Expired

"Everything in this world has an expiration date. Even people. But the biggest question isn't when -- but what you do until then."

A film by Jill Lejano, Fifi Capicoy and Pam Pastor
Written by Pam Pastor
Photography by Jill Lejano
Additional Photography by Fifi Capicoy and Pam Pastor
Original Music by Fifi Capicoy

Official Cinemalomo 2007 Entry

"People make all kinds of changes in the hopes of changing what's inside."

"You take drastic measures keeping your fingers crossed that the world would be fooled into believing what they see."

"That you are strong... you are happy... you are OK. 
You, are invincible."

"Everyone is looking for an escape. Everyone.
But until you expire, you, are stuck here."

"And the closest thing to a way out is finding kindred souls
and embracing those who understand."

"That is the only acceptable exit plan. That is the only way to expire."

DLSU List Daw

I got this from Mara, a fellow lasalista lasallian..  

(x) get caught by the DO
(x) wear inappropriate attire
(x) watch a UAAP La Salle vs Ateneo game live in Araneta Colosseum
(x) eat at AGNO
(x) smoked at AGNO
(x) hangout at a friend's condo
(x) sing the alma mater song
(  ) swim at the olympic size swimmingpool
(  ) have class in all the buildings
(x) use the football field

(x) hang out in ampitheater
(x) watch something during the u-breakin the ampitheater
(x) cross-enroll
(  ) be a 1st honors dean's lister
(x) be a 2nd honors dean's lister

(x) get a 4.0
(x) eat in McDonalds
(x) eat in UM
(x) eat somewhere outside near the campus
(x) borrow/reserve something in the IMS

(x) get a major or minor offense
(x) go out with 5 or more blockmates during freshmen year
(x) walk around the campus with 4 or more blockmates after freshmen
(x) cut a class together with blockmates
(  ) beg for a higher grade during course card distribution

(x) EAF adjustment
(x) be active in an organization
(x) be stereotyped by others according to your college
(x) get an alarm sound when you scan your id
(x) talk to your LAMB aside from LPEP

(  ) be deceived by the false names of professors in the on-line enrollment
(x) pay surcharge
(x) go to the chapel
(x) hear mass
(  ) visit the museum

(x) know a xerox lady
(x) sleep in the library
(  ) get to know mang jack
(x) got/given something to someone during the valentines week

(x) have a class after 6:00 pm
(x) talk about someone passing by while on a bench in SJ walk
(x) study in conservatory
(x) print somewhere near outside the campus
(x) type somewhere near outside the campus

(x) cram
(x) do a last minute paper
(  ) date a lasallian
(x) have a crush on your blockmate
(x) have a crush on your classmate

(x) have a crush on your professor
(  ) attend a seminar outside La Salle
(  ) talk to a lasallian celebrity
(x) sleep in a class
( ) have/had a lasallian boyfriend

(x) be in a conflict with a professor
(x) witness pda inside the campus
(x) use a computer in the computer laboratories
(x) be drunk somewhere near outside the campus
(x) forget your ID at home

(x) get exempted from finals
(x) stay at school till 10:00 or later
(x) actually read a whole article in the school's paper, The Lasallian
(x) took time to look at the 'Proudly Lasallian' stands in the campus
(x) thought that yuchengco restrooms are the best restrooms

(x) shifted / planned to shift
(  ) read a whole book borrowed at the library
(x) eat inside the classroom
(x) get a text or call with your cellphone not in silent mode during class
(x) spend money for 1X1 ID pictures

(x) break something in the laboratory
(  ) ask the library for an endorsement
(x) entered the thesis room in the library
(  ) searched a professor in the DLSU website
(  ) park in the beach

(x) eat siomai
(x) tasked to photocopy for a bunch of people
(x) enter a job fair in campus
(x) buy a raffle ticket, donate something, sign a signature campaign inside the campus
(x) sell raffle tickets, ask for donations, made people sign signaturecampaigns inside the campus

(x) watch something at night in the yuchengco theater
(x) make a video for a class project- i was the poster maker and script writer. yebah.
(x) make a powerpoint presentation
(x) give a very low evaluation to a professor
(x) eat inside the java cafe

(x) be pissed with a guard
(x) go to the clinic
(x) nearly reached / reached excess absences
(  ) pick a popular professor for a subject
(  ) be the one to make the 'mass overload sound' in an elevator

(x) buy something in the bookstore
(  ) lose your cellphone

Doom or Glory

During the long weekend, Jill, Pam and I thought that both Fifi and Chrie will be heading out to HKG with their family. Since we were not actually related to them by blood, Jill thought that we who were left out should go exercise and get our creative juices flowing and capture 'em in black and white film.

We scheduled a location shoot in UST last November 1. Since I didn't have my black & white film at the moment, I had to settle for my Holga loaded with a colored roll and of course my D40x. I arrived a little late for our appointment and I was left with barely an hour and a half of sunlight.

UST's Main Building, late in the afternoon.

Clouds paraded as if asking for their picture
to be taken.

The most fortunate cat in UST's grounds --
She got a Chicken Nugget dinner c/o Pam.

At the back of the main building,
in front of the main library.

UST's Main building at night fall.

Sunday, Jill invited a couple of lomopeeps to her lovely home to develop and (contact) print our films in her darkroom. I was trying to finish up my black & while roll so as I could participate. But since I was unsuccessful in doing so, I had to sit out the darkroom session. Bummer.

*****

While everybody was trying to make something good from their black and white films, I had a situation that I thought was big for me to handle. Friends (Benjie for one) have tried to pressure convince me to do it. But I never even had the slightest courage to imagine myself in such situation. It was a choice I had to make. It was a choice,unlike the others' black and white films and contact prints who can redo their shots, that can't go wrong. Otherwise I had to sit it out for the next couple of weeks or months should anything does.

I was scared..
I was nervous..
I was anxious..

and I was excited all at the same time...I was getting a haircut.

The buzzzzz of the razor replaced the more familiar snip-snip of the scissors (which I had a little trauma from). It channeled a different sensation on my scalp as it breezed through and traced the curves of my head. In a time shorter than the length of my wait in the queues of David's Salon, my haircut was done.

A lot of people around me were surprised to see me supporting this haircut. One particularly asked, "Hindi nga Giff, eh ang vain-vain mo sa buhok, bakit ka nagpakalbo?"

Well, maybe because of stress. Maybe because I wanted a change..
But whatever my reasons are, I don't think I am ready to tell them anytime soon.

Whether things went well or not, I sure don't have any regrets getting myself in this situation this haircut. As a matter of fact, I like it! :D