Ballet Philippines @ Silliman University

Monday night was truly amazing. The Ballet Philippines’ performance @ The Claire Isabell McGill Luce Auditorium left me hanging on the edge of my seat. My eyes wide-opened, barely blinking, fearing that I might miss a single graceful move by the ballet dancers. It was so amazing. I’ve never been that amazed by anything in my whole life, until last night. Their performance just topped in my list of best performances seen at Luce Auditorium. From their costumes, their facial expressions, the music used in all of the dances, the concept of the dances, the lights, and each step and move of the dancers were wonderful. They’ve done excerpts from Igorot, which was choreographed by Agnes Locsin, excerpts from Ensalada [Mamang Kutsero, Bakya Mo Neneng, Limang Dipang Tao], choreographed by Edna Vida, music by Ryan Cayabyab, Evacuation, choreographed by Augustus Damian III, music score from the movie The Killing Fields, excerpt Gaano Kadalas, choreographed by Tony Fabella, music by John Tan & Willy Cruz from the album Pelikula at Pundakit by the Bolipata Trio (it was actually an piano & violin instrumental of Sana’y Wala ng Wakas which made me misty-eyed for some reason..), Bach Concerto, choreographed by William Carter, Romeo & Juliet, choreographed by Alice Reyes, music by Sergei Prokofiev, and last but not the least, Te Deum choreographed by Denisa Reyes, music by Georges Bizet.

I was just stunned. And I’m so proud to have seen a live performance. To be a ballerina; that was my childhood dream, but, after seeing that performance,  I’m already okay not to become one. (and i think it would be too late to learn it now, right? or maybe not. xD) 

I hope there would be more performances like this in the future. 

 for more info on Ballet Philippines, just visit their official site: http://balletphilippines.org/

the art of letting go

one of the reasons why people get so sentimental…it’s because memories are the only things that don’t change…when everything else does… there are things in life that you cant hold on forever, no matter how much you fight for it…

sometimes destiny isn’t always good, it becomes playful… when you meet someone you learned to love, you thought it was destiny who made your paths cross… but what if making your paths cross is just a part of the game that the playful destiny create? making you realize in the end that the person you though that was destined for you wasn’t really meant to stay… but only destined to make you feel love and leave you when you’ve already fallen..

you can never own something that was never yours… so lets stop gripping on things we expect to last forever…

nothing lasts forever.

forever is a lie.

everything is transitory.

so while you have something in your hand, put in mind that its just borrowed… so that someday when its gone, it wont take you eternity just to let it go…

when your feelings get strong for someone, its always wise to stop for a while and give you heart a time to breathe… a time to use your mind to weigh the situation based on reason not on emotion… because the saddest thing that can happen is when one fall in love while the other wants nothing more than friendship…

love can sometimes be magic…

but magic can sometimes be an illusion…

there are times when I wish that I was limited to certain emotions… so that i’ll never have to experience pain, never feel betrayed or disappointed, and never get my fragile heart broken… but the same thing means that ill never know how it feels to love and be loved in return… the thought of it kind of scares me… to have a heart that’s whole but numb… or a heart that’s broken but real…

someday we’ll all be looking back to those days we learned to love, get hurt, cry, and fight… maybe when that time comes, we’ll be laughing at our old dumb selves… realizing how stupid we were to stand up for things we knew weren’t really meant for us…

but I guess learning takes time, and mistakes make one’s journey fun…

life is what we make it…

love makes the world go round…

so let’s live, love, and take whatever pain it brings…

though its hard to wait around for something that I know will never happen…

its harder to stop when I know it’s everything i’ve always wanted…

so where do you learn the art of letting go?