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Glee: Defying Gravity

I’d seen Episode 9 (Wheels) before on TV, but since I’m going through Season 1 of Glee online, I didn’t mind seeing Wheels again. And I really liked the song Defying Gravity. I didn’t know what the musical Wicked was about so I did a search about it and just now found out that it was about the Wicked Wizard/s of Oz. I would have loved to see that show. It was also used as the anthem for the Gay Pride Parade in Los Angeles in 2007. I got all this from Wikipedia.

But what I would have loved more, was if Kurt didn’t intentionally miss the high F and got the part. So anyway, here is the studio version of Rachel and Kurt singing Defying Gravity.

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Music Monday – Glee Cast Live at the White House

I’ve recently been hooked on Glee. I want to watch it from the start of season 1. I’d love to have all their songs too! haha.

It’s good to know that they sound just as good when they perform live.



And don’t Puck and Mr. Schue look cute here? 🙂

Okay, I can’t help myself. Here’s one more video. This time of a cast member who hasn’t got as much exposure as the other soloists:

Now, this is the last one. They performed this at the White House too but the sound was crappy. So this one’s from their performance at the Oprah show. Some of the comments on YouTube were really bashing Cory, but I really think he didn’t do too bad. Of course there are better singers than him and the other cast members are more powerful than he is, but he really isn’t that bad.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my Glee themed Music Monday!

Now, before you hop on to other MM entries today, I just want to know: who’s attending the iBlog event this weekend? I haven’t thought of going before, but now I’m kinda really interested.



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Don’t Stop Believing

Thank you to Upworthy for sharing this on Facebook today:

Though I haven’t seen every single episode of Glee since Season 1, I am a Gleek (checkout my Glee posts) and I have grown to love the characters. I even cried at the season 3 finale, when they all graduated and bid farewell to Rachel at the train station. So yes I was saddened by the death of Cory Monteith. It is difficult to imagine Glee without him. His smile, his awkward dancing, his auto-tuned voice, even his drum beating.

We have months until the next season of Glee, which gives me time to watch reruns and pretend that Finn Hudson is still alive. But for those real hardcore fans, consider supporting the charity that Cory believed in. And give more kids a reason to not stop believing.

Farewell, 2010!

I have mixed emotions about 2010. I can’t decide whether it was a good year for me, or a year I’d rather forget. There were a lot of good times, but there were also some disappointments. Being the optimist that I am, I choose to focus on the good times. So I guess that’s cleared then: 2010 was a wonderful year. 🙂

In January, we celebrated our tenth anniversary with a visit to Enchanted Kingdom. I wish there was a post or an album I could link to, but I realized just now that I don’t have either. What a bummer. It was such a fun day, and a wonderful start for the year that left us hopeful for what was to come in the next 12 months of our lives. Of course I could still go dig up the photos in my harddrive and eventually post them, but much of what made the day such a fun one is buried deeper in my memory and that’s a little harder to get back to.

Reminder for 2011: record and document your good times better.

In February, one of my posts was about losing weight and saving money for the wedding. Well obviously, the wedding didn’t happen hasn’t happened yet. We attended at least five lovely weddings though. As for losing weight – I did, but I’ve gained them all back. For saving money – I did, but I also spent it and am just now recovering from all of it. 2010 was one big and long roller coaster ride. It involves a crisis that got me in a funk, maybe even depression. As a result, I did A LOT OF SHOPPING and a whole lot of SPENDING.

One of the weddings we attended in 2010 was that of my best friend’s. Jo Arni tied the knot with Dom in March. It’s too bad that I had more posts about bags in March, than photos of the wedding. You see, it was in March last year that I started lusting for (and eventually ordered) an Epiphanie bag.

In April, I tried reviving my Project 365 by taking photos of Ann’s lucky plants. Sadly, the attempt didn’t take off and it was yet another start that didn’t have a proper ending. This year, I will complete P365. That’s a declaration if there ever was one. 🙂

2010 is election year and I casted my vote for the first time in May. The elections was a family affair for us. I also got hooked on Glee that month.

June saw the birth of my book blog, Between the Covers. It was also the start of, uhm, the great depression of 2010 for me. Looking at my posts though, one could never have thought that. After June, the year went by like a blur.

On my birthday month, I did the South Beach Diet. I found a retail dress I could fit into and wore it to Mayeen’s wedding.

The Philippines was at the center of the world’s attention in August because of an event we would all rather forget. Rather than blogging about the event itself, I posted about what I was thankful for at the end of the day. I also got Pinky that month.

September was the start of my love affair with the Tres Leches 🙂 I’m looking at my September archives and can’t believe some of those things happened way back then. I mean, I swear I though it only happened last month!

I voted in my first barangay elections in October. The Eraserheads Limited Edition CD boxed set also became mine. I also gave in to my Blackberry envy (and never looked back).

November started with a very brief Staycation, but it will always be etched in the history of my life as the beginning of a new adventure. I was also at another lovely wedding before the month ended.

December. Ah December 2010. It was a crazy month, but everything just stopped for the birth of our Beloved Prince.

Overall, I think 2010 was good to many people. Granted, there are others who would have wanted a better year, I’d say there are many others who have had to adjust their belts tighter than I have had to, there’s still too much to be thankful for to dwell on the negative.  And look at it this way – 2011 offers you so much more. 🙂

Thank you, and farewell, 2010.

Do you have a 2010 roundup?

