MUSIC I liked listening to music very much that's why I have a wide
collection of audios in different formats like CD's, Cassettes, LD's, VCD's,
DVD's and of course my all time favorite, the Vinyl Records (with tons of dust
in my home in the Philippines). I listen to all kinds of music genres except
classical and songs from these famous Tenors but my roots is in rock music. When
I was growing up, I used to listen to songs from Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led
Zeppelin and local bands like Juan de la Cruz Band, Sampaguita, Asin and the
likes as my brother always play songs from these bands in our house. I even went
with my brother one time to the Asin Concert which I liked very much and give
way to my preferred kind of music. During my first year in high school, I got
into Punk, Hardcore and Ska music. Those were the days of the Brave New World,
from the music of the great Pinoy underground bands like Dead Ends to G.I. & the
Idiots and from I.O.V. (Intoxication Of Violence) to R.D.A. (Reformed
Destruction for Action / Rapid Deployment and Antidote) and WUDS. From then on, I started collecting Vinyl and
Cassette tapes which I bought using some of my school allowance. Right now, I
don't know where they're all gone especially my collection of TRC (Twisted Red
Cross) released label from TRC 1 to TRC 19. Some I remember I lend to some friends and
not returned back and some of them just disappeared. So far I have these much
collection with me which I started collecting from the day I started working
here in Dubai up to now and still growing. 75% of my CD collection were bought from sales or
discount section and the rest I bought from their original price. I only buy a
CD in their normal price if it's really a good album from a great band. There's less
variety of artists that's being marketed here as most of them were being banned
before being released to the country due to either the contents of the albums or
the design in the front cover. My CD collection includes only the individual or
group artists and I haven't included my Various Artist albums and I'll be
including it later on if time permits. Sad to say I can't include my Vinyl
Records collection as all of them are in the Philippine Islands. I can remember
only few and not all so maybe I'll include it when I take my vacation and that
is I have no idea when will it be. so check it out.....collection
Aside from collecting music CD's and other formats, I do collect
also other stuff like caps, coins of other countries and shoes. So far I have
collected 38 bull caps( all of them hanging on my room's wall), coins and paper
currency of 17 countries and 14 pairs of shoes. I stopped collecting for the
mean time due to financial crisis I'm experiencing right now but as soon as I'll
be able to, I'll start collecting again.
COOKING I started to practiced cooking when I came here to Dubai since
nobody will cook for you and you'll have to spend more money if you'll always
eat outside. I'm actually staying in Sharjah emirate (next to Dubai) and there's
no Filipino restaurant here so it's either you cook your own food or you eat
some Indian or Pakistani food which anyway tastes good, that is if you like some
spicy products. Actually I know how to cook since then coz my Mom and my Sister
used to teach me some Filipino delicacies. I always watched them cooking from
time to time in our home in the Philippine Islands so with these watching
experience, I have a great idea of what quality food means. Only when I came here that I got the
chance to explore myself and found out that I have what it takes to make some
good food. I think I got this from the family as my Dad is also a good cook as
well as my oldest brother. But until now I'm still having a hard time cooking
ADOBO (a generic term for cooking meat, fish or vegetables in garlic, vinegar,
soy sauce and pepper. It's the name of the dish as well as the style of cooking). Every time that I will cook this viand is that I have to throw the sauce
for about 3 to 4 times as I can't get the taste right. The best food I learned
from my Mom is the Macaroni Salad and I'm telling you, you might forget your
name once you tasted this one. My workmates always asked me to make this one for
them every time there's an occasion in the company. I also cook Tex-Mex and
Chinese food as these are one of my favorite foods also.
SPORTS???
I like sports but since I have a problem on my left arm, I
can't join that much any sporting activities. Baseball is my favorite and
I had a chance to play this game when I was in grade school. One time when we
were playing this game inside the campus that I have to bat for the team. The
pitcher throws the ball and there I am looking directly on it and swing my bat
hitting it hard. The ball strikes on the principal's 2 flower pots (breaking it
definitely) and went through the window of Grade 2 class coming out on the next room. It's good
nobody's hurt and it's quite an experience. After then, I tried Volleyball and
High Jump. I was about to play volleyball during the School District's Sports
Meet when I decided to quit as I'm afraid that I'll break my arm again. I shift
to Table Tennis but it didn't last long. I didn't play any sport after that
until when I was in 3rd year High school as I played volleyball again during
school's intramurals. I got into Skateboarding at the same time and this is
where I had so many additional skid marks on my legs and yeah, I broke my right
arm with this one now, he! he! he!. I liked this sport very much that I got into
this until when I was in my College years. Me and my friends formed a group
called the
Makati Skateboard Association
and we always sponsor tournaments whole
year round. We even staged a Skate Rock Festival wherein there's a skateboard
competition while there's a rock band playing at the background. It was a lot of
fun and until now I'm still into it that every time I will see somebody inside
the restaurant where I'm working now carrying a skateboard, I will borrow their
board just to try some tricks if I still can. I also tried playing Table Tennis
once more when I was in college and I join some try-outs for the school's
varsity team but to no avail.
When my Dad decided to stay in the Philippines for good (he
worked with ARAMCO Oil Company in Saudi Arabia for 8 years), He taught me how
to play Darts. I got hooked also into this sport with my Dad coaching for me and
I actually won 3 tournaments already within the neighborhood. Right now I'm
practicing Darts again as my neighbors from the Philippines who's also here in
Dubai encourage me to join some tournaments here. Hopefully I could join some
Darts Club and enter into some big tournaments but not now as I'm busy with my
work schedules and my website of course. So far, I haven't done anything worth
while except maybe of course, finishing this website which I got interested to
last April when I accidentally stumbled into Geocities. Out of curiosity,
I sign for a membership and said what the heck, then here it is, I have my own
personal website.
What keeps me busy
nowadays??? Well aside from updating my website from time to time, I'm into
Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing right now... I'm trying to earn extra
money through this business and Inshaallah (God's Will), I might resign early
from my current job to focus and have full time in this business. The good thing
in this business is you schedule your own time. The more you put extra time into
this, you can actually earn more than what you expected. You can have a part
time or full time career in this and your income will definitely be based on
your efforts. Thanks to my cousin Michael Romero who introduced this business to
me when I was on my vacation last year.
This much only for now and come back next time for anything that
might happen good to me in the near future. I have so many plans in stored for me
and hoped that it all materialized. Don't forget to check out the other page of
my site and sign my guest book of course. At least by this way I will know if
somebody appreciates my homepage...
