Holiday? Not for me.

Im just a little tired today. Well, not little. Really tired, flat and exhausted. It's been a pretty long day. Grind was supposed to start early today like 8:30am so I woke up early. But knowing network time, things are almost always never on time. So I arrived a little late, but the rest of the crew arrived an hour later. Thank you for an early wake up call now I'm super pooped. 

Cut to shoot location, the house was just too humid and dark. I had to squint every now and then to get a better eyesight. And the ventilation was just non-existent. It was too humid. Rain was breaking but wouldn't start yet. There was no electric fan, the circulation was poor. So start of the day palang, I was already tired. Thank God for an ice-cold Coke but I felt a little more refreshed. Hey, no kidding here. That really is true!

And then we cut to the jeepney scene where we're supposed to be like under broad sunlight. Rain was falling a little, then disappear, then here again, then gone again...

As I shuttled back from Kapuso to Kapamilya, the heat was a little more tolerable. Then the expected happened, heavy rain. I had to wait a little for the rain to stop and until my sundo arrives from the parking to take me to the next location. So the only time I get to experience aircon was thru the van. Wheww! thank God!

The next location was quite more mainit than usual. UV and machine heat generated by PCs in the internet cafe was too much. By the time we got to our final location, I was already wilting like an unwatered plant. I was already feeling the exhaustion from dehydration and heat. Aside from the Coke and two glasses of water this breakfast, I had no other liquid in my body.

We just finished now. And I felt my blood rushed through my head during the last take as one of the extras couldn't deliver her lines. And her lines were the easiest. She kept mixing it up! Grade two students could have done a better job. Then the last dad in the scene. He was just too insincere looking.

In between takes, there's this pachyderm who kept teasing me about and soliciting money from me. The nerve.

All in all today, I lost steam. No. I got dried up. And come tomorrow, I prepare myself once again for more action. Hoh boy! Isn't it the holidays, yet? Not for me. Not yet.