A day in the life of love

fade in.... shot of cute pianist staring out MRT window, deep in thought. Cue Voice Over...

So I had a crush on this guy in Footloose. He came into rehearsals just a couple days after we started. I called the guys over to the piano to learn their part for a song. I didn't notice him at first, until he asked a question and I caught an accent! An american accent! You see, the way a person speaks will make or break it for me. He was already cute. Throw in an American twang. Crush-ee established. He had red hair. hmm...

A couple days later, Kyla and I are discussing the "out" guys in blueRep. She mentions that Accent guy is out and proud. The plot thins. Kyla becomes my spy as I finally tell her I find Accent guy cute. Turns out though he is sort of seeing an older man. Crush-er destroyed. *sigh* I was also doing a show called Urinetown, but was only rehearsal pianist and not playing for the actual show. Our Footloose director, who is in the show, invites the whole cast to come watch the dress tech. When the cast arrives at the theater, I notice Accent guy is there. Together with other cast members, we make small talk in the lobby. When they all go inside to sit down, I tell Kyla to save me a seat as I go backstage for a while. This wonderful girl doesn't only save me a seat next to her, she manages to get Accent guy on my other side! Before the show starts, I make small talk. He makes small talk. hihihi... I'm back in high school sitting next to my crush. Show goes well, I hug Kyla goodbye and whisper "Thank you!"

I also later on find out that Accent guy is heartbroken by bastard older man. Kyla texts me saying he's single, available, and vulnerable. And now is the time to move in. Sweet girl. I'm still too chicken. Later on in the week, someone in the cast suggests a kris kringle. The lady going around with names goes up to me and I pick out "ELEA", though you can imagine whose name I was hoping for. Kyla, who is next to me, picks out a name too. She casually asks if I'd like to trade. Flashing the name she picked - ANDREI. YAHOO.COM! YES! FATE IS ON MY SIDE! Sorry Elea, thank you God!

There is a party later that week in Eastwood, a bar where After Eve is playing. The cast of Footloose was invited, so I went. I was hoping Andrei would show up. He didn't, BUT his best friend Pom and evil twin Anj were there. The place is kinda noisy and in an attempt to make small talk, I figured I'd ask him what I could get Andrei. I leaned over to Pom and asked "what does Andrei like?" He stares back. He misunderstands. He thinks I asked him something to the effect of who does Andrei like or that I like Andrei. Either way, I quickly explain that I picked his name for the Kris Kringle. He laughs. He mentions something about porn. I laugh. Then like a determined salesman, he starts selling Andrei to me. Saying he's gay and very VERY available. I laugh nervously and play the whole "nah..." game. Too young, I'm too old. Does he like older men? What if he's not looking for a relationship. Many questions later, I said, I'll see. I laugh it off... but deep inside, I'm smiling. Before I leave Eastwood, I bump into Pom again. He excitedly asks for my phone number and without warning forwards Andrei's number to me. He tells me to text him. I laugh some more. Close book.

The next day, I'm at the Intercon for a corporate show. While walking towards the dressing room, talking with Lana, I get a text...

"Pom tells me to text you. Whasup rony? I lyk ur friendster pic esp w/ d plant. how sweet. I been hearing stories about you. tsk tsk. Scandalous - drei."

Lana keeps talking, but I'm no longer listening. My feet aren't on the ground anymore.

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So yesterday I had a show, Christmas in the Key of J. Everything would've been fine until Lana calls in to say she has no voice and can't do the show. In a show with already only 6 people, this is no good. We had adjusted schedules to accomodate her and this happens. Damage control. At the venue, I am moody as I reassign solos (sorry guys!) and at 6:30, we head back to our room and change. Actually I lie down and try to calm down a bit. I need Bubu, but he's at home. I told him he needn't come watch. But I didn't know I'd be stressed! Half an hour before show time, I'm calm. Everyone looks great. Bahala na. For the love of the show. It goes well with just a couple booboos. All's good. Lana texts to apologize again. Hay, delete from Friendster. Nothing irritates me more than talented people who are irresponsible. Except maybe untalented people who are irresponsible, overconfident, and clueless... (yes, I'm referring to someone I know)

