I waited for my excitement to die down before I attempted to write an objective review of Jason Mraz concert in Manila last October. Looking back, we truly enjoyed the concert, fan or no fan, you will simply be amazed at Jason Mraz’s sheer vocal prowess and musical talent. Jason and Toca confidently confronted thousands of screaming fans that filled the gigantic Araneta Colliseum.

Jason and Toca sang their hearts out, they sang all of my favorites including Butterfly and Dynamo of volition from Jason’s latest album. The concert was a major success, save for a few minor qualms. Most of my complaints will fall under technical difficulties or venue related problems.

First complaint is the lousy sound system. There was too much echo and there was not enough power to fill the stadium. Although as a fan, I am familiar with his lyrics, but newbies will probably have a hard time understanding what Jason was singing about. Next complaint is the decision to do an acoustic set at a giant venue like Araneta. Jason should have gotten himself a full band to back him up complete with sax and wind instruments – it would have been much more fun.

Still acoustic sets have that feeling of intimacy which die hard fans probably preferred, sadly these die hard fans only know Jason’s popular songs like You and I both, I’m yours and Lucky. Overall it was a great concert experience and was well worth the dread of traffic and the hard time we had parking our car.

And honestly I was a bit surprised because there was no mention in the news that Steve’s condition was already that bad. Just a few days after the announcement of iPhone 4s, Apple Macintosh again took the world by storm with the news of its leader’s demise.

The peculiar thing is, when I read the news, somehow I felt sad, and the reaction was virtually the same through out my social networking range. Its like everyone paused for a bit to think about this man, some were probably taking care of their ach payments, feeding their kids, driving to work, eating lunch etc… But I am quite sure that most of us dropped what we were doing when we heard the news and spent a bit of time thinking about Steve Jobs, his life contributions and comparing it to our own puny contributions.

Everyone took the time to remember this great achiever’s life. And to me that is already a great honor in itself for all of Steve Jobs accomplishments.

Still what’s done is done and people will move on. The news and the interwebs will be talking about useless things again in just a few days. I just hope and pray that Steve’s family is coping well and that Apple will continue to produce great innovative and quality products.

And I also hope that I learn something from the life of this man that successfully changed the way the world thinks.

Now if you smoke in your own private place, you can buy as many local cigars or padron cigars online and there will be no problem. Smoking is your choice, but RA 9211 is aiming to raise awareness about the effects of second hand smoke on other people and the environment.

I give the RA 9211 a 2.5 star for it’s good intentions, but lack of action…

I thought that maybe I’d just not fix one this year because I really hate fixing a turkey when I don’t even hate it. It really is too much trouble to fix. So I sent an email with my Satellite Star Internet to my family asking if they would mind if I didn’t like turkey.

No one seemed to really object, so I decided that I’m just going to fix a ham. Everyone in my family likes ham and I think that it will be a lot easier to cook than turkey, plus I’ll actually eat waht I have to cook for a change! All of my brothers and sisters are having individual Thanksgiving meals with their families so they’ll have teh opportunity to eat turkey if they want to.

Before you send in the wedding invitations, you have to stick to the custom and send in some save the date cards to those whom you want to invite. This is to ensure that the very special people will not forget your very special day. You can be as unique as you can with your save the date. Some people choose to place their pictures in the cards to make it more personalized. There are various themes, styles and colors to choose from that is why you will never fail to find the best save the date card for you before you tie the knot.

Our outing is still a day away but I’m already excited.  We can only do this once in a year so we’re making the most out of it.