Sugar(free) High

I have been meaning to write an entry but I've been too exhausted to actually articulate what I want to write about...but now after 2 consecutive nights of undisturbed and peaceful 8 hour slumbers, I am now ready to write...I think :P

Last weekend, we successfully pulled off our instant Post-Vday concert. Our initial objective was to make everybody feel loved and I think we were successful in doing that. A few days before the event I told myself that it would be the last time I'll volunteer to do something like that...perhaps next year...I'll be taking those words back :P

Early last month I remember talking to someone on facebook about which of Sugarfree's farewell bar gigs will I go to. I said I wouldn't want to watch them with the yuppies in Makati or the conyo kids along Katipunan. I said I wanted to watch them with the "iskolars ng bayan." Well, I was never meant to watch them with the yuppies in Makati...nor with the "iskolars ng bayan" at the Sunken Garden...I was meant to watch them with all of their fans...the yuppies and scholars alike...the "conyos" and "jologs"...young and and not so young...under the pouring rain in Eastwood. I was meant to have a cool story about how I ended up soaking wet for jumping up and down while singing to Sugarfree's songs at the top of my lungs...in the freakin' rain. I may have not heard all of the songs that they played because I was stuck at work until 10:45...but I heard the ones that have defined them as a band...I heard parts of Hari ng Sablay, I heard Unang Araw, Kwarto, Mariposa, Tulog Na and Burnout. I admit that I regret passing up on all those opportunities that came my way to watch them perform in the past...but I am really grateful that I was given the chance to say goodbye to them last night...Paalam Sugarfree at salamat sa Musika.