Paano na nga ulit maging hindi tamad? Asking for a friend.

I miss my girlfriend.

Last summer, I was asked by a theatre colleague to be his dramaturg for the play he was directing for this year's Virgin Labfest. I immediately said yes because hello, it's VLF, and also because I'm a theatre whore. So for a week, this colleague and I met at a certain coffee shop in UP Village and sat down for hours on end discussing and editing ( Read more... )

I was watching from the second row of the theatre during one of our tech runs this week when it hit me: this is my job. This is actually it. I watch people who are pretending to be other people tell stories and I make sure that they are telling these stories as clearly as they could so when the audience finally sees them, the stories would make ( Read more... )

Cause of Death: Tom Hiddleston in a soaking wet white t-shirt.

Good god.

Every morning when I wake up, I would say to myself, "This is the day. This is the day I will finally sit my ass down and write." Unfortunately so far, I have not done it yet. The motivation to pull the words out of my mind, string them into a coherent sentence, and immortalize them on paper - virtual or otherwise - seems so out of reach. Was it ( Read more... )

T: (sees my the gold ring on my left ring finger) Oh, you're married?
E: Yes.
T: With who?
E: (smiles) Myself.

"Letters to Juliet" is one of my favorite feel-good movies ever because {a} I love Amanda Seyfried and {b} it's set (mostly) in Italy. I'm also lusting after the bag that Amanda Seyfried's character uses, which, acording to my "research", is a three hundred-dollar leather satchel by a Canadian company called Roots. I had been searching for a ( Read more... )

E: (sees P eating an egg sandwich) Parang gusto ko rin.
P: (offers E a bite)
E: (declines) Gusto ko may hotdog.
P: Anong klase?
E: ...
P: (laughs) Uy, nag-blush.
Apparently, I'm still capable of turning red. :))))

Rehearsals and other meetings were cancelled the past couple of days because of the typhoon, which meant I got to spend two whole days in bed watching movies, reading chick lits (on my Kobo, of course ;-)), and eating chocolate. I don't even remember the last time when I did just that. It was perfect.

The only downside to wearing new shoes are the blisters. *ouch*