Toxic.

Arrive at Suvarnabhumi airport, then straight to post-house.

Whole day post work for three projects, late check-in at hotel.

Work on pending projects in hotel room, follow-up music arrangers on music revisions.
Discover that arrangers have not received texts and therefore have not done revisions.
Flurry of text updates on pending projects, shot and to be shot.

Fly back home, 4 a.m. call-time for next day's shooting.
Series of meetings day after shoot, another shooting after that.
Pre-production meeting for next 3 projects the day after shoot.
Final workshop, costume fitting, offline interlocks for two pending projects the next day.
Shooting next day.
Discover that music arranger is stuck in Paris due to ashfall from Icelandic volcano.
Long, late meeting with new clients for big product launch.

Presentation of 3 new storyboards for existing clients after that.
Offline presentation next day.
Shoot preps for next shoot.
Back home to prepare two storyboards for presentation day after tomorrow.


Long shooting day, then at 9:00 p.m., a call for further revisions by agency creatives on two projects already viewed and approved by client.
Give Account Executive an earful.

Two hours later, client informs me the two concept boards they had vetoed three days earlier were now a go.



For next morning's presentation.



So right after pack-up, home to do two new storyboards from scratch for presentation early the next day.


Early morning, after an hour's fitful sleep, client wakes me up to say presentation has been moved up by two hours.
Right after that, bank calls to tell me to deposit funds in checking account or two large checks will bounce in three hours.


Spend hour smoking, waiting for service.
Thankfully, no line at bank.
Traffic to client.


Two project presentations; fortunately, both approved for production.
Rebriefing on three pending projects right afterward because initial concepts disapproved.
Briefing on new project after that.
Packaging revision on long-pending project.
Revision on long-pending print project.
Argue with client over new timetables.

Back to Makati for scoring and voice-overs for four projects for Monday interlock.
At 8 p.m., animation house calls to present treatment board for pending project.
Endure traffic back to New Manila.

Internal finishes at 10:30 p.m.
First meal of the day.

Back home to finish two Bid Specs for new projects.

Early flight again tomorrow back to Bangkok.







I am a whirling dervish, and this is my so-called life.
A series of overlapping events for fleeting things that will only be seen for 30 seconds.