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Of Letters and Mailboxes

I just got back from an out-of-town trip so my email is flooded with so many unread messages mostly from e-groups of which i am part of, some are notifications from all the social networking sites, a few announcements from the college/department of which i am part of, messages and submissions from my students and spams.

At around 8am, I went to the office, and found an envelope on my desk. It was my billing statement for my credit card. When I got home, slipped under my door was my internet bill. Oh well. Life is full of bills.

But then again, when you think about it, when all of my emails are on paper and all are sent through snail mail, my mailbox would be flooded with white envelopes not to mention the flooding style of spammers all over the world. My cute little mailbox might not hold all of these “documents.”

Mailboxes. How nice it would be to go back tp the time when emails are not yet that famous. Letters will be pouring in your mailboxes – letters and holidays greeting cards from your friends abroad, a letter from grandma, a postcard from your girlfriend, and even a fruit cake from tita tess in Manila, all cramped i  your mailbox.

What happened to the companies that manufacture mailboxes now? Do they still earn?

I wish I would start receiving letters again. I miss opening my mailbox. I miss the feeling of excitement because opening mailboxes is like opening a christmas present from a friend.

I wish that the content of my mailbox will not be that of bills and bills alone.

I miss the old days.

photos taken from: http://www.mailboxixchange.com

 

Charlie Green in Britain’s Got Talent

I was thrilled the first time I knew that Madonna Decena, a Filipino OFW in Britain, joined Britain’s Got Talent and surprisingly wowed the judges and the audience inside that wonderful proscenium theater. In fact, I hope she wins.

But then again,

Charlie Green, born and raised in the UK from a Filipino mother and a Briton father, come up the stage and sang “The Summer Wind.” He sang it beautifully and this kid has a lot of hidden grooves as well as she sways with the song.

I’m loving his version of the song and I hope he wins. It was a fantastic performance. And I never saw Simon Cowell smile the whole time he listened to Charlie Green.

Watch the video.

 

Andrew Lloyd Webber Night in American Idol 7

Its Andrew Lloyd Webber night in American Idol and it is thought to be one of the most difficult nights for the contestants.

Interesting performances but not mind blowing. Well maybe except for a few.

Syesha Mercado’s performance was nice but I was not blown away. The judges loved it though but I don’t trust their judgments specially that of Paula Abdul.

I may sound biased but I still like Jason Castro’s performance just because he sounds like Jason Mraz and I totally like his previous songs. Him singing “Memory” from Cats sang by Elaine Paige was intriguing and at the same time a total challenge for him. He did have some problems reaching the high notes and at the same time owning the song so that he will not sound like Elaine Paige or Barbara Streisand. I still hope that the Americans would still vote for him after that.

Brooke White should consider going back to beauty school. The first time she messed up with her song was cute. The second time was a mortal sin. She sang “You Must Love Me.” Honestly, Madonna sang it way better compared to her. The notes of the song were all against her. And Paula Abdul had a hard time looking for positive words to say.

Then David Archuleta aka David Achuliling sang “Think of Me” from the musical “Phantom of the Opera.” It was okay just as Simon said but totally forgettable. And still Randy and Paula loved him so much they kept on telling him he can sing anything. Paula even said that even if David A. would sing the phonebook, it would still sound amazing. Well, let him sing the freaking phonebook. I had enough of the Mickey Mouse Club already. Yes, he got the notes right and he sang it well but that was it.

Carly Smithson on the other hand had two song choices “All I Ask of You” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” but ended up performing the latter as per advice of Andrew Lloyd Webber himself. Carly Smithson singing “All I Ask of You” would be like listening to David Archuleta singing it and it is not a good thing. This may not be her best performance for me but she did sang it well and she had stage presence. Good thing it is not about a powder keg that gives off sparks kind of song.

Then finally, the star of the night, the other David in the bible of American Idol, David Cook, who has done several stage plays, entered the stage singing “The Music of the Night” from “Phantom of the Opera.” It sounded like the one from the musical at first up until the middle part of the song when David slowly infused his own style into it. Need I say more? Watch this.

 

Madonna in Britain’s Got Talent

I’m alone now and super bored on a Friday night. Johnnypanic is somewhere partying and Liguified is doing her thing with the IPs again. Me? I’m stuck here in Mintal, in front of my laptop, editing the script for the AVP of UP Mindanao. To make it simple, I am working on a Friday night. I’ve got no new movies to watch. No new songs to play and no food to eat.

So I’m blogging. An entry not really worth reading because perhaps it won’t mean anything to anyone reading this. But what the heck, I’m still writing this entry.

First stop, early Friday morning, Johnnypanic showed me a video of Britain’s Got Talent featuring a Filipina auditioning for a spot in the contest. Yes, a Filipina named Madonna Decena who is a club singer in Great Britain. She’s got talent for one so getting a spot in the competition might not be that difficult for her. I just can’t stand the drama. It is the usual telenovela kind of story common to all of us here in the Philippines – a woman who went abroad to work so that she can give her children the comfort and money they need to survive in this country.

Yes, an OFW story. Well, what can we do? It is how we define family here in the Philippines. A family is composed of a mother and children with a father working abroad or a father and children with a wife working abroad or parents with children working abroad. Common denominator, one or more are working abroad because the price of rice and petroleum is increasing in a velocity of light.

I am not against it though. In fact, I might end up working somewhere in a not so well lighted factory in China.

Everyone in the audience were misty eyed and even one of the judges. Of course we could not expect Simon Cowell to cry.

Well, here is a video of her audition. Watch it. She received a standing ovation from everyone.

Now its almost 10 in the evening. I still have more time to think about life in general.hahaha

And I am listening to Madonna’s “The Immaculate Collection” album.hahaha
I had enough Madonna for today so I got to stop it.