Surprise, surprise - From Singapore to America

And all of Singapore shall chorus in one loud jubliant (and surprised) chord -

HADY MIRZA WON! (?)

I caught the first performance night 'live' the day before yesterday, and I was feeling neutral about it, because firstly I wasn't going to vote anytime, and secondly I was thinking - with Indonesia having a population of 214 million, and Singapore 50 times less, how are we going to win? Apparently you are allowed to vote for two countries in one SMS, and this morning the Strait Times wrote that this (ruling) "ensured a level playing field for countries with smaller populations". But it turned out to be a deciding factor, because Singapore won nonetheless.

Maybe they meant this was to ensure a level playing field for countries with fewer televisions to watch and know the voting phone numbers.

Here's a video of the results-announcement, and his reaction. And finally, some sing-song from the winner himself.



[Watch him get smaller for a few seconds at 0.15 and then collaspe on the floor of nearly 20 seconds. (Strait Times said it was a full minute. First time I've seen them blow up a number!)]

Well of course as a Singaporean I do feel proud about it but really, Hady was a dark horse in the competition, and he beat favourites lke Mike Mohede from Indonesia and Jaclyn Victor from Malaysia. That's for deforestation and racial riots respectively.

And on to some news from the Soccer World, Manchester United beat Liverpool 1-0 and Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0. So it is starting to look like a two-horse race once again, to the disappointment of Liverpudlians and the Blues.

Lastly, here's something from mrbrown.com and youtube.com that would make you cringe.

DUMB BLONDES ARE A MYTH, REALLY



I mean, I have heard about the level of ignorance of the world around them by friends and some videos on Youtube.com, but it was shown clearly to all the world how dumb some people can be. If you watched closely you can actually see how much laughter the gameshow host had to suppressed just listening to her questions. Well, life's unfair.

However I believe the majority of them are not as dumb as this girl. Well, most of them have probably been enlisted into the CIA.