Rant VS Whining? Part 2 or should I say Take 2

I'm Back!!!

Well for those of you who just read my previous post, you should know the reason why I'm making another post directly after! It's because of the "dory" + randomness syndrome, LOL! If you haven't checked it out, please do so! I know it was totally and utterly failure, but I think it was worth reading! Anyway back to the main topics, and this time seriously! There will be no Glees, no chipmunks or any other random stuffs! I swear to you!

Well, okay. As some of you have known (who read my failure post), I have had one of the "worst" day in my life; and the reason for that is... pretty silly! No guys, not PMS! I was just joking. Don't bring that again please T.T (Woooo, look who's talking to himself; cockooo)! It was none other than simple mis-understanding! Well, I'm having this strange body that requires regular "stress" relief actions such as singing (including screaming at a unusual high pitch for boys), dancing like there's no tomorrow and riding scary rides in theme park (for screaming as well). Underline is, I need excessive movements and screaming!!!

The thing is, yesterday, I strangely decide to (and manage to) attend all of my classes + having some group meeting with some of ma fellas which requires 7 hours full of concentration in a row! Well, not really, the group meeting part consisted a fairly portion of serious discussion and massively big portion of just goofing around, chatting and walking-walking! Anyway you got the point! hehehe...

So, after successfully attended all classes. I got no energy to get back home. Owh, I walked to my uni guys just for your information. It was not that far, it was just 5 mins.... running like you can't feel your leg, 15 mins... mix of running and walking (called that "rwalking") and 30 mins... pure walking. But yesterday, since I was so excessively (look what I did? combining so and excessive) tired. I decided to "snail walk/ swalk" instead! Wow, did you guys know that snails walk 1mm/sec?!? Amazing rite? (It's true, I checked the WIKIPEDIA, you can't sue me :p) It took me forever to get back home... (at least I feel that) and it's alread 7.30ish when I arrive.

To cut story shorts, I haven't done any singing, dancing or riding jet-coaster (impossible) in the morning which means I'm still under lots of "stress". Then to make things worst, I found out a group of kids singing top 40 songs called Kidz Bop, both of em I love! Well, dontchu think that any song sung by kids will sound "good" (have a heart people!!!). Anyway, I got hooked up shortly after and then, my crazy so-called "need" came up in a very wrong timing (after 11 p.m. which I believe is "quiet" time here in our beloved Melby). 
I decided to sing along all the tracks in Kidz Bop 20, their latest album! Yap, that includes the ballads, Pink's Perfect, Adele's Rolling in the Deep, Christina's Jar of Hearts and Selena's Who Says which I sang my heart out (closing my eyes, moving my hands in and out, up and down and believing every words of it). Simply say, I got lost in the song. Owh, and let's just say I don't have the prettiest voice in the universe; in fact, my mum kinda complains about it... not that often, just always, lol!

Included in my "singing" tracks are the dancey Britney's Till the World Ends and J-Lo's On the Floor! which means my second acts came up! Dancing. Well, I was once again got super duper lost in the song with my... ehem... "movements". I like to say that I choreographed it myself but I can't just because everytime the songs play I danced differently, so... owh well! 

Then it was over, I already passed out in my bed and nothing happened (NOT hangover guys, I repeat not hangover, just simple exhaustion from my "dancing"). The next morning, I realised when I opened my blackberry that I got BBM from my landlord with a lot of PINGS!!!! Not good... then I scrolled up slowly and found out that she complained about my singing and how it was too "loud". Well I put " on loud because I suspect she means 2 things: first, it was actually too loud; second, she didn't want to hear my self-proclaimed golden voice that loud! When I read it, my heart drops! I was so scared and text an apology to her. Then I went to my uni and did my usual boring things!

However, frankly, I was quite, well a lot embarrassed and angry about that stupid, silly small things! IDK why, that's why I suspected I had PMS or sth although biologically it's impossible for me ^.^ Well, who knows, maybe there is PMS for boys >.< Shortly, when I was having lunch, I texted to one of my bestie that I had a "life crisis moment" with a crying smiley (get it?). She replied she was going to call me in the afternoon. Then I resumed my "life crisis moment" waiting for her calls, doing lots of thinking, posting something I might actually regret now on Facebook and basically did silly things.

