When I shot my 1st jungle footages about a week and a half ago, much to my horror I discovered that the steadicam was missing a bronze screw in the bottom plate. It controls the stabilization pole. I searched far and wide but… it was like looking for a needle in a savannah.
Wrote the company about my missing screw and in three days they replied and said that they were going to send me 3 spare ones. I thanked them and pretty much went shooting.
I was in the command center when a package arrived. I was totally shocked to discover that it was my spare screws. AMAZING! That’s American efficiency for you. I have been so accustomed to Filipino service that I expected nothing else.
Imagine after a week and a half the screws were in my grasp. I could think of a dozen local companies who can’t even replace a part after a month. LOCAL COMPANIES, within spitting distance!
AMERICANS should conquer the world! With their service they deserve it. FORGET FUCKING NATIONALISM! What do we get? New ways of corrupting and being robbed blind by those duly elected thieves.
Case in point the AUTOMATED ballot counting machines! How can a sum that big get stolen? Easy, everyone down the pipeline got a cut! What other explanation can there be.
Why would I even waste my time to fall in line and sweat tons of buckets so I can elect into office a new crook who’ll rob us blind? There is no choice. It’s not a matter of electing this idiot or that idiot. THEY ARE ALL IDIOTS! SOME ARE BIGGER THAN THE OTHERS while others are more crooked than the next but still they are from the same tribe.
Ever since MARCOS fucked up the system, his evil specter never really left the Building. Anyone who comes in clean never gets out clean.
AMERICA should just make us a colony. WHAT? BE A 2ND CLASS CITIZEN IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY? SO FUCKING WHAT? YOU’D RATHER BE SCREWED BY YOUR COUNTRYMEN THAN BY FOREIGNERS? Well there are fringe benefits Too numerous to even enumerate.
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Just returned from an on location shoot outside of manila. My entire back and upper arms hurts like hell. Used the steadicam and even though I got the shots to slide perfectly to a tee without a bump or a jar, it was such a fucker on the right and left forearms. Something that the manual and steadicam instructor FAILED TO INFORM ME!
They tout it as the next best thing since the crane and the jib! But they failed to mention that the weight of the cam and the harness would eventually fall on some part of the operator’s anatomy.
I should have known when I read that GARRET BROWN the inventor and the most experienced user of the STEADICAM developed some major anatomical injuries when he was using it. THAT SHOULD HAVE TIPPED ME OFF…BUT NOOOOOOOOO!
Anyway I got up at 4 in the morning and checked the equipment. Call time was at 5 AM. The utility vehicle arrived at 6:20.
Along the way we got lost three times trying to find the exit route. By the time we got to the location it was already quarter to ten.
The location was great, ABSOLUTE JUNGLE. Foliage and everything. I can do sweeping panoramic shoots without worrying about getting some television antennae or some sheet iron rooftop. Nothing! NOTHING FOR MILES!
Halfway thru the shoot my actor broke three spears. I was lucky that the production assistant decided to bring all three spears!
The heat and humidity finally got to us three hours into the shoot.
FLIM: “ Now I want you to run for your life. But I want a lot of failing hand gestures! “
DEE: “ OK!”
He runs!
FLIM: “ You run like CHARIOTS OF FIRE style. I DON’T WANT GLAMOUR! I want panic run for your life, sweat storming run.”
DEE: “ Ok! “
He runs
FLIM: “ YOU’RE SMILING! YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSE TO SMILE! You’re being chased and when they get you they’ll tear you to shreds! “
DEE: “ Ok! “
He runs again.
FLIM: “ Do it again! “
He runs again.
FLIM: “ Another take! “
HE RUNS AGAIN
DEE: “ How many times must I do this run?
FLIM: “ Until we get you running like no one has seen before.”
DEE: “ But it’s just running! “
FLIM: “ Nope! It’s running for your life! “
DEE: “ Im ready.”
FLIM: “ OK! “
I took twenty-five takes of him running across the frame. 30 takes of him battling his attackers. Fifteen takes of him falling into a ground littered with king sized carabao manure and 5 hours of non-stop shooting.
By the end of the day we smelled like newly cut grass, sweat and …a smell that I don’t even want to think about.
Last Friday I shot inside a sound studio. There was a battery of air conditions and the two sets were constructed side by side. That was such a pleasant shoot. No walking around the sun and carrying heavy equipment for thirty minutes, no sweat. Refreshments and southern style chicken just within arm’s length.
Such a far cry from today’s shoot. Now here I’m writing today’s entry while today’s shots are catalogued and written down. In an hour I will take a much-needed bath. Get a few bites in between viewing the dallies and then I’m off to editing.
There were so many interesting conversations I had with DEE the actor. But Im too exhausted to recount them today. Maybe tomorrow.
They tout it as the next best thing since the crane and the jib! But they failed to mention that the weight of the cam and the harness would eventually fall on some part of the operator’s anatomy.
I should have known when I read that GARRET BROWN the inventor and the most experienced user of the STEADICAM developed some major anatomical injuries when he was using it. THAT SHOULD HAVE TIPPED ME OFF…BUT NOOOOOOOOO!
Anyway I got up at 4 in the morning and checked the equipment. Call time was at 5 AM. The utility vehicle arrived at 6:20.
Along the way we got lost three times trying to find the exit route. By the time we got to the location it was already quarter to ten.
The location was great, ABSOLUTE JUNGLE. Foliage and everything. I can do sweeping panoramic shoots without worrying about getting some television antennae or some sheet iron rooftop. Nothing! NOTHING FOR MILES!
Halfway thru the shoot my actor broke three spears. I was lucky that the production assistant decided to bring all three spears!
The heat and humidity finally got to us three hours into the shoot.
FLIM: “ Now I want you to run for your life. But I want a lot of failing hand gestures! “
DEE: “ OK!”
He runs!
FLIM: “ You run like CHARIOTS OF FIRE style. I DON’T WANT GLAMOUR! I want panic run for your life, sweat storming run.”
DEE: “ Ok! “
He runs
FLIM: “ YOU’RE SMILING! YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSE TO SMILE! You’re being chased and when they get you they’ll tear you to shreds! “
DEE: “ Ok! “
He runs again.
FLIM: “ Do it again! “
He runs again.
