i was smoking in the pit when i saw alice walk over to the gameplan area. shit, buti na lang may kasama pala ako dito sa office. i thought that i was all alone, and it's pretty spooky here, too. i want to finish my oakley spiels, but i'm getting really sleepy. remember, i haven't really slept since wednesday. watched quark's movie, edited spiels at 3am, shot alvin at 9am, shot rex at 1pm, edited spiels for assembly and cured macau. God, what was i running on? whatever it was, it's gone now i'm fading.

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quark's movie has already earned 5 million bucks! oh my God!

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albert, jm, and love of the probe team watched gamitan and they loved it! oh, and so did ramil! he's quark's newest fan. :) and his favorite line is, "kantutin mo ako..." haha! pervert.

before i go back to editing my oakley spiels, i just want to say... look at this 6-legged monster! isn't he the cutest?!?!

i told joepi last tuesday, "i wish i had a boyfriend who was baduy enough to buy me a huge stitch doll!!!" "don't we all," she said. hay. i'll just have to buy one myself!

i think i'm getting my second wind this afternoon. that's good because i still have to finish my edits by 8pm. wait a minute, i was sleepy the whole day. so this is just my first wind for the day. i need a coke.

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i finally interviewed alvin patrimonio this morning. by some miracle, he spoke more today. i still can't believe i had to introduce myself as andrea. long story, big secret, chuva. anyway, his new sport besides basketball and golf is tennis! cool! so we interviewed him in the valle 3 tennis court and we shot some sitners of him playing a game with his 12-year old son, angelo. now dig this! alvin and his wife cindy want to get their son into the tennis national team. in order to motivate him, they offer a prize evey time he beats alvin in a full game. ok, that kind of sounds normal, right? but this is where the the megabuck alvin personality comes in. the first time angelo won, he got a new tennis racket. fine. that's a practical prize for an aspiring tennis player, right? the second time he won, he got a cellphone. and not just any cellphone. a 5810! the yucky one that looks like a ps controller! that's pretty expensive. and today, the prize at stake was a pentium 4 upgrade. oh my God! "kaching-kaching" just kept on ringing in my head! i don't know who won, and i'm not sure if that's the right way to motivate a young athlete. but...man! ain't that the rich life! i want to win a new motherboard, too!!!

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my wygp? shoots with rex navarrete are finally over. just shot him doing some judo with the ust judo team and he was really good! unbelievably good for a 33-year old who hasn't sparred in a dojo for ages! and i like the fact that he got in the zone. i love that zone! your face changes and it looks like your eyes are burning under those angry eyebrows. i was very impressed with rex. and i must say that he looks really funny doing the cartwheels. heehee!

but what really touched me was audie's comment on the shoot. he said that this was the best rex shoot he has had here in the philippines. it's a completely different side of rex, a side that not everybody gets to see (it was his first time to see rex in fighting mode), and it's really cool. "this shoot makes him more human," he said. i didn't know what to say. i admitted that the judo gig was rex's idea, but audie still told me that my profile is still going to bring out a more human rex, and that's what makes my shoot the most unique of all.

you can imagine the pressure i'm feeling right now. my output has to be good. my fucking 2-minuter on a comedian with a very quiet, seriuos, and aggressive side has to be really good! shit. this isn't funny anymore. i'm getting hungry.

something from nancy pizarro. syempre, i'm the one who read aloud for everybody and it really cracked us up, even mizz alizia herself! what a great way to lighten up the day.
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You must read this aloud (for the full effect). Just say any unfamiliar words phonetically. It's amazing, you will understand what 'tendjewberrymud' means by the end of the conversation. This has been nominated for best
email of 1999. The following is a telephone conversation between a
hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia. The call was recorded and later published in the Far East Economic Review. Here goes....

Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"
RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs"
RS: "Ow July den?"
G: "What??"
RS: "Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?"
G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."
RS: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"
G: "Crisp will be fine."
RS : "Hokay. An San tos?"
G: "What?"
RS: "San tos. July San tos?"
G: "I don't think so"
RS: "No? Judo one toes??"
G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means.
RS: "Toes! Toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow english mopping we bother?"
G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine.
RS: "We bother?"
G: "No...just put the bother on the side."
RS: "Wad?"
G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G: "Sorry?"
RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"
G: "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."
RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bot her honey sigh, and copy....rye??"
G: "Whatever you say"
RS: "Tendjewberrymud"
G: "You're welcome."

this has to be the funniest thing i've ever read about someone's birthday:
"...that fateful daybreak in August when Ramon first poked his head out of his mother's womb, and smirked, unimpressed at what he saw."
- neva

i swear, they're meant to be together.

just finished my oakley spiels audiobed and velo effects. i also did that fade to black for macau. shit, i'm getting so sleepy. but i've a shoot at 9am, ct is 8am, and if i sleep, i'll wake up at 11am. aaaaargh! plus i've another shoot at 1pm. then ASSEMBLY!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

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i just watched GAMITAN a few hours ago. it was great! fresh, violent, pornographic, cheesy, funny, shocking. i thinks that's the best word for it...shocking. i hope that people get shocked. i hope the mtrcb gets shock. shock the masa, shock the industry, shock the country. man, quark's great! i'm so proud of him. he, along with the rest of our generation of young filmmakers, has a chance to turn this industry around. it will certainly take a few years before that happens, but some shocking material every now and then will do. it'll open people's minds to the possibilities in philippine film, and it'll give them more choices in the movie scene. bold here, action there...ah, here's something new! well, something like that.

i love this pic of quark. heehee! anyway, a lot of voices are still talking in my head.
chris: it's motherfucking great!
ramon: haha! kasalanan natin 'to! pack!
neva: don't touch my boobs!
lavin: nakahiga, naka-side, nakatayo, pareho pa rin yung boobs niya!
alia: ms. manalo!
ernan: watch u want!
mich: dot com dot ph!!!
mo: come what may...
jofab: oy, raver!
doranne: raver!!!
tito atom: that girl?!?! she looked like a man!
lia: aren't the balloons cute? i'm such a good girlfriend!
quark: wala, wala. haha! sniff. wala. thanks...

what a happy night. :)

plus! the costello twins passed the board!!! woohoo!

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and hello horrible thursday. shit. my output had better be good.

all i could find was this really ugly "S2pid Luv" picture of maui, but what the hell.

GAMITAN opens today!!! directed by quark henares (quarkipoo, darling dear, steeg!). starring maui taylor (the fhm gerbil!), patricia javier (need i say more?), wendell ramos (mr. hubog taxi driver with the fake gun.), and jordan herrera (who are you?). i'm exctied. i wonder how many pedophiles are going to be at rockwell tonight?

all i wish...is that this movie is more than just another bold film. go, quark, GO!

just some stuff i found pretty amusing. wow, i seem to have so much time this morning.
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"I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was,
'You'll never find anyone like me again!' I'm thinking, 'I should hope
not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?'
--Larry Miller

"A woman broke up with me and sent me pictures of her and her new
boyfriend in bed together. Solution? I sent them to her dad."
--Christopher Case

"Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat
it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they
should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and
before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."
--Bob Ettinger

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say
because it's such a ! beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is
attractive, but I have photographs of her."
--Ellen DeGeneres

"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You
know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a
psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have
to kill you too."
--Jake Johansen

"My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the
lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to
teach you how to swim.'"
--Paula Poundstone

oooh! i got this from ramon's blog and it really made my day. i'm proud to be a member of the working force! *left eyebrow*
thanks, ramon!

Conan O'Brien's 2000 commencement speech at Harvard:
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/archive/00ja/ja00.conan.html

yes! cinemanila 2002 was extended!!! okay, i've only seen Hotel. yeah, it was really interesting, but i still don't know if i really like it. interesting doesn't necessarily mean likeable. maybe if i watch it again IN THE DAY TIME, i'll like it more. that's what you get for watching a 2-hour 15-minute movie during the 1145pm showing!

anyway, the new sked is only until the 19th. so far, my picks are No Man's Land; Fast Food, Fast Women; Central Station; and the Following. hopefully, i'll find time to watch the others as well. dang, i just want to veg out and watch tv/ movies all day. argh, and i still have to finish Narnia so that i can move on to LOTR and A Series of Unfortunate Events.

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meanwhile, i realized yesterday that my monitor at home is missing. nyah!!! my 4-year old monitor finally conked out on me, and it's presently with my mom's boyfriend. i doubt that he can fix it up, though. that thing's dead! shit, now i've to save money for a new monitor. i can see all the gimmicks and movies that i'll in the next few months...

pining is so selfish.

argh, i wanna put pictures in this thing!!! help!!!