Hello world.

Is there anyone out there reading my blog anymore?

Okay, I hear only echos and a deafening silence. I mean, surely no one cares about a guy who writes vociferously and somewhat passionately and then evaporates without a trace for several months and then come back again, right?

Not that I expect readers for my blog (a statement to coat my modest blog readership numbers with derision not unlike the fox who pronounces the grapes sour – a curious behavior that’s taking shape lately) but if you are out there reading please be assured that I am still around, and definitely “not lazy, just busy” (just something that I begin to say recently which – by virtue of its simplicity and clever, impeccable rhyming – is now one of my signature catch phrase). But really, I think my blog has just become one of the loneliest out there by virtue of my own making.

There used to be an avenue for my regular literary retreat where after the daily action of highly ambitious life all I did was to sit down and unwind and reflect, crafting meaning and expressing my feelings with artful configuration and groupings of alphabets, which was of course conspicuously missing in the recent not-lazy-just-busy months. Right. Blogging.

But now I am back. So much has happened to me and I don’t know where to start. But in summary:

• The composition album with my composition in it is finally out. Sold at 30 bucks local currency. Nah, don’t bother buying it. Albums are the new vinyls. Torrents are the new albums.
• I sold my first song to a Hong Kong girl group. Apparently they are quite popular in Hong Kong, but frankly I’ve never heard of them and I may have fidgeted in horror (with a tinge of disdain) while checking them out in Youtube. But we’ll see when their album is out.
• I am officially signed to this publishing company as a songwriter, although, I have yet to ink my John Hancock above any dotted lines. Right, time to make that phone call.
• Taking freelance music arrangement work seriously. Not very confident about my work for now, but will get there.
• Doing a musical production now. Rehearsals almost everyday.
• Tumultuous period of time characterized by insomnia, anxiety, general lethargy, occasional inability to focus and pay attention, glass half-empty mode and subsequently acne outbreak. Partially because of stress and work, but mainly because of relationships and confidence crisis.
• Acting in a play in about a month. That means, a month to work on pronunciation, enunciation, mechanics of sound production, subtext and physicality. Another round of tumultuous period if you ask me.
• Got headhunted by this artiste to play the keyboard for him for an upcoming radio show. Small role, but quite a milestone. In the process I discovered how horrible the local entertainment industry is, how it is pervaded by mediocrity at every corner I turn to. Which leads me to …
• Seriously consider relocating to another city. Someone once told me that one’s external environment can be affective to one’s well being. If I continue to stay, I fear I will be mediocre, arrive late at every appointment, cancel appointment on the eleventh hour, and take everything, no matter how urgent, trivially.

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