<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169356</id><updated>2011-04-21T17:57:38.204-07:00</updated><title type='text'>entries</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladyoffrance.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15169356/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladyoffrance.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>ladyoflegolas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16913299838341635316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/ladyoffranz/paulo2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169356.post-112342230199853007</id><published>2005-08-07T06:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-15T08:12:43.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;singing contest...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;singing has always been my cup of tea...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;needless to say, even my friends get amazed everytime i belt songs of whitney and other contemporary "biritera" (except for ms. carey whom i have the highest respect of all belters)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so moving on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;regarding to my musical inclination,i thought,that when God gave his gifts-of vocal prowess-to all gay song lovers...&lt;br /&gt;i was wide awake and got all the showers of vocal strength and might...&lt;br /&gt;even having this "eardrum shaterring" gift...&lt;br /&gt;i never attempted to join any singing competition...&lt;br /&gt;even so my gay friends encouraged me to join one...&lt;br /&gt;but i never did...&lt;br /&gt;well...&lt;br /&gt;i was about join one gay singing contest in a local channel but i changed my mind...&lt;br /&gt;so i still adhered on my will...&lt;br /&gt;"will never join one"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but then one morning,my sister saw this ad in our visual tube and told me to join in this certain singing competition...&lt;br /&gt;well,at first i was astounded...&lt;br /&gt;and really want to spank her for she shaked me in my deep slumber!!!&lt;br /&gt;"kuya!kuya!why don't you join in this tv contest?our cable operator is holding a contest!!!" "what contest?mr.philippines!?",i said angrily...&lt;br /&gt;of course the innocent bitch did say an eye-popping "HELL NO"!!! with a travelling salivary welcome of good morning!!! from that time on,she never get tired of insisting me to join that competition...&lt;br /&gt;but i never will...&lt;br /&gt;honestly,i love singing in stage and be seen and heard by the thousand crowd...&lt;br /&gt;i even dream of singing with regine,the champions,janno...&lt;br /&gt;but i have this very powerful inferiority complex that can contain my wanting and will to perform in stage...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/ladyoffranz/mariah_carey13.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so,returning to the story...&lt;br /&gt;my sister never get tired of me insisting to be seen and heard...&lt;br /&gt;ending...&lt;br /&gt;i have this "i-am-gonna-join-provided-that" look...&lt;br /&gt;she jumped in excitement and she agreed with me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my sister has this passion to singing...&lt;br /&gt;but she did not have the gift...&lt;br /&gt;neither she was trained...&lt;br /&gt;she learned it...&lt;br /&gt;that is the amazing part of her...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we agreed on a specific day to go for an audition...&lt;br /&gt;i was not frightened and not even thinking of backing out...&lt;br /&gt;by the time i woke up in the morning...&lt;br /&gt;my coffee was made and my sister did serve it for me with the words of,"for your throat and to relax your vocal cords..."&lt;br /&gt;"mayeth,OA ka na!!!"&lt;br /&gt;"hindi!!!just doing my job...don't mind me i know i won't pass the audition it's you who must get in...i know it's part of our deal and i will still go for the audition." -damn!this girl never looses her spirit!- i just thought...&lt;br /&gt;so she was the one who prepared all that i'm going to wear...&lt;br /&gt;she told me not to eat to much...&lt;br /&gt;she even forbid me to drink cold water and eat sweets...&lt;br /&gt;she was definitely supportive and meddling even with my sexual activity... (as if i was going to compete on a boxing tournament!!!) in that part,she was funny!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/ladyoffranz/_38691245_mariah.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so when we reached the office,papers were given to us to be signed and our dvd and vcd were asked...&lt;br /&gt;a girl led us to the audition room...&lt;br /&gt;so we went on to the place of audition...&lt;br /&gt;we were so astonished by the things we've seen...&lt;br /&gt;i said,"i'm not going"...&lt;br /&gt;we saw a "studio"...&lt;br /&gt;a full-scale scenario of a tv studio...&lt;br /&gt;there were lights and cameras moving around and one fixed in front of the performer...&lt;br /&gt;there's a stage and of course every "singing" gays favorite-the microphone...&lt;br /&gt;five to ten people were watching perhaps the crews of the production...&lt;br /&gt;this is the very first time both of us joining an amature singing contest...&lt;br /&gt;we were asked who will be the first one to sing since we're siblings...&lt;br /&gt;i pushed my sister...&lt;br /&gt;"ano ba!?"...&lt;br /&gt;i gave her the eye-popping look...&lt;br /&gt;and i said...&lt;br /&gt;"i will still sing if you sing first"...&lt;br /&gt;there was nothing she could do...&lt;br /&gt;she had done her piece and no "says" were heard after her performance...&lt;br /&gt;so it was now my turn to take center stage...&lt;br /&gt;i grabbed the mic and introduced myself in the camera...&lt;br /&gt;then i heard the intro of my song...&lt;br /&gt;everyone was listening to me and and no one dared to move and speak...&lt;br /&gt;after the chorus of the song i heard-"CUT!"...&lt;br /&gt;then everyone just clapped their hands...&lt;br /&gt;take note,it's an audition...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/ladyoffranz/_1610617_mariah.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;few words were told...&lt;br /&gt;my sister and i can not compete in daily and weekly rounds...&lt;br /&gt;she'll be having her week 9 competition and i will be having my week 10 competition...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we both made it to get through the first step...&lt;br /&gt;guys please pray for me...&lt;br /&gt;and also for my sister...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/ladyoffranz/pic9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="vpdiv"&gt;&lt;embed name="RAOCXplayer" pluginspage="&lt;a href=" src="mms://a154.v87259.c8725.g.vc.akamaistream.net/7/154/8725/v0001/msnent.download.akamai.com/8725/DBA90618/published/Video/Music/High/MariahCarey_WeBelongTogether.wmv" width="320" height="265" type="application/x-mplayer2" showcontrols="0" showstatusbar="0" autosize="true" loop="true" enablecontextmenu="0" displaysize="0"&gt;Video'&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; 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