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Plane crash.
Accidents this type just love me.
My maiden report for ANC some few months back involved an aerobatic plane crashing into SRP. The British pilot and the Filipino mechanic died. I was on the Saturday shift, innocent little reliever reporter of sorts looking forward to a dinner with some businessmen at a posh hotel, absolutely not expecting a big news to suddenly come up while in corporate chic attire.
After that, ANC reports became a semi-regular thing.
But TV Patrol is a different story.
For someone who is intimidated by news, landing on TV Patrol Linggo is a thing that literally makes the heart skip a beat.
The Huey military helicopter that crashed last Saturday needed some follow-up and it happened that I requested a Sunday shift that specific week.
It was my 22nd birthday and yes, I had plans after work.
Like food, and a gathering of family and friends.
'turns out I had to stay until 7pm going back at least three times to the crash area, answering phone calls from the Manila desks, and juggling reports in English and Tagalog scripts.
Birthday gift from God?
Probably.
A sign? Should I really apply for news?
Probably.
Work aside, I noticed something that day though while looking at the dead bodies of the victims. I don't feel anything. Just as with the other shooting alarms or dead person/s alarms I cover every now and then. They look like nothing. Just a name and a background check. Like they are just pieces of unnamed stones.
To look at.
(Except of course that time I
interviewed the wailing woman while his brother slumped in an awkward position, dead
during the Halloween season.)
Maybe news makes one detached and more composed.
I may need that.
Friday, May 04, 2007
Birthday date with Huey
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5 shared thoughts:
vera, two weeks into my CDN internship, i was already anticipating for murder news because that's what makes any reporter's field day. i shared this with STC interns and they told me that they also anticipate for such happenings. funny if you think about it, but really sad. what's sadder than waiting for death to happen? hhihihih...
ver, GO FOR NEWS, just DO YOUR BEST not to lose your grip on your emotions.
ito po si vera leigh lasam, nag-uulat para sa tv patrol world.
yay!
vera, ato ato lang, i already set a date to my parents, as in that date i am counting the days to.. september!!! i am leaving on september! i watched the movie "click" again and i realized i'm going to waste so much time if i wait until september to get out of here but i'm doing this in behalf of my resume. so take note of this september!
back to you, are you full time abs cbn now? awheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
back to me, i am very scared. what if i wouldn't find a job that will make me do high fives with every day? what if it's not a new job that i need, but going home to the province? maybe being far from the family is what's making me live a click-ish moment with my current job, and it's not really the job that i hate? maybe i really just want to be with the family? but then again... i'm almost 30.
live!
""vera, ato ato lang, i already set a date to my parents, as in that date i am counting the days to.. september!!! i am leaving on september!"""
haha. ato lang ha, nya pina-post dayon online...
""back to me, i am very scared. what if i wouldn't find a job that will make me do high fives with every day? what if it's not a new job that i need, but going home to the province? maybe being far from the family is what's making me live a click-ish moment with my current job, and it's not really the job that i hate? maybe i really just want to be with the family? but then again... i'm almost 30.""
who isnn't scared? everyone's scared.
afraid.
everything's basically a risk. every decision always has a risk attached to it. but so what, right? we must trust ourselves. so long as makakita ta nga wa ta nagbulabog sa atong kinabuhi.
makuyawan, ok ra na. it's knowing you've decided for yourself and you are strong enough to face the consequences, bad or good, we face them because it's the way to live.. hehe.. not to sound dramatic or anything, but it's a way to find one's self.
"live!" right?
:)
You are depraved. While people wept over the loss of lives you are there probably thinking, "wow. I hope things like this happen in regular basis."
If so, then I hope it lands on you. =(
anonymous, did it come to you as that?
oh. and depraved? oh dear, you don't know how much sacrifice this whole work thing entails. don't judge me. you have absolutely no right. and don't pray ill to random people.
while i don't pride pride myself of being a good reporter, i can very well shout to the world that i am grinding myself in hard toil here to at least give justice to tv airtime. most of my my colleagues, senior reporters, and staff deserve every respect they can get from the work they do. there's so much more to those tv spiels. these people i respect. and i can't go around hopping like a gleeful child while splaying irresponsibility. i still have a long way to go, and i'd like to learn here, not laugh things off or see deaths as a ticket to one-minuter voice-overs.
did i shout and say 'hooray,' let blood come and show me on-screen? read again. and please don't take things too literally. there is a whole universe inside a person's head that NO ONE can put a conclusion on.
and hey, i wouldn't say
""if my message thru this reply wouldn't get across, i hope accidents that type land on you""
because you know what? i try hard not to do things like what you just did.
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