Owh, yeah, you guys probably wondering now why did I gave my post Rant VS Whining title. Don't worry guys, I promise you it does have connection! Just bear with me for a lil while! Jumping scenes to evening now. My friend finally called me and before she even spoke anything. Me, on my "dying" moment, rambling on and on about off-topics stuffs, just as you guys notice from my previous post. When I suspected that she might get tired of it. I, amazingly, told her what happened and define what my "life crisis moment" is. She laughed a bit (I sense she was tired guys, well she was actually, she got mountain of reports due for every subjects she took, poor science peps, I feel for you, I do)!

After lil consolation from her, I decided to hang up as she sounded super busy! However, me being me, suddenly asked random stuffs again! "What's the difference between rant and whining, I feel like doing both right now" I said. She then answered and I swear guys, her answers was like knowledge to me! She replied something like this (with a lil modification of mine! thanks to URBAN DICTIONARY) "whining is when you complain about stuffs in high-pitched complaining cry or sound while rant is like giving a long speech that results in rambling and repeating non-sense". 
IDK what happened guys, but I swear that her answer seems so important to me. I feel like I should learn something like this in uni, not some complex, sometimes inapplicable stuffs that they teach! IDK, it's just her answer gimme inspiration to write a post! hahaha... Well, Gc, if you read this, be proud, you have "inspired" me in the strangest way possible.

I can positively one-hundered percent say that I was ranting and not whining, thanks to my dear clever friend! Anyway, nightfalls come and I just found out from my land lord that she did not mean to bash me or anything, it was actually for completely different reason! I was so ashamed for myself, but oh well! That's life, mis-understanding must be part of someone life I guess! However, I'm so grateful for this misfortune since I now have a new material for my post! YEAYYYY!!!!

Oh, darn it, I wish to talk about myself in this post to help your imagination in reading my stories. Well, it's not too late. As a said before my name is JoI, but peps called me Jozz (both are not my real names, LOL), I'm 20 years of age, pretty good-looking Asian boy (check my fb if you're curios, oh and you might found out that I'm a bit narcissistic), currently single, have "strange" fashion sense (actually, fashionable I guess, I always try to wear something that shock peps), temporarily living in Melbourne for study purposes and oh I have "dory" and randomness syndrome! 
I hope you enjoy and love my life story .I will come up with some more in the future! I decided to make a post about life-story in this blog for comedic purposes! Honestly, I'm pretty damn good at exaggerating in writing ^o^ and just in case if you're wondering, my fave comedian as of now is none other than sarcastic Miss Kathy Griffin. She is super hilarious! You've gotta check her out! Anyways, this is it for this post and I will see you guys again in the next one!!! 

"Stay Gorgeous"

xoxo, your best friend

JoI (quoting one of my friend catchphrase)

Rant VS Whining?.............................part 1 (draft version or whateva you wanna call it)

Whatsup!

I just had one of the worst days in my 20 years of life!!! Well, actually... not really worst, it was just a bad day. Hmmmm... it was actually not even bad, it's just... huff "PMS" I guess LOL! Hahahaha... I'm just joking, how in the twisted world would I be able to experience PMS?!? Ooops I forgot, I barely telling you guys anything about me. All you know about me probably is that my name is JoI, well not a real name, but it's pretty damn close to my real name anyway. Sides, it sounds cool, rite! people nowadays have their "cool" name anyways. e.g.: the oh-so-famous Tik-Tok singer KE-dollarsign-HA (quoting principal Figgins from Glee, rflol) and one of my absolute favourite teenage female singer JoJo alias Joanna Levesque. Anyway, you got the point!!!

Back to the main issues here, owh before we go further, I would like to apologise beforehand to you guys if you find me going off-topic so easily. It's a bad habit of mine, and adding to that, I am a self-proclaim "dory" as in the dory from the Pixar greatest's movie of all time, Finding Nemo. Meaning, I might have a lil problem with short-term memory loss, but it wasn't as bad as dory! It was just quite bad! You will understand what I mean by this eventually! Err... I might actually doing it now! I have no idea how in the hell I got to dory the fish! Huff :( this is bad, my debut personal post about me and I'm already showing you guys my true color (sing: But I see your trueeeeee colors, shining through! I see your trueeeee colors...). What in the hell just happened? OMG, I swear to you guys, I have a point here! Just bear with me and my stupid randomness...

