i lost my phone

guys,

i lost my phone kanina lang.  pls email me your #s here or at maranwe_oronar@yahoo.com.

try kong bumili ng bagong phone mya, bale ang magiging kong bagong # ay 0915-7033677.

maraming salamat!

angeli

the moral of the story is...

when i was in college, i remember having a fight with my mom about how she shouldn't try protecting me all the time because she can't anyway, so she should just let me learn life's lessons the hard way.  of course back then, i thought i knew everything.  maybe i was right, but looking back on that moment, i don't think i knew what the hell i was talking about.

 

around that time, i always knew who my friends were.  they were the ones you fight with during rehearsals but they were the same people you have beer with afterwards.  back then, it was so simple.  i figured that if you can be honest about yourself, and if you weren't out to please everyone but you're just there to do your job, people would respect you and if you're lucky, you gain friends.  you don't have to drink with them but it helps.  it all seemed so simple.

 

i'm not so sure anymore.  i've been in theater for several years now, and honestly?  i thought i'd seen everything. 

 

there'd be this girl who would accuse you of trying to steal her boyfriend, who would eventually try to ruin your reputation.  there'd be these people who would see you getting drunk then call you a slut, who would also eventually try to ruin your reputation.  back then, i figured - what the hell.  none of it's true anyway, so why get bothered.  people are entitled to their own opinions, i don't have to make their opinions my reality.  i still get cast, people still trust me to do my job.  i sincerely believed that what i do outside of the rehearsal hall/theater, is absolutely no one's business.  

 

apparently, i'm wrong.  apparently all you have to do is do your job well and you make enemies.  you can pick a fight in a bar or in your own backyard, you can be celibate or screw someone in the restroom, and none of that would matter.  if you're good at what you do but still have a social life and know how to have fun - be prepared to have someone stab you in the back.  or in the front.  in theater, people come at you from all directions.  some of them can even be people who you thought were your friends.

 

there's this guy - i thought he would be my partner for life.  that is, until i learned that he found someone else to be his lucky charm.  all of a sudden, the cute little things i do which he would normally appreciate, explode in my face like i tripped on a land mine.  that's what your best intentions do to you, when you have ceased to be useful to someone.

 

there's this woman - i loved her like a big sister.  she was my adviser, my friend, my confidante.  that is, until i inadvertently offended her by quietly dancing listening to an iPod.  all of a sudden, the crazy things i do in bars - drunk or sober - which everyone knows about anyway and laughs about the day after, are irrelevant.  that's what you get when you try to keep your sanity, when everyone else around you has lost it.

 

now that's the part i don't get.  as i said, i do my job.  if people like it, then great.  if they don't, it sucks but i work on it.  in the end, i'm not out to please everyone, i'm just working on my craft.  but what confuses me is how people can do their best to attach themselves to you because they think you're good at what you do and oh how honest you are, you're so special, they're so glad they have you in their lives, etc.  but make one wrong move ("one wrong move" is relative) and they attack you as if you really were the slut and unprofessional actress everyone says you are.  it doesn't matter that you were there for them when they needed you, it doesn't matter that you helped them in your little way, it doesn't matter that you went through so much together.  as a matter of fact, it doesn't even matter whether you were a snowqueen or an asshole or the most arrogant person they ever met - none of that matters.  what matters is that somehow, you stopped living your life their way.  that makes you the enemy. 

 

when you are honest to yourself - when you know who you are and what you want to be, when you respect and love your individuality - you become the monster.  you become the victim of a witch-hunt, of a lynch mob, of bullies in the playground.  the sad part is, the witch-hunt might be called off, the lynch mob might come to their senses, the bullies might be sent to the principal's office.  but once you've been targeted, you're marked for life.  people will forever see you as the woman with the scarlet letter and they will never let you forget it.

 

i guess my big mistake was that i was so naive in thinking that i really did make friends somehow.  in the end, there is no right or wrong.  everything is just a matter of survival.  kill or be killed.  

