Hello friends of Manila Gay Guy,

For some time now our friend and fellow Fabcaster, AJ Matela (of “Bakla Ako, May Reklamo” at http://baklaako.com/) has been quite sick. Upon the advise of doctors, he has resigned from work and is now focused on getting his body back in shape. But he’s finding out the hard way just how tough this battle is going to be.

Some time ago AJ contracted mycobacterium avium complex. Nodules have been discovered in his lungs, and he has been coughing a lot. Immediate treatment is necessary to halt the spread of the disease. It means he needs to submit himself to several lab tests plus new multiple medicines on top of the daily ones he’s currently taking.

On Aug. 18, 2011, just after lunch, AJ was rushed to the emergency room. He has difficulty breathing on his own; on top of that, he has diarrhea. His weight has gone significantly down. AJ is currently confined in Medical Center Manila along UN Avenue.

All this time he has relied only on his family and relatives for help. All this time he’s kept details of his medical condition to just them. But it has now reached a point when help from relatives, generous as they have been, is not enough. Because he has resigned from work, he doesn’t have any health card to bank on.

All his life AJ has always prided himself on being self-reliant and self-sufficient. But now he realizes that he cannot do this alone. So now, as close friends of AJ, we turn to you for help.

Friends, at this point we appreciate any and every assistance we can receive. And with God’s help, plus your generosity and prayers, we hope for AJ to bounce back soon. You may deposit your financial support through the following accounts:

(AJ’s bank account)
Account Name: Ariel James Matela
BPI Savings Account Number 373 903 4581

or

(AJ’s mom’s account)
Account Name: Anne Matela
BDO Cash Card 526 727 000 747 4501

Thank you for your help.

Migs and the Fabcasters

(Copy and pasted from The Manila Gay Guy)

Attention, all Japanese pop music-inspired artists in Metro Manila! OngakuSociety is now accepting band auditions to perform at the next major OS event slated for October 2011!!

Submit the following information to admin@ongaku-society.org:

• Group/Band Name
• Member Line-Up*
• Musical Influences
• Contact Information (mobile phone number and e-mail address)
• Official Website / Mailing List / Forums
• Video Link to Band’s Previous Performance/s*

*The video submission will serve as your audition piece.

Only the given and last names of the individual members plus known aliases or online handles will be accepted. Bands who fail to declare all the members of their line-ups or use only aliases in their application form will be disqualified from the auditions.

If accepted, bands must prepare at most three (3) songs: one X-Japan song and two songs of their choice (original compositions are allowed).

For musicians with multiple bands, you are allowed to audition as members of two different bands, under several conditions:

• The musician is a member of a maximum of two bands auditioning/performing for OngakuSociety.
• These two bands should not feature identical member line-ups.
• These two bands should not feature identical song lists.

Lastly, we’d like to congratulate several bands who have been pre-selected for performance slots at the October gig! Look out for e-mail notifications direct from the OS mods. If your band has been pre-selected, kindly send a return e-mail to us to confirm your performance.

For further inquiries, you may also e-mail us at admin@ongaku-society.org. Deadline for submission of applications is on September 12, 2011.

Think you got what it takes?! Prove it! We are OngakuSociety—rocking the scene since 2003!

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Info, leeched from here, word for word. Haha! xD

Last Saturday, we went to the Lipton Thoughts and Teas 2 event held by Lipton Philippines. We had a tea party with other food bloggers at one of my favorite restaurants, Paul Calvin’s Deli in Forbes Heights, Bonifacio Global City.

Chef Rose Bud was our host for the event and she taught us a lot of new recipes of appreciating the greatness of tea. Yes! I'm not a food blogger, but as everyone knows, I'm a super fan of tea.

There were tons of cookies, cupcakes, tarts and stuff in the tea party.

The tea pots were also very cute! I was trying to resist the urge of stealing one of these teapots and take them home. I'm even risking the fact that I could get banned for it.

We had a tea making contest wherein we were ask to make out own tea and have the chef judge on whose combinations were the best and she gets to win a price.

Jepoy and RJ were a riot and made some disgusting looking tea, on which, I was the taste tester. When I tasted their tea, I realized how much it really sucks to have them as friends.

And at the end of the mixing of this and that, I arrived an a lame tasting Honey Apple Tea in a cute blue mug, on which I got to take home after, for the effort of making tea. See? I had a picture with Chef Rosebud before she tasted my lame tea mix. (I stole this blurred picture here).

Bea won the tea she never tasted, but I got to taste that super yummy tea! Now I have gained back my confidence! I thought I would lose my sense of taste when I tasted Jepoy and RJ's tea. I do not know what she mixed in there. The ingredients were too many to remember.

At the end of the day, I got freebies! An entire box of Lipton tea, a sugar stirrer, almond and vanilla syrups.

Thanks Lipton Philippines to the yummy and fun experience!