FLIM: “ Another take! “
HE RUNS AGAIN
DEE: “ How many times must I do this run?
FLIM: “ Until we get you running like no one has seen before.”
DEE: “ But it’s just running! “
FLIM: “ Nope! It’s running for your life! “
DEE: “ Im ready.”
FLIM: “ OK! “
I took twenty-five takes of him running across the frame. 30 takes of him battling his attackers. Fifteen takes of him falling into a ground littered with king sized carabao manure and 5 hours of non-stop shooting.
By the end of the day we smelled like newly cut grass, sweat and …a smell that I don’t even want to think about.
Last Friday I shot inside a sound studio. There was a battery of air conditions and the two sets were constructed side by side. That was such a pleasant shoot. No walking around the sun and carrying heavy equipment for thirty minutes, no sweat. Refreshments and southern style chicken just within arm’s length.
Such a far cry from today’s shoot. Now here I’m writing today’s entry while today’s shots are catalogued and written down. In an hour I will take a much-needed bath. Get a few bites in between viewing the dallies and then I’m off to editing.
There were so many interesting conversations I had with DEE the actor. But Im too exhausted to recount them today. Maybe tomorrow.
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Footage from my latest project. The restoration of a music video I did several years ago.
PRODUCTION MANAGER:” Why did you have to change it? I liked it the first time.
FLIM: “ I don’t know. I just wasn’t too crazy with the first cut. Budgetary limitation
Aside we didn’t have the technical access for my vision of what hell truly looked like.
PRODUCTION MANAGER: “ So is this what hell looks like for you? “
FLIM: “ Before yes. But as you grow older your concept of hell changes.Then it was all fire and brimstone.Now, we don’t have to go very far. Just open the papers and look out the window. Try going from one place to the other, this is hell.
But I’m digressing, what I originally wanted was thousands of naked writhing bodies impaled on spikes all mouthing the chorus of the song.
PRODUCTION MANAGER:” That’s really gross! In your original version the angel was inside this wall of darkness, now he’s in the middle of giant cavern ,sourrounded by a raging inferno. I prefer the wall of darkness. Leaves room to the imagination,you know? ”
FLIM: “ Yeah I know what you mean. That’s what I said too in my intial pitch. He’s going to be in the middle of this black void. So you really don’t know where he is. Is he imprisoned in a windowless pit, or stranded on the edge of eternity. But the reality of it was that there was no budget for any sets. So your predecessor and I got a lot of black garbage plastic bags and hung them all over the place.
And you know what’s really funny. Back then I knew I would want to go back and alter the shot I was doing. And by sorrounding the actor in total black, I could pull a perfect matte out of it.”
PRODUCTION MANAGER: So are you calling this your director’s cut? “
FLIM: “ Nah, I call it the TINGGA edition.”
PRODUCTION MANAGER: “ Are we going to air it? “
FLIM: “ I don’t think we can. We need to get permission from the parent recording company who commissioned it.”
PRODUCTION MANAGER: “ SO WHAT’S THE POINT OF DOING IT? “
FLIM: “ MY dear girl, this was just a test project to see what we can do with our latest
Toys. From this I can acertain what we can and cannot do.”
PRODUCTION MANAGER: “ what can we do? “
I just gave her a smile.
This is what I’m working on now. Selina’s yaya went on a two-week holiday for the Christmas break. So that meant Cess and me would take turns in watching over the baby full time.
Last Friday, I volunteered to take Selina to the mall.
CESS: “ Why don’t you take our cook to accompany you.”
FLIM: “ Nah I want to spend some quality time with the baby. Take her around. Look at some books and toys, a ride or two and then some refreshments. The works.”
CESS: “ I’M NOT TOO SURE THAT YOU CAN HANDLE IT.”
FLIM: “ I CAN. I USE TO TAKE HER TO Jollibee in the mornings so this won’t be any diff.”
So we dropped off Cess in her office and right off, Selina did her thing!
SELINA: “ WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHERE’S MOMMY GOING, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
FLIM: “ Ohh there, there I’ll take you shopping and we’ll buy toys and we’ll have fun! “
SELINA: “ WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! OPEN DOOR! OPEN THE DOOR! “
I told the driver to hit the pedal to the metal! And we were off! But before going to Glorietta I dropped by the supplier who ‘s contracted to sell me the latest editing machine.
By then SELINA was at full throttle!
SELINA: “ mOOOMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! WHERE’S MOMMMMEEEE! “
FLIM: “ Shush, keep quiet! I just have to get some last minute check up on daddee’s new editing equipment then were’ off.”
SELINA: “ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! DON’T! LIKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!”
Everyone in the building was looking at me. We went inside the elevator where she screamed her head off! Acoustics in enclosed spaces are really tricky! Three other occupants inside had to hold their hands to their ears. I was too deaf by then to even notice any difference.
I went to the office and there was my tech supervisor. He was giving the specs and the best possible set up to maximize my latest acquisition.
TECH SUPE: “ So you need an extra power generator because this machine is going to suck up all the electronic supply in your house my advice…
SELINA: ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! MOMMME!!!!!! I WANT MOMMMEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
FLIM: “ Don’t mind her, she just got out of prison and is experiencing separation anxieties.”
Tech supe goes on talking but Selina ‘s vocal prowess found an extra hidden energy reserve and it went from decibel levels to supersonic sub frequencies!
TECHSUPE: “ ……………………..Instant……………………then………………separate………….
………………………So I …………….not.”
FLIM: “ Uhm can we just talk on the phone. I’m not really getting any of this!”
While holding her as she gyrated and whipped up a tantrum of a cosmological magnitude.
So we we went off to glorietta. And when we climbed the escalator she suddenly smiled and the cries abated.
SELINA: “ Escalator, WHOPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I was totally exasperated and I thought that the worst was over that once we were inside she would see so many distractions that she wont even notice her mother missing.
That illusion was suddenly shattered thirty minutes later when she threw a fit over at the POWER ZONE.
FLIM: “ I thought you wanted to ride the horsie! “
SELINA: “ Jet plane! “
FLIM: “ Ok! OK! “
So we strapped ourselves inside the sega powered simulator and we were off and running!
Selina kept pressing the change view button so I amaze even myself when I was able to hit all the targets!
BOY SPECTATOR: “ Hey youre good! Even when she’s changing your view button.”
