Travel and Tunes

To sum up 2008, I'd say this has been a great year for traveling.

The Poland trip at the end of 2007 reignited my wanderlust which continued on to this year. And I had some great, great, great trips this year. There was El Nido with my college friends, and the Boracay teambuilding, and the Hong Kong and Macau trip with some current and former officemates. But the highlight of the year was definitely the awesomely epic SEA backpacking trip from Kuala Lumpur to Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City with the "cliquish" batchmates from the office. Angkor Wat has been my dream desitnation for a few years now, and let me tell you, right from the time I set foot on Siem Reap International Airport, to riding the tuktuk to the hostel, to seeing the temples and walking around the town, every second of that trip was amazing.

Being able to go to a dream destination is an awesome experience. Yep, this was an awesome year of traveling. Machu Picchu, Lalibela and New Zealand, anyone? =D

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I made the same list at the end of 2007 and since I'm all about routines, I thought I should do it again. So here are the 20 most played songs on my ZVM:

1. Machines - Biffy Clyro
2. Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
3. 3 Libras - A Perfect Circle
4. Missed The Boat - Modest Mouse
5. If You Tolerate This - Manic Street Preachers
6. Little Motel - Modest Mouse
7. Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire
8. I See You, You See Me - The Magic Numbers
9. The Comeback - Shout Out Louds
10. The Origin of Love - Hedwig and The Angry Inch
11. 9 Crimes - Damien Rice
12. Grace - Jeff Buckley
13. Oasis - Amanda Palmer
14. People As Places As People - Modest Mouse
15. Warwick Avenue - Duffy
16. Weak - Skunk Anansie
17. Dream - Alice Smith
18. Oh Well - Fiona Apple
19. Sway - The Perishers
20. This Year's Love - David Gray

Happy New Year Everyone! May 2009 be great for all of us! (and when I say us, it means me and the people I like...)

Welcome, 2007 + 1

A couple of hours more before the new year comes in...

The year started off with a bang, then mellowed down to below mediocre (there was a point when I felt like our office turned into The Office, without the humor, but with Dwight Schrute), but things started picking up, with the 3-month trip to Poland putting the icing on the cake. (Not everything is on the ups though... One of those things? My bonus.)

So instead using this space to deliberate whether 2007 was a great year or not, I've decided that I will use this post to list down the 20 most played tracks on my Creative ZVM :D

1. A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers (If I was going on a protest, I'd sing this song on a megaphone, at the top of my lungs)
2. She Ionizes and Atomizes - Modest Mouse (this is a song from one of Modest Mouse's earlier albums, it's actually the first song by the band that I downloaded)
3. Worn Me Down - Rachael Yamagata (She has an awesome voice that I love listening to over and over again.)
   
4. Missed The Boat - Modest Mouse (from their latest album, a standout song. Also, check out the various videos for the song)
   
5. Run - Snow Patrol (Also from their older album. This is an awesome anthemic song)
6. Spitting Venom - Modest Mouse (Another one from the "We Were Dead" album)
7. Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley (I'm surprised it isn't on any higher, this is my absolute favorite song)
8. Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie - (Another one of my most favorite songs ever)
   
9. Us - Regina Spektor (A great, crazy vocalist)
   
10. Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens (This song gives me goosebumps)
11. Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
12. Charm Attack - Leona Naess
13. Samson - Regina Spektor
14. Silent All These Years - Tori Amos
    
15. Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
16. A Long Walk - Jill Scott
17. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town - Pearl Jam
    
18. The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy
19. Hedonism - Skunk Anansie
20. Love For Granted - Phoenix
    

Happy New Year, everyone!



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Now playing: Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
via FoxyTunes

Creative, yung Zen Vision: M, yung White!

Nice, isn't it? :-DAnd I got it at a really good bargain too, I asked my cousin Kuya Ren to buy it for me while he's in the US, and that cut the cost by about 5k php. (Plus I payed him in pesos and I think the peso has gotten stronger versus the dollar from the time he bought it to the time he arrived in the Philippines hehe)

Anyway, Kuya Ren is here for his wedding this coming March 17! The rest of the family will be arriving from the US on the 12th for the wedding. The coming weeks should be eventful :P

*note: no, that picture isn't really the unit I own, but I'm too lazy to transfer the pics from our cam to the pc, so I just googled an image haha.