Ignorance Is Bliss

The Homeless and the Homey

Superstar

Bum

David Archuleta and weird alien both posted on their video blogs that they're gonna have a concert together in Manila. Don't you find it interesting that although they're both finalists of American Idol, Cook looks like a homeless bum while Archie looks like a glamorous superstar? Looks like age is catching up to somebody... Life of an American Idol winner not treating you well, Cook? Well living the life of someone else is never kind, dah-ling.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Archie fans start boo-ing Cook during the concert. But you gotta appauld Cook for his bravery for daring to appear on the same stage as the obvious true winner of American Idol. Either that or he's really stupid for furthur emphasizing the point that he's a little too not good enough.

Hope Archie has a tour in Singapore! And Cook, I promise never to say something bad about you again if you don't tag along.

Apparantly, I've Been Kidnapped

1pm - Mom receives a phone call.

Mom: Hello?
Boy: (Sobbing) Mom, something's happened!
Mom: What?! What happened?
Boy: Some people beat me up... I'm held at this place...
Mom: What's your name?
Boy: I'm Jian Yi (my Chinese name)
Mom: (sensing something's wrong) What's your full name? Where were you born?
Boy: I'm your child!
Mom: Where were you born? Which city?

Click... The line goes dead...


My mom tried calling me, but I was in Econs lesson, so I rejected the call. She then called my sis to text me, which she did, and I returned the call. So my sis told me about how they tried to con Mom into thinking that I was kidnapped. The sheer cheek of these people. Hello.. anyone who knows me would know I'm hardly the conventional kidnapping victim. I would get a back ache from the 'anonymous white van' that kidnappers seem to enjoy so much.

Luckily, this scam wasn't the first time it happened close to me. Another friend of ours had something similiar happen to them, and so Mom was more vigilant after that. But how could they have found out my Chinese name? I barely use it, and only in Chinese class when the teacher calls me. Maybe it's someone from my class... Or the Chinese teacher... Hmm...

Mom told me that even the voice of that person sounds like me. She should have asked him to sing Vision of Love or something. Lowlife scam accomplices shouldn't know that song.

I pity those scam-ers. Worked so hard to find out my info and do such believable voice acting only to be foiled by my mom. Those silly goose. My dad already set in place a series of security questions for such purposes. Only if 'I' manage to answer them all would they believe. Better luck next time, people.

David. Archuleta. Is. Coming. To. Singapore.

It's true!!!! Oh my goodness I can't believe it!!! Finally someone I want to see comes to Singapore!!! And He's singing autographs for CDs! And I have His CD! And I don't know why but I'm writing Him with the capital letter! Like God! But not!

Okay, getting a bit too excited there. But seriously, can anyone get too excited over Archuleta? The amazing boy I saw last year on TV all through American Idol and who's CD I've waited for so anxiously is coming to Singapore!! And I can see him!! And get Him to sign my CD! Okay, it's starting again.

Alright. I've calmed down enough to give you the deets.


7TH APRIL 2009
7 PM
ILUMA SHOPPING CENTRE (Opposite Bugis Junction)
AUTOGRAPH SESSION + SHORT PERFORMANCE

The most important day of my life (okay maybe I'll rethink this if Mariah comes to SG or I get married or have a baby or something, but 'till now it'll suffice)! In less than 3 weeks! I can hardly wait!

Inspiring

This was 16 years ago. Obviously no one took her very seriously cause these problems are only getting worse. But it was good while it lasted.

Shocking elimination...!

The American Idol producers must be smarter than we give them credit for. The minute news got out that they've chosen Alexis Grace as one of the top 4, her fate was sealed. Out of the 4 they have chosen, Alexis was obviously the weakest singer, and on tonight's elimination show, she was given the boot.

AI Producer: Heheh.. Let's see how they explain that one of the supposed top 4 has been eliminated. This has got to bring back our credibility.

AI Worker: Umm, boss? We never had any credibility to begin with.

AI Producer: (Looks at him sadly) I'm sorry to tell you, but your Idol journey has come to an end.

And the remaining contestants:

Country Night

The theme today for American Idol is 'Country'. I just bet Carrie's gonna come back tomorrow to perform. How can they have country without Carrie? It's like Danny without the wife. Well, actually, he is without the wife. Okay, that's just mean.

This week they have some Randy Travis guy to mentor. I keep thinking they're talking about Randy Jackson when they say Randy. I wonder why they didn't invite Michael Jackson last week to mentor them. Could be preempt measures, but I don't see any young boys around, unless they count Kris Allen.