Versatile Vera :)

Thank you so much to versatile mom and blogger, Ivy of Spinning Lovely Days for hitting me up with this blog award:

Me, a versatile blogger? Well, it’s really more of a scatter-brained blogger. How else can you explain incoherent posts jammed with sometimes unrelated topics? Hehe. But versatile is what we all want to be I guess. Throw me into any situation and I should be able to adapt, blend and in, and even maybe shine. 🙂 To keep an interesting blog (even when it’s really just a personal journal like what Where the Moon Shines is), one must also be versatile. I hope I really have been able to show that by writing on a variety of topics. It also means being taking notes and photos of things I fancy so I can remember to post about them at a later time (something I haven’t been able to do properly, because as I mentioned earlier, I’m a scatter-brain!). Or researching on topics so I can talk about them without looking stupid, like what do I really have to know in order to post about rating cigars? I mean, that one’s bound to be extra difficult because I don’t smoke cigars. I don’t smoke.

Now, as a recipient of this award, I should share seven (7) things about myself. This is no easy feat, I have to think about 7 things that I possibly have not mentioned in my years of blogging. Let’s see…

  1. I attended a writing workshop held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in the summer before sixth grade. I loved all two days of that workshop (or did we actually spend four days there?). The first part was a poetry writing workshop, and the second, was on story-writing. It was awesome being around creative minds. For awhile I was intimidated because they all seemed a lot better than I was, but no one was bragging really. And there was no competition. I only wish I could find a copy of whatever it was I wrote during that time.
  2. Attending the workshop was my teacher’s idea. I mentioned her in my teacher’s day remembrance post. Our school paper adviser. She told me about the workshop before the school year ended but I never turned in any of the stuff I wrote. One has to qualify for the workshop, see. So one summer afternoon, while I was out at the SambaLikhaan with friends (playing!), someone came to tell me I had to go home because my teacher was there. Uh oh. She asked for my sample work. I rushed up to my room, rewrote a few poems onto clean bond paper and handed in the application form. I don’t think I got to thank her for coming over and making sure I would get into that workshop. Thank you Ma’am!
  3. In sixth grade, I wanted to quit the school paper as my club. Okay, not really quit, but I wanted to join the glee club that year instead. I like writing, but I liked singing too. And I can’t be in both clubs since each student could only be in one. So I told the adviser, and she completely disagreed with me. She talked me through the decision, and she told me she was leaving the country. She’d wanted me to stick it out because she was leaving. In short, she made me feel that I was important for the paper. Hay.
  4. To get into the paper, students are invited to join a writing workshop with real journalist as resource person. There we learned about writing for a paper and all that. At the end of it all, we’d turn in some work, and the resource person and advisers would deliberate on who makes it into the editorial team. Rumor has it that on my first year in the club, fourth grade, I would have been given an associate ed post but those posts are reserved for 5th and 6th graders. I was editor-in-chief on my last year. The training we had for the grade school paper was something I missed for the high school paper that I was part of only on my senior year. To be honest, we were all at a loss when we joined in. None of us seniors had been part of the paper before then. And there was no writing workshop. It was as if we were all just supposed to know what to do, automatically. I hope it’s not like that for them anymore.
  5. Hmm what else should I share? I’m running out of ideas… Ah! I moved to a different school for high school. My dad and I went around to a number of schools near our area, most of which are exclusive for girls, Catholic schools. I remember being shocked at the tuition fee rates everywhere we went. Though I wasn’t asked to consider the cost at all, I think it still influenced my eventual choice.
  6. I was supposed to move to a  science high school for sophomore year. I took the entrance exam, and passed. There were only 8 slots for that year. This is a special school and my brother attended it on his freshman year. I wanted to go there, there’s pride and getting in. But just a few days before school was supposed to start, I chickened out. So though I had begun to tell my classmates that I wasn’t going to see them that year, I surprised them by showing up on the first day of school. My mom, who was on a trip when I changed my mind, came home and wasn’t happy about it (she got over it easily though). My brother said that I should have pushed through with it, I’d get a better chance at getting into UP or Ateneo when time came. My rebound was that he didn’t even stay there for long. That was his mistake, he said.
  7. For college, I was accepted at all the schools I applied for (even if I didn’t move to the science high:)). Of course, there was no question about choosing UP above the others. But then a few days before registration, I almost chickened out again. None of my friends and classmates were going to UP. I was going to be on my own. My bestfriend was going to Mapua and I seriously considered just going there instead. Tuition wasn’t a question, my parents took out a college plan for me. My mom was supportive when I told her about my doubts. In the end, I just couldn’t picture myself as an engineer. Could you imagine me being an electronics and communications engineer? Well I couldn’t. Haha.

Whew. Are you still with me? Give yourself a pat on the back if you’re still reading 🙂

So of course I’m going to pass on this award to other Versatile bloggers; before I do, here’s a reminder of the rules 🙂

* Be sure to thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.

* Share 7 things about yourself.

* Pass the award to other bloggers who you think deserve it.

* Be sure to let the bloggers know you chose them to receive the award.

So without further ado, I hereby name the following as Versatile Bloggers!

– Bambie, from My Thoughts, My Heart, My Turf.

– Zoan, of Zowanderer

– Gee, of Georly.Com fame 🙂

Do checkout their blogs and see for yourself why I think they are versatile bloggers. Oh and let them know I gave them the award too, I’d only have time to go ’round to their blogs tomorrow. 🙂


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