UH tambayan-huling event ko sa taong 2005
Nagtatae si Eagle, IC replaced him. Ic is the gay son of showbiz writer Dollyanne Carvajal. Love him!

charms and crystals with joy lim

Timog, 2nd araw na nakasama ko sa remote event si pauleen.

montalban pamitinan festival
unang salang ni Pauleen Luna sa Unang Hirit.
Walang picture, sorry

Batangas pista ng mga pista-Batangas City,Batangas
This has got to me the prettiest city government building I've been in.

House of Santa Clause-Suva Residence-Policarpio St. Mandaluyong City

Dance series at Marikina Christmas Funtasia-Marikina River Park, Marikina


(L-R) Eagle, Jolens, Regine, Drew

Jolens & Eagle during the Showbiz banner segment

Liga ng kagandahan live!GMA Timog Gate
I never enjoyed having my events mounted outside or within the vicinity of GMA.
Yun lang

Hale and drag queens back to back!- Padi's Point, Cubao

Okay, so the whole set-up at Padi's Point was not the way it was planned.
And I know mixing up Hale and Ian and the Closet Queens was not a smart idea either, I could only imagine Hale's throngs of fans (including birthday girl MM) horrified, but Hale and the drag queens proved to be a hit.
Upon Champ's entrance, I striked a conversation and I immediately mentioned we're brothers & sisters in the church. So we already established a connection and called each other "kapatid". The poor guy is sick, with a sapin sa likod and tupperware-clad water in tow. These guys were easy to work with, with no whims and demands and I'm pleased to also note while I hardly know their songs nor I am a fan, now I think I am. :)

Jolens brings Bebong to work

I hardly work with Jolina in remote as she is typically confined in the studio, but since Eagle and Drew are on their way to Guam, Jolens have no choice but be with us for a segment featuring the bazaar at the World trade center in Pasay.

Sarap ng buhay, hay

The gay invasion in Higantes Festival-Angono, Rizal- Nov. 23, St. Clement Parish church, Angono Rizal

This is by far the most exhausting pre-production I can remember. Me and my researcher also threw a fight over this brought about by exhaustion, sleeplessness and terrible dinner. Traffic was extremely terrible and it is not a wise idea to proceed to Angono to conduct an ocular leving Manila at 6pm when you have to leave Angono before 11pm because you have to return to Manila to go to Angono again (still with me?) with my technical crew.
I was nervous the entire night/morning before the event started because a director whom I hardly work with, one of the most notorious ones in implementing strict rules is coming.
To make matters worse, Drew failed to arrive because he got sick.
I thought this is gonna be a cursefest for me but it was the complete otherwise.
The gay beauty contestants were all out in showing what they've got- fake boobs bigger than mine, long eyelashes (scary!) extravagant flowing gowns and heavy make-up! Wow! dragshow in the morning, love it! they spice up the segments.
Yay! :)

UH Christmas Cooking Pinoy Style-Chef Dennis Hipolito's House-Meycauan, Bulacan

This week has been very gluttonic week, if there is such a word. This spelled disaster for my diet. Sigh.

Chef Dennis Hipolito concocts the best sweets, and he loves what he does. His orange poppy seeds coffe cakes are way way better than the ones sold in the usual coffeshops we frequent. Drew was addicted with Chef's chocolate fudge cake. It's that heavenly. The guys I work with were like kids in a candyshop upon seeing the delightful goodies.
This is bad, and I have to thank Chef Dennis for the 5 pounds I packed on that single event alone. Hehe.

BINONDO FOOD TRIP LIVE!-President Teahouse,Ongpin St. Binondo-November 14, 2005

Regine and I vowed not to eat a tiny amount of this cornucopic food set-up. The Crew was happy though, yay.

Unang Hirit OBB shoot-Nov 9, 2005, Lexington Garden subdivision, Pasig




I'm confused whether this is Igan or his alter ego, Arn-arn.

