(on assignment last Friday 6am-10.30pm)Surrender.
What a trying challenging 78 hours.
Thursday night I only had 30 minutes to look for an appliance store at great big SM City to look for a video cam cartridge. I needed 3. And less than 30 minutes was all I had. I was already distressed. I needed to find 3. Call time the next day for the biggest shoot of my life was 6am. My camera was ready but the video guy wasnt. Did I tell you my partner had to back out the night before? I had 24 hours to look for a replacement. I ran down from the parking area concentrating on where that appliance store was located. I could not afford to make the wrong turn. According to the security guard I had to go straight, go down, turn left and there's gonna be an appliance store. So straight I went, before I was able to go down the winding stairs that would have led me to the store, I thought I heard someone call my name so a head turn to the right I made. Viola! A small developing center!!! And they had 2 cartridges left!
Thank YOU!!!
YOU always hear me. The very long sigh I did before I turned off the car engine.
But didnt I say 3 cartridges?
The guest of honor hasnt arrived by 7.30pm and I needed one more cartridge. Joel got one from SM, a few minutes away from the Cebu International Convention Center where I was. But the presidential convoy was also on its way. Heavy heavy traffic!!! After making 25 missed calls to Joel, I finally closed my eyes and said..."Help me."
10 minutes before they finally closed the road, Joel got thru the gate, ran up the steps and practically did a long pass of the cartridge at me!
We got home by midnight.
Saturday I could hardly move. Every muscle in my body ached. I figured, Id have to rest. Do the work on Sunday.
And what a time for my camera memory card to get CORRUPTED!!!
NO FILE COULD BE DETECTED.
It was a photographer's DEATH.
DEAD. DEAD I TELL YOU!
I have contacted complete strangers to help me. Each had the same feedback.
I have succombed to telling my client my problem and to give me more time. I was sweating my soul. There could never be a solution to this problem. Never. Ever.
Joel knew I was near tears.
I have started to text Ann. Before I was able to press the send button, the phone rang.
Ann.
But Ann...
She was calm as a midnight breeze. Her voice was singing to me. It was going to be alright, she said. There will be a solution she said. She said she will wait. It will be okay...
There was nothing else to do.
There is no solution.
I have LOST MORE THAN HALF of a day's work.
It is cruel.
Toxic.
Surrender.
I literally looked to the sky and said... "Help me please. Help me now."
"Everything I surrender to you."
"I can no longer breath, no longer move, no longer think."
"No will."
"Why I must ask?"
"I give this problem up to YOU. Take it now."
"Thy will be done."
I will be okay. YOU will NEVER give me a challenge I cannot take, I just know it.
There has got to be something. I knew YOU will never let it end this way.
I literally stared at YOUR face.
The second I said that, an idea came into my head. I browsed through the internet. Less than 5 minutes I found my SOLUTION. Right there in front of me. Problem solved in 6 minutes 27 seconds.
Everything will be alright.
Just like what YOU told Ann to tell me.
Thank YOU.
Thank YOU.
Thank YOU.
What a trying challenging 78 hours.
Thursday night I only had 30 minutes to look for an appliance store at great big SM City to look for a video cam cartridge. I needed 3. And less than 30 minutes was all I had. I was already distressed. I needed to find 3. Call time the next day for the biggest shoot of my life was 6am. My camera was ready but the video guy wasnt. Did I tell you my partner had to back out the night before? I had 24 hours to look for a replacement. I ran down from the parking area concentrating on where that appliance store was located. I could not afford to make the wrong turn. According to the security guard I had to go straight, go down, turn left and there's gonna be an appliance store. So straight I went, before I was able to go down the winding stairs that would have led me to the store, I thought I heard someone call my name so a head turn to the right I made. Viola! A small developing center!!! And they had 2 cartridges left!
Thank YOU!!!
YOU always hear me. The very long sigh I did before I turned off the car engine.
But didnt I say 3 cartridges?
The guest of honor hasnt arrived by 7.30pm and I needed one more cartridge. Joel got one from SM, a few minutes away from the Cebu International Convention Center where I was. But the presidential convoy was also on its way. Heavy heavy traffic!!! After making 25 missed calls to Joel, I finally closed my eyes and said..."Help me."
10 minutes before they finally closed the road, Joel got thru the gate, ran up the steps and practically did a long pass of the cartridge at me!
We got home by midnight.
Saturday I could hardly move. Every muscle in my body ached. I figured, Id have to rest. Do the work on Sunday.
And what a time for my camera memory card to get CORRUPTED!!!
NO FILE COULD BE DETECTED.
It was a photographer's DEATH.
DEAD. DEAD I TELL YOU!
I have contacted complete strangers to help me. Each had the same feedback.
I have succombed to telling my client my problem and to give me more time. I was sweating my soul. There could never be a solution to this problem. Never. Ever.
Joel knew I was near tears.
I have started to text Ann. Before I was able to press the send button, the phone rang.
Ann.
But Ann...
She was calm as a midnight breeze. Her voice was singing to me. It was going to be alright, she said. There will be a solution she said. She said she will wait. It will be okay...
There was nothing else to do.
There is no solution.
I have LOST MORE THAN HALF of a day's work.
It is cruel.
Toxic.
Surrender.
I literally looked to the sky and said... "Help me please. Help me now."
"Everything I surrender to you."
"I can no longer breath, no longer move, no longer think."
"No will."
"Why I must ask?"
"I give this problem up to YOU. Take it now."
"Thy will be done."
I will be okay. YOU will NEVER give me a challenge I cannot take, I just know it.
There has got to be something. I knew YOU will never let it end this way.
I literally stared at YOUR face.
The second I said that, an idea came into my head. I browsed through the internet. Less than 5 minutes I found my SOLUTION. Right there in front of me. Problem solved in 6 minutes 27 seconds.
Everything will be alright.
Just like what YOU told Ann to tell me.
Thank YOU.
Thank YOU.
Thank YOU.
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