Sunday, January 18, 2004
AIZA ROCKS LA SALLE
The Damage Report - Year 2 - Ending Week #27
Background Music: All the songs from the FA Concert... (I have LSS)
NOTE: This is a weekly blog entry that summarizes a series of events of a finished week in and around La Salle.
I THINK perhaps the most depressing week in my entire College life (so far) has just passed by. The week started off the most hectic ever and to topple that was devastating news of a friend of mine at the dorms whose parents were murdered.
Even if I didn't have my case analysis for Laws of Mass Media (BRJM102), I didn't want to be absent. I wanted to just face my fear and just enter class without a single case done. It was the darkest hour and most terrifying one in a long time, but in the end I survived. We're not going to die if we don't have our cases done right? I don't want to pull an electric Maria Clara and infest my mind with shitty seriousness to that extent. What I'm saying is... yes, I didn't do my cases... I just couldn't. There comes a time when any busy guy out there will fail somewhere. I failed there.
Then there's that irritating Year-end news folio for COMM145 which I also didn't submit. Count two "projects" unsubmitted. How amusing. How, even more, depressing.
Returning to half-normal
It was also the second school week of the year 2004 and my attitudes had to shift back a little closer to normal. I was moody, emotional, fed up, miserable, sick, stressed, and hungry for help. I didn't want to turn into a human whirlpool like someone we know who didn't know he/she was turning into a human whirlpool until it was too late.
What's a human whirlpool? I just came up with it. It's someone who is emotionally depressed and although he/she doesn't neccesarily intend to do this, he/she will spread that depression towards others forcing the others to try and help him/her until it's a giant mess.
Count your blessings
Anyways, on Monday night we went to Lemery, Batangas. Two vans of us from the dorms went to visit Joseph (and his younger brother our former dorm mate Julius). It was just a sad and sorrowful experience. While I was there, I tried to make it clear to myself over and over again to be thankful for all the blessings I've received.
As much as I have problems about this little issue to that, I shouldn't drown in them. I should be thankful I'm even alive to give life and love into this world. I should be thankful for the little things that I get to enjoy. My life doesn't suck, it just gets tiring at times.
Seeing the ages of Joseph's parents (49 and 50) sent shivers down my spine because my parents are just about the same age. I saw his parents in the two coffins and they were so young and full of life just days before when suddenly they get murdered by the very own people who owe their family money.
Returning from the cold mountain ridges of Tagaytay and Alfonso to the warm and windy Dasmariñas hills ignited a slight fever in me this week. I couldn't attend PHED104 on Tuesday. I had to crush biogesics again to keep my head balanced and up. Thank you to all the dorm mates and friends and classmates who offered medicine towards me. Cool.
JOU2-1 works the machine
Mostly everything else this past week was just growing hype for the FA Concert on Friday, which our adviser Mr. H. Palad required us to provide coverage of. It's for our subject Intro to Broadcasting (BRJM101L). Our class was divided into four groups and each group must produce a 3-minute feature in the form of a music video with several upsounds (on-the-spot interviews).
It so happened half our team were the same people from the Radio Prod we had last term. I was almost in the same group again, which includes Badge. Eric was also in our group and was voted to be the EP (Executive Producer). We all agreed that everyone is a PA (Production Assitant). I was put in-charge of Post-Production.
However, I had this concept I shared to everyone and since no one else brought any other alternative suggestions, my idea for the three-minutes was put into action.
During the latter part of the week, the class had ENGs in their hands and by groups we went out covering. I actually like my group a lot. Heheh. We're oozing with creative talent! Hahaha. We have Krystel's frank and funny persuasiveness for ambush interviews. We have Badge's contributions to both technical production and segment researching... she interviewed so many people! Woah. We have the Teatro Trio of girls in class, Arjay... Athena... and Jhen to put some spice into all our ideas. Ate Angge pitched in with a video camera while Mark and some of the irregs did PA work. Ayesha threw in her AB Comm Channel spirits in while I gave out suggestions like free candy to everybody. And together with Eric's leadership, we put together one great team.
Where all roads tend to lead to
Splash all that together and you got me there breathing heavily in my room, aching and alone. Alone inside. I appreciate those people who did, despite them even having problems of their own too, who appraoched me while I was down with a slight fever.
By the end of the week, things for my friend Tony and I have returned somewhat to normal. But it still feels bad I haven't spoken to him about why I was all problematic last Holiday Season because of him and because of Badge. Two people I gave myself to (in the form of "Best Friend" and "Significant Other" respectively) and up to this very day haven't felt myself being returned to me. Sorry if that doesn't make sense. But if you made sense of it, you're probably just as emotional a person like me.
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I have much to type so I'll have to end this TDR now. With the following pictures of course. ^_^
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Hope you enjoyed. More to come next week during the Lasallian Days.
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