Whatdayou know?!

Nurul Maideen was booted out last night - was it a surprise?

Of course, I agree with what Ken Lim says again about deserving final 6 and the dignified exit from the program.

While I do applaud Joachim Gomez's humility and ability to hold firm despite the criticisms for his performance ( I'm one of his harshest critic, I scream when I see that he is still in the contest, i shudder when he sings) i think the competition has fast become a nightmare for him the longer the stays in the competition.

Do you get what I mean?

each week, poor Joachim does his thing on the stage. How many of us thinks that his thing is really up to par? Despite all the judges having something not nice to say about his singing, he is stlil back week after week to face the humiliation of being humiliated time and time again by the criticism of the judges and homeviewers.

These homeviewers take their grouses to the gym, to the movies, to the coffeeshops and you hear them talk about Joachim being only good looking and not having the ability to sing and yet he's still in the competition.

If you are joachim, how would you feel?
The pressure from the criticisms and the commontalk is immense.
I'm sure he too feel that he should be voted out so that he can rest in peace, without having to go through the humiliation every time he is on the stage.

Yet his avid supporters are supporting him by voting for him parting with their dollars but in doing so he gets humiliated further?

We know, we have ears, we know that his ability to sing as compared to the rest who can, is as different as a chicken and a duck.

When we vote for him unthinkingly, are we actually torturing him?
Or are we really helping him?

If I were you, I probably not vote for him, so that he can be given a dignified exit.