I woke up at 10am today. I'm excited about two things this weekend. I'll be unboxing 3 things this afternoon and tomorrow will be the 3rd anniversary of Winnipeg Foursquare Gospel Church. I sent a text to my cousin around 10:30am saying "I'm up." I wanted to get a haircut first in the morning, and then off to record in the afternoon. When we reached the barbershop-- sorry-- the salon, I groaned to see the queue inside. I thought that we'd be staying there for at least an hour waiting, cause it's first come first served. Well, this is the only place where I can get my personal haircut. The two of us sat down and waited to see how long we'd actually have to wait -- if that makes sense.

Well, it turns out that after completing the customer before me, he signaled me to come up next. I'm sure I saw four people enter the salon, but okay. I stood up and asked him to wash my hair first. The haircut only took about 15-20 minutes. It wasn't that long. So my cousin and I drove back home to get things started. When we got there, they were asking me if I had lunch, I told them not yet. I was still fasting. Anyway, we have all the three boxes to open lying on the bed. I don't really know what to say yet, so I took the moment to organize my thoughts. That's when I realized that I should've made plans on what the episodes would look like prior to today.

There were 2 Nerd Blocks and 1 Lootcrate to open. We did talk about opening each Nerd Block and film in English and Kapampangan (my native dialect in the Philippines), and then we'll just do impromptu unboxing with the Lootcrate. We filmed the Nerd Block in Kapampangan first and exhausted the time left until 6pm double checking the first episode of Tara Mamusni! (or Let's open it in English). At 6pm, we went to a relative's birthday party. Good, I can eat now. Frankly, I only knew a handful of people there, but they're relatives from my mother side. We left at 7pm after lingering for the sake of courtesy, and not just dine and riding.

At 7pm, we reached back to our studio, the apartment, to film the 2 new episodes of Unboxing in Life. I decided that we should just open the boxes at the living room. We picked the table and placed the camera near it to make it personal and close the proximity. It's like friends just chatting beside the table; I wanted to ask him if he had playing cards, but the props might not be too relevant to play with. When we found our lighting, a tall lamp, I gathered my thoughts again, because I had no time to write a script. I wanted to finish the 2 episodes, so everything was a rush. It's a lesson learned that I still don't have the talent to do impromptu. We'll get there.

Editing time at 10pm. Initially, we intended to keep each short around 5 minutes. The Lootcrate episode was 9 minutes long and the English Nerd Block episode was 9 minutes. Editing was straightforward. But the upload time was very slow. I got home at 11:30pm with my two boxes. I feel more comfortable making videos now. I'm excited for tomorrow, I'm attending the Foursquare church for their 3rd anniversary in the morning.

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