Michael Sarver is up first, and he's attempting some sort of a tongue twister. Randy (Travis) says that if he misses even one word, it's gonna be completely over for him cause it's impossible to jump back. He has some harmonica player sit on the stage to play (play the harmonica, of course. Not play games.), and manages every single word of that song. Randy (Jackson. See? I told you it was confusing) thought it was good.But according to Simon, he might as well been singing in Norwegian 'cause he couldn't understand a single word. Sarver said that if they were perfect then they wouldn't need the show. Exactly, Michael! That's what eliminations are for. Looking forward to seeing you and your imperfections there!

Kris and Allison should seriously stop touch each other. They're always doing some sort of pre-commercial skit that involves touching each other. C'mon, Kris. You're a married 23 year old and she's a 16 year old high school student. How's your wife gonna feel about that, huh?

Allison kept doing the 2 finger up sign that Brits seem to hate so much during her performance. A very shouty one again, and she's doing some weird moves. I wonder how Simon feels about her 'flipping' him off like that. Kris performed without his guitar (I know! Outrageous!) but did it very very well. Randy called him a tender-dawg and Simon called him a puppy. Not sure if it's meant to be taken as a compliment. But it was a really charming performance he gave. Simon also said it was terrific, which I assume is a compliment, unless he was saying that it was terrific that he was a puppy.

The weirdest thing today was Paula. The suddenly seems like the grand matriatch of the judges, the most serene and confident one. Randy and Kara were like fidgeting, going here and there with their comments about Lil (no, Simon. It's not short for Little), but Paula just came in, slapper her hand on the table and went "All right. Look! I don't care about pitch problems (anyone who's heard her sing would know that for a fact). You look great." She was so confident about her delivery that the other judges just went silent and looked at her as she delivered her lines of wisdom.

Adam did something a lil weird today. Country mixed with middle eastern flaver tinged with a little bit of goth, with some Adam-patented yelling thrown in here and there. Kara was completely confused and finds it weird, but said it made her happy(Made you happy where, Kara?). Paula says Adam is true to himself, and did a Led Zeppelin "Kashmir,". Simon calls it indulgent rubbish. Uh-oh, Simon. You used that line before when dealing with Von Smith! I know it's your own line you're quoting from but please be original now..

And then we have, of course, Danny Gokey, who's decided to GoCarrie this week. He's singing the princess of country's (you may have never heard anyone refer to Carrie like that before, cause I just came up with it. Trust me, it'll catch on) Jesus take the wheel. Finally there's no mention of his wife this week. Unless the woman mentioned in the lyrics ("She saw both their lives flash before her eyes / She didn't even have time to cry") was her. In that case, he was more brutal than I thought. Singing about your wife losing her life? Please, Gokey. There's more honorable ways to win. Anyhow, Paula loves it (silly woman), Simon hates what he's wearing, and Kara and Randy thought the vocals were weak. Finally someone sees the light!

Best Dressed:

Of Dreams and Tea Leaves

He walked tentatively towards the shop-house, heart pounding ever slightly faster every time he took another step that brought him closer to the dinghy old shop. He hadn't wanted to come. In fact, he never thought he would ever be caught dead in a shop that advertises crystal balls, tarot cards and 'Wiccan' supplies. He didn't even know what 'Wiccan' meant. He was about to turn around and leave when Drew's voice rang clearly in his head again.

"You're obviously bothered by these dreams you're having. Go to her. I'm serious. It might just shed some light on why you can't have a good night's rest. My sister goes all the time and swears that she got answers."

He a deep breath and reached out a trembling hand to push the door open. It said 'Closed' on the sign hanging outside the door, but according to Drew's sister, 'Closed' was when the real good stuff happens.

He thought it was dark enough outside, but it was much worse inside. The only source of illumination was a single flickering candle at the far end of the room. The room smelt strongly of herbs and wood, a scent he found to be not entirely unpleasant. "Hello?" He whispered into the room.

"Gaaah!!" Someone had reached out a hand from behind and touched his shoulder. His heart gave a painful jolt as he shouted out in surprise.

"Gee, relax! I swear, guys are getting worse by the day." He whirled around to see where the voice had came from, and he yelped again when he saw a disembodied glowing head. Immediately he chided himself for behind stupid. It was a woman holding a candle to her face, and the darkness made it seem like she only had a head. It was only when he started feeling slightly faint did he realize that he had forgotten to breathe in all his excitement.

"I need to see Madame.. umm.. Rivi?" he inquired, inwardly praying that this attractive woman before him was her, and that he hadn't pronounced her name, Reve, wrongly.

"I'm her daughter" Damn. "Reh-vee saw that it was going to rain today, so she went home early to keep the laundry." Damn again. Wait, she saw it was going to rain? The forecast said it was gonna be a dry week!

"I guess I'll come back another day?" Askmetostayaskmetostayaskmetostay.

"Depends on if I'm able to help you. What do you need?" Yes!

"I've been having some weird dreams lately, and my friend's sister said that this was the place to go, so..." He looked at her to see if she kne what to do, while praying that she did. Now it he saw that it was a pretty twenty something year old helping him, he was much more eager to stay.

