Who Will Win Akademi Fantasia 9 ?

After 2 year hiatus, finally I've got the chance to watch the final season of Akademi Fantasia before it goes off air for good.

I started to watch it in the 8th week of the show where only 5 contestants were left in the running, so am I impressed with the remaining 5, hmm... not really, but based on the two concerts left before the final I think the winner is already predictable.

Of course, on the 9th week, another student, Erul was eliminated.

So, among the remaining four, who will be the last winner of Akademi Fantasia ?

# 4 Azri 

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I decided to put Azri in this position because looking at the voting result pattern he always end up at the bottom, As stated by Dato' Siti Nurhaliza, he has the best deep male voice she ever heard which according to my ear is so-so, but there are reasons to keep this fella in the glass house because of his personality and good looking (he might not be the best looking fella but if you look at the other guys then you'll agree with me). Adlin Aman Ramli decision to make him take his shirt off in public might be the reason why he advanced to the final :-)

#3 Lena

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She sounds like Stacy (from AF 6 fame) ! She might have some attitude problem which explained her near elimination on week 8. Before Hazama and Fina admission to AF, Lena had always been on the top spot and that indicates the existence of her strong supporters and even after that she managed to stay on the Top 3 position but her performance from week to week is spiraling down, but given the number of voters she got I think this girl will definitely get in the Top 3 spot (or maybe runner up, except for Season 1, Season 6 and Season 7, Sabahan always managed to get the No.2 spot)

#2 Fina

This girl is so popular and I don't know why (mainly because I didn't watched the show), she managed to stay in the top spot and even got the immunity votes which secured her place in the final. She kinda reminded me to previous AF student, Edlin, because of her voice. I think she can survive the industry because she is fresh and she can maybe be another AF student turned spokesperson.

Winner: Hazama

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I feel betrayed when he got in AF 9 because he was already an established artiste and even work for several programs organized by astro. I think the producer decided to put him in the competition for rating. He is undeniably the best performer in the bunch but given his experience in the show biz that will not be as impressive. However, looking at his performance, popularity, votes and the comments from the jury, Hazama will definitely going to get the title, but does winning AF gave you a guaranteed success in the industry? I doubt that :-)

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL . . .

When they say 'if you feel beautiful inside, you'll feel beautiful outside' they're actually telling the truth.

Ever wonder why your image look different in the mirror than in the photograph, I always do! Like, my nose is not that ugly in the mirror but when someone snap a picture of me (especially profile-wise) I'm gonna be like "What's that thing hanging on my face, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF !!!! "

Via unitedspongebob

"Just imagine an Asian looking Squidward"

 

The standard of beauty nowadays was likely to be blamed but a recent study shows that the way we percieved our external look is actually determined by how aware we are to our internal states.

Like for example, some people might think their hands are bigger when they are actually not or in some cases some people might think they are thin when they are actually morbidly obese...

 

"Some people think Ms Tyra is fat fiercely real"

 

Recently British scientists had come up with an experiment to see the people's awareness of their body internal states.

I know y'all won't read that article, so I just summarized it, how nice of me ...

the scientists conducted two tests, in the first test all subjects were asked to count their heartbeats without checking their pulse. People who can count their heartbeats accurately, have higher internal body awareness while those that can't have lower awareness.

 

" On the other hand, this guy can count other people's heartbeats"

For the next test, the subjects were tested on how well their external body perception is, in an less-scientific words they wanna test whether the subject are able to see an accurate representation of themselves when they look at their image in the mirror.

For this test they use the rubber hand illusion

In this test, one of the subjects' hand were hidden from their view and a rubber hand was placed near their actual hand.

via abc.net.au

then both the rubber and the real hands were stroked using a brush and after 30 seconds the subject started to feel like the rubber hand was hers, after a few minutes the subject started to forget about their real hand indicated by the drop of temperature in their hand.

Remember the group that have less accurate result of their heartbeat count ?
That group were likely to say "I feel like the rubber hand was mine !" (probably in English accent). The temperature of their actual hand also drop much lower compared to the other group (the one who have more internal awareness).

