ok.. it started with my "bigong pangarap".

ive always wanted to head a publication, become its editor-in-chief...

bigong pangarap coz of the gsp courier. i was supposed to be the eic.. but naaah.. the paper itself wasn't pursued.  

it came true when i was given the responsibility to revive and renew lanog, the official publication of mass comm students.

excited and full of vigor, i head off to planning and gathering staff writers. well, there were ready articles nah.. so, all i need was to layout and off were ready to print.

i thought it was easy. i had this back in highschool. ooh well.. turns out.. no one in our program knows how desktop publishing. i dont trust my skills. im not capable enough.

good thing.. ate drei found a friend. knows how to layout and all. but he'll be using another software. not a desktop publishing software.. still, ok lang.. we took the risk...and the consequences.. in short.. i spent my whole summer 2006 editing, layouting, copying, pasting for lanog.

still.. we pulled it through. we published it on time.

2nd issue. this was easier. i had writers nah. plus, kuya ezra agreed to layout again.

3rd issue. ive worked on it at the start of the summer. and guess what... im still working on it until now... grabe! nahurot akong summer napud! layouting was easier. my cousin rankine agreed to help me. he layouted the whole piece. the prob was on the writers this time. it took quite some time before we finally collected and put everything into one piece.

just now..the only problem was how to turn it into pdf. dammit. we used a trial version of pagemaker. since it was faster..were beating the deadline.. but the consequence: the whole paper can't be converted into pdf... arrrgh!

....i'll continue this later... after i calm down...and know what to do...

sorry, this is super bahaw na.. but still, wa pa ko ka-get over.. yeah.. ana jud ko, basta ganahan kaayo ko sa experience.. dugay maka-get over.. first, sa asean.. then, kani napud.

well, it has been one great halalan 2007 for me. i had all out participation jud.

first, im a first-time voter. so.. excited kaayo ko to cast my very first vote, to have my finger "dirtied" with indelible ink.. my mom was there. she accompanied me to my polling precinct. because i just registered, i had a different precinct. i had to vote as early as 7am since i still have other duties to attend to for the whole day. haahha.. mura jud ko ug artista! naa ga-sige sunod nako, ga-picture ug video jud si mommy.. its my first vote after all. i deserve a remembrance. hehehe.. but more than just my first time, i see this as a right and a privilege to choose rightful leaders for our country. i voted for those worthy and deserving to occupy a seat in the government.. thus, im very proud of the indelible ink on my finger.. which until now is still visible..

by the time i dropped my ballot, i rushed outside to meet the abscbn news team. yeah, i 'm joining sir junrey nadela and his team for halalan 2007 coverage.. im his production assistant. i had loads of fun. i learned a lot, too. plus, these people are so cool. i didn't regret this jud. it was like a pre-internship experience for me. i took down notes while sir junrey does the interview. i helped him make his news report.. plus, i got to ask a few questions for pnp rd alarcio. char! hehe.. bitaw, it was such an overwhelming experience. i even got to witness what goes on behind the scenes- during live reports, recording and editing news stories. kapoi xa but lingaw! there was a time when naa nami sa sibonga, then someone sent an info nga there's an election anomaly in naga and some ingrams in san fernando. grabe, we had to rush back jud dayun. and murag unsa ra na kaduol ang duha ka lugar sa! hehe. tapos, it was past 5 pm already. we had to be in the cti yby 6pm to catch tv patrol central visayas.

at around 8pm, my abs-cbn pa task is done. but my day isn't done ywt. im shifting gears. from 8pm til the next day, i'm in the ccimpel headquarters, verifying election returns. we also encoded them in to the computer... words like "pangilinan - 97, escudero - 95" were deafening. hehehe. i was tired and sleepy.. but i managed to pull it off. my partner textmate opay was fun to be with pud - makapapukaw iyang pagka-mahinuwayun ug pagka-palaaway! hehehe. kami man duha partners during the encoding. i lost count kung pila ka cups of coffee na akong na-drink. grabe uy.. but it was my pleasure. while encoding the results, i realized cebuanos are indeed intelligent. they didn't vote for personality..but for principles..

whatta day! i was super sabog by the time we went out of the ccimpel headquarters. along with my cousins, we believed this was one heck of an election day! grabe ha.. as for me, 24 hours akong participation! hehehe..