Cracker nuts

Tuesday. Past five in the morning. I was reminded of how people can be genuinely good to you.

We were shooting in Pasong Tamo, near the Unitel stu, when I got a call and was told I had to deliver a form and its photocopies to Ortigas in two hours. Was urgent, I sensed it in the caller’s voice, so I dropped everything and told my friends I’d have to run an errand. Will come back, sorry sorry, and they were like, we’re used to it. Nice people.

So then, I thought, where do I photocopy the form at five in the morning? Took a chance and went to Le Office, which is two blocks away. I think I woke the guards up. I expected a no, wala, sorry sir, sarado pa, walang tao. Instead they opened the editorial floor and helped me in looking for a machine. Pero wala talaga, so we searched in each corner of each floor. We found one in the merchandise office at the lobby, or whatever it’s called, and the guards insisted that they photocopy for me.

As the machine made ten, eleven, twelve copies of the form, the light that it emanated was gradually overwhelmed by the glow coming from the nearest glass window. The sun was rising.

Made my day.

Foxfire

So schedule’s pretty much the same. Absolutely no free time to sit down and read good books, or to take long walks.

The shoot in CSB’s School of Design and Arts Building last Tuesday was a breather, even if I was running the whole time.

I screwed up school this week—and this sounds like an excuse, but the stuff that the classes require need an average of two full days of work. Meanwhile, I wing home works in 30 minutes. Churning out decent stuff is easy, sure, but this sem, decent just ain’t good enough.

TV Writing’s a blur—Straight out of closing our pages in the office, I tried to work on the 30-sec TVC project. Ended up doing a whole concept proposal and storyboard in a sad 20-minute break before breakfast. Sad, because the quality that I passed that morning wasn’t me.

TV Performance is just boring me big time. Haven’t we done ALL these last sem in TV Prod/Direction?

Bahasa 10 + BC 196 + BC 185 don’t really exist. Sabi nga ng ermitanyo sa ultra-sucky Burger Boys, “Ang lahat ay ilusyon. Isa lamang guni-guni.”

Prod Design class is ok—pretty standard—pero I have to give props to the prof for trying to make an effort. J101 is clearly the best class because Mam Chua’s awesome.

Still on the to-do list: Maraming maraming org work!!, another shoot, two midterm papers, a report, finalize module design, collaborate/write for a book for Botary (thanks, Daryl, haha), shoot a football game, another piece for the magazine, and watch Saksi for class. I am not looking forward to the last one.

Thankfully, there are a jillion other things that make life gooood.