It's been a long time since I've had 'summer vacation' in the student sense. I've been on one since December and I can honestly say it's beginning to bore me to tears.
I'm still in Manila, anxiously awaiting my new student visa, which is taking dramatically long to process. To keep myself entertained I played in the last local Ultimate frisbee league with the Alabang Dragons, and while it was great to get back into shape, catch up with old friends, and re-live a small bit of my Gameplan lifestyle, nothing changes the fact that losing still sucks. Bitterness aside, it was inspiring to watch people who couldn't throw forehands to save their lives in the past become league superstars. That made me decide to get back into disc in Sydney full time where playing with white folk will hopefully do me some good. Off course I'm saying this now because school hasn't started and I haven't entered my world of perpetual busy-ness yet.
My vacation hasn't been all play though. I've been working full time on the 'Saving Sally' screenplay for director Avid Liongoren, and it really is a challenge to write a full-length. The tricky part for me is trying to avoid the temptation to make the characters talk too much. Watch a Pinoy teen movie and listen to the dialogue- don't you notice how characters talk and talk for 10 minutes just to get to one simple point? I'm trying to show more things visually rather than tell them. It's not easy, but I never expected it to be.
The two things that keep me going are the fact that this will be made into a movie soon, and that it's a great warmup for when I finally get down to writing my own film.
Going off topic, I see that my blog's had 1,000+ hits so far. That's a puny number compared to superstars of the blogging world (hello superbianca!), but a thousand hits is plenty enough for me and I'd like to hope that there isn't just one demented sicko out there clicking on my site 1,000+ times. So please rid me of my paranoia and say hi.
I'm still in Manila, anxiously awaiting my new student visa, which is taking dramatically long to process. To keep myself entertained I played in the last local Ultimate frisbee league with the Alabang Dragons, and while it was great to get back into shape, catch up with old friends, and re-live a small bit of my Gameplan lifestyle, nothing changes the fact that losing still sucks. Bitterness aside, it was inspiring to watch people who couldn't throw forehands to save their lives in the past become league superstars. That made me decide to get back into disc in Sydney full time where playing with white folk will hopefully do me some good. Off course I'm saying this now because school hasn't started and I haven't entered my world of perpetual busy-ness yet.
My vacation hasn't been all play though. I've been working full time on the 'Saving Sally' screenplay for director Avid Liongoren, and it really is a challenge to write a full-length. The tricky part for me is trying to avoid the temptation to make the characters talk too much. Watch a Pinoy teen movie and listen to the dialogue- don't you notice how characters talk and talk for 10 minutes just to get to one simple point? I'm trying to show more things visually rather than tell them. It's not easy, but I never expected it to be.
The two things that keep me going are the fact that this will be made into a movie soon, and that it's a great warmup for when I finally get down to writing my own film.
Going off topic, I see that my blog's had 1,000+ hits so far. That's a puny number compared to superstars of the blogging world (hello superbianca!), but a thousand hits is plenty enough for me and I'd like to hope that there isn't just one demented sicko out there clicking on my site 1,000+ times. So please rid me of my paranoia and say hi.
posted by Carlo Ledesma at 3:44 PM
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