Friday, October 30, 2009

why i hate you

they say that in dreams, we process our emotions, resolve our personal issues. i wish i could dream of you. i wish i could work it out within myself why i hate you SO much.

but now i've decided not to wait for my subconscious to resolve this pet peeve for me. kung alam mo lang how bitter i am, for reasons that my conscious mind cannot exactly pinpoint at the moment. basta alam ko lang, pag nababanggit ka, something negative stirs in me. i'm dampened, no matter how happy i am. like a shadow on a sunny day, rain on a wedding day.

pag iisipin ko, now i know why. or whys. and it has to do not only with the past but also with the present. i HATE you because of the past and because of the present. i HATE you even if i was the one who left, the one who did the "rejecting", just because. para kang latay noon sa pagkatao ko. kaya nga kita iniwanan in the first place. pero alam ko, deep inside, na pag hindi kita iniwanan, iiwanan mo rin ako. kaya siguro inunahan na kita. in deep, hindi ko man aminin, isa yon sa major reason.

now i'm fine, now i'm in a good place. with good people. and even if the memory of my past with you no longer hurts me, i will still carry the scars. not your fault. not anyone's fault, really. maybe except mine.

maraming kasong ganito. pero yung iba, naproseso ko nang tama. kaya okay na ko. wala akong bitterness. wala akong hatred. pero ikaw, ginusto lang kitang kalimutan. i simply shoved your memory at the back of my mind, and moved on. kaya siguro ngayon nagiging hangup.

i hated you for the past. for the bad feelings you brought upon me. but i hate you for the present, too. wala na kong mahihiling pa. nagpapasalamat ako sa diyos. i left you but i had a feeling that if i had wanted to come back to you, i would be the one rejected. and for that you are inaccessible to me in many senses of the word. inaccessible, unattainable. i was the one who left you and yet i'm the one who felt rejected and jilted. that's why i hate you so much.

if i would ever want you again, it would only be because i believe you wouldn't have me. ganon talaga siguro ang tao. they are tormented by those which they think they can never have. kahit masaya na sila.

that's why i hate you. and not only that. i also resent my inability to gain access to you. my inability to get inside you. you are literally closed in. and i hate you for it. because as far as i'm concerned, your doors have always been closed for me, and it's a fitting metaphor of our relationship. i was the one who left you, yet i feel that it was you who never gave me a chance.

i felt that there has been an injustice. siguro kaya masama ang loob ko. at kahit naiintindihan ng utak ko ngayon na wala namang rason para magalit, i still carry my baggage inside. and there's nothing that i want MORE than for you to finish up and get your ass out of my immediate environment. finish up and curl up and die, because i don't want to hear about you again.

so that's why i hate you. acknowledgment is the first step. i HATE you. i HATE you and i feel better now, just saying it.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

happy times

downtime doesn't come around often in this line of job, so i'm making the most of it. my approximation is i'll be free til monday next week. after that, it's back to the whirlwind again. back to nene and her funny-sad life.

list of To-Dos.

1. go to bed in the normal hours. been doing this for the past several days now. i actually feel GOOD, waking up early in the morning with a full-batt load of 6-9 hours sleep.

2. lose weight. damn. di ko na alam ang gagawin ko. ang hirap ng laging nakaupo sa harap ng laptop. the weight is harder to lose. and i don't even want to acknowledge the possibility that my pushing-30 has something to do with the weight lag. NO!

3. get registered. check. have a funny anecdote about this day. actually related to my pushing 30. hehe. later!

4. make a new "investment". check. i'm happy. i want to make it grow, kahit baby steps lang. basta steadily growing.

5. de-uglify. relax, rebond, wax. haha. ongoing.

6. shop a little. check.

7. do a little studying on the side. argh. i should constantly be learning on the job. kaso nauuna pa ang fb games. this is should do asap.

