friday, damn it was a blast!

such a wonderful friday. i came to school prepped up and not wearing our usual uniform. it was for the reason that i'm one of the organizers of the Mathalino Ka, Enggaling Mo sa Marisci. and it was our somewhat privelege to wear semi-formal. i have to say that it turned out well, better than expected and the best (for me) contest held in school. though i have to admit that we had some problems. i don't want to mention them for it would only spoil the feeling. and i don't blame anybody for this is our first time and we have rooms for mistakes and more rooms for improvements. but i think, what made it wonderful is the performance of the fourth year band. i thought that we would have a big problem about it because the principal was watching. from what i predicted before, he hates this kind of performance. on the other hand it turned out well. so well. the principal even danced while they were playing and asking them to play another song. (they played only two songs. actually, 3 but finney's not included) the band was composed of finney, eman, carlo and anna. guitars, drums and vocals, respectively. anna's introduction of the songs already brought the house down. and not to forget is her wonderful voice. though it sounds like kitchie's, she made good versions of Mata and Tumatakbo. (oh i remember, it was like old mojofly singing their latest hits) and after the contest, i got my card. good grades. they were satisfactory, i should say. i don't have a line of 7. my filipino improved. and i even maintained my physics but i flanked my calculus. a drop of 12 points. imagine that. but i was satisfied. i rushed to mcs with finney for the band(without anna, additional members: benedict and jeff) i mentioned early was asked to do a front act at riverboat for tropical depression. then a few meters from mcs, we saw jeff and benedict running towards us telling us right away the news. we ran to this guy, sir noel is his name, and he was the one to blame this problem-slash-opportunity. he told us to sing some songs and so on. and after the talking came a panic time. we had to rehearse for a given time of an hour. we went to the studio at 6pm and the supposed performance was at 7pm. only to find out that we can't find a slot for those damn third year students who didn't even seem to care at our situation gave us no chance to practice. carlo and benedict went to other studios for possible rehearsal, eman went home to change clothes, jeff and i were left to negotiate and finney went to get the survivor, mr. maglalang. we then decided to go to finney's house to practice for about 30mins. we changed clothes and practice. (oh i remember, i don't have any instrument to practice except for my hands to clap.) off we go to riverboat at 7:00pm, high hopes. when we arrived at our gig, we found out that there were no guitars. that sir noel told us that they'll be providing the instruments but guitars were nowhere to find. another panic time. we split our ways to find our means of getting the guitars. finney and ben got two guitars, finney's and jeff's. eman also got his guitar. jeff and i went to celson's place to borrow for some guitar. we were so desperate in finding one and we even planned to borrow from april boy regino(yes, you read it right!) luckily we weren't able to do it and unluckily we were not able to borrow a guitar. it was almost 8pm when we were assembled and somehow ready to perform. and i'm too tired to write this post. and we played. played. played. after that, we decided to have our picture taken with some of the members of tropical depression. (papa doms) and we went home.