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First elimination was finally over before 10pm.
The seniors will have a closed-door meeting and decide which of the auditioners have the potential to be part of the their dance group. Successful auditioners would be contacted in the next few days.
First audition was more of a practice. A routine was taught to us, and the seniors judge us by gauging our performance and ability to grasp the steps easily.
Exhausted, hungry, and dripping in perspiration, my co-auditioners and I went home.
Okay so 'they' went home. The geek that I am, going home is not the way back to my boarding house. Home is where my favorite computer shop is located. After that audition, I changed clothes and went straight to Geek-landia paradise. What else can regenerate this geeky soul of mine than a good hour or two in the arms of my favorite online game. Home sweet home.
Okay so 'they' went home. The geek that I am, going home is not the way back to my boarding house. Home is where my favorite computer shop is located. After that audition, I changed clothes and went straight to Geek-landia paradise. What else can regenerate this geeky soul of mine than a good hour or two in the arms of my favorite online game. Home sweet home.
But I cannot deny the fact that despite all the emotional stress I have been through, the elimination was quite fun! I enjoyed what I was doing. The routine was a blast, even though I have no idea if I was executing it properly. When I was dancing, I didn't care at all.
I was like a different person. And I was actually having fun!
I sat down in front of the computer and started killing monsters and stuff. It's a geek thing. The one hour or two becomes three, then four. Well it only means one thing - I am definitely going to sleep in class again tomorrow.
"How did the audition go?", asked my housemate, who was into the geek stuff as I am.
"Ok ra.. I-text na lang daw nila kung kinsay nakapasa sa first elimination. [It was okay. They'll just send a text message to those people who passed the 1st elimination.]". Then I went back to brutally annihilating monsters again.
This was my world -- the geeky online gamer's world of sleepless nights and endless hack-and-slash. At 12 midnight, the computer shop was still full of people, computer gaming geeks like me, shouting unlimited profanities and cursing at each other for fun, boasting of virtual achievements and character items that normal people won't even comprehend.
Beep Beep. Beep Beep.
That was my phone. Someone bothered to send me a message at the wee hours of the night.
"This is ____ of Engineering Popjazz Team - KiNeSyX. Congratulations! We are happy to inform you that you passed the first elimination and will proceed to the final elimination.."
My eyes went larger than usual! I then tapped my friend furiously, who was also playing on a PC beside me.
"Bai! Bai! OMAYGAD Listen! Congratulations...", and I read to him aloud the message I received.
"Nadawat ka sa Popjazz? YEHEY!" [You got accepted in Popjazz?]
"1st elimination pa uy! [It's only the 1st eliminations] Final elimination coming up." Yeah, the team was commonly termed as Popjazz. Everyone uses that word to refer to them.
"I am so proud of you, my friend! You should be treating me white potions!". Virtual game item. It's a geek thing. Oh well, he deserves all the white potions my virtual money can afford for being there at my glorious moment. He then tapped the person next to him. " Bai, kining akong migo nakasud sa Popjazz!" [Bro, my friend here just got accepted in Popjazz].
"Ohh, Popjazz diay ka bai? Maayo diay ka musayaw. [Ohh, so you're a member of the Popjazz? So you dance well, then.]", my friend's friend said to me. Like he doesn't believe that I can.
Well it's okay, I really don't look like it, anyway. Many people don't believe I can do this or do that. Sometimes it's the main reason why a person starts doubting what he can really do. And now that I am one stepping stone ahead, It really doesn't matter to me anymore if I get in the team or not. All that matters to me now is to grab that first stone I stepped upon and bonk every person who didn't believe I can. They know who they are. And now they know what I am really made of. I have proven them wrong, and nothing is more satisfying than to see those bastards surprised as hell.
Yeah, my friend really had to make a scene inside the computer shop. And he made it very loud for the sake of geek pride. Now I owe two people damn white potions, and I'm not even IN the team yet! I had to clarify things to them before they spread the entire buzz, and save myself from treating everyone with damn white potions. Damn. Talk about stress and pressure. And I still have a class in the morning (which everyone knows I can handle by sleeping the entire class through).
But I have a lot more things to worry about than those white potions and the morning class.
Everyone knows how the final elimination goes.
An auditioner will dance a 2-minute solo routine of chosen genre.
In front of invited guest judges.
In front of the Popjazz members.
In front of the whole Engineering student population.
Doom, here I come.
Beep Beep. Beep Beep.
That was my phone. Someone bothered to send me a message at the wee hours of the night.
"This is ____ of Engineering Popjazz Team - KiNeSyX. Congratulations! We are happy to inform you that you passed the first elimination and will proceed to the final elimination.."
My eyes went larger than usual! I then tapped my friend furiously, who was also playing on a PC beside me.
"Bai! Bai! OMAYGAD Listen! Congratulations...", and I read to him aloud the message I received.
"Nadawat ka sa Popjazz? YEHEY!" [You got accepted in Popjazz?]
"1st elimination pa uy! [It's only the 1st eliminations] Final elimination coming up." Yeah, the team was commonly termed as Popjazz. Everyone uses that word to refer to them.
"I am so proud of you, my friend! You should be treating me white potions!". Virtual game item. It's a geek thing. Oh well, he deserves all the white potions my virtual money can afford for being there at my glorious moment. He then tapped the person next to him. " Bai, kining akong migo nakasud sa Popjazz!" [Bro, my friend here just got accepted in Popjazz].
"Ohh, Popjazz diay ka bai? Maayo diay ka musayaw. [Ohh, so you're a member of the Popjazz? So you dance well, then.]", my friend's friend said to me. Like he doesn't believe that I can.
Well it's okay, I really don't look like it, anyway. Many people don't believe I can do this or do that. Sometimes it's the main reason why a person starts doubting what he can really do. And now that I am one stepping stone ahead, It really doesn't matter to me anymore if I get in the team or not. All that matters to me now is to grab that first stone I stepped upon and bonk every person who didn't believe I can. They know who they are. And now they know what I am really made of. I have proven them wrong, and nothing is more satisfying than to see those bastards surprised as hell.
Yeah, my friend really had to make a scene inside the computer shop. And he made it very loud for the sake of geek pride. Now I owe two people damn white potions, and I'm not even IN the team yet! I had to clarify things to them before they spread the entire buzz, and save myself from treating everyone with damn white potions. Damn. Talk about stress and pressure. And I still have a class in the morning (which everyone knows I can handle by sleeping the entire class through).
But I have a lot more things to worry about than those white potions and the morning class.
Everyone knows how the final elimination goes.
An auditioner will dance a 2-minute solo routine of chosen genre.
In front of invited guest judges.
In front of the Popjazz members.
In front of the whole Engineering student population.
Doom, here I come.
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