busy afternoon

hmm what a busy afternoon indeed. lol im busy reading people's comments on the lyrics/songs posted on www.songmeanings.net. yeah, well, i tried to read some of the lyrics that moved me. darn. and its so amazing to read people's opinion. im so full of my fucked up brain yeah know. i want someone who can talk from 6pm to 6am. lol and id just be listening. heheheh

so what's up with me right now. hmmm. im so freakin sleepy but i got to write a few stuff. hold on.

i posted the song besame mucho because of last night.

4 of us went to a place called Larsians to eat our dinner. Its a place where barbecue is the best-seller. I dont know how to describe that well., then there are these kids who come to you selling Sampaguita(native flower).
They're practically begging you know. But that's ok. There is this guy who just sings acapella (and from the way he is acting and his lyrics you would know that he is someone other than normal) There's this guy who walks around from table to table with his sticker-filled accoustic guitar...

This guy, who in the later part of this Story we would find out to be "Miguel". Went to this couple, (i hope they are not, cos the girl is a cutie with glasses) lol, and sang some songs to the girl's request.

He sang "itanong mo sa akin.. kung sinong aking mahal.. at agad kung sasabihin.. ikaw ang aking mahal"
- ask me who is the one i love, and i will quickly say to you, that it is you that i love. (A+ for effort in translation)

Anyway, while he sang that, our group sang along. lol the place wasnt so crowded so no worries. =) i like the song anyway. So the girl requested for some Beatles songs. Then Miguel played "Yesterday", but i cannot seem to get his version, i dont know, i mean, it wasnt of the original rhythm as played by Paul in acoustic. Anyway, so after playing that song, he came to our table and then Karen requested for Spiral Staircase. Im not so familiar with the lyrics though., but somehow i have heard that before. =) Then Marlon requested for a tagalog song.. and then we sang along i forgot the title.. Then i requested for a BeeGees song. And he sang "To Love Somebody".. i dont really know if its the correct title but it's the one that goes "baby you dont know what its like, to love somebody, the way i love you".. its a very old song. yeah. but i liked it.

And we sang along. hehe it was really fun, and i told him that his song almost made me cry. and he told me not to, and said i am just like this guy he chanced upon playing going about his business sometime ago. While the guy was eating at the same area(he pointed to the exact place) as we did last night, he played the same song and the guy cried. somethin like that. and they became good friends, and that this guy brought him to Panglao Bohol ( a very nice white sandy beach in the philippines, where my pic was taken, that's me in Panglao with a bottle of Fundador).

Anyway. Yeah then this guy brought him there to serenade him and his girl. For free. Plus he was paid. Wow. =)

Noticing that he was very eager to share to us a piece of his life, we offered him to grab a chair and sit down. I even asked Karen if we can buy some beer for Miguel. (although we paid him some change). SO there . He sat with us, and talked about his life. Karen said he ought to be teaching guitar, to get regular pay, or make something more than what he is paid playing in the place. He disapproved with a smile. He said he is tired of all that. He told us that he was from Manila, and that he was taught guitar by this guy who knows notes by ear.
He said that if you would play the wrong note this guy(his mentor) would just stare at you. Lol

And then he told us that he and his mentor went to ITALY. to play there, and they were sponsored by Procter and Gamble. I said wow. Well i told him that his life is better than mine. lol. He showed me some riffs from an old filipino band Apo Hikings Society. This band was totally big in the 70s i think and the early 80s. their songs are a classic. and so he showed some riffs.

We were just about ready to leave and I requested for a last song,. and i asked him if he could play Besame Mucho.... and he did... eagerly at that.

Man, i remember samboan. Where i used to hang out at the dike., drink rhum with an uncle while someone plays some old songs in acoustic. Fucking sweet. yeah i remember those times. Those are just one of the most romantic nights ever. Well, i wish i had someone then. lol. it wouldve been a perfect date. anyway.

back to besame mucho. so i sang along,. but didnt know the lyrics to most of the songs (because its in spanish,and im gonna learn that language anytime soon i swear).

there and we left.. and i gave miguel some more coins, and shook his hand. he asked me for my name... and i said Erik. it was like wow., i shouldnt have given him coins. I should just have shook his hand. I think it was better for a man to know he had a friend, than to be given coins...

hmmmm.. case in point. rewind a few years back.(well i am not going to elaborate) but when i was still in college i found a cellphone left alone in public transportation. blah blah blah.. i contacted teh owner and told her id return it to her school (i was like 3rd year college already and this girl was in 2nd year highschool)

yeah so the next day i went to her school although it was far far far away from home.

there i met them, the girl and her aunt.. who was a bitch. why? she gave me P200 for the phone. I was like.
Fuck that man. the phone costs P18,000. And I wasnt up for the money. A simple thank you from them would do me a lot better than 200 pesos that i can just wipe their asses with. lol.

Anyway...

so there..

we somehow met a new soul.. Miguel. =) an old man who is already contented with his life. a real vagabond...

*holy shit. Just now, i remembered that while driving to the ofc that day, i was singing Dylan's Tambourine MAn!!!!! waaah...

here are some lines that totally haunt me.. as it really did happen .=)

"hey mr tambourine man play song for me
im not sleepy and there aint no place im going to"

shoot!.. i just realized.. That somehow.. i found the Tambourine Man!!!!!

i love these lines as well..

"..all my senses have been stripped
my arms cant feel to grip
wait only for my bootheels to be wandering
im ready to go anywhere im ready for today
until your own parade
cast your dancing spells my way
i promise to go under it "

hehehhe ciao.