and I promise you, you’ll conquer your death!
RARRRWWW!!
Big words spoken by Colin Farrell’s Alexander. Lame movie btw. Trailer promises big battles. In truth, the whole movie sucks. Battles? 20 minutes max, total. Anyway I digress.
My topic of the day is about losers and winners. Alexander was a BIG winner. He conquered the known world by age 25. However, despite his prowess, he couldn’t muster it in bed and died of grief after his gay lover succumbed to typhoid. So he was both a winner and a loser. Local news this week featured quite a few winners and losers. Let’s start with Singapore Idol.
It was finally revealed that Taufik beat Sly by 200,000 votes. Big Whoop. The big winner? SingTel at 50c per SMS vote, about $1.5mil. The runner-up? Sly. HUH? What, didn’t I say Taufik beat Sly by 200k votes? Yep, but picture this: One singer gets to perform cover songs at a popular world-renowned Taiwanese singer’s concert, the other performs at a local charity show. Who’s the bigger winner here? Seriously tho, in the world of pop idolotry, Sly works, Taufik doesn’t. Think Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken. Loser and winner.
Next on the block, the full impact of the Mediacrap-Mediawerks merger has been revealed. SPH glaringly shifted allegiance by assessing each and every ex-SPH celeb like so much cattle. More’s the pity, esp Lynn Poh’s assessment of being a dime a dozen. Wasn’t she together with luminaries like Ix Shen and Ericia Lee the next big things? Speaking of Ericia Lee, another BIG loser, with her boytoy and sister getting jobs but not she. What’s she gonna do now, model underwear? Two things for sure, each and every ex-SPH star likely got contracts with big caveats, ie no more limelight (eg Kim Ng and Bryan Wong) and Mediacrap got a whole stable of talent for cheap. Winner? Status quo circa 4 years ago.
Of coz there’s the Star awards and ST’s fashion hits and misses. Boring.
Big loser, MOE. It was discovered that a Chinese language teacher for 5 years actually faked her credentials and whatnot. The Chinese Embassy verified that the teacher’s creds were fake after an investigation by the Immigration authorities. The big loser part? After the creds were <b>already verified as fake</b>, the MOE statement (sorry can’t get a quote) was that its next move was to verify the teacher’s credentials. WTF? Where are the brains “moulding the future”? Come to think of it, if TVD could find the quote, it’ll make the Stupidometer quote of the year.
Finally, the big losers of the week: 2 bank robbers and a dead body in Balestier.
