Family Fotos with Michael Jackson, Superman and a Whale! (or fish, family, floods, and famous people!)

Weekends… usually we’ve got things lined up, but this weekend we’re at home.

pan-seared tuna

My very first car, Toyota Corolla SR, drowned by the flood last year

That’s given my blogging beauty queen wife, Joyce Burton-Titular, and myself the time for one of our favorite things… cooking! (check out this simple, healthy, and really great tasting dish we made; it’s on my food blog, Buff Food for Food Buffs .  Try making yourself some pan-seared tuna sashimi!)

It’s also given us time to do one of the things we dread doing… cleaning up!  hahaha!  Believe it or not, we’re still working out some issues from last year’s Ondoy flood! … Getting my old red Toyota ready for junking… dealing with parquet pieces still popping out, targeting painting needs… and lots of sorting through papers and stuff!

Michael Jackson in Davao

Superman in Davao

As Joyce was organizing her desk she came across these family pics!


… one day the wax museum came to Davao while we were living there in the early 90’s where the kids (they were kids then!) got to pose with Michael Jackson….


















and Superman!
































In 1998 Joyce and I got to attend the NAB in Orlando.  Afterwards we took the train cross-country and were able to visit my oldest brother Bob Titular and sister Rachel Moreno and their families… here’s a pic of us at Sea World!

The Titulars and Morenos at Sea World circa 1998. left-right: Ron Titular, Jazmine Titular, Rhea Moreno, Rachel Moreno, Margie Titular, Josh Titular, Bob Titular, Ryan Moreno, Ricky Moreno. middle: the killer whale. below: Joyce Burton-Titular

Nothing like Sea World in the Philippines… well, not back in the day… but we did have Enchanted Kingdom to go to!  Here’s a pic with us and Ric’s family… well almost… this was before sweetie Robin was born

The Titulars at Enchanted Kingdom circa early 2000. left-right: ron titular, joyce burton-titular, diandra zach, wolf, arlene belan-titular, rikki titular, ric titular, mikko titular

Read Full Post »

Diandra Zach Stars as ZEN in the play “Amnexia”

Diandra Zach with the evil slave mistress Madame Dama of Amnexia played by Maries Rebucas

When Diandra got chosen to play the lead role in “Amnexia” one of the showcases of her PETA Summer Theatre workshop, I was thrilled!  It was something I was praying for; I told her that if she, number one – built good relationships with the people in the workshop, number two – got really active in the exercises and number three – used criticim to improve herself, she might just nab the lead role. AND SHE DID!

Scroll down to watch “Amnexia”.

IMHO, my daughter Diandra Zach ALREADY has the pretty face and the raw talent for acting but that’s just not good enough. You need good relationships with the people in the industry and you have to be constantly improving your craft through workshops, auditions and acting jobs.

Zen (Diandra Zach) gets her heart broken by Johnny Barako played by Christopher Abaya

A heart-broken Zen (Diandra Zach) contemplates on suicide...

Now in this particular acting job, Diandra plays the role of Zen – a rich girl from the planet Sulata who was dumped by her hunk of a boyfriend. After contemplating suicide, Zen makes a rebound when she meets Rusty online through interplanetary internet. Rusty is a call center agent on the slave planet of Amnexia.

Scroll down to watch Amnexia.

On a lark, Zen flies off to Amnexia to see him in person only to find out that love life is banned on Amnexia by the slave mistress of the planet who controls all Amnexian call center agents with her whip and screeching voice. The god of the planet, Lord Gaia shows up to punish the lovers and he turns out to be Zen’s father.

Lord Gaia (who manifests himself as a shiny topless guy in rollerblades) lets Zen go but locks up Rusty. Zen figures out a way to break Rusty out of jail and together they take control of the planet and to save not just their love life but also the lives of all the enslaved call center agents on Amnexia.

Amnexia's God, Lord Gaia (John Hoffman, left) faces off with Zen (Diandra Zach, middle) and Rusty (Aaron)

Congratulations to my beautiful Diandra Zach and her workshop classmates for a successful presentation.

Amnexia is the brianchild of Aaron (if you know his last name please drop a comment) who wrote the play with the help of his batchmates in the PETA Theatre I Batch 2010.  The complete mini-play “Amnexia” is available on this post, just scroll down…

Cast of "Amnexia"

Diandra with boyfriend and BFFs - L-R Migo, Diandra Zach, Jeng and Ia

Diandra makes her entrance in the video below:

Read Full Post »