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Saturday, September 16, 2006

The time has come again for the season of reality shows. Among the newest seasonal inclusions include Survivor 13: Cook Islands, The Amazing Race 10, America's Next Top Model 7 & The Biggest Loser 3, as other seasonal shows come to an end, namely Big Brother 7: All Stars, Singapore Idol, Project Runway 3 and Britain's Next Top Model.

I predict that the final 3 of Project Runway will be Michael, Laura & Jeffrey, with Uli being the last contestant to be eliminated, and Michael winning. I predict Abigail & Lianna to be in the final 2 of BNTM, with Lianna winning, and Jonathan to be the next Singapore Idol.

My predictions for the Amazing Race 10 are: for final 3 -- Tyler & James, Rob & Kimberly & Lyn & Karlyn, with Tyler & James to win it.

My predictions for Survivor 13: Cook Islands is Becky Lee, not just because she is Asian, but also because of the sequencing of the starting credits (you know, the one where they show the people's faces and their names?) with relation to the 13th season

Well, I've been checking up on previous season's opening credits and I've seemed to uncover a conspiracy:

Winner of Survivor 1 (Richard) appeared between Sonja (1st out) and Kelly (1st runner-up), both "1st"s
Winner of Survivor 2 (Tina) appeared last in her tribe [representative of being the last man standing]
Winner of Survivor 3 (Ethan) appeared 3rd last in his tribe
Winner of Survivor 4 (Vecepia) appeared 4th in her tribe
Winner of Survivor 5 (Brian) appeared 3rd in a tribe of 8 [8-3=5]
Winner of Survivor 6 (Jenna) appeared 6th overall
Winner of Survivor 7 (Sandra) appeared 7th overall
Winner of Survivor 8 (Amber) appeared 8th overall
Winner of Survivor 9 (Chris) appeared 9th last
Winner of Survivor 10 (Tom) appeared between Wanda (2nd out) & Caryn (5th placing) [2x5=10]
Winner of Survivor 11 (Danni) appeared 11th overall (with inclusion of Bobby Jon & Stephenie)
Winner of Survivor 12 (Aras) appeared 12th overall (when they were originally 4 tribes, not 2)

Therefore, looking at these theories, Becky, appearing 13th in season 13, has a 8/12. or 67% chance of winning the competition. Considering she's on the strongest tribe currently, and also the usual "evening out" of the winners across genders, the current million-dollar winners include 7 guys (including Rupert who won America's Tribal Council) and 6 girls, so it following the pattern [again!] a girl should win, so who else would have the better chance of winning either than the 13th-appeared girl with a 67% chance of winning who is currently in the strongest tribe, and with CBS producers pushing for a non-caucasian winner to add diversity to the show?

Therefore, my predictions are for Becky Lee to take the crown.

My predicted merged tribe: Asians - Yul, Brad & Becky, Caucasians - Adam & Candice, Latinos - JP & Ozzy, African-Americans - Sundra

My other wildcard picks would be Jenny (Asian), Parvati (Caucasian) & Nate (African-American)

So if all my predictions come through, you heard it first here!!!

Copyright. Do not use my "survivor-chart" on other reality TV forums, I'm also an avid reader of these kinds...

+ Josh sings to the unforgiving sea + 1:38 AM

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Sigh. This last stretch of secondary school life will be a tough one. Magship. Math TA 5. Philosophy Final Essay. Chinese Prelims. Math Test. Chemistry Open Book Assignment. Book Club. Math TA 6. CT2. Chinese O Levels. Man. This is tough.

But after that... Woah.... Graduation Dinner.... Holidays.... South Africa... Japan... Yay!

And so this blog will be kinda dead from now on. Probably a bit of reprieve after CT2 and before O Levels...

Oh, btw fyi Mike thrashed Erika and won Big Brother 6-1. Whee...

+ Josh sings to the unforgiving sea + 4:18 AM

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Sigh... What has life come to. Sometimes I ask myself whether it was really for the best of me that I did well since I knew I was studying. I mean, seriously, there's always the talk about getting into a good Secondary school to pave a good path for your future, but then, is this really what I want? They say it's for our benefit. While I do not disagree that it would probably give us an edge in the job market, I just can't seem to stop thinking that I'm such a lonely guy. It's bad enough when you don't have any one to talk to when you reach home except your parents, and trust me, I love my parents, but sometimes it can get pretty screwy. Maybe that's why I always seem to enjoy and catapult myself into the rich world of stories that make me fantasize... Fantasize of a world of what ifs. What if I was good at sports. What if I was the brainiest guy in the world. What if I was a criminal mastermind. What if I was a serial killer....

I'm not specialized in anything. I'm neither here nor there. What am I to become?

Sigh. This is life. I don't really get the meaning. Sounds cliche, but I seriously don't.

+ Josh sings to the unforgiving sea + 6:55 AM

Saturday, September 02, 2006

It is really ironic. Extremely. For someone with so much dirty laundry to want to threaten me with baseless rules and regulations that you make up in hopes that you think I do not know the school guidelines. Well, go ahead and see if you can take me down. I hope you are reading this. If so please keep this the nearest you are from me as I can't stand you and stop contacting me. Keep to your words and completely sever ties with me, ok? Even if you can't be a man be a man of your baseless words.

Anyways, if you ever thought you could make me succumb to your fancies by some naive SMS using school authority as your power, well well, at least I don't STEAL THINGS FROM MY FRIENDS ON THE PRETEXT OF BORROWING THEM, SEND FRIENDS DEATH THREATS VIA SMS AND KEEP HARASSING US BY PHONE AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. And I'm not gay and I have a perfect family and I have traversed much of the world. That's what I'm proud about. Sure, your grades are higher than mine. Good for you then.

Oh I love my face.

And if anyone is thinking that this could be some form of defamation, let's just take it that I'm speaking to myself, shall we? :)

+ Josh sings to the unforgiving sea + 6:03 AM

Friday, September 01, 2006

A regular day staying at home. Woke up at 1:30 pm after watching Final Destination 3 on youtube till 1 the previous night (or should I say morning) and started updating my Reality TV Catalogue. In case if you don't know, I'm a reality TV buff and I was collating last names of all contestants from Big Brother, Project Runway (inclusive of the models) and Manhunt. With these, I completed my catalogue and ended at around 4 pm, where I started playing maple for the first time in like 3 weeks, perhaps more.

Levelled up to 41 and finally added points to MP Eater. So cool! Just another level to a level 42 icarus cape and 2 more levels to my beloved maple lama staff! Then 4 more levels to my level 45 shoes, gloves and earrings, and finally at level 48 I can change into my oriental fury coat and finally at lvl 50 can change earrings, shoes, gloves and hat. Sigh. Don't think I'll ever reach there. I'm just losing interest in maple now. My short-term goals are only the cape and lama staff.

So anyways this post concludes an extremely boring and meaningless day. And as my internet screws up, I can only look forward to the next gathering at Ian's house sometime in the September holidays to virtually bitch slap each other as we pull each other's hair, slam dunk our friends and rip up our clothes, covered with sweat and screaming for more... Yes, it's dead or Alive on xbox.

+ Josh sings to the unforgiving sea + 5:59 AM