Pure Madness from Within

There is only one word that can describe the way my weekend has been. Crazy. Crazy for different reasons though, particularly for what I had managed to accomplish. To begin with, I finally got the opportunity to see an idol of mine up, close and personal. The ten-year wait came to a pleasant end when I turned up for his concert at the Indoor Stadium and it was one hell of a show, his standard of singing extremely outstanding. The hectic chase for this idol of mine brought me to Junction 8 the following day for his autograph session. I am not one who craze over any other celebrities but only those who are really and truly talented. I can now safely say the ten-year following have not been wasted.

Talented celebrities is becoming a rare species nowadays, somewhat nearing to the point of being extinct. I found out about this fact while watching the Singapore Hit Awards show. It just tells me something, that new artistes nowadays have become really really horrible. If the awards are to be presented to them, I suppose they should just name it as Singapore Horror Awards. Some of the awards were presented to certain artistes who did not deserve them in the first place, yet they still have a strong fan base and following here. Other artistes who deserved the awards ended up with zilch, no recognition for their excellent work.

A particular singer caught my attention, for the wrong reasons. He had an absolutely terrible singing voice that screeches everytime he tries to hit a high note and he just looks like your regular neighbourhood gangster that hangs out in coffeeshops. Which makes me wonder why he won best local artiste in the first place. His name sounded something like "dozen" in chinese.

Well, that certainly did not spoil much of my wonderful weekend. I even managed to squeeze in a movie between my busy schedule. "The Terminal" was a great movie with an exceptionally talented cast and absorbing plot that was comedic yet meaningful at the same time. Though the woman sitting next to me did freaked me out when she started sobbing midway through the movie. But other than that I really enjoyed the movie, especially when you have Catherine Zeta-Jones as an air stewardess.

The weekend came to a beautiful end when I got another chance to see another air stewardess (in this case, air stewardess in the making), this time in a picture. Not Catherine Zeta-Jones of course but close. All good things always come to an end and they truly did when reality hit me, telling me I have to return to camp. At least I will know that for this week, all I have in my photographic memory will be Jeff Chang, Catherine Zeta-Jones and another air stewardess friend, to take me through to the next weekend.