If it's meant for you POY...it will really be yours.

Kate Palma, POY as she is fondly called is the HONORARY SCHOLAR of the Pinoy Dream Academy II. She was officially granted the status last Sunday, July 27, 2008. She has to win the top scholar spot for 3 times so that she can have the chance to become a regular scholar. Every time she gets to be on top, she gets to accept a pay of fifty grand. All in all she can bring home one hundred fifty grand as her prize if she decides to forgo with the opportunity to become a regular scholar. POY for the imformation of everybody, is one of the 4 PDA scholar wannabes who didn't make it because of several requirements that these candidates didn't meet for them to get into the show. I am quite a fan of POY from the very moment that she was seen on TV. I know POY personally. We were in a group when she was still in the same university that I graduated from. Our group is a singing group tasked to sing in events and ceromonies of the university. I know of the singing prowess this lad has. She's more than meets the eye. She never fails to impress people when she sings.The final casting episode of the PDA was a bit saddening for us, her friends because she was not in the list chosen by the jurors. I personally was dismayed by how the jurors came to a decision which does not include POY as one of the regular scholars. As Direk Joey says it, the packaging and selling of POY's persona would pose a problem.But the show was not at all a competition based on appearance and character, it's a singing contest for crying out loud. Going through the scholars that these jurors have chosen, I have observed that none of them is at par with what POY has to offer. Some of them (scholars) may be good but a few have probems of thier own making. There were also a couple who early on have decided to back out from the contest while the show was already being aired a few weeks already! I said to myself, what a waste these people have made of the resources invested on them. It is already the big break they all have been wanting. POY was one of the many who would want to be a PDA scholar and she would definitely be willing to give anything up for it. Now that she already is in the PDA as a competitor, all that I can do is hope and wish the best for her. I know that she have all that is needed to win. I hope that the jurors and mentors will stick to the notion that the PDA is a singing competition not otherwise. I am a proud fan of POY...