After 5 full minutes just staring at my desktop while thinking what I was trying to convey, I finally remember. Bad Day (Cus you had a bad day, you're taking one down, you sing a sad song). Please guys, don't leave! It's just when I type that word, the 3 cute squirrels a.k.a. chipmunks appear in my head. Focus Jozz, focus! Owh, yea, btw I am called Jozz by my friend! again, not a real name, but it's pretty darn close, I dare you to guess!

OMG, I just can't help it, I accidentally heard they sing this song again when I searched for it (does this makes any sense at all). They are so cuteeeesssss!!!! Dammit. Now do you get what I mean by "dory" + random issues that I'm having. It took me 3 paragraphs off-topics to finally express what I'm going to express. What was it again? Gosh, I'm pretty hopeless! This is what happened when I'm trying to write stuffs without proper "plan/schedule"! I'm just going on and on and on about stuffs that appears on my head instantly! Gosh, I'm so tired for being me! I think I'm gonna scrap this post, this is rubbish! I talked nonsense and still keep going! How non-sense is this?!? LOL! Actually, no, I'm not going to scrap this one! I will use this post as a joke! I'm gonna make a new one just after this! So, don't go anywhere cuz I have a brilliant story to tell you guys, well according to me at least! Ciao... see ya in a jiffy!

"Cheers for Randomness"

xoxo, your very best friend

JoI

SAME DIFFERENCE, a joke act? Nu-uh, don't think so!!!

Howdy all!!!

I'm backkkkk... after less than 24 hours :p well, my holiday is going to come to an end very soon; thus, I shall post as much as possible while I still have the time ^.^ Owh, I'm very proud to announce that I 've joined some new social networking websites. Feel free to add/subscribe/follow me if you want to:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jozztonish

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Formspring: http://www.formspring.me/jozztonish (if you want to ask me any question)

Dailybooth: http://dailybooth.com/jozztonish (a social network about pictures - taking pics, comment pics, everything about pics, highly recommended for narcism peps)

Okay so that's for the housekeeping (lol, quoting my professor at uni); now let's get on to the real stuffs!

Today's post is about one of my favourite group singing act of all time, it's called Same Difference (what a clever name, don't chu think?). Well, it's a British (yeayyyy for the accents) Bublegum-Pop duo consisting of siblings, Sean and Sarah Smith.

First of all, I have to tell you. They rise to stardom when they compete in a very popular singing competition in the UK, the X-Factor on its 4th season. A lil fact for you guys, this season, I personally think that the music genre of its contestants is not of the main-stream one. The winner of this season, sadly wasn't Same Difference, it was Leon Jackson. Not taking anything from him, I think he's great, but his jazzy style doesn't suit the taste of "commoners?". You know what I mean. And, the runner up was Rhydian Roberts used to be an opera singer. It's hard to chew as well >.< so there you know now...

Having said that, this sibling act totally captivates my heart from the day they audition. The judges were extremely "harsh" on em in which I partially agree, their act is so unique that I don't think it kinda fit typical X-Factor. Despite of that, I'm so glad that they let this sibling through. Everything about em (corkiness, cheesiness, extreme enthusiasm or anything like that) makes me smile all day! They sang ... er... I don't know what song is that but it's totally full of energy don'tcha think?

Despite of the shaky start, they manage to get through to the judges house and guess who is their mentor? the Mr. Nasty man, Simon Cowell! hahaha... I thought they were never gonna make it, but then again I might be wrong as he actually liked em. I love Simon now ^.^ He definitely has good eyes. The siblings sang to classing song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". Perfect song choice, they actually have a pretty good voice rite! I could listen to em all night long no problem.

Okay, so here's the deal, I can't find the clip that only shows their performance, but I manage to find a clip that that has every group's performance on the judges house. Now that I think about it, some of you might not familiar with the X-Factor concept, so I better put it down the complete clip to give you a bit of knowledge bout this show! I will put the result as well to show you why I love reality show so much. Look at their reaction, it's full of drama!!!