Before going home, Andrei says to pick him up. YAY! We get to my place at one am. I tell him about Desperate Housewives and we watch the pilot episode. Then the next. Then ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz. Today, I am woken up by a call from Tricia! The first girl I came out to and one of the most beautiful people in my life. She's back from the States if just for a couple weeks. I love hearing the voice over the phone. I've missed her. We have a great talk, Andrei is still asleep. By the end of the phone call, Andrei is awake AND starts another episode of Desperate Housewives. I take a nap. I get up to start getting ready for my day and he watches yet another one. I feel ignored. I'M A DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE! NOTICE ME! Grr...

I've been replaced. he he.

An afternoon of opera, a wonderful Japanese dinner with theater friends, and an evening with oatmeal cookies and, you guessed it, Desperate Housewives.

I'm shopping tomorrow, yup, two days before Christmas. Fingers crossed that nobody else had the same idea (cue thunder... fade to black)

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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Closing weekend of Merrily We Roll Along. Right before the last show, the cast presented to Chari, Cathy, and I three gifts of gratitude while serenading us with Old Friend. "A bottle of vodka and a straw" each for Cathy and Chari, and for the non-drinker, two huge Hershey chocolate bars! Cool! *sigh* Lots of good memories, funny anecdotes, good memories. What a year it has been for Bluerep. To stage two musicals in one calendar year. In a venue like RCBC. Live band. Professional creative teams. A cast of the most talented students RCBC will ever have. They should be real proud of themselves. CONGRATS GUYS AND DOLLS!

Cast party in BF Homes. Something I now consider the country. Andrei and I followed late cause we had to attend another dinner first. It was so nice revisiting BF Homes, having moved out over a year ago. I lived there most of my life. While going down President's Avenue, I couldn't help but point out to Andrei all of the
relevant spots "That was the Shakey's I had several birthday parties in... that used to be a movie theater where I watched Mga Kwento Ni Lola Basyang"... that wasn't there before... I used to snack there late at night... Here's the 7-11 where a friend and I stalked a celebrity crush across the street..." Then I remembered the not-so great things like the water shortage, moving from house to house, the long commute to work... Glad to live now in QC. Fun party, no real counselling sessions like the last cast party I attended (sorry Vica and company, next time!). Lots of kissing going on, he he! I DRANK! Ha ha... Macky prepared something he calls a creeper so I could hardly taste the alcohol, so Jepoy just kept refilling my glass. Chari would be very proud of me, he he. Got whoozy. Went to sleep at almost 5 am, in the same bed as Andrei, Jepoy and Anj. Aw. The some of us who slept over had breakfast at Anj's in Tahanan Village, yummy hot chocolate, hotdog, and warm pan de sal. Sarap... Andrei and I got dropped off at my place where we caught up on the sleep we didn't get the night before...

Funny, at the party, Berts' girlfriend May wanted to see Andrei and I kiss. Now he and I kiss "hello" and "goodbye" as normal as day in rehearsals cause everyone knows, but she'd never seen us. So Berts called out to andrei "yeah, call bubbly bubu bubble lips... or whatever you call each other!" Ha ha... Aw... It's Bubu or HoneyLiPs...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANA, MAYEN, and JAIME!

I was to have a dinner in Discovery cause Lana had a room, but as expected, my body crashed today. My body always crashes at the end of a project. I was coughing real bad and was weak. My sister invited to dinner, she lives nearby, so I went there instead to avail of the free meal. Chloe, my niece, was nice to me today. Called me Auntie Rony. Oh well, she's only a year old. After dinner we watched an episode of this FASCINATING series called Desperate Housewives. What a well written show. We just watched the pilot and I can't wait to watch the others. Back home, finished some stuff for Key of J tomorrow night (actually, tonight). A phone call from Andrei to discuss his new years resolutions. Watched a couple episodes of Will and Grace and am about to sleep now...

Planning to do some shopping before my calltime at Discovery Suites... Christmas shopping. It's my last day of work for 2004 today. *sigh* what a year, can't wait to review it.

