Behind the lens again...

Yesterday, after what seemed an eternity, we head off to the distant urban jungle on the borders of Pasig and Cainta to shoot this guy. Tired and lost amidst the nauseating hot pink and electric blue MMDA overpasses, bridges and male urinal booths, we braved the Marikina, Antipolo and Cainta traffic. Just thought I'd put this down. :-D

Later...

"B" is for Boredom

I'm not really the type of person that makes plans for myself (except maybe for work, which I take very seriously). When it comes to work, I would like it to be more or less predictable. Predictable in the sense that I follow a sort of time table or schedule (or some semblance of it). But when it comes to personal time, I like to keep it open. So when something comes up, I could make a decision right away. The downside of it though is when nothing comes up. Then I'd have to think of something to do. And there are a million things to do. Problem is, I couldn't think of anything. :-(

I was going through my dvd and vcd collection and I couldn't find anything that I felt like watching. Before I left the office I thought that I'd start drawing again, something like a-drawing-a-day sort of thing. So I brought home my sketchbooks and my pens and pencils so I could do a drawing for tonight. But I really didn't feel like doing that either.

While having dinner, I turned on the TV. I don't have cable cause I find it impractical to have it (and did I mention that I used to have cable? No? Well I did. Paid the cable guy off with the joining fee and he got me connected permanently... Well not really, but I did enjoy it for a little over a-year-and-a-half ;-)). Since I usually go home late at night and i'm more often than not too tired to do anything else but sleep. So i had to make do with my indoor antenna. I surfed whatever channels the TV was getting. Channel 2 had really bad reception, there was hardly any picture and the dialog were only murmurs. Channels 5 and 7 were coming in faintly. Channel 9 looked fairly ok as well as channel 11 and 21. The only channels that were coming in loud and clear were channels 23 and 41 (MTV).


On Oprah:
I really don't have that much to say about Oprah since I don't really watch it... In fact, I rarely watch TV. Anyway, I just found out that the episode I saw was an old one which was about Tatum O'Neal's explosive (Oprah kept repeating that, "explosive" to the point of irritating...) confessions.


On American Idol:
I've always been wondering what all the fuss was about. I mean I've seen the audition videos and that William Hung guy's video circulating around in e-mail. I'd have to admit, it was very entertaining (or was it because I watched the finals with all the celebrities and stuff?).


On Chicks with guitars:
Just what is it about chicks with guitars? Don't you think that a girl playing guitar is hot, or is it just my fetish? I caught an old Jewel Kilcher video and Sade's Cherish The Day video (she was playing guitar in that one) on MTV and... Oh my... *breaks out in sweat* And on Inquirer TV, they did a story on the indie music scene and I think Aia of Imago is really purrrty.

That's too much TV for one night. Now back to our regular programming...

Murphy's Laws

After a week-long hiatus (read: a week-long DVDmarathon with occassional bathroom breaks), I finally got to catch up with sleep and doing practically nothing, which is a welcome thing since me and KV had our noses buried in tons of corrections and revisions, re-corrections and re-revisions of a project that started in November of last year. Its been passed on from Kat to KV around late February and she had been learning the ropes from then. And it has been our nightmare for the past several months.

Just when I thought it was finally over (I mean given that we weren't pressuring the supplier to deliver on a close-to-impossible date and we were just relying on their 5-day delivery guarantee), it wasn't. My cover girl looked like lechon and I did NOT like it one bit. And so did the client, of course.

I wouldn't really want to get into the details. It doesn't really deserve to even be remembered.

It's something I don't really subscibe to or actually believe in it but Murphy's Law seems to have a way of actually happening. Other than that or its just pure bad luck.

MURPHY'S LAWS

1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
10. Mother nature is a bitch.
11. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
12. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
13. Every solution breeds new problems.

Honestly, I think it's just superstition. And I think Murphy's an optimist. ;-)

Finally... (I hope...)

I get to go home today. I get to sleep tonight, on my bed. At home.

But I'm not quite happy about it. My water supply got cut off. Building administration's way of extorting association due payments from hardworking citizens like me. At least yesterday I had a full bucket stored. But I used all of it when I took a much needed dump.

Oh well, out from one hell hole and into another. Its probably not my day. Or the whole past couple of weeks for that matter. I'll probabaly just treat myself to a new pair of sneaks when we put this effing magazine that we've been working on since God-knows-when to print.

I'm looking forward to sleep though. and if ever I couldn't, at least I'd have DVDs to keep me company. One's a macho movie, a chick-flick and a comic-book-to-movie adaptation. And I get to play with this while watching... :)

Perhaps it's not that all bad.

Flesh & Blood Nightmare

This is what has been keeping me awake for the past week. My living nightmare. If I had a voodoo knife set I would name it after this and cure myself of this sleeplessness...

WTF?!?*(^))(^&*^%(*&%*(&%&*(%

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Mother's Day

Finally got to get some sleep after those "lamay" nights. How I wish that was the end of it but unfortunately, we had to go back on Sunday evening to finish all the effing work. Sunday is a much needed and welcome break.

Got home around midnight so I guess that's technically Sunday already. I was hoping I'd be sleepy enough to just plop on my couch-slash-bed but I wasn't. I brought home Alexandria's "company" ECS hoping I could do some of my Kamiseta layouting on it despite the "slowness." I was supposed to re-format it anyway so that's what I did. I couldn't just stare and wait for the machine to finish reformatting and have Windows installed so I popped-in a borrowed DVD from Ral. Then I got sleepy.

Woke up around 7AM. Windows was done installing. Did a bit of multi-tasking installing the other programs while watching the parts I missed on the DVD I was watching. When all that was done, I took a very welcome cold shower which definitely woke me up. Got dressed, packed up and went on my way home.


Alexandria's newly formatted and setup ECS


Sceenshot of Alexandria's ECS. Weird? :)


Texted my sister to tell her that I was on my way home. Texts me back that dad wanted me to come home first and have lunch before going to the mall. When I'm almost in Alabang, I text my sister to tell her I'm almost here and asks her if I should still go home. She texts back for me to go to the mall.

It was effing hot! I could feel a vein at the back of my head throbbing. Like it was about to blow. I hurried getting to the mall 'cause it felt like I was going to die out there in the sun. I had to cool down. Texted my sister that I was going to wait for her in Starbucks and I ordered one of my current favorite drinks. Effing expensive but I believe I deserve it.


So my sister arrives. We chat a bit. She tells me that mom and dad decided that they didn't want to go to the mall anymore. I thought we were going to have a Mother's Day lunch out or something like that but they finally decided that they'd buy two lechon manoks and just eat lunch at home. Found out too late.

Decided not to go home anymore. The heat is going to kill me. Went to my lola's instead. My Tito Mike's home from Belgium and I was supposed to see him the day before but I got stuck at work (for several effing reasons). Caught up on sleep when I got to my lola's. Stayed there till dinner. Exchanged stories with Tito Mike a bit and left at around 9 PM. The end of my otherwise "uneventful" weekend.

Texted KV that I was on my way to the office. Now I'm here. Back to reality. God help us. *sigh*