Unfreeze.

Gino, Betty, Grace and I had dubbed ourselves as "The Comebackers," being the only 4 returning workshoppers in our class. I thought of this as clique-ish at first, but then I realized that we were all still trying to create rapport with the rest of the class.

We had formed "The Comebackers" when we were asked to break into groups of 4 people for an Oracle improv exercise. The first 2 groups had to speak one word at a time, but when our turn came, instead of speaking one by one, we were tasked to speak as one all at the same time. Hahaha, that was fun. As the questions grew longer and crazier, our answers got as funnier as the questions were.

In "desperate" attempts to still "unfreeze" after last night's class, a bunch of us, went out to Kala Bar at Harbour Square. The Comebackers, sans Betty, were there, plus Cara, Louie, Vince and Cris. Crazy people, while I was in the middle of a conversation with someone, the rest had told the band that it was my birthday. What I didn't know was that birthday celebrants were invited to jam with the band. Hahaha, I got a proxy instead, and got Gino to sing. And not just one song, mind you. He sang 3 songs, hahaha! "Parang ayaw ko nang bitiwan yung mic," he said before the 3rd song.

Typical getting-to-know you conversations led to everyone's first impression of each other, and I was mighty surprised that someone actually thought of me as a "bad girl," as opposed to "cheerful, pala-bati," which was what the rest had said. Interesting.

When the band asked if the "birthday girl" was still interested to jam, I got Vince to sing next, hahaha. I already knew he had a voice, after having seen him in one of DF's Crossroads festival plays last year, and when we did that machine exercise the other night, he made a sound that actually had a vibratto, hahaha. Like Gino, he didn't let go of the mic and got to sing about a couple more songs, hahaha.

It was fun to finally get to talk to the rest aside from right before class and just talking about how to go about the assignments and each other's performance. Next week we're all planning to hang out at Louie's hotel room after Friday's class. It's cheaper, hahaha!