The typhoon is waaaay up north and wouldn’t even touch land but its presence is very much felt here in the south. Look how strong the winds blowing here are and it started last night and continued throughout the day until this very moment.

Sushi was so scared last night during the torrential rain and violent winds but she couldn’t seek comfort with me since my brother’s entire family was having dinner with us. The cats didn’t venture out to the stairs today and were just content with watching the trees swaying.

Today was just bedweather and I struggled with productivity. I just wanted to sleep and be indolent. I just edited two stories, did an interview with my trainee and—that’s it.

I hope it starts clearing by tomorrow because on Friday I would be driving to Manila at lunch, check in a hotel with my kids and older sister, then off I go to the central bank. Why bring the kids? Because we will be shopping for school stuff on Saturday. It will save me the energy as I don’t have to drive back and forth. Why with my sister? Because she wanted to go shopping as well and she didn’t want to drive.

Always the driver. 😑

So anyway, my protest dress still hasn’t arrived yet so I may have to go with plan B—little black dress. How boring.

How cool is this? Megadeth’s drummer, Dirk Verbeuren, writing his own drum version of The Killer’s Mr. Brightside. The original drums had this frantic pace, which made the song sound like the singer was also in that state of mind. Dirk’s version took the song into another direction, like it’s more…it’s like a diesel engine—it’s a slow burn.

And as a sessionist, you gotta learn a song really quick and I love the way Dirk was methodical about it. And I can’t help thinking about the sessionists some artists have had like Alanis Morisette, who had Flea on bass and Dave Navarro for the guitars. These two had taken You Oughta Know to another level as they were just provided with Alanis’ vocals—it was basically a blank canvas. I wonder how long did it take them to study and create the sound. Because you know, each artist’s way of playing an instrument and how he/she interprets a song takes the song to a different plane. Just like this Mr. Brightside with Dirk.