Dance with me tonight

I know that it seems that the grass will grow
Better on the other side of the barbwire fence
But that other side is not in sight
So I’m fine with what I have now
If you’ll dance with me tonight

What’s the point of life if risk is just a board game?
You roll the dice but you’re just hoping that the rules change
What’s the point if you can’t bring yourself to say
The things you want to say
Like dance with me tonight

I think it is time again to put on the DJ hat and tell you about this song from the movie Music and Lyrics.  The movie is .. blah.  It is like a one hour episode of Love to Love or Love Spell, both teenybooper shows of our local networks.  Hugh Grant is fun to watch though. Great comedic timing!  His voice?  Not bad for a __ . 

Way Back into Love is the movie’s main song and is currently enjoying a lot of airplay on local radio BUT hands down, I love the song, Dance with me tonight.  The first time I heard Hugh sing it .. ahhh.. loved it.

If you are familiar with my kind of music, you will know why I like it if you listen to it.  And the lyrics are pretty good as well.  Don’t ya think? 

Tell me ...

Waiting…. Actively? Or passively?

The simple life or the complacent life? 

Genuine contentment or comfortable certainty?

Chasing lions by the mane or caressing a cat that lies content on your lap?

Soar high like an eagle? Or charge ahead like a rhino?

Anxious anticipation? or Breathless expectation?

Giant glides towards an aimless route? Or baby steps in the right direction?

Questions … and then some.

 

 

 

Road talk

Service roads are made for a lot of reasons. 

But at some point and in order to get to somewhere, we still have to enter the freeway.

I am no driver. 

But that much I know.

Clam chowder for the highly strung_#3

Food for a drifter’s heart

 

(1)        Learn to know the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.  Revisit Fulghum (www.robertfulghum.com)

(2)        When a mountain is before you, you can either go over it or work your way around it.

(3)        Salaries and bonuses. They are almost always not enough…..until you decide to be thankful.

(4)        Listening to R&B/Soul /Jazz music while stuck in heavy traffic is like sipping a watermelon smoothie under the summer's heat.

(5)        You can only do so much to try and change the heart of a person.  A heart “transplant” is for the Divine Surgeon.

(6)        Universal remotes are cool!  Well….except when your TV is more than a decade old. 

(7)        Laundry shops – they exist and thrive for a reason.  You won’t know it if you keep thinking of reasons why your clothes should be handwashed.

(8)        Want some regular morning dose of nicotine?  Just make sure you pass by buildings that house call centers.

(9)        Speaking in front of impressionable graduating university students have to be one of the best ways to guide the minds of tomorrow’s influencers.

(10)      It can be tough being in the shoes of a single woman.  So, it is perfectly fine to buy an expensive pair once in a while, right???. ...... Right.

 

v.0307

Let that be enough

Wish I had what I needed
To be on my own
'Cause I feel so defeated
And I'm feeling alone

And it all seems so helpless
And I have no plans
I'm a plane in the sunset
With nowhere to land

And all I see
It could never make me happy

And all my sand castles
Spend their time collapsing

Let me know that You hear me
Let me know Your touch
Let me know that You love me
Let that be enough

It's my birthday tomorrow
No one here could know
I was born this Thursday
22 years ago

And I feel stuck
Watching history repeating
Yeah, who am I?
Just a kid who knows he's needy

Let me know that You hear me
Let me know Your touch
Let me know that You love me
And let that be enough

 

By Switchfoot

 

(PS:  If I didn’t know any better, I’d say I wrote the lyrics.

Such heartfelt words, accompanied by the soothing rhythm of the guitar and the relaxing harmony of the vocals.

A lot of times we deceive ourselves but the truth is, we ARE a bunch of needy kids.)

 

Behind the words

“Wala na akong kakwentuhan tungkol sa showbiz..” 

 

As I wheeled the suitcase out the door, I hear Mia say those words. 

 

I laughed.  She smiled.  A few minutes later, I was on my way to the new apartment that I will share with my sisters, still a bit confused about the mixed feelings of sadness and excitement.

 

Mia is the only stranger in the house when I moved in to the apartment in Guadalupe Nuevo exactly a year ago. I have known the other two housemates, Anna and Shawie, for quite a while. 

Mia is also the quietest in our household of four while I seem to be the one with a lot of stories to tell.  It takes a while for her to warm up to people. I found that out soon enough so I was careful not to close the distance that she may unknowingly have put up but grown accustomed to.  Yet the challenge of finding out what cracks her up was top of my mind.  I wanted to find a common ground.  And, I found it! 

 

What else could it be but the multicolored life of showbiz!  Local or Hollywood. 

 

Every weekend or on occasional weeknights, we find ourselves spending time chatting about our favorite and not-so-favorite celebrities, making sure we get the latest scoop on the Jolie-Pitt saga as well as the much talked-out-grossly-exaggerated-it-is-coming-out-of-my ears Kris-James-Hope mess.  She regularly buys the Hi! And Hello! magazines while most of the time, I just visit eonline.com  We watch the reality based artista search on our favorite Kapuso Network and exchange opinions about each wannabee.  Ahh yes!.. Female bonding at its finest.

 

The invisible gap narrows a bit.

 

“Wala na akong kakwentuhan tungkol sa showbiz..”  

Part of me wanted to give her a buss on the cheek but I chose to say my usual girlie “byeee” and give my pa-tweetums wave.  The space surrounding her remains hugely palpable. 

 

Still, it has to be the sweetest goodbye I heard in a long while.  

 

Yep, I will miss you too, girl.