Grand Finale!

Hello!
Was great hearing your voices again ;) Miss you guys!
Alright so where were we?
Right, me and Doug (England) had gotten out of the pool and I was now on my way down for makeup and hair :P
Down in the room there were a lot of people running around, female models were getting their stuff ready, other models and presentors were getting their stuff ready.
Ah well i grabbed a dinnerbox, and started eating.
I noticed the guy for puerto rico had written an answer for the question he was going to be asked on stage. . . so he was memorising it at that moment. . . . i just looked at him with my mouth full of food and like "Holy shit dude. .. . you've memorised your answer?"
haha i hadn't prepared shiiiiet, i figured i'll just go freestyle it. . .
Then a lady told me to come talk with her, which i did becuase she was surrounded with models haha. . Anyway, turns out she was the mother of some model, and well i jsut talked with them for a while, the younger female model was so shy, jsut looked at me and said not a word haha.
Well. . . . i guess it wasn't much different from any other makeup thing, jsut sit down infront of a mirror and close your eyes :P
My hair was. . . . how did they do my hair. . . . i have no idea hehe, i forgot :P ah who cares anyways :P
So it had already become dark and the stage was lit up and everything.
People were stressin like mad.
I was sitting by the pool with some of the other models just chillin mcgrillin.
Show was gonna start in a while so we got our stuff together, ie our outfits;
1. Casual Wear - clothes from EXR, a jacket and jeans. . looked pretty nice
2. Designer - Clothes from the indonesian designer, the Batik shirt (Pretty nice) and a pair of pants that i call giraffe pants. . .. he was prolly high on crack when he made them. . .
3. Swimwear - uugh skimpy little swimming trunks -.-
4. Eveningwear - The suit the agency bought me. . .shit's tiiiiight! :D
Anyway, eventually the organizers told us to get prepared. The butterflies started flapping away in my stomache and my throat felt dry like a desert :P
The female models were told to get into their positions in backstage, the contestants were told to hold. Then on went the big projector screen, and the speakers started shouting, UUUGH INTERNATIONAL MAN BLABLABLABLA, and pictures were dramatically exploding on the scene and the whole thing was like BOOM in your face hahaha. It had the feeling of a hollywood movie trailer with the voice booming away and explosions and what not haha. I remember telling one of the other contestants "Whoa dude. . .. holy shit haha"
Well the girls did their catwalk first, then we were told to go line up in the backstage.
Then the announcers or "Hosts" i guess is more suitable, said "Now the tiem you have all been waiting for. . .blablablabla"
And on we went with our first outfits. Spotlights were shining in our faces and the stage was amazing. I saw the 6 judges sitting on a table upfront smiling at us.
If i remember the sequence correctly, i was the 4th one to go out on stage. so then i'd walk to the end and pose, then walk to the beginning corner and pose, then walk to the opposite side of the beginning and stand, where eventually the models formed a V shape formation with Mr.Indonesia in the middle. (Everyone was screaming and shiet when Mr.Indonesia came out haha)
After that formation was formed, the first guy that went out (Yuki form Japan) started walking to the end of the catwalk before he exited, just as all the other models would do after him.
Now as soon as we got backstage it was just to start running to the place where you change, the next outfit was the designer clothes i think.
This time we walked out from behing the backstage, to the front of the catwalk and then back to the beginning and then upfront again to where the hosts would be standing so they could ask a question for us to answer :P
This was what i was most nervous about because i didn't feel like talking infront of the crowd :P
Buuuuut the moment came so i just walked out and the hosts introduced me, "Alex from sweden blablabal youngest contestant he's only 18. . . . .(at the point i was walking back to the front of the stage, and i started mouthing at the hosts that i was 19. . . apparently they didn't understand and just said). . . Little rascal. . . .Uuuugh hate being portrayed as the kid. .. . hate it hate it hate it. . . .
Anwyay, my question was about my prao as a reindeer keeper in norrland hahaha XD I'm like Uuuuugh can you imagine 100's of reindeers jsut running around you. . .wild reindeers!
Then i exited, others had like. . . Jemmy and Douglas did quick karate and kungfu demonstrations, The dude from the phillipines did some on stage acting :P (I saw him kneeling on the stage holding one of the female judges hands. . i think he was proposing XD)
The guy from puerto rico i heard was going on about how priviledged he felt about taking care of some children, i dunno what was wrong with them, but that was the only phrase i heard hahahaha XD sooooo cheesy. . .
Ah well, after that the girls had put on swimwear and it was their turn to go out on stage, all the contestants were just staring and laughing and going like "DAAAAMN!" hahahha
Well well, when they had gone out and taken their positions on the stage, we walked out and took our positions next to our designated model. I grabbed mine around the waist and posed together with her in our skimpy little swimwears haha
Then they left the stage after caressing our chests. . . . . nice. . . .
Well then we walked to the end of the stage and exited through the backstage.
Now i just breathed out because the two parts i was nervous about were over! The swimwear and the question asking XD
Now there was a long break so i calmly put on my suit and all that stuff, walked back into the makeup room, talked with some people joked around (I heard that i had gotten a little fanclub amongst the female models. . . WHOOOO WHOOO!!!)
Well eventually the time came and we walked out on stage to show off the evening wear, then i thiiink we walked backstage again. Anyway, we eventually ended up back on stage again in the same positions as during the swimwear sequence. . .. just that this time there were no girls. . . . nor any extensive skin exposure!
