It's almost 3am and I'm still up doing this, that, blah. Well, there's nothing new about it, I've been like this for the past weeks. Hah. Still have Theatre class later at 9am and I haven't finalized all the music needed. Yay! It's the last week of this semester before finals. Hooooray! Sem breaaak! :D but before that long awaited break, this week could be the longest week ever!!! Almost all school works are due within this week! Theatre, Thesis, Advertising TVC & PSA, website, storybook, and the list goes on. Hay. Onting tiis na lang and I could stay up late without doing anything. :))

I don't wanna rant on things. These are our responsibilities as Mass Comm students :) it may be though to do the things we are doing simultaneously but I'm enjoying it coz I like what I'm doing :) but there was a time that I just found myself crying because of all the things we have to do with so little time. Pressure! Stressful! Depressing! Hah but I know we can do it :) I just hope that every single effort we've done will pay off! Good grades, pleaaase?

Last LJ entry? Yay. I'll miss LJ-ing.. not coz I'm updating my old LJ again... privately though. :)) K, since this LJ has a cuter username, I might update it still... but privately too! :))

Oh, about the sports fest? I'm glad it's over! We have more time to do stuffs. MassComm is still the champ! MC rocks! \m/


Hazel Laude
3 - MCDM

Just got home from the pep practice. I am physcally, mentally and emotionally tired! I almost forgot to update this blog. Hah. Oh, I can't wait until this week month semester ends! Hello, sem breaaaaak! I need you so bad! :(

Today was okay, had Theatre class with Ms. Viray, and it was our first to rehearse in the theatre. Feel na feel ko dun sa control room! with all the sound thingy there plus the headset, chitchat with the stage managers! :)) fun! Well, for now. Good luck! Hello to Ms. Viray's blaaaaaaaaaahs! Yay.

Also, today's the first day of sports fest.. so far, good. Hah. Congrats to MC swimmers! MC ballers, one more game! C'mon! You can do it! :D I thought we can rest this week, but noooooo! Still have a lot of things to do! :( 

K, dinner time! Babayu!

Hazel Laude
3-MCDM

P.S.
Qly, khoolj! :) :) :)

The Course
Communication Research – for me, it’s the hardest of all the subjects we have this semester. The first thing that entered my mind when I heard these words was baby thesis! The word thesis makes me frown. L haha. I knew that Comm. Res. would be hard and I was right! Our “baby thesis” doesn’t seem to be a baby. It’s all grown up! Hehe. I have never been so sabaw like I was when we were doing our intensive research! How much more sabaw can I get when we start doing the next steps? Yay! I can imagine! Maybe after this course, we have mastered how to be sabaw-est already! Which is good, I think. It’s a preparation for our mother thesis!

When I was a kid, my tita’s were doing their thesis, and now that I’m doing mine I feel old!!! Haha weird. Wala lang, feeling ko ang tanda ko na kasi nag ti-thesis nako hahaha:)) Anyway, I have never seen DM take a subject this serious (well, aside from Communication Theory with Ms. B) almost everyone is in class before the 7:30am class, wow achievement! J plus this LiveJournal thing, I find it fun! Aside from the main topic of the course, there are sideline topics that would be a great help for us  J

It’s just the first half of the semester but I could say that I’ve learned a lot, and I know that there’s still a lot to learn as we finish this course. J

The Teacher
That was early Wednesday morning when I was on my way to our Comm Res classroom in SP building when I saw Ms. Figueroa along the SP benches. That was the first week of classes so new students were wearing civilians. I thought Ms. Figueroa was a new student! Hehe. Seriously. So I was surprised when she entered our room! Prof pala sya! My first impression about her is that she is kind but strict. Just balanced. She’s a good professor, approachable, can get along with her students well and she knows how to stress us! Haha joke lang miss J I know that what you’re doing is also for us. J

Suggestions/Wishes
I hope next time, Ms. Figueroa won’t give us a one-blow tons of work to do with the same deadline. It’s so sabaw-ing! Hehehe. Wishing for a good grade :D

Hazel Laude
3-MCDM

This would only be short. I don't want to rant about the tons of school work from major and pa-major subjects. It would only make me feel more tired and more sabaw! Besides, there's nothing I could do to stop it from coming! So why not keep it coming and let me rest in peace?! Hah! There are just so many things to do with so little time. Time management, I suck at that. Cramming, my expetise! Haha. But this time, I can't use my expertise! It would kill me. :)) Okay, I said I won't rant.

This week has been very busy for me, for us. As we would maarte-ly say "So hectic the sched!" hahaha! It really is! If I could just be in kindergarten forever!!! I look like one anyway :) haha! Hay. But this is it, we're juniors! So this is how it feels to be a Mass Comm junior. Fun. I just hope that we all do good in everything that we do as a block, a group, partners and as individuals. :) Our hardships will soon pay off! I hope! :) yun oh, postive thinker kunyari! hehe :))


Back to work! Over time, eh? Babayu!!! :D


Hazel Luize Marie G. Laude
3-MCDM

Yesterday we went to ABS-CBN and GMA for a studio tour. It was so much fun and... tiring! Hehe but it was worth it :) especially on ABS, we saw a lot of stuff... from their studios to the control room, editing, after effects/graphics/3D animation and to what they call foley, it's like an audio/dubbing area something. ABS-CBN is so cool, very hi-tech!

Some of the studios we visited in ABS were Umagang Kay Ganda, Pilipinas, Game K N B?, ASAP, Wowowee, The Singing Bee and Wheel of Fortune (my favorite studio!! :]). Plus the newsroom, where all the news program of ABS are compressed in just one studio. The control room makes me feel like am a pilot :)) with all those buttons, a lot of monitors and stick-shift like stuff. Hehe. The editing room is where I'll most probably be after I graduated. Hahaha feeler! There, we saw another control room and a lot of rooms where different shows are edited. We were able to see how they edit "My Girl" and their upcoming show, "Dyosa". Editing looks easy, but I think it's not. I've read the schedule posted beside the door of every editing room, editors shift is every 12 hours. Yay! But still, I want that work! :D next stop was the visual effects area, where all the after effects and 3D are done. Most of the people there are working on "Dyosa" cos I guess 90% of that show is more on graphics. I'm out of there cos it's for creative people. Hah!

After a long day at ABS, we went to GMA. It was just a short tour! We only got to see 3 studios including the newsroom. In one of the studios there was the set of "Imbestigador" and on the other was the set of "Joaquin Bordado". Control room personnel of the news and public affairs of GMA were so funny! Haha. They taught us a bit of how things in that room work. I really want to work in the control room! Hah!

Before the GMA tour, I met up with my tito (my mom's youngest brother) who works there. He just came from a shoot, he's a cameraman. He once told me that I could have my OJT there. Yay I'm excited! :) I've learned a lot from the tour, it makes me wanna fast forward things and work already! Hehe. But it's still a long way to go!

After the tour, Alexa, Macky and I went to... never mind. Hahaha!

Yesterday was fun as well as today. :)

Kk, gotta sleep! I have to wake up early tomorrow for my brother and boyfriend's race (as ef!!! :]])! Hah! :D Goodnight!


Hazel Luize Marie G. Laude
3-MCDM