It's what tests every young married couple: planning for the weekend. Husband wants to go to one place, wife needs to go to another. But they figure things out, and it all works for the best in the end. It's not always rainbows and butterflies it's compromise that moves us along ika nga ni pareng Adam.
The LLDD-Hyphen-L and I faced just such a dilemma last weekend. On the one hand, ComiCon was in town, and I was eager to bring the LLDD-Hyphen-L there to show all the geekfans I met last year that - See! Told you I have a wife! It can be done, I TELL you!!! This year's ComiCon, however, also fell on the same weekend as MOABF (Mother of All Barrio Fiestas) as well as the wedding of a friend of the LLDD-Hyphen-L from back home.
It would've been a real shame to sacrifice attending any of these events, so the LLDD-Hyphen-L and I immediately worked out a schedule: we'd reserve the whole of Sunday for the wedding, request the Saturday afternoon embassy-shift at MOABF, and start off at ComiCon early Saturday morning (I learned from last year that geekfans are an early rising bunch. In fact, ticket prices to ComiCon are twice as expensive at 9.00 a.m. as they are at 11.00 a.m! Late-night afterparties are out of the question for ComiCon goers, I suppose =)
It was potentially a tricky situation, but actually easily resolved by keeping sight of the benefits of each activity. For ComiCon, of course, there was the opportunity to see the world's best-loved superheroes -- the LLDD-Hyphen-L, for instance, got to rub up against no less than Spiderman. . .
That better be his spider-sense that's tingling
. . .while I got the chance to ogle all the fans dressed as Wonder Woman.
Not as much of a thrill as I first thought
Going to MOABF, in turn, was as much a responsibility as a choice as the Embassy traditionally sets up a tent and gets all consular-y for the duration of the event. It's essentially working-on-a-weekend, made worthwhile by the great food, the festive atmosphere, and all the fantastic kababayans you get to meet.
Some of whom also came straight from ComiCon, apparently
As for the Fil-Brit wedding of the LLDD-Hyphen-L's friend, well, the bride and groom already had me when they entered the wedding hall to the tune of Spandau Ballet's "True", but it was their escalatingly epic videoke wedding reception that blew me away. First off, the Pinoy chef comes out of the kitchen in the midst of his cooking to emotionally serenade the couple to the tune of Air Supply's "I'm All Out of Love". Of course he does.
Then, a demographic that you normally don't associate with rap, well, raps.
Later, a kid channeling Michael Jackson somehow makes "My Girl" his own.
Things then come to a head when the Best Man belts out a face-melting rendition of "Living on a Prayer"
And everything is neatly wrapped up when the elders get their groove on.
Such awesomeness. The lesson to every husband out there: never fear the weekend events. Turn off the TV, dust the potato chips off your lap, get off the couch and get yourself to every geek gathering, barrio fiesta and - above all - videoke wedding reception that you can find. See you there!
It's a date!
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