Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Musikal

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Music
Genre:	Soundtracks
Artist:	Various Artists, feat. Vince de Jesus

I've seen this stage musical about five times already. There is no doubt about its appeal and the fun I had while watching in each of those five times. The most recent one was the last show in the fourth and latest run.

In a near-miraculous stroke of events, I ended up watching the only show with composer/musical director Vince de Jesus playing the role of Ada. Tuxqs Rutaquio, the original Ada on stage was down with throat problems and was literally croaking. The last-minute replacement was Vince, who gamely essayed the role in a whirlwind of on-the-spot rehearsals.

Vince pulled it off. He's not the finely demure version that Tuxqs made it to be. Rather, Vince's Ada had more character, more of a fighter. He started off a bit tentative at the start, but only us ZZZ denizens would see that.

All in all, Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Musikal is still a riot. That accounts for the five times I've seen it. It's not a play for homophobes, mind you. It's a play that pokes fun on our love for superheroes and reminds us that gay people are people, just like you and me.

=)K

Waste Market Days: January 12 and 19, 2007

Start:	Jan 12, '07 09:00a
End:	Jan 19, '07 3:00p
Location:	Goldcrest Park, Ayala Center St. Jerome's Church, Alabang Town Center

Usher the new year with a good deed -- help protect mother nature. Join the Waste Market Days for January 2007. Here are the details:

Greetings for 2007!

We would like to thank all the supporters and participants of the Waste Markets, and are pleased to announce the schedule for Jan. 2007, as follows:

Jan. 12, 9 am-3 pm: Ayala Center Makati
Goldcrest Car Park
(Arnaiz Ave., behind Anson's)

Jan. 19, 9 am-3 pm: Alabang Town Center
(next to St. Jerome Church)

Please share this announcement with your colleagues, neighbors, friends and relatives.

Keep your POST-HOLIDAYS junk out of the garbage bin and bring them to the Waste Market instead (e.g. junk electronics/appliances/Cmas lights, used batteries, used ink/toner cartridges, scrap paper/plastics/aluminum and tin cans). For more information, contact PBE (c/o Jaz or Nancy) at 6352650/51 or Ayala Foundation (c/o Adel) at 752 1084.

Hope to see you then!

Philippine Business for the Environment (PBE)
2F DAP Bldg., San Miguel Ave., Ortigas Center Pasig City
Tel: (63-2)635.3670 / (63-2)635.2650 to 51
Fax: (63-2)631.5714
CP: 0917.405.9265
Email: ctem@csi.com.ph
Website: www.pbe.org.ph / www.iem.net.ph
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Last December we sold alot of our junk and actually made 4,200 pesos. heehe. Pero I have 2 tips para hindi kayo mabigla at masulit ang inyong pagpunta sa Waste market.

The buyers there will be pricing your wastes very very low kaya:

1.) Make sure that you are really selling stuff that you don't know what to do with. You can't recycle yourself, you can't fix, you can't donate.

2.) Make sure that you bring "ALOT" of items to sell. Because some people go there and make even less than their cost of fuel / pamasahe to get to makati. Here's a sample of how much we were able to sell our items (note that these prices differ every Market Day).

-- Ink Cartridges of some HP printers made very good money (we sold ours for 300 pesos each). The Epson cartridges, on the other hand, weren't worth alot (P1.00 each lang) but it is still money.

-- We made our most money from old truck batteries that we were able to exchange for P400 each.

-- We sold 10 non repairable flat irons (plantsa) for a total of P80. Those things were actually weighed and were priced at P4.00 per Kilo.

-- Sold our Techniques Organ (yung pang church type) for P200 and our Yamaha Keyboard for P50.00

-- We really filled our Hi-Ace with stuff kaya sulit naman kahit na super mura ang bili nila.

At the end of it all, it felt good because, we were able to make some room in our garage (for other junk? hehehe) plus, we were able to help recycle.

So, Happy Waste Market Day for all you people!

Ginger

Watch Banned Movies...

Start:	Jan 20, '07 7:00p
Location:	Freedom Bar, Anonas St., QC

But skip the curtained backroom of the nearby video rental store or the racks of discs along the curb. Let us bring them to you instead.

A production outfit formed in 2006, Banned Movies Pilipinas offers alternative venues for the country’s indie film and music; we take independent filmmakers from their home video players and top-flight bands from their garages and bring them both to the public. We intend to break new ground, producing albums for struggling local bands and creating film productions relevant to Philippine Cinema.

On January 20 at 7pm, Banned Movies Pilipinas kicks off the new year at the Freedom Bar in Quezon City with “Todo Todo Torres: John Gets Banned.” A cum laude graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University, indie filmmaker John Torres is a recipient of Vancouver’s Dragons and Tigers Award, Singapore’s Fipresci-Netpac Award, and Cinemanila’s 2005 Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema. The event will screen four of his short films, namely, “Tawid Gutom,” “Salat,” “Paano Kita Liligawan ng ‘Di Kumakapit sa ‘Yo?” and “Gabi, Nang Nalaman Ko na Ang Aking Ama ay May Anak sa Labas.”

Between these 3-12 minute-films, the rawest and freshest local bands will be rocking the scene. Among them are Taggu nDios, Severo, Pumping Pluto, Linch 12, Xeven Thursday, Surfherloverboy, Final Vow, and the Board of Trustees.

So, watch Banned Movies. Watch us rally the cause of Pinoy indie film and music.

And don’t worry. Everything’s legal.

For more information, call 6673061 or email us at banned_movies@yahoo.com.

10th Wedding Anniversary

Start:

Jan 20, '07 09:00a

Joskoday... ten years na kami... wow.

The Christmas That Was

It all went too fast...

For the first time in five years, our family was complete. It's not very easy to complete the family when you have parents, a sister and her family half-way across the globe... This year being the 40th anniversay of our parents, they decided to have a grand celebration.

Why not the 50th? My dad's turning 80 next year. Though he is pretty strong, and pretty much up and about despite his age, my parents wanted the chance to enjoy this milestone and still keep the memories.

The house went through a renovation months before their arrival. On the day they arrived, we had 2 vans and a car fetching them. The balik-bayan boxes were massive, not to mention their luggages. And to think, they were here for only two weeks.

And the kids!!! The house was full of them every single day of those two weeks. All nine of them enjoyed each other's company. The quiet ones were finally heard and the best friends were ring-leaders of various mischiefs. They prepared numbers for the anniversary party. All the performances were by the kids. Us adults stayed in the background as we preferred.

The theme was red. Of course, my dress was predominantly black... hehehe.

We all had little rest during the entire time. We were always out doing things -- errands, groceries, meet-ups, parties. And the steady trail of visitors -- relatives mostly, and neighbors, friends, people from church -- kept us up and about.

I got sick, of course. Got my dad sick too. We were the "taumbahay" while everybody went to hear the Midnight mass for Christmas. A cousin who married a doctor last year came by to visit and promptly gave us prescriptions of antibiotics. Oh well...

And, on Christmas day itself, our dog gave birth to her first batch of puppies -- nine of them! Sadly, they were born premature. They were wee bits of little dogs. We didn't expect them to survive but three still live and they seem to be thriving. Sigh...

They left for the US on Jan. 1. The plane took off a little past 12 noon. By that time, those of us who were left behind have gone back to our respective homes and dozed off... finally.

It was a whirlwind of a holiday. But I treasure every minute of it. Five couples, nine kids. It's a veritable clan. And happy to be in one family. One could only be so lucky...

=)K