Sick ramblings that will be deleted when I start to feel better
haven't felt this weak for quite some time now... it is interesting to drive to work with your eyes closed. too tired.
it could be all the cough medicine giving me this very fluffy feeling. Like wanting to close my eyes for a second and my energy will dissipate like an inefficient low flame... dying...
PERK.

I wanna tell you babe that you're the one I'm thinking of
But your heart is still with her and I think that she's the one that you love
I only want you happy even if it's not with me
Maybe one day you'll open up your eyes and see
that I think I'm fallin'
maybe I'm falling for you
yeah I think I'm fallin'
baby I'm fallin for you
From the first time you laid your lips on mine
It feels like the smile on my face
Will last till the end of time
But I'm not sure you're the one that I should pursue
My mind tell me no, but my heart only says that it's you
Rhat i think I'm fallin
Maybe I'm fallin for you
Yeah I think I'm fallin
Baby I'm fallin for you
Only time will tell
Mystery has yet to unfold
Who's gonna feel those warmth
And the other left in the cold
Yet still I'm fallin maybe I'm fallin for you
Yeah I think I'm fallin
Baby I'm fallin for you
That I think I'm fallin
Maybe I'm fallin for you
Yeah I think I'm fallin
Baby I'm fallin for you

I fell.

Escola Brasiliera de Capoeira Batizado - at the Podium

The night before, Poch, some of the newbies and I planned to have a lunchee at 1 so we could meet up and pretty much have lunch before the event. We were all supposed to assemble at the lounge area of the Podium Mall at 2 and start the event at 3. So 1 o'clock makes for good allowance. Traffic sucks as usual, I think people are getting to be more aggressive drivers the closer December gets. Must be all the celebration stress. So... I guess it's given that I was late for the lunchee and got there at 1:30, met up with Jen in the parking lot and bought Gatorade. I hardly ate before I left... not because yaya didn't put out any lunch for me... I was just too excited too keep the food down. Jenny and I picked up Poch and Johnny (who met at NYPD near the movie tickets area)... Pirulito, Cybele and some of the other guys were there too. We all went down to the lounge area, got our t-shirt stickers and changed to our abada and Batizado shirt. People started to crowd around, or pass by the area... and pretty much got us newbies jittery and nervous. Thanks to Cybele, who decided to start warm up stretching exercises... I think we got our confidence back. The floor was marble, so... we were talking about how we were going to crack our pretty noodles on it. The itinerary of events: - Flag ceremony (sang by Katie) - Berimbau (sang by Macaca) and another song where Fantasma played the Berimbau (top percussionist) boy, she could sing! Arlene told me that Macaca won a singing contest some time in her life... and well, I believe her. - a song from Aia (rightly introduced as the singer of Imago) I love these songs. They had a flute, guitar, sax and mobile accompaniment. These first few songs puts a picture of drifting in my mind. Arlene commented that it makes her think of being on a beach, a coconut drink (with pineapple garnishes) in hand. Then... graduation proper. Fantasma introduced the group to the crowd, telling them about what Capoeira was all about. He gave a brief history, and a backgrounder of Capoeira as a culture, as much as it is a martial art dance in Brazil. He then opened the roda for us to play. First of course, there were the usual advanced belts... but eventually, the newbies started to play too. Mara invited me to play in so we lined up in anticipation for our turn. I didn't get to play with Mara though hehe. When I made singit to the head of the roda (right under the berimbau players), it was Dustin I had the pleasure of playing with. Eventually Fantasma and the Mestres decided to enter the roda too and show their stuff... much to the delight of the crowd and students alike. I'm proud to be in the group with these impressive guys. They sure know how to make it look easy. I'm not sure, but I think after this roda Fantasma decided to award the EBC idol winner... so Bessouro (the buggybugboy) got third place... why not? Zach got second place for his LSS-ing song "Escola Brasiliera de Capoeira, camara... Escola Brasiliera de Capoeria...."; and Katie winning first place for her upbeat and meaningful song "Capoeira is my home";. A special mention goeas to Macaca who wasn't supposed to join the EBC Idol cause she's pretty much a shoo-in... she gets to pit her song against all the other schools! I really hope she wins. :) Okay. Belting time. Fantasma called out our names, and then gave us our Capoeira name. Hahaha... At first I didn't hear him call me cause I thought he was calling someone else... he called me right after Johnny. haha... So... I am now known as: BEJU` (apostrophe over that U). At first, Pia and the girls thought that it was it was something else, Bijou I think, portugese for Kiss. Pia and the girls were giving me all these kissy faces which I wish I got on cam. Eventually though... I found that Beju meant something else haha... because I WAS wondering what the heck I did to earn a name meaning Kiss! My game was with Mestre Pano! He was really nice about it... no fancy moves... although he did try to trip me once but he got the strong leg. I was too intimidated to do anything spectacular... if I decided to give him a jumping round house, he might decide to catch me in mid air or something and take me down from there... So as you could see in the video (I'll upload in my multiply later) the game was a little bland haha... by the end I was just waiting for him