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Some christian music for children

February 21st, 2012

I may not be the biggest Christian now, but when I was little I was introduced to a lot of Christian music. I think I had a short blog about this before, and I might just link to it if I find it.

Anyway, the purpose of this post is to present this link http://www.nubeat.org/Albums.html. This is a website that lists and links to low quality mp3s of a LOT of christian music specifically written for children. One word from me: Nostalgia.

If you are, for any reason, interested but unable to pick, I’d recommend the following albums: Little Things, Sweet Dreams Tonight and Say I Love You.

For specific song recommendations, I recommend the following for some “life lessons” – and they’re not necessarily exclusively Christian values, but those marked with * are about belief in God, so you can skip those if you’re not interested:

From the album “Little Things“:
If you Give Love You Will Receive Love = a lesson in “loving your neighbour” or in non-christian speak, a step beyond altruism? =) some may disagree but that’s how I see it. I once sang this song while I was in grade school (thank heavens there were no video cameras around!)
Don’t Give Up = as the title implies, keep on trying (wipe away the tears and don’t give up)
Do It Now = discourages procrastination
*Magic Painter = I like the metaphor
*He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands = this song I eternally associate with Steve Buscemi coz of the film Con Air

From the album “Sweet Dreams Tonight“: I love this mainly coz each tune is a lullaby, and I sometimes hum them to my daughter too while I lull her to sleep
*Did I remember = a reminder to pray to thank God for everything
*There Among The Stars = a song about heaven
Little Eyes = a lovely melodious lullaby, the very first one I instinctively sang to our little girl from the night she was born
Sweet Dreams Tonight = another lovely lullaby

From the album “Say I Love You“:
Say I Love You = I just pretty much love to imagine that my daughter will learn to “say I love you one hundred times a day” as this song instructs, or at least “put I love you in every word you say”

Excuses and updates

March 3rd, 2009

As it were, it seems I cannot update the blog as often as I like (as in daily-photo-of-the-day-entry). Work has caught up with me and some personal commitments during the weekends. I’ve attended (and covered!) two weddings here in Singapore. The first one was a friend of mine, their wedding was a simple exchange of vows in their home. I’ve yet to upload their pictures in my flickr but I do have the video collage right here. The second was an intimate restaurant wedding held in Sentosa. I get to shoot with a former officemate of mine and we were able to capture the moments of the wedding. Again, I have yet to upload these weddings to my flickr.

Speaking of which, I finally bought my Pro account in flickr. I bit the bullet last night and I think it will be all worth it! Prior to buying the pro account, I have maxed out the number of uploadable images in the free flickr account. And since I wanted to maintain it as my online portfolio, I bought a 2 yr subscription. Now I am planning to move my images to flickr and continue to organize and maintain it.

I have tons of pictures to upload in the next few days. I’ll do it slowly but surely. For the meantime, I’ll leave you with some Sandwich.
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Tatsulok

August 25th, 2008

As the Music Plays.
Light Peace Love.
We Stand Alone Together.

Bamboo Singapore The Arena

Bamboo. Singapore. The Arena @ Clark Quay. August 31, 2008.

Long time fan, first time concert viewer.

Bamboo songs are heavily rotated in my iPod. Can’t wait to see them live.

Sexy track: Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole

August 19th, 2008

This song is currently serving its purpose as caffeine to mine ears in my morning commute to Uni. Full blast on the ears, nothing like it.

Gotta love Muse.

Listen up! http://www.last.fm/user/penreyes. Would love to see recommendations for music!

I know it’s not Christmas… yet.

July 9th, 2008

If it was, then there’ll be 2 days before our wedding in the Philippines =) But well… that was a tangent. Let me get back to what I wanted to post about.

I was on an emo trip last night after spending 3 hours on the train from Newcastle, listening to music. I had a bunch of stuff to read with me, and even games to play to keep me busy on the trip. But, I still ended up just listening to songs. In my device I had songs like Kanlungan, Noypi, Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo, even Biyahe Tayo. Whilst staring out at the superb sunset in the Central Coast, I was tearful at powerful lyrics, I didn’t care to cry then coz there wasn’t much people in the train anyway hehe. When I got home I was yearning to hear some other songs that struck a chord in me, years ago. I ended up digging through youtube for other All-star recordings like Voices that Care, We are the World and Do they know it’s Christmas.