To cut things short, they manage to be the Simon's final three, which simply means, they are going to the live show (yep, LIVE as in No Room for Error anymore). For the first live show, they sang "Tragedy". Not a big fan for this one, but I still love em! Owh, and guess what! more drama. Louis is the one giving the siblings a hard time this one & he's just overdid it. I know they are not the best singers in the competition, but he was way too harsh (and bear in mind, he's going to get harsher and harsher).

2nd live show! OMG they sang one of my favourite musical song of all time. Yep, from the hugely successful Disney's Original Movie, High School Musical's Breaking Free. This is getting interesting!

I think this is the right direction for them. Teenagers or in some case, childish person (ME :p) who absolutely adores movies like this are the perfect target market for em. Good move Mr. Cowell! watch the their performance HERE. Now, for the 3rd one, they sang S Club's Reach. Frankly, I did not know this song before they sang it. Now that I know, I just love, love, love this song and the original group. Full of energy, highly complicated choreo, it's just simply fun, fun, fun!!! It makes me smile for days!

The next one is a song that I would call, 'contradiction' song. The title of the song is "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" but you will be lying if your feet doesn't move at all after hearing the song. Once again, I never heard the song before, but after I heard it, I just fell in love with it. In my opinion, I think their version is better than the original. This song is so catchy and so Dineyesque (which I adore so much) that it actually makes me super duper excited. Owh, have I told you guys I kinda have excitment-controls problems? well, it just basically mean you should definitely know when I get super excited as I kinda shows it in such obvious way. Well, not much, just giggling non-stop, slapping my knees, kinda jump up and down and sometimes, hyperventilates :) anyway, here we go:

Owh I will not post all of their performance btw, I will only post like the one that I like (almost 3/4 tho, LOL). I will skip to the performance where they showcased their best vocal ability, which is their judges house's performance. watch Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now live version! Next, is my favourite song from them, the S Club's Never Had a Dream Come True. I cried like a baby watching this. It's just so emotional, seeing Sarah coping up with bullying T.T Owh, and on this occasion, I would also like to say

something about bullying. It has to STOP guys. It's not funny when you bully someone. You never know that certain someone that you bully might take it too seriously and decide to end up their lives just because of the supposedly "little prank" that you did. Well, lemme tell you right now. It's not little at all. I  was also a victim of bullying. I got bullied when I was in elementary High School because I was so chubby and unattractive. I didn't let it get to me at first, but it kinda did over time and believe it or not, it affects me so much. Luckily people stop bullying me shortly after, but I kinda know how the victims of bullying feel! So please, I encourage you to stop bullying. If you see anyone get bullied, please don't just stand there (esp if they are children). Rather than bullying someone your life would be better off if you do something more productive. Please think about it peps!

So, as if you guys watch all of their live performance. You should know that Louis Walsh really hated em. He even said that they're not gonna be in the final (Ouch!). Well, you know what, they were in the final. They managed to survive week after week till the final week and they so deserved that, they've worked really hard in my opinion. Okay so for the final, one performance that catch my interest is "Any Dream Will Do" duet with Jason Donovan. Why? well this performance has kids in it, literally. They bring bunch of kids holding candles on the stage. That was like killer, wasn't it? You don't have a heart if you don't vote for em.

Well, so basically they didn't win (too bad) but hey they got signed a record deal, which basically means that they would have an album to release and depending on the success of the album, they could release more albums in the future with the same record label. Fast forward to a year later, their much anticipated album (at least by me) is released and titled, Pop!

Why? cuz it contains pop songs. hahaha... Anyway, I loveeeeeee this album to death. I could listen to every track of the album again and again and again without being bored. Well, what can I say, I just love em. They got to perform on the X-Factor again to promote their debut single (YEAY!!!), We Are One which I think have a really, really good choreography.

Plus in addition to that, they got a "sincere" apologise from  Louis Walsh! (OMG, I'm so freaking happy when he said he was wrong and would buy the single and the album when it came out, dunno if he did it tho :p).

This song is so High School Musical-uesque, which I like... a lot!!! Every single songs in the album really catches my heart. I just can't stop listening to it. However, there's one song that I think have a very funny lyrics. When I posted some of the lyrics on my facebook, one of my friend asked whether I wanted a wife?!? LOL, so hilarious!!! So here is the song, I Need a House.

