Diversity won Britain's Got Talent!

Diversity WON!! WHEE! Yeah! Congratulation to Diversity!! They are one of my favorites! (I liked Flawless and Aidan too :P)

So, after 8 weeks of competition, Britain's Got Talent season 3 came to a close... and Diversity won. *beam* *cheers* *yay* =) So here are my thoughts and opinions on the finalists:

1) Diversity
I remember when I first saw Diversity's performance, I was struck by 1) the great choreography 2) the diversity in the group, in terms of age, race, size 3) their dancing. True, their dance moves are not as technically clean as the other dance group, Flawless, but the choreography was awesome. And they had a "fun" factor to their routine! Really cool! Congrats again!

2) Flawless
During their audition, Simon asked them, "Tell me what's the ambition here" and they answered "Chase the dream, not the competition". I was impressed by that comment and thought it was a great answer. They then wowed me with their dance routine. Truly, their routines were flawless, technique was really good but, they dun touch me as much as Diversity does.

3) Susan Boyle
Over 60 million hits on youtube. Beat that! Susan Boyle was why I stumbled onto Britain's Got Talent. I don't usually follow reality tv shows, but I saw the link to her video on facebook and was thought, "oh well, I'll watch it and see how good BGT is this time round". Her audition was amazing. I must admit though that I was just wow by her audition. It's a feeling of "I can't believe that such a powerful voice can come out of this person". Subsequently, she just doesn't wow me anymore. Maybe it's cause there are other singers in the competition who can sing as well, and some even better, than her? However, she did manage to publicise BGT to the world.

4) Aidan Davis
For a 12 year old who is self-taught, he was very good. His audition performance was cool and his semi-finals was great. I especially like the background special effects and the travellator part. Really good. A pity though that he only had 24 hours to put his finals routine together. It was somewhat disappointing cause it was similar to his semis performance. All in all, he did great.

5) 2 Grand
Granddad and granddaughter duo. Very sweet! I mean, how often do you get to see this! And they did sing well too! Not so much on granddad, but the gal was good. Have a good voice.

6) Stavros Flatley
Father and son duo. Didn't impress me too much except in the audition. That was hilarious. But after that the wow factor just wasn't there anymore.

7) Hollie Steel
Young girl with a great voice. Just not the kind of voice that I like. ^^ When I saw her audition, I wasn't impress with her dancing but when she sang, I was impressed. Didn't wow me anymore after that though...

8) Julian Smith
Frankly, nothing that great to me. It was a saxaphone performance and I have heard many better ones (who are professionals so they should be better!!)

9) Shaheen Jafargholi
Great voice, but again, was impressed for audition only. After that it was just well, normal.

10) Shaun Smith
Same comment as Shaheen Jafargholi

Hmm, I do have a preferance for dance acts to the singing ones eh? Well, dance acts are easier to impress cause they have different routines each time, whereas it is much more difficult to impress with singing. Not as much "wow" factor in that.

Congratulations to all the finalists!! You all did well!!! But there can only be one winner!!!

One other performance that I liked was that of Greg Pritchard. His audition was really funny, but weird. Simon said he's like a dog meowing!! Lol. His performance was totally unexpected and I was like.. what the...

Now I have to get back to my lit review which I am suppose to finish today but that looks very dim right now... >_<

Laptop problems...

My laptop is giving me problems. And again during this time! Almost the same time period as last year! WTH. >_<>_< Scary... hopefully it'll be ok now...

Have to start lit review TODAY. I MUST....

Focus!!

So I did some reflections last night and I am not happy with myself at all. Been procrastinating too much, eating too much junk food and gaming and mudding too much. I NEED TO FOCUS.

Sigh. Not too sure why I havent been focusing. I used to be so much more organised. At least when I put something on a timeline, I WILL do it. However, now even though I have it marked on my calender, I havent even start. WHY!? Is it because I know I still have time!? But the thing is, I dun have much left. And frankly, I do not deal well with last minute work. ARGH!! Or is it because I have no confidence in the lit review that I have to write cause I've never written a lit review before? Or that I am quite tired of chasing after my supervisor for comments?