Last minute plug:

CHRISTMAS IN THE KEY OF J, DISCOVERY SUITES, 7 pm, DECEMBER 21, 2004

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Joy's coming home! Dec 31! Yahoo!

Andrei's will be in Manila for Christmas! Yahoo!

Tricia (the first girl I came out to, EVER) is in town! Yahoo!

Things are looking up!

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Saturday, December 18, 2004

There are an infinite number of things in life worth understanding.

Of that infinity, a hundred million things left that I don't understand.

A fraction of that, do I care to understand.

A fraction of that fraction, will I try to understand.

And a fraction of that fraction of a fraction will I get to understand.

These past couple days, I realized that there are just some things that I will get so close to understanding, only to end up on the list of things I don't care to understand. Only to soon land on my list of things just not worth my time understanding at all. The excuses people give. How ridiculously some people justify their actions. How some people don't need excuses cause in their mind, they see nothing wrong. Some people are just so ungrounded, there is nothing you can do really but delete from Friendster. Grrrr....

Was watching Starting Over. Rain, this girl trying to get off welfare, is freaking out over the idea of jumping off a diving board! First the ladder up to the diving board. Fear. Then once she got to the top, she was too scared to jump off AND too scared to have to go back down the ladder. Stuck. After everything she's done to get off welfare, dealing with emotional baggage, doing several excersises as embarrassing as selling a rock to strangers on the street, the simple act of jumping off a diving board was mission impossible. And stupid editing, I don't get to see what happens till the next episode. Argh...

When Rain was up there stuck between scared of jumping off and scared of going back down steep ladder, the life coach asked... "So, are you gonna move forward, or move backward?" Wow... When you're stuck, scared of taking that leap into the unknown AND of going back to dismal familiarity, it does boil down to a matter of moving forward or back. I have a feeling she'll jump. After hours on the street looking for work, for an apartment, getting off welfare - WHAT IS A THREE SECOND JUMP? Good excersise. Made me wonder, when was that point in life when I got to say, "If I can get through this, I can get through anything..." Easy. The Accountancy Board exam. And I'm not just talking memorizing auditing principles. For the five months reviewing for the Board, I was dealing with a million things. My last term of college - most people start reviewing after they graduate, and thus take the board months after grad. I would TAKE the board two weeks after grad, thus the overlap. It was the height of my parents constant arguing, financial haywire, not yet being out, loneliness to an absurd degree, the list goes on. And I told myself, if I can still pass the Board in spite of all this, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE... including coming out! What is so hard about TWO WORDS after all that. I'm gay. So after I passed, I came out to my sisters while on vacation in Shangrila Mactan Cebu. Came out to my friends. Even took a trip to the States to tell my high school friends and explore gay life... something I called my Rainbow Tour. Soon enough, I quit accounting and went into theater. Here I am, three seconds later...

I bet she jumps...

And though I know exactly how I got here, I'll never understand exactly how I got here...

...and in a good way - I don't care!

Happy Birthday Noel, Anna Liza, Cathy, and Sweet!

Bubu? Earth to Bubu... can you read me?

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Thursday, December 16, 2004

Final weekend of Merrily We Roll Along:
Dec 17, 18 - 8 pm
Dec 19, 3 pm.
RCBC Theater
Tickets 350 and below.


There's a present by the tree, stockings on the wall

Knowing you're in love with me is the greatest gift of all

For kicks, I have a cameo blog at Bubu's website. It's cheezy love stuff (I told you this month would be full of it!) We were talking the other night about how quickly the months pass. Another monthniv. So we decided that after this first year, the monthniv would be special to us but not the major broadcast news it has been this past year... for the sake of whoever the audience of our blogs may be. Hihi. Till then, quezo de bola all of December! Shingalookshingalakijinglabubaloohngashinga....

