Sing Along Magic

I used to enjoy karaoke sessions with my family and friends when I was younger. I was pretty shameless and didn't mind whether I was out of tune because I was having so much fun singing to my heart's delight.

My family and I used to frequent the many karaoke bars along Quezon City when I was still in the Philippines. The cost of eating and booking karaoke rooms were a bit costly so we decided to buy our own system and do the singing at home.

It wasn't as professional as the ones in the karaoke bars but the media unit came with high-quality accessories like a microphone that could pass as a shure sm58a beta microphone professional bands and artists use.

We had so many wonderful and happy memories using our sing along system until it had to conk out due to old age and over use.

Christmas Caroling

I have fond memories of my caroling days when I was still young. My friends and I would gather and discuss the different Christmas songs we would sing. Apart from, we would plan which house to visit and which one to skip. Everything would be written down to the last detail so everybody remembered the lyrics and how our caroling should go.

We didn't practice. We just decided to start caroling which coincided with the first Sunday of the Advent. We had so much fun the first night. We were chaperoned by one of my friends' sister so we had adult supervision. We did our first round in our street and our neighbors were delighted to see familiar faces singing beautiful (to me, we sounded like the best carolers in the world that time!) Christmas carols. Some of my male friends even brought their guitars and mini-organ which none of them knew how to play. They brought it for props and I say, it helped getting the much needed money or tip.

We caroled until Dec. 23 and we earned a decent amount of money. We split the money amongst ourselves and concluded our Christmas caroling activity that year. That was 1984. We had so much fun!

I miss those times. I am reminiscing the days of my youth and so happy that some of my friends from that caroling group is still around. I'm not sure if I can do any caroling again. I haven't sung for the longest time and when I do, I would sing praise to the Lord. Maybe in the privacy of my room but my songs of Christmas carols will all be for Him because it's His birthday. He deserves that praise in hymn.

TSA Choir Brings Christmas Cheer

Stressed travelers are greeted by singing TSA agents in LAX Airport. With all the negative publicity the "pat-downs" brought by the recent tight screening in most major airports in the US, this gesture is certainly a breath of fresh air. This is also a nice way to relieve tension and bring the Christmas spirit in a busy scene.

Watch them sing by clicking on the link below! Maybe they can make an album too :) They actually sing good. Good job TSA!

Singing TSA agents

Merry Christmas everyone, where ever you are right now :) Keep safe, keep warm and keep the spirit of Christmas alive. God Bless!

Charice Pempengco in Glee!

Charice is officially in Glee Season 2! Yehey! She is a Filipino international artist who rose to fame upon the discovery of her talent through You Tube.

She is the singer behind the top dance hit - Pyramid with Iyaz. She has also made headlines when she had a duet with no other than Andrea Bocelli and later sang duet with Celine Dion. She also had a guest stint at Oprah and Ellen de Generes show.

I am so glad she is making a name for herself now and international at that! She may have not won the local singing contest here in the Philippines but she surely won the following of her fans abroad! Go girl! You make us all proud!

And this will be bad news to Rachel Berry ;)