• funny,  Love/Life

    On awkwardness: Ballet fails and learning to sing

    For those of us who were kids in the early 90s in Metro Manila, one of the few things you could do during the summer was either 1. take ballet lessons at SM for girls, or 2. take taekwondo lessons at SM for boys. I was a hyperactive child, and my mother really wanted to burn that energy out in the summer, so she enrolled me in the ballet lessons girls were supposed to take at the time. It was a mistake. She recalls that every time she picked me up, she would see the whole class all lined up in the front of the class while I was in…