Predicted bottom 3: Duane, Charles, Fathin.

1. Malaque – ‘Right Here Waiting’. One of the best performances tonight. So comfortable to listen to! And there we have Ken salvaging his pitiful situation, sounding pretty tamed when making those clarifications eh.
2. Sezairi – ‘Faith’ – Najip Ali performs. Once again, a great song choice that brings his voice out so well! Could tell he has come out of his comfort zone, and he definitely took a risk choosing this song! Great singing, great tone, please let him sail through.
3. Tabitha – ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. That is one big song to perform. Nevertheless, she handled this pretty well.
4. Sylvia – ‘Sweet Child Of Mine’ Loved her rocker chic look, but felt that she lacked the rocker voice. All the contestants should learn how this girl scales up those notes, because she does it with perfection. Felt the performance got slightly lukewarm afterwards though.
5. Faizal – ‘End Of The Road’ How uncanny would his song title be if he got eliminated today. He has great fashion sense. I mean, he’s just 17, and he already knows how to dress. He chose a song that really fits his voice well. At the end of the day, he’ll be bound to be compared with Taufik and Hady, and sadly, he’s just not good enough to claim the title.
6. Nurul – ‘Walking Like An Egyptian’. An entertaining albeit awkward performance. Not a particular fan of this number, although I could tell she enjoyed herself thoroughly. Found her Egyptian moves very quirky. Her costume was quite a wreck though.
7. Mae Sta – ‘Lovely’. Does she know that she is very pitchy? She should stop belting as though she thinks she’s a diva. Her voice quavered at so many junctions! Listen more, deliver a more subdued performance, and she’ll definitely get more votes.
8. Justin – ‘Together Forever’ This could’ve gone really good, or really bad. I’m afraid the result was the latter one.
9. Farhan – ‘Love Will Lead You Back’ Ok, he tried his best to be all-rounded, but all those draggy notes felt quite annoying at parts. Whatever, he doesn’t even need to sing, and he’ll be safe.
10. Diva Duane – ‘I Have Nothing’. And you thought Poker Face was wtf enough. What’s up with his darker than normal? This was plain and boring. No diva diamonds for you this time around.
11. Charles – ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’ Extremely cringeworthy. Don’t bother about what the judges say, just showcase your insane beatboxing skills, and you could’ve pulled off a rendition similar to Blake Lewis’s one. What was with the hideous ending, that disgusting howl? Major fail. Very confusing performance.
12. Fathin – ‘I Love Your Smile’ Yawn. Flat. What’s with the repetitive ‘Your smile Your smile Your smile’. I thought her best move in the performance was smiling at Ken Lim.

Alright, I've decided to mute Ken whenever he makes a comment. It's quite an exciting game, you should try it!

Anyone.

You can be an athletic and macho stud, or the ever-so-popular cheerleader; You can also be a wheelchair bound student, an Asian harajuku misfit, a bulimic girl, or a gay fashionista.

Sometimes special guests appear in their episodes too. In the past 4 episodes, names like Josh Groban (top) and Justin Gaston have been featured on the Glee set.

Now, here's another show which has a totally different fate.

The Beautiful Life gets canned just after two episodes due to low ratings. Goodbye Mischa Barton. I think Nico Tortorella would keep it surviving, but alas, he failed to boost ratings as well.

• Janet Jackson – Make Me [1st single from her upcoming greatest hits album]
• Kris Allen – Live Like We’re Dying [1st single from debut album]
• Carrie Underwood – Cowboy Casanova [1st single from third studio album, Play On]
• Michael Buble – Haven’t Met You Yet [1st single from fourth studio album, Crazy Love]
• John Mayer – Who Says [1st single from fourth studio album, Battle Studies]
• Death Cab For Cutie – Meet On The Equinox [lead single from New Moon’s OST]
• The Bravery – Slow Poison [1st single from 3rd studio album, Stir the Blood]
• Foo Fighters – Wheels
• Glee – ‘Mercy’ & ‘Gold Digger’ – Two great songs from the Glee cast

So, the designers had to come up with a costume of their selected movie genre.