 

a lesson that i didn't really want to learn, but i learned it anyway.  the hard way. 

Monday Of Sorrow (Lunes Ng Hapis)

http://www.con-can.com/PreviewRoom/en/sakuhin.html?movie_id=200625192
"Monday of Sorrow," Nick Olanka's graduation film, won several international and local awards. It won 2005 Kodak Filmschool Competiton Philippines and was the Philippine entry for 2005 Kodak Filmschool Competition Asia-Pacific. It also received top prizes in the 18th Gawad CCP and was show in Slingshort Film Festival in Jakarta. In July 2006, his first digital feature film "Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo" (The Last Sunday) competed in the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival and will be open March 28 in SM Digital Theaters nationwide.

SINGER AND DANCER AUDITIONS for ASIAN TOUR OF THE KING & I

Start:	Mar 7, '07 10:00a
End:	Mar 8, '07 4:00p
Location:	Steps Dance Studio, c1 bldg c, karrivin plaza, 2316 pasong tamo extension, makati

SINGER AND DANCER AUDITIONS
FOR ASIAN TOUR OF THE KING & I

THE KING AND I
Asian Tour 2007-2008

Broadway Asia Entertainment will hold open call auditions for future replacements for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s THE KING & I for the 2007-2008 touring season. Broadway Asia Entertainment (www.broadwayasia.com), prod.; John Kivlen, general manager; Bobby Garcia, dir.; Susan Kikuchi, choreo.; Michael Duff, musical dir.; The Casting Dept./Sara Schatz, casting. This tour will play throughout China, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan for multi-week sitdowns for a minimum of 10 months. Principal salaries begin at $750/wk ($450/wk during rehearsal) and ensemble salary is $450/wk ($300/wk during rehearsal). Additionally, per diem, housing, transportation and health insurance provided for all.

DANCERS

MARCH 7 10am – 4pm

VENUE: Steps Dance Studio
C1 Bldg. C, Karrivin Plaza, 2316 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati

Open dance call for men and women. Seeking excellent, young, athletic dancers who sing to portray the following roles:

Male Dancers (6): late teens to late 20s, strong modern dancer. Knowledge of Thai dancing a plus.

Female Dancers (6): late teens to late 20s, strong modern dancer. Knowledge of Thai dancing a plus.

Bring picture (full body & 2x2) and resume, stapled together. Bring heels and flats and be prepared to dance. Be prepared to dance in bare feet (if necessary).






SINGERS

March 8 10 am – 4 pm

VENUE: Steps Dance Studio
C1 Bldg. C, Karrivin Plaza, 2316 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati

Open vocalist call for men and women.

Seeking excellent performers who sing to portray the following roles: King Mongkut of Siam: early to late 30’s, Asian, physically fit, masculine with the gravitas of a King. He struggles to conform to tradition yet is fascinated with Western ideas. Must be an excellent actor and sing well (baritone C to E). Anna Leonowens: late 20’s to mid 30’s, Caucasian, female, vivacious, full of life, an adventurer, excellent singer/actress (mezzo/soprano B to high D). Tuptim: ingénue (late teens to late 20s), Asian, sweet/sexy, a strong singer, soprano (low C to high A#). Lun Tha: Tuptim's beloved, mid-late 20s, Asian, masculine, great physical shape, a strong singer, tenor (low C to G). Kralahome: King's right hand man, late 30’s to early 40’s, Asian, masculine, stern and stubborn (will understudy King). Lady Thiang: King’s First Wife, early to mid 30’s, Asian female, wise and understanding, strong singer, soprano (low C to high A#). Male Singers (3): late teens to late 20s, Asian, strong singers who move well. Female Singers (2): late teens to late 20s, Asian, strong singers who move well.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together. Prepare 16 bars of a musical theatre song. Bring piano score. Pianist will be provided.


Call Atlantis Productions at 892-7078 to schedule your audition.

