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Back then I was that jackass slimeball who loves to do things. Oh wait... I remember this... this was I think my last day in the station. |
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From 1993 to present, these people worked in that station with a pinwheel logo at the heart of Novaliches. |
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Yes, I am still a goofball but now I wear a lot of black statement shirts to hide my fat body. |
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But at least I'm still hot. |
Last November 27, I attended a reunion. It’s
me with a bunch of buddies from my old work. I never thought I’d see the day
where I was still the youngest in the room.
Lucky me.
FLASHBACK!!!
After I ended
my life as a NBN employee, I had a
3-month break where I was running out of my savings and desperately in need of
work, two channels knocked on my footsteps. One offered me a job where I am a
journalist while the other offered me a job where I was a copyrighter.
I ended up
doing part-time work for both jobs.
Sure back
then, what I did was stress-busting and mind-wrecking. I also had to juggle a
relationship and an after-work online warfare. There was a point where I had to
go through those four routes in order for me to have my “perfect” day and it
sucks.
Back in my
head I wanted the easy schedule that IBC
13 is giving me but I was so psyched that I can see my work when I watch ABC 5! Even if I was learning so much
being in the field, I felt that there was something more in that station. After
three months of juggling jobs, I chose ABC. The kicker? I got to handle my most
favourite subject – THE PBA.
When I was in
NBN I got to handle the PBA but due to financial constraints and other
constraints I can’t really reveal, what we did failed to transform the league
to be a money-drawer power for us. This prompted the league to find another
channel to give them what they want and they chose ABC.
I was lucky
that my boss back then chose two phrases from my bond paper filled with name
studies. I was also lucky that the honchos from both the PBA and the ABC parts
approved on both phrases. “Astig” was simple... and it was bordering to normal
and the league can’t really say that this was their idea because a lot of
people were saying it. But there was a point where everyone was saying Astig
and it reminded them of the PBA. With every miracle shot Mark Caguioa or Rodney Santos took... the dunks Enrico Villanueva and Danny Ildefonso
hurled... and the craziness Willie
Miller and Asi Taulava managed to do, I was happy to race down to the TOC,
grab a freshly-recorded Betacam 60
and pop it on the editing machine for me to timecode. I also learned a lot of
things that I never knew I would learn back in 2004 to 2006 like editing, doing
radio plugs from scratch, creating music for my plugs, doing voiceover work,
assisting in voiceover work, learning basic Photoshop, directing, and doing
things to make me seriously awesome. This was where I mastered my bread and
butter! I knew to make people wow, I had to do it with my comedy and my ability
to see raunchy things and fearlessly insert it to my works.
I last set
foot in ABC a week after I transferred to GMA.
I was happy to learn a lot from them but I felt I need to take the next step.
This was months after ABC gave up their PBA rights to Solar and most of my friends have found other opportunities.
I am still
applying everything that I learned from my former work to my current work.
In this
reunion, I saw the original merchandizing batch of ABC 5. I was also pretty
sure that I was the only one in that place that is still under 30.
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I once put a caterpillar on the guy's printer. Who knew something can die because of a printer? |
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Office affairs can be an awesome bonding moment... or Survivor with aircon. |
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Christmas parties never disappoint. There is no such as vomitless Christmas parties! |
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Luckily as we age wiser, the vomit spew lessens. |
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Back then my sched was 9:30 to 5:30. Now... 11:15am - onwards!!! |
As I continue
to live my life’s current chapter, it was nice to open past chapters and be
proud of it.
Game over.
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