Friday, July 22, 2016

Dear Virtual Diary | When I Auditioned On PBB

R to L: Em, Caloy, Donita, Ariane, Carla and Me
I decided to shut down my Tumblr blog since I tried to sign in but I couldn't - probably because it has been awhile since I visited or used it. So now, it will only be full of photos shared from my Instagram account (@pgraceperez) and tweets from my twitter account (@pgraceperez). Also, It is because I wanted to focus more on my virtual diary and on my literature blog. However, I am totally a sucker for memorabilia, and I think this experience is worth-remembering. So, I thought why not re-blogging it here, along with those memories that I posted on my Tumblr. 
It is really embarrassing to read the Tumblr post that I wrote about this. Like I really tried to be a blogger that time, but the words and the thoughts that I was using was really not good. LOL. I just put the names and what basically happened to them; it is really simple and unattractive, but to be fair, it made sense now why I wrote with that style. Now, I still can recall those people and their roles to me in that day. 

FUN FACT: and that is my purpose of blogging and vlogging - to be able to remember what happened to me after years and years. 

1/3 Of The Bestest Friends
A Nap On The Streets


As we all know, almost every Filipino dreams to be in Pinoy Big Brother, and be one of Kuya's housemates – not only because you will be an instant celebrity, but also because your story will be shared nationwide, or even worldwide. 

Back then, I was only a fifteen-year-old girl who just dreamt to share my story to the world, hoping it might inspire people to live their lives to the fullest, and show how great my God is. Being a celebrity was just a bonus (but lowkey, my dad has always wanted me to be one LOL); thus, I really thought this reality show was one of the best platform.

The PBB Audition Story

Like mostly of the auditionees, we heard about it through a TV Commercial. Ate Ariane, the girlfriend of my brother, Fernan, saw it first, and was immediately persuaded to joined. Since the mechanics was to partner oneself with a minor or with a young adult, she asked me if I could join with her, and duuuuuh who wouldn't want to?

So, we prepped everything for it. 

Layout By Yours Truly

I made a matching shirt (look how jejemon it was LOL), and I lowkey thought it was creative and cool since I designed it on Picnik only. Also, I went to a parlor shop to fix my hair, and bought some stuff that I thought I needed. 

My Pappa went to accompany us because we had no idea on how we will go to the audition venue which was the Mall of Asia. Ate Ariane cooked and brought one of my favorite-st cuisine, and it is her white adobo that definitely calmed my nerves. Really, sobrang sarap!!! 

By 3AM we left Laguna because we thought it would be more convenient to go there "early". 

When we got there four hours before the call time, we really thought there would be no people yet on queue, or probably just a small number... but for our surprise, there are already like 300 people already waiting in line. So, we went to the last line and waited. After some minutes, wow a stampede occurred. People were running because somebody alarmed everyone falsely that the line was leading to a wrong event. So, without any thinking, I already ran, literally jumping over people, and not minding if ever I would get lost or something. But thank Jesus; I managed to get in the right line again with my Pappa, Donita and Ate Ariane.  

Along the waiting, I have seen different kinds of people; people who are very posh and mean, and who are very nice and positive. Some of the latter were:

L to R: Em, Caloy, (Ariane, Donita), Carla, Acel and Hazel
We had different lifestyles, stories and attitudes; however, we really got along well. 

This was Hazel's second try to audition in PBB, while Acel is the girl that we let in our line because she said that she really wanted to get in. (and you know some times we, Christians, can't say no LOL). Carla is the posh Manila girl who shocked me since she said that she just went there by herself (and I was like, "like I couldn't even go to the nearest sari-sari store by myself! Salute, friend!") And those lovely boys over there, Caloy and Em, just met each other on the line, and decided to partner up. They were really really nice. :)

[still writing...]