Rudimental

I am an avid youtuber. Browsing through videos always makes entertains me and sometimes I come across gems that make me forever thankful that I spend time mindlessly going through a ton of videos online. This particular treasure that I discovered is a video by Rudimental. I was on a music spree at that time and since I had nothing better to do, I clicked on this one. No one told me how much I'd fall in love with it. 

This is the first video of Rudimental's that I have ever watched and from the get-go the rawness of their emotions left me breathless and feeling like a light has been lit deep inside me (that's what she said) (joke) (huhu). If I were to let you guys peek inside my mind while I watched that video it would just be a loop of 'shet shet shet shet huhu shet huhu huhu dont cry huhu shet' hehe.

This is the second video of theirs that I watched. After being awed by Waiting All Night, I tucked the video in a corner of my heart and went on with my life but fate decided to interfere and distract me from my studies because it led me to finding this one. The cinematography is just DIVINE! Everything looks so rich and creamy and the actor who plays the monk guy is so good :(

The third one hits a particular note since Filipinos star in it and it's set here in Manila hehe. Anyhhhway this once evoked such emotions from me, it's crazy. They're just crazy good. I love how they don't just focus on the music they produce or remix or whatever, but they incorporate it with such mind-blowingly beautiful visuals that gives the person watching their products not just a beautiful auditory experience but a visual one as well. 

Dear Rudimental people, you make me believe that there really is beauty in everything -especially in tragedies. Thank you for making such awe-inspiring videos, please do make more mwah.  

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it has been such a long long long long time since i last blogged about what my thoughts really are. i somehow have fallen out of love with expressing myself through the written word but here i am again hehe since i am being plagued by my thoughts relentlessly. these are just some of the things i have in mind that i think i need to put down in order for my brain to breathe hehe

1) the topic about the relocation of illegal tenants in certain parts of the metro was brought up in journalism class earlier and this had me thinking. my initial reaction was to be intensely annoyed with the seemingly oppressed squatters who are now being forced to move somewhere else, preferably to the rural areas where they wouldn't be as much of an eye sore in the bustling streets of the city. i expressed such emotion earlier since their reluctance and objection to what the authorities are telling them to do really irked since i couldn't believe the audacity they had to complain when in the first place they don't even contribute to the tax-paying done by the working mass.

but then our teacher enlightened us with a story of a documentary she saw. in this particular clip, the host really went in depth and tried to live as a 'squatter' would meaning she had to set forth and move to a relocation site in the province. it is then shown that the living quarters provided by the government can barely be classified as livable since their previous quarters in the city would appear to be as mansions compared to those given by the government in the said areas. plus it was mentioned that their source of income would be the cleaning of bottles or something that only gave out a super low salary.

with all of these sides in mind, i came to a conclusion backed up by a strong feeling in my heart that in order for us to develop as a country, the government should really straighten up, provide decent services and that in turn would spread peace all over the nation. but with how crooked we are already, it seems to be an impossible feat. the only solution that i have left is for us to have an uber strict president. a president that would demand for attention and respect. but then i asked myself what could the president possess or do to achieve that? and since my mind was working overtime, i answered my question right away. he or she would have to be radical. i'm talking about conceivably killing people in order to implement a strict but effective regime. this person would have to step on a lot of people since i think a peaceful alternative would never be feasible at the state we are in.

so that is how my fleeting thoughts of becoming the president of the philippines were squashed.

2) earlier in our humanities class, we were shown the clip from the musical, rent wherein they sang their famous song called seasons of love. now i've always had a soft spot in my heart for this particular song. and seeing it play other than on a laptop screen, with its fancy subtitles had me feeling oh so giddy.

i cannot express how much beauty i find in that song. especially the resounding theme that they convey which is to measure a year not in days or anything but in the love that you receive from people and i think the love you give out. for me, no words have been strung together as powerfully as this one but then again i have only lived for 16 years.

i can't write anymore about it without going all philosophical and preachy, and those two p's are adjectives that i cannot afford to embody right now for i still have work to do hehe hehe hehe

3) i love india so much and if india were a person this would be my letter to him/her:

dear india,

i know i may not have entered your premises ;) but it seems to me that i have fallen in love with you. with your past, not so much your present but we can work things out, and your future. your colorful outlook in life draws me in like a moth to a flame. i have actually tried and tested myself to see whether or not this is just a phase but it has been years since that fateful day in 6th grade when i introduced myself saying 'hi im gab i like british people and indians' and til now i still find myself yearning to be part of your world no matter how the little mermaid-y that may sound. no matter what people say about you, i will always be adamant about my fascination with you. i hope we meet someday mwa mwa mwa.