FLIM: “ Try raising a kid like this and I can do anything! “
She then brought me to the skateboard simulator and we rode that too! She became dizzy and kinda liked walked funny so we took a breather beside the fountain. I then went to the Potatoes corner to get her some barbeque flavored French fries.
While on line, she ran off and I had to chase her! This happened nine times, try doing that while lining up for some fries.
When our turn was near I decided to just wrestle her and pin her under my arms as I wait for my turn. But like the fearless and energetic combatant that she is, she wriggled out of my headlock and climbed my shoulders. It was like trying to catch a slippery fish.
VENDOR: “ what would you like sir.”
FLIM: “ 2 barbeques please and make it quick, I might drop the kid.”
VENDOR: “ here you are.”
FLIM: “ Can you fish out the money on my right side pocket? Both of my hands are full at the moment! “
SELINA: “ I WANT TO GO TO FOUNTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VENDOR: “Ohm what a loud voice for a child. Are all children like that?”
FLIM: “ My advise to you, is NEVER TO BEAR CHILDREN! ITS LUNACY! Keep the change! “
Feeding her was a breeze; it’s the catching up with her as she runs like a gazelle thru the crowed ground floor of glorietta that’s the trick!
Two hours later after riding the escalator, forty times straight, which she was crazy for? I had to sit down and think about life.
This was just one day. And she’s now 3. I wonder what she will be like when she’s four, five or six. Would I have the stamina and the patience to weather the storm? Will I survive it? I should be an optimist; hell I wont even survive today.
Around six thirty, I had to call reinforcements.
FLIM: “ HELLO, CESS. SEND HELP NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! “
My wife picked us up at around 7. And as I slumped inside the car, I dropped like a log.
CESS: “ Well how was it? “
FLIM: “ When the yaya gets back, give her a raise! “
Last Friday, I volunteered to take Selina to the mall.
CESS: “ Why don’t you take our cook to accompany you.”
FLIM: “ Nah I want to spend some quality time with the baby. Take her around. Look at some books and toys, a ride or two and then some refreshments. The works.”
CESS: “ I’M NOT TOO SURE THAT YOU CAN HANDLE IT.”
FLIM: “ I CAN. I USE TO TAKE HER TO Jollibee in the mornings so this won’t be any diff.”
So we dropped off Cess in her office and right off, Selina did her thing!
SELINA: “ WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHERE’S MOMMY GOING, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
FLIM: “ Ohh there, there I’ll take you shopping and we’ll buy toys and we’ll have fun! “
SELINA: “ WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! OPEN DOOR! OPEN THE DOOR! “
I told the driver to hit the pedal to the metal! And we were off! But before going to Glorietta I dropped by the supplier who ‘s contracted to sell me the latest editing machine.
By then SELINA was at full throttle!
SELINA: “ mOOOMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! WHERE’S MOMMMMEEEE! “
FLIM: “ Shush, keep quiet! I just have to get some last minute check up on daddee’s new editing equipment then were’ off.”
SELINA: “ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! DON’T! LIKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!”
Everyone in the building was looking at me. We went inside the elevator where she screamed her head off! Acoustics in enclosed spaces are really tricky! Three other occupants inside had to hold their hands to their ears. I was too deaf by then to even notice any difference.
I went to the office and there was my tech supervisor. He was giving the specs and the best possible set up to maximize my latest acquisition.
TECH SUPE: “ So you need an extra power generator because this machine is going to suck up all the electronic supply in your house my advice…
SELINA: ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! MOMMME!!!!!! I WANT MOMMMEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
FLIM: “ Don’t mind her, she just got out of prison and is experiencing separation anxieties.”
Tech supe goes on talking but Selina ‘s vocal prowess found an extra hidden energy reserve and it went from decibel levels to supersonic sub frequencies!
TECHSUPE: “ ……………………..Instant……………………then………………separate………….
………………………So I …………….not.”
FLIM: “ Uhm can we just talk on the phone. I’m not really getting any of this!”
While holding her as she gyrated and whipped up a tantrum of a cosmological magnitude.
So we we went off to glorietta. And when we climbed the escalator she suddenly smiled and the cries abated.
SELINA: “ Escalator, WHOPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I was totally exasperated and I thought that the worst was over that once we were inside she would see so many distractions that she wont even notice her mother missing.
That illusion was suddenly shattered thirty minutes later when she threw a fit over at the POWER ZONE.
FLIM: “ I thought you wanted to ride the horsie! “
SELINA: “ Jet plane! “
FLIM: “ Ok! OK! “
So we strapped ourselves inside the sega powered simulator and we were off and running!
Selina kept pressing the change view button so I amaze even myself when I was able to hit all the targets!
BOY SPECTATOR: “ Hey youre good! Even when she’s changing your view button.”
FLIM: “ Try raising a kid like this and I can do anything! “
She then brought me to the skateboard simulator and we rode that too! She became dizzy and kinda liked walked funny so we took a breather beside the fountain. I then went to the Potatoes corner to get her some barbeque flavored French fries.
While on line, she ran off and I had to chase her! This happened nine times, try doing that while lining up for some fries.
When our turn was near I decided to just wrestle her and pin her under my arms as I wait for my turn. But like the fearless and energetic combatant that she is, she wriggled out of my headlock and climbed my shoulders. It was like trying to catch a slippery fish.
VENDOR: “ what would you like sir.”
FLIM: “ 2 barbeques please and make it quick, I might drop the kid.”
VENDOR: “ here you are.”
FLIM: “ Can you fish out the money on my right side pocket? Both of my hands are full at the moment! “
SELINA: “ I WANT TO GO TO FOUNTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VENDOR: “Ohm what a loud voice for a child. Are all children like that?”
FLIM: “ My advise to you, is NEVER TO BEAR CHILDREN! ITS LUNACY! Keep the change! “
Feeding her was a breeze; it’s the catching up with her as she runs like a gazelle thru the crowed ground floor of glorietta that’s the trick!
Two hours later after riding the escalator, forty times straight, which she was crazy for? I had to sit down and think about life.
This was just one day. And she’s now 3. I wonder what she will be like when she’s four, five or six. Would I have the stamina and the patience to weather the storm? Will I survive it? I should be an optimist; hell I wont even survive today.
