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February 16, 2006

AI, Torino & everything else 
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American Idol
Tonight's episode (Wednesday) made me wanna laugh AND cry in different times. Laugh because that twin brothers were really something; stupid to wanna withdraw from AI (in fact very stupid and I thought Simon was right to chastise them but I was hoping they would be kicked out). I mean drama or real? I was like what the heck is wrong with them. Complain backstab and bitching about others, worse than women.

On the other hand I wanted to cry when I saw the gentleman way the cowboys group conceded defeat. Ok, they were awful, the worst of the lot and probably chose the wrong song. When the segment Brokenote Mountain was shown, I knew they must have been kicked out. But to actually see them hug each other and the young charming cowboy who said he was like a steak BUT raw (I remember him) crying and apologising for not doing his best and his team mates consoling him and said he gave his best made me actually shed tears. It was so moving and I was hoping American Idol should be about that. I mean a little training and vocal classes can tranform them into stars. That young cowboy especially was memorable when he ended the whole segment by reasoning he was a little green and a few more years of experience and he will do better. That's the spirit!! And seeing that black cowboy dude crying over the mean things Simon said broke my heart. He was right to be angry and frustrated. Simon were spectacularly bitchy tonight and when he should be the bitchiest and nastiest to that twins, he didn't. What's wrong with him? So sad.

I was also very impressed with the togetherness of that Brat Pack. Pity the show didn't show their segment in full. Quite a few handsome dudes in there.

I believe this year's AI contestants are even better than last year's, a good mix but hopefully the judges will pick the best ones for America to choose. I just hope Paula Abdul will be replaced and by the way Simon is going, he should go too.

Torino Winter Olympics
I posted a post about this games here. I am just very surprised that our local Malaysian newspaper did not report a thing on this games. Not even a mention. NONE AT ALL. Why? Is Winter Olympics that irrelevant? I am now following the games closely and was amazed by the dazzling display of sportsmanship and amazing games. Why I never noticed this before? Speed skating was amazing. I was particularly impressed that Asians kinda dominated Speed Skating, where in the Men's category, we have Japanese who are technically superior, Chinese who were very good and even the South Koreans who were world class. Then there was the Alpine Freestyle Skiing which was very exciting and such dazzling display of acrobatic skills. Also very dangerous games as some looked like they're gonna stumble. What surprised me was USA did not dominate any of the games I saw. Luge was the big one for me. I saw the women, I saw the men, I saw men doubles tonight and so many crashes. I was always wondering what steering? I mean they just lie there and that thing like go kart just go zooming by. Ahhhh tonight I saw the steering and how one can lose control. A great pity that former champions tumbled and was therefore considered DID NOT FINISH which meant they were out of the competition and the frustration of the new guys who practised hard but somehow didn't quite make the mark. Amazing stuff you know and our newspaper, NOT ONE WORD. NOT ONE. Anyway I actually believe Malaysia can produce first class luge experts. I mean it shouldn't be anymore expensive to train one than training say a local F1 driver. All you need is perhaps South Korea for the snow and a snowboard or sleigh. A nice sportcostume will help of course.

Anyway it is confirmed. Canadians have the worst costume. Today quite funny because in that Alpine skiing, the Japanese' sports costume really reminded me of the kamikaze type of army costume. I know it's not supposed to be funny but somehow it is.

If you have ASTRO, do catch the sports in channels 901, 902 and 903. Well worth your time because very exciting stuff. I find Winter Olympics more exciting than those summer olympics.

Some Other Stuff
Yes, coming soon my review of Batman Begins. Lost it and had to rewrite it but I believe the rewrite is better, more coherent. I am watching some old Jang Dong Gun movies so I hope to write for them. I am waiting for that TVB series Shine On You to finish so that I can write a review. Placebo Cure is totally boring to the core so not writing for that. Anyway I read about the buzz Lethal Weapons Of Love & War (did I get the title right? If I got it wrong my apologies since it is so long) created and I am intrigued by it. Seems like a good series from what I read. But that won't be shown on ASTRO until like a year later. Not much reviews from me these days since series are so slow in showing on ASTRO these days. Not much interesting stuff. I am still waiting for my Yesasia delivery so really not much new stuff in here.

Oh yes, these days you will read my ramblings in here and nothing much else. I understand you wanna switch off. I can be exceedingly boring when writing about me, myself and I.

So why not talk about you instead? How was your Valentine's day? KL was literally having a wet Valentine's day (no sexual pun of whatsoever nature intended). It was like raining so heavily, the river looked dangerously close to flooding KL town).

Also nothing much to read these days. Read State Of Fear by Michael Crichton, one of his worst books. Better read Prey, one of his best books. I wanna buy Howl's Moving Castle the book but due to Chinese New Year, was barred from going into bookshops. These days I am re-reading my Adrian Mole series, right now at The Cappuccino Years. I believe the true test of the longevity of a book is how relevant it is even after many times reading it. I am still laughing my head off reading the loser Adrian Mole writing about his life or rather lack of life and I find his observations still very relevant today. I truly believe Adrian Mole series is perhaps my most favourite books ever, surpassing Harry Potter series. If you have never heard of the Adrian Mole series, I beg you to look at this OLD POST of mine about Sue Townsend. She is a genius in writing funny stuff, although her other books and her latest Adrian Mole series weren't that good. Too political for my taste. I hope there is yet another sequel to Adrian Mole. I really want him to make it as a writer you know. Anyway I was very surprised to find an official website (very fuuny website and amazing graphics - do check it out for intro of the books) AND the books were once made into movie? I was hoping someone would make the series into big screen movies! Very surprised indeed.

In fact are you interested in reading my reviews of books? I wrote some before but stopped.

If you have any reviews to submit, please do so. I am really VERY VERY free these days. So free I have zero life except writing pointless stuff like this line. Even Jang Dong Gun is not doing anything majorly exciting these days for me to write a whole post about. Shaun Chen is nowhere to be seen. Christian Bale is hiding (by the way great fansite I found called awesomebale.org). Hugh Jackman nothing much. Eric Bana maybe but I am not into Munich. TVB series, new ones I am not watching. I am so out of touch. Nothing! Nothing at all!