Sigh. Disappointed with myself. I practically wasted my whole weekend. Didnt do much work except flipped through some books that I've been hogging and then deciding that I dun need them. Actually, considering the pattern of my supervisor, I SHOULD PANIC. Cause he takes so long to do something so I must give it to him earlier. Bleah.

Life is full of choices. I must choose now. MUST FOCUS!

Stupidity...

Well, I did something really silly yesterday. My liquid soap has a dispenser and it was running out. So I took from my "storage" supply the bottle of "soap" that i bought and pour it in my dispenser... and then... realised that it's not soap.... it's moisturiser.......................

So now not only do i NOT have my soap... since it's some weird mixture of soap and moisturiser... I dun have moisturiser too! talk about stupidity... ARGH! this will teach me... LOOK ANd PROCESS WHAT IT IS BEFORE USING!

Bleah :P

Things are coming along...

I am pleased to say that things are kinda coming along for my thesis! Have finally done up the draft survey and will be passing it to my bosses + one consultant to get their opinions on it. After that I'll finalise it and put it online! =) Yeah! My supervisor finally looked through my Ethics application. Will make the relevant changes today and if I'm lucky, I hope to submit it this week so that will give me a 2 weeks window to have it signed. So slow though. Sigh.

In the mean time, I'll work on my lit review, the survey questions, and communicate with APS on how to send this questionnaire out to the members. I'm hoping to run this survey latest mid-june (15 June) and have it running for 3-4 weeks (end 3-10 July). After which I can collate the data and start comparing. Not much time left!!! Must jia you!

It doesn't help that I'm being emotional about things right now, which is affecting my working attitude. Sigh. Ah well, just have to deal with it.

Have a good week!

Cosmic Cube!

YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!

[english] You say 'create'
[english] (say) Cid 'Holy Cow!! You have done a superb job!!'
Congratulations to Fairanko - she has just created "A Cosmic Cube".
Cid gives you Cosmic Cube.

For those that dunno... that is an item on AP that I'm playing. MUHAHAHAHAHAH. After months of work, I finally got it! YES! now to concentrate on other stuff...

I'm quite close to the 100k qp. I have about 70+k now. Should take long to hit 100k. Once I hit 100k, I'll let my qp show on whois. Hehehehe...

Lalalalalalalalalalaallalalalalal

Yawnz

I'm up before 7am on this cold (7 degrees!!) Tuesday morning. And online. lol. What made me wake up? Well... what do you think? Cramps. >_<>_< But then, it wasn't particularly bad. Just very uncomfortable for the day. Thank goodness I'm feeling a bit better now. At least I dun feel like a zombie, which is good. And I'm actually looking forward to have some food, so even better. Heh.

Got the feeling yesterday that one of my colleague at work is not happy with me. I wonder why? o.O Maybe it's cause I go in late on Monday mornings cause I have to meet up with Neil? But then, I made up for the lost hours by not taking lunch breaks! As in I didnt go out for lunch. Just get some food to eat in the office so I can still man the phone lines. Humph. His attitude was kinda cold yesterday. Didnt even talk much. What the... well, they have their breaks and 1 hr lunches. Argh. Whatever.

Meeting with Neil yesterday did not go well imo. As I mentioned above, he made changes to my survey again! I sent that to him 2 weeks ago and he only looked at it yesterday! argh. Anyway, have emailed him the revised version so hopefully no more changes from him. And he forgot that I havent got ethics approval yet! wth. He was the one that told me I can't apply for ethics without the survey being set out! argh. Anyway, I have to rush to submit ethics approval before I can proceed with the pilot study for the survey. Need to "add oil"... very slow imo. Still have 5k words lit review!!

Oh! I had hot pot on sunday!! =) Need to sort photos, then I'll post some on. Was celebrating James's birthday.. he's 81. I can't imagine how I'll be like at 81 years old... o.O but hot pot was fun. Hehe. Didnt ate too much, but all in all, quite nice. And interesting.

Will be watching phantom of the opera this sat! whee! I didnt book the tickets, but hopefully the seats will be good...

ok, got to prepare to go for placement....