8. do more time with bosobear. kaso si bosobear naman ngayon ang busy sa isang show nyang demanding sa oras. hmprf. nakakanakaw naman kami ng at least 1 day in a week, though. i just HATE it that this will have to go on til february next year. :-(

despite a few pet peeves, i'm relatively happy. thank god. thank god for the rest. thank god for the stability of life. i'm happy being stable this way. i don't look for adventure anymore. an old friend was shocked yesterday when i'd told her that i'd 'settled down' for a writing job. kasi nung huli kaming nagkausap ang statement ko pa noon, "ayokong magka-lovelife kasi ayokong ma-distract sa filmmaking dream ko'. haha. siguro nga nangyari ang kinatatakutan ko. pero hindi solely dahil nagka-lovelife ako, marami ding factors kung bakit mas gusto ko na lang ang stability na binibigay ng buhay ko ngayon. pera, pagtanda, the uncertainty of the future and my learnings from the past. nangyari ang kintatakutan ko pero ngayon na-realize ko na, hmm. it's not as bad as i'd envisioned it to be. i know i'm still young at 29, i can always go back to what i'd started. i can aspire to go indie again, lead that kind of life, pero iba na ang habol ko sa buhay ngayon. that kind of life, at its best, can take you places (literally and figuratively), but it's not stable. financially, and else. kaya dito na lang ako kung saan ang happiness, mas abot-kamay. kasi, nung nandon rin ako sa ganong klaseng buhay, i was never happy enough. the dream consumed me, and i'd never be happy enough until i got to the dream.

at least, dito, content na ko. between fame/adventure and money/stability, i'd choose the latter now. at, well, malaking factor din ang love. dahil mas accommodating ang buhay ko ngayon sa love kesa dun sa buhay ko noon. so, yeah, i guess nangyari ang kinatatakutan ko. pero it really ain't as bad as i used to think it might be.

on my way home kahapon, nadaanan ko ang dati kong highschool. tamang-tamang palabas ng gate ang highschool classmate kong teacher na doon ngayon. they know from fb na i'm writing for k@t0rse and they say they love the show. dati snob ako pagdating sa tv. nainherit ko ito sa film school noong college. pero ngayon na-realize ko na may kakaibang fulfillment din pala pag nagsusulat ka sa tv. kung dati i'd glow from criticisms and praises from cinephiles and film critics, ngayon equal din ang fulfillment na nararamdaman ko pag pinagdidiskusyunan ng mga 'ordinaryong' tao ang tv show namin. anywhere i go, there would always be someone who watches k@tors3, and that makes the hard work and sleepless hours and creative "prostituting" all worth it.

shet, gusto ko talagang ikwento yung nangyari sa registration. haha. palakpak tenga moment for pushing-30 me. hehehe. later!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

the sweetest thing

i love this, too. cute concept. parang crush ko na si bono, hehe.

may cameo pa ng boyzone, buhay na buhay pa si stephen gately.

4:05 am when i should really be sleeping



i don't know why but this U2 song (even the video!) reminds me of the e-heads' 'huling el bimbo'.

and can i just say the U2 is way up there in my list of most favorite artists of ALL time. their songs are timeless. they never go out of style.

no air, no rest...

...for the happy worker. thank god. i love being busy.

done with the 3rd script at 6pm. slept a bit. tomorrow, meeting na naman. thursday and friday, lock-in brainstorm. malamang, scripting over the weekend. go, go, go.

nabaligtad ang body clock ko over the past 5 days. now i go to bed at 7 or 8 pm and wake up at 3 am.

hindi ko na iniisip kung maganda o hindi. gusto ko na lang matapos. hopefully, by week 12 hindi ko na kailangang pagdaanan yun. dapat quality over time pa rin lagi. which means dapat iwasang maipit ng deadline. which means dapat magsimula ng maaga, bawasan ang procrastination, and/or bilisan ang trabaho somehow.

naaadik ako sa restaurant city ngayon. i'm consumed by the need to keep levelling up my menu. para tumaas nang tumaas ang overall rating ng restaurant ko.

i think i need a massage. maybe i'll get one after week 12 na lang.

and yes, to keep myself from missing people, i should try to pretend that they don't exist for the meantime. maybe that should help. rather than feel blue and resent things that i should actually be grateful for.

