We’ve been looking forward to this event for quite some time as we knew it was gonna be one great night of celebration of life, friends and music. We had a blast with friends we get to see often and friends we don’t. Nothing like good old friends and wonderful music! (Watch out for videos of performances from Diwa de Leon, Top Junk, The Discoball and of course, Flush and the Toilets, to be posted as soon as they get uploaded on Youtube)
The shoot was initially set for 7pm Saturday so I decided I would just catch the last set I needed to document for Lab Fest for Sunday 3pm. The call time was moved from 7pm Saturday to 4am Sunday, to 6am Sunday, and then finally to 10am Sunday. I thought the shoot would not last that long. I thought I’d make it to the 3pm show. I thought wrong.
Nevertheless, we made the most out of situation by having fun together while waiting for takes. We also took lots of photos of ourselves. Here are some of the photos we took at the set of Cinco‘s Mukha on my third shoot day for it.
We were there since 10 am, and we haven’t done anything all afternoon. Kat, Kalai, Abet, Dan and I were hanging out by the window of the 11th floor of ABS-CBN’s ELJ Building where a view of EDSA, Quezon Ave all the way to North Avenue could be seen. It was five in the afternoon and the sun was setting. It was a very good and very dramatic light. Thanks Dan for a new Facebook profile pic. LOL
I would like to thank Eshei Mesina for introducing me to Stumbleupon.
And for my very first stumbled upon site, here is a site where you can listen to the sounds of the rain, thunder, the ocean, songbirds, gulls and even chimes and vibes!!
This brings back memories of being The U.P. Repertory Company‘s Sound Manager and combing the collections of the College of Mass Communications for sound effects for our plays and full-length tula dulas like U.P. ng Ina.
HELLO PHILIPPINES is viciously funny and holds nothing sacred as it skewers the “call senner lifestyle”, a life cycle born out of fast money and desperation, twisted dreams and tainted principles, shifting body clocks, and too much coffee, beer and cigarettes.
From semi-electronic polls to mass killings, they dish out their conflicting remarks on each controversies served in a plate of wit & sarcasm. TEACHER’S ACT TAKES US TO THE SHOES OF THE ONE PERSON WHO HAS SEEN ALL THE ACTION & (MIS) ACTIONS DURING ELECTIONS—THE TEACHERS.
PLAYDATES: feb 2, 4pm and 7pm at the College of St. Benilde Black Box
feb 13, 15, 20 3pm&6pm at the U.P Diliman, Eng’g Theater
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Having trouble reading the text on the poster?
Dalawang Dula Para Kay Juan, Uncle Sam at the Moled One
sa pagsulat ni Albert Cruz
sa direksyon nina Dax Carnay, Albert Cruz at Albert Konrad de Luna
Pebrero 13, 15 at 20 3 p.m at 6 p.m.
U.P. College of Engineering Theater
For tickets, contact 0915-349-7607 or 0915-485-8246
Some of the photos taken at Roma and Jay’s belated joint birthday bash last December 11 at Ten 02 Bar in Sct. Ybardolaza, Timog, Q.C.
I was not too fired up to go because I was still reeling from the emotional crash hoolabaloo that happened that week but I thought, heck, I need some form of distraction. I need a party!!! So off I went though uber late. Looking at the photos, you wouldn’t know I was not feeling too good about myself from how huge my smile is.
Happy party Abeth
Nicki and Abet, I love you two here.
Girls, girls, girls
Bagets (pa rin kayo para sa amin kahit di na naman talaga)
Dan Ramon Geromo and Jerico Placido (I go for complete names)
Thank you for always being there for me, even though most times, you just sit there saying nothin.
It’s enough for me that you’re there just sitting and listening.
Thank you for always giving me a cup of coffee, or at least trying to always, and feeding me too when I’m over at your house. You know I hate cooking. I’d rather starve.
Thank you for adopting me every now and then.
Thank you for sharing with me your books, films, tv series, music and so on and so forth. Most importantly, your thoughts, your views, your funny little anecdotes.
Thank you for being understanding and never judgmental.
Gosh I have so much to thank you for, I’m almost tamad to enumerate and write them all down.:P
Thank you for being such a good friend through and through.
Cheers to nine years of friendship and to all that it entails.
Cheers to more years of friendship and all that it means.
I love you to the core.
This is for you because you are my friend and there was a time when my life was filled with lots of you. You will always have a special place in my heart. Hope you did away with your birthday jitters! We all grow.. period. Old is just a word.
We miss you and we hope you have a rocking birthday down under.
Love the rocks. Rocks are part of your life. May there be more rocks!
The very supportive friends we are, Nick, Kalai, Ktin, Ktin’s sister, Jma, Ryan and I headed out to Genre Bar in Cubao X for Roma, Amrei and John’s.. basically the band called Flush and the Toilets, gig one Saturday night.