The other night we had a Wicked Christmas dinner with some close friends which I'll write about once I get pictures. Key of J rehearsals have been nostalgic for me. Always nice to hear those songs sung in the way they have been for five years now. Small anecdote, last year, my Holiday Inn "Christmas in the Key of J" cast (John Rae, Francis, Wilma, and Nadia) did something really sweet on a day I was feeling down and had to do the show. You see, we always had a room to change in before and after the 7 pm show. This one time, going down from our room, they said we had to ride this left-most elevator (there are three in the hotel). I was so out of it. Thing is, only the other two elevators seem to be passing our floor. But they insisted we ride that one cause Francis said Wilma dropped her earring in that elevator. I looked at her in passing and saw both her earrings in place, but being out of it, I thought maybe she lost another set. We decided to take another elevator first to the ground floor and wait for the earring-holding elevator to open there. On the ground floor, we waited. Once left most elevator opened, they said WE ALL had to go in and look for it. They were nuts! Five people looking for earrings in a tiny elevator? I just went along. As soon as we got in, they said "Tada!" and pointed to a poster I hadn't seen before. It advertised Christmas in the Key of J and described me as - "Most sought after musical director of Trumpets..." -which is why John Rae's link for me on his blog is such! Here was the kicker, "musical director of Honk, Rent, Urinetown, Dreamgirls." Um - I was musical director only of HONK! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Oh well, apologies to Rica, Manman, and Gerard. Don't know where they got that. But either way, I thought it was sweet of them to go through all that trouble to show me a poster! If you ever read this guys, love you all! Coro Animo. A group of friends I don't see often, but love when I do.

Andrei is leaving on Monday for the province. Topper is leaving Thursday for Malaysia! Joy's not home till Dec 30. Everyone's spending Christmas with their families. My world is crumbling. *sigh* Think I'll buy a small tree for my room. Am planning to do my Christmas shopping this weekend. I wonder what I'll give myself this Christmas. You see, every year, I always buy a gift from me to me. An idea I got off the Chipmunk's Christmas Album as a child. Growing up there were always two albums I'd listen to this time of year: The Chipmunk's and Once Upon A Christmas With Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton...

Christmas without you, White Christmas and I'm blue,
Like fireworks with no fuse, Christmas without you..."

How can I resist that bouncy country song... Dang, I was listening to Dolly as a kid... and no one thought I was gay? Workin' nine to five...



That's Andrei's scene from Merrily. He's the debonaire newscaster... This is the part of the show where i can make faces at him and there's nothing he can do.



Meet the Blob... a scene from Merrily. Sigh. In just a day, we have our 4th show and the ball rolls really fast from there. Thanks for the bootleg pictures Teena (he he) you can all view them here

Think I'll decorate my room tomorrow all Christmas-y... Buy myself a tree and a santa that climbs a rope...

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL!

To the incredible sister who has been a major contributor of sanity in the soap opera of my life.

Hi Joy, miss you!

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Monday, December 13, 2004

That's my adorable niece. Isn't she just precious? Sigh...

Yay... we had more of an audience today! Cool. Jaime Del Mundo, a theater director and my co-writer for Mr. Noah's Big Boat, came to watch and he paid me such a great compliment. He said that he could tell from my musical direction and how I conducted, just how much I loved the show. *sigh* To be told that your enthusiasm for a work shows means there was truth. Wow. I love my work. Five years in the biz we call theater, I still love it. SO I have to say, if as a professional, I view this show as more than just a college production, it's ridiculous that anyone else involved in it would see it as just that. Theater is something you just love. Not something you just buy. To the dedicated theater people in this cast, CONGRATULATIONS on a job well done.

Anyhoo... we're halfway through the run. And with that, tomorrow I start moving on to other projects. For Christmas, I start rehearsals on a show very dear to my heart: Christmas in the Key of J. It's the first musical revue I put together very early in my theater life. It's a show with a bunch of medleys, all in search of the true meaning of Christmas. It starts with Kumukutikutitap (default opening number as I hope one day to find time to write a real song just for the show). It goes on to an American Christmas medley, something I like to call "Amex." Then a Filipino Christmas medley, or "Filex." Then Senti Xmas medley, pop songs all involving
Christmas. Then it ends with the most beautiful medley I will ever arrange called The True Meaning of Christmas medley... God does inspire.

