puno - Sorry, Puede Ba

31. Bjork feat. PJ Harvey - Satisfaction (Eve)

32. Eraserheads - Minsan

33. Sugarfree - Telepono

34. Imago - Akap

35. Wolfgang - Cast of Clowns

36. The Dawn - Salamat

37. Silverchair - Miss you Love

38. Silverchair - The Greatest View

39. Silverchair - Israel's Son

40. Alanis Morissette - Ironic

41. Minus the Bear - Pachuca Sunrise 

42. Rico J. Puno - Selos

43. Jimmy Hendrix - Smoke on the Water

44. Fuel - Shimmer

45. Live - Selling the Drama

44. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

45. Foo Fighters - Everlong

46. Foo Fighters - My Hero

47. Foo Fighters - Best of Me

49. Oasis - Wonderwall

45. Third Eye Blind - Jumper

46. Third Eye Blind - Deep Inside of You

47. Alanis Morissette - King of Pain (The Police)

48. The Police - King of Pain

49. The Police- Message in a bottle

50. Imago - Taning

51. Jimmy Eat World - My Sundown

52. Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight

53. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

54. Pearl Jam - Daughter

55. Massive Attack - Teardrop

56. Daft Punk - Around the World

57. Daft Punk - One More Time

58. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

59. Daft Punk - Robot Rock

60. Imogen Heap - Just for Now

61. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

62. Weird Al Yankovic - You Don't Love Me Anymore

63. Killswitch Engage - Element of One

64. Radiohead - High and Dry

65. Radiohead - House of Cards

66. Thom Yorke - The Eraser

67. Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's

68. Coldplay - The Scientist

67. Kapatid - Doon

68. Alanis Morissette - Uninvited

69. Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade

70. Mum - We have a Map of a Piano

71. Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year old Girl

72. Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time

73. Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy

74. Jeff Buckley - The Sky is a Landfill

75. Circa Survives - The Golden Baby

76. Circa Survives - Act Appalled

78. Foo Fighters - Walking After You

79. Imago - Idlip

78. Sugarfree - Los Banos

79. Weezer - Island in the Sun

80. Tenacious D - Fuck her Gently

81. Tenacious - Wonder Boy

82. Eraserheads - Torpedo

83. Eraserheads - With a smile

84. Eraserheads - Alcohol

85. Francis Magalona - Kaleidoscope World

86. VST & Co - Ipagpatawad Mo

87. The Dawn - Tulad ng Dati

88. VST & Co - Sumayaw, Sumunod

89. Imago - Under Repair

90. Cambio - Patlang

91. Filter - Take A Picture

92. Ben Folds Five - Brick

93. Juan Dela Cruz Band - Himig Natin

94. Eraserheads - Fill Her

95. Eraserheads - Para sa Masa

96. Blink 182 - All the Small Things

97. Bush - Machinehead

98. Gin Blossoms - Till I hear it from you

99. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

100. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris


I tag everyone who read this (especially Sir Jun, Ate Sienna, Ate Jae, Eponhym)

Posted at at 10:09 PM on 5/28/09 by Posted by rainisrian | 10 comments   | Filed under:

051309: Roomythology

I was about to leave the house when mom told me to move my things from lola's room to her room (my room, actually). She said lola is not comfortable with sanitary conditions of her room and order the maid to clean the room immediately. For me, this means immediate evacuation of the area along with my things or suffer the agony of searching for personal things lost in the process of 'sanitizing'. You see, everytime lola steps inside the room, she takes a good look of the room as if scanning the wide horizon of an ocean and says,


"yan.. balhin na lagi balik sa imong kwarto kay palimpyuhun na nako ni diri" with a matching wrinkled forehead.

I have my own room just beside lola's room. My room was a little bit cramped with ancient relics (cassette tapes, wedding souvenirrs, photographs) big and small, dating back to the early 90's that belonged to my uncles and aunts back when their hormones were still funky. I moved in to my lola's room after she had her heart operation two years ago. Her doctor advised her to avoid any strenuous activities (such as climbing up and down the stairs). And so, the family appropriated her a bed in the living room. Mom transferred to my room and I moved in to lola's room. The air circulation in lola's room is better than my room because the windows are facing the river while the windows in my room are facing at the opposite direction of the wind. And even if at times the wind favors to my room, it carries with the hot vapor that is reeking out of the aluminum roof. It's a lose-lose either way. I often sweat profusely when the sun is up. I'm starting to think my family planned to put up a sauna room on the second floor, specifically in the room where I used to occupy. It seems to be such an ideal place indeed.


Lola's migration from her room and into the living room made it more convenient for her to walk around the house. Aside from the perk of the close proximity of the comfort room, she could now watch her favorite telenovela while lying down on her bed. And if lola starts to hint some 'gayishness' in Piolo Pascual's acting, she could just turn her back on the television.

