Lesley and Pipo's wedding.

Lesley and Pipo finally tied the knot last Friday. Was glad and flattered to be able to witness their special day. Due to the fact that I had no rehearsals to attend (because D' Emperor got cancelled and was moved to next season), I was able to make it to the actual wedding instead of just the reception.

Cabbed it all the way to the church in my dress, forgetting to bring extra clothes in case I had to commute home late. I easily found Lara outside the church with the rest of the entourage. I loved the colorful motif, hues of blues and purples (and bronze, I think). So thanks to the dress my aunt gave me during her last visit, my royal blue cocktail dress fit right in. Found Rieszel with her boyfriend once I got inside the church, and hung out with them for a while as there was still an ongoing mass before the wedding. After a while, I found Sean and Roan, then Roan and I finally decided to sit down, with Sean sitting one pew behind us so he can sit next to a fan.

I have to say, this is the first wedding I went to where every member of the entourage got applauded by all the attendees. Plus Sophie looked sooo adorable in her fairy flower girl dress, complete with wings! And I love love love Nina's dress as maid of honor. Good choice of bridal march for Lesley, as they played "Only Hope" while she walked down the aisle. I was afraid to take a blurry photo while she walked, so I decided to take a video instead, hahaha. The bride was gorgeous. Lesley had said later that she was crying, but she was still beautiful the whole time.

I saw a few acquaintances in the wedding. Bing, a classmate from college was there, as well as Sheila (high school classmate) and her sister Bertha (Playshop classmate). I didn't realize until after a while that Sheila and Bertha are related to Pipo until I thought about their surnames, hahaha.

Took a cab to Manila Hotel with Roan, Sean and Gio for the reception. I love that we were all put in the same table along with Lara, Micko, Athena, Andro, Dana and Astarte (who came pretty late but managed to catch up). Table 26. The craziest table. We started to believe that we were put in the corner for a reason, hahaha! There was no topic that we didn't crack up or whatever. I love this crowd. We even hogged the photo booth for a while, plus the dance floor until the whole party was over.

Still wired, we headed to the Tap room after the reception for cake and drinks. Athena, Andro and Dana had to go though, but the rest of us still stayed. Talked about typecasting, wedding motifs, and drag queens, hahaha!

Nina had insisted that we sleep over in the hotel with her, and Lara had decided to stay as well. Roan was fine with it, and considering it's not really safe for me to commute at that hour in that dress (blame it on my forgetfulness for not bringing commuting clothes), I agreed to stay as well. Nina and I ended up wearing the hotel bathrobes to bed, as Lara and Roan had their own extra clothes. After a little freshening up and chatting, we eventually fell asleep at around 3 or 4 in the morning, with Lara, Nina and me on the bed, and Roan on the divan.

Woke up to Nina's phone's message alert tone during mid-morning, as I was the one on the bed nearest the side table, where Nina had placed her phone. Ended up just talking the hours away all morning, while eating whatever we could find inside the suite. Conversations galore over fruits, chocolate, coffee and tea before we took turns prepping up in the bathroom. Thank goodness we were allowed to stay an extra hour, as Nina wanted to enjoy the bathtub, hahaha. Lara and I even had time to drop by Lesley and Pipo's room to get cupcakes.

I had a blast spending the evening until the following morning with these friends. I miss girl bonding like this. Sure hope there'd be more, and I sure hope I get to spend more times like these with my two best friends (when Iam comes back from Poland).

And attending this fairy tale wedding made me believe in love again. I just know there's someone out there for me. =)

A little update.

I should learn to stop over-analyzing and overreacting. Just like in my previous post. Apparently it was no biggie. Thank goodness for that.

In other news, we're been rehearsing for D' Emperor for a few weeks now. I guess things are shaping up, albeit slowly, and there are still a bunch of things that are yet to be revamped. But at least we now have a complete cast (hahaha), complete with eye candy for those who would want to watch this in January (plus one weekend in February).