Having said all of that, my favourite track would be the slow, heart-felt last song on the album "I'm Still Amazed". I could cry to thing song all night long! hahaha... but then my eyes would be awfully dry >.< I guess I shouldn't listen it all night long then :)

Owh these are all just samples, you have to buy their CD if you really like what you hear. Buy it at AMAZON now. Unfortunately, their debut album wasn't a big success, they got parted ways with their label but luckily got signed to another label ^.^ (Yeah, meaning new albums)!!! and yes, they manage to release their sophomore studio albums! This time their music is more mature than their debut album, but still bubblegum pop oriented! Their second album is titled, The Rest is History. Lemme tell you something, their second album is as good if not better than the first one. I just love, love, love it!!! hahahaha... I got addicted to their music!

Again, every track is like gold to me. I would listen to em on countless repeats!!! The debut single from this album is, Shine on Forever (Photo Frame). However, for me although it's a really good song and good choreo I must say, I like the other songs on the album better. Therefore, for samples purpose, I would not choose their debut single as sample. Instead, I will choose the title track, The Rest is History as the sample as I think it has more emotional quality. So, here goes nothing!

Next, I will go with more faster pace song alias dance themed song, Karma Karma featuring Alcazar. OMG, I just can't help dancing to this catchy song :p hahahaha... Oo, Oo, OoOooooooO, Oo, OoooOoooo... well you get the picture ^.^ Enjoy!

Well I don't think this album did very well. But I really hope they get to release another album. I just love em so much, I cannot think what I will become without their songs (pure exaggeration :p). Please, please, please release another album!!! Anyway, like always, please buy this album if you really like it at iTunes or AMAZON.

          

Well, I guess that's it for today. I will be absent again for quite some time as I will be busy studying trying to get the Bachelor title at my young age :p (anyone smells pride?!?) hahaha... It's been fun making this post, I hope you like it and it will be my pleasure and honour if you also like this duo just as much as I do!!! They deserve it guys! Please support them by buying their albums!!! See ya guys!!! Please comment, rate and subscribe (eit, isn't that for Youtube :p) well, you know what I mean!!! hehehehe... Love ya!

"I Need Someone Who Loves Me"

Same Difference

xoxo, your best friend, JoI

It's Been a While, VLOG anyone?!?

Heya all!!!

It's been a while since I last posted something. I apologise for this matter as I've been kept busy with my study. Owh, and btw, I am a last year university student, just want to let you guys know. Hihihihi... Anyway lots of things have happened in my life lately. Pretty interesting stuffs I must say, yet quite confusing and take a lot of my brain at the same time. Enough with the whining, let's just get to business. The reason I decide to make this post is to just simply update you that this blog isn't dead yet. I've lots of interesting stuffs in my pockets, just need to find a suitable time to release it :p LOL :)

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and I'm actually interested in doing Vloggy Vlog now >.< but not sure yet, will update you guys as soon as I make one ^.^

As a reality show lover, there are lots of exciting stuffs happening rite now. First we have SYTYCD's USA season 8 just ended, well okay, it's actually quite a while ago (my laziness to post, I'm sorry don't kill me).

Who is disappointed with the finals? I do. Compared to the previous weeks, the final is meh, sorry to say, underwhelmed, sub-par and not memorable. Sigh, I guess they set the bar too high before the finals. Moreover, my faves, Nick & Iveta (Ballroom Blitz anyone???) were eliminated prematurely. 2nd week? C'mon!!! It's hard to pick the most favourite routine of mine, I have several actually and they all stand out. However as the winner is none other than early favourite Melanie Moore, I have to pick one of her routine as sample; and once again, I have several routine of hers that are in my top picks. But I have decide to go with her first routine ever as duo with 3rd place Marko Germar, the Stone Dance to "Turned to Stone" by Ingrid Michaelson choreographed by the genius and former contestant Travis Wall. Lemme warn you first though. This dance is first class dance: beautiful movements and deep emotions involved. Very hard to chew for some people, but if you really, really 'watch' it with all your heart, I think you will get it. Enjoy the magnifique contemporary piece:

Second news is SYTYCD Canada Season 4. It actually premiered in mid-way of US version. So, we have 2 dance TV shows at the same time in summer (talking 'bout double happiness) or winter in the land of down-under, Australia. OMG, this Canada version is much muccccchhhh better than the US version by miles. Not only that, this is in my opinion the best of SYTYCD's Canada out of all the previous seasons. Not picking any faves (Melissa :p), the only downside of this show is that the winner is not the person I want to win (I can't vote, so don't blame me people); however, I'm okay with the winner, Jordan Clark, as I think she is quite deserving. Her solos were sick!!! 

