I am no fan of Coldplay. They are too boring for me. But yeah, I just leave them alone.  Even if my girlfriend loves this one cover of Love Song that transitions to Viva La Vida.

A friend of mine posted a link on Facebook stating that Joe Satriani sued coldplay for plagiarism. It turns out significant portions of Viva la vida is copied off a 2004 track from Satch entitled If I could fly.

Joe Satriani has been an influence to a lot of musicians around the world. He’s respected by a lot of artists, even Steve Vai gives respect to Satch… As for Coldplay, obviously have no respect for him.  They think that by removing the lead guitar, adding violins and vocals will make it original and ok? Come on man, we have ears!

I have total respect for Satch and will take his side on this.

You guys even made my blog go out of hibernation. Coldplay, you guys suck. I wonder how you can sleep at night with all that ripping off (it turns out this is not the first time).

Here are the links for your guys perusal:

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Article: Joe Satriani Coldplay for Viva la vida Plagiarism

Yeah. Maybe I am just I’m a bit biased. Coldplay over Joe Satriani? Satch Boogie! Hands down! Hahaha

As usual, change is a constant thing in life. I have done a lot of that lately: Taking some things in life more seriously, some slowly and some i take in more childish and simple ways. Life is good.

I’ve been continously learning a lot of things in and out of work. For the past 2 weeks I vae been training in ASP AJAX, the e-commerce approach, reapplying database designing the way our colelge prof taught us (Sir Butch Bituonan) and more recently, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). I’m happy I’ve been usefull to Noel and Willy’s team I just left to be transferred to TJs, I managed to design a part of the template/result generation module of the project and I think they’re happy with what I’ve done. Whew. I thought my backend design prowess (if I ever had) was already buried 6 feet under. I’m excited. Really. The company has given me so much time and resource to learn and adapt to newer technologies and they have been supportive of the idea that I am a designer primarily/more than a programmer. Its really cool. I thank the TMG for the stuff that have been added to my well of knowledge.

Out of the office, there are also things that I have been working on. I’ve been practicing on e-commerce using worpress and general template design. A design for my blog is in the works (a photoblog, even though I dont have a camera yet), i’ll be building this one from scratch. Also, the Shred4Christ Webby and forum mockup is done and functioning. All I need are the data from my fellow members which I haven’t heard from for weeks. I’ve been waiting for their testimonials and other stuff for the site. Hopefully they get done with it before May. So I’ve been using Wordpress as a CMS and i think I’ll be transitioning to Joomla within a few months. Well, I won’t leave wordpress for good, I love its simplicity but knowing a lot of technology is a good thing for me since I aspire for a ________ position. Hahaha.

Our band Nimbus Crowd is finalizing a 4 song demo, we’r ejust waiting up for our drummer’s tracks and we’re done we’ll be having our practice this friday and I must say that I’m really itching for it. The songs are really beautiful, I love singing for them.  Even France knows the songs!

Yesterday was my first session in the gym next door. It’s a Barako Gym, nothing near to fitness first: the way we like it. Oh boy did my muscles ache. The trainer (as well as Jack our drummer) said that I should bulk up, meaning eat 6-7 times per day and sleep properly.

Yeaaahhh. Lots of things happening sometimes I dont have enough time to write about them.

That’s it for now, I’m going to the gym. See you!

[WARNING: There will be a lot of cursing I think in this post]

Did you ever wake up one day and be reminded that you’re turning 26 and that you have absolutely no idea how the hell are you gonna get by another day again without screwing things up? Maybe wake up and realize that you really ARE alone. That maybe fairy tales really don’t come true and you really can get fucked up. For real.

Yeah. ‘Cause I just realized, there are really only a few people you can love you the way you really are. My mom, I made her go through a lot. I broke her heart lots of times, screwed up and basically for more than half of my life I’ve been a screw-up, a fuck-up and a dimwit son. But guess what, more years down the road, sometimes she gets tired of my bullshit but she never gave up on me. I thank her for that. My dad, who basically hates my guts and me not having enough balls to stand up and do the right things. I salute you. There was a time when you were my idol and now I realize you still are (you can’t and won’t do a motorcycle stunt but you’re still a great dad). My kid brother who when I was younger was my punching bag but now a really close friend. My friends. My very close friends, the ones who stuck with me through thick and thin. Laughed and cried with me and for most of my life, got drunk with me and whatever. Never forced them to be with me but they still stayed. WTF am I blabbering about. Arrrgh.

Seasons come and go. We all go gray and wrinkled. We wont stay in the same places we were a few years ago.There were times that most of you i could expect to just popup whenever I feel shitty but we all got our lives now and its just not the same anymore. I can’t waltz into the department store and view their selection on discounted friends who can love you for what you are.Maybe I should get a dog. A very annoying one. WTF am I talking about. I don’t know what I am talking about. Then again, most of the time I don’t know what I am talking about.

My head is going to explode so I am just going to lie down and count the big bad wolf chase the sheep on my ceiling till I fall asleep…