Around six thirty, I had to call reinforcements.
FLIM: “ HELLO, CESS. SEND HELP NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! “
My wife picked us up at around 7. And as I slumped inside the car, I dropped like a log.
CESS: “ Well how was it? “
FLIM: “ When the yaya gets back, give her a raise! “
Saturday, December 13, 2003
THE FELLOWSHIP OF ACTION FIGURES
THERE IS NO LIFE IN THE VOID!
FLIM: “ HOW much for that SAURON action figure?”
SALESLADY: “ 1,150! “
FLIM: “ How much for the one that includes SARUMAN? “
SALESLADY: “ 1380.”
THERE IS NO LIFE IN THE VOID!
FLIM: “ But my friend said that he got SAURON with SARUMAN for 1,150. Why and when was the price raised?”
BUILD ME AN ARMY WORTHY OF MORDOR!
SALESLADY: “ they made a mistake at the head office and realized that they priced it at the same level when the one with SARUMAN should be more expensive>”
THERE IS NO LIFE IN THE VOID!
FLIM: ” Sounds fair enough. Ok give me a few seconds to decide which to get.”
CESS: “ Why do you have to decide, it’s pretty obvious that you’ll get the one with the saruman figure included.”?
BUILD ME AN ARMY WORTHY OF MORDOR!
FLIM: “ ye that’s a steal but the problem is they don’t look good together inside the blister pack. They look cramped. But look at the single SAURON he looks pretty cool and sinister. Alone in his box, he retains the majesty and fearsome aura that should be his alone.
BUILD ME AN ARMY WORTHY OF MORDOR!
Look at the SAURON AND SARUMAN TANDEM. They look like gay lovers out for a SATURDAY BONDAGE SESSION.”
CESS: “ But you’ll open it…so why does it matter.”
FLIM: “ Oh no. I’m not opening this. Im just putting it in display!
SALESLADY:” That’s what the other Chinese guy said. He also took a long time in deciding which of the two to get. His display case is made out of glass and has this small bulb like things inside.
FLIM: ” Halogen lamps. Makes for very good mood lighting. Can you hold on to these I need to think?
THERE IS NO LIFE IN THE VOID!
When in doubt never buys. Just walk around to clear your head and put things in the proper perspective.
CESS: " And will you please stop pressing the button on the back, it might wear off the batteries
" BUILD ME AN ARM...."
SALESLADY: “ ok But you better come back soon. A lot of people are looking for these.
I wandered the mall and went into this small toyshop. I promised to get the kid a nice looking and evil toy that she can play with. When lo and behold I find a SURON SARUMAN double team package for …1,100.
FLIM: ‘ DID YOU KNOW that in the department store they raised their prices because the head office said that they made a mistake?”
MANAGER: “ We are not raising our prices here. What you see is what you get.”
FLIM: “ Bag it! “
THE TWO TOWERS EXTENDED EDITION MISHAP.
When my TWO TOWERS extended edition arrived, I was so happy that I breezed thru my lectures with excitement and anticipation for the film viewing to come. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the DVDs and they were littered with large scratches and deep fissure groves.
MY PRECIOUS! WHY MY PRECIOUS?
I did not have the heart to watch it. I called up my supplier who promised to replace them.
Today the replacement arrived but again, it is damaged with scratches and fingerprints. That’s disc 1, so I just exchanged and replaced the damaged discs. Now I have in my possession an amalgamation of the two towers. Parts of the older package and bits of the newer one.
Original DVD manufacturers are getting very sloppy indeed.
RETURN OF THE KING.
My producer texted me that he bought me and Cess two tickets for THE RETURN OF THE KING PREMIERE. GREAT GUNS! WHAT A NICE GUY!
CESS: “ BUT WHAT ABOUT MY MOTHER’S PARTY. She’s hosting one this week and…”
FLIM: “ My dear, there’s no contest. OF COURSE we have to cancel your mother’s party. As much as I like your Mom, I can’t resist the temptation of the one ring!
Maybe they can move the party or something.”
CESS: “ Its her party. We’re just invited.”
FLIM: “ I know. I know! The tragedy of it all.”
Ticktockticktockticktock, REPENT SAID THE TICKTOCKMAN TO THE HARLEQUIN.
CESS: “ Let’s cancel the party! “
And we both giggled like evil hobittses on a small fishing boat. But of course we all know how that all turned out.
Friday, November 28, 2003
Haven’t been able to write anything new for the past weeks. I have been too busy
Yesterday I took the time to take CESS out to watch MASTER AND THE COMMANDER. She’s been very worried about SELINA that she doesn’t sleep regularly.
I’m also worried and working up until 400 in the morning leaves me little time to sleep.So I persuaded her to take a breather.
After the movie We had lunch in this new Japanese restaurant in ROBINSONS.
Then it was back to work. I’ll have the production photos up and running by next week and I’ll post them here.
My TWO TOWERS extended edition arrived last week. Pity that I can’t watch it too many things to do.
Cess’s friend, Therese told us over dinner , celebrating her house warming ,inside her fabulous new glass house, That she does not read newspapers anymore.
“ Im sick of reading bad news everytime I open the papers in the morning.”
She mumbled as she served up some very delicious black pasta.
I agree with her. But I have no choice. I have this irresistible urge to find out what happens next.
In the gym this morning, An old nice lady who was walking the threadmill alongside mine voiced the same opinion.
OLDLADY: “ So FPJ is running for president. He will win.”
FLIM: “ Of course he will. There are more idiots here in this country than thinking ones! “
OLDLADY: ” It’s a very sad day.”
FLIM: “ Blame it on the poor.BUT ALSO BLAME THE RICH! But then again the POOR MIND SET is “ We are poor and if we can’t better our lot then we might a well bring the entire country down with us!”The rich sector has the responsibility of giving back something to the country thru scholarship funds or anything to educate the ignorant masses. But what do they do? They just cart off their money somewhere else!
OLDLADY: “ The rich mind set is “ We don’t care what happens just as long as it doesn’t touch our investments! “
FLIM: “ That’s what the aristrocrats thought in FRANCE during MARIE ANTIONETTE’s time.
Yesterday I took the time to take CESS out to watch MASTER AND THE COMMANDER. She’s been very worried about SELINA that she doesn’t sleep regularly.
