After a Tiring Day

You know what I am crazy about these days? Using a sing-along app and whenever I get the chance, I sang duet with other users. Crazy huh? I really do not have the extra time to sing but, I find it relaxing after a tiring day from work. I have no time for strumming guitar or play the organ so; the app is the easiest to use. How about you? Do you play musical instruments or use any tools like Avid Pro 11? If you have the time, why not right?

Musical Instrument

Have you ever found the right place to buy any music related products via online? You might try to check out http://www.musiciansfriend.com/  today. I just saw the site and wanted to share it with you too.  I'm thinking to buy an electric guitar but, that will be in few months. Right now, I can't afford one. My brother owns an electric guitar before given by my uncle. Such a beautiful thing to play! Since then, I am dreaming to own one too.

You're Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins

How are you guys? It's been a while huh? I was hibernating and having a "ME" time for days .... away from the cyber world. I was just at home, enjoying my time re-decorating our home and that includes, re-arranging the furniture's and taking down our Christmas decors from the mezzanine in our garage. I am excited for Christmas holiday you know.

While doing all that, I was listening to Pandora and country music the whole time. My music preference has changed a lot especially when I live in Mississippi. I grew up with love songs, the kind of music that I can go "senti" about for no apparent reasons LOL.Well, that's just me.

Anyway, I just want to share with you all this song sung by Trace Adkins. Do you have children? I bet you can relate to the message of this beautiful song. You should listen! Enjoy!

She was starin' out the window of their SUV
Complainin', sayin', “I can't wait to turn eighteen”
She said, “I'll make my own money and I'll make my own rules
Momma, put the car in park out there in front of the school”
And she kissed her head, and said, “I was just like you”

Chorus:
You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast

These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Before she knows it, she's a brand new bride
In her one bedroom apartment and her daddy stops by
He tells her it's a nice place, she says, “It'll do for now”
Starts talkin' about babies and buyin' a house
Daddy shakes his head and says, “Baby, just slow down”

Chorus:
Cuz' you're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast

These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Five years later there's a plumber
Workin' on the water heater
Dog's barkin', phone's ringin'
One kid's cryin' and one kid's screamin'
And she keeps apologizin'
He says, “They don't bother me
I've got two babies of my own

One's thirty-six, one's twenty-three”
Huh, it's hard to believe
But you're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back

You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this
You're gonna miss this
Yeah, you're gonna miss this

Rock Festival

Isn’t it amazing to know that 53% of festival-goers are women? That figure was presented in the info graphic below. According to the study, music goer has common characteristics such as 46% are single men; 17% have downloaded music for free; and that the average salary of a performer is $28,000.

The month of July is the best time to go to a festival in fact; the study shows that 28% responded that they travel during that month. It is sunny and the weather is really great so; traveling to the festival during this month is the best time of the year.

Most festivals have event supplies and concession machines. People love souvenirs and gets hungry a lot so; big events such as the rock festival has these machines. The most popular festival having 300,000 in attendance is Lollapalooza. Just read through for more information about Rock Festival.

Infographic Provided by EquipSupply

Lord I Know that Your Love is Healing

As long as you are not an Atheist, I know that this statement hold's true to you: "Lord I know that your love is healing".

We are only human and we feel pain. Sometimes, it is hard to undertand life especially when we are hurt and when problems are unbearable. But, when we contemplate and believes in God, we will be blessed with understanding that everything happens for a reason. Have a blessed Holy Week everyone.

HEALING-Denice Williams

Now that we have gotten through
One more fall
I can just admit I've got it all
Cause I do
Cause I've got you.

We've crossed these battle lines to many times
It passes through the heart
But it never leaves a mark
Cause Your love just keeps on healing me
No matter how I bruise.

If I just trust You
Your love just keeps on healing me
One more clue
One more chance that wasn't there before
In your arms no pain can harm the way I'm feeling
Lord I know that
Your love is healing.

I've kicked around those lines in my head
But I've never listened to the words that You said
See where its lead
Well I know I have it now
Cause You showed me how
And all I had to do
Was just to keep my eyes on You.

Cause Your love just keeps on healing me
No matter how I bruise
If I just trust You
Your love just keeps on healing me
One more clue
One more chance that wasn't there before
In your arms no pain can harm the way I'm feeling
Lord I know that Your love is healing.

Cause Your love just keeps on healing me
No matter how I bruiseIf I just trust You
Your love just keeps on healing me
One more clue
One more chance that wasn't there before
In your arms no pain can harm the way I'm feeling
Lord I know that Your love is healing.

