Jim Paredes
Jim Paredes is a successful practicing creative engaged in song writing, record producing, arranging, writing, photography, teaching and was part of the creative, durable and talented APO Hiking Society for 41 years. He has also done work for various winning advertising campaigns. His work in this endeavor includes doing jingles, copy, account management, etc..
Aside from that, Jim is a published and exhibited photographer and book author (Humming In My Universe-Random Takes on Everything, Between Blinks, Writing On Water, and As Is Where Is). He has been teaching at the Ateneo De Manila University, Communication Arts Department for 5 years. During the past 9 years, he has also successfully designed and facilitated various types of workshops from Songwriting, photography, team building and creativity workshops for companies, organizations as well as the general public.
Even with the disbanding of APO Hiking Society as a group, Jim continues to write songs, making albums and producing music for himself and other entities.
Jim also teaches voice and guitar lessons to selected students and is continuously giving workshops, talks seminars, performances, etc..
Taken from: http://jimparedes-workshops.com/about/
“We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.”
“First World countries may have great infrastructure, material comfort and modernity, but these cannot compare with the way the homeland speaks to a Filipino’s heart. There may be potholes in the street where I live but they ’speak’ to me in a way that a flawless highway in a developed foreign country cannot. I may be upset by the potholes, but the feeling is a familiar one, and it is easier to endure than alienation in a foreign land. The things that upset me about the country ’speak’ to me in that same familiar language. In fact, it is so familiar that my sense of humor can run circles around the very things I complain about. But that is precisely the problem: because these have become too familiar, I am no longer moved by them - at least not enough to be able to change things. Indeed, they have become ‘my’ potholes. Life in the Philippines may be hell at times, but it remains our home.”