Movie time

I recently watched the movie--Ricki and the flash on HBO. Ricki: a one-time wife and mother of three who left her family behind to follow her dreams of rock 'n' roll stardom in California. Now, the singer and guitarist must face the music when she returns home to Indiana to reconnect with ex-husband and troubled daughter. I must say Meryl Streep did a great job on the film. I like her vocal style and stage presence. I also dig the gibson sg custom guitar of the lead guitarist. Vintage. In the movie, he had all the courage to sell his precious gibson for Ricki. Ouch. But that's love right. Anyway, I love the ending when they perform during her son's wedding. She's a musician. That's all she can give--music.

Happy Birthday!

Happy 100th Birthday Lola +Lumen. We miss you.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Abuelita +Mamang. You are forever in our hearts.

Early Christmas gift

I'm thinking what Christmas gift I would get for the hubby. He is currently working overseas so I would now get caught even if I buy the gift as early as now. I have a couple of items in mind--sports watch, DM boots and the m-audio bx5 d2.Okay let's break down my list... Sports watch. This is a good item that I know he can use because he likes to go biking. The watch I saw is good more monitoring the heart, running, biking, swimming etc. Now I'm thinking if I'll get same watch too. Second is the DM boots. He still gets crazy about getting one. It's his lifelong dream. But I fear that I might buy the wrong size. I was told that the size might defer considering where it was made. And the third is the m-audio bx5 d2. I know for a fact that he likes sound trippin' especially in the computer. So I know he'll love it too. I know I only have a couple of months to decide but I'm sure he'll love whatever I get him.

Happy Birthday!

Happy 65th Birthday Papsie!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday sister JX!

We had a great time during you're vacation here. Hope to see you and the hubby soon. Take care sis.

Dream

I had this dream that I was going to this band practice with my former band mates. In my dream, I was doing that familiar routine--preparing my gear, checking what to wear, thinking on what to talk about like the Code 412 cabinet amp that I was checking online, suggesting what to eat afterwards....all that good stuff. I woke up having that familiar excitement and adrenaline that I miss this past year. Yup! It's been more than a year since I held a guitar and played an instrument and miss it. Literally, I miss playing. I know I wanna to go back at least to that hobby because I wanna team up with my eldest daughter whose slowly molding into a potential singer someday. I don't when exactly when but definitely not in a few months. But I will. We will. So stay tuned.

FastFaQs

A piano covers the full spectrum of all orchestra instruments, from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo.

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A grand piano can be played faster than an upright (spinet) piano.

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Jeanne Louise Calment’s CD was released on her 121st birthday in 1996. Titled “Time’s Mistress” it features Ms Calment reminiscing to a score of rap music and other tunes.

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The Beatles song “Martha My Dear” was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.

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The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.

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The British, the highest per capita spenders on music, buy 7,2% of the world music market.

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At the first Grammy Awards, held on 4 May 1959, Domenico Modugno beat out Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee for the Record of the Year, with “Volare.”

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The longest song to reach number one on the Billboard charts on LP was “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meatloaf, the shortest: “Stay” by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs.

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The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.

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The Ocarina, a musical wind instrument, is also known as the Sweet Potato.

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Klezmer music is derived from two Hebrew words, clay and zimmer, meaning “vessel of music.”

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The Beatles holds the top spot of album sales in the US (106 million), followed by Garth Brooks second (92 million), Led Zeppelin (83 million), Elvis Presley (77 million), and the Eagles (65 million). Worldwide The Beatles sold more than 1 billion records.

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Annie Lennox holds the record for the most Brit awards (8).

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Ireland has won the most Eurovision song contests (7 times).

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In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world record by disco dancing for 408 hours.

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The world’s largest disco was held at the Buffalo Convention Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Kenneth Edmonds was nicknamed Babyface by funk bassist and singer Bootsy Collins.

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Before they were known as Journey, Steve Perry called his band Golden Gate Rhythm Section.

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Bob Dylan’s first professional performance was as opening act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde’s Folk City in New York, 1961.

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Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella.

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Elvis was an avid gun collector. His collection of 40 weapons included M-16s and a Thompson submachine gun.

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Elvis favorite collectibles were official badges. He collected police badges in almost every city he performed in.

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It was at a concert in Minneapolis in 1954 that Al Dvorin first closed Elvis’s concerts with: “Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night.”

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The harmonica is the world’s best-selling music instrument.

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Tap dancing originates from Irish clog dancing and what is called the Irish reel and jig.

