Come in, May

I can feel summer getting hotter and work getting bigger. I no longer know how to define work nowadays. It has turned into bits and pieces of things that I love to do. I don't think it's apt to call it work anymore. Like love, it has turned indefinable.

I attended the wake of a friend's dad. As with most wakes, people come in to mourn or to send out condolences. But wakes have turned into a form of reunion. You see people whom you haven't seen for so long. You talk about what you've been doing and how everything is from the time you last saw each other (God knows when). Personally, I find comfort in giving answers that don't need further explanations. A preschool teacher. A masteral student. A medical student. A college professor. Whatever the answer is, if it's aligned with one's previous concepts of the self, it's all easily understood. What I realized the other night (atleast for myself) was that there are just some things that are slightly more difficult to explain to old friends. And somehow, the things that need further explanations are the things I find extremely enjoyable.

Franco asked me last night why I was not blogging. Apparently, he checked my site and was suprised how the frequency of my posts has dwindled recently. He was used to this girl who has been pestering him before (almost a year ago) to drop by a certain site everyday. That girl seemed to have disappeared behind a cloud and took another form. Just to surprise him with somethin-something, here I am again.

Spindependence 3 was a BIG SUCCESS! Thank you to all those who came! Photos are available for viewing HERE.

But if you want another artsy perspective of the event, there's a site with beautiful Spindependence 3 photos. Click candid creations by Darwin Andres.

Last Saturday, I had an interesting and brief trip to Hotel Pontefino in Batangas with Migui (yahoo, thank you for driving baby back migs), Mic, and Ramir! Please watch the four of us as we represent PlanetZips with our fire and ribbon performances this coming Friday (May 11) on Studio 23's BREAKFAST at 6:00-7:30 in the morning.



To all those who want to support KOINE THEATER FOUNDATION, please buy tickets and watch their SCHOLARS' NIGHT on MAY 26! :)

Allow me to copy-paste the email I received from Director Niel de Mesa:

This Summer help 7 heroes change the face of poverty!

Watch INVENIO, Koiné’s 7^th Anniversary Scholars’ Night Theater Spectacle!

After being unceremoniously evicted from their old venue (by building managers who thought the poor they served as nuisance), Koiné fights unflaggingly to continue its efforts of serving the poor with their absolutely FREE performing arts classes. This year’s 7^th anniversary theatrical spectacle will be the biggest gathering of Koiné Scholars and celebrities ever! Palanca-Award winning writer and composer, Niel de Mesa’s INVENIO (showing on May 26, 2006 7:30pm at the SM Megamall Cinema 9) is a prologue to his sci-fi epic, “Net-Worth Chronicles” set to be staged later within the year.

The futuristic story revolves around the bleak fate of underprivileged children who were separated from their parents and resettled in Railroad-121. The local government have developed a comprehensive system to eradicate poverty by installing each citizen with a “net-worth chip” able to determine any individual’s liquid assets. Since, money is wire-transferred from person to person through mundane business transactions—in this economy driven country—anyone whose net-worth falls to zero will self-destruct. Seven combat-trained children, from the phalanx of poor kids detained in Railroad 121, will attempt to rescue their parents and elders who, they figured, will inevitably become test subjects of this new nerve chip.

The show will feature showstoppers by Koiné Regular, Elite, and Mission Station scholars in Taguig, Tondo, West Triangle, and Bago Bantay (as well as the Koiné VFT Artists from the Koiné Nueva Ecija chapter). Guest celebrities like Aiza Seguerra, Karylle, and many more other celebrities are also set to join the performance.

Tickets are prized at Php500, 300, 200. For tickets call 433.7886 or 09179726514 or log on to www.amazingkoineshows.com.