A Jazz Chord on a Monday Morning

For Stevie Wonder fans.. got this funny forward from Jen thru email. After a restful Sunday night's sleep, this perked me up even more on an already unusually upbeat Monday morning.. No weekend hangover, no dragging-myself-to-work feeling.. maybe it's because I was just well-rested. :D Thanks, Jen!

Stevie Wonder is playing his first gig in Tokyo and the place is absolutely packed to the rafters. In a bid to break the ice with his new audience, He asks if anyone would like him to play a request.
A small old Japanese man jumps out of his seat in the first row and shouts at the top of his voice "Play a Jazz chord! Play a jazz chord!"
Amazed that this guy knows about the jazz influences in Stevie's varied career, the blind impresario starts to play an E minor scale and then goes into a difficult jazz melody for about 10 minutes.
When he finishes the whole place goes wild. The little old man jumps up again and shouts "No, no, play a Jazz chord, play a Jazz chord."
A bit irritated by this, Stevie, being the professional that he is, dives straight into a jazz improvisation with his band around the B flat minor chord and really tears the place apart.
The crowd goes wild with this impromptu show of his technical expertise.The little old man jumps up again. "No, no. Play a Jazz chord, play a jazz chord!"
Well now truly irritated that this little guy doesn't seem to appreciate his playing ability. Stevie says to him from the stage "OK, mister, you get up here and do it!"
The little old man climbs up onto the stage, takes hold of the mike and starts to sing... "A jazz chord to say I ruv you..."

I'm a Phlegmatic Choleric.

Am I? Contrasting ata, but some are true... I think. Does this mean I have 2 different personalities? Para akong si Two-Face? Yikes.
I'd like to think it depends on the situation. At work, as a friend... you know...
Anybody care to confirm? Accurate ba?

PHLEGMATIC - The Introvert, The Watcher, The Pessimist
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
CHOLERIC - The Extrovert, The Doer, The Optimist
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES

Your turn to take the Personality/Temperament Test!

Marathon with Sydney Bristow

Just finished watching Season 4 of Alias the other night. As expected, it was a cliffhanger...except that they saved the ending for Season 5. It's another nice series to watch, one with a good balance of action/suspense, humor (mostly from Marshall the genius-geek's antics), and family life that will leave you at the edge of your seat, let you laugh and enjoy. I somehow eventually got tired of the action scenes in each episode, eventhough Sydney and Nadia were a joy to watch in action. ;-) It's like watching the usual superhero series where an encounter with a villain becomes a requirement in each episode. Still, I continued watching with each mission leading the team closer to its goal of stopping Milo Rambaldi's ultimate end game. But actually, it's the Bristow-Derevko-Sloane family triangle subplot that really tied all the episodes together for me. I like how they put that into the storyline...the complexities, the twists.
Now I wonder what will happen to Vaughn and Sydney with the car crash.. I'm guessing it's just a nightmare of sorts by either of them. I know Season 5 already started in US, but I'm refraining from surfing Alias sites and forums or even asking anyone about it. I'll just opt to wait for a few months when the whole season is already available here. Anyway, a brief break after watching Seasons 1-3 should be good. :) Plus I never liked having to wait a week in between episodes. It has to be the whole season ready to played for marathons.
So now I'm on to my next series-to-watch... Prison Break? Yeah, I think I'll finally give in to Jay's endless raves. A full season copy, anyone?

Monopoly in Design?

Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia. Got this news flash from Berg. We first heard about this months ago. Looks like Adobe is doing a Microsoft for design applications. We're talking about Flash and Dreamweaver, practically the only applications used for web design and publishing in their respective categories, joining their Print medium counterparts Illustrator, InDesign and the versatile Photoshop... all industry standards, under one company. Plus Acrobat and the emerging PDF. Whew! Talk about capitalism. Here's the official Press Release at the Adobe Site.
Also check out the upcoming complete software bundles. No price yet. Sana naman mas mura na. But I doubt it. Oh well.. we'll see.