-goobeh

Gabbi Don't Preach #1

The Origin of Love has got to be one of the most amazing and well-written songs in history for me. The first time I heard it I got so annoyed since the guy singing had such a low voice and I couldn't sing along hehehe and if I sung in a higher octave, it would be too high for me to reach. I chucked it to my list of 'Unsingable and Unforgiving Songs' and grew quite bitter towards it but then, looking back, I realized that because I wouldn't be able to drown out the original singer with my own voice since I couldn't reach it either way, I had the opportunity to really and I mean reaaaally listen to the song...and fall in love with everything about it.

When the earth was still flat,

And the clouds made of fire,

And mountains stretched up to the sky,

Sometimes higher,

Folks roamed the earth

Like big rolling kegs.

They had two sets of arms.

They had two sets of legs.

They had two faces peering

Out of one giant head

So they could watch all around them

As they talked; while they read.

And they never knew nothing of love.

It was before the origin of love.

The origin of love

And there were three sexes then,

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back,

Called the children of the sun.

And similar in shape and girth

Were the children of the earth.

They looked like two girls

Rolled up in one.

And the children of the moon

Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.

They were part sun, part earth

Part daughter, part son.

The origin of love

Now the gods grew quite scared

Of our strength and defiance

And Thor said,

"I'm gonna kill them all

With my hammer,

Like I killed the giants."

And Zeus said, "No,

You better let me

Use my lightening, like scissors,

Like I cut the legs off the whales

And dinosaurs into lizards."

Then he grabbed up some bolts

And he let out a laugh,

Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.

Gonna cut them right up in half."

And then storm clouds gathered above

Into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down

From the sky in bolts

Like shining blades

Of a knife.

And it ripped

Right through the flesh

Of the children of the sun

And the moon

And the earth.

And some Indian god

Sewed the wound up into a hole,

Pulled it round to our belly

To remind us of the price we pay.

And Osiris and the gods of the Nile

Gathered up a big storm

To blow a hurricane,

To scatter us away,

In a flood of wind and rain,

And a sea of tidal waves,

To wash us all away,

And if we don't behave

They'll cut us down again

And we'll be hopping round on one foot

And looking through one eye.

Last time I saw you

We had just split in two.

You were looking at me.

I was looking at you.

You had a way so familiar,

But I could not recognize,

Cause you had blood on your face;

I had blood in my eyes.

But I could swear by your expression

That the pain down in your soul

Was the same as the one down in mine.

That's the pain,

Cuts a straight line

Down through the heart;

We called it love.

So we wrapped our arms around each other,

Trying to shove ourselves back together.

We were making love,

Making love.

It was a cold dark evening,

Such a long time ago,

When by the mighty hand of Jove,

It was the sad story

How we became

Lonely two-legged creatures,

It's the story of

The origin of love.

That's the origin of love.

I should probably type down my thoughts and such about this song. But now I feel like I shouldn't. Like I should just leave you be with your thoughts since the lyrics above are magical enough hehe and that's what I should probably do and that's what I'll do..in a bit hehe after I add in my 1 cent (because 2 cents would be too long). 

This song for me just exposes the true beauty of love in general and loving another person. I don't believe in the whole meant to be chorva wherein you'll find someone and poof (it became koko krunch joke hehehe) everything will work out because you guys were made for each other, you guys are made by the sparkly gods of Mt. Olympus and all you need is love yadda yadda. I don't like that. I believe that yes just like what was pointed out in the song, we do have someone made for us buuuuuuuuut it really is still up to us whether things work out or not romantically, whether we hold onto them or we let go to maybe pursue our careers and stuff I don't know. All I know is that love is beautiful because it can be very happy happy like everything is good and it can be very painful like everything is bad bad but in spite of everything, it still is the best thing in the world. 

I'm just a very pubertial teenage girl.

But since we are talking about love, let me just say that life is good and that we should follow rule #32 which is to enjoy the little things. Hug your mum, tell your dad you love him before he goes off to work or before YOU go off to work, bake, open the door for your sibling or something hehe and sit outside and just relish in the feeling of the sun on your skin (but not too much you might get heat stroke and the police would see my post and I'd be somewhat responsible for your death not that I'm saying you're gonna die already because I don't want that but if you're a rapist or a serial killer and you're reading this A) maybe you should die already? (I don't mean to sound rude or anything but if you're not gonna change your ways and keep hurting and killing people then you might as well go poof! but please if you can, please change yourself thank you) B) if you got offended and now want to murder me, please don't, close the tab, erase the history and forgive me hehehehe.