This is my management team.
I should be worried, right?
But believe it or not, these people are some of the most gifted television producers I have ever met … running what are factually the most awarded programs in the country.
This shot was taken inside the boardroom half an hour before we made an important presentation.
Sure, we have a high stress, toxic office. Bad [...]
I’m glad I don’t read tarot cards anymore. Because if I’d seen the past week coming, I might have tried to call in sick for seven days!
It was a week that sort of blew up in my face in full color. And now I am literally breaking out from the stress, stress and more stress of it …
Blue: Made a [...]
Someone I work with actually gave me this shirt last weekend. With no trace of sarcasm. Or hint of irony.
The gift giver called me Ms. Sunshine in her blog. She was describing various people who joined the island shoots via funny nicknames and blind items. It made for a grand group guessing game.
All the while I thought I was [...]
I’m suffering from major island withdrawal. Woke up at 5 am wondering which dumptruck I was supposed to ride. Only to realize … I’m back in QC and have to flag a cab to the office. Sigh.
Funny how intense location work can bring everyone closer. I’d often have dinner with the Kalboys, our cammen and assistants, something [...]
“I’m leaving to become a bum.”
That’s what I told Ibyang to tell the people who are bound to ask her why, in the near future.
“Please come up with something that sounds better than that,” she prevails upon me.
Ibyang wants to protect my image even after my upcoming office demise. She’s hoping I won’t go without having [...]
It was a storybook summer …
That made me feel seventeen again. Only, better.
Seventeen without the self-doubt. Or the bad skin. Or the empty wallet. Or the curfew.
It was the kind of summer you save in your treasure chest of memories, to be taken out on cold nights decades later, when your eyes have permanently settled into their laugh lines [...]
I walked a long stretch of beach yesterday morning, taking pictures. Imagining my perfect life would look something like this …
Then I had to fly back to the city, back to the office.
And work made me angry. Or at least it did yesterday.
Had to spend 12 hours at my desk catching up on the things I’d missed. Had to scarf [...]
Laughter was ringing out along the office corridors today. Post ZTE Special revelry.
I loved the sound of it.
Every time a big tv project is about to end, you can hear the collective adrenalin building up to shouts of excitement during actual airing, piping down into relief then painful exhaustion — sweetened by the warmth of working with people you respect and the joy of a [...]
Another hell week. Another reminder this job is capable of consuming you entirely, eating you up whole till you have nothing else left in your life.
I could always flake out.
But I won’t.
Too many people counting on me to do too many things.
I am so focused I fool even myself sometimes.
But my feet keep telling me they want to run away.
An unkind thought: I sometimes pity the network babies who didn’t get to experience growing up in Probe Productions.
Many of these kids earn too much and work too little. Complain all the time. Expect to be paid for every tiny move they make. Get old on the job without growing.
But it’s not their fault they are the way they are. And they’re [...]
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