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It is Realisophie! TARA 2 Racer
realisophie:
Hi everyone....
I've been running around too much and sorting my life out....
It's been nuts!!!!
School is going great, but assignments are due every week and exams in December....
My mac has arrived so I will be making videos very soon......
More updates... but if I get too quiet, it's only temporary ha!
Hopefully more peaceful times are coming for all....
realisophie:
:yess:
Need I say more?!!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!!!!
Im so happy and hopeful with his win.......
Congratulations to America.... thanks for heading out to vote....
:jumpy:
georgiapeach:
Hi Sophie!! We missed you! :waves:
Fill us in on all your doings when you can!
realisophie:
Hi Peach and everyone
Life has been tough lately... with work and school... I feel myself slipping away sometimes in a good way, sometimes not.
The few classmates I hang out with, have been really great and it's been such a pleasure going through the hard bits together. A Masters program, on part-time, is really tough on every aspect of balance.
I did finally move out. Got my own apartment, it's actually not bad. But the personal life has been a huge learning curve and things have settled down. Actually it's ridiculous, more like I have to manage 2 homes now.
I suppose I have not really watched too much TV lately, but a few weeks ago, I realised that the TV network I auditioned for in May this year, just hired a new VJ in September. Her name is Lisa, yes she's a very famous model in HK.
This was my biggest audition yet and I think I did try my best.
But to begin with, Im not a model or even ever aspired to be one. Yes every girl likes to dress up every now and then, but I don't want to be a clothes rack.
It seems in HK (I guess it happens everywhere too but it's more in-your-face here), yet more examples of opportunities calling out to these girls. Plus, Lisa has a very very famous bf, an actor. So she's got it all, looks, the perfect man, and they live together in his mansion.
This is a side of Asia, I feel totally trapped in. In western countries, even big hollywood stars from Brad Pitt to Bruce Willis have had their modest days. Someone from a small town, like Carrie Underwood can follow her dreams and triump as a reality show star. You can even try to find yourself an agent, but in Asia, there's no such thing. You mostly get called into auditions through your modelling agency.
So in all...... I failed BIG twice, I actually got 2 host gigs with contract and all, one to host a wildlife show, the other as an anchor for a Chinese TV Cable network....but bad luck happened at the last minute. Finally a talent on a film documentary contest a few years back. Then the first failed attempt in TARA1 in 2006 (because I could not take off for a mth), followed by the disastrous ending of my first partner dropping out of TARA2 in 2007, the rest you know.... .... and I think this is the biggest slap in my face after my screentest for this Asian TV network.
My dream is dead
I just really want to be a great travel wildlife host like Ian Wright, David Attenborough
Sorry for venting.... writing helps me release.....
Thanks I feel better ;-))
realisophie:
My friend told me a joke that really illustrates how funny fate is!!!!
THIS IS A TRUE story!!!
We have a friend, she's originally from Cambodia. When she was a baby, her family was on the run from the war. They were picked up by UN forces and given the option to be housed by guest families in various countries.
So one UN staff asked my friend Anna's father, "where would you like to go?"
Anna's father said "Australia"
But the UN staff, whose English was not too great, heard it as "Austria"
So Anna, her sister and her parents turned up in freezing Winter at Vienna airport, Austria in t-shirts and shorts, with nothing on their backs. It was then that her father realised the mistake. Luckily they were taken in by a very rich retired man who has a vineyard on the outskirts of Austria. Anna and her sister grew up there and later they managed to start life afresh after her father got a job.
So this is how Anna has a very unique heritage and can speak fluent German. She's now a banker, and happily married to an American stockbroker. They moved to Singapore last year.
When I heard this story.... I was rolling on the floor .... life is so funny sometimes!!!
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