TRIBUTE TO PAUL WALKER FROM THE HIGH RANGE BELTER

Have you guys heard the new cover from our very own Johann Mendoza? 

"it's been a long day without you my friend,

and I'll tell you about it when I see you again

we've come a long way from were we began

oh I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"

The Fast & the Furious movie and Paul Walker fans will definitely love his new cover entitled "see you again" which was originally sung by the American rapper Wiz Khalifa. 

The song was indeed great and it really deserves the international success that it has been receiving since it was used as a tribute to Paul Walker. 

Moreover, Johann Mendoza, was able to give justice and pull this off and I must say, this guy, really has a lot to offer, and this high range belter is definitely a jack of all trades when it comes to music.

 

In my opinion, this version had offered a lot more feelings, emotion and empathy and the lyrics is much more believable but the original song was equally great, though this version's rap part is somehow different with the original, I just love how it was delivered. That is how it is, and it was just "wow" and amazing!

Again, for the nth time, I was amazed on how this song was sung by Johann. It was just the right mix of harmony and music. Not too much and definitely not too little on how it is supposed to be, based on how it was originally sung.

Take it from me, he nailed it. I'm very confident and 101% sure that this was one of the best covers of the said song. I just knew, music is not new to me because I also had a background when it comes to notes, rhythm and harmony .

In addition, Johann was able to sing the song uniquely and quintessentially. He just knows how to offer a rhythm that the listeners will definitely love. 

Well, with this version of "see you again" song plus a great voice by Johann Mendoza. No doubt that it will surely move a lot of hearts. 

 This guy definitely has a power to make people come over and hear him sing.

It seems like his voice perfectly matches all sorts of music available in the industry, and I'm basically looking forward for another heartfelt original song from him. 

Lastly, Johann Mendoza will be having his concert.

Save the Date: August 7, 2015 (Friday)

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EXPLORING LA UNION

I spent my summer vacation in La Union and I wanted to explore more of what the province has to offer, and not to mention I prefer arranging legal documents in La Union rather than in Manila because they are more organized and less hassle.

Anyway, let me introduce to you some of the giddy good places that I explored in the province where I was born. 

Our house was situated near a beach and there are a lot of motor boats around, that offers a ride throughout the islands. unfortunately, I wasn't able to try it with the given time. It is very relaxing to walk by the seashore, and collect shells.

And somewhere in Poro Point La Union, I was able to take a snapshot of an old jeepney? I am really not sure if it's a jeepney or a bus, but the shot basically looks stunning right?

and when you go further along Bauang, La Union, you'll be able to find  Seabay resort and enjoy this kind of view. 

Despite of the summer crowd luckily, I was still able to capture the sunset.

Moving over to Bacnotan, La Union, here we could find a floating restaurant along the Baroro River. Pretty much amazing that they serve the most fresh of fresh seafoods and the experience of eating while floating along the river is really awesome. 

The owner of the restaurant, also has a pond in here..

and I am really much amazed with this number of fishes swimming together. 

I wonder if they were also the same fishes being served for lunch.

After waiting for the restaurant's staff to be able to catch some fish, here it goes..

This is basically what we ate for lunch.

And, I actually had my new favorite viand. The people in La Union call it "campiz" 

And when it comes to dessert and cold choices... well, the search is over. La Union also has a restaurant wherein they offer the best halo halo. 

Halo Halo de Iloko became one of the popular attractions of the town. The restaurant is not that big but they were able to accommodate clients/customers and tourists and managed to keep them coming back because of their one of a kind halo halo. 

Enough of the foods and more of the places in La Union.

I'm one of those who were fond of catching sunsets, yeah! catching sunsets! And La Union is one of the perfect places to watch the sunset.

I was just right in time when I was able to reach Casai. well, they call it Casai and I have no idea what does it mean. The ambiance here is so "wow" and as you can see, there were no other people at the shore, it was definitely the perfect time to think and gather thoughts.

or I must say "the perfect soul-searching place"

by the way, I just wanted to give idea for those who were looking for a good place to shoot, may it be for a birthday, prenuptial or marketing event. This could also be an ideal choice.

and talking about the almost perfect sunset, well, I hope this counts. 

And if you want to experience Santorini, La Union is definitely one of the best places.

Thunderbird is a Santorini inspired resort situated along Poro Point, La Union. In addition, the people here were accommodating and friendly. 

So, I have in here another catching sunset moment and I just love the view and everything blue!

Let's take a closer look of the setting sun under the Santorini ambiance

In lieu with my  La Union vacation is our bonding activity every afternoon, target shooting session with my cousins. My firing sessions is definitely not bad. I'm good at shooting targets. 

and this is our latest hang out place. 

