Category: Observing Life

Latest Update: This time round, the judge would pick 2 contestants for the next round while people’s votes would save 2 more contestants. Turned out that the judges picked Gayle (wasted all my votes!) and the people picked Jay. There are two more but not worth mentioning at the moment.

Last night, I landed 3 votes to Gayles and 2 votes to Jay. This morning, I pumped another 2 votes to Gayles just in case. As of today, 15 votes have been submited (S$9 damage so far).

On my way back home, the radio was playing Lindsay Lohan’s “Confession Of A Broken Heart”. Avoid at all cost. The lyrics and the terrible melody of “Daughter to Father … I Love You” still rang inside my head right now. Very agonising.

Now, back to the Singapore Idol, happy that the judges picked Gayle and Jay into the Wildcard episode of 7 resurrected contestants. I knew Jay has potential and he did shine. I sense that Gayle may have had a flu and did not perform well. Gayle sort of reminded me of Katherine Mcphee, one of the American Idol contestants. Gayle tends to crack under pressure I guess but she has the X-factor.

Well, time to send tons of SMS’s to save someone’s music career.

Well, all girls part 2 is a disappointment. There are no eye candies and definitely no hotties. In the land of the blind, one eye is queen. Meryl chose to sing Christina Aguilera’s I Turn To You. Honestly speaking, I found her off key a bit annoying. But seems that all 4 judges love her and she is definitely the queen in the land of the blind. So, 2 votes she will get from me.

In my opinion, Mathilda has the greatest voice – very much soulful. However, her look doesn’t really cut it. 1 vote it is.

Charmaine is interesting. She took on Stacy Orrico’s Stuck and I thought her stage present was there. Her singing could be a bit blend but hey, she has my 1 vote too.

So, here we are … 1 Chinese, 1 Indian, and 1 Malay. Fair play.

Latest Update: Mathilda voted into the competition and 3 of other contestants who I have voted but did not qualitied got picked into the Wildcard Round of 12 (Meryl and Gayle).

Rejoice! Our electronic signboard with real-time display of estimated time of reaching the destinations is once again in operation (3 years?). If I remember correctly, it was too expensive to operate then. I wonder what changes today. I personally miss those signboards a lot. How accurate is that today? Well, I did several observations and they were accurate up to 1 minute with my madman driving skill – I still miss the target by a minute though. Sigh.

I do not play football, cannot tell who has fouled in the game, and neither do I gamble on results. Many friends of mine told me that they have not watched many matches. I replied to them that I have not missed many matches. In fact, I glue to the TV from 9pm to 5am each and every day. And thanks to Maxim, the magazine, I have this big piece of poster that I can stick onto the wall and update the results as World Cup progresses.

6777 3777 is a number that I shall remember from now on besides 43657 (IDOLS, duh! For SMS voting …). I am sick of ordering pizzas every time. It is expensive and I can never finish them in one go. McDonald’s delivery service is awesome and it is my brand new discovery. 6777 3777 that is. As for 43657, well, after another week of boring all-guys performance at the Singapore Idol (seriously, do guy viewers find all-guys performance even interesting to watch?), this coming episode will be all-girls performance (yay!). Except that I don’t really see any eye candies at all from the commercials. Pretty, cute, and young Singaporean gals, where are you all?!

It is because of The Omen that I have missed first half of Argentina’s match on Friday. So I have missed the first 3 goals. But I got to see the next 3 goals on the second half. How cool is that?! USA versus Italy was all blood and gory. I am sure the American viewers would love it. If you visit USA and watch their local news for just one day, you will know what I mean.

Back to The Omen – the supposed horror film that to me, it is more of a thriller – I sort of thought that the storyline is familiar. Turned out that The Omen is a remake of the 1976 classic and it has four parts to it. I wonder if they will continue remaking all.

Some of you have already known my “passion” towards ants. If you wish to buy some ant baits, don’t get Baygon. I made that mistake couple of years ago and I have just made it again. First, the baits draw the entire population of ants out of their nets and kill them all on the spot there and then. I took some pictures but they are just too gory to be displayed on my site. Second, the baits don’t work on all type of ants – specifically the fast moving ones. Buy the other brand instead (off hand, I forgot). The proper way to kill them is to let them take the baits into their nest so that I don’t need to clear all the “corpses”.

The American Idol Taylor Hicks’s single is out with his first song Do I Make You Proud. No dude, you make me sad, you make me angry, you make me want to burn all the shops that carry your single. Katherine should have been the Idol, Elliot should have been the Idol, even Chris should have been the Idol.

Oh well, time for the first match … and don’t forget, 6777 3777.

After watching the painful All Boys (Part 1) last week – too many whom cannot sing AND don’t look good – the girls I thought are better both in looks department as well as … perhaps, in singing department.

For those overseas readers, the Singapore Idols website is … not surprisingly http://www.SingaporeIdol.com.

Last week’s result was no brainer. This week I have finally got to place my very first Idols vote through SMS (60 cents per SMS mind you). Jasmine sang the best and also looks decent, so she has my first vote. Between Gayle and Milly, one is better in the singing department (I do like Gayle’s voice) and the other can easily look the best in the competition so far (her eyes were so watery!). Undecided. I have casted 1 vote each. Then I thought, what the hack, I cast 1 extra vote to Jasmine just so show my support.

Now, that is S$2.40 for round 1.

Latest Update: Alright. The result is in. The girl whom I have invested 2 votes has made it (Jasmine that is). Sort of very disappointed that Gayle doesn’t make it. Instead, Rahimah – the one who has no look and can’t sing (can’t reach the high notes) – made it. Being the only Malay contestant in that round, I have predicted that she would make it. Still, I don’t like the result. At least not all of it.

After watching the painful All Boys (Part 1) last week – too many whom cannot sing AND don’t look good – the girls I thought are better both in looks department as well as … perhaps, in singing department.

Lately, I have been shopping for the solar panel for my car. I texted my car agent and he put me through this company that installs the brand of a solar panel that I have not heard of. So this salegirl called me up and explained to me what products they offer. After the call, she texted me her contact number and a website that contains her blog on not only her personal life, but also photos of all the cool cars that she has come across.

I must say that it is a very cool strategy. Her assets – pleasant looking with a decent personality – that are not able to put through the voice call are now shining through her own blog site. Next time if I have a company, the recruitment criteria would be:

1. Is she hot?
2. Is she hot?
3. Is she hot?
4. Does she blog and willing to share her blog with her potential clients and clients?