I was the first few contestants to up (6th to be exact), so wasn't prepared for their Situation Question la. It was something about Andy Lau forgetting to zip up his pants during some event. Then I was supposed to act out how I would tell him about this without embarrassing him in front of the 'supposedly-present' audience. I was indeed caught by surprise! I didn't expect this kind of situation would be posed to me, so I wasn't at all prepared for it.
After the results were announced, a staff from UFM 1003 came over to me and told me that I had NEARLY gotten into the semi-finals because I was supposed to be the 9th (8 contestants were chosen to get in the semi.) Oh well, I must have lost marks in the Situation Question. So she asked me if I was going to the 2nd round of the open audition, because I was SO CLOSE in getting a place in the semi-finals. I thought: Why not? So I agreed to turn up and compete again 1 week later. However, I already knew there would be even more contestants competing, and even MORE competitive ones.
And I was right! Today, there were 66 contestants who signed to compete in the final round of the open auditions. I found out that I was the 54th contestant when I went to the table to get the sticker tag. Oh gawd, I'm SO not going to be so lucky, I'm definitly not gonna have much chance to get into the semi-finals this time round...
Just before it was my turn, there was a rather quite long interval. All I remembered was that I was standing at the side of the platform waiting, my heart thumping so hard, my left hand trying to hide my quivering right hand...
Yeah. That's the sort-of 'stage fright' I'll experience in every competition that'll require to talk in front of an unknown crowd of audience.
I just wanted to gain more experience, hoping that I can someday overcome the fear of competing in front of so many eyes which are staring at you. I wasn't too concerned about winning anyway.
There was a contestant who was from China. She had been a news reporter for 4 years, and 1 year's experience in hosting or something. She mentioned something which I didn't really understand at first: Having the ability to compete doesn't mean that you are suited for that job nature; being an expertise in a particular job doesn't mean that you are competition material.
When I finally arrived home after a 1-hour bus trip (it was really horrible, my motion sickness acted up halfway again...), it finally dawned upon me that the above 'theory' was right. I finally understood what the China contestant meant. Yes, I'm confident of being able to do well in the media industry, whether it is the radio or tv. But I admit that everytime I'm in front of a large crowd during a competition, I'll start feeling stressed, and I'll be so nervous all over. If it was just the judges and me, I wouldn't be such a nervous freak.
Oh well. What's meant to be mine is mine, whatever that isn't wouldn't belong to me anyway.
Just like what mum said last night when she opened the main gate and let one of my cats run away. I don't why, but I wasn't feeling at all worried when we were looking all over for him. I just had the feeling that he would come back to us.
Just as I was going to turn in for the night, my mum told me she couldn't sleep (must be because she feels that it's all her fault for letting the cat run away), and so she went out again at 10pm, so that she could relax and walk outside. Oh well, I knew that she would be going to try her luck to see if she would be able to find him.
Alas, mum came back and woke me up. (I was feeling so groggy, so didn't really take a look at the clock to see what time it was.) She found him. I KNEW it. But still, it was rather a relief to me. At least mum wouldn't have to continue to blame herself for losing the cat.
Anyway, Alleluia! All thanks to the Lord for bringing him home safe and sound...
After the audition last Sunday, YJ and I had dinner at Bugis Junction.
After that we went to a private party organised by the Cozycot people. It was the last day, and also the last hour before the party officially ended. It was already 8pm when we arrived at Parkview Square. (I even thought that it was some 5-star hotel! But the bar waitress told us that it was just a commericial building -.- What a waste it was actually, if you ask me. It should be a hotel instead la, so grand.)
Anyway, it was closing time, so of course we quickly registered our names and got our goody bags. I didn't expect to get SO many. In the end, we made 2 trips back and forth the main level and the 3rd floor, so we had MANY bags in hand. We couldn't take home all that anyway, so we finally gave away 4 bags in total to the bar waitresses, and also 2 bags (bottles of water la) to the toilet staff at Bugis. Haha, this shows that we're not totally greedy okay, we're generous too :p
It was such a chore organising the goodies, but it was all worth it :)
From this....
...to this! Finally:D
I think the next post will be about my outdoor shoot I had last week. The photos are still with the photographer, so be patient alright :)
(But I just can't wait to look at the outcome! Hehe.)
p.s. I hate blogging at night... the photos just take FOREVER to upload! =.=
