thanksgiving concert and return to Malate

Yesterday was Jun's concert at Equitable PCI tower 2, called Higher Ground. It was his thanksgiving concert for getting accepted in the Manhattan School of Music as a scholar. He had asked me to be his stage manager ages ago, and it was only this week that I had agreed to do the job, hahaha.

There wasn't much to do, really. We just checked the lights in the venue if it was fine for the intimate concert while Jun and the guest artists rehearsed their songs. That's what I like when I work for Jun, hehehe. Sometimes he can tell things at the last minute but everything's pretty easy. Aside from the last minute addition of a song in the repertoire, things went pretty smoothly. And former First Lady Imelda Marcos attended the show! Huwaw.

After the show, I found out that Zee was also in Makati. She and her friend Dyown had just seen the Piolo and Regine movie in Greenbelt, so I met up with her so we can all go and meet Carlo together. Off we went to Robinson's Place where Carlo was and ended up eating at McDonald's with Mekmek and Oliver, thanks to Zee's gift certificate. Hahaha, we still had a burger, spaghetti and fries left over!

Back to Malate for leafletting. Some had decided to have a round of drinks first before we began, so we settled at the place where they had been to last week. Ruby and Tops followed after a while, then it was time to get back on our feet. It was pretty uneventful except for this one balikbayan guy at the squidball stand in front of Gilligan's who seemed keenly interested in the show. And for a moment I thought I saw a familiar face sitting at one of the tables outside Gilligan's. Ahahaha, it was Dang, with Alex, Pam and Sir Manolet. So I went over to them and handed them some of my flyers. "Naglalako ka ng show ng Zsazsa?" said Sir Manolet. Ahehehehe.

We ended up in front of Penguin after a long while of walking. Someone had said that we could try handing out flyers there. But there seemed to be this unapproachable crowd hanging around outside the place, so we just passed by it. When we walked by it a second time, we found Marj and Lao. Hahaha, Marj said that they can help out so we gave some flyers to them.

Walk again, and then later MJ and JM had to leave, and Oliver and I followed suit.

Lots of things going on this week. See y'all at CCP for Asalto, and RCBC for the DTR and opening of ZsaZsa Zaturnnah Ze Musikal! Break a leg to all those performing!