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Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
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9:41a - a fan film shoot, and a sickly Monday
+ aren't weekends supposed to be for rest?
spent the weekend with some members of SWP and then some, shooting in UP for Aids' fan film baby, Star Wars: Twilight, starring JP and my sweetie. while the plot was by Aids, the script was written by my housemate, Paul, and  dandelionfluff. fellow Quill member Joe was the sound engineer, while Rain and my brother were alternately PAs and sound boys. and yours truly was the make-up artist. see pictures here; the make-up rocked.
it was a very tiring shoot. we had to be there by 10AM, and it was hot, and we had to walk through leaves and branches and grass, and there were lots of flying insects. poor JP and Oneal had to be in costume, and Oneal had to wear a wig. then we would have to wait for the sunlight to stream throguh the trees. then we would have to wait for the jeeps and motorbikes and scooters to zoom past so that the boom mike wouldn't capture that sound and overlap with the dialogue. then we had to make sure there were no people in the background, as our shoot locations - the Betaway, the lagoon, the open field near CMC - were favorite badminton and picnic grounds.
on the upside: free lunch both days - on Saturday, we went to Mang Jimmy's, and on Sunday, they bought food from the ever-famous Rodic's. and i got to go to UP again and to show Oneal the pretty trees, the wide open fields, the places where i hung out in college. i got to run around on the grass and walk all over the campus and sit near the trees. it was lovely.
but the best part was that Oneal slept over for three ngihts in a row, and we got to sleep in my new albeit unfinished room. it's so nice to snuggle beside him at night and to fall asleep knowing he'll still be there in the morning. at ngiht when it would be cold, he would cover me with a blanket and hold me close to keep me warm. then in the morning, the bright sunlight would stream through the window and awaken us, and he'd cover my eyes so i wouldn't be blinded.
if only to have all of that again, i'd ask for more shooting days.
+ Monday sniffly Monday
fatigue and lack of sleep got the better of me, and now i have a bad cold, an itchy throat, a cough, and some congestion. woke up yesterday at around 7, and i found Oneal sprawled out on our Venus Fly Couch - apparently after shooting in the yard till about 2AM, he hadn't been able to go home. so i grabbed some pillows from the room and dragged Oneal into my room, so that we could both sleep comfortably. we were both so tired that we didn't get up till noon; the heat of the day and hunger were overriding the desire to sleep. my throat was sore and dry, and i was hoarse, such that when i called the office to say i couldn't go to work, Lutchie could barely hear me.
one brunch for three, some emails and a shower each later, we were both feeling a little better. Oneal had lost a lens, so we were both wearing our glasses. Data would have laughed and said we looked more alike than ever. we went out to get the groceries, and halfway through i started feeling dizzy. i was so out of it that as soon as we got home, i fell asleep on the sofa. happily, when i woke up, we ordered out for dinner, and Oneal made an Oreo pie for dessert. yum!
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