No, I didn’t gain weight but I’m back to making another Moleskine notebook fat once again.

This notebook is for my bucket list.

This is an art I lost for sometime. I found myself one random night where I stayed up just coloring away and being messy with my oil pastels. It’s great to be back into making these things. It will be challenging to compile neatly as I see myself having quite a collection of these little notebooks filled with artworks. I’m talking massive collection that is almost like a library! Haha.

I also took a blogging hiatus while being busy with amazing projects for equally amazing clients. I almost quit, too, just because sometimes thinking and rethinking things can mess with your head. There’s nothing to be ashamed about. My mom has always been worried about me running my own business as both of my parents worked as employees- you know, the benefits and security of being employed by a big company. Here’s what I told her: “Mom, if I work as a graphic designer then the highest position I will get is Art Director and that is not even guaranteed. I aim for higher things like being the President.” Lol. But I was serious no matter how funny I sounded. The truth of the matter is, I am the President of my own company and I’m living my dream. Anyway, the conversation with my mom ended on a positive note because it renewed my faith in what I wanted out of life. And so the journey continues, in creating my bucket list, I am getting creative not just in a crafty way but in mapping out my life as well.

Our Sundays are usually spent lamenting the heat of the afternoon. Sometimes, when we’re lucky, we have ice cream. And sometimes, when we’re really lucky, it rains.

Oh the joy of playing in the rain! I did get jealous of my niece and nephew and spent time under the weeping sky. Just that I didn’t look as cute as them. Lol. Anyway, the key is to have fun. And we surely did.

I hope you guys enjoyed the pictures and it’s never too late to get a good soak in the rain if you haven’t tried it yet.

Tribute is a series of artworks designed in honor of people, websites, interesting things, etc. For our Volume 3, it is about the Eraserheads. This band’s music made such a big impact in the Philippine music industry. It is wrong to say that they were just a band. It is unfair to say that their songs were merely, just songs. The Eraserheads, although they disbanded years ago, still affects people with their timeless music.

From tasteful renditions of songs, a pink Hello Kitty guitar to sneakers, guitar picks, drumsticks thrown about, and personal pictures and videos taken, we all went home swelling with pride. I wished the people sang more and jumped more, but I guess at this day and age of blogs and Youtube, people are so into recording moments. My brother, who is the biggest Eraserheads fan I know, beamed like a kid on Christmas day. I’m actually thankful he was that addicted to the band because I didn’t have to review the songs since Eraserheads music was like air in our house. I really believe in the importance of doing your homework in knowing at least most of the songs, that way you’ll notice the slightest changes and the real effort of such geniuses in putting on an epic show. Actually, even noticing the inevitable disorientation and forgetting lyrics, it is all part of the show. The band is composed of humans after all. It adds to fun and makes you chuckle. To me, this is one of the best concerts I have been to.

More than just a concert, it was a celebration of great Filipino music. We also paid tribute to our master rapper, Francis M. who died days before the event. At one part of the concert, we shouted his name and sang the chorus of his extraordinary song Kaleidoscope World while waving our hands in the air. Hence, Tribute 3.0’s kaleidoscope design. Here’s to genuinely passionate artists. Thanks for giving us walang humpay na Ligaya (never-ending happiness) through your music.

All photos courtesy of Dino Lara and Madge Lejano.