lundagin mo, beybe!
so the popular atenean saying goes. haha. and oh, LUNDAG, i did many times today!
i went to the ccp main theatre for a field trip for prod design. it felt awesome! i was thinking twice pa about going because i felt na i might get too tired by the time i reach rcbc. but then when i was there, i had no regrets. it kind of felt like that moment when autumn hurlbert and bailey hanks entered the palace theatre. haha. i saw people rehearsing, all those pulleys, went on stage, etc.
the guy who showed us around took us to the catwalk thing which was so high up. it's like, the place where they fix the lighting equipment, which is like, 60 feet high. we all wondered how it felt to be positioned up there, and since most of us have/had philo 101, we all decided to live by the mantra of fr. ferriols: LUNDAGIN MO, BEYBE! so we went, experienced, and felt it. FREAKY to be so high up! felt great after though.
then we went to the production design building, which i believe is made of win. i love their scene shop where they construct everything, the costume room, all those things. i envy how they have that whole complex dedicated to the arts. HELLO, in school, there's hardly any place for theatre. we have 3 college theatre groups who share one venue that doesn't even pass for a theatre. hay. why so stingy?
bj, rina and john dropped me off an mrt station because i had to go to rcbc for spelling bee. i was the lone bluerepper with 3 TA people, and it felt nice, sharing ideas, systems, etc.
i had lots of time to spare so i decided that maybe i could walk from the mrt station to rcbc. it was straight lang pala, so yeah, i walked. in philo terms "dinanas ko ang pagka-sidewalk ng sidewalk"... i just walked and walked and walked trusting my instincts that i'll get to my destination at some point. i took in everything i saw and just walked like makati is such a huge playground. i saw the cars at my side and i thought, they just stay on the road and pass things by. i was having a better experience than them because i had my own pace, took a good look at everything i saw, observed people and the environment in general.
when i got to rcbc, i didn't feel tired at all. there was an overwhelming feeling of jubilation because i thought of walking, i did it, and though i was having thoughts of getting a cab or something, i ditched all those thoughts and committed to what i really wanted to do. i did not FLAKE. so when i got to my destination, i was just very thankful.
i went to starbucks and studied for philo, but i also thought of writing realizations about my own experiences on paper. the ccp experience, the walking adventure, both seem so simple, but i feel much richer in experience because i know that i was crazy enough to entertain those thoughts. i felt like such a daredevil! :D it felt GREAT!
spelling bee opened tonight and it seems like a great run again. i'm glad to see people going out real happy. i hope they learned as much as i did.
oh, and my homework for theatre history is DONE! thanks, teacher chari!
at first it seemed like such a long day, but i took time to experience it, and it was well worth the effort. i even have lots of energy to spare!
thank you, god!
I also love the PDC's Scene Shop. Pwede kang mag-tumbling 20 times in there, hahaha. I used to hang out a lot in the Tanghalang Pilipino office and pantry in the second floor.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, I used to walk along Ayala to RCBC also! Well, only if I have a lot of time to kill, ahehehe.
And oh my, I miss studying theater history during early college years. That was when I first heard the name of Atlantis, hahaha. SM kasi ng Atlantis yung prof namin. Chari naman was supposed to be our prof for World Drama, pero she had to back out because of Rent in GSIS during that term. Sayang. On our first day pa namin with her, she told us that she will require our class to watch the show.
hahaha ang ganda, diba?! i want one for ateneo too! grabe, i felt so sorry for my school just because we don't have a scene shop and a costume shop.
ReplyDeletei walked from the buendia station. i'm not sure if it's nearer but yeah it was FUN! i don't know kasi the commuting ropes but i kind of know how to get there by car. plus it was only 4pm and our call time's at 6.
sir glenn (mas) required us to watch at least one labfest show for theatre history, then the 2 other shows we're required to watch, we'll decide upon later on. i can't labfest na though since i'm FOH-ing for atlantis hahaha, but my alternative show (spelling bee! woo!) got approved yay! wow! sana teacher chari teaches in ateneo too!
Wah, sayang naman na kulang ang facilities niyo, especially na for your course. Our school's new building has a scene shop and 2 new theaters kasi they noticed that the students never get to learn ng hands-on. Sana it'll happen to Ateneo soon. Mas maganda theater program niyo than ours eh, hahaha.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Mas writes for Labfest's Writers Bloc diba? I heard na the 3pm show yesterday was so full that even he couldn't get in, even for just one of the 3 plays. Usually kasi the writers can get in and watch whenever they want, pero the ushers were super strict yata yesterday.
true! we're such poor artists hahaha. and wow, 2 new theaters?! I ENVY!
ReplyDeleteyeah i think sir glenn writes for writers bloc. he called off our classes last week for that. he's awesome!