Alina Mak: Sunsilk Academy Fantasia Champion

Sunsilk Academy Fantasia has officially come to an end. I am super proud that my dear girl, Seah Huixian has emerged to be the champion. The journey for her wasn't easy: being "locked away" for 10 weeks, filmed on TV 18 hours a day and all the tedious trainings. Although I don't watch heron TV all the time, but honestly, seeing her living her daily life in a more unique way, i really admire her courage and hardwork! As a friend, supporter, audience and in some way, a liasion officer, this journey has been really memorable for me as well.

I didn't exactly go down to support her during her initial rounds cos I didn't know we can go down (where to get the tickets and stuff) and there wasn't anyone to go down with. So the first time I went down to support her, was during the duet round

Yiusi didn't really liked the idea of standing in front and it was quite awkward for me too so we decided to stand at the back. The results: we were stuck behind the sound control station, couldn't really see the contestants on stage, and got squeezed like pancakes.

Nevertheless, we got to know her mum and aunt who were really friendly! Yiusi and I took the train home with them and they were talking non-stop! Her mum was telling us who she think will win and stuff and even bought old chang kee for us while we were waiting for our parents to fetch us at Kembangan MRT!

Her friends who were there to support her during the duet round!

During her dance round, I attended the Starhub TVB awards so I didn't head down to St James to watch our. But, I still managed to catch her at the award ceremony.

Headed down during the musical night round with Yating, Reginia and Virina after family day. Summer night was a really funny performance by them!

This time round, we stood in front! Her performance of Hopelessly Devoted to You was really good! As the CSS people was headed to watch guohao and zijie perform, they left early just right after she finished performing. But they didn't expect that the production crew gave Huixian and the rest of the contestants a special 5 mins privilege of talking and hugging their friends and families. Although there were only the 5 of us left by then, it was good to be able to at least talk to her abit.

Huixian's mum who never fails to go down to support her every week.

We headed to Huixian's house on a tuesday afternoon as the production crew wanted us to film an encouragement video for her. Liyin and I took a cab down because I was running late and we met the CSS people there. Huixian's dad played the piano while we sang yue liang dai biao wo de xin for her!

After that, some of us stayed on for a KTV + dinner treat Huixian's mum and dad. :)

Finally, it was the semi-finals! The whole clique except virina was down to support her! Honestly, it was very touching to see how she has grown since CSS days... Both songs were pretty good and we were really glad she made it through!

Then, it was time for a surprise visit at the academy!

Joanna, Liyin and I were invited into the Academy to spent some time cheering and accompanying her!

It was a really good experience viewing the set! Of course, it was good time spent with our dear friend although it was alittle awkward since you had to be careful with what you say...

In preparation for the finals, Joanna, Guohao and I met up at Huixian's house one friday night and her parents were really hospitable! We made boards from 9pm-1am with fried rice, hokkien mee and tau huey, bought personally by huixian's mum! Not forgetting the cans of drinks she keep serving us!

Top3 Meet and Greet! Met Joanna and huixian's mum at manhattan fish market for some bites before going down. Roxanne and sam joined us and once we reached, we were being called up stage for a game of jenga! Seriously, we were all too short for it! Think we stacked till nearly the 2nd floor. The backstage crew helped us bu eventually, we decided to just give up cos none of us can stack anymore.

The Top 3 performed for us and played the puzzle game with a friend/fan chosen personally by them! Really have to thank this couple who let us take their place at the front so that we could take nice pictures of Huixian!