25 Random things about me (from facebook)

1. My real name is Earnest Hope Lumayag Tinambacan

2. I’m a PastorS’ kid (oh yes, both my ma and pa)

3. My mama is from Bindoy (Neg. Or.), my papa is from Dipolog City (Zam. Del norte), my brother was
born in Calamba (Mis. Occ.), while I am from Oroquieta City (Mis. Occ.). Cool noh?

4. I studied prep in Oroquieta, and then my mama was my teacher in Kindergarten 2 in Lopez Jaena (Mis. Occ.). In elementary, from Grades 1-4, I studied still in Lopez Jaena, from Grades 5-6 until 1st year and 2nd year High school I studied in Jimenez (Mis. Occ.), and then from 3rd year to 4th year back in Oroquieta City. Exhausting, right? Pag pastors’ kid pa mo! Hahaha

5. I met a terrible accident when I was 2 years old. I burned an important organ of my digestive system.

6. I don’t have that organ anymore. The doctors had to cut and replace it with something else.

7. I love singing contests because I was an “amateurista” too. As a kid, I used to sing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Diana Ross songs in different singing competitions. I’ve lost, won 3rd place in barangay/purok level, won 2nd place in town level, and won as grand champion in city level. Weird noh???

8. My ultimate winning piece was “May Bukas Pa”, which is recently the theme song of a new Kapamilya teleserye. Well, I still think my version was better. Bleh!!!!!! Hehehe! Both my ma and pa were my trainers, but most of the time it’s my papa who accompanies me to competitions.

9. My father once warned me that if I stop singing in Church, God will take my talent from me. I was stubborn and refused to sing in Sunday services, and so when my voice started to change (from boy soprano to Bass 2), I cried from regret.

10. I thank the Silliman University Men’s Glee Club for saving my voice. If not because of the club, I wouldn’t know the reason why God gave me such very low voice (now I miss our team of power basses).

11. In High School, most of my friends were “the crazies” and “the singers”. Or isn’t it the same in college? Hahaha!

12. I started writing songs when I was 13, but I was already 15 when I started to join songwriting contests. Of course I’ve tried losing, then I won 3rd place, then second, then champion. Why is it always like that? Hehehehehe!

13. In elementary and High School, I was “lampayatot” (small, skinny, and weak), so in theater performances I was always the “youngest son”. However, since college, I’ve been portraying an old man: a monk in The King and I, Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, then Lolo Bastruk in Kikay Kalaykay, and soon I’ll be playing a Spanish General.

14. I wish I was as talented as Chris Cornell in writing songs, and I also dream of having his voice. Way too ambitious.

15. In elementary, I was the folkdance king. Tarararan tantantan tararantan! LOL!!!

16. I started performing in march rallies when I was 12 years old. That’s how early I understood the poor people’s struggles.

17. I always find snakes fascinating. Maybe because of my mama’s story that I have a twin snake. She said that a preggy snake kept on following her when she was pregnant with me: in her mini-library (behind the books), at the door, in her room, and she almost had miscarriage when she accidentally stepped on it. Just few days before she went into labor, they found snake eggs inside a dry bamboo stem, and when I was born, she saw a baby snake in the trashcan next to her bed in the hospital. When I was a kid, I always see a snake on my birthday. One time, I saw it eating our neighbors chicken. Hmmmm… Celebrating? Well, if ever it’s true, I wish the snake is still alive.

18. My all-time favorite pinoy music video is that of Kyla’s “hanggang ngayon” (it’s also my favorite OPM song). I love it being emotionally creepy (what?). And I later realized that the dead guy in the bathtub on that video was Jamir Garcia of Slapshock, and I learned that he also wrote several hiphop songs for Kyla.

19. I once dreamed of being a professional back-up singer. Well, libreng mangarap.

20. I’m interested in weird musicians like Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Jim Morisson, Janis Joplin and her “daughter” Amanda Overmyer, Michael Jackson, and even Amy Winehouse.

21. I am interested in indie films, indie bands, and indie artists (even dream of becoming one, ambisyoso talaga).

22. I’m in a band called Jobas Witness, and we cover Radioactive Sago songs. I’ve always been a fan of Radioactive Sago especially their lead vox Lourd de Veyra (who is by the way a Palanca multi-awardee), and I was so happy when I met them in 2005. It is also cool to note that Lourd’s real name is Lourd Ernest, and I am Earnest Hope. Hehehehe! I-connect jud.

23. I don’t go out of the apartment without my notebook and pen.

24. I am nocturnal and I can spend one whole night with my notebook and pen and bottles of red horse. I’m also a moon lover, to the extent that I made a song about it.

25. I can sleep for hours in a sitting position. I even snore. Ngorkkk!!!!!!!!!!!

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