weekend with the BFFs

Yesterday afternoon, I went to Academy One to an audition of Theater Down South's Midsummer Night's Dream. Bleargh, I sucked. Hello, it was Shakespeare. After years of technical theater, I had to analyze a Shakespeare play in front of Michael Williams and also, soon after, Bart Guingona. Anyway, a few familiar faces from Zobel that I knew were there. Pam and Ria, of course, then there was also Miko (who I last saw way back during our Oliver days in 1999!) and Aria, who's so grown up already! My goodness.

After that, I headed to CCP and went directly to the TP office. Hahaha, when Minette saw me, she put me to work and had me start typing the English translation of Pilipinas Circa until Tin arrived. Zee had already messaged me as well that she and Hilary are already at Starbucks Harbour Square. Tin and I first went with Minette and Ate Jenn to Batute so they can hand out some contracts and so we can sneak a peek as well. Man, the place was freezing. Why in the world did anyone decide to have their music rehearsals there? Wahahaha.

After walking around, Tin, Zee, Hilary, Nar and I stood around first in Harbour Square, then we ended up in the LT lobby waiting for Carlo and Micah. Nar, Hilary and I even went inside Batute to sneak a peek at the Circa rehearsals again. As we were getting hungry, we crossed the street for the nth time to Harbour Square and had dinner at Tapa King. Then I got a text from Minette that Circa rehearsals were only until 8:30, so we headed back to CCP. As it turned out, she and Lao snuck a peek at the Wi-Fi event at the Little Theater.

It was movie time! We took two cabs to Glorietta, where Carlo had reserved our tickets to Harry Potter. After getting the tickets, we decided to have dinner at Food Choices. Can I just say that Hilary is such a riot ever since I first met her online? Hahahaha! Even until now, I can never get over that "I eat fEsh" and "Yaya, where's my good morning towel?"

So what can I say about the flick? I have to admit that there were parts in the first half of the movie that was pretty draggy. Heck, I almost fell asleep! If it weren't for Lao sitting beside me with some of those comments, I really would've dozed off. But those fight scenes were pretty cool, but yeah, there were some parts of the film that didn't exactly help push the story, or it took a long while for those to push the story forward. Oh well.

Who knew that the movie also took that long? It was almost 2am when we got out of the cinemas. After saying goodbye to Hilary, the rest of us headed for Malate to just hang out, plus the others wanted to do the videoke thing, hahaha. One funny moment was while I was in the cab with Lao, Minette and Carlo, we were talking about something when out of the blue, Lao suddenly asked, "6 + 8?" which quieted us down, hahahaha! Settled at Sonata, with Lao, Nar and Zee entertaining us with their vocal stylings.

It was around 4 in the morning when we decided to hang out at Carlo's house. Well, except for Tin and Lao. After getting Tin a cab and saying goodbye to Lao, it was off to Malabon! We all squeezed inside the cab, and Zee kept joking that Micah should've gone home ahead of us, hahahaha! Well, until we got to their area, because Carlo had forgotten how to get there (How on earth could that be possible? Sabaw talaga kayong magkapatid!).

Holed up in Carlo's room, talking and taking photo ops (bawal matulog hangga't tumama ang pagkuha!) before we all decided to sleep. Zee and Micah took the bed, while Nar, Carlo, Minette and I took the mattress on the floor.

Holy kamote, we all woke up at around 1pm, due to Minette, who shut the door pretty loudly when she had to go to the bathroom. We were still lazy to move, but eventually we had to go and have breakfast, then we made Nar do a few songs for us on the piano before going back to Carlo's room. We got to watch the DVD of TP's Insiang, which Ms. Yvette had lent to Carlo to review before considering buying the show. Huwaw, Shing was amazing. Can't wait to watch its restaging, rumored to have the same cast. They wanted to watch Maria Milagros Barbarosa as well, but thankfully the player couldn't read the DVD, hahaha! When Minette had grabbed Carlo's copy of Chris Martinez's Laugh Trip, we ended up doing a full reading of Sabado sa Sam's, with Nar as Lloyd, Minette as Pating, me as Peaches, Carlo as Mario, Zee as Harlene and Micah as Beautiful, hahahaha!

After dinner, we finally decided to call it a day. Man, what a weekend this has been. Same thing next week? Hahahahaha! Photos to follow. Grabbing photos from everyone else to put together in one album, hehehe. Just waiting for Carlo's and Zee's photos.