This is the 5th year it's been done. We've been lucky that it's been done AT LEAST once a year. The first year, the cast was small and took forever to learn. My musical ideas WERE different, I had come from a choral background and theater people aren't really into choir-choir harmonies. But it came together. Had a couple shows. Funny... I don't recall who exactly was in the cast that year. I just know that through this first cast, I met my would be best friend. You never know who someone you meet one day will be to you many years later. I'm so glad we're still in each others lives... unlike someone else who was also in the cast... MOVING ON. Year after year, revisions here and there, though the cast changes, the heart of it doesn't. Last year we got to bring it to Iloilo! I'll forever remember that for several reasons... it was the first weekend Andrei and I started texting. Sigh. I said it once and I'll said it again, you never know who someone you meet one day will be to you... a year later. *wink* Our iloilo trip was so fast, but incredibly fun. We flew in at 6 am, had breakfast, two hours to settle in, had fantastic seafood lunch, rehearsed in venue (HUGE dome-like theater with a second floor), proceeded to SM iloilo to promote the show, raced to hotel to change, raced back to venue, performed for (sadly) an audience of 20 (bad promotions!), smiled, went to classy hotel for classy dinner, back to hotel rooms. Our flight was 9 am the next day. Short, but well worth the memory.

This year, also one show. Discovery Suites on Dec 21, 7 pm. If you're free, drop by. The cast, Lana Jalosjos, Jennie Nuyda, Mayen Bustamante, Topper Fabregas (who hasn't been in the show since the very first year), Johann Dela Fuente (who I think has been in the show since the very beginning) and Alvin De La Pena (director turned performer). Can't wait.

Then tomorrow evening I jam with Josh and Teenee, two fantastic singers I'm doing a January show with. We're hoping to come up with a classy lineup for it.

My tummy is getting big! My first new year's resolution is to get in shape. To stop saying "I haven't been to the gym in a while". To stop paying 2000 a month for a place where I can shower before I have a show (there's a fitness first near RCBC, near the NBC Tent, near Music Museum!) Andrei said I should just buy new shoes... hmm... which reminds me, i gotta do my christmas shopping...

I'll be sad when Merrily ends... I can SO see the tears when they start to sing Our Time... for the last time.

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Sunday, December 12, 2004

In the middle of opening weekend of Merrily We Roll Along... Opening night was great! The kids did fantastic. We had an audience. Everything fell into place. We had an audience. People got the tricky way of telling the story in reverse... and did I mention we had an audience?

Tonight was the second show... there was a flaw in the handling of tickets and basically we had more people onstage than we did in the audience. PLEASE COME WATCH Merrily We Roll Along. This show has so much to say about life. These kids have worked real hard, its a live band, great venue... PLEASE COME WATCH! Sigh...

Shows:
Today (12th) at 3 pm.
Friday the 17th at 8 pmSaturday the 18th at 8 pm
And closing show on Sunday the 19th at 3 pm.

So as we're halfway thru the short run, I'm halfway between happy and sad. Happy cause it finally shaped up to be a GREAT show... but sad that not enough people will see it. BLOGGERS WHO READ THIS, PLEASE COME WATCH MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG!

It's a show with so much truth... and fun music... and an excellent cast... a not so bad looking Musical Director (he he, whatever it takes...)

My older sister's birthday is coming up... thinking of what really nice restaurant to take her. Suggestions? I want a nice resto in a tall building with a view. Heard of one in the MSE building i'll check out. If not, maybe Le Souffle... My younger sister is flying in for New Year's. Smiles.

I have been having so much fun with my new CD burner. Making nice compilations for friends... I love it. It's a great way to spread out my favorite songs...

Getting sleepy. Zzzzzzzzzzz, got a show in less than 12 hours.

PLEASE COME WATCH MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG...

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Thursday, December 09, 2004

Saw Cabaret last weekend. Good show. Dark show. Not the kind of musical you wanna watch when you're feeling down - you'll leave it suicidal. Musicals and Nazi Germany... haven't been there since playing Goldiloch in Hedwig and the Angry Inch 4 years ago. Glad I didn't miss it, we watched closing night. Bubu and I had dinner at this Cebu Barbeque place in Greenhills. Pretty good stuff. Throw in a demented taxi driver that took us from my house to Music Museum, it was an interesting evening. 11 months... This time last year, though we knew each other, nothing was happening yet. He didn't send his first text till Dec 19, I still have it... he he. It's December folks, the month we came to be... expect a mushy retelling of our story.