to trip me and hope that the marble-floor-to-face wouldn't hurt as much as it sounds. Then Mestre Pano belted me and me is happy happy. =D weeheeheehee!!! There are 2 batches of newbies, apparently. So I'm thinking that there are around 20 of us new guys there... which is great! True to what Fantasma has been saying ever before the Batizado... just because you paid for the Batizado... doesn't mean that you get a belt, he made good that promise. To Fantasma... he didn't give us our white belts because he wanted our first belt to actually mean something... to me... a big sigh of relief! MY BELT! Some cried... I think I was too relieved to do anything. Hahaha... Fantasma also gave out all these weird names... I only remembered some of my friends' names... After giving the newbies their well-earned cordo, Fantasma took a break by giving out other special awards (which was cool, really... it shows how much he appreciates his members, and everything... ) Albert won Most Outstanding. Hahaha.. it was great... he didn't see it coming at all, so he was so hyper, and I'm happy that he got it... he would tell me that in 6 months... I would be doing stuff that he won't ever be able to do. I really doubt that, Albert! Fantasma then gave the advanced students their belts, and they got to play each other in the roda for a bit. He bumped belts up to quite a few people, well deserved!! He would have an intermission with other awards-- of which Katie got in my opinion, the best one-- Axe` award! She deserves it... She's always bringing in her own energy into the group. Of course... what would be better than have a Samba Band to play towards the end! A real live Samba Band! I didn't know they existed! Hahaha so we all got jumpy jumpy hyper hyper... sweat swapping and whatnot... had a samba line, and a dance circle where the Mestres showed another meaning to "strut your stuff". Zoinks!!! All in all... it was exhausting and exhiliarating! We looked like a Cult Groupie! I'm sure more than one person in the crowd (myself included a couple of years back) that it was a nasty Cult designed to fish in young people and brainwash them into meaningless frenzy! Hahaha of course... now I know way, way better because I opened myself to the culture. Sean noted that a lot of the registered sign-ups were from either a business side of the yuppy community, or the creative/artistic side. He would overhear people saying that it's a nice dance... but why are they in Karate uniforms?? I think that the first thing you will see in Capoeira is that it isn't just a dance, or a martial art. It's often seen as some kind of Cult-orgymania... looks that way... but honestly? It's really a CULT --- Culture. Brazilian Culture. Now for the Obrigadas (deep thanks): To Mom and Gwen for coming... and pulling dad with them (much to my surprise, really)... and people I didn't expect to go---! Sean and Jac and Levis! LEVIS??!?! (I'll hold you to your promise ha! December!!) Sean saw me from a mile away and I saw Jac a mile away! I'm so glad you guys put some time out to watch the weird orgy that I got myself into!! Hahaha... I'm sure all you guys out there also tried to go but got turned off by the guy howling into the microphone! Hahaha... that was Fantasma, singing his heart out in Portugese. My mom said that she could hardly understand Fantasma's English hahaha... it does take some getting used-to. After that... Sean and I had dinner (where he had a potato-mania in Fuzion) and I was going into sugar-low. Haha... I promised Ge that I would take him to the after-party in Bugsy's place in Makati because I would probably get lost getting there and the newbies pretty much had a peer pressure going on to go. We talked about the names we got and what they mean and probably how we got them. Only Fantasma can do the names, after all. Hahahaha... here are a few for your entertainment: Dustin - he gets to be named after Shaggy (in portugese) as in Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. Tina - Estrella, meaning Star... well-said! Arlene - Flash Dance (some say that Fantasma thought that she was wearing dance clothes) Poch - Callabreza... Sausage (this earns him a round of puns and "how the heck did he get a name like that" jibes from the advanced guys... as to the real Why the heck he got a name like that... we'll ask... some other time) Samurai - I don't really know his first name! But he DOES look like a Samurai! (A LOST one too! This guy can NOT take directions... we did a convoy home and we got lost.) Kryon - he gets to be named "Black Belt"; in portugese since he used his black garrison belt to hold up his abada. We're not sure if that was a no-no. However... i suppose in the end it was better than the original idea... which was "Spaghetti"; in portugese. Hahahaha... I would have thought something to the like of ";Lamp Post"; or something. He's 6'3, underweight and still growing like a tree! One of my favorite friends to watch, especially when he's doing a cartwheel. Jenny - Chupete (pacifier) hehehe... cause she looks like a baby (or to Fantasma... once mistook her as HIS Baby... daw) Pauline - gets to be named after her Hair Drinie - is She-ra! Kris Tan - Sorvete (ice cream) clincher?-- Kris's sister - the cone (in portugese) cuuute! Mara - Girasod (no one knew what THAT was) Alexa - small smile (don't know the portugese) I guess more like "shy smile" cause that's just the way she does smile. me--?? Beju' -- this Brazilian White Cake that I can't seem to find a picture of in the internet! White Cake! (I feel like some discriminatory remark here... hey you white cake! Hey nigga!) ok ok, only negs get to call each other negs I think. Anyhow... in Capoeira, hehe I'm a treat. :)

