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Sweet Ecstasy Cubao Expo (10/13/2012)

Thank you Chesca! :)

thatinsatiablehunger:

I was really excited to go to Cubao Expo after my quick stint at the Gourmet Market for Sweet Ecstasy. Not a relatively new concept but still refreshing amidst all the cupcake shops popping out around the metro. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against cupcakes but sometimes you just want something different. So what exactly does Sweet Ecstasy offer? 2 words my lovely readers. MILK and COOKIES. If given a choice between cupcakes and cookies, I’ll choose cookies every single time. I’m a self professed cookie monster and Sweet Ecstasy is my Cookie Heaven.

 

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It’s the little things.

I’m sitting in the cafe, feeling all sorts of sadness, then like clockwork, to most likely take my mind off things, or maybe put a stupid smile on my face, God gifts me with a blabbering drunken marketing man who walks in and tries to sell me ad space in this random magazine. 

While he tries to explain himself in the best way his drunken ass can, I’m sitting there smiling blankly at him thinking, “Wow! Thanks God. I appreciate the momentary distraction. How entertaining. :)” 

It took all of 10 slightly awkward minutes to get his sales pitch out, and for me to feel a little better. 

So.. till the next blabbering idiot that comes my way. Cheers.

OPM

By now, I’ve read the various articles on “OPM being dead”. Different points of view and comments from all sides. Had time to think about it, and figured I’d put my two cents in. 

My take? Having been with radio for the past 16 years, OPM is struggling, but how can it be labeled dead when Original Pilipino Music is still being made? When we have musicians coming out of the woodwork even without the promise of money? Music is made, simply because inspiration is there. Our musicians continue because it’s their passion. Music comes out their pores. The downside, sometimes, it doesn’t equate to riches. The upside, the music will touch somebody out there. That for me equates to a pulse that’s still going strong, not a flatline. 

I’ve had the honor and pleasure to be witness first hand to incredible talent, coming from both established and new artists in the industry. Some have to release covers just to make everybody happy or maybe get their foot in the door, but that doesn’t mean there’s less integrity. Sure people are always quick to judge. Myself included. “Eww.. another cover.” But everybody needs to make money. How do you survive? How do you continue to make music if you can’t feed yourself? So you reconcile with that part of yourself and come to a compromise. That’s the real world. There are a million and one things to be said on this topic. Everybody will have their own valid point. 

But in my humble opinion, OPM is having a hard time but it perseveres, it always will. Life and everything in it is like a rollercoaster, there are the highs and the lows and the in between. Everything is always in flux. Things will get better. OPM music continues because we have crazy-talented people who won’t let it die.