SUMMER KARNABAL Drum + Dance Class w/ Pinoy Afro-Latin percussion master, Bo Razon

Start:	Mar 10, '07
End:	Apr 1, '07
Location:	DWTOPIA, unit 4c Michel apartments, 2030 a.mabini street, malate, manila

Dancing Wounded Contemporary Dance Commune brings you another hybrid,
trans-disciplinary event featuring Afro Latin/World Music Percussion Expert Bo Razon leading the
Percussion classes with Dancing Wounded facilitating the joy of dancing in Summer Karnabal
Drum and Dance Class.

Summer Karnabal is an introductory class for anyone who is interested
to know the rudiments of playing percussion instruments. Razon, one of the country's leading
percussion gurus, takes the lead while Dancing Wounded stretches the principle of percussion
playing and guides the participants into the re-discovery of their own rhythm and natural urge for
movement and dancing.

The Class is also beneficial for:

- dancers who want to understand more about the concept of rhythm and address
problems in musicality
- actors who yet have to discover the importance of rhythm and its
role in creating characters, delivering
a punch line in a comedy play and also discover how to unhinged and
unleashed the "body" off its inhibitions
and perceived limitations
- artists from different fields who want to tap into the most
primordial urge of experiencing the world of rhythm
to reconnect to the universal sound or just plain diversify

Register now!
Old students are entitled to a 10% discount.
Fee for the whole program is 3, 600 pesos inclusive of 8 sessions (3
hours/session).
Call 525-6810 or text Jay 0916-2967627, Red 0917-8337026 or May 0916-7071018.

Ang Huling Araw Ng Linggo

Start:	Mar 28, '07
End:	Apr 4, '07
Location:	SM digital theaters nationwide

Cinemalaya presents a VitalStrats Creative Solutions production in cooperation with Red Door Productions

A Nick Olanka film

“Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo”.

Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives. Domeng is involved in networking or multi-level marketing business and plans to encourage his estranged daughter Luna to join in this unscrupulous business. Luna is abandoned by her husband and son so she asks help from her mother Aling Tess. Aling Tess is a land lady who lives alone and fancies a young male boarder named Kulas. Kulas is a grocery store employee who aspires to become a store manager to impress Julie. Julie is a laundry shop attendant who is obsessed with a male costumer named Brian. Brian is a nurse in a local hospital who wants to work abroad so he persuades his girlfriend Sally to provide for his "fixer" fees. An accounting graduate who failed to pass the board exam for two consecutive years, Sally enters Domeng's networking business in the hopes of proving her worth. When she found out that networking is a scam Sally plans to take revenge on Domeng. The film illustrates the interconnectedness of our lives, a cycle of random events in which the decisions we make are as important as the choices we didn't take.

About the Director

NICK JOSEPH OLANKA is a graduate of Film and Audio Visual Communication from the UP College of Mass Communication in Diliman. He has taken workshops in cinematography, photography and theater. For the UP Repertory Company, he directed Damas de Noche, Haplos ng Dahas, Sa Ngalan ng Ama, Sino Ba Kayo, New Yorker in Tondo, Parokyano and Ang Paglilitis Ni Mang Serapio. In film and video, he was director, writer and producer of Lunes ng Hapis, Happy Birthday Millie and Drive. He worked as production assistant for FILMEX under his summer internship program in 2004. His short film Lunes ng Hapis won the 2005 Kodak Film School Competition and is the Philippine entry for the Asia-Pacific Kodak Film School Competition.

Production Staff

Writer/Director: Nick Joseph Olanka
Assistant Director: Emman Pascual
Production Manager: Gavin Herrera
Director of Photography: Pao Pangan
Editor: Amrei Dizon
Musical Score: Nani Naguit
Production Design: Roma Regala and Armi Cacanindin
Sound Design: Raffy Magsaysay
Post House: VitalStrats Creative Solutions

Ang Huling Araw Ng Linggo (trailer)

http://uprepertory.multiply.com/video/item/1?mark_read=uprepertory:video:1
opens March 21-28, 2007 NATIONWIDE at SM Digital Theaters