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The British anthem was performed the most times in a single performance. In 1909, while waiting for King Edward VII who was getting dressed a German band played the anthem 17 times.

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Prodigy

Me and the little kiddo is hooked with watching youtube videos lately. We've been watching videos from cute and funny babies to animals and some amazing stuff. You'd be surprise what people to do to get on their free time and even have the time to record and upload it online. Anyway, it's been pretty entertaining I must say. What amazes me even more is that there are a lot, I'd say A LOT of talented musicians out there, and there are pretty young too! Makes you wanna think that your kid could be the next child prodigy right?. Oh well if that happened to us, we would be like so thrilled. And as a parent, I would definitely support her/him by providing music instrument--from tuning hammer to piano/guitar/violin and exposure to extensive lessons. As a musician myself, it'll be pretty exciting. For now, we'll be watching youtube videos the little kiddo and hopefully baby lj would be a musician like her mom and ate.

Happy Halloween!

We had our yearly Halloween party here in the Village this afternoon. And this year, we are MALEFICENT. We bought this costume last year at Walmart, from our US trip and good thing it still fits!

The kiddo won the MOST ORIGINAL costume.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN GUYS!

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The Star-Spangled Banner became the US national anthem in 1931. Prior to that, it was My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” which had the same melody as Britian’s national anthem God Save the Queen, which is based on music written by John Bull in 1619. Bull’s melody has been used more than any song in national anthems.

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About one-third of recorded CDs ever sold were pirated.

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The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold were about equal.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy happy 7th Birthday to the beautiful Georgina! 

Babies are growing up too fast....!

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Top-selling albums used to reach sales of 20 million copies before the advent of online piracy – by 2009 it had dropped to about 5 million.

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Happy Birthday!

Baby GIRL

I know I am excited on every OB check-up but this kid is much more excited than I am. She wanted to be present on all of check-ups coz she wanted to see how our bunso is doing. I was praying for a baby boy, but God gave us another GIRL. So it's a BABY GIRL!

~ Ate and bunso ~

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The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but loose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.

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40 billion songs are downloaded illegally every year, that’s some 90% of all music downloads.

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The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the greatest DAD ever!

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Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

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Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).

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To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.

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Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.

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Music

I lot has changed in the music industry. I miss the golden days of the 90s wherein alternative and rock bands reign MTV and the radio. I remembered leaving the television on on MTV channel and watch for hours. During summer vacation I would play in the guitar every song on the songs hits. I would also save my allowance to buy that much awaited cassette tape I was eying for several weeks. Years had passed, some artists moved-on with family their family, some stayed in the music industry and others started a new career as procedures etc. I know a lot of musicians wanted to produce their own music. That's why I became curious on how they do it. I know for a  fact that music engineers use the uad satellite because of its many inputs and superb output. But when I dug deeper and made researched more on the subject, I came to realize that it is not my thing haha. It's pretty much complicated for me, so I'll probably stick with playing and making music. I guess, I'm one of those artist who wanted to stay in the music industry performing. Peace out.

Big sister

My 2 sisters accompanied by their husbands is here on vacation. They'd been working in Dubai for years and this month is their vacation time. And that gave us the opportunity for a family picture. So after the big family picture, kiddo and I have to have our own shot. And walla! Big smiles for the Big sister!

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On average, US online view 100 videos per month each.

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People view 15 billion videos online every month.

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24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

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About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.

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The HTC Dream was the world’s first Android phone.

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My weekend with the babies

We went to the mall earlier an took a selfie before we drove off. I super love this photo! Unfortunately, I was not able to take a photo of myself last month, which broke the monthly-pregnant-selfie we were trying to accomplish. Oh well.

And yes, I cut my hair short.

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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

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TGIF

Had the morning walk and work-out at the park and ate a calorie-full breakfast. Stayed home to do some online chores. And I'm ending my day still in front of the laptop. But I finished a bunch today so it's a TGIF indeed!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

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160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

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The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

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Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

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First day high!

It's the first day of school for the little angel today. And come to think of it, she's not little anymore *sob* ... She's already on 4th grade and entering a higher level gives me the jitters that she may drift away from me. I hope not. I pray everyday for her to be safe and she may grow up smart, talented, kind and obedient. Sending hugs and kisses everyday to my little angel.....

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Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

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9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.

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Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday sister M! The surprise birthday bash was a success. Thanks to our parents and other sisters who made it possible. And thank you friends for coming. See you soon!

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Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

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Why hello there....

This is our first ultrasound and baby LJ is 3 weeks and 3 days old. Another surprise is the estimated date of delivery is same birth date as the kiddo's lol. I know it's just estimated but it was a surprise to see her birth date here. Anyway, seeing the the results makes me more and more excited!