Anyhow, I will pick more than one samples (fave routines) for this show since as you might have known (if you are crazy fans like me), the wonderfully talented choreographer whose choreo will never disappoint us ever, Mia Michaels is back. And yes, she quits the US show, but she didn't quit the Canada one, YEAY!!! Nevertheless, I just found out that the show has been cancelled! WTH, this is the best season ever and they cancel it, well I guess they have their own 'strategic' reason >.< Hope this vids will cheer you up:

First up, is a contemporary dance choreographed by Sabrina Matthews danced by Melissa Mitro (my fave) and Shane Simpson. The dance is about AIDS, if I'm not wrong. Incredibly moving. Enjoy!

Second one, is a contemporary-jazz piece by the one and only Mia Michaels, I wonder what's in her twisted little mind. How can she be so creative!!!

Next, I'm gonna talk about DWTS. Yap, that's right peps, another dance show is back this fall (or spring in Oz). For those of you who doesn't know, this show is very different from SYTYCD. This show is about ballroom and latin dancing while SYTYCD is pretty much about every kind of dance. Secondly, the show features non-ballroom dancer celebrities (the stars) partnered with professional partner (the teachers) while SYTYCD features aspiring dancers. Bear in mind, they are not professional dancers; thus, the dance quality cannot be compared to SYTYCD's.

                      

For those who follows this show closely, you might have notice several pro shuffling. Our lovely Chelsie Hightower and Dmitry Chaplin from SYTYCD as well as veteran Louis Van Amstel do NOT come back as pro-dancers this season. They are replaced by newcomers Peta Murgatroyd and Tristan McManus (OMG, isn't he such a cutieee, I thought he was in high school or sth - like Derek Hough... I love his accent so much) from the DWTS's dance troupe last season and Val Chmerkovskiy, the brother of the bad-boy Maksim Chmerkovkiy. 

Well, enough with the pros, after all this show is to showcase the celebrities in the dance-floor. Okay, so after seeing all of them perform, I have to say that I like Chynna Phillips, J.R. Martines, Ricki Lake, Carson Kressley (I never knew he was such a hysterical person! so funny) and, I can't believe I say this, Rob Kardashian (he had such vulnerability and Cherly lol). For sample, I choose the J.R.'s first dance as I think he has potential to win this whole thing and he has Karinaaaaaa (I love her, she is tough, slutty but super emotional - remember her with Billy Ray Cyrus?!?). I hope she wins, Derek has won too much (3x - that's a lil unfair) owh and the danced to one of my fave song of all times, Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway!

Airing at the same time as DWTS is the underrated singing competition, the SING-OFF!!! OMG, this show is freaking better than Idol, X-Factor and even the Voice. As much as I love the other shows, this show is just off the hook. I'm a sucker for accapela, they always sound so... grand ^.^

The judges of this show is Ben Folds (isn't he super critical or sth, I like him tho), Shawn Stockman (BoyzIIMen) and new judge, the talented Sara Bareilles replacing PCD star, Nicole Scherzinger whose album btw is so good! Okay, as this show is the underdog, I presume that no one of you knows it yet. Just to give it a feel, I will post you one of my fave piece from the show which is the group number, Kings of Leon's Use Somebody from Season 2.

OMG, I got chills from watching this awesome, awesome, awesome performance. You'all have to check the rest of the show, it is freaking off the hook! For the current season, season 3. I have one group that catch my interest. It's called Pentatonix. They sing Katy's E.T. which I love, love, love! Once again I got chills from this extraterrestrial performance :p Enjoy!

Also airing at the same time is the triple X-Factor series. Yeah I said triple because there are freaking 3 X-Factor series airing at the same time. The UK version, the US version and the Oz version.

