I'm Ready For My Close-Up Now, Mr. DeMille

I’ve noticed that I getting a spike on the number of first-time visitors today and when I looked at the visitors statistics I found out that all these new visitors were coming from SultanMuzaffar’s website.

For the uninitiated, SM is a prolific blogger who have been blogging about “Akademi Fantasia”, the other talent search reality show shown weekly on Astro, for quite sometime now. His site must have received several thousands hits per day while the show was on the air and have long been thought of as an influential forum for fans of the show. When the second season of MI started, there were very few bloggers who were writing about the show comparatively to the number of blogs dedicated to AF. Truth be told, I started recapping the second season of “Malaysian Idol” partly because I liked the show a lot during it’s first season and I was also inspired by SM’s blog dedicated to Akademi Fantasia to create somewhere I can vent out my opinions about MI.

There were sufficient difference between the two shows that they did not end up being clones of each other. I don’t have cable at home so I don’t really follow AF but from what little I’ve seen of the show, I don’t think that I could be really impartial if I had to recap it like SM does week after week. Partly because the way that they show everything that was happening to the contestants while they were in seclusion during the show would made it harder for me to be able to present criticism in a purely objective way. Having a host who, although might be suitable for the tone of the show, drives me up the wall every time something innate comes out of his mouth doesn’t really endear me to the show. Regardless how I feel about the show, I have to acknowledge that it has it’s hordes of fans and for this year at least have more fans than MI if truth be said.

In any way, being mentioned/linked from SM’s website meant that I got slew of new visitors to my rant site. Hopefully they like what they see and not too turned off by the all too common tendency to get overly dramatic in my writings. I guess that it’s part of the territory of being a card carrying drama queen.

For SM
Thank you for the link on your website. You’ve been an inspiration.

For those visiting for the first time
Thank you for the visit. Hopefully what you find here has been interesting and I look forward for your next visit.

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