PS: You can find the rest of the photos I took of this event in my Lipton Thoughts and Teas set.

During Summer Sonic 2011, X Japan announced their Asia Tour dates.

October 28th – Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium in Seoul, Korea
October 30th – Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China
November 2nd – Beijing Workers’ Stadium in Beijing, China
November 4th – Asia World-Expo in Hong Kong, China
November 6th – TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei, Taiwan
November 8th – Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand

The tickets are selling faster than hot cakes! Don't think! Just reserve a ticket now, and think later! XD

Sometimes,
Too much love is painful.
As I remember you,
I grow sadder.

I cannot forget your smiles.
I cannot forget your words.

The more I try not to think about it,
The more the memories pulls me back.
The more I try to forget,
The more painful it becomes.

I do not know where to start.
I do not know if it'll ever end.
I just want the world to stop,
And just let time continue moving.

This is a super old school song who's lyrics are really really hard to find. We were sound-tripping and this song was suddenly played. I remember this song from when I was a kid.

Hindi Ako Iiyak
by Flippers

Kapeng aking tinitimpla
Lagi ngayong lumalamig
Di ko malaman kung kulang sa tamis
Tasang walang kibo sa 'ki'y nakatitig
Ako't siya'y naghihintay
Masagi ng iyong bibig

Buhok na mahaba, iniingat-ingatan mo
Noong isang linggo'y pinaputulan mo ito
Marahil ay pagod lamang ang aking isipan
At di ko napansin at hindi tinutulan

Chorus
Huwag kang mag-alala, di ako iiyak
Di magdaramdam kahit na ga-patak
Pag-ibig na minsan na nating dinanas
Sa tulad kong putik, tama na at sapat

Pintong dati-rati'y bukas sa aking pagdating
Ngayo'y nakasara at panangga sa hangin
Kung ako ay dumalaw at ito ay katukin
Kahit mahina pa, sana ay 'yong sagutin

Kay linis ng silid, walang nakakalat
Medyas at sigarilyo'y walang naghahanap
Sanggol na nasanay, nasanay sa ama
Ngayo'y natutulog kahit nag-iisa

Hindi Ako Iiyak

A few days back (last August 10, 2011 to be exact), Playfish, subsidiary of Electronic Arts that develops Facebook social game apps, launched the beta or their most recent Facebook game,  The Sims Social. The Sims Social is a Facebook app game version of their multi-million  dollar worth PC game series, The Sims.

Being a guilty The Sims addict myself, I told myself that I gotta try this the first time it comes out in beta!

I made a male character named Ken Hidaka, after my eternal crush – a young handsome ex-pro soccer goalie of J-league turned assassin under the code name Siberan from an old anime called Weiß Kreuz.

My first impressions of it is that it's really cool. Imagine that you can actually play The Sims in your browser. Though not in full detail like the PC ones, it's still The Sims.

I took a few screenshots to let you compare them with the actual PC game.

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Thank you Five Star bus for that life-threatening ala-roller coaster bus ride experience earlier. I couldn't get over it for a while. It was more exciting than the Space Shuttle they have in Enchanted Kingdom. The thrill that I might die anytime from when in case the bus slides somewhere in the wet road due to the bad weather was epic. It was more fun than the jeepney ride I had with Carla, Jay and Laine when we had a planned trip and went to Antipolo, just for the heck of going there, not long ago. And I thought riding a Cubao bus or sometimes a wild cab was crazy enough, hell no it wasn't even close enough. And guess what's the best part in it? It was the over taking in that long bridge while speeding in the rain. I was sitting in front too, beside the bus driver and with no seat belt at that. Ha!

I'm blogging this now because, you know, I might suddenly realize tomorrow morning that I'm already dead. And that in reality, I'm actually a wondering ghost. So that all you guys would know what exactly happened to me, and probably feel sorry for the pathetic result my life ended with in the hands of a half-sleepy driver living with only a Cobra Energy Drink to keep him awake all night.

Have a good night.

PS: I SAW that image of a man posing macho with only his brief, in the conductor's wallpaper.

Way back in August 4th 2006, I've inherited a J-rock blog crew from an old online friend, Sapphire. I've been managing this tedious blog crew since then. Now, it's been 5 long years and I'm still very much in love with J-rock. But then, I grew less and less time to manage the blog crew, so I decided to open it for adoption to close friends who share the same interest. And there was my friend Hana who emailed me her interest in adopting it. After several exchange of emails, the new J-rock blog crew is finally completed!

Please visit and/or change your links to The Final: A Jrock Blog Crew's new location at: http://momentsofnil.com/crew

I'll start using @beyondeternal for minor updates w/ Beyond Eternal, rather than posting one liner entries in it.

Further updates on the blog will still be under the Site Updates category.

I'll be keeping this blog for archive purposes of the old domain updates blog.

Please follow me! XD