At the moment, the UK version is the superior one (well, experience does makes you perfect, I guess - season 8). The UK version is judged by returning judge Louis Walsh (Westlife manager?) and 3 new judges: Gary Barlow (Take That), Tulisa Contostavlos (N-Dubz, frankly, I never heard this group before she became judge, but who cares, she is pretty) and Destiny Child's Kelly Rowland. These new line-ups certainly bring something new to the show. It's much more fresh than prior seasons. Okay, so there are lots of singers that I really like in this show: Janet Devlin (talking real talent), Girl V Boy (OMG, they reminded me so much with one of my fave group ever, Same Difference) Misha Bryan, Jade Richards and Samantha Brookes (Sami). I think they're all great singers, I would like to see em success (esp Sami, love her).

Now, for the US version, errr... so far, I only found 1 singer that managers to mesmerise me. She is Stacey Francis. This one performance manages to hook me up for the rest of the season. I hope she wins :) Owh and the judges for this series are: the nasty man, Simon Cowell (American Idol), Paula Abdul (American Idol), Nicole Scherzinger (do the math!) and L.A. Reid (sth to do with Mariah Carey and owning a record company?)

Lastly, the Oz version. This for me, is underwhelmed. The talents is there, but I don't know, I expects more I guess after seeing the UK version. The performances feel so karaoke >.< I pray for more in the future. The judges in the land down-under are: Mel B (Scary Spice, love her, she is... scary? and her accents is just WOW), Guy Sebastian (Australian Idol), Natalie Bassingthwaighte (that's a mouthful surname :p she is... doing everything I guess, I want her to do well, but she kinda disappoint, needs more drama, i guess!) and Ronan Keating (when you say nothing at all?). 

Now for the contestants, one act absolutely manage to captivate my heart, Audio Vixen. This family group is killing it. I love, love, LOVE its performance. Judge it for yourself, owh and I love how Mel B eating her words :)

Now, for the most anticipated show, not reality tho, the one and only McKinley High School's GLEE!!! I'm so freaking love GLEE! and yes, the show is back for another season. After the "spiritual prequel", The Glee Project, the show is finally back for its 3rd season.

As usual, new members are going to join the Glee family. We have known for sure that at least the 4 "winners" of TGP: Lindsay Pearce, Alex Newell, Samuel Larson and the cutie pie form Irish, Damian McGinty (fun fact: he was in a celtic band from Irish called Celtic Thunder and OMG his accent... dying, hyperventilates). Now back to Glee, well, I can't say much about it as it only just premiered 2 weeks ago. One thing I know that there will be great musics as usual (at least one if not). For the season premier, Lindsay Pearce has already made her debut as Harmony who I believe has the potential to be Rachel Berry's rival. Her number is magnificiento, she sings to Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do mash-up.

I don't know where the songs come from, but I certainly love it after hearing the Glee version, as usual. Well, if you are a Gleek like me, this must be a real treat; thus, don't forget to tune in every week to see this sensational tv series.

My point is, for telly lover like me, we are quite, well actually over-entertained by the shows now airing at the same time in the telly. I wish I could keep track of em all but I dunno, have study commitments :( Well, there is always internet to run to anyway! Hahaha... Ok, it's already pretty late now, I guess I'm gonna wrap up this post. I hope you have as much fun reading my posts as I was making it. Cheers mate!

"Study Hard, Play Hard"

xoxo, your best friend

JoI

"You shoot me down, but I won't fall, I am TITANIUM!"

Hey guys, How you're all doin'?

I hope not as bad as me :p (*sob, shaking head). Forgive me guys, just having a really bad day. Was not proud of myself today. Anyway, that aside. I just stumble upon an AMAZING

song, which actually manage to pick my mood up lil bit. Some of you might have known it if you're hardcore music fans, some of you might have not. Either way I am so in love with this song I decided to blog about it. To tell you the truth peep, I was planning to do a blog about dancing actually; however, circumstances changes drastically and I decided to blog about this awesome, awesome song instead.

So, here comes the song, drum rolls please (*dum dum dum dum dum). It's called TITANIUM from the latest unreleased album of the one and only David Guetta.

Frankly speaking, I'm not a big fan of David at all. However, I am a huge, huge, massive fan of his collaborator in this song, the fabulous Sia Furler better known as Sia only. 

Once again, for those who by some kind of weird turns of events ends up living on another planet and do not know who the heck Sia is, do not worry as I will kindly explain to you. Oh before I forget, I have to at least tell you what David Guetta is famous for right? Well, he is well-known for kinda like 'producing electronic dancy sound like song sung by famous artists'. His song, When Loves Takes Over featuring Kelly Rowland was an obvious hit. Kelly herself became worldwide phenomenon after taking this song showcasing her insane range. So, enough about David, now let's get back to Sia.

