I arrived quite early at Ngee Ann Polytechnic to do some reconnaissance of the area before the actual roadshow begins. The place was still quite sleepy but the CCA Fiesta were almost fully awakened with activities humming at the respective booths. I even went all the way to the Convention Hall and spoke to some of the lecturers there about the recent courses offered. I thought it was a good Open House with friendly Ambassadors giving out pamphlets and directions to the visitors about where to go for what.
As with most MediaCorp appearances, the roadshow only started at 12.16pm so the two Polytechnic student hosts had to come up with ways to entertain the growing crowd of about 150 people gathering at the tent. Most of the CSS 3 contestants seemed raw and bewildered during the roadshow so I supposed they would need more experience if they could do better and relax themselves. Let me just recollect some of the more memorable episodes during the roadshow there.
For Adrian, I thought he could have been more well-prepared for his talent performance instead of trying to borrow the percussion drums onstage at the last minute and thus he was the only one who did not do a talent performance onstage whilst most of the others repeated what they did during the Pre-Concert last Sunday night.
Rachel Lim, Shelly and Joselin were caught on my camera chitchatting away onstage whilst Jarod was performing. Perhaps they had forgotten to pay attention to their classmates' performances which should be an act of courtesy. It's easy to fidget onstage but don't forget there were at least eight photographers there snapping away.
Pornsak was exceptionally quick-witted and threw many of the contestants speechless in their replies to the quick-thinking hosts and thus most of the contestants must learn how to interact onstage as well rather than merely standing there and smiling (I believed they were mostly quite nervous at the turnout).
Jiamin had forgotten her lyrics for "Fly Away" and had to restart. She eventually steadied out but I thought she could have mentally rehearsed the song before her turn came along then. Thankfully, that was not the actual performance or Li Fei Hui Laoshi would come after Jiamin for it.
Rachael Chang did another balloon giraffe and made use of the opportunity to apologize to Pornsak for her earlier comment during the Pre-Concert. I thought it was a golden opportunity to clear up any misunderstanding. Pornsak, of course, accepted and I personally thought the case is finally over.
He Guohao of Campus Superstars Season 2, also gave a guest performance and I want to compliment him on his marked improvement here since I last heard him sing. He took a lot of fire from me during the competition then but I am even more glad to see him improving and I finally get to enjoy a good performance. The applause he got from the audience was unanimous and he earned it alright.
Near the end of the roadshow, Felicia led the crowd for a quick round of games, trying to find caps, watches, socks (yucks)and balloons in order to give away prizes and true indeed, some lucky chaps walked away with unique goodies.
The roadshow ended around 1.26pm and I left the Ngee Ann Polytechnic campus for some lunch.
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