Batizado -- Day 4

Today... I was early as heck. I left the office at around 5-ish and got there a little before 6. At least. People were there already... helping to distribute the freebies that the sponsors shelled out for the event. The Batizado giveaway consisted of some Dove products: 2 facial washes that will come in handy in the next few weeks, and my fave Dove body wash. Lucky! There were a couple of 10 percent off coupons from Chris sports (you have to buy something worth 1k though... So I'll think about that when I decide to buy myself one of those machines, or a sandbag... or a badminton racquet (bwahahaha). A cool Levi's tshirt, and a cute pink Havaianas keychain. The official Batizado tshirt came with, and even though it was labeled XS, it's obviously not girl-size. So imagine that the petite girls like Tina, Arlene, Chit, Pauline, Drinie...etc etc will be wearing jammies tomorrow. Oh well... knowing these kikay girls... they'll probably sport a knot in the front or something. It's the seamless kinda shirt so..... no telling where to actually modify it.

One of the highlights of the day is: I had STEAK. And not just the super cheapy kind either. Maya, Jhoanna and I left the office to have lunch at House of Mini's in Shangri-La. Except for the extremely, extremely, no-wonder-no-one-is-ordering-there, snooty and rude and unhelpful lady there... The regular, medium rare porterhouse swimming in gravy and butter hit the spot, and stopped the craving.

Best highlight of the day-- Big roda! Mestre Oscar sang the song he "wrote in 5 minutes" yesterday. We also revived some of the contestant's memorable (nakaka LSS) verses from EBC Idol yesterday. One of which is Zach's Escola Brasiliera de Capoeira, Camara.... Escola Brasiliera de Capoeira... and Aia's "VA va VA va VA... (something something something) yes, I have the lyric sheets here, but she's an accomplished singer, I can't type it out for the public. I already did them an injustice by copying 2 song mp3's from a friend. (I offered to pay them, but obviously it doesn't work that way... money has to pass through more hands than that) Anyway... I only got to play in the roda once. Which is good in a way... cause 1.) I wasn't wearing my abada, 2.) I was wearing my white bellbottoms. They're cute and all... but the flopsy ends are really not for martial arts. Albert and I finally had our rematch. This was way better than our last match... and even though I was just kicking my heart out (which will probably leave me wide open for take-downs tomorow) I need to bring up my defense and start on the combos. We played the Maculele as well... yikes... I pretty much forgot a lot of what we learned.

Mestre Ousado wants my Marie kitty keychain... awwwww. (Somehow I didn't see that coming) I'll see if there's one in Podium. Though I'm pretty sure that Marie would be one of the first few bottles taken since she's sooo cute and soooo white.