She gave a tinkering laugh. "Oh that. I can easily help you. Grow up with my mother and you'll know why. Tell her you dreamt of a crow and she'll tell you a relative is gonna die. Made it a little hard to tell her anything."

"And did a relative die?"

"Well, an uncle of her's had a heart attack but I'm sure it's just a coincidence." She caught the look on his face and burst out laughing again. "Sorry, I'm just kidding. Being a helper in such a store isn't the most exciting place to work."

He breathed out slowly. What am I getting myself into?

"Okay, so it's like this. I keep dreaming that I'm on a ship.."

"Wait. Sorry to interupt. A big one or just a boat?" She held up a hand as she inquired.

"A big one. One of those huge steel ships. My whole family was with me, and a few others I never saw before. There was also a tyrant. It's sort of like we were under his rule. My parents weren't, they were doing their own stuff, but a few of those others and I were."

"The sea. Was it choppy or calm?"

"Very very rough. At times it was like I was going to be thrown overboard."

"Hmm.. Okay. So this is my analysis. Generally, bodies of water represent your unconscious, your emotions and your accumulated soul experiences. The ship in your dream could represent you and the manner you navigate through your emotions. Am I making sense to you? Okay. Probably you have some issues that are unresolved? Also, usually we say that if the voyage is calm, you should go forward with your plans. However, if it is a very stormy voyage, get ready for an emotional upset or challenge. So if you have something planned for the future, be prepared to face up to many obstacles.

"What about the tyrant? Where does he fit into this?"

"The dream may be saying that you are being forced to do something against your will. The tyrant may represent the person or situation that is restricting your personal freedom. So by putting it together, I would say that you are going through a situation that you didn't necessarily want, and that you are worried about the outcome. Also, you might meet some obstacles along the way. By the way you are nodding, I assume I'm getting it right."

He gave a small laugh and nodded again. Drew's sister was right. It does yield results.

"That's all I have to ask, thank you." I hope it's not gonna cost a bomb.

"My pleasure. That would be fifty five dollars." Damn it.

Outside, the heavens parted as a heavy rain pounded down upon the sleeping city.
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Insider reveals that American Idol Top 4 Has Already Been Chosen By Producers

Can you honestly say that you're surprised? After all, it's already not a very big secret that the AI producers rigged the whole show. It's TV, after all. They gotta do what they gotta do to keep ratings up.

According to a female employee of American Idol (nope, it's not a drunk Paula Abdul), the producers already have their sights set on Adam Lambert (yay!), Lil Rounds (yay again!), Alexis Grace (whatever) and Danny Gokey (pui!). Not the least bit unexpected, I'd say. So expect these four to go all the way to the end. I'd take a wild guess and say that Alexis would be kicked out as third runner up, followed by Lil, then it's a match off between Adam and Danny. I really don't want Danny to win, but I think he just might, thanks to the blessings bestowed upon him by his dead wife. If he wins, the least he could do is to give the title to his wife, since she's the one who won, effectively.

The insider also revealed that Adam and Lil might not go far, 'cause the producers think they're similiar to past contestants. They say that Adam's like Daughtry. Like, so not! Adam's hair is so cool and alive, while Daughtry doesn't even have hair. Lil is compared to Fantasia. A fair comparison, but Lil's voice is so much better than Fantasia's squawking.

But hello?! Dont' they see the similiarity between Danny and David 'I'm an alien' Cook? Cook just won and they're forgotten about him already? (Not that I blame them. Arch is cooking up a much bigger storm than Cook). They even look similiar and have that same annoying face that makes me want to puke everytime they attempt a big song and think they can pull it off and they give that smug ass look when the judges so blindly agree with the brainless pruducers and commend them on their efforts.

Forgive me, I'm rambling.

Today is country week.. Like, can the smart ass producers spell 'DISAPPOINTING'? From Michael Jackson week to country? I don't hate country, but it's like watching a Miley Cyrus concert after a Celine Dion extravaganza at the Colosseum. Only difference is, I do hate Miley. But I digress. According to my super secret sources (fine! It's Wikipedia! Stop torturing me already!), Adam is gonna go another huge song, this time by Johnny Cash. They better not put him near the end again, or I'll have to endure another two hours of 'Gokey Lovin' before we come to the real singers.

Watch American Idol tonight at 6 on Starworld. Support Adam and hate Gokey! Go Hell, Gokey!

Arch in Hawaii

David Archuleta singing the national anthem at the Pro Bowl stadium. It's so good, and he didn't lip sync. So many people lip the Star Spangled Banner, cause they're afraid they'll forget the words or screw up or something. Love the lei!



Then he sings 'A Little Too Not Over You'. Not sure why he did that.. Don't people usually just sing Star Spangled Banner?