Xmas eve

Xmas Eve.
And i'm celebrating it like how ive done so
for many many years.
Staying at home.

The better way to put it would be,
"Stay at home and relax"
Yes dats right,
watch some TV,
eat dinner with your family.

Not really.
Its really just "stay at home"
Cuz TV would mean watching,
The Polar Express,
and I express no interest in watching xmas movies.
The only one i've appreciated was Love Actually.
That movie, ladies and gentlemen,
is pure win.

For a family that don't even celebrate
their own birthdays,
I'm not at all disappointed that all i can do
on Xmas eve,
is to be stoning in front of the computer screen.

But the atmosphere tonight is just different, isnt it?
Tonight i can just sit back and relax,
knowing that the whole world
is in the mood of celebration too.
Even if there are families out there who cant afford
a Xmas tree or a big family feast,
i'm sure the spirit of giving is being experienced,
more than ever, on this day.
Oh wait. Xmas is tomorrow.
Ok then, both these days.

Xmas is probably the most celebrated holiday in the world.
It might interest you to know that,
during World War 1,
British and German soldiers interrupted their fighting,
just to be able to celebrate Xmas,
an event that is now known as the Christmas Truce.

Yea so i would like to wish every1 in the world
just one thing tonight,
and that is,

a VERY VERY Happy Christmas.

because merry sounds like ur gonna be
out the whole night drinking.

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Sebastian Farewell

Sebastian Hadinata's Farewell Lunch

@

Seoul Garden!

Starring Sebastian Hadinata

Also Starring: Md. Sufi

Ho Jia Yan, Joshua Chia

Abdul Aziz, Colin Gan, Cao Ke, Koh Cheng Yu

Koh Soo Teck, Marcus Teo

Phelan Wong and Danny Chia

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Cant get the message their trying to relate.

He was a happy man

Jia Yan told me the pillar beside her was vibrating,
so i had to check it out.
Pretty waitress btw.

Teriyaki Chicken couldnt fill me up,
yet one bowl of ice cream did.

"I usually dont open these"

Colin had time to read the papers.

They claim they have a series of photos with them in this pose.

Three Stoogers?
Three Musketeers?
Three Men in a Pumpkin?

Sufi: "Paparazzi?!?! Get lost u sonowabitch!"
Phelan: "Oh god.. tight ass"

Joshua's stoning again.

Still with ice cream.

What they do best.

One just had to be taken.

Uhuh

Dont ask me.

Visited Benny and Jing Kai after that.


They were just downstairs,
working at the toy fair.
They get payed to play.
Not a bad job.


Dats it thn.
Sebas has gone and i didnt get the chance
to see him off at the airport.
Sebas, you will be missed by every1 of us.

Unfortunately i dont miss you as much as
Boon Long,
cuz u'll be back mid next year. lol.
That bugger only come back in 2 years time.
Got difference you see.

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Hady Mirza wins Asian Idol

And so it happened.
Hady Mirza became the first ever Asian Idol.
Really i was shocked.
(i got vote for him okay)
But at the same time delighted
that all his effort did not go into waste.

I rewatched all the performances here

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-QrvNytM5cqGOi7.4z4Ro1bGnf8gL?p=42250

i take back wad i said about him
being surpassed by the other idols.
i guess he really was on par with the others.

my judgement was probably affected by the judges comments,
who clearly sided contestants like
Mike, Jaclyn, and Mau.

And so Singapore played the role of underdog
and gained all the glory in the final minutes.
And fortunately, though he was almost reduced to tears,
Hady didnt disappoint with his final performance,
leaving a good taste in every1's mouth.

Here's a fact on how the winner was chosen.

As consideration on population size among the participating countries, tabulation of votes are done through an "Equal and Even Cumulative Method", wherein the total votes of each country are converted into percentages. The winner was determined through 50% viewers' votes and 50% judges' scores, in which Hady Mirza from Singapore Idol won the crown.

quoted from Wikipedia

and so it wasnt really unfair at all.
Needless to say, Hady Mirza DOES deserve to be
Asia's very first Idol.
(if there is ever gonna be a second)

I mean, look what happened to World Idol.

CRITICIZED
- for making the 10 out of 11 Idols look like losers,

- for profit making in UK phone voting,

- and for the purpose of exposing Kelly Clarkson to
a wider audience.

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Asian Idol

Asian Idol.

To be honest, i don't think Hady Mirza's gonna win.
My pick earlier on before the show was
Malaysia's Jaclyn Victor.
Having seen her perform many times before,
I was certain she would be a cut above the rest.

Opinions change,
and after watching the Performance Show yesterday,
i've come to a conclusion that all the Idols
are almost equally matched.
To me, the more outstanding ones were
India's Abhijeet Sawant,
Malaysia's Jaclyn Victor
and
Indonesia's Mike Mohede,
who is probably hot favourite in winning this.

Then again, Idol was never a fair competition.
At least most of the time.
After all, it is not based on professional judgement,
but popularity and appeal to the viewers.
Though we are all quite satisfied with our eventual winners,
there are some talent that were dropped halfway through,
due to not being able to gain enough votes.

Hady Mirza put up a good performance.
But good is all that i can say.
He did not produce that moment of magic
that would be essential in winning an international level
competition like this.

He sang a Taufik Batisah song,
and also Beautiful Day, originally sang by U2.