Yes, I still have no love life. :o

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.4
Mind:	7.5
Body:	9.6
Spirit:	6.7
Friends/Family:	4.4
Love:	2.1
Finance:	6.5
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Nature Trip

I recently went to Cebu with Fuse partners Jen and Homer for the 19th Phil. Advertising Congress.
It was actually during and after this trip that got me starting this Blog Trip. Somehow it made me want to share with everyone and allow them to experience part of our vacation.
Bohol was actually a last-minute thing we didn't really plan with AdCon early on. Since we were gonna go to Cebu for the AdCon, Homer brought up the idea and next thing we know we ended up with a 10-day business/vacation trip out of Manila. Truly worth it!
Riding the OceanJet from Cebu to Tagbilaran, Bohol was surprisingly comfortable. It was just like riding a plane, far from what I expected.. something more like the ferry ride to Boracay from Kalibo, Aklan. With plane-like seats, cool A/C and a movie to watch, it was the best ferry ride for me yet. Obviously, I've never been on a cruise yet. :)
First stop was Bohol Beach Club in Panglao island where we spent the rest of our 1st day relaxing with a massage by the beach, taking a dip in the salt water, and drinking at the bar with some foreigners and their 'exotic' escorts. Haha! While Jen and I had our soothing Swedish-Shiatsu massage, Homer decided not to wait for us and went swimming at the beach. 5 minutes later, he came limping back to us in pain. Nakatapak daw sya ng sea urchin! Our masseuse directed him to the lobby to get ammonia, telling us about the part of the beach with lots of urchins intentionally untouched to preserve the 'snorkeling area'. Wow, thanks for telling us! Di pa naman too late noh? Hehe. Tsk tsk... oh well, that's what you get for not waiting for us, Urchin Boy Homer!
After our 3rd buffet meal at the beach club the next day, we checked out and headed off to the wonders of Bohol. First in our itinerary was Baclayon Church, the oldest church in the Philippines. Made of wood, it was built waaay back in 1596 by Jesuit priests Fr. de Torres and Fr. Santos.. making us proud again to be Atenistas. :D The Hanging Bridge came next which we crossed to go to the other side where we met Mr. Buko King, who can peel off coconuts useing his bare teeth! Check out our Buko King Video to see him in action! And see his pearly-whites, amazingly nice enough for Close-Up!
The dizzying, zigzag ride after this gave us glimpses to some of the Chocolate Hills. Up the several flights of stairs, we saw the truly breathtaking site living up to it being one of the Wonders of the World. Ganda talaga! The pictures don't speak enough of it really...
Up next we cruised down Loboc River.. again the pics won't speak well of the real experience. Another amazing gift of nature with the seemingly endless river sandwiched between the trees... the fresh air.. and the waterfalls at the end where we had a brief stopover for picture-taking, where a small accident happened ala-Titanic. I'll let Urchin Boy Homer, a.k.a. Blind Greek Poet in the world of blog, tell the story. Maybe he'll have it in his blogsite. :D
Btw, we were told Loboc River was where Cesar Montano's Panaghoy sa Suba was shot.
And oh, before the river we also checked out the smallest monkey in the world, the Phil. Tarsier. Too bad we're not allowed to touch them anymore, just take pics almost cheek-to-cheek. Hehe. Check out the pics in my Multiply PhotoBlog and you'll know what I mean. :) We also fed them with frozen crickets on sticks. So amusing they look like humans eagerly eating hotdogs! Watch our Tarsi Video!
We ended our day checking in at the Bohol Bee Farm where all we did was eat and sleep! What with a number of hammocks, the house overlooking the cliff and the calm, laid-back atmosphere...perfect for just relaxing and lazing around. The next day we woke up early before sunrise to go dolphin watching around the Papilakan(?) Island. The last in our itinerary, it was kinda disappointing coz it was more like dolphin chasing. We only saw their fins and 20-30% of their bodies as they "hopped" around. Yet, it was still a sight to behold seeing schools of dolphins playing and doing their "synchronized hops"... all 10-20 of them!
Back at the Bee Farm, we did more eating and sleeping to make the most of the last few hours of our relaxing nature trip.

Trip Lang

Yes, I'm finally joining the bandwagon. It was fun being chismoso and checking out blogs, friendster and multiply sites of friends and their friends... esp friendster to check out girls I'm being set up with. hehe. Yes, I know I can be chismoso. Curious about what's happening in other people's lives, but not always wanting to share my own PUBLICLY. Only for friends. So I always thought I'm not the type who would have a journal to broadcast what's happening to my life. I've never had a journal, never wrote rants and raves for public consumption.. but for some reason after our recent trip to Cebu and Bohol, something pushed me to start sharing.. even to strangers.
I started thinking in blog terms. Uy, ok 'to to put in my blog. Uy I'll take this pic.. uy, ok makuha yung video.. and some thoughts/opinions in my head... all these I started to wanna put in my would-be blog.
So here I am starting my own. Walang lang. Trip lang.