24/7 Olympics - Day Five

Office Olympians

The latest medal count at the office:

0 gold.
0 silver.
0 bronze.




and




0 overtime pay (ako lang si saro nasa Beijing)

Will the OR (Overtime Record) be shattered before the closing ceremonies? Will a new world record for no sleep at home be broken before the 24th?

Not-so-random images from Day Four:

24/7 Olympics - Day Three

After last night's and yesterday's rather unorganized system, we are starting to get it today. Believe me, in production you could be doing it the last 365 days or so and still there is no system in place that you can trust and you will cling to. Few things i learned today which i have learned and unlearned the past 365 days because of panic, pressure and what have you.

Day Three was much more... uhmm, relaxed. At the same time it was the most, what's the word they are using? Ngarag. i am trying to remember the bicol counterpart of the word but i can't seem to find the right one... But my panicky mode the entire mode pretty much made me understand it. Some more pics in Day Three coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not the athletes or the Olympians but people who may be working as hard but will never earn any gold medal or silver or bronze. (Reminder to self: not even earning overtime pay)

The random images including pictures of some of the Office Olympians and today's set of hosts (including the first-timers, including Ms. Weena Lim and again, Bobby):

"Nakua mo hanap mo"

You get what you deserve? Tama man translation? Sala man kaya you get what you are looking for. Mas-marhay si enot. Mas-exacto, masmalaman. Masmayemosyon. i am writing in Bicol because i have been writing in English (for work) the last 48 hours. And mapagal palan.

So anyway. Ay sala. English palan to. Ang punto ko lang magreklamo sa mga (supposedly) gusto ta sa buhay. Pirmi na sana, gabos kita may reklamo. Sa sweldo, sa kwarta sa wallet ta, kung saen mainom atchan ta mayo kwarta, or kung i-text na lang lugod si Don o si Che o si Christian o si Budoy (Si Bonks, masakit yan) ta baka manlibre maginom. Basta, ang punto ko sa kadakulan tang reklamo magibo man giraray kita ning paagi na magsilensyo tapos gibuhan na lang ning paagi ang dilemma (anong Bicol kang dilemma, idtong direct translation?).

So anyway ulit, naisip ko lang yan ta puro ako reklamo digdi sa opisina. Though aram ko man ano lalaogan ko. Kung nagbabasa kang blog ko aram mo na ang Olympics ang pinagkakaabalahan ko. Aram ko man na arog kaini kasakit (and kasiram) ang trabaho ini. Puro sana pressure. Puro sana gabos mo "garo" (and otherwise) kaiwal or iiwalon. Gabos saimo nagprepressure na gibohon ang mga dapat gibohon. Pero at the end of the day, naiisip mo na ginigibo lang ninda ang trabaho ninda.

Dakulon ako subagon bloopers sa shoot. Bloopers na behind the cam behind the cam behind the cam. Scriptwriter garo. Ay, minsan head for content man daa. May sala akong natao sa graphics na info. Kasupog sana. Ta naging cause of delay sa shoot. Although gusto ko ilaban ang issueng incompetence and common sense (my favorite argument) dae ko na papadakulaon pa ta spoonfeeding ang kaipuhan sa ibang tawo. And of course, ako man talaga si number one incompetent sa puon ta ako ngani nagtao kang info sa tao sa graphics. (Pero... Iyo na tama na.)

Explain ko lang: bakong salang sala. May typo dahil sa pagrush ko. Patal na kung patal. Pero dae ko aram kung arin ang maspatal si patal na enot or si dae nakarecognize kang kapatalan. Iyo, patal talaga ko. And pangirit talaga. Haha. Basta, kasta man ta sala. Nagmamadali lang po. Medyo pressureed sa oras.

So in the end, sa hiling ko ako si patal. Bawi na lang sa sunod.

Matibayon na ako mag tackle ning problema. Ata. O imahinasyon ko lang. O baka dae ko pa namamaster sa gabos na bagay (and tao) Dati maduman ako sa banyo tapos mahibi sa corner na pangOscars ang acting (Fiction yan of course, and exaggeration) Pero ang punto ko sinasarabat ko na lang ang gabos na problema lalo na kung parte kang pagiging irresponsible ko.

