An early outlet.

Wow, I haven't blogged in over a week. It's too early in the year to be a blogging delinquent, hahaha.

I've been busy working on a performance piece with Jenny, Betty and Opa since the year began. We've been getting together at Jenny's house often to discuss the piece, and do what we can about it during that day. I actually liked how our piece progressed, and it's been great learning some new stuff from Jenny. The tricky part about all this, though, is that we don't have an extra pair of eyes observing us every time we rehearse.

Thank goodness we got Rayna to observe us one time. She gave us a lot of feedback, and questions that we realized that we had forgotten to answer. Ria also checked us out during our last rehearsal, and it's good that we got feedback from different points of view.

We once went to Aba Dalena's house so she can draw specific henna tattoo drawings on our arms. At first, we went to the wrong house, so we took a cab to the other house she was staying at, bringing a cake and super sweet snowballs that we got for her. She got to ask each of us if we wanted to have a specific type of look on each of the designs, plus she had to test the Indian henna that she got for this project. I have to say, I love her house. It's cool and cozy, and it's the type of house I wouldn't mind being cooped up in.

This past week or so has been pretty good. It's been quite another experience with Betty, Opa, and of course Jenny, whom I haven't hung out with this much even during our BA days. Round table discussions, sharing and baring it all (not just figuratively, but literally as well), punctuated with random quips.

"Para hindi mo ito maintindihan" is a refreshing outlet for me, and the entire process is pretty cathartic in its own way. I can't wait for this to be shown in public.