The Salapuddin Blast

So I guess my 41 hrs of bumming and power naps in my OJT is not to be whine about after all...

At last it happened, and it's worth the wait...

Yes it just happened, a real ojt moment!

Since manpower is lacking in our little newsroom, my mentor assigned me to write a story(alone), it's about some former basilan rep involved in some blast. I thought it would be easy at first, since I've been collaborating with the other news writers in rummaging info from other news outfits and all (Oo, that's what they do here... well 50% lang naman, yung iba sariling sikap parin)...



So I thought I was done, since i thought it was very easy...

But when my mentor started to ask questions...

"How many were killed?... Sigurado ka ba sa info diyan, baka sobra mong ginaya, makulong ka niyan... huy... ilan na yung namatay... sino si Indama... ano file name ng article mo?"

I turned blank... now I know that copying news from other agencies is not that easy...

Damn, even the filename of my article, which is the name of the lead character in my story, slipped off my mind on the spot...

Salapuddin! Salapuddin ang pangalan niya!


"Huy Joanna! Ano na?"


"Po? Ano po? ahm... teka..."


I snapped!


It became so nerve-wracking...


yet so exciting!


Finally, something is happening in my ojt!


So since I know their PCs are very turtle-ish, i took my laptop without thinking, used their internet source, and surfed the net to answer my mentor's questions.


He edited my article as expected, and made me promise to never write a news article the way i just did: incomplete, uber short, and all that bullshit!

so yeah... I'll try to do better next time!


At least I've learned something today...


At Oo... exciting na yan sa lagay na yan!




I wish it would always be like this... kahit nakakakaba!


Well that's what happened in my ojt today...


Next week, I'll be attending a press conference... then hopefully, join another OJT for my other 100hrs; REUTERS baby! Can't wait!







Damn, I think I have to work on my grammar...

Sunday Shmanay

It’s Sunday, my rest day, my day to be absorbed by ugly betty, and my day to ponder on things that’s affecting my life right now…

Ok, so planado na ang summer ko: OJT for my journ sa hapon ng mwf, learn something from annotating in tapets sa umaga, and plan AA: accomplish some of my plans for it by this summer as well, mga ganun…

So here’s now, there’s this boring ojt that I’m not learning anything from (let’s add a “yet” for hope), the POA at tapets that I don’t know where the destination is, and AA: the people, plans, vacation, and my being too much excited on things!

I now feel so “toxic”; full of angst, anxiety, paranoia, pressure, and many many more!

The feeling is like everything is not going according to plan, or that maybe I’ve too much planned out things that it’s starting to feel like... like… like it’s too much… too much for them, for me, and for the mystical chenes (gusto ko lang siya isama, since he/she partly drives the wheel of fate, etc)!

Damn I’m thinking too much!

I need to fucking relax…

But hey, I really think that I don’t plan too much, it’s just that some adjustments have to happen, and that’s not wrong I guess, it doesn’t ruin anything, it’s just that some things don’t happen according to plan…

Well maybe I just have to get used to the fact that everything will not fall into place in a perfect pace (perfect pace, meaning my desired pace, hehehe)… I got to be ready to face the things that might happen, not happen, suddenly happen, or any other things that might happen that would either ruin or successfully construct my plans.

It is after all an inter-connected thing, a social thing where everyone is involved and would either get in the way or give way, that’s just the way it is.

Actually, I know this open-to-adjustments stuff already; it’s just that before, I’m not much of a planner that when something didn’t go well, it’s ok because I didn’t plan it that much in the first place. But now is different, I’m working on something big here already, and I’m actually planning, so It’s bothering me now when something off happens.

And that’s my analysis on the situation that just happened to me… this analysis was created in my attempt to feel better in some way…

Vague isn’t it?

But I feel a bit better now…

RANDOM THOUGHTS:

Next stop… my writing skills and the ability to create something artzy… puta nangangalawang na ko!

Feeling ko si Ugly betty na ko dahil sa kakapanood ko sakanya, or si wilhemina, hahaha! Pero please talaga to ugly betty, chaka pero may mga papa, che! Well, sabi nga ni inay, She has a big heart daw kasi... bakit? Ako din naman ha!... ay ooops, i forgot, we're talking about TV here, a machine creating escapisms and fantasies for poor and miserable people, hahahaha!

I feel dried up, I need refreshment…something that would make me feel alive and kicking…

Sa mga pagbabagong nararanasan ko, pakiramdam ko tuloy kailangan ko muli magsimula... maganda naman yun, pero parang nakakagulo din ng isipan...

Eto na ko… unting-unti ng nagsisimula ang makina sa sasakyang gagamitin sa bagong biyaheng ito… pasakay na ko… at ako na talaga ang dapat sumakay… marami pa nga lang sumisingit…

Che! Ang gulo ko!

Maybe I’ll expound nalang sa next post ko… pag napaglinay-linayan ko na!

Cge… leche!

So long, farewell! Hello, welcome!

Nakapagpaalam na...

May mga pagugunita, maraming tawanan, may konteng luha, may mga hinanakit, may mga nilabas, may pagisisi...

Pero may mas kalinawanagan na ngayon...


Pero huli na nga... nakakalungkot...


Pero alam ko hindi pa huli ang lahat sa pagyayaman ng mga kaalaman mula sakanila...


Panghahawakan ko yun...


Maraming salamat sainyo...



At ngayon, kailangan ng maghanda sa pagsalubong sa panibagong kabanata...



Maghahanda po talaga ako...



Yes, It's official... I am now that person behind that artistic wheel of AA...

At ang pagtuklas kung ano ang meron sa biyaheng ito ay nagsisimula na...


nyay...

Hehehehe...



Anyway,
On the shallow side of things... since gusto ko siya ishare...

Wala akong bagsak! yahoo! thanks mystical chenes! thanks to me! Thanks to the profs! Sa lahat!

Akala ko madedebar na talaga ako at masisira na ang mga pangarap ko... tapos hindi nga ko nadebar... pero nangangamba parin ako na may bagsak ako, pero no! Wala kahit isa... yes! Oh yes!

I don't care kung hindi ako DL, o marami akong tres at konte lang ang uno ( i'm not really cut out for that academic crap, hehehe!) , I just want to use this scholastic realm because naglalaman siya ng isang venue of grounding for my artistic journey... hahahaha!

Pero honestly sobrang saya ko na pasado ako dahil matutupad parin ang gusto ko, kahit nga di na ko makagraduate eh, matapos ko lang ng maayos at masaya AA term ko, pero siyempre...mas ok kung makaka-graduate ako... you know... i still have to succumb to the requirements of the traditional reality that we still live in...




Chos! Dami kong reasons at excuses...


Parang ang weird ng way kong magsulat dito, parang hindi ako yung nagsasalita pag binabasa ko...

huh?



Haay Basta!

Shet... eto na toh...

Senior na ko! AD na talaga ko!


Waaah!