I WAS THERE where and when it happened! I watched the first leg of Alanis Morissette’s 2-month solo tour in the North America to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of her phenomenal album "Jagged Little Pill". The venue was at the Wang Center in the heart of Boston last June 17. She promised a special tour that is strictly personal and intimately acoustic and she more than delivered it!
We paid a total of $75.00 each for the tickets ($69.50 base price plus tax and $3.00 facility fee!). It was a little more than what I wanted to pay for a concert BUT this was an Alanis concert afterall! She mesmerized, impressed, captivated an SRO crowd of more than two thousand! It was such a great evening! It started as a bummer for me as my boyfriend and I arrived late for Jason Mraz! He was the front act and he started promptly at 8pm. We arrived there barely hearing his last song for the night! 
Then Alanis came onstage after a 15 minute break and the crowd just went wild. She was wearing a simple black tank top and black pants with light make up and believe it or not, she was wearing bangs!! If she wasn’t Alanis, she couldn’t have gotten away with very short bangs like that! Another bummer was cameras were not allowed inside the theater! I had to make do with my 3650 Nokia phone and of course all I got were lousy long shots and 9 second video clippings! Sigh. I just have to think of that night while listening to the "Jagged Little Pill (JPL) Acoustic" album I bought from the concert.
For Alanis fans, as you know JPL first came out 10 years ago on June 13th. Now last June 13, 2005 she released JPL Acoustic with all the songs intact and in the same order as the first album. This time though, she’s more subdued. The years has mellowed her down. She’s not angry anymore but she still speaks of pain and hurts and truthts. What’s amazing in the album is the lyrics’ timelessness. A decade old of songs and the youth of today still knows her and sings her songs!
A decade made Alanis tougher, sensible and mature. Brave enough to stand up to insert a political stand on the song that made her a household name. If you listen closely to the lyrics of "Ironic" in the JPL Acoustic she changed one word and hopes it makes all the difference. "It’s meeting the man of my dreams, then meeting his beautiful husband." In the original version, she sang: "It’s meeting the man of my dreams, then meeting his beautiful wife." She said that she has a lot of homosexual friends and its a way of acknowledging their presence in the society- that they too are free to do whatever they want and all, even marry! You’ll know the implications of that one word. Will the conservatives react?! I shouldn’t think so.
So Alanis is back! She has a lot going for her. She’s engaged to actor Ryan Reynolds. She is the new endorser for the Gap Clothing Company who also recently signed in Pop/R&B British sensation Joss Stone as Gap Model; and her JPL Acoustic is making well in the US market, never mind if other music stores are mad at her for making an exclusive contract with Starbucks for the album release in the US. The JPL album will be available worldwide in stores everywhere on July 26.
Grab a copy! I assure you, it’s worth every penny!
"I’ll call you,"
That’s what you said
The Sunday we met,
So I waited and waited and waited.
Still you haven’t called
Whatever it is you’re doing,
Can’t you spare a minute
To give me a ring?
Tonight is Wednesday
And as I sit here anticipating,
Constantly praying
All of a sudden I know.
I can sit here now forever
And snivel altogether
Until the tears run salty on my cheeks
For all of a sudden I know.
I know what the stars have known
All the time.
You’ll never, never call…
Never.
KIST (kist) n. Scot. A chest or box; also kist.vaen (kist’vin) ____________________________
* Kist is the official collection of literary works of the students of Davao Doctors College, Philippines. Copyright 1994 . * Editor-in-chief: Kist and The Clarion, Official publication of the students of Davao Doctors College. SY 93-95
"I’ll call you," that’s what I said
The Sunday we met,
But each time I tried
My mind just fretted.
Every day I pick up the phone
To spare my minutes to call
But I am afraid I’d sound like a clown
And so I turn away.
Tonight is Wednesday
And as I sit here waiting,
Aching to call you
All of a sudden I know.
I can sit here now forever
And snivel altogether
Until the tears run salty on my cheeks
For all of a sudden I know.
I know what the stars have known
All the time.
I would have made that call
If only I had the courage.
KIST (kist) n. Scot. A chest or box; also kist.vaen (kist’vin) ____________________________
* Kist is the official collection of literary works of the students of Davao Doctors College, Philippines. Copyright 1994. * Editor-in-chief: Kist and The Clarion, Official publication of the students of Davao Doctors College. SY 93-95
Love be still.
Love be real.
To keep this moment forever etched.
To feel this way.
Home is all that you are.
