I think I’ve failed. Cause I missed blogging yesterday. By I do not accept it. Because it was just noobness on my part and not actual lack of trying..

So I’ll just blog twice today. And to punish myself further, I’ll do it all on my iPhone.

Lol. I gues I should start with the reason I failed: The Big Bang Theory. The tv show, I mean. I am officially caught up after only three years… That’s actualy pretty good cause most othe tv shows I get into a season or more after it started, it uually takes longer.

Take Friends, for example, which I didn’t get into until maybe 6 seasons in. Then Seinfeld, which I’m prett sure was in it’s last season when I finally started watching regularly. More recently, How I Met Your Mother just finished it 4th season when I got into it..

Anyway, that’s just how it is for me, I guess. But eventuallyni do catch up. And honestly I really prefer the marathon method of watching entire season in just a few days rather than watching everything over time… In fact that’s what I’ve been doing with House, which is a show I’ve been in to sinc it started. I just don’t watch it on TV and rather watch it on DVD afterward.

There is a few shows that I dis follow carefully. Most are HBO show like Band of Brothers and Big Love. But also u followed Chuck and The Unit just cuase I liked them so much… Oh and Scrubs too.

Lol can you tell that I’m on vacation now?? Oh man I’m gonna set up my xbox when I get home.. It’s been like 6 months since I’ve touched if!

DAY 7

I forget exactly where I did this.. either on this blog, or on Facebook, but a few months ago, I said that I would never ever tweet. On the other hand, as it would be evident by simply scrolling down this page, I started just a few days ago. Already I’ve racked up 25… And I still have an update or two to go before I turn in to the night.. Certainly not the hundreds that some of my friends have, but I guess it’s quite a bit already.

My fall from grace really began with my buying an iPhone. That’s something else I said I’d never do – twice over. First, I said I would never get a smart phone… And I also said I would never get an apply product… Yet here am I, my iPhone tucked neatly in my pocket. LOL.

Even more things will be changing, most likely. I’ll probably have a MacBook by the end of the year. If not, for sure at least an iPad when the 2nd generation comes out next June…

Ahh.. Changes.

Anyway, today is one of those days where I felt really productive at work… Not that I’m not usually productive. A few days ago, I finally finished a major project that I had been working on, fixing up an excel file that will contain all the data about this past year at the School of Music (once the data is inputted by Ate Heda, the next big project is to do all the calculations.. probably Friday I’ll be working on that).

But I guess why I felt so productive is because I enjoyed the work alot.

This is just an example of one of the things I was working on today. It’s a slide of the Hebrew text to Proverbs 31:10-31, which our Pastor plans on using as one of his points for Sunday’s Sermons. I’m sure everyone knows this text from the Old Testament as the “Virtuous Woman” text (he’s using it, I suppose, on account of Mother’s Day). But yes, originally, he was just gonna stick some texts into power point, but I was like, hey… let me make it look pretty.

So off I went to work. One of the main things he wanted to do was to highlight the fact that in Hebrew, this text is an actostic poem… Each line begins with every letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. When I realized that, I was like COOL!

Anyway, this is the kind of thing that I really hope my ministry in the future will consist of. Nothing like doing multimedia and music… things that I can use a MacBook for! Hahahahaa! Praise the Lord!

I started playing the ukulele maybe 3 years ago after I bought one at the duty free shop by Subic Bay in the Philippines. It was a cruddy little homemade thing that I paid about 30 bucks for…

Since then, I really only learned to play one song properly.. That’s the cover of Over the Rainbow and What A Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. But I never really learned much beyond the basic chords.

Well now, I’ve decided that I really need a good, new hobby, and since I’m a pretty musical person already, I figured why not learn how to play the uke properly. So I decided to drop 3 bills on a new Fender Pa’ina (with electronics) and here we are…

I’m still having lots of trouble getting the strumming down. It was my problem on the guitar too… But I’m pretty determined. I play along to songs all the time, especially to the children’s songs I’m learning for this summer.

Just now I replaced the stock strings of my uke with new Aquila strings, which I read is pretty Much the best set out there. I opted for Low-G tuning, but I bought standard too. So far I’m not really liking it too much… The strings are incredible but because the Low-G is wound, it tends to over power the others. This is fine if the wound striv was the C string, but I’m finding it a little annoying right now..

We’ll see how it goes as I play more and more…

Some may notice a new addition to my webpages: the Twitter Widget. Yes, after months of avoiding it, I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon and start tweeting. Too many people are into it to continue to ignore it. So here I am… diving in.

Days like today are problematic though. I’m trying to add the twitter app to my Facebook account, but it won’t let me. I was asking my brother about it, and when we went on to some page on Twitter, it was showing some sort of overload message.. and we figured that was the problem. Aparently, there are some times when it’s just too much for Twitter.

Anyway, it’s a real bummer I can’t get this figured out tonight, because the main reason I got it, is so I can use Twitter as a way to update my Facebook status line.. I figured, hey, I might as well. But yeah, doesn’t work right now. I just have to content myself with the widgets on this blog and on Psalm 150 Project.

Anyway. Horay, I am a tweeter now as well!

I have an abundance of books… I really need to take inventory. So if anyone knows a software or website, that would be mch appreciated.

I almost failed again.. But I remembered. Anyway. I’m really proud of this new hat I bought. It’s gonna be part of my summer uniform. My ukulele, shorts flip flop, and my new fedora hat.. Haha

I love playing the piano… I can’t believe how God has graced me to allow me to do this as part of my living.

A friend of mine started blogging the other day (or was it resumed blogging?) and it reminded me of my own blogging failures. So here is my 2nd attempt at the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. Hope I do better this time (I did almost half the days last time)…

That picture was just a random screen shot from my iPhone of my current favourite app, Ukulele Chorda. I use it a lot right now cause… Surprise surprise, I’m learning how to play the ukulele.

That might come as a surprise to anyone who’s sen my Somewhere Overthr Rainbow tutorial, which by the way, has been taken down for copyright violation (I’m countering, though, with a claim of “fair use” so please pray that it works out in my favour).

But yes, I’m trying to learn how to actually play rather than how to play a few chords. So I’ve been doing some scales and generally working at it the same way I do with the piano.

It’s really frustrating though… As I’m sure most musicians who are pretty accomplished in one instrument and learning a brand new one, could attest to (especially learning an instrument cometely different from your dominant one). That’s because I know the theory behind what’s going on pretty well… It’s a matter of putting it to practice.

One example of this is knowing the chords that make up a key signature. For example, I know that major keys are made up of the following pattern: major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished, major. So in the Key of C Major, the chords used are … C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, and Bdim. Knowing that, I can theoretically any song that is written in any major keys (with a little work, I can figure out the Minor Keys too).

But in practice, I can pretty much only play well in C and F… And even that is kinda dubious (since I don’t know how to play diminished chords on the Uke). It’s even more problematic because I’m planning to lead worship with the Ukulele, and being able to play in D, E and G is pretty important to do that

I got mandolin capo, which helps a little (so if I need to play in D, I capo 2 frets and play in C… and same for G.. But doing that for E is really weird). But I really consider it a cheat for playing in these basic keys (capos should really only be used for flat or sharp keys, or of you really know what you’re doing and just want a different sound for the ke you’re playing.. Which is what my church’s guitarist, Jeff and Craig do sometimes).

Anyway, on with the show… Develop calluses, learn strumming patterns, and learn how to flex my fingers into unusual shapes.. I wonder if pianists are supposed to be doing that…