AI-The Eleventh Hour of the 11th Season

Three horse race and it is now over as the voters takes over.

By morning tomorrow, we will know who has come in and who will go home as No.3.

Let us look at the judges response and reactions.

They seems to favour the vocalists rather then the wholesome entertainers.

First stop-Joshua Ledet. Top cat here;very strong vocals and backed by hymnal chorus most of the time.

Can he win? Yes, he will come in on the home stretch.

Phillip Phillips did an okay performance. Two good ones and one without the pow factor so it seems. Looks likely to go home.

Jessica Sanchez fighting a homecoming dose of sore-throat battled it out with two good ones and a so-so Michael Jackson number, I'll Be There. While Jennifer and Steven were supportive, Randy did not show any positive response to this third number.

Overall, if judges comments are to be accepted, it will be a Joshua-Jessica battle it out.

If voting pattern can dissent, it is likely to be the same as I would assume Phillip's voting base would only increase incrementally and Jessica's may go ballistic!

So, let us see what the final results are.

My All

I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing

I’Will Be There

No United Nations Needed Here!

We humans really got a lot to learn to get along with one another!

A load of these pictures will put us to shame!

The Sensational Sanchez Homecoming

It is unbelievable!

The way they welcomed their pop princess back is sensational to say the least.

She is definitely a singing sensational that has won the hearts of all those Spanish speaking people including the armed forces like the Marines. Listen to her sing the National Anthem!

If the uproarious celebration for Jessica is to be the indicator, she is the hot favourite to win this season's American Idol.

Watch these home-coming videos and also see some of the audition videos to know more of the background of Jessica Sanchez.


The Homecoming






The Homecoming Interview



Eastlake School Visit



Homecoming USS Midway Museum



Arrival on the USS Midway



The National Anthem





Proud Mary



I Will Always Love You



Stuttering



Try A Little Tenderness



Leaving the Stage



Leaving The Family on Monday's Day



Introducing Jessica Sanchez



Road to Hollywood



The Audition







Top 24



Top 13 Finalist Diaries



Top 6 Diaries



Top 5 Diaries



Top 4 Interview



The Jessica Diaries



The Hollywood Interview



I Surrender-America Got Talent



Jessica's Voice Range

Chaplin's Insightful Gems for Living

How true,this encapsulation of living a truly worthy life.

How insightful of Mr Comedy Man Extraordinaire!

Boutique Hotels are Getting Popular

My Home Hotel, SS2

There was a time when you either have to go very up-market or very down-market if you want hotel accommodation. The upmarket is now almost entirely an enclave for the very rich as their star ratings have propelled them to big bucks, denying the common man of ever thinking of spending a night at one of them.

Alamanda Hotel, Petaling Street

Then, came the Bed and Breakfast hotels-they are cheap but hardly good and appears to be a haunt for back-packers, mostly from the continent.

Now, we have the boutique hotels,affordable and well located.

Hotel JJ,SS2

Mostly carved out from three-storeyed shop-houses in prime locations with easy access to food and transportation,they are mushrooming in Malaysia.Their rates from RM60 to less than RM200 is a welcome come-uppance to many, particularly sales personnel that needs to stay for short stints to do canvassing for their goods and services.

I-Hotel, Kota Damansara

By and large, they are clean though some come without windows and expect the noise to be many decibels higher.

So, next time when you come to Petaling Jaya or Kuala Lumpur, remember there is affordable hotel accommodation in boutique hotels.

Great Marine Movie

Heartbreak Ridge is one movie that displays the machodom of the US Marine Corps.

As usual, expect Clint Eastwood to be a hard-hitting;jaw breaking Gunnery Sergeant that will whip his outfit into a lean fighting force when they have to mount an amphibious operation to save Americans stuck in Grenada during a civil upheaval.

Heartbreak Ridge is derived from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge Bridge in Korea during the Korean War.

The protagonist love for the marines has caused a rift in his marriage to Aggie played by Marsha Mason whom he is trying to win back before she accept the proposal from another. That he succeeded ,makes it a feel good movie.

As usual, it was fun while it lasted and I enjoyed every bit of this movie.

Bloody Organs Transfers

I missed this movie in the circuit.

Another of the Eastwood movies, Bloodwork is grippy and its twists and turns can baffle you as the protagonist seek out a serial murder only to find that the dastardly chap is his neighbouring marina boat-mate.

The premise of a cat and mouse between the protagonist and the antagonist whereby the antagonist kept the protagonist alive by providing him a heart transplant that is suitable with his rare blood type makes an interesting plot.

Wanda de Jesus, a Cher look-alike, provides the eye-candy in this movie while Jeff Daniels played the unlikely villain.

Very watchable movie.