fly with mhe

I just discovered this afternoon the Boiz‘s new hang out place. They invited me over at their tambayan a couple of times for some soundtrip and jamming with acoustic guitars and beat box. Sad to say I hadn’t been with them for those purposes since they held it usually at night, under the stars when it is not raining or in weekdays wherein I’m not able to visit them. But this afternoon, I had finally gone with them since I still had a task to be done before I leave their place.

Guess what. Their new tambayan is in an unusual place yet nice. It was in a small parcel of land, rather a platform in the middle of the river when the water is low, enough for them to gather in a circle. Sweet. The sound of the shallow, rushing river in itself is soothing. Not to mention the music that they make. Really a nice place to relax. I wasn’t able to be with them in the river though because I was wearing a skirt and it would be impossible to scale the dike with a skirt on, even if I do it in barefoot. Maybe next time. (pardon the picture, it was taken through my camera phone)

It’s already Saturday night and I’m still sick, 2nd week now. Still got cough, colds and sore throat. My fever hadn’t surfaced back. My body still aches. Do I need to be alarmed? There are confirmed cases of swine flu victims in our city. Don’t get me wrong, I am not paranoid. I am just concerned since I’ll be facing and handling preschoolers and children with special needs and might have weak immune system. One of my new student even got fever last week and I hope she didn’t get it from me (her sister also got the fever before her). Little things that if left untreated could become alarming. Somehow, for precautionary measures, I’m taking Vitamin C medicines. Hope this’ll be enough.

My week was a roller coaster ride of ups and downs. It also ended with confusion and exhaustion.

Had an eye check up last Saturday. My right eye was hit by my hyperactive student with a pencil last Wednesday and since then, it won’t stop excreting a little water and getting itchy at times. Good thing it didn’t hit my iris. As my MR student’s dad is an eye specialist, my boss wrote a note and had my eye checked for free. I had lead infection he said and gave me an antibacterial eye drop, for free again.

However, this afternoon, an incident gave me an opportunity to smile gracefully and made me empty my mind on the things that concerns me much this week. Well, he just came in the middle of our jamming, grabbed his guitar in the middle of a song to teach our guitarist at that time (not our usual guitarist) the chords of the song we played then gave him back his guitar and grabbed the microphone and sang. I just listened to him sing his heart out, and he was even in tune though it was not the usual songs I would hear him sing. It was a joy to witness him do that. Since I came to know him, he has not only changed and matured, he has also developed his musical skills.

Wanna guess who the guy is? He is one of the Cugman Boiz, of course.

Finally had my swim early this morning. Though only for a short time. I might strain my muscles and hinder my energy for my work later. I did the usual; warm-up, laps, drills, underwater and warm-down of all strokes. I almost didn’t make the 22-meter underwater swim. Before, I used to do an average of 4 underwater laps, this morning I only did 1 lap. Hahayz.. I’m really getting fatter and had lesser air. Which gets me motivated to swim some more till I get back to my 4 or 6 22-meter underwater laps (I assumed the pool’s length is 22 meters, as the staff also assumed).

I haven’t been swimming for the past months. Swimming for me meant, laps and drills of all strokes. As if training for a competition, except for the sprinting. No wonder I get short of breath in the underwater this time.

Who wants to join me next time?  =)

At last, at long last. I had a jamming session with 2 of the Cugman Boiz last Saturday night and 4 of them yesterday afternoon. I so missed being with them, much more, doing our common interest, MUSIC. It started off as a practice for our songs yesterday. Macky in his usual instrument, the drums, Ryjy on the guitar and doing the vocals and since Breaker was not around so I did the bass guitar while singing. During our break, we had a role reversal. Usually, it’ll only be Macky and Ryjy swapping roles, but this time, I was part of that swap. I had the guitar, Macky had the bass and Ryjy on the drums for this particular song only. I only did strums, one strum at a time though. Hehe.. I enjoyed it immensely. Then we had our run off.

Yesterday was different though, Breaker was there. He had the guitar, I had the bass and Ryjy had the drums, Macky was on the microphone with another Cugman Boiz who frequently came also for our practices.

I sorely missed jamming with them. I miss them. I’m glad also that they had patience in teaching me to do the bass. Yesterday, while Breaker was strumming, he would shout the chords so I would hit the right string and fret. They are that patient with me. Hats off to them.