Archive for June, 2009

June 30th, 2009

Creating Moments at “Cruz & Chu Wedding”

Next week, we’ll be presenting the culmination of Studio Lab Project- “The Marriage of Cruz & Chu: Our Big Fat Filipino-Chinese Wedding Banquet.” This will be on July 11, 2009, Saturday, 6:00 PM at the Miyako Hotel  328 East 1st Street Los Angeles, CA 90012. I’m really quite excited how this will pan out because it’ll be an interactive dinner theatre show. The show for this day is sold out after only a couple of weeks being online which is awesome.

The Marriage of Cruz & Chu: Our Big Fat Filipino-Chinese Wedding Banquet

Working on this project is quite a journey of self-discovery in my part. This group is a mixture of people I worked with in the past & people from the other EWP classes. I do love the collaboration  & exchange of ideas that was just born from each moment when we’re working on the scenes. But at times it can be quite challenging when people with strong ideas clash, too. So, I asked my friends what do you do when you’re in this process? Interesting results:

a. stay away from the person as far as possible

b. slap the person in the face

c. count 1-10 & then smile

d. kill your scene partner

e. give a deadly stare

I didn’t do anything of the above. I blew my top in public which is RARE but in the end I compromised.



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June 11th, 2009

A Candid Guide To Newbie Bloggers

What’s so great about this internet universe is the amount of information you can have at your fingertips by typing the keyboard and entering “Enter.” But there’s so much crap out there that the first thing I would advice to newbie bloggers is to make sure you have valuable information that you can offer. Remember the times when you’re browsing about a certain product you’re researching and internet porn sites comes out from the search results. Thank God we’re so beyond that now but I can still see some unscrupulous peeps who had started abusing the use of the social networks sites like Twitter. You know who you are. Anyways, enough from my soapbox.

Blogging 101

For most of us bloggers, we just take for granted that the whole world knows about blogging at this point in time. There are those who don’t know anything about it at all. Seriously. Don’t even laugh because that’s why I’m writing this. I’d been asked a hundred times about blogging & how to blog. I suppose I’d gained enough information so I can share this to any newbies. To experts out there who maybe reading this, you can add your additional tips at the comments section.

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June 5th, 2009

Another Role: A Mom

4 weeks ago, I was planning to have a mammogram which led me to finding out that I was pregnant. I’d mistaken the symptoms for something else. A week after that, I learned I was already 3 months on the way. How strange. I felt normal…it seems that nothing has changed. There’s no morning sickness (thank God!). And yet, that first week I was in shock. My hubby & I were trying before & then stopped — but we do want to have a baby someday. I really don’t know what it means: becoming a mother.

Baby Ivens

Baby Ivens

I started researching the internet on what to do & what not to do as an expectant mom. I realized I did everything wrong on that first three clueless months: I drank coffee & green tea everyday, I occasionally went to bars where people smoke, I eat lots of spicy tuna roll, I work out vigorously. And yet he/she survived. The baby wants to live. I think the baby’s saying it’s about time.

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June 3rd, 2009

The Apostles Series

I had a preview exhibit at St. Lorenzo Catholic Church, Walnut CA during the Pentecost festivities last May 30, 2009. It’s a prelude to my plan to have an art exhibition by fall 2010. For the past month, I’d been working on the “Apostles Series” to humanize the saints or apostles and relate it to the everyday man. In my view, the apostles are just normal people like us but had overcome great obstacles in their time. It’s the focus of their belief or faith that made them notable.

Art Exhibit

In choosing the models for the saints, I was looking for particular people who would seem to look familiar and yet would impress us with distinct characteristics of the saints for what they’re known for before they become saints. My goal for this series is to go beyond the religious aspect of the apostles & see the humanity & commonality that exist with everyday unsung heroes.

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