cheezepaper returns.

We were there, all of us, this one afternoon, this one time and looking at pieces of paper where we wrote random adjectives and nouns, and which we later fished out of that glass jar coming up with these two string of words: 'cheezepaper returns' and 'broken digital candies' like a portent of a future event. Perhaps we just wanted a band name because there was a big chance that we would be performing before a crowd. Cheezepaper Returns won over the more pop sounding result. Later the Returns was dropped and I have forgotten what the reason was, perhaps we just wanted something more succinct. Short and unforgettable even I almost forgot that one bit part.

In retrospect and since recently as I was writing about those times, our lives at that time and those souls that I grew up with, some of the details came back in bursts of clarity that though remembered also faded like a dream. But for some time as I held those memories and I also wrote them down and it helped. And I also know that at that time we didn't just want a band name. We also wanted something to call that intangible thing of being part of something. So it was Cheezepaper.

It has been more than a decade since and cheezepaper has also become a verb for us, but in the end, we know, it would always be that noun, that something that we called ourselves. Sometimes we speak of it if only to evoke that time after that fateful afternoon, of the years after that and how our lives had been. Even if only in our minds now.

Once a cheezepaper, always a cheezepaper. So it goes, yes, so it goes.

from left, Fiel, Ninoy, Bonks, Nald, Jao.