Well, my target shooting session in La Union basically looks like this:

We have in here, 3 main target boards made up of 3 centers, we also have in here another target stand made up of metal with 7 target centers. Quite challenging right?!

And look what I got in here,

yeah! not good enough but not that bad right?

Another emerging tourist spot in La Union is the Bahay na Bato situated at Luna.

this is how it goes on our way to Luna, La Union

and Luna is definitely one of the best places to visit if you want a glimpse of fresh air.

Moreover, I wont let the day end without having the almost perfect sunset shot

and here goes the "i felt the earth move under my feet" shot from Luna

Another place, where I practice my driving skills is somewhere near Poro Point and Wallas, they were quite strict in terms of security but the place is very amusing and serene. And by the way, I just love how the light house looks like during sunsets. 

well, that's for now guys! i'll definitely update this blog for more La Union explorations next vacation. You might as well want to try the above mentioned places. 

By the way, La Union is famous for being a surfing spot in the Philippines, and I haven't tried it yet. I will, maybe next vacation but you might want to try it first somewhere in San Juan, La Union wherein there is a long stretch of resorts that offer surfing in cheap prices. 

THREE IN ONE PACKAGE FOR BANG BANG

B to the A to the N to the G to the uh

B to the A to the N to the G to the hey

So have you guys ever imagined how will it turn out if bang bang is performed by male artists? 

Oh well, these three were not just singers, they were definitely someone to look up to when it comes to music. 

Forget about Jessie J, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande for the mean time and make way for the high range belter, Johann Mendoza, RNB Hearthrob, Daryl Ong and King of the Jingle, Daryl "Drey" Reyes.

Undeniably, they nailed the song right?

Anyway, Johann's high range voice  is still amazing and of course Daryl Ong's way of capturing listeners is just "wow", Lastly, who wouldn't be amazed with the one and only king of the jingle Drey Reyes and his rapping skills. 

I'm one of those who waits for a lot more covers, original music and compositions, and collaborations from these three. 

For more updates, subscribe to their pages and youtube channels.

Daryl Ong from "The Voice Ph Season 2" will be having his first solo concert this coming May 22 at Music Museum, visit and like his page  for more details.

Daryl Ong's FB page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01JeDQwDoLs

Daryl Ong's Instagram account: imdarylong

Daryl Ong's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/DarylOngOfficial

by the way, you'll be able to hear Daryl's voice singing the theme song of the teleserye: "Bridges of Love" entitled "Ikaw na Nga" and he'll also be releasing his album soon!

Whereas, Johann Mendoza who recently joined a contest in UK will also be having a One Night Jam this coming April 24, 2015. He is also part of Project KC which is a fund raising concert this coming May 10 and another concert in Music Museum. 

you might also heard Johann Mendoza singing in 97.9 before.

try to check: http://www.muzu.tv/blog/2015/03/musiccrowns-presents-muzuunveils-johann-mendoza/ for his exclusive interview.

for more information and for more updates regarding his upcoming concerts, covers, original songs and album subscribe to:

Johann Mendoza's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/johannmendozaofficial?fref=ts

Johann Mendoza's Instagram account: johannpcm

Johann Mendoza's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/johannmendozachannel

and lastly, who wouldn't be amazed with Daryl Reyes. I'm pretty sure that you won't end up your day without hearing his voice over the radios and televisions. He sung most of the jingles that is usually being played everyday and everywhere, from emperador light to nescafe and fres. 

Honestly, his emperador light jingle was used as an alarm clock at our room  and you'll definitely be full of energy 24/7 because of his voice. 

"Gawin mong light ang buhay ngayon" 

anyway, I was also one of the persons who really miss  Daryl "Drey" Reyes performing live. 

You might also want to follow him on Instagram: legendarylreyes

I really had fun listening to their version of Bang Bang, hope you guys had fun too!

Cheers to more projects, albums and concerts for these three!

MY CLAIM ON THE SALUTATORY SPEECH ISSUE

So the salutatory speech issue was over the media for the past few days and it really went viral.

Upon reading several posts about it, I must admit that the kid is someone to be admired for fighting and standing firm to her belief. And I believe, this is something that one must learn, to know how to be  courageous enough to fight and go against the rotten system of the society and I really admire her for that. 

However, we cannot judge the issue of her being cheated on just by knowing one side of the story. 

Additionally, there will always be a right place and time in everything... and claiming for one's right to be ahead of others specifically on a  "graduation" or "commencement exercise" is definitely not a right time and not a right place. 

