my sunday...

well... my sis has already did the *jiggy dance* .....
you already know the results... (for the benefit of those who want EVERY SINGLE DETAIL..... and wallet/throat's benefit... i dont hafta call/sms individually)

yep, i faced the dreaded queue alone.
was out under the weather elements for abt half hour to 45 mins... LUCKY I went early. I was given a 6PM slot... but I decide to TRY MY LUCK, if those "Singapore - "S" stands for STUPID"- Kiaaaaassuuuuuuu pple can queue from 14hrz before.... I can queue from.. when my mother drops me off at suntec....

so today, I got lucky twice.

THE PROCESS:
I reached suntec at 2ish. mum dropped me off aft dropping off the kids to tuition at Lagoon view, Marine Parade. I headed for the toilet first, and also detoured to look for jean@ducktours counter. met joel instead.. (yeah, thanks for the gdluck wishes, they helped). After that, I braced myself for the queue. (and met jean on the way to the QUEUE.. ) ~DAMN IT, i hate the word "QUEUE"~

Double checked if it was ok for me to join the line even thou it was half past 2, and my slot was a 6pm slot.. he sed it was fine, but priority will be given to 3pm slots.. I TOOK IT~ made more sense to juz give the few pple i saw there... than to window shop and groan at all the stuff i cant buy..

Aft 45mins of weather elements, sitting on the ground was flattening my butt.. the line was extended.. but the Mediacorp Crew came every hour to an hour and a half to take abt.. err.. lemme count... 50 to 100 hopefuls up to the next holding area...

I think it was 6th level.. yeah, where registration was done the day before.. yeah. Thats the next holding area.. Once you're registered, you have a reference number.... OK.. my number was 05155 (for those 4D punters)

Anyway, the holding area number 2 was in AIRCON!! ~THANK YOU OH THANK YOU AIRCON~ They let me thru, since HELL YEAH I MADE THE EFFORT TO GO EARLY AND QUEUE (see previous entries for more detail on queues), THEY BETTER!!!!!

anyway, came round with the SUPER HUGE MARKERS and wrote the ref no. on the white A4 stickers with SG IDOL logo... and they grouped pple in to fives.. my grp of fives number was.. errr.. (see la, bad memory, someone get some memory aid for me, thanks) i think 358.

So we could sit ard, wait and wait again.. with our white stickers.. and ourselves for entertainment. yeep.. they called in 10 groups at a time to the NEXT HOLDING AREA, number 3. If you do your math, thats 50pple moving...

Those A4 stickers, gotta Stick'em on ur CHEST. oohhh nooo.. you cant stick at the tummy area.. thats TOO LOW... CHEST.. HIGHER ... HIGHER... Dont they understand the asthetics of CURVES!! I wondered out aloud, heading down the escalator to level 3.. yeep, they bring u 6floors up to bring u 3floors down ( to holding area number 3 and audition rooms)

So at holding area number 3... fierce woman hasta repeat the same message over and over every 10mins, or whenever the next batch of 50pple move in: "you cannot speak to any press except MEDIACORP, or unless they are accompanied by MEDIACORP REP.. you will be disqualified when sucked out of the stupid lil pathetic group that you're in now... and you'd be called by your number, you! 05155, do you have any respect for your superiors!!!"

Right, ok, i was joking on what she sed, but yeah, she certainly scared me.. So fierce.. or was it that i was just hyper sensitive and clammy... The first bits TRUE thou.

So anyway, they seated the whole 50 pple.. and she sed, "ok, you're gonna be split into ur mini grp of 5.. and you're gonna be allotted an audition room. 8 rooms altogether, so when i call out your name, please stand up and move to the seats that represent your room number; if you need to use the washrooms, you have to signout at the desk on my left..."

YYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPP.. SIGN OUT TO GO TO THE TOILET.

so we sat there.. and we waited for the 1st row to move off to the room, and we took the 1st row, and it continues. They call my group to go, and the one behind moves up..

My grp of 5 consisted of.. 4 guys, and a girl, moi.. they were kinda nice.. i was so nervous, and i was there alone. The filipino guy, Paul if i'm not wrong (oops, sorry, i'm not really good with names) was SSSOO IN CONTROL.. geez, the rest of us thought he was cool. Yeah, well, i kinda started mumbling to myself, and then we started exchanging silly talk.. abt what to sing, and.. how freaked out and why we were there.. And the other fella infront, uh o, "ENG... JUN?" was nice too.. and he knew so much more abt idol than I did. He told us that you have 2 songs as backup.. you only sing one verse + the chorus of 1 song. You only sing the backup song if you screw up, or they cant decide how to judge you. WOW.. "smart" i thought.. then he added that that was the general consensus reached by his other friends that went thru auditions yesterday. *heehee* but yea, it made sense my friend (if you ever get to read my blog in the first place)

Just a shout out to the 4 guys, hey, nice meeting you, and hope we meet again... you guys made that time alone there much more bearable..

righto, back to the process..
so we muck ard.. get all cold and clammy.. and.. off we go to sit outside the audition room itself..
It moves really fast from there.. 10 seats placed outside each room, so 2 grps there at anyone time.. and.. we were instructed to, when let in, head for the "black box" thats marked on the floor, and just say the artist and title of the song you were going to sing.

Yep, so it moved really fast.. and soon, it was my turn.. i was kinda trembling, and my voice was trembling.. and i couldnt breathe properly, which affected my singing.. YIKES.. yeah, well.. i sed hello and thank you, good bye.. coz of course, i didnt forget manners..

so once all ur grp members are done, you're trooped back towards the results room.. it shared the same BIG room as holding area number 3, cept that, it was partitioned.. some distance away.. yeah, u sit there, and wait for the whole batch to be done.. and.. yep.

Results
so yeah, those numbers that were called, please stand up. !EVIDENCE OF POW CAMP!
stand for what? i dunno
but i was the only one sitting in my grp.. :S

then, she broke the news.. only 3 of us from this batch got in.. the rest were eliminated.. :( kinda felt a mixture of happy/sad

And 1 remarkable thing.. This girl, she got in, one if us 3.. She'z deaf!
REMARKABLE.. i was.. astounded~ she had an interpreter with her.. WOW, still quite speechless, I really respect her for trying and EVEN BETTER, getting thru! Kudos to you girl!

so that done.. i moved off, informed some pple via mobile, and headed to UE Square, where I was supposed to spend my WHOLE DAY, but had sacrificed my dance for this.. and surprise surprise, i made it for the last free lesson, Salsa Rueda..
did some social there, and we headed to Great World City for dinner at the food court, DDR session.. (hadda take off my heels, and kinda stomped on the soles of my feet too much)... Salsa Casino session juz outside GV, while waiting for 930 to inch its way thru time... COOL OR WHAT?!? No salsa music.. It was provided, courtesy of luter's lungs and vocal cords.. HAhaH

yeah, juz bummed ard.. and MOVIE: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKKABAN~~ yeah, i kinda read the book some time ago, and the movie, well.. i think i expected a lil too much from it.. good never the less

ok, home, shower, just.. ping pong ard online, and bed.. shd collect my new shoes tmr.. yay!