Last monday, my good friend Joshua (who owns the Chinese restaurant Zong at the Fort) and I went to check out a new Chinese restaurant called Zhongnani in Greenbelt 2... Um... geez, lawsuit waiting to happen?!? That's like naming a restuarant Sugi-nano or Nuvo-sisti... I mean, it sounded like an attempt to latch on to Zong's success. Well we tried it. The food is SO MUCH better at Zong. (While my opinion IS biased, if you tried it, you'd think the same). We ordered dishes that Zong also had. Definitely more flavor and larger servings at Zong. I figured we didn't need to tip, we weren't coming back ever again anyway.. he he. Capped the evening with dessert at Max Brenner and a discussion about our lives. It was an incredibly relaxing evening in the cool windy Greenbelt. Good to be alive.

Last night, the whole cast of Merrily was invited to Araneta Coleseum to watch the dress tech of Lea Salonga's concert Home for Christmas cause our director Chari was a guest. The whole evening was fun! Some of us met earlier in Cubao to go Ukay Ukay. I don't shop. So I sat as Andrei, Caisa, Kyla, Anj, Bea, Shark, and Jepoy went through clothes galore around the dressing rooms. After which they decided to show some really bad videoke singers outside the shop how to REALLY sing. We then all met up at Taco Bell for dinner as the dress tech was 9 pm pa. We got to Araneta where a small audience was gathering, waiting for the show to start. I brought Andrei backstage to say Hi to everyone. I entered the guest room where Chari, Topper, Cathy, Bobby, (a lot of Atlantis folk) etc... all were. Including Lea who gave me a warm hug and said, "this is my husband Rob." I grabbed the opportunity and said, "and this is my husband, Andrei" Laughter all around. The show was fun. It was quite laid back since it was a dress tech but her singing was flawless. And as I am typing this, the real show is about to end.

Lea sang a song called "Home". Not the one we all know from the Wiz, but a different one. With lyrics like

"There's a place called home, I can almost see.
With a red front door and a roaring fire, and a Christmas tree.
It's a place called home, full of love and family..."
*sigh*

This evening, I am hating my parents again. It's my dad's birthday and we didn't get to celebrate cause my mom is annoying. It's sad really. I feel like I've been living with strangers who I hate more and more as the days go by. My parents are ghosts I don't remember anymore. I'm thinking of checking into a hotel alone for Christmas. I refuse to spend it at here. At least my sister is coming home for New year's.

I'm reading Fearless Loving by Rhonda Britten. Chapter two is called "Everyone is Innocent." An intriguing option of living life by not judging people AT ALL. I'll get into that aspect some other time. For today, I'd like to share this Expectation versus Intention idea she sells. When you expect, your happiness depends on someone else. "I'm expecting an expensive dinner with 12 roses since it's our one year anniversary" And if you're expectations aren't met, you get upset. When you enter something though with intention, you control your happiness. "I intend to have fun at this dinner because it is our one year anniversary." You don't expect, you just control your own attitude so that you stay in the moment. Interesting. As a whole, I think Andrei and i have lasted almost a year because I entered into the relationship with the intention of enjoying every minute of it by living every romantic fantasy i've spent years cataloging. My intention is to build a loving bond that will last us for as long as it will... BUT I do have expectations sometimes which does get us into small arguments. It's hard to decide to live with intention more than expectation, but not impossible. All baby steps to Fearless loving... Rhonda is so brilliant.

Maybe if I didn't expect my parents to be loving parents, I wouldn't be disappointed now. I'm letting my parents go...

My intention is to enjoy December. Let's see what happens.

