The Timer Starts Now

Every second counts.

When the clock ticks, it frightens me. For I know, there's something I'm missing in every minute I spend waiting for nothing.

Every hour feels like another day has come.

I don't know when I'm being fooled. I dont know when I'm being scammed.

Yet, in my mind, I still keep on longing to hold my dreams and wait until my star starts to shine.

I'm not sure when it's gonna be. Not sure if it's meant to be.

But God... I'm holding on. Please hear my pray'r. Please bear with me.

I will no longer make even a single glimpse at the back. I am never gonna cry and quit.

'Cause I know when God says "Yes", He swears it's going to be a lifetime I'll never regret.

The Silent Dreamer

Everything Comes and Goes

The Spirit Room. Hotel Paper. And now, Everything Comes and Goes.

Her singles, "Everywhere", "All You Wanted" and "Are You Happy Now", to name a few, led me to know how to play a guitar. Up until now, I'm trying and still trying to follow Michelle Branch's footsteps.

I am not a frustrated musician, or whatsoever.

This blog pays tribute to the beautiful music Michelle has shared to the music industry. I don't mean she's bidding us goodbye now. In fact, she's currently working on an upcoming album to be released next year.

We've heard a little of Michelle in her debut album. Everywhere. All You Wanted. Goodbye to You. And of course, her collaboration with the rock icon Carlos Santana, The Game of Love.

Surprisingly, Maverick Records (Branch's recording company) released her second album Hotel Paper, which met mixed reviews from the press.

We've also seen Michelle sing with her former back-up singer and long-time friend Jessica Harp. They were initially known as "The Cass Country Homewreckers", which was tagged by Branch's former bassist and now her husband Teddy Landau. She gave birth to a beautiful girl named Owen Isabelle on August 3, 2005.

And long after their successful collaboration, Branch's now hitting it off the stage again with her solo album comeback.

Her new album, entitled "Everything Comes and Goes" will include a blend of her acoustic/alternative music styles as well as country music.

I've always admired her style and her ability to write songs in just a snap of a second.

To Michelle,

You know, I've always wanted to follow your footsteps as a musician. You've given me so much inspiration and passion to keep up what you've made and continuously making in the industry. I'll forever be a fan.

Anaya

My Offbeat Persona

Alright. I know I haven't said much about myself. Little by little you'll then know more about me.

Here's one -- I am a fresh graduate of St. John's community. (Let's see if you're good at guessing).

Yes, I am a proud La Sallian. And, I love green. What else now?

Anyway, here's a note I wrote when I was still in college. My professor told us to create a blog site and write at least two blogs on it. And this is the first one.

Let me share with you what is blogging for me when I was still in college. My blog's title is "My Offbeat Persona". I just want to share with you a little bit of me back in the university.

"Minutes devoured my time doing this work, oh so much. Finding out that “this is the real me” whom this piece should talk about. On the verge of losing words to finish this blog, at last, I am placing myself into it. Seriously, blogging sounds exciting. Just about a couple of time, it turned out to be not. Simply naive, innocent, discreet and so, name it. That is just me.

I consider myself as a well-mannered person, maybe because of the Filipino-Chinese blood I got from my parents. Believing that these races value the most conventional way of living but I deal with it extra-ordinarily. Variety and change interest me. Being hemmed in turns me off a lot.For almost four years inside the university, I feel I need to gain more of what I actually strive for, intelligence. Exploring unusual things leave me hungry for it. New discoveries, learning, and knowledge make me thirsty for it.

I crave for wisdom. Now my struggle for art knocks me into several worlds: the world of literature, the world of visual arts (photography), and the world of music. Nothing can beat my passion for music – I have been loved and dumped by music. Anyway, I can learn by trial and error. Though tested by trials, I still love it.

Knowing my priorities in life is quite hard for me. I may note some: God, family, studies. Way to go, I have to stress out the goodness of the brainpower. Should I go on the right track or not? Well, I have to. What’s the sense of settling to this school for so long? After such, what’s the sense of staying up late with lots of assignments, projects, and all those school works?

In no more than a year, I should be standing up straight and look again for another priority in life – work. Landing on a stable job seems uneasy. However, with God’s unending grasp in my hands, there is no way of thinking ill at ease anyway. Going straightly on the right path would help me a lot. Wishing that someday, I could touch everybody’s life through the greatness of art.

Though minutes devoured almost all my time making these words stand as one, here I am ending this all. And now I am done."

The Past: My Childhood Days

How many of us has dreamt of becoming a doctor someday? A teacher? A lawyer? Or whatever field your mom and dad are into?

Since then, I've always wanted to become a dentist. As life passes by, it changed. Until then, I wanted to be a lawyer. And then, a flight attendant. An artist. A musician.

Throughout the span of nineteen years, I have seriously ended up to becoming an artist. Yes, an artist.

I can't take the long years of waiting to become a dentist or a lawyer. I can't imagine myself reading books about science and the constitution. Though, I've always wanted to share a beautiful smile and I've always been wanting to explore what I know.

Times really changed the way I think. Now, I see myself differently.

Yes, I still want to share a beautiful smile that would capture hearts of millions of people. And I still do want to learn, learn, learn, and let people correct what they think is wrong.

I've always welcomed change. For I know, it is constant.

I may want to be an artist today but I'm not sure of who I wanted to be tomorrow or the other day.

That's what I need now, your voice.

Come on, let me know what's right for me.

I know, in every second I spend in writing my blogs, I am gradually reaching the right path to my dream.

The Silent Dreamer

Where's The Right Path To Win Your Dream?

Hello! I'm Anaya! I am here to share with you everything that's on my mind and in my heart. You may not know who I am. But, I will lend you everything I want you to know about me.

"Where's the right path to win your dream?". That's what I should be telling you in every blog you need to see in this page.

Who am I to answer? When everybody has its own right to walk the pathway to success?

I know through my blog, and through all the people who would spend a minute or two reading my story, is a chance to know the right way to win my dreams.

Let's stop for a while and think.

For it always pays to have a dream and to know your dream.

I would appreciate everything you want to share with me. Don't hesitate to leave a comment.

Let's talk. :)

Anaya