Eraserheads and Fall Out Boy

My all time favorite OPM band and my favorite band today. Both are having their concerts soon, FOB on Feb 13, and E-heads on March 7. I really want to watch both but I can't stop thinking about the P3,000 pesos that I would spend for each. I have the money now but thinking about how I managed to save that much makes me not want to spend it for just a night's experience. Never in my life have I wanted to watch a concert so badly, except that of FOB's on 2007 and that of E-head's last year.

I wasn't able to watch both for different reasons. When Fall Out Boy came, I learned that they would have an autograph signing at the SM Mall of Asia so I decided to go there instead. I thought that meeting them personally and keeping an autographed "Infinity on High" would be a million times better than paying 3,000 pesos only to see them as big as ants performing their songs. I cut my 3-hour class and got there an hour before the scheduled time only to find out that only the first 200 people will be allowed to have a SINGLE FREAKING ITEM autographed. I did manage to see the band personally but there's too many people and I was so far away that the pictures that I took with my low-res phone were too blurry. Didn't even got a souvenir. I don't even want to talk about why I wasn't able to watch the E-heads reunion concert.

Anyway, this time, it seems that I wouldn't be able to watch Fall Out Boy again. My brother will have his JS Prom on the same date and I'm the only one who can drive him there and back home. I'm here hoping that they'll have another autograph signing. If they would have one, I'll be at the entrance before it opens. I'm really looking forward to the E-heads concert though. So far, everything is going well so that I can watch it, but I'm still waiting for my sister to buy the tickets.

My first entry for the year...

...and it's all about keeping this blog alive.

I'm really really satisfied on how this blog turned out so erasing it is not an option. It's been a long while since I posted another entry. I need something to motivate me to keep this blog running. I've been thinking of possible entries to add up to my blog. I go out and see movies with my family and friends from time to time but I just don't feel reviewing them. I'm not into music this year as I was about a year ago. I've been a fan of Mitch Albom and J.K. Rowling but I don't really read books. And I'm not the type of person who goes out every time.

I thought that to keep this blog updated, I should post something that I am really interested in. I thought about video games and said, why not? Who doesn't like them anyway? I've been a fan of Role Playing Games since my childhood. I specially love those of Square Enix's. I'm a different kind of gamer. I don't play games because of it's popularity, graphics, and gameplay, but they sure help. I play video games much like watching a movie or reading a novel. I like them for their stories. If you play RPGs, I'm sure you'll understand. So I've decided to include video game entries from time to time.

On my phones: Folie a Deux

I finally have a copy of Fall Out Boy's latest album! I'm so happy! Thanks for the gift, Ate Lea!

There are thirteen new F.O.B. songs on this album, five bonus tracks, and a downloadable bonus song with the use of the CD online. It also comes with a poster and a pin. Sweetness. Too bad it didn't have a lyrics sheet.

Unfortunately, I'm having problems getting the bonus song online so I haven't got the chance to listen to it yet. But it's not a problem at all considering the other eighteen tracks on the album. I've only played through the album three times and I still haven't familiarized myself to all of the songs and so far, these are the ones that I like:

Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes
I Don't Care [We already heard this one]
America's Suitehearts
Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet
The (Shipped) Gold Standard
What A Catch, Donnie [My favorite song on this album. Check my previous post]
20 Dollar Nose Bleed [Also my favorite]

It's pure F.O.B. goodness. However, I loved more songs on their previous album [Infinity on High] and I like that one over this. If you like their music and still haven't got any of their albums, I suggest that you buy Infinity on High first, but Folie a Deux doesn't disappoint. Happy Holidays!

Edit: I'll add "Tiffany Blews" as one of my favorites.

The song for Fall Out Boy fans: What A Catch, Donnie

It may not look like it but I'm a big fan of Fall Out Boy. Their new album, titled "Folie A Deux," was just released last December 16. I still can't find a copy here in the Philippines so I listened to their new songs online. I ended up finding this.



It's one of their slower songs like "I'm like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off," and I instantly liked it. Then towards the end of the song, surprise, surprise! I heard this: "Where is your boy tonight I hope he is a gentleman." Wow. It turns out that they included lines from their previous singles into the song. Each were sung by different guest artist. Here they are:

3:00 Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet* Elvis Costello
3:45 Grand Theft Autumn Gabe Saporta
3:52 Sugar, We're Going Down Travis McCoy
4:00 Dance, Dance Brendon Urie
4:07 This Ain't A Scene, It's an Arms Race Doug Neuman
4:14 Thnks Fr Th Mmrs Alex Deleon
4:21 Growing Up William Beckett

*Their second single from the same album.

