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Its 2 am! And all I can say is, it’s finally over! Yes my friends, yesterday (it’s already the 28^th) at 8 o’clockin the evening, the Talents Night for my application at the org UP ALCHEMES started. And now I am at home, and after pigging out on leftover tacos from the ref, I can finally make this entry which I have been itching to make ever since we finished the last performance.

Although I don’t think I can do justice on all the hardships I went through to get here and finish it, I think it’ll be, for now, enough to say that so far this is one of the biggest rocks off my back in years.

The performance was great, almost all of it was received well, and I could actually see all the mems squirming with laughter. The theme of our talents night was a flash through television programming. And w made spoofs of many of the known commercials and shows today. It was really a great night, I didn’t expect it to turn out this well, and I’m hoping I could upload a few clips to the net. I brought my video cam with me and had one mem video part of the event. Thanks to kuya Cy for doing me the favor, kahit super kapal na nag face ko when I asked him. Todo nakakahiya ung ginawa kong yun ha! Oh well we can’t take that back, nahiya tuloy kao kei kuya Bryan when I had the guts to ask him to video the event, ang kapal ko na!

Oh well so here I go in enumerating the events that lead to this glorious, and tiring night, and although half my body is screaming sleep, I don’t think I’ll have time after my Talent’s night induced coma to remember all of the events and all of the hardships, personally, I think my brain will be forced to forget all the stupid and morbid things I had to do so that made this night as great as it was.

First I of course didn’t make all of this happen, although I must say I had a bigger part than most, it was still the efforts and the kakalogan of all the apps that made it all so funny.

Thanks to Zamo, Bryan, Epi, Maki, and all the others, for agreeing to dressing up as women. The truth is, the mems were all shocked at the amount of people who agreed to cross dress! Hahaha indeed there was a lot of cross dressing that night, and a lot of laughter, what was for me the greatest moment of the night, was the mems congratulating us, there’s nothing more relaxing or restful than knowing that people appreciated all the hard work you’ve done. I’m planning on asking my co-apps for copies of the pics that they’ve got so that I can upload them here.

So back to the hardships that I had to go through tog et here. I haven’t slept less in any other week of my life than I did last week. I averaged 3 hours a day, and I was lucky if I slept 4. There was a practice every afternoon, and being the leader of my group, (the applicants were divided into three groups) I had to always be there, and of course I also had to bear the frustration of all the “sorry ate di ako makaattend”  and the “wag na nating practisin kulang kulang naman tayo”.

Yes the frustration! And everything that goes with it, I actually ran out of energy! On the first day of practice, we practiced for four hours of modern dance with only a few minutes of rest. Well they had a several more minutes of rest than I because while the others were resting, I took the time to teach the late people the steps.

On the second day, there was very little group-mate turnout, and we practiced the dance yet again. On the third day, there wasn’t any practice on the fourth and fifth day, we got to practice most of the skits, but as I said, there was never a complete practice.

By the end of the hell week, half my body was aching and I had to take pain relievers just to be able to bear the hike to the jeepney stop. My legs were killing me. And aside from that, half of the applicants were asking me what to do, and that is not my job! I’m not a batch head, although some people mistake me for one, sorry ma-volunteer lang ako! Wahehehe.

Being exposed does have its advantages, at least I know most of the mems, and they know me as well. But this talents night I think I could have done better though. I’m not very fond of the limelight, I’m not very fond of stages either, so I limited my appearances in the plays, and in doing so, wasn’t really appreciated, I now wish that I exposed myself a little more, wala lang, parang di kasi narealize lahat nung hirap na pinagdaanan ko.

Anyway, kudos to Zamo, Maki and Gherick who got really exposed, they were applauded most in the group, Zamo with his Sumusunod sa galaw mo skit, he’s actually already being nominated for Miss Engg, Maki, for his voice, already mems are asking him to sing in various occasions, and finally Gherick for his grace, ang galing nyang sumayaw!

Although I thought my group could have done better, not that I don’t give an “A” for their effort. I’d give four thumbs up for the effort on the part of my group-mates, they we’re very enthusiastic, although some didn’t actually work as hard as the others, still they weren’t that much of a headache (yak sipsip). What I’m saying is, I think I failed my group-mates as a leader, all the other group’s performances were received very well, and all of their members were exposed rightfully, and I feel like I could have done better to expose my group-mates if I just tried harder. So I’m sorry, I feel that we were overshadowed by the greatness of the others, but still we had our redeeming factors, the modern dance (xempre andun ako) which to be honest wasn’t as draggy as the other dances, the remake of sumusunod sa galaw mo, featuring Zamo which was received very well, and Maki’s performance.

Haaay, I’m just finally glad its over, and although I did some things I’d rather not, I wont be able to change them, I’m just really thankful that the mems liked it. Special thanks to Mr. Stephen Doliente for giving 150% on everything, he looked like heaven on the start of the week, and the truth is, I din’t know you could go from ehaven to hell so fast, because he sure looked like hell. But everyone’s face was palstered with smiles on the end of the performance, not just the mems but also the apps, somehow, I knew what everybody was thinking, “SALAMAT TAPOS NA!” And I say, Amen brothers!

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