School and Elijah Wood: Today was the first day of the second term. Nothing happened, unless you count meeting my creepy-looking (and Mad Scientist lookalike) teacher. Elijah says farewell to Frodo. Ookay. Just had to post it because I rarely read news on Elijah Wood. Come to think of it, there’s hardly news on him since Lord of the Rings. Moving on..

Footloose: Yesterday, we watched the local production of the musical Footloose at the Meralco Theater. At first I admit that I didn’t even want to watch it because I assumed that casting two celebrity leads, JayR (Ren) and Iya Villania (Ariel), with much masa appeal yet little theatre experience would be the downfall of this production. As usual, I was wrong. They were actually two of the *many* scene stealers in the entire show. And it was not because they were more popular and more well known, so to speak, than the other theatre actors. It was the first time that I got to watch two local celebrities much admired by the jologs/masa (I’m so mean) who lived up to the hype of their popularity.

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