Despite retiring to bed at already 1 in the morning, I had to wake up at a little past four last Friday in order to get ready for my “second TV guesting,” this time at Breakfast on Studio 23. I was given a 6 AM call time but I ended up appearing in the show among the hosts Patty, Vince, JC and Atom at almost half past seven. It’s all right, none the less, even though I did have to miss my Spanish class for the second time this week.

It’s freezing inside ABS-CBN studios. This is an incoherent entry. Wish me well and luck this week, guys. I might not be able to post often in the coming days.

Yesterday afternoon, I went to Geronimo St. in Sampaloc, Manila with my documentary film class groupmates and other film friends to do an ocular for our documentary. If you think the usual large slum communities are depressing, small cardboard and umbrella shanties on the sidewalk are worse. I didn’t know how to feel when I was talking to some of the people. People who bash poor people for being jobless, for being ambulant vendors or for being squatters should shut up. They don’t know anything, them sheltered fools.

Martha, Athena and I went to ABS-CBN last night to ‘guest’ at Studio 23’s News Central newscast. It was actually a first time for me inside ABS-CBN, and it had to be a ‘guesting’ at that. Whew. It didn’t help that it was really freezing inside studio seven. I just kept blabbering incoherent motherhood statements about the youth. As if everyone my age feels the same way I do.

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