My old friend Orbit IM'd me recently because she's in LA, travelling with the production company that she's working for. I was so excited to see her & she told me to call the hotel and leave a message so we can meet up that night. I think I left a message a hundred times, I even went to the hotel and also left a note under the door. And then when I went home, I still called the hotel every hour.
   The next day, I called about 7:30 in the morning just to make sure that I'll be able to catch her.  Someone answered the phone & I was feeling my heart on my throat & ready to scream, "Bakla!!!!!! kamusta na???!!!!" At last finally....!!!! But, it was a dude and he told me no Orbit was staying in the room & he got all my messages! Oh my god! I felt like a stalker! Hwahahha!
   It's a good thing my friend Orbit was not around, or else....

Isn't it amazing how friendship can really stay for a lifetime? I guess, my appreciation for my "old" friends had grown deeper for the fact that I'm a million miles away. And yet, they are still there. We chat and email whenever we can. Isn't it amazing at times when it just hits you that there is really such truth in the saying, " I'll be with you in spirit." That's how I feel about my old friends from pinas. And I can't wait to see them again & introduce my partner for life to them.

Well, I just finished talking to my mom. It must have been 2 hours that I talked to her. Thank God for phone, chat and any technology that linked communications together. Can you just imagine what it would have been like in the ancient times. You wait months for letters coming to you and now if you just need to talk to somebody, use your mobile phone- well, that is if they want to chat with you, too. technology allows you to know who is calling. Ha!Ha!Ha! Isn't ironic how technology makes you feel close and yet far with someone at the same time?

Some people just have this unexplainable fear going to the dentist. Somehow, I don't have that. Well, I guess because of the memories I have of my dentist when I was a kid. This gentle woman just makes eveything comfortable for me even if I have to open my mouth wide as I can. She was my dentist until I moved out here in the US four years ago. And I didn't have one until 4 months ago. That's what you call loyalty! Ha!Ha!Ha! Actually, that's where I'm going right now.

                  I'm back! So many things had happened for the past year and a half. I'd been so busy as hell! At the back of my mind, I was thinking about my blogs & revising my personal website-  www.thea-rtist.com.
                     
                     I got married twice to the same man. Isn't that funny? Well, we did the Vegas thing and our families wanted for us to get married in the church so we just did the right thing and keep both of our families happy. But I would say, both of them were beautiful weddings. Well, of course I'm biased- it was my wedding! Ha!Ha!Ha!

                        

At long last, I'm beginning to eat healthily. So long bad carbs! Hmmmm.....does that mean goodbye, pizza? Goodbye, ice cream? Well, I guess I have to sacrifice a bit because since I got here in the States from 2001, I gained 30 pounds! Geez, I barely notice it until I have to buy a whole set of wardrobe to fit into a new size. Two years ago, "size Large" is foreign to me. Now, that's what practically describes me.
It's not just the physicality that I'm concerned about because I have a show in four months time to get back into my old shape, it's also about health. I remember during my teens, my Dad is always in and out of the hospital and practically lived there a couple of times. It was pretty hard for us and especially for him. I don't want to end up like that. I hate to be sick.
It's so easy to get slack. First of all, all that ads in the fastfood commercial. How can you resist a mouthwatering Big Mac commercial? And the price. Everybody knows that my favorite store is the     99 cents store. Because everything is cheap, I buy most of my grocery there. Aside from overeating,  I totally ignore the Nutrition Facts label at the back of the product. And what's  becoming increasingly obvious to me is that anything that is healthy is more pricey than what is not healthy for me.
I think it's about time to mass produce healthy products so it becomes cheap and can compete with the non-healthy foods.

I chatted with Melissa just recently when I saw her at msn messenger. I haven't signed in for quite sometime. We haven't been in touch for a while and I miss that. In fact, I missed my friends from back home (Philippines). I guess I'm feeling nostalgic because of the holiday season.

I just had a production meeting for "Abadeha." It's an ethnic-rock musical which is based on a Cinderella story but filipinized. This production had been going on for 2 years and we had produced previews & excerpts. Currently, we are rehearsing for the full length musical which will be shown at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. It is a multi-cultural cast but 70% are fil-ams.

It was very productive and I think we discussed the production design for 3 hours. I have to finish my set model by Dec. 20. I think I have enough time although when I get home after work, I'm already tired. So, I'll probably do it on a weekend. I'm doing the set design, Ervin is doing the animation and effects and Bill is doing the hand & set props. Bill has done almost half of the props for act 1 and he has been doing a great job out of it. Most of the time when we are discussing ideas, everybody wants to put in their share of creativity ahead of anybody else that somehow along the way everything gets muddled up.

I'm tinkering on doing the website for Abadeha and so that's one of my excuses that my ongoing redesigning for my website will be slowed down.

It's one o'clock in the morning and I haven't started doing the model for the set I'm designing right now. I guess it's because of my colds. Yeah, that's my excuse. Hehehe. Also, I haven't finished redesigning my webpage. Jeez, it's almost a year that I'd been doing that. Now, my excuse for that:
I believe that creativity is dynamic.  Idea change constantly and when you seize something substantial, it grows. Hmmmm. Sounds like my lovelife.
Anyways, I promise myself that I'll finish the whole site by the end of December. Now, if I wouldn't be able to do that then my excuse would be ....well damn, because of Christmas!