MY SHOWBIZ STINTS

Today, I slept from 7am to 6pm non-stop. I just came from a taping in Cavite for new horror flick in GMA 7. Me and the director had this "artistic affair" a few months back and he decided to continue that by putting putik and dugo all over me.

The wardrobe called me up and asked for my vitals stats for the nurse's costume. The coordinator texted me that i would be splashed by putik-putik and dugo-dugo. Now, why putik and dugo? It's a horror flick. I know, but why putik and dugo? and a nurse's costume? I mean, what was my role? Come taping day, my showbizzy friend told me that my role was stabbed to death by a lover. Wow, crime of passion. No, honey, dedz ka na dito. Ok I was a dead nurse.I was a multo. Funny, I remember a running joke on people who wanted to be seen on TV.

Man: Hija, pwede ka nang pang-Regal!

Girl: Talaga?

Man: Regal Shocker!

If you're a person who really values time, tapings are not exactly the best raket to get into. Our call time was at 4:30 am and I got on my costume at 12:00 am the following day. I had to wait forever and half-finish a book for my turn of the camera. It was that worse. The acting part was breezy since that was the whole point of me being there, but crying atop a tree with blood all over at 4:00 am proved to be the real meat of the deal. The artificial blood was all over my legs you might even wonder if i was really stabbed to death or gang-raped or had a bloody miscarriage. After my turn, you could guess that all of the above happened to me.

I'm not a newbie in this kind of rakets. I've had a few short stints in soaps. They were ok but forgettable since I haven't really saw myself acting on TV.

1. KA-KOSA/IN-MATE -- I was a mabait ka-kosa of Snooky Serna in her soap in GMA. This was the time when Snooky's role was put in jail. It was set in prison and the art dept had the national mental hospital moonlight as a women's correctional. It was fun. Snooky and i were textmates for a while. Albert Martinez in jeans and white shirt was a greek god.

2. NURSE - my friend marnie and I were mean nurses here. We were spreading rumors about Angelu de leon's character and were out to get Ian Veneracion.

I had a snappy stint as one of Karel's ka-barkada. It was pro-bono and spur of the moment. A friend just tugged me while I was on my work station so that Karel can look like she has "normal friends" as she hung out. Karel didn't look normal to me. She was extremely cute. At least, she's not as irritating as that girl Heart.