tentang Fly Me To The Moon (REVISITED)

hey i posted a vid of this guy before haven't i? andrew lawson sang 'fly me to the moon' (in other words) in his xfactor australia audition. he sang brilliantly and i loved his style and singing voice. click here if u wanna watch his audition vid.

so this andrew guy managed to go all the way to the grand final of xfactor australia. pretty cool. there were 3 finalists and each had to sing 4 songs and one of the songs last night was their audition song. so he sang 'fly me to the moon' again, this time with music and a very distracting group of female dancers. i kinda think the dancers we're a little too much. a lot simpler performance (with a lot more brilliance) would have made the song a lot better

but his was not too bad. still pretty fun.. and still adore that song.

so the results will be announced tonight. i did not text my vote because no use my voting if i'm gonna send all 3 finalists a vote lol

but anyhow, good luck to them

tentang Fly Me To The Moon, Xfactor Australia

ever heard a song so brilliantly sung (sang?) that you feel you heart is skipping and dancing to it?




just love the way he sings it! a must watch.. definitely. unless you're not in the mood on anything gay (i mean it in the proper way)

tentang The Big Bang Theory Theme Song

im suddenly feeling a bit slow today but i still feel like blogging. decided to post something light. wanted to post gamespot's video review abt Tekken 6 or the trailer for disney's Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time but.. meh.

so i decided to post the lyrics of my favourite TV show's theme song. written and performed by Barenaked Ladies (thats the name of the band), a band i used to listen to back in high school. a great light and fun song, here's the lyrics for -


The Big Bang Theory Theme Song

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!

"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and pangea
See ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!

It all started with the big BANG!

It's expanding ever outward but one day
It will cause the stars to go the other way,
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it wont be hurt
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
It all started with the big bang!

Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!

im thinking of buying the complete season 1 and 2 DVDs when i have the money. a hilarious show.. i dont think i have a TV show i loved this much since.. i dont know how long.

Masterchef Australia - and the winner is..

Julie!

the grand finale was on last night and based on what i read today, it was the most watched show in australian history.

Julie Goodwin, 38, beat Adelaide’s Poh Ling Yeow in a three-round challenge in front of their former top 20 MasterChef Australia opponents and judges Gary Mehigan, Matt Preston and George Calombaris last night.

-AdelaideNow.com.au

some people were upset with the result and speculated it was rigged from the start. but i think Poh did some pretty bad decisions last nite. some of the dishes she decided to make were not a good enough choice and for the pressure challenge she decided not to follow the recipe. so yeah.. maybe julie deserved to win last nite.

Julie wins AUD$100,000; a cookbook deal and the masterchef australia title. she said she plans to open a restaurant and i bet a lot of people would love to go there.

and Poh didnt go home empty handed. although she didnt win, the guest judge last nite, Curtis Stone (international celebrity chef), invited Poh to come to LA when he said -

"I'm going back to LA to shoot and if you'd like I'll extend an invitation and pay for your flight to come over and spend a week on set with my team,"

oh that kinda sounds as fun as Julie's prizes :P



anyway.. Poh made hainan chicken rice for the invention challenge last nite that looked so good. i know one place here in adelaide that serves hainan chicken rice. its a small restaurant called Knoodle Junction.. its across the road from Target Rundle Mall, a little furthur toward north terrace. and it's halal, but i havent been there for a while

Masterchef Australia - The Malaysian Cooking Challenge

something interesting happened on Masterchef today.. interesting to malaysians that is.



firstly, to those unfamilliar to what Masterchef Australia is, let me shed some light on this. it is a reality tv cooking competetion to find the best amateur cook in australia. like idol.. but u cook. based on the UK's Masterchef on BBC, and is australia's first season this year. currently.. the series is in the final week, 4 contestant remains and elimination every day till the grand final on this sunday (july 19th)

so this contestant Poh got an advantage to set the theme for the elimination challenge today.. and she chose a Malaysian theme (u should've seen the smile on her face when she chose that). i'm not sure of her background but i remember earlier in the series she mentioned that her family (or someone) is from malaysia.

well.. asian theme would've been tricky enough, but malaysian theme is gonna be hard. i dont know if im right but i dont think malaysian cooking is famous here in australia. i might be wrong though

the judges did say that they must make a malay dish. i'm sorry i dont think that's accurate. malaysian cooking is actually more than that. many (not all) chinese or indian or malay (malaysian/singaporean/indonesian) cooking could pass as a malaysian cooking because malay, chinese and indian are three of the many races that is Malaysian. how i know all this..? i'm Malaysian and i am a Malay.

it was pretty fun watching some contestants trying to guess how malaysian cooking should taste and look like.. but i pity them as well. they worked so hard to get to the final week and Poh chose a very hard theme for them. i must say.. she played her cards really well

(images from masterchef.com.au)
in the end Poh won the challenge and got another advantage for tomorrow's elimination challenge. the dishes she made that won her the challenge were :
- Petai with Sambal and Fish Custard (nasik putih + sambal petai + custard ikan(?))
- Glutenous Rice Dumpling with Coconut Pandan Leaf Stuffing

if Poh wins Masterchef and became the first Australian Masterchef it would be pretty cool. remember Guy Sebastian? first Australian Idol. he was born in Klang. hmm.. people with malaysian roots do pretty well on aussie tv huh?

and owh.. if u like to cook u should check out Poh's recipes. some of the dishes are actually common malaysian dish like roti jala and murtabak. but she gave a fresh new definition and kinda gave it an aussie style to it.. and i think that's brilliant. dont know how it would taste tho.. i've only seen it on tv :P