It’s called The Moment of Truth.

And indeed it is. This is not your ordinary TV show whereby you just get some music and a dose of entertainment, period. It was pretty controversial back in 2008 – see what the first contestant Lauren Cleri said about the reason she went on air.

It’s like a moral dilemma we have here – should the TV show promote the washing of dirty linen in public? Does the TV show, notwithstanding legal contracts, have the moral right to ask questions that will destroy people? Should people tell the truth simply for the sake of money? What will people say about you when they know the sordid things you did in secret? Can your family or friends still say they’re proud of you despite the things that you did?

So the question is, does the truth hurt like hell? For some people, apparently it did. Name a price, and these people will speak the truth, even if it will hurt more than hell itself. Can people take the truth for what it is?

I don’t know how much I stand in comparison with these people, but I can say I’ve suffered possibly, something resemblant of hell, for knowing the truth. So it’s not so surprising that this show’s my favorite, eh?

This episode, featuring Paul Schon, has gotta be the best of all. It’s just that, unfortunately, it isn’t showing anymore. So sad for the truth.

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New Zealand, one of the earliest countries to usher into 2010, has seen displays of fireworks just a while ago.

Well I’m cooped up in the house with the comp (that’s why I can follow up with such a quick NYD update), so to all NYD revellers happy 2010 and don’t drink too much! :p

Aled Jones – Candlelight Carol

Candlelight Carol Lyrics @ LyricsTime.com

In 6 days’ time we will enter into a new year again. I hope that the new year will be meaningfully different for you. A positive difference.

Feliz Navidad, and a wonderful new year ahead for all readers of my blog.

I came across some okra aka lady’s fingers plants,

saw that flowers were in bloom,

so I took a closeup.

and OMG look at the length of that okra.

10.5 inches and still growing, if it were not cut!

Hope these okras made your day today.

and have my own Na’vi Avatar, nah even better be a Na’vi itself and have my own Ikran and make my own tsahaylu.

This has gotta be the most fantastic sci-fi movie I’ve ever watched in a long while. So literally fantastic it’s like I was having my own Emerald Dream while still trying digest the reality of Pandora. It is strongly reminiscent of Warcraft 3’s Night Elves, but even better – glow-at-night plants and being able to biochemically bond with animals (what the Na’vi call tsahaylu) beat the Priestess of the Moon or the druids. Anytime.

The 3D’s extremely beautiful, but I think the theme is the most beautiful, if you can see beyond the devastation wrought by the “Sky People” later in the movie. The Na’vi had very few human allies, but these humans stood up and did the right thing of trying to save the Na’vi of giving in to human corporate greed like everyone else. These few humans had the courage to admit that the Na’vi were a spiritually and biologically blessed people, and took a painful and courageous step in opposing their fellow brethren. In the end Jake Sully (who was called Jakesully by the Na’vi) took the side of the Na’vi and finally drove the humans out in a heroic defence of their homeland.

I like to think this drives across a very powerful message to certain people, I’m hoping (a fool’s hope but well, you never know) they can understand that this is not just about beautiful graphics. When you have Russian media giving special attention to a film from Hollywood (think politics) and even praising its message, you know that something’s special about Avatar.

Avatar is definitely the best theatrical eye-candy for me this year, but even more, I’ve never felt so liberated watching a movie. Bottom line, everything about Avatar is fantastic – the graphics, the imagination, the theme, the message, even the duration of the theater version. I was thinking that if they had an extended version of Avatar in DVD or Blu-ray later on I would most definitely snap it.

Now we don’t know about you. Since it just came out we recommend you grab a 3D ticket while it’s still available. Or do yourself a favor by clicking on the play button of the bottom trailer if you’re not convinced. Yet.

Official Avatar Movie

In the future, all of my blog posts will be on issues I think are really interesting to know. I may use my other profiles on stuff that are less important and more personal.

So back to the issue. Like the Fame Monster, Lady Gaga has been furiously churning out song after song lately, and maybe getting fame after fame as well. I’m sure that some of you already know she just released “The Fame Monster” that’s an extension of “The Fame” which made her famous only last year. Apparently she has not let up in the Christmas season – we wonder is it because sales would be better for dance songs in America now?

Like today, I just found that before the Fame Monster euphoria has even cooled down, fans of LG are posting another song of hers. Seems it’s a leak, but well – good things are meant to be shared so I might as well.

Reloaded feat Rodney Jerkins

The lyrics are not out yet, I might update it later if it comes.

And if you didn’t know, LG even sang a sort-of 80s kind of pop dance song called “Dance in the Dark”. The tune’s ok but as usual, nothing LG sings is ever “clean” or unsuspecting. But I guess that’s what many people (including me) like about her. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I like her weird dresses or styles. It’s just that at least she’s a bit more honest about herself.

Dance in the Dark

Finally if you’re really into LG now we recommend you enter the following in the Youtube search box. Do yourself a favor, don’t be lazy please

Bad romance

Telephone beyonce

Alejandro

Lady gaga interview on ellen

Speechless

That’s it. Don’t be eaten by the Fame Monster!

