The Entropy Blog

I didn’t say anything when we applied for it, because I didn’t want to jinx it, but my company did join the National Council for Children’s Television‘s Nationwide Search for the Coolest Television Program Proposals for Children, and we won. Well, one of our entries won. All the four entries we submitted were among the 11 finalists, which was pretty cool in on itself. Each of the companies behind the three winning pitches will be given a start-up fund to finance the production of the pilot episode.

This is one of those times where I’m reminded how lucky I am that I get to work with such incredibly talented people. When we joined the Search, I offered whatever I could. Which wasn’t really much, as I didn’t know much about television, or how shows are made. The proposals were developed by the others, and all I could offer was mostly just encouragement. Even when I presented the pitches (I did two of the four), one of them — the winning entry — wasn’t even my pitch. M. developed it and did the first draft of the PowerPoint. I showed up, smiled at the panel, and did the best presentation I could.

Chef Sharwin Tee invited the staff of Mangojuiced to visit the set of his cooking show Curiosity Got the Chef during last Saturday’s taping. We were pretty psyched. We loved food and we loved television (I’m pretty fascinated myself with how tv shows are made) so we took him up on his invite. 

Three of us ended up joining Sharwin in front of the camera. He needed a few friends to join him for a little party, and because we’re the kind of people who like to say yes to life (and because I’m a massive attention whore), we agreed to do it. Besides, there was strawberry shortcake (!!!) for dessert.   We chatted and ate the yummy food he cooked earlier in the episode. 

This is me and Mike after the make-up lady made us look a bit more tv-friendly. If you’ve seen my previous tv appearance (a Women’s Day march where I’m covered with fake blood that made it to the news), you will agree this is a vast improvement:

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… role-playing a dead hooker in a wooden trunk.

We thought we were in the wrong place. Mike invited us to the launch of a graphic novel he wrote, a re-emagining of the Ilocano epic “Biag ni Lam-Ang”. But when we got to the Collective (Malugay St., Makati City), all we could find was a party for some movie. Obviously, I should learn to [...]