Going back sa enot kung punto. Su si about sa pagreklamo. Ako kaya dakolon reklamo sa current state ko. Lalo na ning lintik na Olympics na ni. Garo ni babaeng chi-nachallenge ka talaga. Basted garo padumanan, o saen man pero masgusto mo man giraray na digdi lang. Arog kayan pagmati kang Olympics assignment. Grabe ang satisfaction and grabe ang disappointment. Extremes. Pagnakagibo ka ning marhay (sabihon ta na marhay na pagsurat) maogmahon sa pagmati. Pag nasala ka man na typo ngani sana. Magabaton sa boot. And masupog ta patal ka.

Dae paka seryoso ha, medyo exaggeration syempre ang kadaklan na word dyan. Paginapod ta kang patal dae ibig sabihon patal ka talaga. Masmaorag lang ako saimo. Or something. Got to love vanity, ano? Haha.

Dae paka seryoso, ta kadaklan man inaagi ko lang sa suba. Gabos suba. Suba gabos. O kabanga lang. Dae ko aram.

Basta dakol ako reklamo. Mauli ako sa Naga sa 26 tapos mabalik September na. Deserving man garo ako kayan (along with deductions sa salary) pero ma ko pakiaram. Gusto ko maguli Naga after kang Olympics. Kugoson si Jigs. Kung may kwarta iluruwas sa Ma and Pa. Or maski mayo kwarta, luwas man giraray.

Dakol ako reklamo. Tanda ko si sabi ko ki Enteng kang college ata: "Dyan ako padi matrabaho" (while watching sportscenter.) Nagkatotoo man in a way.

Nakua ko ata hanap ko. Pagal. Ogma. Pagal. Ogma. Maturog na ko. Another marathon 3-hour na turog. Balik trabaho. Para masuya. Para maogma.

24/7 Olympics - Day Two

i did not mention it yesterday but Jason Williams finally signed with a team. The Los Angeles Clippers. Can't be sad with that one. Let's just wait and see how this turns out.

On to today's set of pictures in the studio. Morning shift hosts are Mike Ochosa and Bobby Yan. Evening shift, it's Charlie Cuna and Mico Halili.

24/7 Olympics: Notes, pics and rants

Solar Sports in-depth coverage starts today as we begin with a little primer for our (Samsung) Daily Update. i will be posting pics at random. (re)editing posts for random notes and what have you. Meaning, i will try to squeeze in a little bit of time for this blog. 20 years from now i will be wondering:
"oh shit. i did work for that without overtime?"

No whining really. Just rants and some. i am a bit more excited than nervous and afraid for the entire updates and recap shebang. i mean, this team has been thrown into deep waters so to speak when we handled the daily show, Sports Desk some years back. Of course, this has a little bit more of pressure because there's just too many news to cover from August 8 to 24. And there are the updates almost every hour...

So anyway, some early pictures before and during today's shoot...

Starting off with.. The first bag is the usual knapsack i use daily when going to the office and the latter is the traveling bag i used when i first went to Manila. Now you know, we are serious about staying at the office 24/7...


And the rest them random takes... Cesca Litton and Anthony Suntay

One World, One Dream, No Sleep

Solar Sports (insanely in-depth) coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics begins tomorrow night just in time for China's expectedly extravagant Opening Ceremonies starting at 8PM.

Solar Sports start off with a little 30-minuter of a primer before the ceremonies kicking off the 24/7 updates and recap show for the duration of the quadrennial event.

Updates are set at 9AM, 2PM, 5PM and 8 PM (Not to mention additional updates all the way from Beijing with Vito Lazatin and Patricia Bermudez-Hizon and the rest of the Solar crew including our Executive Producer Angelo Pazcoguin who will most likely leave his role as producer when he gets the chance to watch that USA-vs-anybody basketball game!) plus the recap show at 11:30 PM.

Daily. Hourly. 24 and 7 has never been truer. So true that everyone from the editors, graphics artists, producers and us TWO writers is expected to go 4-5 consecutive days at the office. (Maybe one day to recharge after that but return to the office after that little rest...)

One World, One Dream, One Network. No sleep. No life. No nightlife (Assuming i had a nightlife). No online poker. No girlfriend. (That was a given even before the Olympics). No anything (you can anagram the first part). No Magic the Gathering (Sorry King Tuquero). No live basketball. (Means no exercise) Not even overtime pay. (That last part really hurts)

Anyway, here are few pictures i took as the crew prepared for the set of the updates and recap show: