We watched our footages for our short film in Film 113 with our instructor this morning. Admittedly, I’m a little disappointed myself, primarily because one of our sequences was missing and most of the rest were somewhat damaged because of the film spool accident. The missing footage, by the way, had been cut from the entire reel during its processing without us knowing. Anyway, I’m generally satisfied with the things we have learned.

After viewing our footages, Eka and I went off to Rina’s place. Before we got to leave UP though, we stopped along University Avenue and stayed to watch the cranes herons egrets peck and fly in the field in front of our college building. They were amusing, though these migratory birds fly off whenever we got near. It’s nice to feel that in the middle of a polluted metropolis, our university is a (safe) haven for such wildlife.

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Nakakainggit ang mga kaibigan kong tapos na ang lahat ng requirements for the first semester.

After spending the morning online, leisurely and academically, then spending an hour or so at the library, I went to Roadrunner’s post-production facility along Tomas Morato this afternoon with Eka, Patti (Lapus) and Kay (Raynera) to have our film rushes from Film 113 go through telecine. It was my first time inside the facility. I’m amused. I wish I’d learn some of the stuff they do in there, someday. Or, someday, I wish we’d own our own post-production facility. Big dreams.

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Kim (Tan) celebrated her 19th birthday yesterday. We all had dinner at Chocolate Kiss last night.

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It appears that I am getting off from school later than most of my peers. Let’s see, while others are already on semestral break, I still have a Communication Research 101 (CR 101) paper due next week, a CR 101 exam, Mr. Avecilla’s traditional marathon film viewing for Broadcast Communication 100 (BC 100) on Friday and an exam on the same subject on Monday next week.

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Yesterday, for our final class exhibit for Conceptual Photography class, I decided to put up a shrine for our president. I appropriated a really nice picture of her during her inauguration where she actually looks like a saint, with the presidential seal behind her head. I retouched the photograph a bit to make Ms. Gloria glow more and then I enlarged it. I hung it over the lobby of Ishmael Bernal gallery then placed a table in front. I also brought in some flowers and some eggs as an offering. I left the gallery for a while to attend to other errands, but when I came back later that afternoon, the eggs were gone. They had been thrown at the portrait. What the hell? This is supposed to be a shrine! Geez. UP students can be so disrespectful nowadays. Imagine, I had to clean all goo that before I left school. Shame!

Wooh! High school. I’ve been hopping around Multiply a while ago and I came across this scanned copy of one of our class pictures from my high school classmate, Raf Dionisio’s page. Props to who can spot me.

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We need your help.

My Communication Research 101 group needs participants for a focus group discussion for our final term paper. If you’re below twenty-five years old, currently living, staying or studying in Metro Manila, and watches films in commercial cinemas at least once every three months, you might be who we need… We will provide your transportation (depends) and food, and something extra (don’t expect much, we are just students). Please do email me or leave a comment below if you’re interested. We will appreciate it. I hope to see you.

I’m rarely in pictures, because everyone expects me to be the one taking pictures. But then, thanks to other friends who also have cameras, like Patty Lazatin, I get to be in pictures once in a while.

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Another thing that kept me busy the past weeks was acting for my friends’ live drama and comedy productions for their TV production classes. Hm, now that I’ve come to think of it–I probably spent more time rehearsing, memorizing lines and attending pictorials and live shoots than attending to my own, well, academic requirements. All’s well though. I actually enjoy this kind of thing and it’s not as if I neglected all my other responsibilities. It’s just a matter of time management. No pictures, unfortunately.

Student council and ‘political’ affairs also kept me busy the past few weeks. Unfortunately, I don’t have much pictures to show. Or much details to spill.

In celebration of Mass Media Awareness Month (MMAM), the student council held a handful of events the past weeks. I’m in charge of all the publicity so the past weeks, I have been doing layouts, printing and reproducing posters for all the different events and I have been posting them all around UP every few days. I will confess though, that due to many other commitments and other circumstances, yes, I wasn’t able to give my publicity duties my fullest attention. The exposure life of the posters is another story. A mere two days after I went all around UP to post, they’re all gone.

MMAM is done now. I can now breathe a sigh of relief and disappointment. Rants and apologies will be reserved for a council assessment and meeting.

Post-Script: I actually have a few pictures here.

These two were from some interaction activity the college administration asked us to organize for Korean exchange students in our college. So this is not really part of the Mass Media Awareness Month gimmick.

The first picture is of Max’s helping me put up publicity posters for our concert event. The next one’s from the Media Summit we hosted for high school students.