I dont think its a coincidence that
World Idol winner,
Kurt Nilsen,
also sang Beautiful Day on World Idol.
I think Hady was doing his research,
and when he saw how Kurt Nilsen nailed World Idol
with a smashing performance with
Beautiful Day,
he was inspired to also perform the same song.

But like what one of the judges said,
A rock song like that does not really fit in
with such a competition.
After all, what Hady needs to show,
is his vocal prowess,
something which a rock song cant really bring out.

The judges didnt do Hady any justice too.
They emphasized so much that Hady's got more looks and appeal,
rather than real singing talent.
Come on, we all know Hady deserves to be our Idol.
He's good looking, yes, he got the female vote.
But he really can sing too.

They also emphasized on how Hady can still win
the competition through the female vote,
so much so that maybe the fangirls will realize that
they should spend their votes on someone else.
But that doesnt matter.
Imagine how insulted Hady would have felt on that stage,
when the judges were saying that if he was going to be Asian Idol,
it would be due to his looks rather than talent.

As much as I want Hady to win,
i think its a better that he doesnt.
At first look, Hady was surpassed by the other Idols
in terms of ability.

Also, if he wins, people are going to have
a bad impression of him.

"Oh, that kid? Ah, like what the judges said, he won
cuz the girls like him"

"Singaporeans are more affluent, they got more money
to spend on such shows"

or maybe I'm imagining too much.

Still, I do think the other Idols did slightly better than Hady.
Not too much though.
I dont think any of them gave a "winning performance"
And thinking it through again, Hady's performance was
not bad at all.
So maybe he still got a chance at winning.

GO HADY GO!!!

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dream of Heroes

8pm i woke up from my nap.
more accurately, at 8pm i woke up from a dream.
its the second time ive had such a dream.

i dreamt of being part of that TV show
Heroes.

i dun even wanna recall the first time.
total nightmare.
i was running away for my life.
from this guy, and i didnt even know why.
The thing was i could turn invisible.
The PROBLEM was he had some sort of enhanced
sense of hearing or something?
and even though i was invisible to the naked eye,
he just keeps on coming with decent judgement
of my location.

Well soon enough i found myself
running and running,
from cities to jungles to rivers to waterfalls.
Yea, you know how dreams work.
It really was scary i tell you.
I didnt know what the heck this guy wanted with me.
I just had the instinct he was a bad guy.
And i had to survive,
like a cockroach.

It didnt get any better.
My dream switched location/situation.

Again, you know how dreams work.

This time i was witnessing a day in the life
of this small little boy living with his sister.
In this one, i constantly shifted from
third person to first person view,
sometimes being the boy himself.

You know how dreams work.

It seemed so effed up dat i had to take
the persona of the boy when
SYLAR came.
Sylar is the villain of the series btw.
I remember holding a golden pendant or sth.
Sth which i recognized as the "key to further evolution".

He wanted it from me, badly.
Sylar in my story isnt quite the sly dude
you see on the regular episode.
He's a freaking monster.
Twice a human size with brute strength
and a coarse voice and all.
As if my childhood nightmares were coming back.
Seriously when i woke up in the middle of the night
after dat nightmare, i was really scared.
It ended with my "sister" telling me to
"run away" and that she'll "stay and handle it herself"

Wadever that meant.

I ended up recalling the whole dream didnt I?

I havent talked about the one i just had though.
This one was much better.

I cant tell you much.
Cuz doing so would reveal a large part of the story.
This certain dream was surprisingly similar to wad happened
at the end of season 1.

It was an unimaginable feeling.
I was able to do what is possibly
the ability that everyone desires.
And im talking about everyone.
At least once in your life, you have probably wished
that you could do this.
And maybe even some still do.

Human aviation.
It was just a dream, but at the very least,
maybe i felt what it would feel like to fly around the world.

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1 year from OBS

as of today,

actually yesterday,
it has been one year since i went to OBS.

why wud i remember such a thing?
i dunno, really.
just dat i really feel that the dates
4th - 8th December mean something to me.
it really was an experience dats one of a kind.

coincidentally enough,
i saw in CNA news today,
that OBS seeks to venture to countries as far as
Croatia,
for their future plans.

now dats big.

i was from the Hilary watch.
i dont know if any of them remembers me,
but here, take a look at them!

yep. hope all of u guys are doing well.

yea i know he screwed up on the "effort" part.
but apart from that, Jonathan's the best instructor ever! oh dats Guo Sheng.
haha.
he's the only guy from GESS to go OBS with me.
we didnt get into the same watch,
but both our watches became buddy watches anyway.. for your information,
we had to stay at HQ NCC the night before OBS.
and this is where all 100+ of us boys slept.
felt like a refugee camp..
didnt sleep much anyway.

yep. i hope every1 who's given the chance to go OBS
would take it. no regrets.
unless u really mind getting
under siege by mosquitoes and sand flies.

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getting back into shape

today, i scored a goal.
i'm very proud of myself

;_;

effects of training is starting to show.
and i hope this happens to all others who are working hard too.

one concern

ASTHMA

yes ppl.
its not chronic bronchitis,
not emphysema,
not lung cancer.

its ASTHMA.

had it when i was a kid below 1 meter tall.
and now its back, my old friend.
what a time.

neways, almost had an asthma attack just now.
the more i tried to breathe,
the shorter my breaths became.
kinda scary, i told myself.
so i took a minutes break,
and it was all okay.

Inhaler would be pretty much needed though.

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