Haunted Hardware

He he.

I had to stop, end of my slaving time to capture, edit, render, author, upload my Banned movies videos of last July.

Being with BMP lets me encounter a lot of eccentric peeps, eccentric sometimes is an understatement. Case in point this little lady vocalist that screams the hades out of purple haze, her voice apparently also scares the heads of my video cam, awes my adobe and haywires my firewire.

I've edited non-stop my first 2 tapes and uploaded the videos with no fuzz.. but suddenly i get drop frames, halted ieee 1394 connections and no remote controls with this band's footage.. whaddah@##!!

I believe in rest, in stopping and doing other stuff.. break for me, break for my pc, break kung break...

This reminds me of one of my funny client encounters before when i was editing for a supplier for GMA 7, they also assign me to do freelance projects:

Timeline : week before holy week circa 2000
Client : B. N.
Product : Holy week TV shows (some of them still running BTW mga channel 9, 13, 4.)

Planning isn't one her her best traits, everything left to prayer, she goes to edit a 2 hour program with 30++ tapes in tow (with an entourage of 4 househelps she calls PAs, with 3 to 4 luggages full of tapes, baon and paraphernalia) multi-format footage(Betacam, U matic, S-VHS, VHS, DVD,) no shotlists.. we would go through her footage like getting coins from a plate of flour, that game u use your nose to pluck the coin with, that hard, that painful, that humiliating.

She wouldn't worry about her hourly rate because she gets a super discount in the guise of religious work.
She would let her "PA" massage her feet with whiteflower oil while you're inside an enclosed airconditioned room. (New sign should read. No Eating. No Drinking. No Smoking. No Whiteflower!)
And with all her useless footage captured, cache memory, virtual memory and actual memory all spent, what do you expect from poor old targa (mind you, we were using broadcast quality multi million systems then.. not your backyard pc-firewire-adobe setup huh) but to rest and hang.

Sometimes a welcome respite for the editor who'd be bored of her ramblings about devotions, conversions and miracles. (complete with pamphlets, photos, rosaries etc.) Hang. Hang. Hang.

One time, the system really went berserk on her.. (with ample warnings about choosing footages, deleting unwanteds, compressing and pre-planning.) it didn't want to proceed. Tech check, reset, control-alt-delete, she was praying over me and my unit. Desperate, she finally pulled out her last 2 arsenals.

2. Rose petals from Lipa. How can you stare at the petals' figures if you have to rewire the system that you want to work to get things done and over with?

"Carina, there's a message in every hardship. We should just look at the signs. Just like this rose, its not just a petal.. look, look! "(The sign said memory full! memory full!)

To self : "Hilo na ang loka tumingin ng 24 hours of footage, talagang meron akong makikita kahit sa maiwang mantsa ng kape. KAPE!!!"

1. Then finally, came the unexpected.. Like a saber sword she swooshed and swashbuckled. She wielded a bottle of holy water!!!

"No! Huwag po!!!! "

(water, out composite cables, plugged system, Nina)

Nyahhhhgggggzzzzzttt zzzzttttttt zzzztttt!

Yep, face all white, hair semi curled.

Heavens!

I can't be sick

Just by being sick I had to cancel life..

Which includes
Maxim Party in Pasig (I wanted to proclaim myself as the queen of men's magazine junkets this year)
Howie Severino's (my idol) docu showing at mag:net
2 days in paris
Autoshow invite at World Trade

Tons of work
My first climb (this I really, really regret)
2 days in paris
***
Will try to keep up with life and watch autohystoria
Will try to watch my friend's sister's gig
Will try to go to another gig and try to scout for bands for banned

Bawal magkasakit!

Glad there's email

Since hindi na masyadong mabili ang post office dahil sa e-mail, nagiisip na lang sila ng bagong larangan na papasukan.. Comedy.

hindi na ako sanay sa snail mail, buti na lang at limited ang encounters :

I was helping out a friend to mail tons of overseas docs, I have the directive to use the safest, cheapest and fastest way via post office. Day 1 mailing was a breeze, I was told that from his experience, he usually gets charged less than a hundred.. Mine was 111.00 Php. Inflation I suppose, I proceeded.

I missed to mail 2 other documents because I left, (he left) out the country detail, I didn't want to guess, oh well there's batch 2 anyway.

So batch 2 day came, suddenly the 111.00 php became 276.00 php. What? Why? E and I in txt conversation :

E : Ma'am 276 daw yung dalawang package kasi based on weight daw sila.
N : Bakit kahapon based on ano sila?
E : Ma'am ganun daw palagi.
N : E yan din yung kahapon, nagdagdag lang ako ng word na "FRANCE" na pinentel pen nag doble na ang weight?
*****
N : Dalawa lang kasya ninyan, yung isang maliit at isang malaki na lang i-send mo
E : Opo
N : Tapos dalhin mo yung naiwan sa ibang post office, tanungin mo kung ano "hula" nila sa weight, pag mura imbento nila, isend mo agad.

Post script : after 1 day, pinagdiet ko yung package ko, balik sa 111.00 php :)

FYI

I decided to end my official volunteer status when I saw him push a fellow volunteer out of a room. Minus personality weights, a person pushing another person. Not on my watch.

I am not friends with the pushee anymore, but i still stand by his dignity.

PS.
This was a year ago, and i don't know why this still cropped up.

All i did was help.

Don't worry, am still in the business of helping.