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Just to sum up this past 2 days in 1 word, Incredible. Being able to play music for a bigger purpose is always awesome. It's more than welcome. Also, I'm kinda jealous of my guitar, Phoebe. She just got played by a pretty interesting girl. And that specific moment. That's cool. It gives me joy just remembering it. It's heart-warming. More than that. It's being of service to something bigger than me and my life. That certain knowledge that in a small way hopefully I've affected another person's life in a positive way. Saturday was a time for community. Sunday is for family. It's always nice having the relatives around. It's also way nicer having my brothers around the house. And having that small bit of talk with our dad. Priceless. Nothing will ever amount to those moments. Having the opportunity to converse about life issues. Incredibly grateful for my Dad.

In a very touching speech upon accepting the coach of the year award Mike Budenholzer, coach of the Atlanta Hawks, thanks his players, his staff, his father, his family, and Gregg Popovich.  "I was very very fortunate to be so close to a coach who has done so much for our league, done so much for so many coaches and has shared so much with me. I can't even begin to articulate how thankful i am of all the things I've learned.  But I thought the thing that Pop did for me, and did for a lot of coaches is he let me coach. And it seems really simple. And that's part of the beauty about being with Pop, being around Pop is sometimes the things that are most successful are very very simple and he let us coach. He let us coach with him and he always talks about how his players have allowed themselves to be coached by pop.  I think I speak for myself and a ton of my colleagues, it's a long list, that I get to speak publicly and thank pop for letting us coach with h...

"This is why i got back in, for the juice, for the competitiveness for the winning and the losing..." -Steve Kerr I like this mindset. It's acknowledging both sides of the story. The winning and the losing. The failures and successes.  The losing is as much a part of the bigger picture as is the winning. Y ou learn more from failures than your wins.

The Pacquiao-Mayweather fight is up in the next few weeks. I could care less about the outcome of the match. They're both going to be historic figures either way. To be honest, I'm looking forward more on how Filipinos would react after the match.  That's kind of a good gauge of maturity. Maybe we've grown. There is a right attitude to winning and losing after all.

Surprised at the quality of this film. I remember the side-story of Alfred. I remember it because I was a kid when news of that came out. There wasn't a name. Just some guy that supposedly robbed from an airplane. Some people gossiped about it. How it would have been lucky if some money flew down from the clouds. I never really knew what happened to the guy. Or it was never told. I remember he was just not found. I was mildly surprised when this was used in this film.  I may not want to admit it. But the story, overall, was believable.  It's hard not to  empathize with Oscar's character. If he had done the right thing, their lives wouldn't turn. He'd go back to being an armored truck driver. His wife the same. His options still limited. But who knows, if he'd returned the box, he may have been given a reward. He'd have earned the trust of the owner. Maybe, maybe not. The themes used in this film are quite common in let's say contemporary Filipin...

The feed came up. Urbandub is disbanding. I felt sick.  The feeling was close to something like having broken up with someone. It was April 1. So on the far recesses of my mind, "maybe this is an April Fool's day prank" Then the next day came. and the next day. No news. This is serious. This is real. They're really disbanding. The thought never really occurred up until that moment. They were and still is my personal benchmark of a band. The gold standard. I look up to them. They seemed like good people. They were relatable.  2000's. I was too young for Eraserheads, Rivermaya and other great bands that came before. I was right in that formative, arduous years called adolescence and early adulthood.  I remember my brother had new music. The first song I heard from Urbandub was Soul Searching. I remembered at that moment through those first few notes on a heavy riff, this is good. This is something different. Their songs were pretty much a part of my expe...