Home is everywhere that you are.
Home is where I wanna be.
With you.
I’m an easy prey to ‘abuse’ because I’m too trusting and tends to believe on the innate goodness of every person I meet. BUT I’m not going to talk about that oddity or is that idiocy?! I’m going to talk about the only man whom I completely and fully trust with my life. And there is only one man ever!
I’ve known him for 31 years. He’s your perfect guy (almost!). He is handsome, God-fearing, sensitive, intelligent, caring, thoughtful, funny, stubborn, adamant even! He knows when to talk and when to listen. He’d hear your stories no matter how boring or how many times you’ve told him. He offers to drive you anywhere, even just around the corner to satisfy a balot (unhatched duck egg) craving. He’d patiently wait for you while you shop in the girls/women’s section til the store closes! He’s at your every school activity, even volunteering to join a committee just to please you. He knows all your cuts and bruises and mends them while scolding you for getting them in the first place! He picks up your friends regardless of distance from each house and takes each one of them back home too! He bought you your first bicycle. He taught you how to ride them. He bought you your first atari when it first came out (never mind if you had to cry and wail for it!). Bought you your first Tretorn in the then famous imported shoe-haven Cartimar (this was the 80’s!) (…and with the same crying effect!). He takes you to the beach. He takes you travelling to great places! He taught you how to drive and how to drive carefully! He appreciates and encourages your passions. Your triumphs are his and your woes and worries are his to carry as well. You can always count on him for anything and I mean anything. He supports you through and through whichever side of the fence you are. Above all, he doesn’t smoke, drink or gamble.
His only flaw is that in most cases he is a passivist. In a fight or flight response, he’d more likely to hide than fight. There were trials when we needed for him to stand up and he failed. Mom, strong and composed as ever, pulled us out through the storms. He didn’t want changes. He didn’t want leaving his comfort zone. He is weak when confronted with tribulations. Then again for all that he is, what he has given to me, my mom and my sisters, how he influenced and shaped our lives to be better- somehow makes up for that soft character.
I sure do love this guy! I’m not his favorite (ha!) but he’s got so much love to give for all of us that it doesn’t even mean that he loves me less! We all have our favorites, you’d have to respect that. Through all my angry years with my mom, he’s been there. I have been a difficult child to raise, I admit that. 
He (along with my mom and sisters) has put up with my idiosyncrasies and eccentricities all these years! I’m proud of him and am proud to be his daughter. He’ll always have that spot in my heart that no one can ever fill. I love him oh so dearly and I make sure he knows it! And if he happens to come across this post, here’s to you dad: "You have my love, trust and respect for always! Happy Father’s Day! I couldn’t have asked for a better father…"
Between you and me, what is here
compared with what is there?
I’d rather be spending time
at home counting sheeps
than be spending time at bars, counting beers.
I’d rather be spending time
thinking of you, your naughty smile,
your teasing eyes meeting mine
than be spending time at malls, counting stores.
I’d rather be spending time
dreaming of better days
for you and me than be spending time
doing nothing at all, killing time.
Between you and me are some major cities
Several small towns, a bunch of lakes
and rivers and a whole lot of valleys and oceans.
Between you and me,
wish you were here,
wish i was there.
I WAS THERE where and when it happened! I watched the first leg of Alanis Morissette’s 2-month solo tour in the North America to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of her phenomenal album "Jagged Little Pill". The venue was at the Wang Center in the heart of Boston last June 17. She promised a special tour that is strictly personal and intimately acoustic and she more than delivered it!
We paid a total of $75.00 each for the tickets ($69.50 base price plus tax and $3.00 facility fee!). It was a little more than what I wanted to pay for a concert BUT this was an Alanis concert afterall! She mesmerized, impressed, captivated an SRO crowd of more than two thousand! It was such a great evening! It started as a bummer for me as my boyfriend and I arrived late for Jason Mraz! He was the front act and he started promptly at 8pm. We arrived there barely hearing his last song for the night! 
Then Alanis came onstage after a 15 minute break and the crowd just went wild. She was wearing a simple black tank top and black pants with light make up and believe it or not, she was wearing bangs!! If she wasn’t Alanis, she couldn’t have gotten away with very short bangs like that! Another bummer was cameras were not allowed inside the theater! I had to make do with my 3650 Nokia phone and of course all I got were lousy long shots and 9 second video clippings! Sigh. I just have to think of that night while listening to the "Jagged Little Pill (JPL) Acoustic" album I bought from the concert.
