the wash

whew! finally got a little time to breathe for an entry. so everything looks like it's starting to fall into place for bakitwhy.com. got the skeleton up and now it's time to put some meat onto it. i'm really stoked - more fired up about this than work, but work is pretty slow right now. i got put on another project and it's funny how one project that i did about a year ago has totally changed my attitude about my capabilities. don't get me wrong, i still don't know what i'm doing, but at least i'm confident that i can get it done. i, at least, know where to begin!

oh, the other night i went to barnes to finally use the gift card that my sac family gave me. THANK YOU!!! :) i had to buy RoadTrip Nation again to get ideas on what kind of interview questions to ask. on top of that, i bought HAMLET. it's actually a kinda translation guide to Hamlet. One side is Elizabethan language and the other side is common coloquial english. then i bought this book called 3AM Epiphany (how fitting). it's just a whole bunch of writing exercises that i needed to help me grow as a writer. and finally i bought the if... book. stuff that make you go hmmm... kinda stuff. again to give me ideas to explore my mind and my way of thinking. also to use to fill up my blogs and just keep writing.

i left a message for alex last night asking for some paperwork i guess i need to fill out to become a board member. in the back of my mind, i'm probably gonna get rejected by them, but on the other side of my mind, the object is not to get accepted or not. it's to actually fill it out and take that step. that's more important.

the one thing that i've kinda stopped doing is keeping up with my guerilla tagalog lessons. the thing i'd do to teach myself is watch TFC, which was mostly PDA at the time, and write down the words i didn't know. then i'd go to my online tagalog-english dictionary (which is in my links section) and look it up. my vocab got a little bigger, but it's still hard for me to put things together. like i just wrote another email to che and i'm like stumbling all over the place. but i try. i just wish i was better. just gotta stick with it i guess.

oh, i just finished the most awesomest play yesterday called "the wash" by philip kan gotanda. it's so good that i'm going to order it from the dramatist's guild. it's about a separated "more-mature" couple in their 60's that have separated and how this separation not only effects them, but their daughters and the new people in their lives. the characters are japanese-americans and have that cultural aspect of it, and as i read it, i couldn't help but think of my parents relationship. is it a cultural thing that the wife takes care of the house and the man just takes care of other stuff, but not be "loving"? the man, Nobu, was cold and didn't really show that much appreciation for Masi, his wife, until it was too late. here is the synopsis from dramatists.com:

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THE STORY: Nobu Matsumoto has separated from his wife Masi at her request, though both of them are in their sixties. Nobu's newfound bachelor life is regularly interrupted by Masi who comes by to pick up and drop off Nobu's weekly laundry as part of the duties she still feels a Japanese wife owes to her husband. Their two daughters have opposing feelings about the breakup; Marsha, the more traditional of the daughters, wants to reunite her parents, but not even Nobu and Masi's nostalgia for their courtship in a World War II Japanese-American internment camp can bring them back together again. The other daughter, Judy, who's been estranged from her father since marrying a black American, has been supportive of her mother's attempt at freedom. It is not until Masi tentatively begins a relationship with Sadao, a widower, that the severity of Nobu's traditional values reveals itself; he is inconsolable, obstinate and reclusive, leaving Kiyoko, a widowed restaurant owner who has fallen in love with him, unable to break down his defenses and get him to begin a new life with her. Finally, Masi's decision to divorce Nobu pushes him to the point where he begs her to return to him, but the marriage is irreparable, and Nobu is left at the end of the play contemplating how best to re-acquaint himself with his daughters, friends and most important, his ex-wife now that he begins to perceive that things can never again be as they were.

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i was really touched and inspired by this play and hope to see it performed one day.

oki dokes. that's all for now.