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The due date is Friday, March 30th 2007 at 5:00 PM [Singapore time, of course]
The items to be sent are:
...1... Completed application forms (including signed releases), one per person in the team, submitted together,
...2... Proof of a valid passport (i.e., photocopy of the pages indicating personal details and expiry date) for citizens or permanent residents or a valid work permit (i.e., photocopy of work permit with personal details and expiry date),
...3... A passport-size photo of each applicant and one recent photo of both team members together.
...4... One three-minute videotape of your team labelled clearly with your names, relationship, and phone number.
Those are meant to be wrapped in one big envelope, sealed and send to the noted address.
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Hmm… wondering what I’m talking about here? Exactly!
The Amazing Race Asia 2nd Season’ Application thingy…
You know what? I haven’t had this kinda anxiousness before. It’s choking, drenching you to the bones and racing your heart to it’s toppest [what??] speed. Even it’s sucking your breath ‘till your lungs are empty.
Kinda funny really, being obsessed with one thing and let it chews you to the bones.
Okay, here’s the story…
I and flyin’_cat are crazy about traveling. Well, we just traveled together once, but we both kinda have this ‘click’ towards one another and have this plan to travel again one day to the otherside.
Since flyin’_cat own a cable tv and able to pin herself to a reality show called “Amazing Race” [in local it was aired too ‘till the 3rd season or so. A year delayed of course], she became ‘block-head’ of it. Then “the amazing race asia” came on its first season and made her forbidden to any distractors while watching it [even her boyf]. I on the otherside enjoyed every ‘episode-recap’ of it the next morning since I don’t cable my TV.
The funny thing is we daydream a lot of becoming one of the teams in the race. How we’re going to solve the puzzles with its strategics and tricks; what we’re going to do with the money if we won it, etcetera etcetera [read “daydreaming” for more info].
And suddenly, we were stroke by the sign: “the amazing race asia 2nd season' open recruitment”. Darn! The gate is opened already and YES we signed up for the RACE [yea rite!! Don’t give me that look!! We have all the credits for the RACE, c’mon!!]
Days of preparing the application thingy were “damn bloody chaotic nightmares”. We both tried our best for this and really in a big hope of having it come true.
We had no serious problems in application form, really. Hey, what is so difficult in filling the blanks right? Just scratch here and there, put a lil bit of this and a lil bit of that. Then… VOILA!!
What hurts us the most was the additional application tape. Yes! We must record a 3-MINUTE-MAXIMUM OF LENGTH video contains the teammates, the why we would be perfect for this race, and the personalities we want to show-off. Personality counts! That’s what written there.
We were completely confused, stressed and hopeless in this one.
Okay, let me tell you something… none of us is a creative director [thou flyin’_cat is an architect and art master], none of us experience enuff in dealing with shooting-thingy [except being shot, hehehe], none of us is great in drama [thou we’re both masters in daydreaming], none of us is experience enuff in writing script [hell-ow, I’m good at writing story but in script, I need more lesson!]
Bottom line is: we’re completely bunch of amateurs with no pennies of budget. Period
Anyway the way, we MUST sign up to grab our dreams, rite?? So yes! We did the shooting thingy in a really dreadfull equipments and budgets and skills.
Let’s sum up the “shooting-chaos” here…
Equipment: Sony digital camera
Location: my house… @ the porch to be exact
Wardrobes: our collection
Setting: do the girl-talk at the porch [what do you expect?!]
Camera persons: US
We took 2 days of shooting. 4 hours of each. Over 30 times re-take. HA!!! [damn motorcylcle and our stupid blanky heads, hehehe]
But yes, I do like the final cut. I must admit it. I like it.
Wish it was more than just a 3minutes length. Hmm…
Well, finally at 27th of March, we officially SENT the application.
