silly thoughts

january 31 was a memorable day for me because i did something crazy. i agreed to be an extra in a music video. i immediately said yes to my friend because i wasn’t busy, i thought i should do something, and because i thought that it should be fun…and fun did happen. the shoot was in binondo, manila, which was an uncharted territory for me. whenever i’m in manila, i’m always with my dad. that was the first time i went to manila without him. i didn’t drive because i was scared of getting lost, of the traffic, and of driving back home in the middle of the night alone. i asked my friend to bring me to binondo and he also picked me up when the shoot was done. i’m forever grateful for the favor. i got to binondo at around 230pm but the shoot didn’t start until around 6pm, i think, at least for the part of the extras.

the location of the shoot was in a very old building. when my friend and i were finding the place, i had to call my friend’s tita to ask for directions. i also asked what the place looked like and she described it as dilapidated. the wood from the walls and the ceiling looked like it was falling apart. the building looked abandoned but there were offices in the other floors. i was surprised to see a functioning elevator in the building. i didn’t go around the location, unlike the other people, because i was scared that the floor will suddenly disintegrate and i’d fall. however, i thought that the building was the perfect location for the shoot. i’m surprised with how good the people in charge of the shoot was in finding a location.

it was also amazing when alexis and i met a friend of our economics teacher in miriam. the friend of our teacher was the stylist for the shoot. when she was fixing me up, i told myself she looks like our teacher and she talks like her too. i told alexis about it and she said that that was what she thought too. so when we got to talk to the stylist again, we told her about it and alexis asked her if by any chance, she knows our teacher, and the stylist said yes immediately. how cool is that? she said that they were orgmates in ateneo. i texted our teacher about it and she was amazed too with how we met her friend. she said that it’s a small world or the world is probably shrinking. haha. whenever i tell her that i’ve met a friend of hers, she always tells me that birds of the same feather flock together.

anyway, the shoot ended at around 1130pm. now that i think about it, we didn’t "work" that much. we "worked" for less than 8 hours but i was very tired at the end of the day. my legs and feet were killing me because of my killer shoes. i was taking my shoes off and changing to my flats in between takes. the people watching the shoot (makeup artists, yayas, production people) were telling us "ang hirap maging artista." it was very hot during that time because of all the lights so in between takes, the makeup artists or the yayas would hand out tissues to wipe off sweat from the face.

participating in a shoot was quite an experience for me. i’m happy that i was able to experience it. it will be fun it happens again, but if it doesn’t, i’m glad i have memories of it. my friend who invited me to be an extra was saying after the shoot that our dream finally happened. she asked if that was really our dream. i told her it was our funny dream, one that we thought wouldn’t happen in our lifetime. we’re so funny. below are some pictures from the shoot:)