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The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.

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Happy!

I know I don't look pregnant (yet) but me the kiddo is trying to start a monthly selfie, so we'll have a shots to compile and look back next year. I just hope I won't forget to take a photo. For now, we are HAPPY! 

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Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.

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One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.

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POSITIVE!

YES! We are pregnant. It's been awhile since I've use one of this and it's pretty exciting. I've been thinking and wishing with all my heart that now is the right time to have another child and my (out) wish was granted. We are expecting our second child (after 9 years) next year. Thank you God.

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Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).

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About 3 billion people connect to the Internet, 850 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages.

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Facebook has more than 1.3 billion registered users; about 100 million of those are fake profiles.

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SURPRISE!

SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

Hubby came home yesterday (from Qatar) without me knowing it! Actually he's a week early tsk tsk. He wanted to surprise us (little angel) and he really did a good job about it. So he talked to her sister, my parents and my sisters about it and they formed a plan to divert our attention yesterday. Aaaaahhh! Can't believe everybody knows except me! LOL Yesterday was really THE day because of the stress in the morning and happy surprise moment in the evening. Now we are re-united... It's time to lakwatsa! =)

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Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.

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Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

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The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mom! You are the best mom in the world. God bless and stay healthy. More zumba in the morning! =)

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There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

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There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.


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There are more than 1 billion computers in use.

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A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.

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Abroad

The hubby finally passed all the requirements for his new job offer abroad and now we're waiting. We haven'y prepared any of his stuff yet and we'll probably do that once we get all the details and confirmation flight. I also plan to do a major clean-up of our room when he leaves. I haven't decided though on what to do with this sofa bed. The kiddo said, it's not that comfortable so I'm still thinking if we're gonna replace it with Foam Factory cushions or not. Kiddo's toy will have to go somewhere and a new cabinet for her clothes is also a must. But for now, we're enjoying our time together as a family and hopefully me and kiddo can visit hubby abroad. 

Congratulations!

Another important chapter of our life is getting married to our better half. We were lucky and blessed to witness another wedding in the Belleza clan. Congratulations pinsan Ramil and his wife Arreth. God bless!

~ Lovely smile of the Bride ~

Good question

Funny sometimes I wonder how FB took all our time. We cannot resist not checking the news feed. It's like it's part of our lives. Sometimes I wanted to resist the temptation and do something useful online, like read "real" news, research and blog hop (which I haven't done for quite some time). I wanted to expand my knowledge like check new gears, like traktor kontrol s4, or get more ideas on my next cupcake project. The real question here is.... Is the world ready to let go of the social network? That's a good question!

Sunday celebration

This is her Sunday birthday celebration with cousins and friends from school. It was one hectic day for me... as in! But it was all worth it.

~ Happy 8th Birthday! ~

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday little girl... Mommy loves you forever!

Random updates...

My dad's been very busy lately because he's trying to renovate his other house in Caloocan. A new tenant will occupy the house sometime in March. Renovation is in full swing that's why he's been going back and forth. I wish I can help but my schedule is already full especially now I'm back in the graveyard shift. I'm trying also get my baking time on track. It's hard to get clients after Christmas because it seems like everybody's paying their credit card debts hahaha. Maybe I can get more order this February. I looked for other online just to be prepared. Anyway, I'm enjoying my weekend off and how I wish I have the weekend off... forever!

Sunday Lakwatsa!

Sunday lakwatsa at Tagaytay! Simba, road trip down taal lake, Mushroom burger, Skyranch, Zipline, Horse ride, Savory, Starbucks, Picnic Groove, Gourmet's.... 

What's it gonna be?

Sometimes I can't help myself but to browse for other new gear online. I wanted to be updated on the latest gear from my favorite brand. Been thinking if I should get a warwick 5S or prioritize with a fx. It's hard to be torn between two awesome gear you know! Then there's this new gibraltar drumset. I can't help it... I'm also a drummer hahaha. So what's it gonna be? Probably the fx because it's cheaper hahaha. Let's it.

Eight years.... 8

We celebrated our Wedding 8th year Anniversary at Magnolia Ice Cream house. Lasagna, salad and ice cream!

~ 8 years na kami.... ~

Last day....

Last day.....

Happy New Year to all!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Surprise!

Surprise birthday bash for Polbax last night. It was one hell of a night! Centido... re-united! 

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~ Yeah, Beejay, Lizz, Pobax, Rani and Randel ~