Pasinaya 2008: The CCP Open House Festival

I just got home from the CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines). I went there to fetch my mother and watch the PASINAYA festival.

Rewind to this morning- When I woke up, the people here told me that my mom already left. After a while, she called me. Nasa Tagaytay raw siya... eh that was already 1pm so I thought hindi na tuloy (since Pasinaya will start at 3pm). Usapan nalang, I would just fetch her at the CCP.

I myself got into a traffic jam (on a Sunday!?!?!) and got there around 3:30pm na... and much to my surprise, my mom is already there. So we just went in and watch! ;p

PASINAYA Festival offered different performances, and what we watched was the main event/show: "Galaw, Galaw, Galawgaw!". I actually had a lot of fun!

The show featured different dances. I think ALL the different kinds of dances were covered. There were the Philippine Folk Dances, Jazz Dances (Rix should've came along!), Ballroom Dances, Expressive Dances (with a guy with nothing on but a brief! haha!), HipHop Dances (featuring the pinoy All-Star group! damn they are good! no wonder they're popular!), and Ballet Dances (featuring the living legend Lisa Macuja-Elizalde!).

During Ms. Macuja's Ballet performance, I actually shed a tear! She was soooooo good! So graceful! I'm actually awed by her since this is the first time I saw her perform live! Sorry mababa lang talaga ang luha ko! ;p

All in all, I had fun! It was a fun and quality show. My only gripe is the audience. The place was jam-packed! It would've been OK if they were all just ART loving peeps, but NO... they were mostly HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS!!! It's like a field trip or something. Grabe! As in ang ingay!

Most of them don't know proper etiquettes when watching these kind of shows. I'm not being snobbish, or "feeling", here... but I must say common sense naman yung mga proper etiquettes like: DON'T SCREAM!!!! (nagtitilian yung mga babae at bading while the guy in briefs was dancing.. kakahiya kayo), SHUT THE FUCK UP! (quit babbling like you're in a wet market!), SEAT AT YOUR DESIGNATED SEATS (yes you have seat numbers, people... its indicated in your tickets!), and TURN OFF YOUR CELLPHONES (the schmuck beside me was actually USING it during the performance.. with the lights all turned off! so just imagine how ticked I was kasi nakakadistract yung backlights ng phone niya!).

I was like: "Hello! We're in the CCP, people! We're not inside an SM Movie House!". ;p

Anywho, I had a good time. I love watching musicals/plays/performances, much so in the CCP. I remember during College, I watched a lot of them. My mom always get free tickets to the CCP's shows because of her position, and because of the fact that she's good friends with the CCP President.

So the next time she get tickets, count me in! ;p