Yey! I got a pic with Mestre Ousado... I hope that I get more pics with the Mestres.. hehe.. yeah good luck with that... my phone cam is lousy. Since Mestre Ousado is getting a Marie kitty keychain, I briefly wondered what would be nice to give to the other Mestre's if ever. Sure, I'd love to part with the TMNT (MIP) from the Hardee's pitch... not sure what I could tell them... maybe I could tell them that the turtles are also doing Capoeira... see... Leonardo would definately be for Mestre Oscar for obvious leader-he made the school and all. Plus, Leo's somersault is almost as good as the Mestre's. Michelangelo would be for Mestre Pano. He likes his spinning on the floor tricks a lot. Mestre Ousado would probably be Donatello... you'd be surprised at what this guy could do, and Mestre Fantasma could be Raphael... since Raph is tossing his sai... we could pretend that's Fantasma's way of tossing you pointers. (Pointers, get it?)

Mom's birthday is on Sunday and someone already gave her cake. So.... should I get ice cream?? SANS RIVAL ICE CREAM!! Wooo!!!!! Gah.

Tomorrow's the big day. Wish me luck! :D Thanks! take care all... and drop by if you can.

Batizado Day3 - EBC Idol

I really hate the traffic now. Magpapasko na nga.

One of the event workshops for the Batizado is the EBC (Escola Brasiliera Capoeira) Idol. It's a corny name... that's probably why it stuck. Basically... you have to compose your own music. I like to think that I have a good compilation of the lyric sheets that the performers handed out so we could sing along. Everyone is invited to join this. The winner of this contest gets to pitch his or her song against all the other songs being made by all the other countries. Tha last guy who won was Bugboy. I'm not surprised... he's always usually singing in the roda, with the music while training... so if anyone had a good grasp of Capoeira music.. it would be him. Do we get to text in our votes? :D I'd vote for all of them! It takes a lot of courage to go up front, sing your heart out (karaoke voices, Capoeira roda singers, pro singers) in front of everyone.

If I could type out all the lyrics from them... my oh my. Powerful stuff. Johnny gave me the copies that he collected so I could keep it for us... till next year. (These lyrics will sure help with the translations from English to Portugese, or we could always take up lessons from Macaca.) Bugsy came up with something interesting though... It strikes me as like a school song. Why not? We ARE a school!! Go Bugboy!

My inner thighs are killing me! See what happens in the roda??? You just keep jumping, hopping, dancing for an hour and you wake up the next day feeling like you did a million jumping jacks or something. Putting pants on this morning was a challenge.

I've been ingesting banana loaf, banana and mango shake and bananas. My muscles are stiff, but they don't hurt as much. So... I conclude that the banana-potassium vs lactic acid experiment... well... probably helped.

More on food-- Oh-em-gee. Albert and Pia brought food to further celebrate his birthday. So there was Lasagna, barbecue, biko, that CAKE(!).. lasagna... so cheesy and soft and beefy and smooth. (2 helpings, and an eye on the cheesy pan) The chocolate cake was gone before anyone knew it. It was rumored that Ramon ate a candle on purpose. Why? Must have been Albert's birthday wish, I don't know. Tina, Kry and I only got around to asking him if he really did it. Mestre Pano (the real one, I'm sure this time) took a bite off the biko and sort of just... drifted away with a schooled expression. Albert said that they didn't like too much sweets... seeing that it was something familiar, rice... hmmm let's just say he didn't go for seconds.

I feel bad about work. I feel like I just want to go to work just so I could go to Capoeira. Hehe... Shhh! Planning to leave an hour and a half earlier just to get to MPC. Traffic sucks like never before. You'd think that people started giving out cars to anybody the way Edsa is. Tough! Take care you all.

Batizado-- Day 2

I was late a few minutes... darn Edsa traffic... you wouldn't believe it.

Again, it was Maestre Ousada who trained us today with the same series of practice exercises... the first one with the compasso missed me totally. My partner Chit and I tried it a few times but well... I think my feet were still flopsy. I didn't get it at all... Johnny tried to show it to me again... but well... it was off to the next practice set. It goes something like this: a compasso (to me, it still looks like a Turning Long Kick in TKD... but the Bug and a lot of others contest that thought... anyhoo...) defensive move would be to step into the compasso (right?), step backwards then switch foot. You end up BESIDE your opponent. How to do that in the roda is still beyond me.

