Finally... a researcher.

This is my first blog post... as I begin living my dream to be a researcher for a documentary program, I-Witness of GMA 7.

Since grade 6, I have been keeping a journal, and from this day on, I would like to share my thoughts, (inspired from the movie, Julie/Julia!) as I start my job as a researcher for my dream program, I-Witness.

It has been five days already since I started my first day, and I have been given the task to look for stories that I could propose for a documentary to be aired on December 7.

Using the power of the net and print media, I have "travelled" far and wide across the Philippines looking for a perfect topic set to be "my first dockyu research" for the team.

And by the way, I have been assigned to be a researcher under the Sandra Aguinaldo, one of the multi-awarded journalist cum documentarist in GMA 7. WOW. I have been so blessed and pressured at the same time.

I know the next few days will be a total high impact learning phase for me, a budding researcher who is motivated to prove that she deserves this job.

Maybe I owe it to the Law of Attraction, or maybe a stroke of luck, or God's special way of telling me, that this is the best way that I could serve him, with my abilities...this where I fit.

I have been watchin the program since high school and been truly fascinated with documentaries ever since. One of the reasons I took up Mass Comm in college is because I wanted to be part of something that could truly influence opinion and change people's lives.

Now it is here. I have got my chance...and I am willing to share the highs and lows of being a researcher in a public affairs program in one of the Philippines biggest TV network.

I would like to thanks Ms. Doreen, my college teacher for her endorsement, for Argie, the researcher who I will be replacing for endorsing me to the producers of the team.

I have yet to prove myself, but I know that with the support of everyone, I can do it.

I am doing the work that I love...and this is my passion...and my choice. I have already met some of the people that I will soon be working with, and was so blessed that they have been very welcoming and kind. It's real and I feel that I'll be making such good friends here.

I am sooo amazed by the humility and kindness of ate Wilma (Ms. Kara David's researcher, and the "patron of researchers") and ate Cris (Howie Severino's researcher) to me, as they told me their experiences as researchers.

They have given me fair warnings indeed of emotional and physical battery that I will be facing...the time-bound assignments...and all sorts of impossible demands that will be asked of me.

It was how it will test my limits. It was good...for this means growth for me and a chance to know myself even more.

I like the job for the fact that I somehow have the power to choose which lives we will change. And I get up every morning, inspired by these people who depends on us, researchers of the program. It is a privilege and big responsibility as well.

I am writing this the day Pacquiao againts Cotto...another boxing and blogging history for me!