09.21.06
“Pieces of Meewa”
(6.28.2005)
What a feeling it is to wake up one day and fancy that you have just been born!
I emerged from my blanket as a baby from a mother’s womb. The reputed nine months of development in the uterus was just a
six-hour slumber. The antique bed creaked… (labour pains?) …then it shrieked, “it’s a girl!”
The moment my feet touched the wooden floor, someone with tousled hair was staring at me. Reality nurtured the newborn with
stupefying speed… who was I kidding? I was face to face with my full-length mirror… and there I was, awake and come of age…
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(6.29.2005)
There were no new-born fantasies today. The instant my clock struck five, I embarked on another day in the manner of an amateur
spinster with a structured daily schedule. It is a commendable way of banishing procrastination satisfactorily.
5:30 - 6:00 Revv up my adrenaline with stretches. (Bach plays on the stereo)
6:00 - 6:30 Un-clutter the house.
6:30 - 7:00 Sing in the shower.
7:00 - 7:30 Rouse the neighborhood with espresso’s seductive aroma. (Tango Fugata or Chocolat Soundtrack plays on the stereo)
7:00 and the rest of the morning I devote earnestly to my passion - music. What happens between 5:00 - 5:30? It is set aside
for relishing the coziness of a soft bed, and pillow-hugging.
Note: Schedule is subject to change without prior notice. =P
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(7.1.2005)
ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADDD: Attention Deficit Diffidence Disorder. (Ok, ok, I just made up the latter.)
These are the maladies of my Friday piano pupils. The older sister - the ADDD affected, and the younger - ADHD afflicted.
What a challenge it is to teach them both! Nevertheless, through them, I realize my love for teaching music. I have grown quite
fond of these two and I become elated whenever I hear crisp and clear Bach Inventions coming from these contrasting characters.
I believe that music, next to love, is a panacea for their character deficiencies. I hope for their amelioration… and pray for
my patience.
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(7.6.2005)
The rain clouds continue to veil the sun. From here it appears that way, but from up there, I am certain it is us who are
veiled.
Is not life so much like that? There are times when you think something is denied from you, only to discern that it is you alone
who deprive yourself.
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(7.7.2005)
Sung during one of the bible studies at Ahia Boyet’s, this song worked as a mnemonic on how I should live my life… and to whom
I should live it for.
When It’s All Been Said and Done.
When it’s all been said and done,
there is just one thing that matters.
Did I do my best to live for truth?
Did I live my life for you?
When it’s all been said and done,
All my treasures will be nothing.
Only what I’ve done for love’s reward
Will stand the test of time.
Lord your mercy is so great,
That you look beyond our weakness…
And find purest gold in miry clay
Making sinners into saints…
And I will always sing your praise,
Here on earth and ever after.
For you’ve shown me heaven’s my true home…
When it’s all been said and done…
You’re my life when life is gone.
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(7.10.2005)
…an hour in the kitchen cooking “chilli wings”… an afternoon at the beach… and an evening ironing clothes… I declare this
Sunday - in many ways - officially hot!
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(7.15.2005)
My normal morning routine was maintained despite staying up late last night with the family watching Richard Gere’s latest movie
Shall We Dance. It might not have contained the profundity I wish to acquire in every movie I watch, but I have to admit that it
provided understanding on certain issues in life. (Cheers to the trivial role of that African-American guy who quoted de
Beauvoir and Thoreau.)
Oh yes, the movie also inspired a lousy dancer such as myself. No, not because people have compared my derriere with JLo’s, but
because dance fascinated me ever since I was a child. Flamenco… Tango… Gypsy… Calypso… Latin-American dances… they
captivate me.
For now I have to put my feet back on the ground. I may not dance… but I know the music and the passion dances within me.
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(7.16.2005)
Once again I had my typical student-packed Saturday morning and a lesson with Misha (my little prince, brother, student, and
sentinel) in the afternoon. Instructing him on the piano for three to five times a week has become praxis rather than an
obligation.
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(7.17.2005)
The electricity was out as it always is nearly every Sunday. Without the electric fans, it was exceptionally warm and humid. I
washed the blinds of my elfin library but was unable to clean the rest of the room because the heat was quite intolerable.
(Whenever the weather becomes this unbearable during the day, it usually rains in the evening - and that is a posteriori
knowledge. Nobody Kant argue with that.)
Right after the sashimi lunch here upstairs, I took a nap and felt the pillows and sheets absorb my sweat, and dreamt. Hours
later, perspiration made my hair cling to my damp skin like leeches, but those leeches from inferno did not suck blood, they made
my blood rise to an exceeding temperature that I had to get up and bathe for what seemed like the hundredth time that day.
Eventually the whirr of power supply resumed at around four in the afternoon and the espresso machine and I were again at work on
our addicting concoction.
It is now evening and it is raining.
Amidst each day’s peculiarities and banalities, it is alive with life’s little prognostications.
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(7.19.2005)
The Arpeggionne Sonata plays on my mind…
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(7.30.2005)
He smiled at me one last time… and with that, an era in my life ended and another began.
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