Fresh Start by Jackie Child

When I am blogging, I want a total peace and it would mean, I don't want anybody to disturb me. Noise is find but, it would come from the TV and my iPod. Yes, I do watch TV shows while doing my work online and also, I do listen to music using my Ipad thru Pandora.Sorry to tell you guys, I am not a big fan of rock and metal music and I go for the oppossite type of music. Here's one that I so love to listen over and over. Check out this album by Jackie Child which is soothing to the ears, can calm your heart and can settle your minds. Happy listening everyone! Oh by the way, this album is a piano collection which is truly awesome!

Glee

I was watching the Glee on my Netflix account and I was doing my own marathon from the pilot episode to the 22nd episode. It brings back memories of singing, fun, giggles, camaraderie, intrigues, love and of course, friendship. That's the best part, the friendship we created for years. There was a little drama but, when we are singing, it pulled back good times and unity. Before the scheduled practice we came in early at the Little Theatre just to hang out.I worked in the university library and after the library closes in the evening, I went straight to the little theatre for a practice. All of us were excited most of the time especially when our Professor (the late) Lino Y. Abrio treat us all for dinner. We love that! We are like his children and he volunteered to share his time and talent for FREE. That's what I knew of! When we went for a concert in Davao City, most of it comes out from his own pocket without expecting any in return. Just like the Glee mentor in this TV series, he gave out a $1K check so that the Glee will have a picture in the yearbook. There was similarity that is why, I can relate with this TV show. I miss the XU Glee Club, Fr. Cuna and most of all Prof. Lino Y. Abrio.

Fill the World with Love

When I was in high school, I was in a church choir. We had a beach get together party and we hired a boat to sail us to the river and off to the beach area. As we were sailing, we sang religious songs and one particular song that I can't forget is the song Fill the World with Love. It was memorable because I was staring at the gorgeous sunset. It was serene and just beautiful. Happy Listening! I saw this children's choir in you tube, you might check on them too. In the morning of my life I shall look to the sunrise.
At a moment in my life when the world is new.
And the blessing I shall ask is that God will grant me,
To be brave and strong and true,
And to fill the world with love my whole life through.

(Chorus)
And to fill the world with love
And to fill the world with love
And to fill the world with love my whole life through

In the noontime of my life I shall look to the sunshine,
At a moment in my life when the sky is blue.
And the blessing I shall ask shall remain unchanging.
To be brave and strong and true,
And to fill the world with love my whole life through

(Chorus)

In the evening of my life I shall look to the sunset,
At a moment in my life when the night is due.
And the question I shall ask only I can answer.
Was I brave and strong and true?
Did I fill the world with love my whole life through?

(Chorus)

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America the Beautiful

written by: Katharine Lee Bates

Happy Fourth of July! I would like to share this song to all of us who enjoyed the Gift of FREEDOM and LIBERTY which this country has given us!

( This is a poem by Katharine Lee Bates, first appeared in print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on July 4, 1895. She revised the lyrics in 1904 and again in 1913- source:kids.niehs.nih.gov)

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.



America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

Don't Let the Sun Go Down On me

I was listening to music today and here it is, Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me played on the radio. Constantly, I heard this song from Elton John whether I used my XM radio or watching TV shows. This is really a popular song because I heard it in the Amerian Idol and the Voice. In fact, David Archuleta has a nice version of it too. Take a moment to listen and familiarized yourself with the lyrics. Hoping you like it and happy listening.



I can't light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

It's much to late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of fife
But you misread my meaning when i met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although i search myself, it's always someone else i see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

I can't find oh, the right romantic line
But see me once and see the way i feel
Don't discard me just because you think i mean you harm
But these cuts i have, oh they need love to help them heal

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although i search myself, it's always someone else i see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although i search myself, it's always someone else i see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

American Idol 2011: Final Three

This is the 10th Season of American Idol and Lauren Alaina is one of the TOP 3. Lauren is a sophomore student at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. She is a Cheerleader and will turn 17 on Nov.8. When she auditioned, she sang "Like We Never Loved at All" by Faith Hill. It was noted only one time that she was in the bottom three.Did you know that he is a Puerto Rican descent? His father was born in Puerto Rico with a Puerto Rican mom and an American Father. At 10, he learns to play the guitar and impersonate Elvis Presley. On his audition, he sang "Your Man" by Josh Turner and "Put Some Drive in Your Country" by Travis Tritt. My personal favorite which he sang was: "For Once in My Life" by Stevie Wonder.
Haley was born on September 9 and started singing at 8 years old. Her parents are both musicians and she has performed at the 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland with her high school's jazz band and at Harper College with the college's Jazz Ensemble and the Jazz Lab. Music fills her life so, there is no wonder why she lasted this long. She is so talented and she has the charm that's why the viewing voters supported her dearly.

