After 10 years of waiting...

“Dad,” My 16 year old self courageously stepped forward to ask. “I think our family should get a new video camera since our old one broke down 4 years ago. I think it would be greatly useful and we would all enjoy it.”

“Wag muna, anak.” He coldly replied. (Ok, maybe it seemed cold to me.) “Hantayin natin magmura.”

This roughly translates to: “Let’s not get one first, son. Let’s wait for the prices to go down.”

This conversation repeated itself for the next 8 years to come, sometimes twice a year. But, unfortunately, to no avail.

After 8 years of being a passionate fan of filmmaking and 3 purchased digital still shot cameras for a family of four, (In fairness, I knew for a fact that he wasn’t doing that to piss me off. He loves to collect stuff. Stuff that he likes, that is.) I finally purchased my first digital video camera using my hard earned money. (Ok, I used my Christmas money. A job in the Philippines will take you much longer than a year to save that much.)

I purchased it in Boston (See Boston Tea Party at geminipinai.blogspot.com for more details) where tax was at a low 5% opposed to 8% in New York. It’s a SONY DCR-HC42 and I’m loving it so far.

Cheers.

"In order to find for myself reasons for living, I attempted to destroy my reasons for loving you. In order to find for myself reasons for loving you, I have lived badly." -Paul Eluard