Voices that Care was released in 1991 during the Persian Gulf crisis. We are the World, by United Artists for Africa in 1985, and also Do they know its Christmas in 1984 (which came out before We are the world) by distinct British/Irish artists during the famine in Ethiopia.

It was enjoyable to watch the videos. There are quite a number of “the making” videos that were also fun to watch. “The making” videos:
We are the world
Voices that Care (Part 1)

The best of them in my opinion is Do they know it’s Christmas. The lyrics were much more fresh, and much less dated. Though yes, it’s a Christmas song aimed towards a specific cause. [warning --- this turns out to be a very groupie-like schoolgirl tone] And may I say, the most that I got a kick out of was seeing those British acts looking really young and dashing! Continue Reading »

This afternoon.

July 2nd, 2008

I sported a very bad headache this afternoon. I had meant to meet with an academic today, but by some fate issue (don’t ask me what I mean, I know I’m cryptic, I’ve been told many times) we ended up in two different suburbs. So anyway, the headache. It literally felt like my head was a tree trunk with two axe blades wedged on it. I spent some time walking in Parramatta streets to get some air. I ended up spending a lot of time in a shop called JB Hifi.

It’s mostly an electronics shop with all the merch I can look and handle all day. Today I hovered over PSP games, DVDs, CDs, earphones, headphones, desktops and laptops.
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Pillbox ng Eraserheads

June 5th, 2008

Pen and I were just chatting a while ago regarding the rare magazine publication of Eraserheads during their heydays. I am quite sure that I have both copies back at home. I remember myself going from one mall to another just to get a copy of their first magazine. I went to Sta. Lucia East, SM Cubao, SM North, SM Megamall, Robinsons Galleria and eventually ended up buying in one stall in Ali Mall.

Googling around, I found the exact magazines in PDF versions! Thank you for the kind soul who made this possible. This may be the chance for you guys out there to read the magazine!

Issue Number 1
Pillbox 1

Issue Number 3 (but it is really 2! they just intentionally numbered this to 3)
Pillbox 3

Grab your copies now!!!

Natalie Gauci

March 15th, 2008

I was rooting for another contestant, Matt, at the time of Aussie Idol 2007. The other finalist, Natalie, won.

Here’s a video of her winning single.

Kinda catchy.

More musical blabber.

November 4th, 2007

It’s interesting how my ear catches a tune in the radio, and I have to find out who is singing, so I can get it playing on my own time. It’s very rare that you find out AFTER hearing the tune, so I try to catch a good length of lyrics so I can do a quick Google search. I love the internet.

After which I’d be able to find a copy online, and if I love the tune I’d hunt the album, then other works by the artist.

I thought I’d share some of my thoughts about my latest finds. Some songs mentioned here are uploaded in my Multiply site [if they're not there yet, i might put them up in the future].

The Cat Empire. This is an Australian alternative band from Melbourne. I’ve heard my friend Malu rave about them ever since I’ve known her. I happened too see them do an unplugged special on TV some weeks ago, and they are fantastic! They are kind of like a ska, swing, jazz rock band, heavily seasoned with Latin influence, in my opinion. I have all of their three albums now, and I like listening to them when I’m in need for a pick-me-up. My favorite would have to be the album So Many Nights.

Fat Freddy’s Drop. A New Zealand band I heard about from friend Shamin. They are great to hear to mellow out without getting droopy-eyed. [They had a gig last night here in Sydney, and was invited to come see it. But seeing I am feeling somewhat impoverished at the moment, no fancy events for me yet =P]

Damien Rice. First heard the song Delicate by this American singer, played in the House MD soundtrack. I have got to be enamored with the songs by Damien Rice the most at the present time. They are simply divine. I don’t know what it is, but even with not much instruments, the bravado just blows me away. I would have to say, I mostly play his song Cannonball to cheer myself up. Listen to it. It’s a great song.

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Britain’s Got Talent – Conny

June 16th, 2007

This 6 yr old kid sings amazing.

If you can’t see the embedded video, head to the direct youtube link.

I promise, you won’t be disappointed.

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