even without Mudra's permission yet, i had already decided to post this. my writer-friends and co-fellows in this year's UP National Writers' Workshop had another blast last saturday in which i was unfortunately absent. anyhoo, here's Mudra's (brilliant fictionist Janet Villa) email account on playing Taboo:

We played Taboo til kingdom come -- you know that game where you're supposed to describe the word to your teammates but there are some terms that are taboo, terms that you cannot use. Here are snippets of our game:


Sem (trying to describe PLATINUM): This is better than gold!
Rebecca (shouting): SEX!


U: This is what I'll never find!
Gelo: LOVE!!! [Aba, it turns out, tama si Gelo! The word really was
"love!" The boys got the point.]


U (describing SADDLE to his teammates): Assholder!! Assholder!!
Assholder!
His teammates: (confused, siyempre) Chair?
U (getting more incensed and raising his palms to cup the air):
Assholder!! Assholder!!


U (nagmamarunong, after Gelo found it difficult to describe SALMON):
Dapat sinabi mo, Gelo, "Blank Rushdie."
[O, di ba? Ang galing ng anak ko?]


U (describing FINGER): F**k you! F**k you!
Gelo: Whaaa?
U: This is what you use when you F**k you! F**k you!


Mudra (describing POEM): This is what Gelo writes!
Eleanor: Poetry?
Someone (I forgot who): Trash?

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you guys wont sue me for posting this here, no? i really wish i were with you. sigh.