As of the moment, lola's room is a little bit unorganized. There's only a 'slight' difference of its organization when she used to occupy the room. The only things that are 'organized' are the large antique dresser, the cabinets, windows, and bed because they are the only objects in the room that are hard to 'disorganize' due to their complexity to kinetic motion. They are heavy to move.

I am not sloven with my things it's just that many people use the room. My uncle's shirts are stuffed inside the cabinets, my siblings and mom use the mirror to deliberately inspect their attire as if the room was a public CR. So, basically, people come and go inside the room. This means chaos in the natural order of things (inside my room).

I try to clean lola's room once in a while if I have the time and if there aren't any deadlines to catch up at work. I clean with great consideration with the smallest of things like which goes where, what to put here, what to display and store in the cabinets. I clean with great precision and accuracy; paying close attention to the minisculest microscopic pathogenic microbes known to the Great Encyclopedia. Of course, with the help of some few drops of Domex in a bucket full of 'maligamgam na tubig'.

It's already 10:30 and I better start moving my things if I want to leave the house. Mom won't let me so until I move my things back to my room. ciao

Posted at at 10:07 AM on 5/13/09 by Posted by rainisrian | 5 comments   | Filed under:

050509: another quickie

It's been almost a month since I last posted an entry. Lots of things have happened in my not-so-interesting life that I had'nt got the chance to blog about it (or never had the energy to do it). I tried writing a new blog entry this afternoon but I just couldn't let some things pass by without writing about it. So, here goes.


April 1: My family prepared a small dinner and invited some friends and relatives over to celebrate my graduation. I didn't expect that some people that I haven't seen for a long time would come at the party. My cousins from my father's side were there too. I have known them since I was a kid and they would often ask me out for a trip to their farm in Capalong. There were also some people in the party that I literally do not recognize. Maybe they were friends of some friends that are friends of my friends or friends of my relatives. Whatever. They were there and I do not know them.

April 23: William Shakespeare's birthday. It was also the birthday of a former co-worker in the office, and Melissa Penaflor, and Angel Locsin (who I recently knew we had the same birthday)

May 03: Again, our family rented an LCD projector and invited some friends and relatives to watch the Pacquiao-Hatton fight together. Mayweather Sr. took a big shot on his ego. He couldn't take the loss and the shame that stormed him after Manny beat the pulp out of Mayweather's pet.

I did not wish for this to happen this way but I just couldn't think of anything sensible to write these days.

Tagged! (Un)Important things
(because I enjoy reading Rica's posts)

The rules are as easy as A-B-C:

A. Name & Link back to the person who tagged you

B. List six (un)important things that make you happy

C. Tag six bloggers & let them know they're it by leaving them a comment.


A. Done (under title)

B. The 6 (un)important things that make me happy

1. Kulitan with candy gurl
2. Siomai
3. Waking up early
4. Finding really good websites that I do not wish to share to anyone (ha!)
5. Watching other people's artworks
6. Sleeping on a rainy day


C. I Tag:

1. Candy
2. Ate Jae
3. Sir Jun
4. Melissa Penaflor
5. Julie Fortuna
6. Epohnym

Posted at at 10:26 PM on 5/5/09 by Posted by rainisrian | 5 comments   | Filed under:

040909: Disastergraph


This is our class picture and it sucks. The photograph looks like it came out from a cheap refurbished photo printer like the World War II Hueys we got from the Vietnam War. You may not notice it in this small photograph but the large scale 'illuminates' the tragedy that has befell my classmates' faces.

There was nothing I can comment on the photo composition because it is good but the quality of the printing sucks big time. One of my classmates said, "our faces look like it came out from the oven on a 360 degree celsius heat". 

I wondered why our school didn't get Mr. Chiaw to do our graduation pictures. He's a good photographer and a good person too. But I guess our school went cheap and settled for a photographer who didn't care enough to make my fellow graduates look good (at least) in the photographs. 

This is a 'once in a lifetime' moment fellas. The large sum of money our parents shell out every semester should be more than enough to buy us a decent photograph. Why settle for something of poor quality when we could have the best one? Hmmm. I'm starting to think if I misread the advertisment in the newspaper about our school's exce.. excelle.. damn it. It's on the tip of my tongue.

By now, you may start to wonder my absence in the photograph. Pardon me if I veer off the topic but I find it necessary to explain it so as to avoid comments like 'Ba't wala ka sa litrato?'. Whilst my classmates were preparing for the class pictorial, I was going to and fro the school registrar and office of student affairs, submitting a grade for a particular subject that I happen to excel in.

Posted at at 10:17 AM on 4/9/09 by Posted by rainisrian | 20 comments   | Filed under:
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