My Story..... Part 6

(I apologized for the delayed posting of my story, as I was pretty tied up with work lately and for the coming month as well. Please have patience with me and I will try to do my best to keep my post updated)

Over the air, the MC announced: " Contestants, you have 20 minutes to complete your haircuts and your time begins NOW...........!
when i heard that, my hands and legs are all shaking and trembling and I not sure if the audiences had noticed that or not. I began to lock my knees as I cant bend then because whenever I bend them, they start to tremble. So I reckon I looked kinda weird standing and cutting hair in that position.

I remembered what my mentor told me and I tried to take a peek at the audiences. It was pretty scary to find that so many people were looking at you. I gave out a smile and to my surprise, the audiences cheered and clapped and cameras' flash started flashing away. Oh my God, that was awesome, that kind of feeling makes you feel like a superstar or some kind of celebrities. Five minutes into the cutting, the judges started to walk around the stage, accessing our hair cutting technique and creation. To be honest, I didn't quite remember the judges' names as I was nervous and breaking in cold sweat that I did not even bother to know who they are.
As they walked around me, they looked so serious. While they were looking at the way I cut, they keep mumbling to each other and pointing to the left and right side of my model. As soon as they walked away, I quickly ran in front of my model and checked my haircut but I can't seems to find anything wrong with that. So, I walked back and continue my haircut on my model. The MC announced that we had 10 minutes left for our hair cut and at this point of time, I had only completed about 50% of my hair cut. Pressure started to step in and I tried to increase my speed of cutting. That was when the worst fear of mine which I thought of everyday prior to the competition happened...........

Trend Training 23-24 May 2011

The participants turn up for the Joico Trend workshop with great anxiety and all I can say is, they responded by doing a great job. They executed the trend training requirements very well and showed great professionalism in their work and attitude. 

Keep up the great job and you guys are AWESOME!

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Come and join us for the Trend workshop on 13-14 and 27-28 June 2011

My Story..... Part 5

This time, my heart was pumping so fast that I almost freaked out. Suddenly someone tapped my shoulder from my back, I turned around and saw my mentor standing behind me.
He gave me a wide smile and said: "Tom, just go out there and enjoy yourself. Don't be too tense up, look at the audience and give them a smile whenever you can. To win or not is not important, what is important is you had taken your first step in your career and achieved your first goal which is to join this hair competition. I have confidence in you, just go up to the stage and show them what you got. Make yourself and your parents proud." Then he patted me on my back and walked off.
In fact, my father had not even talk to me once since the day I joined hairdressing. He was totally disappointed in me for quitting school and was furious with me for joining hairdressing. Both me and my father lived like total strangers to each other at home.
When I heard those words; "Make yourself and your parents proud", my eyes filled up with tears. I knew that it was my fault for quitting school that angered my father. I knew that my mum always cried herself to sleep at night because of what I did. I had disappointed them when they had pinned all their hopes on me to be successful both in school and in life later. All our relatives looked down on my family as we were seems as failures in academic result. Just when I looked down, I saw my pair of cutting scissors in my kit bag. I picked it up and it was one of the best gift I ever received. It was a pair of 5 inch Yasaka scissors which my mum had bought for me a month ago. She had scrimped and saved few months of her household allowance to buy me that scissors. I knew that I had to do my best in this competition. It's not just for exposure, experience or fun, it's for redemption!
Each categories of the competition. were split into 3 groups with each group about 20 contestants. I've got another senior of mine in my group and the rest of them in the other groups. Just when I was admiring my scissors, the music softens and MC announced that all contestants for the Man's Cut & Blow-Dry category to go onstage. Slowly, one by one, each contestant numbers and name were called out and then I heard; "Number 11, Thomas Foo from Win's Cut House". Suddenly my legs were trembling and shaking! My legs became jelly-like and I was trembling in cold sweat. I turned to my model and I told him:" Patrick, I can't walk! My legs are trembling!" Patrick looked at me and said: " Don't worry, can't walk? Well, we can crawl up the stage then." We both shared a little laughter. That laughter really helped a lot to loosen up the tension and there I was; up on the stage.
It was my first time on stage, with all those spot lights beaming at you and people down there cheering on. However, my cold sweat didn't stop and my legs keep trembling and shaking whenever they like. I had to stand straight with my knees locked to keep them from trembling. To make matters worse, there was a huge speaker behind me pumping away loud music.
Over the air, the MC announced: " Contestants, you have 20 minutes to complete your haircuts and your time begins NOW...........!