When the advert inviting interested persons who wanted to participate in the popular TV3 Mentor II programme started running on the ?Best In News, Best In Entertainment? screen, many were those who thought the timing was premature.

But the secret of the whole transaction is that the joy and enthusiasm of the youth out there, who think they have fine talent, yet have not got the opportunity to exhibit them were already yearning for it long before the organizers themselves thought about starting it.

Perhaps this was the motivating factor because, barely a two months after the maiden edition, which saw the Oseikrom lad, Prince emerging as the pioneer ?champ?, many connoisseurs had thought that they were going to take sometime off to evaluate the maiden edition properly and discover their shortfalls and strengths before coming up again.

Some music fans, connoisseurs as well as entertainment fans initially downplayed the whole process with some saying they should have given themselves a bit of time.

However, the scene that went on at Accra, where the first selection process for the second edition started and Kumasi where the second Mentor II train arrived, and presently going on at the registration center at Takoradi could better be described by the eye only.

At, the TV3 premises was too small to contain the teaming youth who had converged there to see if luck could smile on them; but after the hustling and bustling and trying of luck, only three people had the nod.

Most of the enthusiasts who are determined to at cost get the nod to participate in the next Mentor programme hesitated to travel to the Garden City of Oseikrom, where it is perceived that the city is pregnant with a bunch of talented singers as evident during the maiden programme, where three of the top inmates, including the winner, Prince and the first runner-up in the person of Andy, aka 'ladies man' and macho man Hakeem emerged from.

However, when the advert started running again that the Mentor train is at Takoradi, hundreds of the 'rejected' applicants who perhaps thought they were good but could not get the opportunity to be selected are already there again to try if this time 'luck' could stare them in the face.

Most of the participants who spoke with the Chronicle On Saturday were categorical that they would follow the train to try their luck until either they get the nod or if finishes its rounds of the four selected stations.

From the capital city of Western Region, Takoradi, the TV3 II train is expected to travel to the capital city of the Eastern region, Koforidua before the Mentor proper gets underway.

Indications are that the youth in the country, following the success story of the Mentor I still lingering on their minds beckoning them to take a trip towards celebrity ship just as Prince, Andy, Okruseni among others are enjoying now. We wish them all the best.