So they concluded that people with little internal self awareness are more likely to perceived they external body less accurately, one example of that kinda person is moi... unfortunately.

via drsharma.ca

The same goes with anorexic people who think they are fat when they are actually super skinny.

The question is, how do you improve your internal body awareness, some people say Yoga, I say, a little break from reading all those fashion magazines !

HERE TODAY GONE TOMMOROW: HOBBIES IN THE PAST THAT SEEMS OBSOLETE NOW

Just taking you guys to a look down memory lane where we'll be looking at favorite pastimes that was all the rage at that time and seems to be fading nowadays, some are still here but not as popular as it was yesterday and some just disappeared.

Paper Art

I don't know what to call this one but it involves folding a piece of rectangular paper into a triangular shape and connecting those pieces to build something such as a bird like you saw in the picture above. The owner of the picture above took 5 years to complete the bird.

I remember every stationery shops sell the rectangular paper and it ain't cheap so most people create their own rectangle paper (which is not easy I told ya !). Sadly today, it's not common to see this art been sold or even displayed.

Plastic Straw Rose

My sister and my cousin is crazy about this !

This one involve cutting a special type of straw (same like the one you use to drink but this one is slightly flimsier). It used a special type of tools which is a small razor attached at the end of a stick to cut the straw. Then, the straw is folded into a rose shape.

This one required special skill especially the folding part and did I tell you when we were doing this back in the days there's a lot of blood spilled due to the sharpness of the razor used.


Stickers

This one is still around but it was not as hot as it was.

There's a lot of type but the popular one (in my school) is the plastic one and we even trade it with each other, but now it seems like nobody cares about them, just look at your nephew/niece generation...

Trading Cards Game

This one was probably new, there's Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and more. I'm never good at playing this one tho'. The generation that have been introduced with this game had moved on I guess.




Electronic Pet

The picture above is the counterfeit version of Tamagotchi (sadly I own one).

Tamagotchi is made for girls while for the guys they got Digimon. One of my guy friend own a Digimon which required to be shake with a rather sexual gesture.


Friendster

Some friendster avid fan will definitely be mad at me because this site is still around and people are still using it but to be honest most of my friends are moving to you know... facebook, twitter, etc. so this one can be considered as favorites that become forgotten.


I don't like the new logo so I put up the old one there.




P/S: Do you have any favorite pastimes that have been forgotten? Fill in the comments :-)

TURN OFF THE TAP AND JUST LET THE MUSIC PLAY

 WARNING: Graphic content !

I think I'm not the only person who let the tap running when doing number two. Admit it we all think the sound that we make during that session can be embarrassing especially the days when we have ate something bad.

Apparently in these days where everyone is concern about the environment, letting the tap run is a no-no. So what you gon' do to mask those humiliating dropping or wind sound you made and going green at the same time, worst, some public toilet don't even have taps and you have to constantly pull the flush to make the cubicle poop-drop-sound-proof.

"except when you're in Japan, that tube can suck the shit out of you"

On my visit to KL last year, I went to one of the toilet in a shopping mall and they have a solution for this problem.

Yep. They play loud music in the toilet. UK government can take a cue here.

At first it was annoying because of the loud music but as soon as you notice that you didn't notice the sound of your shit reaching the bottom of the toilet bowl, you'll be like "Awesome!" Plus, you can even sing along because everyone was so distracted with how awesome the loud music playing toilet is they don't even care about your shitty vocal.

 "You can blame the toilet paper if they're complaining tho"

So there you go, a simple but effective solution. No more embarrassing sound, no more wasting of water, and you can call yourself an environmentalists without even having to own a hybrid car.

However instead of random song, how about playing the Brown Noise. Brown Noise is a sound with a certain frequency that can make you lose control of your bowel movement, that's scientific way to say shit in your pants.

Here is a Brown Noise.

Shit ! I think I just lose my bowel control...

The Story of Shadow People

WARNING: Don't read this in the dark !

 I don't usually talk about paranormal thing in this blog but I've read something about shadow people in a website and I it actually reminded me of an incident in my school, well, not actually an incident but two and one of it involved me.