Roma said they were going to be the first band to play at nine-thirty, but we found ourselves still hanging out at Mogwai until almost eleven. We went up to Genre Bar, which is basically the second floor of Alan’s Grill. We met Alan one time, a humid clear evening that was I remember. I was absolutely dressed down in a loose red shirt, a pair of shorts and lavender-painted toenails sticking out on my brown Havaianas (that my sister gave me for Christmas by the way, not something I bought myself because I only buy cheap stuff because I’m cheap like that). We were hanging out, sitting on these little chairs at a little table at that little place next to Alan’s Grill with a nice vibe and the ugliest menu I ever did see and the name of which I actually do not know, when Alan saw Ewok who was sitting in one of those little chairs with us. Alan who is apparently a dog-lover, spent like thirty minutes chatting with us about dogs and even showing us a video of his two shih-tzus.
Anyway, we came up to Genre Bar, and were basically the first people to arrive and thereby, of course, occupied the front table. The usual sound-check, the usual orders around the table and the usual photo-ops. It wasn’t long before the band started swinging.
Flush and the Toilets: Amrei Dizon (vocals), Che Santos (guitar/drums), Roma Regala (bass) and John Villareal (guitar). Genre: Glam rock/90s
Check out Flush and the Toilet’s Multiply page and be a fan on Facebook.
When people started coming in, one of the first people to arrive, after us of course, was Meh, lead guitarist for the band Matilda. Nick, Kalai, Roma, Ktin, Jma and I met Meryl (Meh to us) back in the first semester of 2000, when we were all applicants for the organization that is the U.P. Repertory Company. Though the rest of us went on to become inducted members, Meh deferred on the second interview. She would always be the best applicant in our eyes though, with her always showing up with the best costumes during Hell Week. The last time I think I saw Meh was at her birthday celebration in 70s Bistro. Now almost nine years later, Meh and I are proud moms, but we are still the same – looking like we used to, acting like we used to. Ahh, always nice to see old friends!
For band info, check them out on Blogspot. (This is the only website I was able to find.) Though you may wanna check out Charms’s Multiply page for some info.
By this time, the batteries on the camera were already failing us so we decided not to take anymore pictures. Until this band came onstage, with the coolest-looking girl with the nicest eyes and teeth (that is just my opinion because I am biased like that) and started playing this music that Ryan hated but I liked. Hahaha. Then I noticed that there was a crowd of photographers around the small stage. So I scooted over to where Meh was sitting and asked, “Who is this band? Why the sudden clamor of photographers around the stage?” and Meh said, “The Late Isabel. Wawi Navarozza, famous artist and photographer, on vocals.” And so I went, “Oh okay,” and scooted back to where I was sitting, gave the camera to Ryan and said, “Makiuso tayo. Kuha ka rin!” Hahahahaha!
The Late Isabel: WAWI NAVARROZA, vox ALLAN HERNANDEZ, guitars ROVAL BACALE, bass J.P. AGCAOILI, drums Genre: Rock/Post-punk
And so that is how we ended up with photos of this band. Also, that is how we ended up exhausting all the batteries and no more pictures of the bands playing after.
Check them out on their old Geocities site, on their Myspace page and on their Multiply page. You can also be a fan on Facebook. It is also quite interesting to check out Wawi Navarozza’s Flickr.
Here is the event’s official poster I suppose, which I got from Charms’s Multiply page. I don’t remember seeing Sugar Hiccup though.
Random Lunacy Productions Presents Feed the ID! A Tribute to Struggling Artists
So sadly, we don’t have any photos of The Brew, Chubibo and The Discoball.
We were supposed to leave early to go meet up Ryan’s friends from high school somewhere in Timog but Nick said, Dan was coming. It has been quite some time since I last saw Dan. I think I saw him last back in 2007, when we did Ogie Braga’s Sa Pagdating ng Barbaro for Virgin Labfest 3 (Scroll to the very end of the article for the photo hahaha). So we stayed. They were the last band to play too. But it was well worth it. Bheng Densing on vocals is crazily funny and Dan is just too cute! I love you Dan Geromo! Hahaha!
Click here to be a fan of The Discoball on Facebook.
And here are the photos from another wonderful night out of music with friends.
Never mind the ugly poster for which the person responsible has yet to own up for. For all alumni and members, in all of its thirty seven years, let us all come together!
The U.P. Repertory Company Alumni Homecoming 2009
September 27, 2009 at six in the evening Conspiracy Bar and Garden Cafe
#57 Visayas Avenue, Quezon City
I missed out on last year’s as I believe I was out gallivanting in Bicol and Negros at around this time.
Let’s hope for a good, good night tonight!
And for myself, I hope that the batteries on the camera will not die out on me like it did at Genre.:|
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This event has been postponed of course for the time being. The new date and venue has not been announced yet as a number of members and alumni, me and my family included, are still coping with the aftermath of Ondoy. Water was over the top of our heads at 2am on Sunday, September 27th in Pasig. The Cruz’s, Abet and Hush, had to be evacuated from their home in Nangka, Marikina. Jill Masalonga, Eshei Mesina and a number of Repists from Marikina had homes submerged in water as well. We are all hoping things will get better soon.
Note:
This blog post was scheduled for posting for Sunday 12:30 am. I was not really online as there was no power and we were being flooded everywhere.
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