Oh yeah, I had finally jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. I didn't give in to the ages of prodding by Peachy and Tin, though. The primary reason was to follow a couple of YouTubers that I'm a big fan of. If you want to follow me, you're smart enough to know my username (as I only go by 2 usernames online). I didn't really broadcast my Twitter account as I had already put quite some rants and raves that I don't like to put as shout outs on my Facebook wall.

Because of certain renovations in our house, I've moved from my own current bedroom back to my old room (from over a decade ago), when they started changing my bedroom windows. Considering my old room has an air conditioner and my current room doesn't, even now that the windows have been finished, I still haven't moved back, hahaha. Anyway, my mom took this as an advantage to temporarily move all the kitchen stuff to my current room while the kitchen is currently being re-tiled. I actually love all the revamps in and around the house lately. They started with the annex in the back of our house, extending it with an extra room to serve as a library for our old books and encyclopedias (yes, we had a lot of those when I was a kid), then they also turned the side of our house into a decent receiving area where we could put our old upright piano, and it now looks like a beautiful extension of our living room. The floor in the back of our house is now cemented and replaced with decent flooring, and the current pending revamps are just in the kitchen (re-tiling), and putting a little roof (something that looks like a canopy) over the steps leading to our front door.

Speaking of revamps, I've been keeping my hair short for over a year now, after always sporting long hair for over a decade. Later this week, I'm planning to have an even shorter cut (a pixie cut, no less), just to see how it looks and feels like on me. If I like it, good. If it's not really for me, it will always grow back.

A little break from that blogging, how about a couple of quotable quotes?

During rehearsal of D' Emperor, Riki was facilitating a script reading of a scene between one character and the two con men (of the classic Emperor's New Clothes fame).

Riki: Bulaklak niya ang titirahin niyo. (Pertaining to the character's flowery words).

Hahahahaha!

During an early morning shift in the office, I keep getting refusals.

Me (in between calls): Bakit binababaan nila ako?

Nina (from the station next to me): Eh kaysa naman taasan ka nila.

Ahehehe, good point. So in turn...

Me (after a few more refusals): Wag niyo akong bababaan. Tataasan ko kayo.

Now it sounded corny coming from me.

Just yesterday after rehearsal, Minay, Martha, Tamtam and I ended up at KFC, though only Minay and I were the only ones who ate. I was happily chowing down on my Kung Pao bowl, when Martha said, "Sarap na sarap si Hogi sa kinakain niya."

Hahaha, it seems like to most people, I have a bottomless pit for a stomach, because I'm always hungry, I eat a lot, and I enjoy every moment of it. I guess I'm grateful for having fast metabolism for about a couple of years now. So unlike weight-conscious and crazy calorie-counting people, I don't really have to watch every calorie I consume, because I easily burn them anyway. To be honest, it annoys me how people would look at food and say comment on how many calories they are. Oh for goodness sake, just eat it and just get some exercise. But I guess I'm guilty of that too. I haven't been out jogging for over a year, and I actually miss the feeling after a good run. Though I enjoy the occasional Zumba while inside my room.

Anyway, I'll end this here for now. Time to watch another episode of Game of Thrones.

Confused.

Just when I thought things were alright, they suddenly change abruptly in the opposite direction. What the heck happened? I don't really want to assume the worst, because I never really assumed the best.

Then you dropped a hint a couple of months ago. Well, at least I thought I heard you drop a hint. And then a few days ago. "Utakan na pagdating sa pag-ibig," you said. Pag-ibig? Pag-ibig ba ito? You actually called it that? I don't know whether you were saying it in passing or just joking around. What the heck?

And now you suddenly recoil just because I was joking around during a text exchange. It was just a little inquiry at first, and then a little quip, and then you suddenly give a final word. Then nothing. What the heck is wrong with you? You really blow hot and cold.

I think you just ruined my weekend. And all I have of you right now is a cough and a cold that I caught from you.

I don't know now what I'll say to you when I see you next time.