Posts published during October, 2007

iBox Awards Night, 14k Productions, Lloyd of All Trades

I’ve somewhat envied how Broad Comm students promote and market their productions. Annually, as part of some of their courses’ curricula, they hold festivals, screenings and even awards nights. I’ve always thought Film student productions deserve as much attention. I don’t know, perhaps we Film students are oriented not to treat our works of art as commercially as broadcast productions.

I wasn’t expecting the publicity to go such a long way, but I heard the screening drew quite a crowd. If one of my blog entries is an indicator, it seems some UP bloggers even got to see it. It gets pretty weird when, days after the screening, random people ask if I’m Lloyd. Whew. Perhaps it was because of that shot.

When Lloyd of All Trades was being screened last October 5, I intentionally missed the three show times. I was not confident enough to show up among the audience and watch myself on screen. And perhaps I was not ready to witness how audiences would react, especially with that embarrassing butt-exposure scene.

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Tisay's second birthday party

We held a birthday party last September 30 for Tisay’s second birthday. It was a buffet lunch in our place in Sta. Maria, Bulacan for our relatives and my parents’ friends and neighbors. During her first birthday, we held two gatherings. One in Bulacan and a KFC kiddie party in our relatives’ place in Amadeo, Cavite. You may see pictures from her first birthday here.

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Long time no blog. Let me cut the backlog a bit with this.

Last September 28, Friday, we held one of our last mobilizations for the semester. It was a simultaneous rally with students from different UP units while the Board of Regents meeting was being held the same time in UP Los Banos.

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Please bear with the lack of updates. I’m just slugging it out with the heap of final output requirements for this semester. Then, its on to more tasks for the semestral ‘break’. I just saw some pictures from friends in La Salle who graduated a semester ahead of everyone else. Sometimes, I honestly can’t wait till I graduate myself, just because… um. That’s it. I want to rant but I feel so restrained. People from all spheres of my life from old friends, to new friends, to orgmates, to brods, to family and relatives, to people around me who I don’t exactly know–they all read this blog.

POST-SCRIPT: Dear blog, you have betrayed me. For years, you were always there when I needed to rant and to let off some steam. Now that you’re older, and more popular, you’re role as my venue for various intimate personal expressions is no more.

Paso Robles vineyards

June 2, 2007. As we continued our drive south, the landscaped had changed from seaside mountains to rolling meadows of grass and vineyards. After a couple of hours of driving through Highway 1, we ended up in Paso Robles. We went to J. Lohr winery along Airport Road where my parents and my aunt went wine-tasting. Unlike in Napa Valley, my aunt attests, wine tasting in Paso Robles is free.

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June 2, 2007. Before leaving San Simeon and continuing with our long drive south to Los Angeles, we decided to visit Hearst Castle, a vast, vast estate used to be owned by one of America’s most affluent, controversial and influential aristocrats, William Randolph Hearst, who made a vast fortune with his controversial newspapers and tabloids.

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Posters of Lloyd of All Trades seem to have been plastered on numerous bulletin boards around UP. And I’ve been getting quite some attention from some people. I wish my BC 130 friends chose a more flattering picture, hehe. Oh well, I don’t think there is much I can expect on how humiliating I look when I’m wearing tight jeans and holding a feather duster and a make-up brush. I’ve also seen the pre-final cut when they asked me for a final dubbing session. As always, I cringe when I see myself on screen, it borders disgust sometimes. It’s like I don’t recognize myself. For what it’s worth, at least the butt exposure part was just less than a second. Whew!

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Bikoy being emo along Highway 1

June 1, 2007. The next day, from Campbell, we drove down and entered California’s Highway 1 to Southern California, renowned to be one of the most scenic drives in the United States.

Boy, it was a long, long drive down south to the Los Angeles area. The scenery are indeed scenic but it can get quite boring after a while, since you drive through the same picturesque scenes for hours on end.

First, we drove through zigzagging roads on seaside redwood-covered mountains. After more than five hours on the road, we stopped by this seaside area in the middle of nowhere where there were giant elephant seals lying on the beach. As with areas near the coast it was really windy and cold.

along California's Highway 1

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