It could be true and it could also be a one-sided claim, regardless of the credibility of the so called grading issue, a person should not be passive and must learn to do something and fight for what you deserve with the right claim, right judgment, right place and time and graduation is not the right place to fully express one's thoughts and the salutatorian is neither the right person to judge whether he/she deserves the rank.  Philippines is a free country. I know, but just what I said, there will always be a proper place and process in everything. 

                             

and to the dearest salutatorian,

believe it or not,  I know the feeling of being the second best, the first loser among any others  that's why I also fear myself of being not good enough because I got tired being not the best of the best. At some point, I also had experience the feeling of knowing that I deserve more but you must also learn that, that's how life works. Everything has its purpose and besides you still got a lot of time to learn the importance of compassion vs competence. And honestly, you should be grateful, I just remembered myself, the moment that your video spread into the social media... When I was in your age, years ago, I was asked to prepare a valedictory address, I wrote it very well, hoping that I would have the chance to share my insights to my fellow graduates, but I was not given the chance because I did not end up being the valedictorian. However, a kid kept on dragging her mother towards me and told me that "someday I wanted to be like you", it was a bittersweet scenario knowing that you have been defeated yet a kid keeps on telling you that he wanted to be like you. Anyway, you are fortunate, really fortunate that you were given the chance to speak the speech that you have prepared for, being the second best is not bad, you just got to learn the art of acceptance and by the time that you'll be facing the real world after your college graduation, you will realize that grades or medals won't define you and it won't definitely make you more or less of a person. It is a bragging right but it won't make you ahead of others. 

When the time comes that you'll be interviewed for a job position, they won't ask you on how many medals have you earned, what is your grade, how many times you became the first. It won't be that way, you just got to prove everybody else that you can and you deserve it and you won't be able to convince them that you deserve the position just by showing your grades. There's more to life than that. 

Many people says that grades measure how smart you are but the truth is, it only measures your linguistic and logical-mathematical thinking. Grades won't reflect who you are or what will you become. That's another problem from the society, we must not correlate and link one's grade and one's value as human being. The balance between the art of acceptance and fighting for what you deserve should also be learned.

Life is a challenge and not a competition, be someone who strives hard to be successful and not someone who aims higher to be ahead of others. 

Moreover, you're still someone to looked up to for having a brave stand, speaking your mind and having the courage to point out and enlighten a lot of people about the rotten system that mainly causes the cancer of the society. 

Power of Communication

     Recently, we were asked to conceptualized a theory of our own in a particular subject as a final requirement.

       So I was able to come up with the idea of conceptualizing a theory about communication. 

I won't be talking about nurses experience here because it could improve over time and with the appropriate guidance. It won't also be about administration because every institution follow certain protocols and neither it would be about skills because I believe that nurses in particular already have it, I mean, health professionals has their own utmost knowledge about theories and interventions and it would just be a matter of their own techniques and strategies. We cannot question the extent of what one knows. We are speaking the same language in the field anyway. However, communication in the field that thoroughly requires it was often set aside because of the increasing demands in terms of paper works and other interventions.

      With the emergence of high technology or I what I call screen communication (SMS, e-mails, direct messages, chat), the person to person relationship that we have known for decades were slowly being lost and it could probably carry over in the medical field. 

      Nurses are nurses because they connect with people may it be sick or well and connect with them and help them feel better and this connection is the very heart of nursing and without this, nursing itself will be non-existent. 

      As what Bryant McGill says "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say"

      In this matter, nurses should not only provide nursing care through addressing physical needs, it should be a multi-dimensional holistic care and to provide such, nurses must also address the needs that requires communication.

       Communication in healthcare is of equal importance with other nursing interventions and should be part of every nursing care plan because a trusting relationship with patients and their families is built on open and honest communication.

     "Extensive research has shown that no matter how knowledgeable a clinician might be. If he or she  is not able to open a good communication with the patient, he or she maybe of no help." (Asnani, 2009)

     Moreover, research evidence indicates that there is a highly significant positive relationship between nurses' communication skills and a patient's capacity to follow  medical recommendations and self management. 

        When there is an increasing job demands and numerous pressure, it causes people to be so task-oriented, that they don't make their caring felt. In such manner, they weren't able to express caring and they don't make their caring visible and this is as worse as being absent from the experience of your patients. With such, nurses must be highly flexible that they could balance the demand of work and high touch open communication.

        And with that, how are we going to provide healthy nurse and patient interaction or what I call open communication?

so basically, these are the steps

1.) Always make yourself visible 

2.) Acknowledge feelings

3.) Be able to show your caring non verbally and make sure that it should be felt and sincere

4.) Explain your positive intentions

5.) Appreciate

6.) LISTEN more than you talk

        Nursing itself, won't always be about how high is your salary, it is being able to be part of trying times and miracles of every life that you have taken care of. 