I’m also worried and working up until 400 in the morning leaves me little time to sleep.So I persuaded her to take a breather.
After the movie We had lunch in this new Japanese restaurant in ROBINSONS.
Then it was back to work. I’ll have the production photos up and running by next week and I’ll post them here.
My TWO TOWERS extended edition arrived last week. Pity that I can’t watch it too many things to do.
Cess’s friend, Therese told us over dinner , celebrating her house warming ,inside her fabulous new glass house, That she does not read newspapers anymore.
“ Im sick of reading bad news everytime I open the papers in the morning.”
She mumbled as she served up some very delicious black pasta.
I agree with her. But I have no choice. I have this irresistible urge to find out what happens next.
In the gym this morning, An old nice lady who was walking the threadmill alongside mine voiced the same opinion.
OLDLADY: “ So FPJ is running for president. He will win.”
FLIM: “ Of course he will. There are more idiots here in this country than thinking ones! “
OLDLADY: ” It’s a very sad day.”
FLIM: “ Blame it on the poor.BUT ALSO BLAME THE RICH! But then again the POOR MIND SET is “ We are poor and if we can’t better our lot then we might a well bring the entire country down with us!”The rich sector has the responsibility of giving back something to the country thru scholarship funds or anything to educate the ignorant masses. But what do they do? They just cart off their money somewhere else!
OLDLADY: “ The rich mind set is “ We don’t care what happens just as long as it doesn’t touch our investments! “
FLIM: “ That’s what the aristrocrats thought in FRANCE during MARIE ANTIONETTE’s time.
Thursday, November 13, 2003
PRE-PROD PART-1
Production assistant: “ Ok what do you need?
FLIM: I need a location that has dense foliage and dark green vegetations. I don’t like plants that looked like it hasn’t been watered for days. I want it to look really wet.
Production assistant: TANAY RIZAL?
FLIM:” Are you kidding me? Every local film production always go to TANAY Rizal for their Jungle location! NO! We have to find some place that isn’t all TALAHIB fields everywhere. I WANT A JUNGLE LOCATION.
Production assistant: “ How about PALAWAN? “
FLIM: ”Hmmmm. But how much would it cost to transport the actors and the equipment? Bedside’s that’s too far off from our main supply line.”
Production assistant: “ How about the sunken gardens in U.P?”
FLIM: “ Fair enough.”
Production assistant: “ How about the lighting system. Do you have any preferences? “
FLIM: ”Here’s the list of lighting packages. Let’s put it it at the lowest priority list. I’m more inclined to use the natural elements as my cinematographer.
Production assistant: “ What kind of camera are we using…”
FLIM:” Here ….
Production assistant: “ Ohhh…yes we don’t need much light for that.”
FLIM: “ Lets just get a lot of reflectors.”
Production assistant:” Ok here’s the quote for the catering services. The name on the second list is my wife’s aunt she’s very good with apretada.”
FLIM: ”Hmmmmmmm….(swishing of pages being turned.) Let’s do without the catering. We’ll just pack a lot of sardines and spams and plenty of rice and soft drinks!
Production assistant: “ But what about nutritious food? We’ll be shooting…”
FLIM:” We’re shooting a low budget number here, and not running a health program.Sardines and canned goods are the staple food of every Filipino film production. Who are we to break that kind of tradition?
Production assistant:” Well have you seen the movies that come out using that kind of meal? “
FLIM: ” Last time I checked the outcome of the film depends on the director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, editor and actors. Not on what’s simmering on the plate.
Production assistant: ”But the people working on the film, they need sustenance.
They need good food to regain their energy to work?”
FLIM: ” ALL SPECULATION!
Production assistant: “ Would you have at least some brain food around. Like peanuts? “
FLIM: “ Are you trying to insinuate that sardines are not good meal substitutes?
Are you to trying to shoot down our entire sardine cottage industry?
Production assistant: ” I eat sardines but they just don’t fill me.”
FLIM: ”And what does? “
Production assistant: “ KALDERATA and stewed beef. Those are good shooting foods.”
FLIM: ” I subsisted on sardines and bread for months when I was on a diet and I had plenty of excess energy! Besides they’re cheap and very accessible everywhere we go. Even if we get stuck in some sleazy out of the way province. You can hike up to the nearest sari-sari-store and buy sardines.”
Production assistant: “ Why are you cost-cutting so much. Where would the bulk of the money go? “
FLIM: ” Listen, the whole point of the sardines and canned goods thing is that we are a Spartan unit! We shall travel light and fast, SET UP FAST, SHOOT FAST! This is not an industry level project. This is a guerilla enterprise. EATING is going to be a NECESSITY not a luxury!
No over eating in between takes. OVER EATING mean’s SIESTA times and sluggish body movements! WE ARE GOING TO BE LEAN AND HUNGRY!
We are a covert team. If we get shot down behind enemy lines then the government would disavow our existence, deny our citizenship And leave us for the dogs.
Production assistant: “ But eating good food is important.”
FLIM: “ When you’re producing your own film and using your own money then that’s when you get KALDERATA and BEEF STEW. But THIS IS MY MONEY AND MY PROJECT, SO THE WORD IS SARDINES!”
Production assistant: “ Where would the majority of the budget go?”
FLIM: “ Good point. Here let me open the door and show you …. wait a sec…. There! “
Production assistant: “ OH MY… I…WOW! OHHH…How many carpenters did you employ to make this? Can I touch it ? IS it still wet? ”
FLIM: “Not there, it hasn’t set yet. The point is when all is said and done, you wont have SARDINES and canned foods on the screen. And neither your KALDERATA nor BEEF STEW would get top billing OR GET ANY screen time. Every centavo we have would have to be seen up there! Either as a great looking set or an incredible miniature cityscape, or an amazing set piece.IT HAS TO BE SEEN UP THERE!
Production assistant: ” Ok I understand it now. So what brand of sardines are we getting? PLease tell me where’ getting portugese sardines…please! please!
Production assistant: “ Ok what do you need?
FLIM: I need a location that has dense foliage and dark green vegetations. I don’t like plants that looked like it hasn’t been watered for days. I want it to look really wet.
Production assistant: TANAY RIZAL?
