Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Channel 5I was watching the Arena last night and I must say I am truly impressed with the standard of the show. I dare say it is one of the best local productions and whoever came up with it is brilliant and innovative. Who would have thought of a debate show among secondary school students would be this stimulating? Not I.
But after last night, I changed my mind. Admittedly, the students are obviously too nervy to be in their best condition to argue but I felt that they did their best under the circumstances. The students aside, I think Adrian pang is a fantastic choice to be the host for this show. Not only does he know the right things to say at the right time, he looks so comfortable doing what he is doing, it looks as if he was born to host this show.
As for the judges chosen, fortunately, they were not some half-brained twit, the comments they each gave were not only constructive, I felt, but they were also very encouraging and they seemed truly interested in what the debaters say and how they can help the amateur debaters improve. Not like some other judges, we know, who would say nasty things to crush confidence of the people they judge just to be popular, in the wrong way. Besides, one of the judges, Ashraf Safdar Hussain, is so sizzling hot!!! Fortunately, I am not a fire sprinkler, or the crew might have to have me remove for being faulty, going off whenever ASH comes on the set.
Secondly, I just want to point out what a disappointment the Dance Floor has turned out to be, both the participants and the judges. The standard of the participants were not exactly anywhere near as impressive as ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’
Please don’t give me that crap about comparing Americans and locals and how the Americans will always be better. I do not support that statement!!! I truly believe we could be just as good or even better if we were more open and start thinking out of the box, instead of getting complacent now that we are no longer a third world country. We should keep on improving ourselves on every single level, from arts to science to sports to being funny!
As for the judges chosen, I feel that they are all expertise in their own area of dance and the way they gave their judgments, I cannot help but feel that they all come on too strong about how each of them feel about each group with 4 different views judging from their area of expertise.
I don’t understand what the crap is dance technique! To me dancing is just an expression of art via the movement of our body. I think the judges should keep an open mind when it comes to judging the dance moves the youngsters are introducing, instead of thinking NO as soon as they realize its not their kind of dance because there will be no room for evolution for the dance culture if that’s the way they are going to kick people out.
Yup so point is channel 5 in improving with the Arena but with the Dance Floor, the participants and judges got to focus on doing their stuff better.
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JOANIE
I am pretty much like every other girl. Perhaps not that much. I like thinking for my own. One thing I can't tolerate is for people to tell me they know me. I find that terribly arrogant.
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