Actually, you have the right to not know her (*giggles) as also for the unknown reason, she is such an underrated singer-songwriter. Firstly, she is Australian (yeay, proud to be studying in Australia). She has begun her carer for quite some time and in my opinion, has panned quite a lot of singles that should be a major, MAJOR hit. 

She is very talented songwriter which is proven in her song as well as by her writing songs for other famous artists such as Christina Aguilera. In fact, Christina adores her so much that she was chosen as her advisor in the NBC singing talent show hit, The Voice. As for her singing ability, there is no doubt that this girl has captivated my heart so much with his 'haunting' voice. Her voice is really, really, really good. Very unique and soft to listen too. Thus, for thus, doubting her ability, give it a try listening to her songs and I bet you too, will be swept by the greatness of her voice. In addition to all of that, there is one more thing that I have to mention about Sia. She is very creative in her video, so, so creative and innovative that her videos are actually kinda crazy but crazily good. In order to justify my point, I have no choice but to provide you with some of her music videos that I think are really good.

The first one is for me, one of her greatest song ever, Soon we'll be Found. This song obviously has an emo feel to it. Very melancholic, haunting yet beautiful. In this video, Sia wets her hands with paint and perform sing language to  express the lyrics of the song, very creative, eh? Then, she also use shadow puppet which for me is a genius choice. I've never seen a shadow puppet as complex and wonderful as this one, so kudos for that! Actually, if you like Silhouettes on America's Got Talent latest season (which is season 7) you will definitely like this one. Next one, Breathe Me. Another melancholic song from Sia. This song has a sad feeling about it, yet it's beautiful. It actually poops up in many of the tv series in US and I personally think this song suits for the ending of a telly drama series. In this video, Sia once again shocked us using her creativity. She is using photographs to convey the story of the MV. It's actually almost like stop-motion movies such as Chicken Run and Nightmare Before Christmas but using photographs instead. This is also one of her MUST SEE videos. See it HERE.

Another song of her that I think is awesome is You've Changed. This is the song from her latest album. It's not a melancholic song, it's catchy song instead. The music video is crazy! I mean, using video games as inspiration and trying to portray that using real life 'things' is brilliant. This is definitely what differentiate Sia from another singers 

in this era. Her talent is superb, she is the real deal. Oh, I have to say that she can sing live, I mean like LIVE! without any auto-tuned or electronic devices that could transform your oh-not-so-good voice to pitch perfect. I don't have anything against auto-tunes, I actually respect those who use it, if you're not feeling good/comfortable with your voice, by all means use it! Like my parents always say "people bring ears". So, this is it, Enjoy! If you like what you hear and want to listen to her songs all day long, by all means, buy it or download it now on iTunes. Actually, I will give you one 

more preview just in case you're not yet convinced. She contributed to the soundtrack of "Twilight Saga" movies. I forgot which movie was it, but I believe it's the third one (correct me if I'm wrong). The song is called, My Love and it is magnificent. It's so sad and haunting and beautiful at the same time. You have to hear it yourself in order to grasp what I mean by saying that. As a bonus, I'm actually going to give you guys a waltz-choreography to the song, choreographed by the talented Mark Ballas who is a professional partner on Dancing With the Stars US, performed by Chelsea Kane (Jonas Brothers Disney telly) and himself. I have to say though, ignore the judges comments, they were looking for traditional waltz, but Mark gave them Emmy worthy waltz instead; therefore, they are lil bit grumpy about it. Nonetheless, this choreography did get Emmy nominated in the Best Choreography category.

 

Ok, enough for the previews. Now, back to the main reason why I'm doing this blog in the first place, TITANIUM. 

An awesome, awesome song. Its lyrics are amazing and its tones are uplifting. It actually has the potential to be a big hit in my opinion. I like this song so much and have listened dozens of time already. You can dance to this song and throw away your heavy burdens that you might have :p Enjoy the song and please buy David Guetta album, Nothing but the Beat when it comes out or pre-order now on AMAZON. Have a good day my fellas!!!

"I am TITANIUM"

Sia Furler