Then they said it was time to count up the top 5. Now my heart was pumping because i kept requesting to god that i'd come top five becuase i figured that'd be awesome haha :D
And hey what do ya know! after they announced Mr.Brazil i hear Mr.Sweden! So i walked to the end of the stage under the serenade of applause, turned and walked back (the top 5 were supposed to form a line a bit closer to the end of the stage) smiling and making stupid facial expressions to my friends :D
I was very happy when i saw that both Jemmy AND Jonas made top 5 (We were all carrie's models)
The final top 5 was Mr.Indonesia.
Well, after that we walked back behind backstage and i was so happy and what not.
Then it was time to go out again into the swimwear positions again.
And then ofc dramatically they would announce the first and second runner ups. I was thinking at this point. . . .hey i wouldn't mind making 1st or second runner up. . . that's be freakin awesome!
So i once again started pestering god with my pleas haha.
Second runner up . . . . . .. . . .. . . Mr. Brazil! (I'm like holy shit really? crap i dun think i can get frist runner up then. . . because i figured Brazil would win. . . He came second in the Mr.World competition. . .which is apparently big)
But i kept on pleaing to god, cmon cmon cmooooon first runner up would be sick!
Buuuut noooope not that either and then i'm just like aaaaaaaaaaw. . . .ah well top 5 isn't bad!
Mr. Indonesia was first runnerup btw.
Then the lights shut off and dancers came out dancing around us, then a strobe light started flashing on and off and music started playing. One of Indonesia's top supermodels made her dramatic entrance onto the stage carrying the crown. (She was drop dead gorgeous btw, same girl, me and a few other guys had a photoshoot together with on the beach a few days earlier)
I kept looking over my shoulder at Jemmy because i was 90% certain that he would win.
I was trying to keep a neautral happy smile on my face in an attempt to look as undisturbed as possible when i find out that i didn't win. (Yes i realize the grammar in that sentence is shot to hell. . . .)
Because i was so sure that there is not a snowballs chance in hell that i come first.
So i kept looking over at Jemmy every now and then, the supermodel walked around him, but kept on walking, i'm like huh. .. . prolly Jonas then. . . so i jsut stood there and stared out into the nightsky, at this point i was jsut happy being where i was, i was so certain i wasn't gonna win so to me i had already been awarded with the position i thought i was going to get at that time.
Then boom. . . WTF?! i feel a freakin crown being put on my head. . . .. . .
I'm like NO FKIN WAY!
HAhahahhahah hooooly shiiiiiiiieeet, my monotone neutral smile just became one of those smiles where people think i'm blind. I walk out on the stage doing the typical ice hockey segergest where they kinda jam there arm up and down.
I was like. . . no .. this isn't happening haha
Twice during that shoort walk to the end of the stage i thought to myself "Wait am i dreaming?. . . . " Then i made sure i could feel the crown pushing my head down and the ground under my feet, and the clothes on my skin. . . ."Yep. . .. holy shit it is happening"
Cheers and lights were flashing everywhere and i got a trophy and i don't exactly remember who it was that put the sash around my neck.
the top 3 together with the supermodel then stood out on the end of the catwalk and let people take pictures of us for like freakin 20 minutes.
Then when i got back to the place where we had been changing clothes everyone congratulated me and like a billion people wanted their photos taken with me, then i had to go stand somewhere and let the professional photografer take like a billion pictures with a billion other people. . . and after a while i jsut wanted to go back to my quiet hotel room and sleep hehe.
Well that's how it felt to be a celebrity then. . . . just stand around and get yer picture taken for like an hour and a half. . . . . . .Not bad. . . Although i was still in my evening suit. . . .with a freakin huge assed crown on my head. .. . . . sweatty?. . . NOOOOO OFC NOT!
Eventually i got changed and entered the seriously airconditioned room of mine.
There i met Yuki and like 5 of his lady friends who had been waiting. I greeted them, got my picture taken, and took farewell of Yuki becuase he was leaving, and so did the girls ;)
I heard from Jemmy that he had seen one of the contestants with tears in his eyes. . .. so i kinda felt sorry for him though :P
Well i changed and then i headed out to the club with some people and it was a lot of fun, one of the judges joined us and she said they had unanimously agreed i'd be the winner, so that made me happy haha :D
Well i got 2 hours sleep that night, the next morning i had a photoshoot with CLEO and after that Carrie's models took farewell of everyone, i grabbed quite a few emails and such, and we left for home!
Now i'm getting lots of emails from various people all asking how i'm having it and what not haha, here check this one out:

Dear Alex, It was indeed nice to know you. The young girls simply adore you very much. We talk about you often. It is always nice to meet young people from all over the world. We love living in Bali because of this reason. We hope that you are well in Singapore. We called the Novotel on Tuesday, but we were told that you had checked out the day before. Perhaps we will see each other again somewhere, somehow. Keep up the good work. All the best always. Alida, Nakita's mother.

From the mother with the models around her i was talking with earlier that night haha XD

Ah well, it's 3am here now, imma go to beeed!
I'm sure i've prolly missed soemthing, so if i remember something i'll write it tomorrow ;)
And i have to tell you guys about the week after the Bali thing, doen lots and lots of shows, been loads of fun! met a few new people as well :D

Until tomorrow, or the next time i write. .. . . check this homepage out hahaha XD Busy european schedual. . . . hahahha
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