Today... we had a really great roda! I played twice, once with Tina, then with Poch. Albert and I still have a rematch pending... and today's his BIRTHDAY!!! The guys gave him a roda-till-you-drop sesh (basically they just kept on challenging him) and the Maestre's even had their spin in the roda. WOW. Now if I had told you that Fantasma makes everything look easy and so fluid... these three big Ninja Turtles sure gave us all a run for our money! Master Pano (with a knee injury) still manages to take down a couple of the orange belters, spin on his head, flip around the roda and show us what a true Capoeirista could look forward to after 35 years of training. Thuuurteee-Fahyve yeeeers. Doesn't mean much? Yeah? He's 52 years old! He could be someone's granddad! Ye Gad! Here's a guy who does three moves so quick it looks like one of those skippy filmstrip. You blink and there he is. Rave! Rave! Rave! OH... and Maestre Oscar... Fantasma... but WAAAAY better! This is the guy who taught Fantasma (can't imagine a skinny, nerdy newbie kid-Fantasma... can you?) Fantasma looks at him with these starry eyes thing... he's the IDOL. Maestre Ousada however... loves his flips and take downs :D Gawd, and major application of all the stuff he's teaching! It's like barely touching the surface of what he can do.

The roda was around over an hour... I didn't even notice. I did notice that we were eating up the time for the advanced classes... but that was an hour?? I thought it was like... I dunno... 30 minutes or so... it was too quick! Must have been all that axe'! Axe' (who knows the shortkey to that e with the apostrophe on top?) is the energy in Capoeira. It's like what you feel when you're in a concert and the whole crowd is dancing, singing and begging for more. And the star of the concert is YOU. Y'know... if those energy-reading eyepieces from Dragonball are real... the roda will clock as something on it. I imagine that the roda is a circle of bright flame... like a huge, merry bonfire.

I borrowed "Only the Strong" cd from Ge... I don't think I'll be able to watch it tonight... something wonky with my cdrom. So here I am feeling all my muscles... eating bananas (I hear the potassium is good against the lactic acids... I just need to know how many more of this infernal yellow fruit I must eat!).

What I want:

- to be prepared for Saturday. We'll be in the Podium from 3pm-7pm, don't miss us. I hope that they would put out mats for us... I can't imagine doing stuff on the marble floor. I'm nervous as heck, but well... I think that's expected. Great... parking fees are gonna eat into my wallet too. :/

- to get the chiro to do my back again. I think this can wait till next week. I don't want him to mess with my back and mess up my game, I think this is a lot of muscle pain right here. I just want to have my spine realigned, my neck cracked. And I also want to buy some of those imported vitamins that he sells... they're really different. Why? There is a really lengthy explanation I'll type about some other time. It tends to get lecture-y.

- a full body massage using that Bath and Body works thingy with anti muscle ache formula... but again, this can wait till next week. Or a relaxing swim. I don't know how long it's been. It ought to be really cool, I can test my new arm strength or something.

- STEAK. Please, someone feed me! Feeeeeed meee! Wanna hug? GRAAAAHHH! I want a really juicy porterhouse steak dripping with gravy and a smattering of garlic bits on top... a little golden with butter and steaming hot on the plate... soft and chewy and so flavourful... I'm not asking for the gourmet stuff... Hotrocks is fine. I like their steak. Huge, affordable and they cook it like I like it.

- last but the most critical of all: NOT to do a Modess commercial. DAY of the month plus pristine white abada... multiplied by publicity. The girls out there all know how annoying it is that when you are expecting a big event... nuff said. >(

For tomorrow, part of the whole Batizado workshop is the singing contest. I just want to watch. Whoever wins gets to pit his or her song as the PH representative song against all those other Capoeira schools. One winner, lotsa prizes. Yeah, easy? It has to be in Portugese... you have to sing it in front of everyone (well, not that bad since we all sing and yell our hearts out in the roda anyway), and you have to use an instrument with it. My take on it? I can't even holler "Paranaue" and clap in rhythm! I have to skip every other beat when I'm yodeling to keep the axe' up.

Goodluck to the participants of the contest! :D

Now to stitch my new patch to my abada. (Yawn) toooooooooooommowow!

Batizado-- Day 1

We were introduced to three Maestres... The first was the guy who put up Escola Brasiliera Capoeria, Maestre Oscar. Then there was Maestre Pano, the guy who picked up the training today. The last guy's name didn't stick to me, I have to ask Ge for his name tomorrow.

