fly with mhe

The Cugman Boiz had asked me to do something. It may be a simple task but it is a heavy one for me. Can I do it? I may not be that confident and skilled enough to accomplish the task.

Someone’s going home for dinner tonight after a month-long absence. I’m happy for the person but somehow felt a little sad about the situation. Nevertheless, it was a wonderful journey though, an eye-opener and a learning experience.

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.

Listening to music is evidently my stress reliever. Yesterday, had a one-hour jamming sessions with 2 of the Cugman Boiz and 2 frequent visitors with nice voice who jammed with us for the first time. Yes I had the bass again and some glances at the copies of the songs or to the guitarist. It was amazing!! The songs, our bonding, our time together, the understood glances, the smiles, the laughter, not to mention, it was imprompto and yet brought so much fun. Playing music indeed has become a stress reliever for me as well. For an amateur like me, that is something. Looking forward to more jamming sessions again someday with the Cugman Boiz.

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.