Nicolas (top, with model Celine) did fabulous with this ice queen, Narnia-like white gown, and he won the challenge based on his theme 'Sci-Fi Fiction'. Epperson did a Western-based design which looked contemporary yet Americana at the same time. Christopher lived up to his reputation once again, with his elegant and chic period piece. Absolutely love his designs.

The show was definitely made to target teenagers like me. It had a pretty realistic touch to it, that fame would never befall upon everyone, and you have to accept the fact that sometimes, you just are not up to the standards, and perhaps, you should choose another route when you're still young.

I must particularly commend the following two actors: Kherington Payne and Asher Book.

Kherington was a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance. I think the judges told her during her season that she could make it big in the movies with that Hollywood face of hers. Well, she took their advice, and landed herself in a pretty major role in Fame. Her solo dances were absolutely brilliant, and she had the diva attitude going on.

Asher is the lead singer of boyband V Factory. Didn't know this before watching the movie, and I thought his vocals were absolutely impressive!! Great looks, great charm, and I would kill to have a voice like his.

Now, I profess I don't know anything about the original (Yes, this was a remake), but I thought the character development here was terrible. Too many characters within too short a timespan. The ending also came across as a tad too cheesy. I find it absurd how the girl above managed to land herself in the lead role in her musical as a singer. Hello, she was supposed to be a classical pianist. and Hello, I think the Senior Year singers would be highly distraught if the casting director picked a pianist over them.

2.5/5.0 stars [Half of it goes to Kherington, another half to Asher]

1. Russell is definitely not this malicious. Producers definitely made him worse than he really is. I find it too exaggerated and not very convincing.
2. Too much airtime on the stupid tribe, and on the retarded characters. They vote off the capable people. They are all manipulated by Russell. They plan on voting people off even before they lose their immunity challenge.
3. Lacking any colourful or interesting characters. Doesn't make the show nice to watch.

And Liz is really proving to be a worthy contender for the million bucks.

• A young couple having sex
• A guy about to shoot himself with a gun
• A team of doctors operating on a patient
• John Cho (who is pretty convincing as an FBI agent!) and the other dude hunting down a criminal

All of a sudden, BOOMZ! Something happens, everyone in the world falls asleep for 137 seconds.

Then everyone wakes up, and you get

• Destroyed buildings and airplanes
• Dead people
• Cars colliding and exploding
• A kangaroo hopping on the street

...Basically, everyone goes “What in the world?”

Ok, this is where the interesting thing begins. There are like one million subplots. So, you have a scenario of what’s happening now, and you have a scenario of what happens 6 months later.

Some scary scenarios:

1. Duane Ho - Poker Face
2. Tabitha Nauser - Big Girls Don't Cry
3. Nurul Huda - Oops! I Did It Again
4. Sylvia Ratonel - Fallin'
5. Sezairi Sezali - You Give Me Something
6. Faizal Isa - Stop And Stare
7. Charles 'Stitch' Wong - Low
8. Justin Jap - Heartless
9. Syltra Lee - Breakaway
10. Mae Sta Maria - Lady Marmalade

Predicted Bottom 3:

1. Malaque Mahdaly - Hush Hush (I Will Survive)
2. Fathin Amira - Hurt
3. Farhan Shah - Bad Day [Though I believe Mae Sta will take his place given how he received a million votes previously]

Duane : Earlier today, I was still laughing to my friends, and was awaiting myself for a loserdom performance by Duane, who already pulled off an atrocious Archuleta number last last week. But oh my, Duane played the piano, Duane seemed so mature, and he got the audience clapping. Yes, his face may still be very detestable, but Ken, I believe if he pulls off something like this every week, he can become the next Taufik or Hady. Found it quite hilarious when he mimicked Lady GaGa's snapping and PoPoPoPo phrasings.

Tabitha : Her voice has a great texture, loved her phrasing, can fight Fergie. Solid, pitch perfect - everything was in the right proportions. Loved her controlled implosive grunts too. This is indeed some talent and she should definitely stay in the competition.