If I'm not wrong, M' Pano taught in Singapore... and dropped by to do the Batizado with us. Well.. obviously he doesn't speak English a lot... but what the hey, we're all doing Capoeira here... no problem.

His warm up included all these practice moves... if you think about it.. it's not that hard at all... until you try and twist yourself and flop like a fish out of water. It's funny, I kid you not. Hey, that doesn't mean I enjoy sniggering at my fellow newbies... like I said before... I'm no gummy worm on the floor. I'm pretty glad that the first day was challenging, educational and just-right tough. There was all the usual stuff: ginga-to-death, ginga and do a practice... the 2-by-2 practice, and interestingly enough... the initial practice lines were actually practice for a couple of moves used in the 2 by 2's. Maestre Pano even found to time to grab my ankles and give me a good back stretch. (It's... not how you'd imagine, really.)

New stuff learned - you can do a whole bunch of half-way moves. M' Pano taught us a half-way au, and you land on a negacciva (ok, I can't spell the stuff yet), flip to the reverse side, role and you're great. There's also a nice bridge move from the negs you sort of cross over your nega leg and end up on a reverse bridge. Try to role out of that move and you get to execute a kick! (Of course yours truly couldn't get that leg high enough cause my huge arms are huge weak (berate berate berate)) Hmmm... he taught us a pretty take-down. I am thinking this should work better than the hastiera since you can't hardly get close enough or put enough shin power into a hastiera. This one involves you hooking your leg behind an outstretched leg, push the stomach in and kick back the leg. Splat. Unless your opponent has a pretty strong bridge get-up... it's all gleuteous maximus meeting the floor. Another thought I picked up while watching the advanced class... practice moving with the music... without stopping. It practices your flow in the game as well as keeping your balance since you're mostly going to do the ginga anyway. (Plus it must be a great workout) But hmhmhm... one of the things that you get to enjoy in Capoeira is the flow of movements that make it look like a dance. I suppose that's one important factor hehe you've got the music in it after all.

The bottom scruff of my toes are busted again... my muscles are aching... my knee feels funky... my wrist needs more support... my back seems to want to be cracked silly by that chiro-guy... I'm 1,200 bucks shorter because of those "get it now or never" EBC shirts (they're 600 bucks each... I guess SOMEone's making a living...) I am thinking... SERIOUSLY thinking of getting my own Berimbau (a stringed instrument we use in the roda to play music with) unless I find my own gourd, (?) piece of wood and the wire from my car's tires and make one myself! (As if). But it's 2,500 a pop... and I honestly don't have the money for that. Anyone out there ever tried using a coconut shell, rattan and the tire wire? Come on... the hammer is a pebble, and that could just as well be a barbeque stick... I might end up just making a cool Filipino musical instrument or something. I'm dry (but looking at that other tshirt)... I guess I'll have to find another racket, and soon! OOo... oooo... did I mention that they were also selling the colored pants (they're heavy, but just waaaay too cool!) these are 2,500 each also (or was that 2,700?). The Maestres also brought some books about Capoeira. Er... anyone notice that these are in Portugese? I felt like the guy in the Prestige... "Even if you had the cipher, it would take months to decode! We don't even know if the secret is here!" mwehehehe... I'll stick to my "(not so)Little Book of Capoeira" in the meantime. The next thing to do is probably learn Portugese and go to Brazil!!! Shopping after class... sigh* Like O said: I LOVE Money!

Poch, his friend and I had this fun talk in the car; they hitched with me on the way home (darnit I should've asked for money... tshirt! pants!). According to his friend... Alterations Plus can actually make you an abada, that is to say... if you're willing to cough up 1,500 a yard for the material (yeah that ought to cover a leg and a half), and have them experiment on the one that you bought from Brazil and try to do the 5-stich thingy themselves. According to this guy... your local mananahe's only have 2-3 stitch machines. So, good luck with that. The spandex should pretty much cover 2k, and the labor could go around 500, why not? All in all... just order from Fantasma and get it over with. He has them cool colored ones for an extra twoooo hoooonnered! Wouldn't it be a steal to have the cordeo color to match those pants, yes? Hahaha... I'm kidding!

Urgh... next workshop is on Wednesday. I hope I hope I hope it's this fun... Instructor Fantasma says that the main event is on Saturday, the Podium at 3pm. Eeeeek!!! I'm scared! I'm excited! I'm... what? To borrow my HK teammates' expression----- @.@;