pictures and plays

*jax, me, hana, and joey - models kuno during rox's fotogra class last term*

yesterday (09-18-06) -- i got to see the first batch of pictures i had taken with a NIKON FM3 camera... :) first time to actually see my output with a manual SLR... believe it or not, i tore the film the first time i used an SLR camera... hee hee... :D i was supposed to rewind the film, problem was i forgot to press the rewind/release button beneath the SLR camera... so, there... i tore the film.

anyway, though some pictures were, ummm, weird and blurred, i'm proud to say that there were a few shots i really liked :P hehehe :) there was this one particular shot that hannah kept laughing at.. :) it was a shot with arnie, hannah, and rug aiming their cameras at a flower; they were just standing in different angles. i would've liked the shot if it weren't that blurred... hehe :) hannah kept laughing, saying that i focused on the leaves that were on the extreme right side of the picture and everything else in the picture was blurred... :) hee hee :P

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watched two plays last weekend... shock value and godot, wer is u? both plays were quite nice.. :)

shock value was staged in U.P. Wilfrido-Guerrero Theater. it was about life behind the cameras, behind the scenes. how a successful producer dealt with the issues when he was caught red-handed as he was having sex with a TV host. it showed the things actors and actresses would do and sacrifice for their careers. it was a comedy... fun, intriguing, and eye-catching. the production was brought out in a variety show kind of way. full of dances like our afternoon ASAP or SOP shows. :) there was also a chika portion, mocking the chika-minute program or the fact that CHIKA was actually put along the stream of serious news reportings. imagine this: mount mayon is on the verge of errupting and the village people near there are asked to evacuate the location. // isang boldstar, virgin pa daw?! ... you get what i mean? ironically, people actually wanna know more about the boldstar issue than that of mayon. weird.

godot, wer is u? with this play, you have to have the ear and the patience to listen. staged at the ccp-tanghalang huseng batute, this play was all-talk. based from a script/novel by samuel beckett, there were two people who did everything and talked about anything they could think of while waiting for godot. personally, i'd think godot was meant to represent death in the production. i liked this production for the fact that it dealt with a lot of symbolisms and poetry. "hinihintay natin si godot!" was repeated in a singsong manner that it got stuck to my head after the play. :) one of the one-liners i really loved was the one said by potsu: waaa! bulag na ako... nung nagising ako kanina, mas blind pa ako sa love!" :D hee hee hee :) it was a comedy... but as i've said, you have to listen to the dialogue to enjoy the whole thing. for me, i didn't notice it... but the time i really appreciated the production was when i was analyzing about it. it's simply beautiful... a lot of hidden meanings, symbolisms, poetic verses, etc. simply put, it was WOW. :) hehehe :)