day 2,3,and 4: senate beat!

after that police beat adventure, next beat that we conquered was the senate beat...uhm, at first, it was really boring because there is no real senate session that day because the senators were still on vacation.what happened that day was a budget hearing for different cultural,housing, and youth developments agencies..so there...we were so sleepy that morning until senator jinggoy entered the scene..the hearing was about the budget for film development council and optical media board (yes,edu manzano was there). it was when senator jinggoy asked a question that was not answered perfectly by the two chairmen that brought the hearing to hullabaloo..the senator raised his voice and was really livid that made him decide to reduce the budget of the said agencies,THAT EASY! so there...every after hearing, sir mike (rmn senate beat reporter) asked us to write news script from hearings and press releases of the senators.usually we stay at the senate press office with the other reporters like maricar bautista,linda jumilia and others.hahaha.
next day.were still at the senate (oooh,seems like sir mike like us!) and there would still be some budget hearings. this time, it was for DTI,DPWH,DENR and DOTC. gosh! i never expected this day to be like this! we were so lucky to have sir mike as our mentor for the senate beat because he was really generous in letting us to experience the real "reporter thing". we joined the media team as they wait for different personalities. we got the chance to talk with senator angara,lito atienza(denr),peter favila(dti) and others.im really happy and proud because i discovered that we can now go out the field and do those kind of things. after that we took our lunch at the senate lounge with different press people courtesy of ms.linda, media relations officer of sen. mar roxas(did i mention that we have our free lunch everyday at the senate?)our second day at the senate was really fulfilling and were so happy to experience those activities.
third day at the senate was some kind of relax time because there was no hearing...we just wrote news script from senate press releases and listen to some lecture on radio news writing from sir mike (he always do that anyway). but this time.....we learned a lot of political intrigues! excited??? uhm,not this time,i guess...i'll keep you hanging for a while..