I grew up in MTV not in cartoon network

Hop in. I’ll take you back to me.

Classics.

Not exactly so MTV but as early as 6, I was lucky to have experienced all-time loved classics.

Yesterday by the Beatles was my first ever favorite piece in the piano— some 3 months before my tutor came teaching me. I’m proud to say I learned the melody by myself through widowing.

What can I do? I had a lot of time snooping at my parents’ records at home. So I was already into Carpenters (all of their songs) at 2nd or 3 rd grade I guess. I memorized them by heart with 4 sets of old cassette tapes with its paired compilation of lyrics. Goodbye to Love is my favorite.

Up to now I could almost cry singing this. Ironically, it reminds me of my really really young years at home. Carpenters taught me how to sing.

My cousin Ate Fen would usually sing Buloy by Parokya while doing her Algebra. So I would sing the song every time I’d hear it while traveling from school to home. I thought I was the coolest kid then. Whapack.

I supposed I already discovered alternative music after the ballad stage so I started idolizing guess who? Alanis Moresette with Ironic.

And Cranberries with Ode To My Family. Do-dododo-do-dododo was my motivation. haha.

And Natalie Imbruglia with Torn. (Oh I’m am so nostalgic na.)

And finally, one other memorable song Joy-ann and I directed for Children’s Theater with Sir Orzales (as far as I remember) is Tara Tena.

A real bite off the MTV sandwich

Boy bands and their Wowie air:

I was suddenly so engrossed with  Give it to Me Baby by Offspirng and the Aha-aha.

“Uno, dos, tres, quatro, sinco sinco, seis”

Of course, of course, who didn’t notice Britney Spears’ legandary Hit Me Baby One More Time?

Everybody seemed to want to go to Brentwood that time.

1990’s means boy groups singing with THAT hair. And THAT hair means no one else but Backstreet Boys. This was my favorite.

It was during this time when we THOUGHT we could start a band. We named it Second Childhood (We had delusions of being grown-ups ever since) so we started practicing singing and dancing with this song.

And of course Hanson. I love them– Soliel and I actually. We were crazy about them.

Oh well, she is, with Zac.

Now here’s a little story about the Moffats:  My best friend, Len, who was bunso to 5 girls in the family so loved a Moffat– Bob.

So, I learned to love Clint and the Moffats too. This was our favorite.

Backstreet means Nick Carter and Nick Carter means Aaron Carter. He is my age and I was so pissed to learn then that he was 4′9. I thought you you were not supposed to like a boy smaller than you are. haha.

This was my farewell song to that little crush on him.

So I liked Gil Ofarim more. Yay.

…on to the pink power girls

First in line is Charina and her Spice Girls:

She was Sporty Spice and everybody including me wanted to be Baby Spice (oh please)

Again, I cried with this farewell song. They were so part of our recess.

Also The Corrs and Charina’s tapes:

Really classical.

Now Krissa here brings me to TLC. For Pete’s sake, we were singing the Unpretty song until sophomore year.

Krissa loves Left-eye.

…also Angel by Monica. I spent a whole day in frustration trying to imitate her voice.

So I thought I could imitate Emilia’s voice better.

Until now, I still sing this song with Rosekath in the piano.

Jovie, yes, it was in almost all breaks we would sing M2M’s. (We were self-procLaimed J2J and Angelo was so sick of it. haha.) Technically, Brian and Cesar would lend me CD’s… saying it’s their sister’s. haha.

Take care Bri, wherever you are. I  miss the days.

I seem to have ended my pop days with Mandy Moore’s Cry. The song and the movie were both very very significant to me.

I decided to read the book A Walk To Remember 4 years after had it not been for boredom at a cold nothing-to-do Frisco airport.  I still cried.

High school days and almost random.

It was always a busy year for me in high school but I still needed to grow up.

And technically, I wasn’t to get tired of music.

I loved Black Stabilo.

I almost cried when they said I was for ballads. WHHHAAAT? So Trisha, our drummer, suggested Three Small Words for me.

I felt very comfortable with it. I sang it for almost a month every morning in the shower.

We were born as Greenday kids– so including Prince (He looks like the vocalist na tuloy). So we still live by it. This is my forever favorite.

Another favorite song is I quit by Hepburn, very alternative.

Trisha and I were so practicing the Messiah word a lot times during PE class.

Avril Lavigne of course always comes into picture. The rock debut will of course always be memorable.

Eloisa even wrote the lyrics in this torn notebook paper while singing it I thing in Sewing Class (Yawness). The Chill out opening was so rockish.

Another rock classic I won’t dare forget. All American Rejects with Swing Swing.

Darn guys you were all so good. Reena on the piano, Trish on the drums, Donna with the awesome lead guitar and I was on the vocals.

Did you hear the interlude? Donna did that.

Who else? Yes. Simple Plan.

It was intramurals I so remember very well, when Trisha lent me this CD.

And so, I learned what Saddie Hawkin’s Dances are.

College days, Sundays, and rainy days.

Rainy days and Sundays in college would mean no class days so that would mean a lot of bonding time with Kuya Jerbie (a total genius in every musical aspect), Rosekath, a pianist and violinist, and the rest of my other dormies.

1. There was the HSM culture- with Doc Ben, Kuya Leo, Ate Kim, Kuya Jerome, Ate Lily, and Kuya Jaydee, Ate Claire and Sergio.

2. The Ballad duets with Kuya Jerbie and Kuya Dominic

3. Disney Classics

4. More 90’s

5. And finally the many dorm songs that we so treasure.

So this is where I have been growing up since.

And since then, I have always wondered I carry a Spongebob bag to school.