Taylor Wins

Taylor Hicks has done the unthinkable: winning American Idol 5. When we first saw him in the auditions I could swear that nobody thought he would be in the final 12, much more be the next American Idol winner. He proved a lot of people wrong when he sailed through the final 12. I was so sure he would be kicked out of the competition early on but final 5 came, and he was still there. When he was named as one of the final 2, I couldn’t believe it. The competition was only one week away from the finale and HE WAS STILL THERE. It’s not to say that I have anything against him but NEVER have I imagined him winning the title. I thought, there was just no way. During the last two seasons my predictions were quite accurate. I thought Fantasia would win and she did, the same with Carrie Underwood. But TAYLOR HICKS?! Oh well. Who would have thought. Sad thing for Katherine McPhee, though. It’s the songs during the performance night that killed her, especially the last one. As Randy Jackson put it, she was better than the song.

Anyway, I didn’t quite have a favorite this season. Whoever wins, fine with me. I find this season less exciting than the previous ones. I hope the next one will be interesting enough.
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I have nothing much to talk about so let me just tell you about my short vacation in the province. Aside from Naga we went to San Pascual, Masbate for the fiesta there. The fiesta - apart of course from seeing my relatives - was the only reason I agreed to go there. If you live in an urban area that has a 24-hour access to water, electricity, cellphone signals, and many other essentials of living all your life, then you're not going to last a month living there. For example, the only time they get more than 5 hours of electricity is only during fiestas (that’s for 3 days). Usually, they only have electricity during 6 to 11 in the evening. I remember when I was younger, we used to visit there and there was no electricity at all. People sleep at 8 pm. I usually get sleepy around 11. Can you just imagine? And you have no choice but to try to snooze because there was nothing much to do there. Plus it’s dark everywhere. If boredom could kill, I would have been dead long ago.

In Naga, I was really happy to see my cousins but there's one thing about them that really ticks me off -- they're suckers for local shows, specifically the primetime telenovelas of ABS-CBN. They adore Sara Geronimo and Piolo Pascual. They worship the teens in Pinoy Big Brother as if the cretins are coolest things in the world. True blue “Kapamilyas”. BARF. I love my cousins but when they start telling me about their idols, I want to immediately tell them to shut up or I'll thump them in the mouth.
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I was skimming blogs the other day and I saw an entry from one that’s linked to a friend’s blog. The writer was really worried that people she doesn’t know might be reading her entries and she’s pleading them not to read her blog. She has this feeling that people that are in no way connected to her will know what she does everyday and what she’s thinking. I mean, helloooo. If she has that kind of sentiment then why is she keeping a blog that’s open to thousand of readers in the first place? She said that it’s a personal thing so it should just be between her and the people she knows. I think she should just write in a notepad and then send it to everyone she knows through e-mail. She should not expect strangers not to read her entries. That would be impossible. Don’t tell me she doesn’t read blogs of other people totally unknown to her. I won’t believe it.
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Just finished reading Coraline by Neil Geiman. I was cute. Try to read a copy.