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Saturday, December 04, 2004

My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky

My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by

No month of May, no shining star

No hideaway, no soft guitar

My romance doesn't need a castle rising in spain

Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dream come true

My romance doesn't need a thing but you

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Friday, December 03, 2004

Is it just me or is anyone else out there finding these ETC channel vee-jay-wannabes REALLY ANNOYING? I mean that blind-date-dinner-secret-tasks-thing. Tigilan! A couple of those girls are like on something I think... or if that's how they are sober, may God help us all... I love ETC! Just the idea that one of these people might be introducing shows on a regular basis...

"Yeah, like, welcome! I'm like G spot or something like that, and coming up are, like, these, like, five girls, who, like, kinda, sorta have problems, and oh my God, they're in this, like, house, to like, get cured or something like that. *blank stare* oh sorry, I just thought of something funny... oh anyway, stay, like, tuned for Starting Oven...*leans forward squinting eyes* I mean, Starting Over... ha ha, I like said the wrong thing! Ha ha... That's funny... I'm funny... like..."

-switch channel-

why not find gorgeous people, like the MTV ones, or channel 23 ones... I'll go for Sarah Meier or Tricia Chiongbian anyday... Oh well, i'm not in charge.

Anyhoo, rain, rain, rain. This typhoon has been carrying some of the scariest stories with it. I get to Ateneo last night and everyone talks about storm signal number 5. Then another friend tells me it'll last a week. Then schools are being closed in anticipation of it. Then another said this and that... wow... and so I was thoroughly spooked. I had rehearsals today in Eastwood, which is quite far from my house. All I could think of was what if I get stranded! My evening rehearsal was cancelled. Then my backup evening plans were also cancelled, or postponed to next year apparently. The sky looked like a scene from Witches of Eastwick.

I get to my rehearsal with no trouble at 2 pm. It's at this call center, corporate christmas party. This time, I got to go inside the work section. Computers and phones. EVERYWHERE. Some of these people didn't look too happy. Sigh. God is good. I love my work. LOVE MY WORK! I have nothing against call centers. Work is work. My sister used to work at a call center and she hated it, but money is money. But I remembered the time she collapsed during the graveyard shift and thought to myself, this is no way to live. And I am so happy she's now in the States working and being praised for her work as a teacher there. I don't have answers, but there has to be a healthier way to earn money.

Anyhoo, the rehearsal goes well. Corporate is always fun cause they laugh a lot. Anyhoo, I leave at 530 and face the world. Sky is dark. Wind blowing enough to bend my umbrella. Rain. I get to the main street AND fearing the worst.... I FIND A CAB IN FIVE MINUTES! Ha ha ha! And it's not a 30.00 flag down cab. Ha ha ha! I'm home in no time, he's a nice driver pa. We pass Edsa where traffic isn't so bad yet. I feel bad when I see dozens of people stranded under the MRT which apparently is off... and it's only 6 pm! All my worrying and I'm home in half and hour! Bubu's right, I worry way too much. Wrinkles. I tip him an extra twenty pesos. I'm home, safe at home. I get a text from Bubu who has been safe at home since leaving my place this morning. He hopes I'm ok. I love that. Love having someone care about my safety, in a romantic way. HE'S SO CUTE! I cook myself a tocino dinner and watch TV.

Brown out. I call it a night and sleep.

An hour later, lights are on, i wake up, and now i can't get back to sleep. Thus I blog.

In a couple hours, I'll be up to guest on BREAKFAST on channel 23 to promote Merrily. Que fun. I imagine work and school will be off tomorrow, which means Breakfast should have an audience of 12... (or am I the only one who sleeps through mornings?)

Tomorrow, i've got Breakfast, jamming with a friend in the afternoon, then an evening free... Saturday, if all's back on track, we have rehearsals again and I'm watching Cabaret in the evening... IT'S OUR 11th month in less than 24 hours. Sigh...

So, like, stay tuned, to like see, like, what happens on like, our 11th monthniv, which is like the number after 10 and before 12... *scratches head and looks at watch, counts clockwise* ... yeah! After 10... I got it... Isn't that funny? I mean, 11, it's like two 1s... which is 2... so does that mean 11 is the same, as like, 2? Wow... that's deep, I mean, really de..."

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rhapsody [ 5:18 PM ] | 3 comments