Fellow Malaysians, you should’ve brought your cameras, iphones, lappies along! Blog about it, post youtube vids, tweet it, take pictures. It would have gone viral! Why so little love for Arthur? I couldn’t say much if this was something not ‘big’ enough to garner attention, but even the STAR did something on Sep 25 itself. This was the BEP performing, hello?

Ok, rant aside. The BEP, as usual was greatly welcomed by the crowd at the Sunway Surf Beach in Kuala Lumpur. Here’s what the STAR (a newspaper company in Malaysia) had to say:

However, aside from a few bloggers who took the trouble to write and took vids, there were so few coverage about the event! Sedih lah (so sad).

Smashpop.net had some pictures of the Arthur’s Day celebration in Kuala Lumpur, check it here.

Chris, a very good photographer I met before, had a lengthy photopost of BEP during the press conference.

In addition, Chris also recorded the BEP in Boom Boom Pow action.

Though I have to say, I still think the G.I. JOE version is better.

However one Youtuber actually took a very high quality vid of BEP singing I Gotta Feeling. Will.i.am even said KL KL KL a few times (KL is the shortform of Kuala Lumpur) – makes it more endearing lol. I must say thank you dear Youtuber, that was really excellent and more useful than you think. I love Fergie’s furry vest

As for me, one thing I regretted was not being able to be present myself. Well, I don’t know but I’d really go all way out to make this viral if I were there!

Aside from Kuala Lumpur, the Arthur’s Day celebration was also held in Dublin (Ireland), New York (US), Lagos (Nigeria) and Yaounde (Cameroon). The following clip shows everyone cheering to Arthur in Dublin, much like what happens in the Arthur’s Day ad (I don’t know if you’ve seen it, try search in youtube).

There’s plenty of photos in the Independent.ie for the Dublin celebrations.

Finally, if you want to see more vids for the Dublin celebration as well as some pics of the Lagos concert, go to GuinnessPours.net. Go go go!

It was a bit sad, such a great event had so many people going but the coverage does not compensate as much! And BEP chose to go to KL of all 5 places! That was the greatest honour ever people.

Kris Allen, winner of American Idol season 8, has recently released a single named “Live Like We’re Dying”. It’s actually the same song by The Script. I heard both versions, and I gotta say, Kris did do a good job, but it sounded too similar to The Script’s version.

Compare it to The Script:

Hmmm…

I read that Kris will release his very first album on November 17. Maybe he should really try his best since Adam Lambert (!) will release his very first album too, just one week later on November 24. Are we looking for another AI-style showdown again? :O

But then again, Kris looks so cute, like the pretty boy next door. I believe a lot of gals (and maybe guys too ) will buy his album, lol. So where does that leave Adam? C’mon we wanna hear a single from the 2012 soundtrack at least. Adam sang a track for the 2012 movie and that song is supposedly going to be included in the soundtrack album as well.

2nd.

Drake’s new song Forever. I think you should watch the 1-minute commentary by James Montgomery of MTV below to get the hang of what the song is all about.

Personally, this felt like Eminem making a comeback of sorts. Not that I like his songs, but this is perhaps one of the songs with Eminem in it that I actually felt was interesting. All in all the song was good although I probably wouldn’t have it on my iTunes download list.

To watch the video, go here

This is my report thus far of the latest songs that have come to me. Have YOU heard of any latest song releases that could be interesting? Post it in the comments below – you can even embed a Youtube vid in it.

for Susan Boyle.

She’s landed in America for the first time, to sing there for the first time, tracks from her very first album, I Dreamed a Dream. Yes, the same name as the world-famous audition song.

She’s had a first-time very transformational makeover, so much that she look much much better now. I’d say she’ll look fantastic even if she’s really riding a wild horse. However the mainstream media strangely never took notice of her new looks. Here’s a very recent photo of Susan, from here.

Lovely?

Anyway, it’s Susan’s first time releasing her debut album (which will be released in November), and one of the songs which Times Online UK says she will sing is Wild Horses (original by Rolling Stones). Hear her soul in the music below, lyrics included:

Well Susan can’t really run free like a wild horse yet. She’s been taken to Disneyland for some Mickey Mouse fun after hordes of fans and media personnel “mobbed” her. Maybe a song of the same name from Natasha Bedingfield will do the trick for now:

lyrics

So, on a typical working weekday like Tuesday, would you feel running carefreely like a wild horse?

However, it seems that Kanye West was not really that happy about it – he snatched the mike from Taylor as she was giving her acceptance speech…

Hmmm, since I knew about it from Mashable, I’d like to ask the same question too:

Was it staged, or just Kanye being Kanye?

Anyway, I don’t care so much. I like most of the songs from her album, so I guess I’m a fan of hers. I like her music and her very creative and innovative music – you don’t simply have people going crazy over country pop so easily, like until now. It appears that later on, Beyonce, whom Kanye tried to prop up in the mike-snatching incident, selflessly invited Taylor for a “do-over” (refer here). So all ends well that starts well, I guess? This is an opportunity for me to share one of my favourite MVs with you, so here is the VMA award-winning MV – You Belong With Me:

(Yahoo FTW, the tube doesn’t allow embedding courtesy of —)