FLIM:” Are you kidding me? Every local film production always go to TANAY Rizal for their Jungle location! NO! We have to find some place that isn’t all TALAHIB fields everywhere. I WANT A JUNGLE LOCATION.
Production assistant: “ How about PALAWAN? “
FLIM: ”Hmmmm. But how much would it cost to transport the actors and the equipment? Bedside’s that’s too far off from our main supply line.”
Production assistant: “ How about the sunken gardens in U.P?”
FLIM: “ Fair enough.”
Production assistant: “ How about the lighting system. Do you have any preferences? “
FLIM: ”Here’s the list of lighting packages. Let’s put it it at the lowest priority list. I’m more inclined to use the natural elements as my cinematographer.
Production assistant: “ What kind of camera are we using…”
FLIM:” Here ….
Production assistant: “ Ohhh…yes we don’t need much light for that.”
FLIM: “ Lets just get a lot of reflectors.”
Production assistant:” Ok here’s the quote for the catering services. The name on the second list is my wife’s aunt she’s very good with apretada.”
FLIM: ”Hmmmmmmm….(swishing of pages being turned.) Let’s do without the catering. We’ll just pack a lot of sardines and spams and plenty of rice and soft drinks!
Production assistant: “ But what about nutritious food? We’ll be shooting…”
FLIM:” We’re shooting a low budget number here, and not running a health program.Sardines and canned goods are the staple food of every Filipino film production. Who are we to break that kind of tradition?
Production assistant:” Well have you seen the movies that come out using that kind of meal? “
FLIM: ” Last time I checked the outcome of the film depends on the director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, editor and actors. Not on what’s simmering on the plate.
Production assistant: ”But the people working on the film, they need sustenance.
They need good food to regain their energy to work?”
FLIM: ” ALL SPECULATION!
Production assistant: “ Would you have at least some brain food around. Like peanuts? “
FLIM: “ Are you trying to insinuate that sardines are not good meal substitutes?
Are you to trying to shoot down our entire sardine cottage industry?
Production assistant: ” I eat sardines but they just don’t fill me.”
FLIM: ”And what does? “
Production assistant: “ KALDERATA and stewed beef. Those are good shooting foods.”
FLIM: ” I subsisted on sardines and bread for months when I was on a diet and I had plenty of excess energy! Besides they’re cheap and very accessible everywhere we go. Even if we get stuck in some sleazy out of the way province. You can hike up to the nearest sari-sari-store and buy sardines.”
Production assistant: “ Why are you cost-cutting so much. Where would the bulk of the money go? “
FLIM: ” Listen, the whole point of the sardines and canned goods thing is that we are a Spartan unit! We shall travel light and fast, SET UP FAST, SHOOT FAST! This is not an industry level project. This is a guerilla enterprise. EATING is going to be a NECESSITY not a luxury!
No over eating in between takes. OVER EATING mean’s SIESTA times and sluggish body movements! WE ARE GOING TO BE LEAN AND HUNGRY!
We are a covert team. If we get shot down behind enemy lines then the government would disavow our existence, deny our citizenship And leave us for the dogs.
Production assistant: “ But eating good food is important.”
FLIM: “ When you’re producing your own film and using your own money then that’s when you get KALDERATA and BEEF STEW. But THIS IS MY MONEY AND MY PROJECT, SO THE WORD IS SARDINES!”
Production assistant: “ Where would the majority of the budget go?”
FLIM: “ Good point. Here let me open the door and show you …. wait a sec…. There! “
Production assistant: “ OH MY… I…WOW! OHHH…How many carpenters did you employ to make this? Can I touch it ? IS it still wet? ”
FLIM: “Not there, it hasn’t set yet. The point is when all is said and done, you wont have SARDINES and canned foods on the screen. And neither your KALDERATA nor BEEF STEW would get top billing OR GET ANY screen time. Every centavo we have would have to be seen up there! Either as a great looking set or an incredible miniature cityscape, or an amazing set piece.IT HAS TO BE SEEN UP THERE!
Production assistant: ” Ok I understand it now. So what brand of sardines are we getting? PLease tell me where’ getting portugese sardines…please! please!
Thursday, October 30, 2003
HALLOWED EVE
So here I am at the eve of Halloween, doing what? WHAT ELSE but creating MONSTERS! APT ISN’T IT? Like a mad scientist I have not seen the light of day for…uhm days. Locked inside my laboratory I sew pieces of different limbs and body parts to create something new. But alas. Nothing is ever new. All of them have been done before. VIRGIL and the Greek poets, VICTOR VON FRANKENSTEIN, DR. MOREAU,LOVE CRAFT, THE ATOM BOMB. They have done it, years ago. So how does one top that? One doesn’t.
One might emulate or do a variation but …
I don’t know. My mind reels from such thoughts.
Sometimes I purchase a limb that is impossible to come by. Only to discover that it doesn’t fit. Then I ‘m faced with quandary of tossing the limb into the junk pile or totally abandoning the present structure and start a new with the aforementioned limb.
Choices…choices…choices…
NEVER ENDS
Then there is the wife of course.
She vexes me about the Promethean amount of electricity that I use up. BUT OF COURSE! How can you bring a MONSTER to life without that most precious substance that most vital of elements? ELECTRICITY!
IT’S A Time honored device, ALMOST TRADITION in every HORROR GENRE.
She also complains about the laboratory smelling like garlic. What can I say? I love that spice. It also keeps the competition out.
So here I’m writing my journals. Resting my tired eyes. Contemplating the missing factor that will bring my creation to life. Asking the universe how can I create the most HORRIBLE MONSTER OF ALL.Then the door opens and she screams!
Equipped with a pair of wings wrenched from some poor pixie she faces me and opens her terrible mouth. It is then that the horrific realization dawned on me. I HAVE ALREADY CREATED THE MOST HORRIBLE MONSTER OF ALL TIME,
GAZE UPON HER VISAGE AND DESPAIR, ALL YE MIGHTY AND POWERFUL!!!!
So here I am at the eve of Halloween, doing what? WHAT ELSE but creating MONSTERS! APT ISN’T IT? Like a mad scientist I have not seen the light of day for…uhm days. Locked inside my laboratory I sew pieces of different limbs and body parts to create something new. But alas. Nothing is ever new. All of them have been done before. VIRGIL and the Greek poets, VICTOR VON FRANKENSTEIN, DR. MOREAU,LOVE CRAFT, THE ATOM BOMB. They have done it, years ago. So how does one top that? One doesn’t.
