Last March 20, Playboy Magazine Philippines organized an exclusive party for bloggers. There were more than a hundred bloggers invited and I was lucky to be included in the list. It was actually a welcome respite since I was so swamped with work in the weeks before. New friends were made and pictures were taken, [...]

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Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I made a post. I haven’t had the time to blog because of recent projects. Currently I’m working on simultaneous projects including 1 full stage musical, a full length indie film soundtrack, an animation short a-la fantasia, and 2 student film scores. But there are certain events that [...]

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2008 has been a great year for me. This year’s theme for me was recognition. This is the year where everything was right for me. In all the fields that I dabble with, music, gaming, cosplay and blogging, I gained recognition this year.

Read all about it after the jump!

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Here’s a playlist of the songs and music I composed for the film Kolorete. The words was written by Zyan Caina. The film is a “period” film set in the 1500s era Philippines. Most of the compositional style I used was tailored to fit the film’s setting. The compositions are mostly arranged in the sarsuela [...]

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I’d like to share two recent online features about me. One is at CNET Asia and another is at GM Tristan dotcom.

There you go! See you all next post.

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Here’s my personal footage of my violin performance during Reliving Live 2008 at Level Up’s office. I held a mini concert of three musical numbers of my own arrangement, on my violin. I chose to perform well known video game themes as this is a gaming related event.

Super Mario Bros. Theme Medley

Watch me perform Bragi’s [...]

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Hi guys! Hope you can catch my mini concert and interview at Level Up’s RELIVING LIVE 2008 online event. It’s a live video feed where you can ask me some questions via webchat. My feature is scheduled Friday, November 14 at 1pm.

I’ll be performing music from video games on my violin including “Bragi’s Poem” and [...]

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Last Friday, November 7, I was invited to a bloggers exclusive event by AXE. It was to promote their new product the AXE Dark Temptation bodyspray. Anyway, since I’ll be posting a full videoblog about the event, I won’t discuss much of the details here. Instead, let me treat you first to a new collection [...]

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Yes, I bought another toy, as part of my current quest in building my own home recording studio. It was, I admit, a sudden purchase because it was on sale at JB Music store when I only planned to window shop. The Zoom G1X Guitar Multi-Effects is an all-around gadget for tweaking the sound not [...]

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I was able to get a private invite at Playboy Magazine’s (Philippines) November issue press conference. It’s all thanks to my new plurk buddy and fellow blogger Azrael, thanks pare! In this month’s issue they are featuring Cassandra Ponti, one of the winners of Pinoy Big Brother’s first batch now turned professional model and actress. [...]

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