Phew…
But this fastrace-heartbeat is not settled down yet, though it’s slowing the beat down when we traced the package at DHLsite and it is said…
The Amazing Race Asia 2nd Season’ Application thingy…
You know what? I haven’t had this kinda anxiousness before. It’s choking, drenching you to the bones and racing your heart to it’s toppest [what??] speed. Even it’s sucking your breath ‘till your lungs are empty.
Kinda funny really, being obsessed with one thing and let it chews you to the bones.
Okay, here’s the story…
I and flyin’_cat are crazy about traveling. Well, we just traveled together once, but we both kinda have this ‘click’ towards one another and have this plan to travel again one day to the otherside.
Since flyin’_cat own a cable tv and able to pin herself to a reality show called “Amazing Race” [in local it was aired too ‘till the 3rd season or so. A year delayed of course], she became ‘block-head’ of it. Then “the amazing race asia” came on its first season and made her forbidden to any distractors while watching it [even her boyf]. I on the otherside enjoyed every ‘episode-recap’ of it the next morning since I don’t cable my TV.
The funny thing is we daydream a lot of becoming one of the teams in the race. How we’re going to solve the puzzles with its strategics and tricks; what we’re going to do with the money if we won it, etcetera etcetera [read “daydreaming” for more info].
And suddenly, we were stroke by the sign: “the amazing race asia 2nd season' open recruitment”. Darn! The gate is opened already and YES we signed up for the RACE [yea rite!! Don’t give me that look!! We have all the credits for the RACE, c’mon!!]
Days of preparing the application thingy were “damn bloody chaotic nightmares”. We both tried our best for this and really in a big hope of having it come true.
We had no serious problems in application form, really. Hey, what is so difficult in filling the blanks right? Just scratch here and there, put a lil bit of this and a lil bit of that. Then… VOILA!!
What hurts us the most was the additional application tape. Yes! We must record a 3-MINUTE-MAXIMUM OF LENGTH video contains the teammates, the why we would be perfect for this race, and the personalities we want to show-off. Personality counts! That’s what written there.
We were completely confused, stressed and hopeless in this one.
Okay, let me tell you something… none of us is a creative director [thou flyin’_cat is an architect and art master], none of us experience enuff in dealing with shooting-thingy [except being shot, hehehe], none of us is great in drama [thou we’re both masters in daydreaming], none of us is experience enuff in writing script [hell-ow, I’m good at writing story but in script, I need more lesson!]
Bottom line is: we’re completely bunch of amateurs with no pennies of budget. Period
Anyway the way, we MUST sign up to grab our dreams, rite?? So yes! We did the shooting thingy in a really dreadfull equipments and budgets and skills.
Let’s sum up the “shooting-chaos” here…
Equipment: Sony digital camera
Location: my house… @ the porch to be exact
Wardrobes: our collection
Setting: do the girl-talk at the porch [what do you expect?!]
Camera persons: US
We took 2 days of shooting. 4 hours of each. Over 30 times re-take. HA!!! [damn motorcylcle and our stupid blanky heads, hehehe]
But yes, I do like the final cut. I must admit it. I like it.
Wish it was more than just a 3minutes length. Hmm…
Well, finally at 27th of March, we officially SENT the application.
Phew…
But this fastrace-heartbeat is not settled down yet, though it’s slowing the beat down when we traced the package at DHLsite and it is said…
"Status: 1447594573
Signed for by: MS LIM Shipment delivered March 28, 2007 10:45"
IT’S A WRAP EVERYBODY!! Yay!!
But yes indeed, we’re still in this ‘anxiety-complex’ syndrome.
Waiting in desperate and crossing fingers.
DAMN!!! I CAN NOT SETTLE IN PEACE!
Anyway, here’s the DVD’ case
But yes indeed, we’re still in this ‘anxiety-complex’ syndrome.
Waiting in desperate and crossing fingers.
DAMN!!! I CAN NOT SETTLE IN PEACE!
Anyway, here’s the DVD’ case
And…here’s our video
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…hoping…waiting…expecting…desperated…
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