Balik Alindog Plan 2015

It turns out the company is treating all of us employees to a whole day at Club Manila East. Time to bring out my bathing costume and surf shorts. No, sorry girls and boys, not wearing trunks. I have a diving shirt, and so I'll only need to put sunblock on the nape of my neck and my face.

I also plan to bring a thick novel and be completely antisocial, should I get bored by the water.

At any rate, I plan to get abs by 25th April, which is the day of the outing. Here's my plan.

Week One -- 29-Mar to 04-Apr
30 sit ups every day
Earth Yoga daily

Week Two -- 05-Apr to 11-Apr
40 sit ups every day
Water Yoga daily

Weeks Three and Four -- 12-Apr to 24-Apr
50 sit ups every day
Fire Yoga daily

Let's get it on!

Sidetracked

I am afraid I may have gotten sidetracked. In all the chase for good NPS scores and compliance to the business rules and all that--which is not at all a bad thing, since Saint Paul does admonish us to be good employers--I might have become satisfied with the scores. In short, being satisfied with the means and forgetting the end I had hoped to achieve.

I remembered only recently that the reason I wanted to get full-time employment was to not put pressure on the writing and the acting to put food on the table. Even moreso, the day job was supposed to provide for me tuition for singing classes, a skill I severely lack in the theatre industry.

So, I am glad I was reminded of this goal that I had: to set aside money for voice lessons. Well, I guess it's never too late to start saving.

The Manila Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet

The Manila Shakespeare's Company's limited run of Romeo and Juliet is over! Our last shows were two weeks ago, and my sprain is healing nicely. Tomorrow I plan to do some gentle standing yoga poses to re-strengthen my feet and legs.

I miss acting already. Some actors are lucky to jump from one production to the other, without much time to suffer post-show depression. Not me. Good thing I have writing--which I don't need to audition for--always with me. I can write wherever. All I need is my hand and my mind. A pen and a thick notebook. I can do it anywhere.

I do plan to write down snippets of the rehearsal process and memories of the show. There's news of a possible re-run in August. Oh, I hope I don't wait that long until I perform again! Please, somebody, tell me when and where the next auditions for straight plays are!

I do know I promised myself voice lessons this summer, or as soon as I can afford them, but I haven't really been faithful to saving up for a good vocal coaching course. I really want to learn to sing. I need to learn to hear notes accurately, and every morning beginning yesterday I listen to vocalization exercises I got when we did William in PETA. Just to listen to the scales and to be able to hear and distinguish the difference in pitch is a milestone for me. I believed myself tone deaf all my life!

Here's to more theatre adventures in the near future, I hope!