Reminiscing: Division PressCon [and my First Theatre Acting Ü]

From the block, I hurried down to my younger brother's school to give his project [which happened to be the school where I graduated... *shouts loud* LA COOO~!!!] ^^; Good thing it was the guard who knew me that was on duty, and he let me enter without hesitation. :D Like I was doing before, I looked at the calendar of activities, and there written:

OCTOBER 18-19
DIVISION SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE

I remembered that time, year 2005, same month. We were on the "school van" (it actually belonged to the Augustinian sisters who are running our school) on the way to the school venue and our school paper adviser (Mr. Raymond Curibang) *wow, I still remember the name!* gave each one of us an advice or two. When it was my turn to be advised, I suddenly blurted out (in Tagalog, of course, I just typed it in in English for the sake of "fourmalitea") "Sir, no more hope! I'm not really that good, you just recruited me this year! *wails*" But my sir just replied (in Tagalog) "I know you are good that's why you're here! Just remember to put a line of a song in your piece. "

A line of a song... I'm bad at music, mind you. So all those damnations, I just kept it myself, knowing that I will lose. Then we got down and everything. Contests started and all. Then we ate lunch *I'm laughing, just continue reading :wink:* at the nearby kitchenette. I ordered sinigang, my fave. We were starting to eat when I was amazed by this big, green, sliced vegetable in my dish that I gave myself a mouthful of rice with this vegetable. Guess what, my tongue IS BURNING! IT IS A BIG CHILI! Out of self-humility, I tried not to cry out and gulped a lot of cola. Sweat began to trinkle in my cheeks when a schoolmate told me, "Kuya Edward, are you ok?" Of course, I just said yes but really, my tongue is still burning until the end of the day, damn chili...

Back to the contest... Well, I was chosen to write for the English Features category. The topic ? I forgot, but i think it is about candle or light (or maybe candlelight?) I was stuck in my seat for 30 minutes, oblivious to the contest I'm into. I said, "Oh well, since I'm a newbie in the field, it's alright to lose." and I started writing "random"words for my entry. When it was done, I hurried back to our adviser and said that I don't think I will win and besides, we have a theatrical presentation the next day so I "won't hear my defeat".

The next day, evening. We are now presenting our play on the stage campus (it was so hot in the "backstage"!!!). I'm still jittering that time. Good thing I went on well. You see, I was playing the insensitive father of my "demented" kids (fitted well in me since I looked and emoted like a stick. XD ). I did well in the first half. Then curtains fall for intermission. Some announcements were made, and the van arrived home from the awarding! Noises from my schoolmates backstaged proliferated in my ear as it was announced that I bagged the second place in the said contest and will move on to the next level! I was dumbstrucked! I was like saying, "No way! I don't believe you!" And during the second half, I kind-of messed with my acting *good thing it is considerably minor* and after the show, my adviser approaced me and said, "Congratulations! You won second place!" and he showed me the medal.

During that night, I can't get off a big grin out of my face.

Back to reality!
So there, I gave my brother's project in peace, paid his monthly tuition, and I headed straight back home while reminiscing everything...