Madame Butterfly

This aria from Puccini's Madama Butterfly really made me sad. I haven't seen the whole opera but I know that Cio Cio San here will die. The aria has a message of hope and my favorite Prima Donna Maria Callas really put a lot of emotion in it.

the english translation of the Italian aria

Un Bel Di Vedremo / One good day, we will see

One good day, we will see
Arising a strand of smoke
Over the far horizon on the sea
And then the ship appears
And then the ship is white
It enters into the port, it rumbles its salute
Do you see it? He is coming!
I don't go down to meet him, not I.
I stay upon the edge of the hill
And I wait a long time
but I do not grow weary of the long wait
And leaving from the crowded city,
A man, a little speck
Climbing the hill.
Who is it? Who is it?
as he arrives
What will he say? What will he say?
He will call Butterfly from the distance
I without answering
Stay hidden
A little to tease him,
A little as to not die.
At the first meeting,
And then a little troubled
He will call, he will call
"Little one, dear wife
Blossom of orange"
The names he called me at his last coming.
All this will happen,
I promise you this
Hold back your fears -
I with secure faith wait for him.

The Original Prima Donna

First and foremost, "Prima Donna" is an Italian word for "First Lady", it's just that many Operatic Sopranos from the older days made the word synonymous to women who are temperamental, stubborn, vain, conceited et cetera. As I was blog hopping to the bag hag diaries, I found this picture of a birthday gift that was given by the oh so fabulous Imelda Marcos.


photo courtesy of the bag hag diaries

Mrs. Marcos is such a diva. Now I have an idea on what I should give as presents to friends hahaha. I'll have my most fabulous picture printed, framed and signed and give it to a friend who's having a birthday. Well I did that back in college hahaha, but not as a birthday gift. I gave pictures of me in my most glamorous state and wrote a dedication on it as a parting gift to some of my college cliques hahaha!

wtf?!

Now I am so in love with rico maierhofer hahaha!

he's the one dancing on the left side. WTF!?

power house divas

OMG! I never imagined that this day will come. Jennifer Holiday and Jennifer Hudson singing together the song that made the both of them. And I Am Telling You live at the 2007 BET Awards. Even Diana Ross who said that she didn't like Dream Girls gave the two divas a standing O.

Jennifer Hudson & Jennifer Holiday @ 2007 BET Awards
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different

what if it's the other way around? What if homesexual relationships are the ones who are normal and the heterosexual relationships are the ones considered different? This gay themed short film will show you how it will look like if us gays are considered normal in this world.

"different"


you might recognize that the lead actress here is from 'eating out'

why is she always playing a fag hag?

12 reasons why I will miss my BF homes

***I actually did this September last year for my friendster blog just a week before we moved here in Makati, that's why it's kinda dramatic***

waaaaaahhh.. I can't believe after this week we'll move to another village. I am still not yet ready for it. I basically grew up in BF, been staying here since 1998! but I never thought that I will fall in love with this place and I can't imagine that I will leave BF forever!

12 reasons why I will miss my BF homes


1. Our house: the house that heard all my vocalizations, late night concerts, voice rehearsals etc.

2. trikes: hahahahaha, the only trike that looked like a gondola of a ferris wheel, and they charge like a taxi! hahahaah

3. Streets: many streets became so memorable to me..especially Concha Cruz Drive where my house is located (the only street in BF that has an entire story in True Philippine Ghost Stories hahahaha) and streets that suffered while I was still having my driving lessons! Sorry! haha

4. SEX: no! it’s not what you think!, Sinangag EXpress, 24 hour fastfood!

5. BF MCDo: everytime I feel hungry after the long hours of commuting from UST and Makati, I make it a point to order a fries or a burger there!

