The DJ who's not a DeeJay

As a content creator, I've had several ideas for a themed YouTube channel. If you asked me 4 years ago, cats wouldn't be one of them. Back then, I knew very little about cats, never owned a cat, and our condo had strict rules on pets. 

I grew up in a house where our family had dogs. At one point in time, we had up to 7 dogs. So I was experienced living with dogs, and my only experience with cats was when our dogs would bark or run after them.

Things changed when we moved to our own house. I'd say cats discovered us instead of us discovering cats. The daily interaction and observation of their character, habits, and attitude made us experience and learn more and more about this species. 

Since I learned something new about cats every day, I decided to document some of it and eventually took videos of them. Given all those videos and photos I've accumulated, I figured the best way to repurpose them was to post them on social media, and that's where my YouTube channel on cats was created.

Grey the cat was the first cat who visited us every day, and so it was fitting that we named our channel after this grey tabby cat. Thanks to Grey, I've become focused and eager to share my personal cat videos and experiences with the public.

After over 19 months, I've publicly posted over 400 videos, and I can't imagine I've posted that many videos all dedicated to cats. I'm still under the 700 subscriber mark but hope to reach more cat lovers as I continue to post more videos.

So what's next? As many YouTubers say, "Like, Comment, and Subscribe." 

See you on YouTube! 

"Meow!" - Grey The Cat

Yes! It's called Grey The Tabby Cat! 

Backstory: For the past two years, I've been keenly studying and following YouTube strategies and have learned a lot about strategies, content creation, and managing a channel. I thought it would be a great time to put all my knowledge to good use and prove those theories, strategies, and tips right.

My main YouTube channel, though, is really a personal one that I created way back in 2007. Since I wasn't actively recording video clips then, I was limited to the random video clips I took from my phone or of some place I visited if I brought my digicam with me. A few years later, I did a purge, removing videos that I found irrelevant or not in line with my channel. What was left were mainly music videos of me playing the piano or organ. As much as I enjoy playing music, I knew that recording music videos and posting regularly would take up a lot of time, not to mention the time I needed to practice and rehearse each song.

My channel is still there with all my music performances, but it's more for sharing with friends, and sometimes a few people like the music they hear. And I'm thankful for that. However, posting anything other than music may be counterproductive to its growth.

I created a test channel to learn more without disrupting my main channel. It helped me a lot to experience firsthand how to maximize its use, and I really learned a lot. So I was ready to create a new themed channel and apply all that I had learned. But what other topic should I consider?

I was always fascinated by how many cat videos were on YouTube, but I never thought of creating videos myself. After all, we didn't have a cat.

BUT WAIT!!!

We do have cats that visit us every day. They're feral cats that live in the neighborhood and visit most of the homes on our block, including ours. When we first moved in, we noticed a certain gray cat would roam around, seeming eager to meet the new owners. As a family, we found ourselves talking about the cat over meals, and so I figured that sharing this and our experience with a feral cat would be a nice niche for a YouTube channel. And so Grey The Tabby Cat's YouTube channel was born.

I'm happy to say that to date, there have been 13 episodes. I post once a week (every Friday night or Saturday morning) and upload a few YouTube shorts during the rest of the week.

Ready to binge-watch Grey and learn more about him and his life?

Here's an episode run-down:

1. Intro to Grey / Trailer

2. Where Is Grey’s Sweet Spot?

3. Uncovering The Secrets of the Garden of Grey

4. Grey’s Night Out (From Dusk Till Dawn)

5. How Grey Got His Name (It’s Not What You Think)

6. Grey The Scavenger or Explorer?

7. Did Food Lead Grey Here?

8. The Tale of Grey’s Tail

9. The Grey Heart (Not As Gray As You Think)

10. The Grey Montage / Grey The Model

11. 5 Interesting Facts About Grey You Didn’t Know

12. Look out Grey: There’s a New Tabby In Town

13. Could This Young Tabby Be Grey’s Daughter?

Do say "hello" to Grey the cat in the video comments!

Hope you subscribe and like the videos. 

MEOW!

One of the types of videos I like watching on YouTube is those of travel bloggers. Even before the pandemic, I would watch to see places I haven't visited or discover their experience in a place I may have visited in the past. Traveling also requires time, money, and effort. So these travel vloggers sharing their experiences are a great way to enjoy these destinations from the comfort of your own home.

There are a ton of travel vloggers and the types I like are the ones that don't treat their adventure like they're part of an "Amazing Race." The relaxed type of sharing is what I prefer. After all, I watch to relax and enjoy, not get stressed. Here are five travel vloggers I regularly watch and follow. 

1. Use my Akai Professional MPK Mini MIDI controller to enter the notes and data for the song.
2. Use my Korg nanoKontrol 2 to control the record, play and stop buttons and control the track volume.
3. Use FL Studio to connect the 2 MIDI controllers, and sequence the live looping.
4. Use my Xiaomi mobile phone as a second webcam to record video of my hands while playing live.
5. OBS Studio for recording the audio and video live.

1. Apple
2. Bar of Chocolate
3. Apple Hole Puncher

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1. Isabel has got to stop thinking that she should surrender to Franco's bidding to make all this hatred, violence and chaos stop.  Isabela, can't you accept the fact that people are fighting for your independence?  Don't waste that.  
2. Tessa got away too easy.  Arrested by police and nothing to say?  Not even a fight?  Ikaw Lamang invested so much airtime and story plot on her as Franco's all-around secretary that her quick demise in the storyline isn't justified.  She's the intelligent woman you just want to hate and I'm sure everybody does hate her.   I wanted to see her strapped in a chair and a long line of angry people ready to slap her, That lines includes every single cast member from Natalia to Roman, the Sanggalang family, and hell yeah, add the entire town of Salvacion to the line. Last but not least to slap Tessa is Natalia's yaya, who gets unlimited slapping opportunities.  Then have everybody line up again and repeat process.
3. Too many critical seconds lost in saving Andrea.   I know they have to add dialogue in their scenes, but in reality in a situation like that, valuable time is wasted and every second counts.   If they had spent more time telling each other how they are "The One", any one of Franco's goons could have easily shut and lock the door, and scoring 2 point in recapturing Andrea and capturing Gabriel.
4. I think a lot of people would've wanted to see Franco go through due diligence and see him in court charged guilty for all accounts. A lot of people would've been happy, not just the Obrero's of Salvacion but the audience as well.  And if that actually happened, Tessa: what would you do? WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
5. Speaking of Franco, his death scene is very similar to a Mortal Kombat fatality (reference to "The Pit" if you're an MK gamer).  It's kinda gruesome for prime time.  And we were all waiting for Franco's last words... if he still would still stick to his stubborn self that he will always get his way (even if he's all "hung" up), or would finally say sorry (even if nobody would hear it).  A flashback of his entire evil life would've also been a nice touch to his demise.
6. So Gabriel and Andrea tied the knot after all.  Wouldn't it have been nice to see the ghost of Samuel as opposed to an urn of Samuel held tight by Isabel?  While you're at it, how about Franco's ghost too?  Andrea is still his daughter anyway.
7. Some movies end by showing each character and what happened to them or where did they end up.  That would've been a nice ending for this telenovela ... unless there are plans to come up with a sequel in the future.

• Plug laptop especially if you'll be taking long videos
• Set battery to always on (so the laptop won't hibernate)
• Cover background with curtains so the glass window won't show any reflection of the room