I know that I’ve been on hiatus for a few weeks now. I think I actually waited for our company’s two Christmas parties to be over first before posting this entry.

Anyway, the theme for our Christmas presentations for this year is “Broadway” and it actually took me some time to think of a good presentation. I am not a fan of broadway musicals that’s why I really prefer to come up with something lively, and “Hairspray” is one of the musicals that first came into my mind. I bought a DVD of the movie version and I found it good. I suggested it to my group mates and they all agreed.

Coming up with a presentation was really not easy knowing that most of my group mates were busy due to deadlines. There were times when I thought of just backing out but I just avoid that though whenever I see my group mates eagerly practicing. Anyway, we don’t want to think of it as a competition. We want to think that we are just having fun since this only comes once a year. As we progressed with our practice, we forgot about the competition and did everything for fun. I could say that the experience I had during our practices is one of the best moments I have in the company.

We performed in our first Christmas party and I am happy that we were able to entertain many of them. Whichever group wins in that party will perform next week in the whole company’s Christmas party. As expected, we did not win, but unexpectedly, we were able to place third. And due to a request, we were included to perform in the next party.

I actually had mixed emotions when it was confirmed that we would be performing again. Happy because I simply love our presentation. Somehow sad because we had to go home late again because of practices and it is really tiring.

I can say that I was challenged for the role that was assigned to me – Mr. Corny Collin, because aside from dancing, I had to lip-sync! Haha.

The practices for the second performance were actually worse than the first. Some cannot join already due to reasons we can’t blame because just like what I said, we didn’t think that we would be performing again. Again, I already felt like backing out but we don’t want to disappoint the people who requested us to join the competition. Due to lack of time, we just let anything happen when we started to perform on stage. We actually had a lot of fun.

We were expecting to get the lowest place. There were 4 groups in the competition. When the 4th placer was called and it was not our group, we started shouting and jumping because we were thinking that we placed third. The third placer was called and it was still not us! We then started hugging each other due to extreme happiness. We placed second, surprisingly.

It is an unforgettable moment for me. I had fun during our practices, presentations, and parties. I got to know some of my workmates more and it made me realized that most of them are wonderful people. They are not perfect, the same that I am not. But rather looking at their imperfections, I want to look at them in a positive way.

Congratulations to everybody for coming up with good presentations. Credits to all who helped us in our presentation. (Pictures coming soon! I hope.)

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