This week they will come back to their hometown to personally thank their supporters. The question is: Who among them will be the American Idol 2011 ultimate winner? I don't have personal favorite this season. But, I will keep watching and will let you my wild guess this week:-)

Angel by Sarah MacLachlan

Whenever hubby heard this song in XM Radio, he would turn the volume up. He just loves the song and I don't see why. This is a sad song but full of hope and compassion to someone. This song was inspired by Jonathan Melvoin's death, a keyboardist of Smashing Pumpkin group who died of drug overdose. The melody would drive you to the world of serenity and bring you in a placid mood. If you happen to see the movie City of Angels starring Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage, this song made it to the number 1 in the billboard chart. That movie is one of my favorites. I cried rivers at the end of the movie. Sigh!

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh a beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

So tired of the straight life
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lies
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe
in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

Gwyneth Paltrow On Glee

I forgot to save the latest episode of Glee which is SEXY. Gwyneth Paltrow is Holly, came back as a Sex Ed substitude. OH yeah :-) She's teaching the students about sex education through music. Relax, listen and I hope you like her version.

This song was written by Stevie Nicks in 1975.

I took my love and I took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'Till Landslide brought me down

Oh mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Mmm mmm I don’t know
Mmm mmm
Mmm mmm

Well I’ve been afraid of changing ‘cause I
Built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older, I’m getting older too

Soo (Interlude)

I’ve been afraid of changing ‘cause I
I built my life around you
But time makes you bolder, children get older
I’m getting older too
I’m getting older too
Soo take this love, take it down
Ohh if you climb a mountain and you turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down, down
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills,
Well maybe, the landslide will bring it down
Well well the landslide with bring it down

Gwyneth Palthrow : Just My Imagination

Have you seen the movie Duets? This film was released in 2000 starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis among others and directed by Bruce Paltrow. This movie is all about the characters whose lives evolved in Karaoke Competitions. If you haven't watch this movie yet, check it out in Netflix :-)

This song is a duet sung by Gwyneth Paltrow and Babyface. What an awesome duo, right? Don't forget to watch out Gwyneth Paltrow on the latest episode of Glee tonight!

Gwyneth Paltrow:
Each day through my window
I watch him as he passes by
I say to myself
I'm so lucky he's so fly
To have a boy like him
Is truly a dream come true
Out of all the girlies in the world
He belongs to you

[Chorus]

But it was just my imagination
Runnin away with me
Tell you it was just my imagination
Running away with me


Babyface:

Soon we'll be married
And raise a family (oh yea...)
Have a cozy little crib in the country
With two children maybe three
I tell you I...
Can raise your lies down baby
It couldn't be a dream
Cause too real it all seems
Oooohhhh...

[Chorus]

But it was just my imagination (once again yea)
Runnin away with me (running away with me)
Tell you it was just my imagination
Running away with me (away with me yea)

Gwyneth Paltrow and Babyface:

Everynight on my knees I pray
Dear lord hear my plea yea
Don't ever let another
Take his love from me
Or I will surely die
Heavenly (heavenly) when your arms unfold me
I hear the tender upsity
But in reality
He doesn't even know me

[Chorus]

But it was just my imagination (ohh, so fly look out my window)
Runnin away with me (It's running away with me baby)
Just my imagination (runnin away)
Running away with me (my baby, my sugar, my sweetie, look at my baby)

Just my imagination (ohh, soo fly look out my window)
Runnin away with me (It's runnin away with me)
Just my imagination (yeeaaaa)
Running away with me (my baby, my sugar, my sweetie, look at my baby)

Just my imagination (ohh, soo fly look out my window)
Runnin away with me (It's runnin away with me)
Just my imagination (yeeaaaa)

Isn't he Cute?

If boredom takes a hold on you right at this moment :-) care to listen and watch this video. A child's rendition of Jason Marz song of which he might not know how to sing it but, he can truly interpret it hehehe. Isn't he cute? Look at the chords he is making, it is absolutely the right one and the plucking is good considering his age:-) I can't help but admire his skills. If he will continue with this passion and guitar playing skill as well, he will improve for the better.

