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When we visited my family in 2012 we didn't actually spend as much time as I would have liked with most of them. That's because we planned a road trip which took most of our time. Since we were on the road majority of the stay, we weren't able to spend as much time in my childhood home. During our recent trip, that's exactly what we did. We spent a lot of time in my childhood home. We actually stayed home too much that we got bored after a while. But it was somehow an 'eye opener' for me as well as my significant other. On his part, he was finally able to experience 'real summer' back there. Both trips happened in April. But since we were in an air-conditioned car most of the time during our 2012 trip, we didn't really feel how hot it was. This time around, the air-con was only in our room. As soon as we stepped outside, it's hot. As a result, the AC in our room stayed on the whole day because it served as a reprieve from the heat. Every time...

During our trip back home I couldn't help but notice that so much has changed since our last visit...and that was just 3 years ago. For one, there are more babies now than ever. Three years ago, there was only one baby. This time around, there are 3 more who are under 3. That baby 3 years ago is now in school and is in need of a stand for clarinets for his music class in school. Since when did they start offering clarinet lessons in school...in our barrio? When I was in school there, the only thing we learned in music class was G-clef. Now they offer different classes of different musical instruments. Good for them. At least kids today have more choices that we did way back when.

We went for a month long vacation middle of April. Spring was in full swing then. When we returned last week, spring is long gone and summer has taken its place. Can I say it's hot? Actually, it's hotter where we came from so it wasn't as bad when we got here. Anyway, even before we left for that much needed vacation my blogging has been sporadic. I just can't seem to find my 'mojo' anymore. I stopped for a while when I was hit by a sudden loss of a friend. I tried to go back to it a few weeks after but I seem to be having a hard time. I'm trying and I'm hoping that in time I'll be able to blog as much as I used to. At the moment, the little one and I are still experiencing jet lag. We've been sleeping well during the night since we arrived but we're still tired during the day. I would catch the little one napping every now and then so I try to wake her up to she won't have a hard time come sleeping time but it's hard since all I ...

Good to be back. I was away for a while because I went to visit family back home. It was great to see everybody again. As usual I got a lot of 'requests' when I was about to leave. One of which is from my brother who doesn't seem to run out of requests when it comes to his band's needs. This time around he asks me to look for a groove production system that his band wants. I did and saw this native instruments maschine MK2 at musicians friend. I have no idea if they have the budget for it but I did what I was asked to do and it's up to them if they want to get or not. In all honesty, I really don't know if their band even need something like this since they're not even playing regularly. But knowing my brother, he probably just wants to see what's out there.

Yesterday was 'spring forward' day. It's not really my favorite day even if it has spring in its name since it meant losing 'an hour' [of sleep?]. I've said it here many times but I will say it again...what's up with this time changing anyway? I thought it's been proven to be ineffective so why keep doing it, right? If only the time change will also spring forward real spring then it will be more bearable. One thing that made yesterday better was that we had a spring-like, mild temp and very clear day. I believe the highest in our area was around 80 degrees. Woot! What did we do on such a beautiful day? I wanted to go to the mall to look for something we need but we asked the little one what she wanted to do...mall or biking? I lost...which I expected the moment we decided to ask her. That's actually a no-brainer because she'd choose biking in a heartbeat! We went to a different park this time around. This one is more like a camp ground than ...

I'd like to believe that our little one is musically inclined. I actually think that most of us are musically inclined. It's just that some pursue it, while some don't. When the little one was younger we really wanted her to learn how to play any musical instrument to the point of checking instruments that even I am not familiar like the komplete kontrol s61 keyboard. We didn't get her one of those but we got her a small guitar as well as a simple keyboard a few years back. She was very excited at first but it didn't last long. To this day, she hasn't learned to play either one. I'm not giving up on that yet. There's still time for her to learn one of them or even both. I learned to play the guitar when I was well in my teens already. Wishful thinking, eh?

Literally? Spring Forward I mean. Yep, that 'dreaded' [to me at least] time of the year when we have to re-set our clocks and watches an hour 'forward'. That's the easy part even if we have a gazillion clocks and a million watches to reset. The hard part will be resetting the 'body clock'... if there is such a thing. Personally, it takes me at least a week to get used to this 'spring forward' change. I'm pretty sure our little one will have the same difficulty. Anyhooo....I've been MIA again, still I mean, from blogging. I just haven't gotten that blogging mojo back yet. Not quite sure if I'll ever get it back. I still want to blog every now and then but maybe not as often as I used to...unless I need to, if you know what I mean. I've been stressing lately so my hyperacidity is acting up again. Actually I'm not even sure if that's what I have since I was never diagnosed with any GI problem. I've always had some tummy...