Category: personal
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I am the horcrux
I had written this after an unexpectedly emotional reaction to Deathly Hollows part 1. It is now mere weeks before Mom’s death anniversary, and just days before Deathly Hollows part 2. Harry Potter was with me throughout high school to the tail end of college. Funny as always, how the end of the movie series…
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The rainbow connection: Kylie in Manila
I cannot get over what a rich year it is for theater and entertainment in Manila! With CCP Tanghalang Pilipino and Writers Bloc’s Virgin Labfest 7, Atlantis Productions’ ‘Aida’, Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Varekai’ in Manila, and then Kylie finally decides to make a stop: how do I begin to choose? I finally got ‘Aida’ and…
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Of catfood and songs
The Catfood Fiasco [Read on the Rafa Santos catfood fiasco here] Thing is: that isn’t the first time I heard the catfood analogy to theater pay. I’ve heard it before, from someone else in rehearsal room banter. That’s really what makes the difference: there are jokes you tell your friends, then there are the ones…
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Louder than words
“The sound you are hearing is not a technical problem. It is not a musical cue. It is not a joke. It is the sound of one man’s mounting anxiety. I… am that man.” -tick…tick…boom! I remember a 60 year old woman who sat in our poetry class back in college. The woman – for…
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From the Notebooks: Almost like the movies
This is the first assignment I submitted for UP Film Institute’s summer workshop on screenwriting. Before we learned the nitty-gritties of a script, we were tasked to write a non-fiction composition about a favorite memory. I picked the memory of my first prom/grad night. It is, I think, one of the happier moments of my…