One might emulate or do a variation but …
I don’t know. My mind reels from such thoughts.
Sometimes I purchase a limb that is impossible to come by. Only to discover that it doesn’t fit. Then I ‘m faced with quandary of tossing the limb into the junk pile or totally abandoning the present structure and start a new with the aforementioned limb.
Choices…choices…choices…
NEVER ENDS
Then there is the wife of course.
She vexes me about the Promethean amount of electricity that I use up. BUT OF COURSE! How can you bring a MONSTER to life without that most precious substance that most vital of elements? ELECTRICITY!
IT’S A Time honored device, ALMOST TRADITION in every HORROR GENRE.
She also complains about the laboratory smelling like garlic. What can I say? I love that spice. It also keeps the competition out.
So here I’m writing my journals. Resting my tired eyes. Contemplating the missing factor that will bring my creation to life. Asking the universe how can I create the most HORRIBLE MONSTER OF ALL.Then the door opens and she screams!
Equipped with a pair of wings wrenched from some poor pixie she faces me and opens her terrible mouth. It is then that the horrific realization dawned on me. I HAVE ALREADY CREATED THE MOST HORRIBLE MONSTER OF ALL TIME,
GAZE UPON HER VISAGE AND DESPAIR, ALL YE MIGHTY AND POWERFUL!!!!
Friday, October 17, 2003
1ST TENTACLE
STEADICAM ASSEMBLED! Joe and me put together the contraption in less than an hour.Distribution of weights were designed on heavy the camera is. Meaning, you have to change the poundage when you change lenses. The giant telephoto extensions for the bolex add five pounds, while the wide-angle attachment somewhere between two to four.
The battery that I use which can take up to nine hours straight shooting, is another giant waiting to be carried.
We did test shots of extensive tracking and dolly movements. Configuring and re-configuring the weight.
JOE: Normally it would take months for somebody to get the hang of it. But you did it in a few hours. Honestly Im not surprised since you were able to do long tracking shots that looked like steadicam shots so I guess you know the basics inherently.
So the question that pops into mind is why did I get a steadicam when I can already do steady shots right? I don’t know but the equipment looks very cool! (Of course I know. I can make my steady shots look a lot steadier! )
2ND TENTACLE
Massive re-editing on the COMFORT WOMEN documentary’s been finished. We have an official title, EXORCISING DEMONS. First cut was 3 hours long. Parred it down to 2 and 30.
3RD TENTACLE
I’m into the 2nd act of the script that JOE commissioned me to do. Having a great time doing it. It’s a blast to write something, knowing that you wont direct it. In the past whenever I write a scene I stop dead in my tracks and then take out the calculator, “ HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO THAT? HOW MUCH IS THAT GOING TO COST? “ Then you start dialing and making inquiries about so-so location, so-so equipment and such. By the end of the day I go back to the view screen and delete the scene, COSTS TOO MUCH!
Joe has given me CARTE BLANCHE on the entire story. Insisting that I should insert my trademark, black humor.
I said that I’d try. I believe that the humor should be found in the premise and not inserted for humor’s sake. If I don’t find it in the material then it’s not there! But the story is primed with so many possibilities that it takes me time to explore every avenue possible!
4TH TENTACLE
Just finished the re-mastering of a music video I did years ago. I did this MTV for 50 thousand pesos. Really dirt-cheap. That measly sum covered everything and quite frankly I wasn’t that happy with the finished cut. So now after 5 years I went back and did my special director’s cut , TINGGA EDITION.
Using the state of the arts digital equipment at my disposal I was able to shape it into what I always wanted it to look like. Now I know how GEORGE LUCAS must have felt like.
But there’s no massive re-structuring done, like HAN SOLO shooting first. Besides it’s just a damn music video! What can you do?
I don’t know if I should even submit it for airing. Probably just put it in my demo-reel.
5TH TENTACLE
I’m being commissioned to do a documentary about the URBAN POOR. I don’t know how much the budget will be but this would be a civic duty kinda thing. Armed with the latest technological equipment, I will land on their homes when they least expect it and shoot every inch of their abode. My camera will glide and swoop from the rafters and into the very soul of the least forgotten half hammered nail on their flooring. I will show the humanity in those impoverished structures, ‘ THE HUMANITY! THE UTTER HUMANITY OF IT ALL! “
First it was the COMFORT WOMEN, now the URBAN POOR. Am I becoming a social realist?
7TH TENTACLE
Also spending a lot of quality time with SELINA. Since I’m in the CAVE most of the time I put her to sleep on the couch with the SIMPSON’S 3RD SEASON DVDS playing.THE SOUTH PARK DVD was conveniently lent by CESS to her dad. I wouldn’t be shocked if there was a secret command not to have it returned. Anyway I’ll just go and get a new one and watch it when the kid’s not around.
8TH TENTACLE
CESS: “ Now why are you doing that? Shouldn’t you be shooting or something? “
FLIM: “ I need a g>VACATION. And this is what im going to learn during my free time. Other people study languages and cooking but I’m going to study this!
CESS: “ And how much did it cost you to get that equipment and those things what ever you call them? (Pointing at the new machine and the various cables that come out of it)
FLIM: “ You wouldn’t want to know.”
CESS: “ Have you checked your students grades yet? “
FLIM: “ Yep. I’m going to do the tally of their final grade after I animate the hind tentacle of the KRAKEN
I have been sitting on the strong>WORKSTATION for about a week now as I study the basic rudiments of COMPUTER GRAPHICS ANIMATION. It is true that it does take some time from me, from doing the commissioned script and the shooting of my two projects. But since the sem- break already started I figured this is the best time to do it. Im not going to hike off to some distant cordilleira mountain to discover the inner me, or go to the beach and get a tan! I can get that while waiting for a cab.
Joe told me that I could easily just pass it off to the computer graphics division. That’s true but I want to do it on my own. Delegating spfx elements to a third party is a common practice in the professional world. You shoot the main plate and then pass it off to the SPFX team and then you sit down with them and express thru words or drawings what you want them to do.
