Hay...It's been a rough day for me. It was a real thrilling, fun and really embarrassing ride. I can't stop seeing recent episodes of myself doing "Ah..ah...ah.." and "eh..eh...eh..." and a bit of "uhm...a...uhm...". Eewww... So here's what happened. I was, as usual, early in the venue (the old ABS-CBN Broadcast Center along Sgt. Esguerra) an hour and half before call time at 2pm. I texted Mr. Dei Cayabyab, one of the DZMM people, telling him that I'm already in the venue. He texted back, saying he's yet to be there by 2 so he said I should go straight inside the DZMM waiting area inside the station itself and meet Mr. Dingdong Marco, another DZMM guy. We shook hands and he showed me the waiting area which happened to be a conference room.
To while away the time, I just read some newspapers found lying on the conference table and listened to my I-pod.
Eventually, my competition arrived: the girls from La Consolacion-Manila. One is a 4th year Masscom student named Leigh ("Lei" as it is pronounced) and a fellow Masscom girl named Nadine. They brought along some allies for moral support while I'm with my lonesome self (I invited people to come with me but they declined but promised that they'll be there in spirit, others had classes at that time).
And that leads to one question: Who's my freakin' partner LOLz?! Well, Ms. Au, who's behind the invitation and stuff informed me that he's a second-year MMA student as well, a guy named Charlon Yu. I may not know his name but I may have seen him as one of the many random faces I see walking around SDA. That was just it. I was sitting in one of the cubes when right behind me, someone gave me a fright from behind.
"Ah..ikaw pala ang partner ko?...Ikaw iyung madalas nakikita ko sa SDA, ah?"
Funny he said that since I should ask him that same question, hahahaha!
So we thought of some plan on how we should be able to outwit the girls from LaCon although I was really thinking of having him as the First Speaker. In debate, the first speaker from the affirmative group (which usually go on first) must set out the guidelines, the parameters and all those stuff, something I was ill-trained of when I was still a member of my school's debate org (lasting only one term but boy was it bloody!). I'm very well suited to become second speaker IMHO since I could well support the stance of the first and effectively rebutt the statement made by the first speaker of the opposition.
Time for our TV-Radio debut!
It was almost 3pm, and Freddie Webb's sport show, "Sport Talk", just ended. We entered the booth (3nd time to visit a radio station booth, the first was Magic 89.9 and 99.5 RT more than a month ago), we were seated on assigned seats. Cameras were there to monitor us (for telecast over DZMM Teleradyo), and I was shy seeing myself on TV as there's a TV screened placed in front of the booth for us to see.
Ms. Roselle Manahan a.k.a. Ms. M is the program's host for U-Talk. The topic given was "Death Penalty: Dapat ba o hindi Dapat ibalik?". We were introduced and skipping some parts, it was time for the heads up. To know who's going first, there was a coin toss. We were tails and LaCon girls were heads. Tails was in showed and we were asked if what side we wanna be and my friend here let me say our stance. I froze a bit and said "Yes!".
Then it all came crushing down: It was agreed that i was to be the first speaker. Why oh why do i must be the first! AHGGHH! My weakness I have to face! By the way, the debate is based on British Parliament format.
Then it was my turn to speak and it didn't started oh-so-well. I froze up, stuttered and got the case of the jiggers. No biggie, I just really can't look back to that scene.
The good thing though is that I was able to make up by raising POI's and although it was clear there wasn't a stable teamwork coming from our side since we don't have a clear communications between ourselves (blame that on our unfamiliarity to each other). There was one POI (point-of-info) that I failed to raise against one of the speakers from the opposition due to the lack of time (last 30 seconds of the speech would prevent the other side to give anymore POI's).
Winner for the week went for LaCon which is okay since, first of all, we don't want the winner's prize anyway, a gift check for Bio Essence (what kind of a guy would wanna have Bio Essence?). But to compensate, we were all given 400-pesos worth of Expressions gift checks each. Before the show ended< iwas able to pluf MMx's upcoming PVW in Zambales which served as my lasting redemption at the very least.
It was nice to know Charlon, now that I know he's from DV2 too like Jomar, Dims, and the other DV2 people I know of. That'd make one random face less in SDA.
I got good feedback, at least from my parents, saying I looked good on TV, very telegenic daw. Hahaha! Add to that they said I had good modulation of my voice, I sounded like a real AM announcer hahaha! Working on my self-confidence and stuff would do me fine if ever I'd be given the chance again to be on radio and TV.
So, do you guys think I have a career in media? Hahaha!
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