A bit about shadow people, it is actually a type of spirit which appear like a figure of shadow but of course with eyes and other shit, people actually see them in peripheral vision which is at the side of our stereoscopic vision (scientific much!). It's been seen everywhere in the world and involved something evil.

These stories happened in my school... well, shit like this happens all the time in boarding school, trust me!

The first one was witnessed by a bunch of students who arrived from the night class. When they pass a room next to the praying room, they saw a shadow figure sitting on one of the bed. They thought it was someone but they were shocked to see the figure was only shadow.
They summoned the prefect to open the room but the figure disappeared.

The next story happened to me...
It was early in the morning and our bathroom has no light so we have to take shower in the dark. It was 4am and there's already a bunch of people walking around so I'm not scared at all.
Then I enter the bathroom and I saw a shadow figure at my back from the reflection of the mirrors in the bathroom and it entirely blocked the light from the outside making the bathroom pitch black. I was panicking and freaking out and I rushed out of the room and I swear that I saw a hooded figure walk (well, not walking because I don't see no legs) into one of the toilet cubicle.

[oh gosh, I'm having goosebumps already]... well do y'all think I'm lying? Well, my story is arguable because it's 4 am and I just woke up so the shadow thing must've been my hallucinations right... but what about the experience with the group of students who saw it together ? So do you guys had ever encounter the shadow people ? Better not wish for it...

STARBUCKS IS NOW EQUAL TO PORK

Starbucks (ma boisson préférée) is considered not halal ! Yikes !

According to this site,

Starbucks is considered haram by JAKIM, because …

Please note that all chocolate, vanilla and coffee drinks at Coffee Bean and Starbuck contains E471 (Emulsifier 471), mono di-glycefides which is from animal origin (pork). Raspberry Frap uses cherries that has been dip in alcohol & the tiramisu contains rum. Please pass this message to our muslim friends.

That was the real excerpt taken from that site and upon Google-searching I found out that mono di-glycefides (bolded for reason) is not a real food additives.

“From this picture you can assume that mono di-glycefides probably doesn’t exist and that my SafeSearch is off (hey, I’m no pervert !!)”

Other than the non existant substance originated from pigs, the site also stated that the cherry is dipped in alcohol and the tiramisu contains rum.

E471 used in food product are normally from plant origin because of concern on vegetarians, Muslim, Jew, and mad cow disease, but it’s not impossible if there’s some trace of pig in there.

Personally I never tried the Raspberry frap myself , so no comment on the alcohol glazed cherries that.

Hangover after drinking Starbucks, wow, that’s new

I don’t know any drinks with the name Tiramisu on the menu or maybe they were talking about the cakes, but if they do put rum in it, HELL YEAH, I’M EATIN ONE !!!

But, I do research in the Halal Malaysia and found that Starbucks does have certificate which is valid until the Apocalypse (2012… duh… )

Well, is this hoax (made up by competition, Coffee Bean maybe ) or real? well, either way it won’t affect my relationship with Starbucks.

UPDATE:

Starbucks had applied certificate from Halal Industry Development Global.

Coffee Bean is totally safe (mmm… *shifty eyes*)

Oh my gosh! Busted ! Starbucks is now safe !!! (source)

THE MOST TYPICAL FACE IN THE WORLD IS FROM ASIAN

National Geographic announced that the most typical face in the planet currently is a man, 28 year old and he's Chinese from the Han tribe. The face is so typical they can be seen worn by 9 million men worldwide.

According to Yahoo! News by Liz Goodwin (gotta cite her in this post, no plagiarism intended) researchers had done research and they have the result shown in National Geographic as a part of their series "Population 7 Billion".

Researchers collect 200,000 photos of different men (28, Han Chinese) and combined them in a composite and the result is quite interesting ... and the result look like this...

Oh, wait, sorry wrong picture... keep scrolling down

The first picture does look like the scientist's result ain't it ? I guess he belongs in the 9 million typical face population. Oh well...

Yep, one more thing, the scientists predict that in 20 years, the most typical face will be in India . . .!!! hey Guy In The 1st Picture ! Start making mini-yous if you want to hold the Typical Face Award much longer !

Source : Yahoo! News
Screen shot courtesy of National Geographic