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So I uhhh won HP Space.
It took a while to hit me, but yeah I won the Pan-Asian creativity-based reality tv show HP Space :) Winning is going to have a huge impact on my life - not only will it open up more opportunities work wise, but it means that I'll be staying in Sydney longer than I intended. Not necessarily a bad thing, just not what I was originally planning (I was hoping to move to New York in September 2010. But now because I won, I have to stay in Sydney for as long as the Bubblegum Crisis job goes for).
A lot of people have asked what I'm planning to do with the prize money but as boring as it sounds I plan on puting it towards an apartment. Graphic designers don't make that much money, so in all honesty this will probably be the only instance that I'll have this much money at one time. So I it'll be a waste to piss it all away on gambling and women! Ok maybe a little.
Winning has been a tremendous surprise for me. When I first found out I was being accepted into the show, I really really just hoped that I wouldn't be the first contestant to be eliminated. I was soooo happy when we got through the installation challenge (the first challenge to eliminate contestants), that everything else after that was bonus. It seems like all so long ago.
We film the show two weeks ahead of the actual airing date, so keeping this a secret has been incredibly tough. A couple of my friends asked me early on if I'd won and I lied saying that I only made it through to the final three. I wanted them to be shocked when they saw it on TV. And they were! If only I could see their faces, I was constantly laughing just thinking about it.
All up HP Space was a pretty crazy experience. It wasn't easy - and I'm not just talking about the challenges, but also relationships with the other contestants... even so it turned out to be a thoroughly worthwhile experience. I probably made many mistakes along the way (by the end of it a lot of contestants had turned against me), but throughout the competition I did the best that I could - and played it in a way that stayed true to my principles.
If I had the chance to do it all again, would I change anything? Probably not.
It took a while to hit me, but yeah I won the Pan-Asian creativity-based reality tv show HP Space :) Winning is going to have a huge impact on my life - not only will it open up more opportunities work wise, but it means that I'll be staying in Sydney longer than I intended. Not necessarily a bad thing, just not what I was originally planning (I was hoping to move to New York in September 2010. But now because I won, I have to stay in Sydney for as long as the Bubblegum Crisis job goes for).
A lot of people have asked what I'm planning to do with the prize money but as boring as it sounds I plan on puting it towards an apartment. Graphic designers don't make that much money, so in all honesty this will probably be the only instance that I'll have this much money at one time. So I it'll be a waste to piss it all away on gambling and women! Ok maybe a little.
Winning has been a tremendous surprise for me. When I first found out I was being accepted into the show, I really really just hoped that I wouldn't be the first contestant to be eliminated. I was soooo happy when we got through the installation challenge (the first challenge to eliminate contestants), that everything else after that was bonus. It seems like all so long ago.
We film the show two weeks ahead of the actual airing date, so keeping this a secret has been incredibly tough. A couple of my friends asked me early on if I'd won and I lied saying that I only made it through to the final three. I wanted them to be shocked when they saw it on TV. And they were! If only I could see their faces, I was constantly laughing just thinking about it.
All up HP Space was a pretty crazy experience. It wasn't easy - and I'm not just talking about the challenges, but also relationships with the other contestants... even so it turned out to be a thoroughly worthwhile experience. I probably made many mistakes along the way (by the end of it a lot of contestants had turned against me), but throughout the competition I did the best that I could - and played it in a way that stayed true to my principles.
If I had the chance to do it all again, would I change anything? Probably not.
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