What the world needs now....
Is better judges...Singapore Idol Wildcard Special
As usual I did my utmost todae to try and accomadate SI into my daily schedule. I shifted tuition to an earlier time and hence had the chance to catch the show. It was alright, I think evrybody more or less improveed to a certain degree. So who got in? Sylvester was the people's choice, and the judges chose Beverly(in an attempt to add a twist they chose 2, which wasnt a twist to those who figured that idol finalists always number to 12) and maia!
Maia???
Well to those who caught her performances they would have witnessed a very unclassy and amateurish attempt at Beyonce's Crazy in Love. The first part of the song, which had the "uh-ohs" and what have u, was totally off and was a complete insult to the song. She then carried the other tunes rather mediocrely and well i wasn's impressed at all. Then started all the crazy comments....like...
"Today i saw the real maia.." - Florence Lian
and then came ken's brilliant line....
"what you have,which helps u as a performer, maia, dat is different from all the other contestants is the life experiences you have" - Ken Lim
ok fair enough not everybody has a child at 21 and is single, and proud of it, but no ken, i dont believe it helps her as a performer, especially in a song like Crazy in Love. K my quotes may not be 100% accurate but the gist is there trust me.
They also said they chose maia based on her potential in the future. OK fair enough, then why bother having a show at all. Why not give maia the contract cos she's got potential...honestly some of the shit the judges do dont make sense, if you wanna pick someone out for their potential it should be at the first auditions in the first few episodes...whateva.
So sylvester got in, what can i say? Nana underperformed tody, and sylvester did have rather good comments, which in the case of the Singapore audience ultimately gets their vote. whatever. I thought he definitely improved, but the thing is will he be able to last the whole measure? do u think he will be able to pull off an r&b? or worse still a "big band" song? Oh well the audience have decided and I shant fret cos I didnt vote or anything. Lets see.
Anyways been reading the papers this week, and loks like I didnt go wrong wif my comments on Jerry Yeo (again please note all i am not a muslim fanatic)
"That was the impression given when Ong lunched into an Oscar acceptance speech last week after his name was called, thanking Jesus and his family ebfore Gurmit Singh could even ask anything. It was unfortunate that Ong chose to drag religion, an intensely personal issue, into a secular competition and it's certain that his littel speech has caused the public to deduct a few points from his goodwill account." - Streats 15 Sep
"Speaking of divine intervention, Jerry Ong stumped everyone when he sneaked into the chosen three - his version of To love Somebody was so wretchedly unimpressive. And his muscling in a thank-you speech for his supporters and Lord and Saviour as if he'd just won an Oscar? The vanity of it was second only to Florence Lian's praise for her lookalike Cheyanne, and certainly didn't earn him any humble points." - 8 Days this week
"But there's still a chance you can get in, just ask for help from Jerry Ong." - Ken Lim to Nelson Tum, who had screwed up his piece on the Wildcard Show today
Enough said ppl, let me not harp on this any longer.
A day out with Mel
Tuesday's off was spent going out wif Mel, saw her at Toa Payoh before going to watch Harold and Kumar on my laptop. It was all ok thus far, but then i realised I had downloaded the uncensored version! Aargh...luckily Mel was understanding as always...We then went for some Ice-cream prata nearby and then we managed to walk to east point before it started pouring...I felt realli horrible for watsing Mel's time going to all these freakin lame places...oh well, but she said it was ok since we spent the time talking and stuff. Thanx Mel. Your truly a gem.
Anyways mel will be leaving on Sunday, and I have nobody to go to the airport wif to send her off. Sigh...this blows, im really shy to turn up all alone without no one....this sux. Its not dat I dont want to, but its there where I realli feel I fall behind so many other friends in ehr life, and all the unimportantness creeps in....oh well, if worse come to worse will go there myself lar, Mel is too impt a person not to send off....
Reali hope can go meet her in UK next year lar.
Oh well tomorrow got soccer again, just hope dont lose by dat much lar...i think we wont though, got a good feeling bout this. Ive also achieved a breakthrough and managed to figure out some nice tune to go with the Am chord variations and progressions ive been dabbling wif the past few days....
7 Days to IPPT.
Out.
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