I know. They're all short. But they all make the already beautiful song a whole lot better. One more reason for me to love Fall Out Boy.

The term ends

I guess this is the end for my MANCOMM reports. [Haha! Kala mo naman napakarami nun. Ü] I'm kinda satisfied on how this blog turned out so I won't end it here. I still have a few stuff inside my head to blog about, but I don't think that I can blog very often from now on. We'll see. Depende na lang kung ganahan ako talaga. Besides, I don't have much to blog about. My social life is not as broad and exciting as most bloggers out here. But I guess that's what makes this one different.

To Ms. Aileen Apolo, I'm really happy to be part of your first class ever and I really appreciate that you forced us to do blogs. I know I'm a newbie and giving positive feedback is a big thing coming from what I've heard to be one of the best known bloggers in the Philippines. I hope you continue teaching as I try to continue blogging. [Okaayyy... Masyadong sipsip ang dating so I'll stop here. Ü]

Thanks for the 2.5

MANACOM Report 4: Doublemint mints

I'm sure that you've seen this by now. Wrigley's Doublemint, one of the best known chewing gum in the Philippines, is now selling mints. Yep. Sugarfree mints in fact. But why though? Chewing gums are proven to be very beneficial. It controls craving, releaves stress, improves oral health, and makes you stay focused. I doubt that mints can do better. Maybe a lot of people just like mints. I do.

But why release it in the Philippines? It cost a whopping 79.50 pesos on the supermarket, and as much as 85 freaking pesos on other stores. People can buy doublemint gums anytime anywhere for a peso each.

Maybe it's a sort of social responsibility thing of Wrigley's. People just doesn't want to throw their trash properly [despite the reminders on every single wrigley gum wrapper]. Gum wrappers are everywhere and chewed gums under everything. There are no wrappers to throw when you have a recyclable container. Recyclable how? I can't think of anything to place it with and we ended up having six of them lying around my sister's bookshelves.

Yep. Six. We just like the stuff. Three Eclipse mints and two Extra mints from our trip to Hong Kong and Macau, and the Doublemint mints that I just bought recently. What's the difference between the three? Extra is very, very, very strong. Akala ko habambuhay ako maglalaway sa sobrang anghang. Between Eclipse and Doublemint, not a thing. They're the same mints, same flavors [Peppermint and Winterfrost. Who comes up with a flavor named winterfrost?! HELLO?!] in different containers.

What else can I say? The chewing gum is the more practical choice, but like I said, we just like the mints. I have always preferred chewing Orbit gum (another one of Wrigley's) over other gums, candies, and stuff. Maybe I'll just try the winterfrost flavor of doublemint before switching back. As much as I love the mints, they're just too much pricey for me.

Mas beneficial, mas mura, at mas matagal maubos ang chewing gum.
Mas masarap nga lang yung mints. Hay buhay.

MANACOM Report 3, Pugad Dencio's

Here's another post regarding my "thoughts and discoveries about communication strategies being used by practitioners," which is the point of making this blog in the first place.

This time, it's about the communication strategy made by Dencio's. If you haven't noticed yet, [Yeah, I know, It's been going on for quite a while] they are being endorsed by Pugad Baboy's creator, Pol Medina Jr., and my favorite band, Sugarfree. They even made a song called "Pugad" and its brilliant music video featuring the some of the Pugad Baboy residents. They have a bonus disc for this that comes with the "Sugarfree LIVE!" album. For me, it can't get any better than that.

I haven't got the chance to actually eat at Dencio's since the endorsing began, but I did saw the changes that they made to the place. From the outside, you can already see the windows covered with pictures of the band with the Pugad Baboy characters eating. That's all there is [from what I've seen] and they're everywhere. My friend, Maruel, mentioned that even their menus have the same thing. [Visit his blog!]

I wonder how much they spent on this project. Convincing both PMJr and the Sugarfree to endorse them looks expensive, with the music video and all, the billboards, their website, other promotional stuff, and the changes that they've done on all their branches in the country. I think that it will be worth it. A lot of people are fans of their endorsers and I may be one of the biggest fans of both of them. Next time I'll be celebrating something, it will definitely be at Dencio's.