Upon living in my in-law’s place when I and my husband were newly married I became exposed to bingo. I would see my father-in-law putting numbers to bingo cards and sometimes we would even help him do that. Sometimes, my mother-in-law would sell me bingo cards, we would buy and play it when we are available but most of the time we would let our sister-in-law play for it. I have experienced playing bingo and it was fun, but as it is a game of chance I have not experienced winning a prize. LOL.

The beautiful thing about the bingo that is being held at my in-law’s place is that they are used as fund raisers. Especially, if the town fiesta is near already, the town head would host a bingo game, sell bingo cards at a very affordable price and have attractive prizes. Not only the town people would participate but also other people coming from different places. These people who buy the cards not only help the town have a wonderful fiesta but they also have the chance to win big prizes and of course enjoy playing their favorite game.

I wasn’t able to watch the All Star Barangayan the Finals of Showtime or simply Showtime’s Season Four Grand Finals yesterday due to some personal activities. There are fourteen finalists namely:

Kanlumon Performing Ensemble

Neutron Acrobats

D’Shots

Kingz Gambit

FMD Extreme

Astig Pinoy

Spy

Pinoy HipHop

Racing Chat

Bailes De Luces

Buli Kidz Incredible

Teatro Ambahanon

Prime Machine

UDC

The contestants have different concepts, from contemporary dancing duo to contemporary dancing trio to modern folk dance group. Of course, hiphop groups or the typical dance groups are the concept of the most groups but they all have different twists in their performances. I was curious to know who the grand winner is so I immediately searched for a video of their performance. From the different blogs, I found out that Astig Pinoy won the competition with the final score of 9.933 percent. I have watched a personal video at youtube and I was really impressed with their performance. They are really “astig” with the hiphop dance that they performed and they are really “pinoy” with their tinikling performance. The tinikling routine was really impressive and they even did it blind folded with the jumping rope exhibition. I wish to share the video with you, but I’ll do it once I found a good quality video at youtube.
The wild card winner, UDC, received the Madlang People’s Choice Award, probably because of their “Komang Dance.” I’ve watched their performance on the wild card week and they are really cute, their Komang dance was like a “dance craze.”

Congrats Astig Pinoy! You deserve it! And congrats to UDC also for that unique Komang Dance!

And here are the Grand Finalists of Pilipinas Got Talent Season 2:

1. Freestylers – dance crew
2. Madrigal Siblings – young singers
3. Baguio Boom Boom Boys – dance group
4. Angel Calalas – hula hoop tricker
5. Happy Feet – tap dancers
6. Jem Cubil – acoustic singer
7. John Michael Narag – singer
8. Filogram – dance crew
9. DJP Trio – singing trio
10. Buildex Pagales – singer
11. Leoniel Enopia and Elizabeth Dazo – ballroom dancing duo
12. Marcelito Po Moy – singer
13. Rico the Magician – magician
14. Skeights – band

After the performance, the judges have to choose and I can see from the expressions of the judges that they are really sad. Maybe they didn’t expect that Rico will not get the highest number of votes and they feel sorry that they have to choose between him and the Madrigal siblings who are also good in their own field, singing. The female judges have to apologize and cry because it was really difficult for them. This is just the first round, there are still five rounds for the semis and there will still a lot of jobs to do. A really hard job of choosing between two talents that can be both deserving.

Good luck to the rest of the semi-finalist.