Undas Coverage Day 1-Manila North Cemetery


Mainit.
Masikip.
Matao.
Mabaho.
Maambon.
Magulo.
Naisip ko rin na tila walang saysay.

Sa gitna ng lahat ng ito,
Maganda pa rin ako.
Wehehe.

Severed Hosts-Halloween make-up with Cecille Baun-Tandang Sora, Q.C.

OMG time flew so fast, I remember Regine was last year's victim.
This time, it was Drew's turn, hehehe.
His morbid makeup took about less than an hour to do.
The end result? ito
Random Trivia:

-Tita Cecille Baun has been nominated for an academy award for her work in a hollywood action film Hamburger Hill (1986)
-Ironically, she celebrates her birthday on November 1st
-She did everything on her studio by hand. she did tyanak, she painstainlingly attached real human hair on the baby on the lefthand side, and this morbid thing right here freaked my crew out. And mind you, they're all guys.

Oo na, na-star-struck ako, got a problem with that?


Classic Pinoy Horror flicks revisited-featuring Manilyn Reynes-October 24, 2005-Fernwood Gardens, Visayas Ave, Q.C.

A segment that I hardly remebered.

Note to self: wag uminom pag may event. Waking up with Cancer survivor/ advocate Ms Bibeth Orteza Siguion-Reyna, Alabang, Muntinlupa

Shooting 4 birds with one stone---literally shooting ito ha

Event # 1 (Live)Waking up with Jon Santos- Ayala Westgrove Heights, Silang, Cavite
We pulled out as usual, around 1-2am Cavite bound. We arrived at Jon's house and he's already up and made sure that all of us had our tummies filled with his arroz caldo and (wow!) black coffee.
John Santos is such a talented impersonator that the first airing of the segment was a hit, I think our segment even took longer but the studio was busy laughing at his antics of impersonating each character he has portrayed to even care of having the segment wrapped due to time constraints.
All in all, the coverage went really good. After we packed up we drove back to Manila.

Event # 2 (Taped)Concert session with the APO Hiking Society-Thirdline, Inc. Loyola Heights, Q.C.
Arriving in Manila before lunchtime, we then arranged for another shoot. This time the APO which will be taped as live. Meaning we're gonna tape it and make it appear as live (still with me?)

(L-R) Boboy Garrovillo, Danny Javier & Jim Paredes
Boboy Garrovillo is a funny fella he kept distracting my commands
Danny Javier does watch our show and even demonstrates one of our hosts' popular spiels. Love Anover's "...and everythaaaaaaaang!"
I loved talking to Jim Paredes-- we're like the same age, he blogs, he likes Rex Navarette and he's really nice
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At the end of this day I immediately passed out. I badly needed the rest

GMA News & Public Affairs trade fair- SM Davao grounds, October 8, 2005, Davao City

It has been said that Davao is pouring buckets during nighttime, which spelled doom because the trade fair will be held at the SM city grounds and when it rains mud will surely be the highlight of the fair. Lo and behold the night before the trade fair it never rained, not even a drizzle, so we're not complaining even if the heat caused some of us to really turn dark and some were extremely sweaty.


Every show has its respective gimmick and ours (Magic sing karaoke) was a hit. After more than 5 hours of the countlesa wannabe singers, three generationn of singers emerged after much deliberation from the judges (our bosses) and these three performed on stage. the grand winner won a magic sing microphone amounting to about Php13,000.

Davao Invasion!


Unang Hirit Tambayan sa Davao- October 7, 2005, Davao City
Nahnah said I'm lucky to actually being able to sleep before this coverage as compared to the previous ones wherein the shut eye is actually non-existent. This is my second time covering an event working on a different team.
Hours before the actual live seemed forever and I honestly looking forward to reaching for the wonderful bed covers but I still have a live coverage to think about. Before I knew it, everything is over, the people are happy, hell the crowd became rowdy and the director commended the team for a good job.



Our hosts even got interviewed on "Testigo" a Davao counterpart of GMA-7 Manila's 24 Oras