Paperbag full of memories: People are people, though we are all different.

March 23, 2013 at 5pm, New Zealand time, was probably the most exciting yet nerve-racking time of my whole high-school life.
It all started 4 weeks ago when a meeting was called for cultural "leaders". I was dragged to go to that meeting even though on the top of my head, i have no plans of forming a filipino group this year as I know from past experience how stressful everything was. From organizing costumes and getting people to go to practices, I should say, it wasnt my thing. I was never a fan of organizing big things like this due to the fact that I have less patience than I expected.
But then, I did it eventually, denying to everyone that I am the leader of the filipino group, I also denied the fact that I am also the leader of kpop, Although, I would say this right now that I am NOT a big fan of korean music, though I know some of them which I really like and listen to half the time.

Being a leader of two groups at the same time was hectic. I was stressed half the time, I'd spazzed at people, I wouldnt eat, I'd forget my homework, all nighters, running around places to get costumes, hunting people down for practices, finding a place to practice, making the music mix and learning the dances for me to teach. Yes. I did it. Like the fact that I didnt want to be a leader, I still did all of this because the people in my group believed in me. They put their trust on me to manage two groups at once. And as we got closer to performance night, I almost gave up. But I didnt, all because my group believed that I can do it and that we can do it.

On saturday, I was so excited yet, nervous at the same time. I was excited as a performer but nervous as a leader because I didnt know how people would react to our performance. But after our performance, it was good hearing a lot of good feeback from the crowd and also how we got the crowd pumpin' despite the cold weather outside. Ive never felt so relieved and happy!

Here are some of the behind the scenes photos that I stole from people's facebook which includes our weekend practice and preparation for the night. Sorry for the poor quality. Some of them were taken using an ipod :)

with Sandy during our first weekend practice :)

With Sandy and Top :)

The last group to leave our weekend practice :)

with Raph, Anna, Jemima, Top and Sandy but she got cut out.

Here are some more behind the scene during the performance night. While everyone was getiing ready.

turns out, I only saved a few photos. woooops. here me doing Alex's make up. damn son i have fat cheeks :(

And heres a photo of me and Sii :) I did her make up aswell. PROUD.

hardworking people. practicing over and over and over again.

another "ULET" =)) they know what ulet means now.

dedication :)

Shamal and Jam :)

Here are some photos during our performance.

But first, we had to model cultural outfits. I modelled for Japan together with Wannachai :)

And heres Kim and Raph, modelling the filipino outfit.

And heres my filipino girls :) they did an amazing job for leron leron sinta and modern dance

like Pamela one and Pinoy Ako. So proud! I wish they had more photos though :( unfortunately, I can only show you guys one. And if you look closely, you can see me on the side. I was actually panicking for them but they made me so proud <3

photo before performing with everyone but missing Pha :( anyways, I was really humbled to do the prayer even though not all of us are familiar with any prayer :)