it was worth the wait

...seeing David Cook won Idol was worth the extra hours i spent on the TV instead of getting my usual sleep time

..and seeing Bryan Adams again after a long time was orgasmic...he's just like fine wine

...enough said! :)

it took another ugly turn

...i'm starting to hate American Idol...with another shocking elimination, one of my faves - Carly Smithson was eliminated...this is now purely a popularity contest rather than being based on talents...both ladies in the bottom 2 gave an outstanding performance compared to the mediocrity Jason Castro delivered...i'll exempt Brooke coz i like her hehehe



...i still would want to see Carly in the final 3...depressing

i'm going to miss her

...good thing Brooke White is still in...for me, this is one of the most emotional elimination this whole season...Kristy hang in there for as long as she could :)



...she's going to be one of those i'm really going to miss

...of course it wouldn't be complete without the live performance from Mariah :)



...did she call Ryan Seacrest "John"? hahahah

...live and loved it :)

another hit for Cook!

...my shift for the week starts by midnight and most of the time i wake up an hour before 12 to get ready for work, but earlier and for tomorrow i am making an exception - who can pass up Mariah Carey night on American Idol?...fans of her like me waited for seven seasons to see this :)

...as what i've expected Carly Smithson delivered "Without You" and i wished she could have taken it a notch higher to show her vocal range instead of playing it safe and held back...what amazed me most and i think most people would agree is the very bold arrangement of David Cook's "Always be my Baby" - it was just perfect :)

...i never thought this song can be interpreted in that way...i always have this song imagined as your "girly karaoke type" of song...most fans of Mariah would agree that it was the best performance of the night :)



...gotta set up that alarm again for tomorrow's elimination :)

...i think Kristy's finally saying bye bye :)

lethargic and some rant

...Idol made a surprising cut earlier that it made me flipped out from the couch (i was in a lethargic mode earlier and at the same time starving and half asleep hehehe)...i hate to see Michael Johns go...i'm not expecting him to win but i wished he could have stayed a bit longer...



...and surprisingly Kristy Lee Cook was not part of the bottom 3 for the first time

...since i haven't got much sleep earlier, i made a pit stop at Starbs for some caffeine fix and now i'm in the office 'bout to spend 8 hours of doing almost nothing...good thing i got my iPod updated but then again i'm starting to get sleepy



...i need some Ben and Jerry's to cheer me up!

if the predictions are right

...then Sayesha Mercado will be out in later's Idol elimination (that's according to TiVo who predicted Idol boots 4 week in a row) ...sad but if this is true then it's a relief than seeing Carly Smithson go ( i wanna see her belt out those MC tunes like she was on steroids hehehe)



...moral of the story - stop belting out songs that would instantly place you in a comparison with the original artist (i.e. Whitney)

"they even miss your mood swings"

...one of my agents when i was still starting as a team lead sent in this email earlier - she will be resigning and i was quite touched with what she said :)

"You were so busy preparing to leave for Pampanga so we didn't have the chance to talk. You also mentioned you're not good at saying goodbye. Anyway,  I just wanted to thank you for everything you've done for me tl. If you hadn't pushed me, I never would've been promoted. Thank you for your tolerance and your understanding especially when I was going through some rough phases w/ my marriage. I know you said you're not very good w/ emotional situations but you did just fine.  Our working relationship wasn't perfect ( nothing is) but I was able to appreciate you more when you left. Its really true that you get to realize the value of someone when he is gone. My teammates feel the same. They even miss your mood swings."

...suddenly i miss the whole team i left behind, i may not be the perfect team lead for them but i did what i can to make them better :)

***this pic is wayyy old and half of them in this picture is no longer even with the company



..and speaking of goodbyes, Ramiele got booted off Idol, too bad she didn't make it far till the Mariah night - but i'm still proud of her for making it that far :) - probably she would be hitting the Philippine shores to have some post idol victory career :)

i'm about to call it quits this time

...my network's dead - AGAIN!



...i've been thinking of really calling it quits with Globe lately (unless they'll have my rebates increased every month - my phone bill's bit high the past 2 months), this i think is the 4th time something like this happened...no signal at all...ZERO...na-dah! (i'm wondering what could their excuse be this time? - maybe it has do something with the military bunker i'm in right now)

...hey, at least i got an excuse why my phone is being boring for the last few hours...i dont' know how long this one gets fixed...depressing

...anyhoo, it was Country night earlier at American Idol with "Backwood Barbie" Dolly Parton as the mentor - and my fave was from Michael Johns - it's powerful and raw...and yeah it's so wrong yet sooo right :)



...can't wait for the Mariah week on AI the next week :)

who made "Billie Jean" sexier?

...Dave Cook made a risk in giving MJ's "Billie Jean" a different interpretation...and i never heard that song performed in that way - and it was worth it...the judges liked it and thought it was very original which i agreed until i came to learn that Chris Cornell had that version first - Youtube is super amazing as usual

...here's David's version



...and here's the super sexy Chris Cornell original version



...which one is better? i would go for Cornell - it's sexier and he doesn't have a fat chin hehehe...sorry David fans :)

"imagine", being late

...went on a good hibernate mode earlier, too good that i woke up really late - and to think i got my alarm on to catch American Idol sheez!



...felt an adrenaline rush to make it in time for work and i manage to get a shower, to getting dressed, to fixin' myself up in a shuteye - good thing the driver's in full-speed mode or else i'll still be late :)

...and thank heavens for reruns and Youtube, i was able to catch performances of the guys from season 6 and i instantly fell in love for David Archuleta's version of "Imagine" by John Lennon



...this is gazillion times better than Blake Lewis's performance of the same song last season...press play babies and enjoy!



LOVE IT! :)