What’s Up Last Week #17

Exercising during the holidays can be quite tricky, but I hope that posting the Christmas schedules of Fitness First on December 24, 26, 30, and 31 helped other members in their endeavor to keep up the habit. To begin the year 2006 in a more active way, I’ll be constantly editing the post Fitness First Les Mills Launch — 1st Quarter 2006 Schedule as the information becomes available.

The Marie Claire Philippines Cover Iza Calzado and a performance photo from the Barney Asia Tour 2005 have also become part of their posts.

And the more I take the LRT and MRT, the more I learn that I had to edit some of my earlier posts. Buying a map, for example, made me realize that the rivers that the MRT and the two lines of the LRT are NOT crossing three rivers, as I originally thought, but actually crossing just one river that winds through Metro Manila.

And there have been corrections from friends such as that mobile numbers starting with 0928 is Smart, not Globe, and that The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe will be showing in 2006, not 2005.

The ending of the first book of Encantadia has created fervor so I wrote my observations of another princess Diana Zubiri — Danaya of GMA 7 Encantadia.

The long delayed Cheap Eats post about Mannang was finally done. However, my expectations regarding another Cheap Eats — S.R. Thai Cuisine was not so satisfying when the owners’ offer of an “apology” meal for a Wire Staple found in a SR Thai Spring Roll turned out to be a Measly Meal at S.R. Thai (Ire).

The HBO production of Angels in America made me remember my co-actors quite fondly in the New Voice Co. production. Furthermore, Harper, the role Monique Wilson and I alternated in, was one of those characters any actor would enjoy doing, tiring though it can be.

It was another trip down memory lane as the C.S. Lewis classic of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe becomes a film, which Trumpets (who has staged a musical version of the book) will be sponsoring in a premiere on 08 January 2006 at 3pm Cinema 6 Power Plant Mall.

One can only feel a sense of pride that Filipinos have recognized and pioneered theatre productions that the international TV and film community are doing only now.