MAKING A LIST, THANKING HIM TWICE

Since it is this season that everybody is making a wish list, let me share to you a different list -- my list. This is a list of gifts that I have received for this year 2013.

FIRST TIMERS

I remember, when I was still in college, my girl friends and I were awfully sad when foreign bands come to the Philippines and we were not able to watch them. We are not like any college students. We were not studious but we have to be to maintain scholarship and when we didn't we went to work our asses out to pay for our tuition. So when graduation was nearing and almost everyone of us were already hired, we promised that we would attend every foreign acts that we love. A very ambitious promise, I must say.

We graduated summer of 2011, and from then on many foreign bands came to perform. Smashing Pumpkins, Paramore, Maroon 5, Deftones, Japandroids, and The Killers are just those few that we missed. You might wonder what happened to our promise. Thing is, earning money is not easy as we thought it would be. Most of us were just earning a little from the above minimum wage, or to easily put, just enough to get us by our daily commute and lunch in the office. I remember how my best friend and I sucked our souls up wishing we were at the Smashing Pumpkin's concert instead of doing accounting entries on the computer.