6. Tropical Hut: grocery fabulouso! Hahahaha

7. Starbucks: the branch where I tasted my first Caramel Macchiato!

8. Ruins/Good Shepherd Bazaar: tiangge all year long! Instant movies in DVD even if it is not yet shown in cinemas

9. Parish of the Resurrection: The only church that can handle my Coloratura Soprano-esque voice haha

10. Boys: hot boys everywhere! Hahahaahahahahaha

11. People: everybody knows everybody, this is like a live version of friendster, you’ll have friends and acquaintances that know each other! Small world indeed!

12. Friends: you can’t find them in any village except in BF Homes, Parañaque..awwww huhuhu

Well there comes a time that you need to let go of cherished things and places and I guess now’s the time for me. (so much drama! I know) But well at least we are going back to the place where I learned how to swim like a mermaid haha, but then I will truly miss my BF for sure…

I’ve already seen our house in Magallanes Village, Makati and I can say that it’s much better compared to our house here in BF but it’s not that easy to make friends especially if you are new in that place (we’re not literally new because we had a place in Galleria de Magallanes before) I hope I can sleep well at night and I also hope that I will not feel home sicked. But I will truly promise that the Voice will be back! Hahahahaah can’t wait for the Return of the Voice.

***Now I can say that I much prefer staying here in Makati because this is like New York City, you can actually live here all your life without leaving the whole vicinity, because we have everything here. The only downer here is that I haven't got any friends yet in our village..hahaha (so what, as if I had friends in my neighborhood in BF Homes before. I only had friends in that village because I attended my junior and senior highschool there) aside from that, the city is perfect. Before, I actually dreamt of building my dream house in Ayala Alabang Village (I know! it's in another city but BF Homes and AAV are just near with each other), but when i found out that Makati is a much more modern and convenient place, I prefer to have my own house in either Dasmariñas Village or Forbes Park hahahaha***

Absinth/Bedspace Saturday

Last Saturday, my new gimmick BFF Chessy and I went out. As usual, our supposed "college friends" snubbed it...so the two of us just decided to push it through. Well at first I was hesitant to go because we might get bored..haha.. We first visited Bedspace bar at GB3 so we can meet our friend Navi, who is the manager there. She gave us rhum coke for free! It feels so good to have fabulous friends hahaha, you get to go somewhere else and have lots of perks and fun. While enjoying our cigarettes and free drinks, 2 guys approached Navi who's in our table and talked to her. The first guy is so cocky / presko even though he's not that blessed with looks(i'm so mean), that he just sat there in our table automatically, he speaks English to everyone else even though they can speak fluently in Filipino, the other guy is kinda cute (hihi), he's tall and kinda look like my local celebrity crush *blush*. I thought at first the 2 of them just came here from America, but as our conversation went on, I found out that they were just working in a call center company.. Oh ok... I have nothing against people who are working as a call center agent, it's just that I find it a bit jarring that the two guys are showing off that they can speak English fluently... I mean, so what? As if it's French or something that it's so cool to be able to converse in it. The Philippines is an English speaking country, that language is part of the curriculum of every schools, colleges and universities here. Thank god the guy I'm speaking with during that night is kinda cute or else I could've snapped and told him, "Uhm, Earth calling you, we are in the Philippines and we all can speak Filipino here in this table".. (hmmm but don't you find me kinda hypocrite, that all my blog entries here are all in English? hahahaha well this is the world wide web.. We have blog hoppers here who are from other countries...) Thank God, the two guys left our table, I thought its like one of those "Bad dates" that you're stuck with, that I've been seeing on tv shows. Another manager friend of Navi invited us to drop by at Absinth, so we just went there for free!. The bar is so overloaded, its like being inside an overloaded public utility vehicle..urgh.. So we decided to go out just after 3 minutes. We went back to Bedspace and just talked to Navi. We noticed that the people there are starting to dissapear because the bar have already been out of beers (a bar without a beer is like suicide!). So Chessy and I decided to go back to Absinth even though it's so humid there.. It feels like the whole place is filled with hundreds of humidifiers... We just danced there like crazy up to 3am hahahaha!!!! Well the sounds there are too good that we just can't leave the place. After the dancing we were all so sweaty that we just decided to go home... Look at us!:


buhbye!