Thursday, December 30, 2004

Today I planned to make chili fired crabs. I ordered the maids to buy two kilos of the damn thing for a budget of 350. She comes back with six crabs in her hands. A measely six crabs. That wont even be enough for dinner.

MAID: “ Ser , everything is super expensive now! “

Yep … maybe the money they steal from us would go to that tsunami early warning device. I can see it now. The warning device would consists of a couple of benches facing the sea and you have two or maybe three idiots ( The president’s distant relatives) staring at the sea and munching junk food and collecting hefty paychecks while they ogle sexy joggers instead of doing their jobs.

I just hope when a TSUNAMMI hits that it will engulf the presidential palace and wash away that small idiot that resides inside. If one is too hope then lets make it spectacular! Wash the entire cabinet, make it a wet revamp!
Writing on this blog is more of a luxury than anything else. To sit down and write tons and tons of sentences costing time which is the most precious commodity. Money isn’t even in the same league. You can earn back the cents but never the time you lost!

I don’t relish the idea of traveling from one point to the other because if you stop and actually counted and catalogued the time you spent in traffic…you’d be shock to realize that its almost 1/4th of the day!

When I do travel, I have tons of books and storyboard papers inside the car. So when we do get in stuck in traffic…you could do some reading or drawing. Another thing is to record the audio commentaries in my DVD collection and play them when you’re in the car.

Its not enough to have them playing in the background while I edit…my attention gets divided!

RETURN OF THE KING EXTENDED EDITION

Got it before x mas. I was somewhat disappointed with the restored 50 minutes. I was expecting it to enhance the plotline or the characters, instead I’m treated to more GIMLI comedy routines that are forced and contrived!

But I’m a completist. So that’s that! The very same reason why I’m going to watch REVENGE OF THE SITH. I’m not betting that it is going to be good but I just want to get it over with.

Then again in the original trilogy the first two were very good while the last, RETURN OF THE JEDI, sucked! And since Lucas claims that he is working with symmetry…then he intentionally or unintentionally might make REVENGE OF THE SITH THE best film of the lot in the recent trilogy!

Now back to work….



TSUNAMMI WARNING DEVICE
The president did it again. Now she wants an early tsunami-warning device installed. She can’t even have the roads fix and the flood situation that happens almost every time it rains; now she wants a tsunami-warning device?

CESS: “ What’s the use of having it? When the Philippines is so small. The tsunami would just wash us away! “

FLIM: “ What do you mean? We’re far from the coastline aren’t we? “

CESS: “ Read the papers. The waters crossed several hundred miles in land! If a tsunami hits us… we’ll be engulfed! Why would she want an early warning device? So we can have a few hours to contemplate our deaths? “

FLIM: “ You totally miss the point! The warning device is for her so she can bolt out of the office and save her neck via helicopter or something!