I say let them eat the cake

I've attended at least 10 weddings in my lifetime. More than half of the number i'm not in the wedding party. I don't really mind. Dressing up in a gown which four other ladies are also wearing isn't exactly a field day for me. I barely know how to put make-up on, let alone be photographed while fidgeting with a wedgie.

The fuss of being a guest and hating it aside, i really am a wedding person. I absolutely adore the concept of taking a couple's love to the next level (which is marriage and starting a family not the other "level" you're thinking of, you, pervert you!). I cry whenever i see the bride walking down the aisle and her groom smiling widely as he waits. Most of all, i love the food at the party after.

I already have an idea of what my own wedding's gonna be like. I also know who i want to marry (but i won't mention who he is coz i might jinx it). For the sake of hypothetical discussion, let me give you a rundown of some of the details:

1. First of all, i will definitely lose weight. I don't care if i don't eat. My goal is to be 110lbs on my big day.

Let's say i don't lose weight at all. Where does that leave me? Good thing i already know the perfect gown for me--plus-size or not.2. The motif will either be powder blue and black or turquoise and pink.

3. I would like to get married at the Edsa Shrine for the following reasons:

A.) I'm a member of the Lectors and Commentators Ministry there,
B.) It has guaranteed parking for the church guests,
C.) It's cheap (this means low ceremony rate-cheap). The last i heard the rate's P2,500.
D.) It's air conditioned,
E.) It has perfect audio system.

There are, however, some drawbacks:

A.) The church being a stone's throw away from the Galleria, the possibility of the ceremony losing its intimacy is pretty damn huge. Imagine people you've never seen before in your life gawking at you and you're dress, eventually launching into an indiscreet debate among themselves if you got knocked up or not.

B.) Unlike other churches, there's no balcony where your photographers and videographer can take bird's eye view shots of you walking down the aisle. Their creativity will really be put to the test here.

4. There will be none of the throwing of bouquet and garter. It's so fucking cheesy. Besides nobody wants to play those games anyway. Talk about public humiliation.

5. My groom and i will register. I will really bitch out if i open three boxes of the same plates during present time.

6. I want my husband and i to go backpacking in Europe for our honeymoon. This is my dream vacation (and my hypothetical wedding) so we'll go with whatever floats my boat.

7. I got a songlist down pat for the choir to sing.

8. I will definitely ask my friend Gina to host for my wedding. She would be perfect. She knows me and my groom very well and she's incredibly smart. It's a pity that couples hire people who are absolutely dead from the neck up. They say either useless information or too much information. And they have the gall to charge a couple of thousand pesos that once they open their mouths to "entertain" (duh!), you know that it's money down the drain for you.

Now that i've read what i wrote, i think it shouts out how desperate i am. Yeah, i'm excited...of the logistics probably. But the actual thing that comes with marriage? The package comes with something that when you think about it threatens to snatch you from your reverie and eat you alive, gown and all.

Oh and by the way, i want a hundred and fifty guests.

I played Mutie the Mailman in the production of Oklahoma!

It's been 2 and a half years since my last stage play. Of course, having no money and absolutely nothing to do that won't require my mother nagging me about my current state of bumhood, i just had to come back and do what i have always loved doing.

I'm back in theater, baby!

I was as small as a monggo bean when i started acting. I did a few minor stints in Batibot when i was 6, was casted in a stage play when i was 7, passed acting auditions and got kicked out of the play at 13 (they said i had to focus on my studies coz i was so busy with rehearsals and workshops), did class plays at 16, represented my block for monologue contests at 17, 18, 19 and 20 years old and finally became an apprentice for PETA.

However, PETA did not work well for me as i took MA units in theater at the UP while working. I never got a show for PETA because of all the studying and the work i had to do. Not acting rubbed off on my academic performance in school. I quit. Theater was my first love, and yet it broke my heart and my self-esteem.

My savior was Green Room Artists. They needed talents for some of their plays and Bong of PETA brought us to Direk Roni Bertubin for casting. I was casted for the role of Penchang in El Filibusterismo and the rest is history.

I've been with the company for 6 years. I had a three year hiatus, yes, but i never really left. My heart ached to act in those three years but i had to work to make a living. Theater was great but it doesn't necessarily pay the bills. I believe that theater is something you do "at the side" because you love doing it, but you don't make a career out of it...unless you're Lea Salonga or some pain-in-the-ass big shot Broadway star.

I have a rehearsal later. This is what i like about theater. My problems fade away once i step onto the stage and for 3-4 hours, i'm myself without the shitty bullcrap i face everyday. It's an escape. And i get paid for escaping reality.

My life is at a crossroads now. I have plans for my life that won't guarantee me of a better and more contented life but i guess there's no harm in trying. Theater would help me reach my goal. What you are now shapes your destiny. I don't know if that's a real saying but it sure sounds good. And it makes sense. Shit. I hate this feeling. It sucks.