EVEN THE QUEENS DOUBLED THE EFFORT

      Our Filipina Beauty Queens namely Pia Wurtzbach and Mary Jean Lastimosa were the perfect examples of "perseverance" & "try and try until you succeed attitude"

      These beauty queens didn't just woke up with the crown on their head. As persevering as other people, both of them worked hard to get it, not once, not twice but thrice.

        Pia Wurtzbach finally won the Binibining Pilipinas 2015 as Miss Universe Philippines 2015 on her third attempt. And just "wow" she is definitely a living example of not letting anything or anyone stop you from reaching your dreams/goal. 

        She started competing at Binibing Pilipinas since 2013 wherein she became the 1st runner up. And she again competed the following year which is 2014 but unable to make it to the finals.

         Same with Pia Wurtzbach, MJ had the crown on her third attempt. She started competing in Binibining Pilipinas since 2011 wherein she placed 2nd runner up and the following year which is 2012, she again attempted to own the crown, however she wasn't able to make it up to the finals. Last 2014, she was able to be crowned as the Binibining Pilipinas 2014 and competed for Miss Universe title. 

           Who would have thought that they are not only beauty and brains but they are packed with so much fighting spirit and the never give up attitude. 

           With their story reaching their dream and reaching for the crown, I have come to realize that all sorts of people should strive harder, be more persevering, double the effort and want it enough in order to have what they are aspiring for, because not all things could be achieve overnight. Everything worth having deserves a lot of trials and efforts and at some point, heartbreaks, I guess. 

           Its just that, something worth having that is definitely made in heaven won't be given to you without you, as a person exerting and giving too much in order to have it. 

        Giving up is very tempting and common and these beauty queens have shown us how temporary a failure is. And these failures were opportunities to begin again and reach for what you are aspiring. You just got to pick yourself up, take a deep breath, move forward and try again. And at this point, our beauty queen really did not experience failure but a step by step process into winning the crown. Because for me, failure happens when you stop trying. In this matter, winners are those who unfortunately did not win the battle but  courageous enough to stand up and give it another shot.

          The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph, and that's how their story goes. 

  

Why We Didn't End Up Together

It was an early morning train ride, on my way to school when someone showed up behind me while I was waiting for the train to arrive.

It was a familiar face that I actually did not forgot. 

That moment, I was certainly certain that it is far different from what it's used to be before

It was a familiar face... but it's no longer the same rhythm and no longer the same beat

no butterflies, no background musics ,no slow pace and focal point scenarios, no giddy thoughts anymore and from that, I am certain that everything ended up into its proper place. 

We were the best of friends years ago and I ended up losing because I did fell. For me, it is a one sided young love for a teenage version of me. I am vulnerable way back then and I did hoped... yes... I did hoped...a lot, that somehow the equation of him and me could be us... but definitely it was just me... me alone and there is no "us" in the story.

As we go through the train journey that early morning, I actually don't know what to say... and him either. I was looking at him and I'm asking myself, it could have been us but it did not end up as what I have hoped for... Why you and me didn't end up to be "us", why we didn't end up together, we were partners in crime  but we're just stuck here laughing at all the silly things we have done before. While on our way to where we are supposed to go, we were remembering all the things we've gone through as friends way back years when  being him and me is not as complicated as it was now. 

it was a long train ride that I didn't even notice that I was late, oh my! I was late for the first time! anyway!

I was laughing but as I look at him I couldn't help but to feel hurt because honestly he could be everything any woman could asked for, if only I didn't allow him to be with someone who could make him and his heart so hardheaded, he could definitely be someone who is worth having. It will just take the right perspective to see what I am trying to say. I came up to the point blaming all these girls who broke his heart and made him who he is now,pain changes people. He is  different from the partner in crime that I have known. If he is mine, I would never have let his heart broken, but still as I look into him, I could still see a transparent person with pure heart, maybe it will just take the right woman to bring out the best man in him and this time I am hoping not for me to be the right one but I am hoping that he may find the right woman that will bring out the best in him.

I didn't end up being the right one because I let go of you, I could never be enough, it has and will never be me, I'm only just a confidant, the bridge, the shoulder to lean on, I can never have the courage to tell you what I ought to tell way way back years before and I am bound to have the courage to fight for it for the right love, for the person who is meant to be with me for the right reason, in God's perfect time.  And you, you were meant to be with the best person for you (definitely not me) and we are better of being "just friends"

and maybe in this lifetime we are just meant to be "partners in crime" and not "partners for life"

you will always be my best friend, in this lifetime and the next lifetimes to come.

'til the next laughter and train ride...