2011

So far, the new year has been great to me.

I got back to the Philippines on the new year. Great way to start the year fresh after a nice vacation. Now that Iโ€™m back, Iโ€™m finally settled into the new year after a month of stressful juggling of new things.

First off, I now have 25 students. I usually max out at 15 students, but now this is just insane! All the cracks of my schedule are filled, and I barely have any time to do any of the other things I love to do (for work and enjoyment), like recording and programming websites. I still have time actually when the weddings are slow, but surprisingly enough, even tough we added a pianist at World Bridal, my hands are still pretty full. I may finally have my first student recital too, since I have a good number of students.

In addition to having lots of students, I have also opened my other room for my friend Jean Ann Hu to teach flute. Sheโ€™s fresh out of college, so Iโ€™m excited that sheโ€™s able to jump on this opportunity and help me out.

Another thing that Iโ€™m really proud of is that Iโ€™ve started running! No more of this Wii-fit business (not that I didnโ€™t enjoy it). Wii fit was great, but itโ€™s time I graduated to some real exercise. Actually, Iโ€™ve always wanted to run, but the only convenient place really is UOG, and thatโ€™s a 15 minute drive from my place. Now thereโ€™s a pool near my house (just about 5 minutes away) and it has a nice .5 mile sidewalk surrounding its perimeter that a lot of people run on.

Anyway, Iโ€™ve been doing the C25k (Couch-to-5k) program, which is a 9 week program to get you to run a 5k nonstop. I started it since the new year, and now Iโ€™m on week 6. Iโ€™ve been able to work up to running 20 minutes straight from only being able to run for about 60-90 seconds at a time. Talk about a milestone! I canโ€™t wait to finish the program and try to tackle another 5k to see if I can run it in about 30 minutes.

I also have a few recording projects still open. I am still working on Freedom Friesโ€™ recording as well as recording a new band called โ€œFlyspeckโ€ (sp?). They have a pretty cool song coming out that you might hear on the radio soon! :)

Thatโ€™s the year so far. Oh, and Iโ€™m looking to start recording YouTube videos once again if someone is interested in helping me out. I have a nice video camera and editing software. I just wonder if someone out there is wanting to get into video editing and is interested in helping me out. I want to upload a video every week onto YouTube. Let me know if youโ€™re interested.

Oh, and I may try to blog a bit more. Or maybe not. Who knows! Ciao.