24-Hour Log

24-Hour Log (9/13/08-9/14/08)

10:30 pm - Stop by the BTS Nightmarket and am immediately drawn to the Filipino Association’s booth where quite a crowd has gathered. Why? Karaoke. Before I can make my way over to see the TV screen, a chorus of Jasmines and Alladins breaks out singing “A Whole New World”. 

10:35 pm - After pandemonium ensues upon receiving a collective score of 94, the crowd selects “Hey Jude” by the Beatles. Before I know it, I’m quickly consumed by the “NAAA NA NA NANANA NAAAAA NANANA NAAAAAA Hey Jude” for the next 10 minutes or so...

10:45 pm - I finally snap out of the daze “Hey Jude” lulled me into and walk over to sample some food while Usher’s “Love in the Club: Part I” blasts over the BTS soundsystem. To be honest, I’m a a bit partial to Part II. 

3:00 am - My suitemate shows me some of his new Fusion choreography to Mya’s “Walker Not a Talker”

3:15 pm - Put on some Elton John (“Tiny Dancer” and “Your Song”) from my iTunes before drifting off to sleep…

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8:50 am - Woke up to Jason Mraz’s “Make it Mine”

(Jason singing): “Wake up everyone, how can you sleep at a time like this unless the dreamer is the real you?”

9:20 am Walked to church humming and intermittently singing the wrong lyrics to Shai’s “If I Ever Fall in Love”. Not exactly sure how that song sprang into my head...

9:30 - 11:30 am - Rehearsed and performed violin at Sunday Mass in Manning Chapel with the choir, along with two guitarists, a bassist, a pianist, and a clarinetist.

Here was the Mass Music Schedule:

Opening Song

               "Take Up Your Cross"  GC #698

Responsorial Psalm

               Psalm 78  (Psalm booklet page 198)

Gospel Acclamation

              "Celtic Alleluia" # 258

Presentation

             "Only This I Want" #695

Mass Parts

            Sanctus GC   #166

            Memorial Acclamation   GC #167  

            Amen   GC #168

            Lamb of God   GC #171

Communion

            "Unless a Grain of Wheat"   GC #697

***Someone’s monophonic cell phone ringtone goes off. (I’ve come to realize that I can count on at least one cell phone ringing during mass, and it’s always during the quietest part)

Closing Song

            "Lift High the Cross"  GC #791

12:19 pm - Went back to my room and listened to “If I Ever Fall in Love”. Again. This time trying to sing the right words.

12:21 pm - Fiddle around with the new iTunes 8 and the new Genius feature. I pick a song (Dispatch - “The General”) and iTunes automatically finds songs by the same artist that I am missing, while at the same time giving recommendations to songs similar in style. How cool!

12:25 pm - Lil Wayne ft. Robin Thicke - “Tie My Hands” through iTunes.

12:30 - Decide that I need some instrumental music to prevent me from singing along while writing a paper. So I put on Jim “Kimo” West’s album Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar: Kimo Style. The first song that comes up is “Itoshi No Kimi Ni”. (Not exactly sure what the title means)

“Hanalei Morning”

“Na Hali’a Aloha”

“The Hawaiian Wedding Song”

12:44 pm - I am easily distracted and see one of the top songs on iTunes being M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes”. Immediately, feelings of regret arise as I am disappointed that I did not go to this concert last Spring Weekend...

“All I wanna do is *POW*, *POw*, *Pow*, *pOW*!”

12:45 pm - Put on Lupe Fiasco’s “The Instrumental” from my iTunes to make me feel better. This is my favorite Lupe song and it was even better live.

12:50 pm - I put on Girl Talk’s newest album “Feed the Animals”, and my favorite song “Here’s the Thing”. I’m going to spare you from the listing of songs mashed together in this song because there are too many and some of them I don’t even know =)

2:05 pm - While in CitySports looking for a football, Jack Johnson’s “Taylor” and “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” play over the store’s system.

3:05 pm - I can hear faint sounds of acoustic guitar coming from my suitemate’s room across the hall. 

4:15 pm - Another one of my suitemates joins him in an acoustic “Canon in D” round, followed by “By the Way” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, followed by the Temptations’ classic “My Girl”. 

7:00 pm- Ballroom Club. Music for merengue, waltz, rhumba, cha-cha, tango, samba, and foxtrot. Not sure about the exact artists or songtitles.

8:30 pm - Walked down Thayer Street singing The Fugees “Killing Me Softly” and Boyz II Men “In the Still of the Night” with a friend on the way to the SciLi

1:00 am - End the night with the “ESPN Sportscenter” theme song watching highlights from today’s NFL Games.