Nurul : So absolutely thankful that she is back into the competition. It was such a cool jazzed up version of Oops! There was a great balance of sensuousness and flirtatiousness, and her vocals definitely were there to back that up. I don't see how see dressed like a customer, because I thought her zipbra preents looked gorgeous on her. I feel that she has a lot of voices mixed into one - Winehouse, Duffy, Rihanna... She surely has got the attitude, and may she reach the Final 3.

Sylvia : Chose (or maybe was forced by the producers) a really cliched song, though this performance was good enough by Singapore Idol standards. Very clean alto voice, her posters are very glam. Thought she could've sung it a key higher, I didn't feel it was shiok enough. Nevertheless, it was the BOOMZ man.

Sezairi : Loved his song choice, fitted so well with his husky laidback voice. It was polished, very controlled and calm. He seemed absolutely comfortable on stage, and unlike Ken, I didn't see any problem with his image. He was definitely not uncharacteristic too, and I believe he has a lot to offer in this competition. Ken perhaps doesn't even know the song.

Faizal : It was tough for him to par Duane's standard. He still looked really good, and had a great stage presence. Took the comments very humbly from the judges. I think he'll go very far too because of his personable self.

Charles : I guessed he tried to pull off a Kris Allen 'Heartless'. Well, it worked to a certain extent, though I really couldn't make out the original tune. I disagree with Dick, who says that he is starting to become like a gimmick and should start focusing, because Charles' niche is after all in beatboxing, and I thought it was a fair balance between his subdued vocals and his guitar playing and beatboxing. It was all in right doses. Glad that he's being himself now, not like when he performed Collide.

Justin : And then you have Kris Allen's 'Heartless' being performed by Justin. Definitely docked some points there already. I mean, Kris, the American Idol, performed such a brilliant rendition of this like months ago, and there is no way that that would be recreated. Nevertheless, Justin has a wide vocal range that comes by rarely, but he still looks weird. Ok, he attempted to connect with the audience by shaking hands, but I don't think he really felt the message of the song, came across as over-chirpy at parts. Awkward movements do not help either.

Syltra : Thick dark-red blooded lips somewhat freaked me out. Gurmit announces she is performing Clarely Clarkson. Well, this Aurigami frontwoman performed Breakaway with an original touch, though I felt she lack enough phrasing and slurs to make the song a nice one. Her draggy vocals also can make or break her, and she quivered a bit at some high notes. The last high note wasn't very glorious either. Great showmanship though, you hardly find girls squatting down during their performances.

Mae Sta : I can't believe she did not even belonged to the better half of the performances. Obviously, she didn't have a say in her song choice, and seemed like a total sell-out. She did what she could: Good belting, good riffs, though maybe a little over-the-top at some parts. She MIGHT be in the bottom 3, and that will be very interesting given how she was pipped to be the next Singapore Idol.

Malaque : Once again, the corny electone made the song sound very amateurish. Nevertheless, she held it with her solid vocals, although I doubt she pulled it off very well. She wasn't fierce enough for this very feminist song, was a little pitchy at parts, and I found her monotonous when it came to the lower register of the song. It was quite funny how she seemed like she wanted to get off the stage so quickly. I mean, tonight might be your last night, so treasure it.

Fathin : Oh man, the song was just too big for her. Very pitchy. Well, to her credit, she is singing something that suited her personality, and she had better control. One thing I agreed with the judges was that she didn't connect with the audience. Totally left no lasting impression.

Farhan : Honestly, how can such a person even enter the Top 13. Ok, to his credit, he moved away from Jonas to the most cliched song being played on radio. I see some improvement there. Very self-indulgent, his riffs sounded confusing, and I don't see the significance in the plain belting of 'OhOhOhOh'. He's like a much more boring, and slightly better looking Taufik. BLAND. Please get out of my TV set now. [P.S You need not apologize for your falsetto hyena screams.]

Honestly, I want to rant about Ken's pathetic judging, but I shall not waste my time on this thing. He has enough 7-11 commercials for publicity, and doesn't need any more.

• Jamie Archer – ‘Sex On Fire’
• Miss Fitz – ‘Toxic’. BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE.
  
  

• Olly Murs – ‘Superstition’
• Danyl Johnson
  
  
  
• Daniel Lloyd – ‘I’m Yours’
• Daryl Markham – A very touching story behind the performance.