I was listening to Magic 89.9 Good Times with Mo Twister, Grace Lee, and celebrity guest DJ G Toengi this morning and boy was it a blast!
It was music day and they had Cookie Chua and Mike Villegas as guests. Wow! Did they play good music together! Mike Villegas was a real guitar demon I tell you! Add in G Toengi…her voice along can really turn you on! No, no, no, I mean that in a nice way ok? She’s got this soothing voice and her wit…well, let me just say that she gave Mo Twister a good run for his money! G, by the way, who is also a singer, belted out a song by Karen Carpenter in a duet with Cookie! It was absolute heaven! The day’s program was an acoustic trip! Mike and Cookie’s rendition of “Come Together” by the Beatles gave me goose bumps all over! It was as if I teleported to a bar somewhere drinking beer, picking on “roasted highland legumes”, and strumming on my imaginary guitar!
I remember the time when I was still in the seminary when I tried playing the guitar. As the old saying goes, “nothing worthwhile comes in easy!” This is also true when learning to play an instrument. Countless hours of practice, memorizing chords, and calluses! Man, if you don’t want calluses on your fingers---guitar is not the musical instrument for you! Unfortunately, basketball got the better of me and gave up on the guitar. At least my son took up the cudgels.
In hind sight, I regret having abandoned guitar playing. Maybe I’ll start learning again. There’s a lot of guitar playing tutorials in Youtube anyway. Hmmm…maybe I will indeed!
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