They then build something and after a few days you are called to check on it and you either like it or hate it or it brings you to another tangent
While doing it on your own, aside from saving you tons of time communicating and shuttling back and forth to the studio, gives you complete creative control. You are no longer under the whim of the technoids.TECHNOID: “ Sorry Direk, we can’t do that shot it’s too complicated.”
TECHNOID 2: “ Ohhh that’s going to take a lot of rendering time.”
TECHNOID 3: “We can do that but we need to boost our production budget.”
By investing on the software and the hardware’s I can save a lot of money in the long run. Now I have a computer graphics division in my studio and I don’t have to deal with those TECHNOIDS ever! Of course I have to go thru tons of books that weigh heavier than those damn yellow pages and I have to cram and click my way thru PERDITIONS FLAME before I can come up with something passable.
But I would go thru PERDITIONS FLAME before I give up! In fact when I look at the mirror I ‘m beginning to resemble…
OHHH GOSH! I AM A TECHNOID! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
FLIM: “ Anyway…her school teacher asked Selina if she was enjoying herself. And Selina looks at her with her big eyes and said, ‘ S..U..C..K…M..Y..A..S..S.”
I was in the canteen with my fellow teacher, TATS , DOCTORA TACAR and our funny chairperson MRS B.
TATS: “Well you should have heard what my niece told my mother when she was scolded by my Mom, She said, “ASSHOLE!”
FLIM: “ NO SHIT! “
TATS: ” Yes.. and she’s only three.”
DOCTOR TACAR: “The daughter of my niece, I told her to stop playing in the rain and she said, ‘ FUCK A DUCK! “
FLIM: ”Frightening!
MRS. B: “ I have a horror story to tell. I was in the States because I was helping my sister, baby-sit her four-year-old child. Well one day MY NIECE did something bad. I don’t recall what but I pinched her and told her to stop it. You know what she said? She said, “ OUCHHHHH!!!I’M GOING TO CALL THE POLICE! “And she went to the phone and started to dial.
I took the phone away from her and placed it back on the cradle and said, “If you CALL the police I’ll kill YOU!! “
She cried and said, “ Noooooooooo!!!You’ll kill me?????? Noooooooo!!! I’m really going to call the police! ! “
And she tried to grab the phone from me. I told her, “ If you call the police, I’LL KILL THEM TOO! “
She cried, “ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! You’ll kill me? Nooooooooooooo!!!!
I’m going to tell my mother! “
I told her to keep quiet! And if she tells’s her mother…I’LL KILL HER TOO! She cries again, “ NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! You can’t kill my mother! NOOOOO!!!!!! I’ll just tell my father! “
Then my sister comes in. She asked what that crying was all about. I told her the entire story and she started to laugh. She then told her daughter that she would be the one to tell the father about my pinching. But you know kids right? When you tell them not to do something that’s when they really DO IT!
So I tell my niece, “ YOU TELL YOUR FATHER AND I’LL KILL HIM TOO! “
My niece then started crying again and said, “ MOTHER DID YOU HEAR THAT? SHE’S GOING TO KILL FATHER TOO…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
My sister told her that I was only joking.
So the matter was closed and I went up to my room and prepared to take a bath when my niece enters the room and sits on my bed. She looked at my suspiciously and said,
“ Auntie I was doing a lot of thinking and I don’t believe that you can kill..THE POLICE, MY FATHER and MY MOTHER and me! That’s a lot of people to kill. You’ll get tired very soon. And if you do kill the police, my mother and my father … can’t you just spare me? “
TATS: “ How old is she? “
MRS. B:” Only five.”
FLIM: “ It’s frightening!
MRS. B:” Yes they mature really fast.”
FLIM:” That’s not what I meant. It’s frightening to think that you’re the chairman of the department!
I was in the canteen with my fellow teacher, TATS , DOCTORA TACAR and our funny chairperson MRS B.
TATS: “Well you should have heard what my niece told my mother when she was scolded by my Mom, She said, “ASSHOLE!”
FLIM: “ NO SHIT! “
TATS: ” Yes.. and she’s only three.”
DOCTOR TACAR: “The daughter of my niece, I told her to stop playing in the rain and she said, ‘ FUCK A DUCK! “
FLIM: ”Frightening!
MRS. B: “ I have a horror story to tell. I was in the States because I was helping my sister, baby-sit her four-year-old child. Well one day MY NIECE did something bad. I don’t recall what but I pinched her and told her to stop it. You know what she said? She said, “ OUCHHHHH!!!I’M GOING TO CALL THE POLICE! “And she went to the phone and started to dial.
I took the phone away from her and placed it back on the cradle and said, “If you CALL the police I’ll kill YOU!! “
She cried and said, “ Noooooooooo!!!You’ll kill me?????? Noooooooo!!! I’m really going to call the police! ! “
And she tried to grab the phone from me. I told her, “ If you call the police, I’LL KILL THEM TOO! “
She cried, “ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! You’ll kill me? Nooooooooooooo!!!!
I’m going to tell my mother! “
I told her to keep quiet! And if she tells’s her mother…I’LL KILL HER TOO! She cries again, “ NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! You can’t kill my mother! NOOOOO!!!!!! I’ll just tell my father! “
Then my sister comes in. She asked what that crying was all about. I told her the entire story and she started to laugh. She then told her daughter that she would be the one to tell the father about my pinching. But you know kids right? When you tell them not to do something that’s when they really DO IT!
So I tell my niece, “ YOU TELL YOUR FATHER AND I’LL KILL HIM TOO! “
My niece then started crying again and said, “ MOTHER DID YOU HEAR THAT? SHE’S GOING TO KILL FATHER TOO…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
My sister told her that I was only joking.
So the matter was closed and I went up to my room and prepared to take a bath when my niece enters the room and sits on my bed. She looked at my suspiciously and said,
“ Auntie I was doing a lot of thinking and I don’t believe that you can kill..THE POLICE, MY FATHER and MY MOTHER and me! That’s a lot of people to kill. You’ll get tired very soon. And if you do kill the police, my mother and my father … can’t you just spare me? “
TATS: “ How old is she? “
MRS. B:” Only five.”
FLIM: “ It’s frightening!
MRS. B:” Yes they mature really fast.”
FLIM:” That’s not what I meant. It’s frightening to think that you’re the chairman of the department!
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