Monday, October 12, 2009

heavy dutied

last week was relatively work-free. this week naman ako binawian ng universe.

up until 3 am this morning, i'd been writing non-stop since friday afternoon. dalawang episode scripts kasi ang na-assign sa akin. tapos biglang pina-stretch ang 2 eps to 3. what was originally a "revision" turned out to be much bloody more laborious than our draft 1. at least for me.

kasi, ang nakagisnan kong pagsusulat since january 2008, you sit down to write with a solid treatment to begin with. kaya siguro nahirapan ako. dahil given the deadline na super-tight, dalawang proseso ang pagdadaanan ko---treatment, then writing. light-duty work ang kinagisnan ko, sunday afternoon show style. kaya ngayon tuloy napag-isip isip ko kung kaya ko bang mag-survive pag dumating ang araw na ma-deploy ako sa isang show na heavy-duty lagi ang work required of me. sige, saka ko na iisipin. mas priority ko ang matulog kesa mag-worry o mag-proseso ng mga bagay-bagay.

pero gusto ko munang i-immortalize ang past 3 days, so pardon me po.

friday afternoon, i started early, kasi na-anticipate ko nang mabigat ang workload. nakatapos ako ng isang body by 5pm. at 5pm, biglang nag-brownout. buyshet! badtrip talaga ko! ilang oras din akong nakatunganga dahil eventually na-drain ang battery ni Goldie (laptop ko). depressed. alam ko hindi ako aabot sa deadline, kung 2 scripts ang isasubmit ko. kaya ko ang 1, but not 2 on a 1-day deadline.

so nag-isip agad ako ng paraan. tinawagan ko ang headwriter ko. kinonsult ko sya about an idea. in the middle of the conversation, nasabi ko sa kanyang brownout sa amin, kaya binigyan nya ko ng extension para sa 2nd script. tapos, 5 minutes later, sabi nya baka pwede mo nang gawing 3 scripts ang 2. ikaw na ang bahalang mag-restructure. sunday pa rin ang deadline.

okay na sana ang sunday. kaso nakapangako ako kay bosobear ng sabado night. sabado night lang sya free dahil sa show nyang demanding sa oras (haha, bitter?), and after sabado hindi pa sigurado kung kelan sya magiging free ulit.

i decided that i'd meet up with bosobear on sabado night pa rin and resume work when i get home later. risky yun kung meeting deadlines ang pag-uusapan. practical me would've cancelled the date and used the time instead to write. but that's love. haha.

5pm saturday ko na natapos ang 1st script. wala pang tulog, stressed out sa kakamadali, as soon as i pressed the SEND button to email the script dumiretso na ko for a bath, dressed up quick, and went to SM North where i was to meet bosobear. puyat, pagod, pero happy pa rin to see him after more than a week. dinner, coffee, and i was home by 1 am. balik agad sa pagsusulat. until the wee hours of monday.

those 30 hours were hazardous to my health. really. i could no longer keep track of how many yosis and cups of coffee i had consumed during that time. hindi ako makakain. may mga times na feeling ko hindi na ko makahinga. sumasakit ang katawan ko all over, and for the first time my body was demanding a massage. (mental note: try to get a massage after 3rd script) hindi na ko makausap nang matino, dahil parang wala na kong naririnig.

naisip ko, kung hindi ako nakipag-date nung sabado, hindi mangyayari ito. and to think na 2 scripts pa lang yun. may pangatlo pa. heavy dutied ako, pero sa soaps nga na iba, isa lang ang writer, at sya ang magti-treatment/scripting for an entire WEEK. ako, three days lang. so i guess...magandang training na rin ang mangarag nang ganito. haha.

at 3am kanina, my headwriter called and asked, na-submit mo na? maganda ba ang 2nd script mo? jusko, parang gusto kong tumawa at umiyak. honestly, hindi ako masaya sa nagawa ko. pero quality has taken 2nd place to speed, like how it always does, come ipitan time. so sabi ko, bahala na po kayo. at least, isang ire na lang, tapos na ang bowel movement ko for Week 11 ng k@t0rse.

went to bed at 4am, woke up at 8. naiinis ako dahil i was ready to sleep for a full 8 hours, pero nagising ako nang maaga. hay. pero okay lang, kasi paggising ko, kumain ako ng isang masarap na malaking breakfast, at ngayon nagre-relax ng konti bago magtrabaho uli. huhu. sana lord masulat ko naman ng matino itong pangatlong script na to. please please. sobrang sabaw na kasi ako nung sinusulat ko ang 1st two.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

good morning

stayed all night because i slept nearly half the day away yesterday. i dunno. i'm just not sleepy. these past three nights when i'd be up til sunrise i've been looking forward to early breakfasts and coffee more and more. and more.

dang. i should start dieting. i'm getting paunchier by the day. not good. isa sa mga pangarap ko ang makapagsuot ng labas-pusod na spaghetti strapped top bago ako kunin ni lord.

saw "stranger than fiction" on surfthechannel.com. entertaining, to say the least. original short-of-brilliant concept. shet. gusto kong gumawa ng ganong kwento. gusto kong gumawa ng orig na kwento. pero dahil WALA NANG ORIG sa mundo sa mga panahong ito, at least yung spinoff ng isang rarely-used na kwento. or at the very least, isang kwentong hindi na orig ang template pero dahil sa mgga detalye, nagiging fresh at original siya.

ang dami kong gusto. for now, though, i'm confined to nene.

i'll miss osobear. job#2 will keep him busy, maybe even on days when we would usually go out to watch a movie. and i will be busy with--as usual--nene. oh i love nene. somehow she pulled me through in the last script. wait, no it was gabby. i love gabby. i hate it that i love him.

love jojo too, but that's a given. who wouldn't love jojo. he's perfect. he's the cliche in a romantic story. but gabby is somethin else. he's a prism.

pero sa lahat ng mga lalake sa buhay ni katorse, si albert ang tipong gugustuhin kong pakasalan. aww. sayang, less airtime for him compared to the other two. angkyutkyut nya.

ramblings of a sleep-deficient (?) up-all-night owl. gusto ko pa ring mag-volunteer, naghahanap lang kung saan. maghahanap ako dito sa marikina para malapit. ehe. at least the family has given clothes to the neighborhood parish church na nagrerepack ng mga donations for the ondoy victims. thank god hindi natuloy dito sa pepeng. thank god!

happy tuesday, all! my plan for the day, if i would omit sleep from the agenda:

1) go to ey-bee-es for last month's paycheck
2) go to the bank

sheesh. sana lang matupad ko. i always miss those bank and cashier's office cutoffs because of my nite owl habits.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

go away pepeng

change course. wreak your havoc in the ocean, where there are no people and property. blow him away from us, lord.


at 11am today, i was done with the script. gumana lang talaga nang tuloy-tuloy ang makina at 2 am. overtime at 33 pages (dapat 24 lang ang max). hay. pero masaya na ko dahil ngayon pwede na kong magpahinga. for the meantime, til the next brainstorm.

nate-tense ako sa supertyphoon daw na nagbabadya. gusto kong gumawa ng shopping list, kahit di ko afford mag-splurge.

1) canned goods
2) noodles
3) water
4) candles

got to go to the grocery store now to buy these stuff. kasi feeling ko bukas magdadagsaan ang mga panic buyers. kung sakali mang tumuloy si pepeng, here's hoping we're more prepared for him than we were for ondoy.