pocahontas

after lengthy email threads and scheduled ym ballyhooing, this gimik came through. but not without the usual hassle and unexpected twists... atee didn't make it! yes, she didn't. she did a pocahontas (read, indian.) on us! she was ringing ate pops and i around 5 am of that day, well first she thought that our call time is 7:30 (it was 9:30), but more importantly, she wanted to say that she could not make it. iyah (her daughter) was sick and of course, as a mom, she could not afford to go somewhere and leave her daughter just like that. anyway, just the same, pops and i were disappointed that "she had to go to the market once again". and how about jake? well, let's just say that atee's absence (or presence!) was the least of his concerns. wahahahahaha!

but i could tell that jake was also a bit disappointed. he didn't bother changing his outfits and making use of the clothes that he brought all the way from antipolo because we weren't complete. and to think that he brought all of those jackets to his shift the night before! well, the whole thing is all about our group pic, so if atee wasn't there, it defeats the main aim of the lakad. of course, we were there already and i won't let atee's absence drive the whole effort to waste. it's just too hard to nail jake and ate pops in a single date, given the immensity of their social lives - pops is married and involved in a lot of photo shoots while jake has a dozen (or more) sets of friends with whom he spends time with. so we just enjoyed the humid day talking with each other, first about atee and then celebs, before jumping on our professional careers and the usual jokes.

then we headed out for the pictorial. i didn't know that it was forbidden to shoot pics of the buildings in serendra and the whole stretch of boni high street. good thing, pops already knew how to respond to inquiries from serendra's men in blue. one interesting portion of the shoot was when pops had me sit at a pedestrian lane, then she waited for the oncoming traffic before shooting. yup, she wanted moving cars in her frame. and the model in me just obliged! the result was these pictures. thanks to ate pops' digital photography genius.

i couldn't wait for our segundo asalto!