The weekend flew, and I still need to catch up on zzz's.

Last Friday, I went to RCBC to meet up with Iam for dinner. She wanted to check out Triple V at the 3rd floor, and because I haven't been to that area in ages, I wanted to check it out as well. Ended up getting sushi, yum. We spent the time talking, which I hardly get to do much with either of my 2 best friends lately (so Rosa, it's your turn next, hahaha), but because of the limited time, we had to part ways at around 7:30 because Iam had to go back to her office, and I had to walk to the Kopihaus venue to help the boys set up.

I was supposed to help out then by double checking all the sequences that had been done to make a new sequence guide, but because I had the old list in Drei's laptop and they were using the same laptop to check the pictures for continuity, I guess I didn't get much done. I also left early, so I can wake up early for the next day's shoot.

The same drill, I had to go to Nicco's house because that was supposed to be the first pickup stop. My goodness, I was told to be there at 5:30 in the morning. Miko and Drei had spent the night there, so when I arrived, they were taking turns in the bathroom. Oh yeah, Drei was supposed to get his car from his house the night before, but as it turned out, their car was in use, so we ended up commuting to Taft, along with Carla. We had to stopover at the condo for a while before heading to the venue.

Per usual, I had to do the script continuity plus I also had to be the clapper girl. Plus I was on my feet almost all the time, and I still felt lost every time I try to check everything. Sorry, boys. I'm a space case in film production. I didn't even get to read that book Cris had brought (Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong). We had to reshoot some other scenes because we took out the extra "El Hombre" and Evelyn characters (plus they were taking up space, hahaha).

The funny thing about continuity is that everything has to be constant even though some time between shooting days had passed. So people like Miko ended up having their hair trimmed in the men's bathroom, hahaha.

My favorite sequence that was shot that day was during the late evening. It was with the messengers, played by Cris, Nicco and Russell, and their scene also included Eka as the secretary and Drew as the policeman. My goodness, just looking at them would make your sides ache with laughter. Someone had partly shaved Cris' head and put black eyeliner on his brows and eyes and also added fake facial hair. Ditto for Nicco and Russell with the eyeliner. Wahahaha. And their dialogue, holy kamote. These guys are complete walking comedy acts.

Because the guys had said that they were planning to spend the night at the venue so get an early start on Sunday morning, I decided on it as well so my mom won't have to complain about my coming home late. The catch was that I was the only girl who spent the night. Aside from me, there was Miko, Nicco, Drei, Arman, Cris, Drew, and Russell. We opened up Drei's sofa bed (which was used as part of the set) so it can accommodate more people, and Arman brought pillows and blankets from home. I brought my own pillow, hahaha (Rosa, I always bring the Incredibles pillow you gave me last year). Anyway, I ended up on the sofa bed with Nicco, Cris and Miko, with me staying at the head so I was curled up between the armrests. Bad move. Because I was curled up the whole time, I couldn't stretch my legs even if I wanted to so I didn't get a comfortable enough sleep. Plus the fact that Nicco still had his jacket, and the swishy material kept bothering me every time he moved.

I fell asleep at around 2 am (I was the first one down, I think), and when I woke up, it was only 6 am. Trouble with that was I couldn't fall back asleep! So I decided to just get up and head for the bathroom for a bath. Good choice, because that way, I don't have to wait in line to take a bath when the others wake up.

Everyone was still asleep when I was done, so I settled myself in front of Drei's laptop and typed away, making a blog entry that I uploaded to my phone...

Sunday, 04 December 2005
6:40

I can't believe I'm up this early. Spent the entire day yesterday helping out the Kopihaus gang, and a bunch of us are still here in the venue and spent the night. And to think that I'm the only girl, hahaha. What's new, I'm always one of the boys.

Man, I woke up at a few minutes before 6 this morning, and I couldn't fall asleep again. I decided to take a bath instead to refresh myself. That, and I don't want to be in line later when the boys take their turns in the bathroom, because I think they can't use the shower in the male bathroom. Probably because of all the ahir due to Miko's haircut (courtesy of Drei) might have sort of clogged the drain, ahehehehe. Anyway, because I figured earlier that everyone's still conked out, I found myself singing loudly in the shower, hahaha.

I'm still beat. I was on my feet practically the entire day yesterday that I barely have time to think. I don't think I can't cut it in film. I can't seem to absorb everything I hear that I find myself looking lost time and again like the last time.

Last Thursday evening, I got an interesting phone call regarding one of my best friend's break-up. It was so funny how he asked me, "Madali ba akong pag-sawaan?" Well, not exactly. So the girl fell out of love. Is that so bad? You can't prevent it from happening. I guess that's why I told myself that when I get married, I want a really good friend to be my husband. I remember watching one recent episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy with this Pinoy couple that got married. One of the Fab Five remarked that the couple has a beautiful relationship because aside from love, they still have a friendship. Even though I still have no plans of getting married yet, that's what I want in a hubby. So in case we fall out of love, we still have a great relationship going. I guess I don't really want to be one of those couples who get separated or divorced just because they fell out of love.

Anyway, the entire conversation amused me, even though the other end was sort of on the down side. What had amused me was that ever since this guy and I became friends again after our own break-up, I began to learn about the other side of the relationship. I found out how he treats his girlfriends and how fondly he talks about them with other people, all that stuff. It was pretty sweet. It suddenly made me appreciate him more back when he was still my boyfriend, and even now as a friend.

I just borrowed a book from Cris. It didn't really take long to read. Only about 20 minutes and you're done. Hahahaha, the stuff inthere were all short and funny. Well, funny in a morbid, demented way. It's a pretty good bathroom book, hehehe.

Man, it's been ages since I had a good early morning for myself just to think. It's one of life's simple joys, and the past half hour was pretty interesting. It's like those late night coffee talks with Mish, or those sporadic phone calls with Rain or Nikki, or those now-rare moments with Rosa and Iam. And to think I'm not really the type who'd really talk about anything with just anyone.

Oooh, the guys are stirring one by one. I guess it's high time to upload to this my phone.

Well, we didn't really get an early start. We still had time for everyone else to have a turn in the bathroom, goof off, stuff like that. Miko, Nicco, Blonski, Cris and I even went with Drei on the other side of the building to the 11th floor to attend church. When we returned at noon, no one new had arrived. Rawr. After lunch at Jollibee (nyak, and to think that we already ate at the same place at midnight the night before) matched with crazy conversation, back to business.

But anyway, when we had checked what other interior scenes we were lacking, there were only a few left, so we wrapped up pretty early. Drei, Nicco and I even found time to catch a movie in Festival Mall. The flick? Chick flick Just Like Heaven, hahahaha.

News flash! The Rent movie will be out in Manila on the 22nd of March, 2006! Got the link from Chinky.

I have yet to blog about some other stuff, but I have to meet Rain for dinner in a few minutes. So I'm out for now.