I am sharing this video from tonimadeira channel from youtube just to lighten your day. Keep smilin because life is beautiful!

Even Now by Barry Manilow

I love Barry Manilow's voice and most of his musical composition. When I was in High School, those were the moments where I had crushes and hearing his lovesongs would transport me in another dimension----> the fantasy land of dreamers (wink...). This song is sad, don't you think? Are you in pain? You'll get through it! You can cry rivers and would swear you'll never find another one but hey, in 10 years or so you will never remember that pain. Live your life to the fullest and don't give up on loving someone. Somewhere out there, someone is praying that someone like you would come and that will really happen :-)

Even Now
When there's someone else who cares
When there's someone home who's waiting just for me
Even now I think about you as I'm climbing up the stairs
And I wonder what to do so she won't see

That even now
When I know it wasn't right
And I found a better life than what we had
Even now I wake up crying in the middle of the night
And I can't believe it still could hurt so bad

Even now when I have come so far
I wonder where you are
I wonder why it's still so hard without you
Even now when I come shining through
I swear I think of you
And how I wish you knew
Even now

Even now
When I never hear your name
And the world has changed so much since you been gone
Even now I still remember and the feeling's still the same
And the pain inside of me goes on and on
Even now

Even now when I have come so far
I wonder where you are
I wonder why it's still so hard without you
Even now when I come shining through
I swear I think of you
And God I wish you knew
Some how
Even now

Need You Now by Lady Antebellum

I heard the song for so long, I like it and loved hearing it on the radio. Would you believe that I just learned lately that this song was sung by Lady Antebellum? Yep! I am so passive and out of this world huh? I thought that this is an original song by The Glee. I heard it from them for the first time! I am so totally alienated from reality. Anyway, I love the lyrics and I love the melody! Oh by the way, I love the trio too!

Lady Antebellum: Charles Kelley who is the lead and background vocals, Dave Haywood the background vocals too, plays guitar, piano and mandolin, then the lead background vocal is Hillary Scott. This group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006.

During the 53rd Grammy Award, the song NEED YOU NOW won the Best Country Album, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Country Song.

Christina Aguillera on The Star Spangled Banner

February 6, 2011 is Superbowl XLV, the biggest sports event in the US. I was excited for our Superbowl Party at home with my husband and a friend. When the game started, I was cheering for Steelers while sending wall posts to my twitter and Facebook. I was pleased with Christina Aguillera's performance though there are minor lapses but, the performance was very good.

In big events like this, there are so many critics and mostly, they will find flaws from beginning to end. Of course the performance was not great because Christina didn't deliver the correct line of the National Anthem...a NO! NO! But, the damage has been done and people should move on! We should learn from this mistake and hoping that it won't happen again.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

History: Francis Scott Key wrote the poem in 1814 titled Defense of Fort McHenry. It was later put to the tune of John Stafford Smith's song titled The Anacreontic Song then, modified and retitled The Star Spangled Banner. The Congress proclaimed The Star Spangled Banner as the U.S. National Anthem in 1931.

Broken Vow by Lara Fabian

"It talks about betrayal but it talks about FORGIVENESS"-Lara Fabian.

Parting Moment-I can't remember the pain now! But, I do remember that I cried rivers when I heard this song for the first time. I can relate! I fell in-love and he was gone! I thought it was just one of the common break-ups that we had. I really don't know the reason why we part ways but, all I knew as of the present that we were not meant to be. He called me on the phone one Saturday night telling me, he was in the airport on his way to follow his dad in the States. Then, my phone stops ringing from his number. It took me a week to have the guts to call him back. It was his friend who answered the phone telling me he left to the US.

Tell me her name
I want to know
The way he looks
And where you go
I need to see his face
I need to understand
Why you and I came to an end

Tell me again
I want to hear
Who broke my faith in all these years
Who lays with you at night
When I'm here all alone
Remembering when I was your own

[Chorus:]
I let you go
I let you fly
Why do I keep on asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow

Tell me the words I never said
Show me the tears you never shed
Give me the touch
That one you promised to be mine
Or has it vanished for all time

[Chorus]

I close my eyes
And dream of you and I
And then I realize
There's more to love than only bitterness and lies
I close my eyes

I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again
And never let this promise end

[Modified Chorus:]
I let you go
I let you fly
Now that I know I’m asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow