Amazing show: Astro Star Quest 2010 Final!

Just back from the final of Astro Star Quest 2010, annual singing competition, not only aiming at young stars of talented singing, but also in variety skills like dancing, acting, speaking, etc. It’s been so fast a year. Last year ago, I remembered watching the final at 25^th July 2009 at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil. This year, on 24^th July 2010, same venue, the same event was held again. I watched this every year, as this is the only singing competition in Malaysia on par with other competitions around the world in Chinese regions like from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

This time we saw five finalists again, Yi Po, Joe, Fyone, Alvin and Stephanie… two females, three males…similar to previous year….I found out there are many similarities on the result between this year and the previous year…the fifth place always goes to male called ‘Alvin’, and the fourth place always goes to male with good dancing skill, and the third place always goes to female who sing softly and the top two finalists are always of one male and one female.

Went to the area much earlier than expected, because we took the roads that are less travelled by others. We took the other way to reach the National Sports Complex, which is from Astro main office… There is an existing carnival-like event in front of the Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil, hence many parking lots are wasted. We, in four, with my dad, his friend and my relative, wondering at front of Stadium Putra, looking at many people gathering, mainly fans of the finalists…

The show started right on time, no delay because it will be aired live on Astro Wah Lai Toi (311) and HD (310). This is the first Chinese programme to be aired on HD, high definition. Very clear scenes to be captured, even the emcee, Siew Wai Man asked us not to do something not nice as it can be captured easily by hundred of cameras around. The stage is simple, yet beautiful and colourful enough to represent the theme of the event, Music Wonderland.

It is a long, two and a half hours show, very exciting and interesting indeed. Astro Star Quest always provides us with high excitement on final show. This is not regarded as competition already, indeed, it’s more like a concert, performance shows by all the finalists and invited artist, Yoga Lin. He seems to be not fully prepared for the show, as he seems uneasy on stage and even on screen, and the worst thing is that he brought small piece of paper of lyrics of his own songs, in stage 3 which he need to sing with top three finalists.

It’s so hot in the stadium, not hot in terms of temperature, but in terms of atmosphere…many are cheering, screaming, clapping, supporting the finalists whom went all out to make the final show a success…but for me, just sitting there and listening, and enjoying through heart….fans are distinguished by the colours, red for Yi Po, green for Joe, yellow for Fyone, blue for Alvin and mix of colours for Stephanie…huh….even Yoga Lin and Nicholas Teo (both are among the judges) have their supporters came too…the top three from last year, Min, Fai and Yoke did present to perform…

Stage 1 is the stage when all five finalists sing songs that are soft, slow…and basically touching. Stage 2 is the stage when all five finalists have to sing and most importantly, dance….last two will be announced, fifth place goes to Alvin Gan, known-to-be-cute boy, and fourth place goes to Joe, a cool Korean-look man, their supporters went into silence and disappointment after this is announced….Stage 3 is the stage when top three finalists sing with invited artist, Yoga Lin, after this, the third place winner is announced, which goes to Fyone, a beautiful 18-years old girl. Now, left final stage, when top two battle it out by singing a song in different version, Yi Po in jazz and Stephanie in rock version.

Finally, Yi Po emerged as the champion, the winner of Astro Star Quest 2010 final, while Stephanie goes for second placing….congratulation to the winner as well as to all finalists whom contributed to a much exciting night….congratulation to the winner of MV directing, song production and most favourite finalist, which goes to Fyone, as expected. Great prizes for all the winners, especially the champion, Yi Po, cash of RM 37 000, car worth RM 92 000 and many others, all for him…all totaling to over RM 170 000.

All finalists did very well this year. All have improved in their singing skill, especially Joe, eventhough he just managed to get fourth place. Yi Po is definitely good in singing skill, and dancing too…very cool…top three, Yi Po, Stephanie and Fyone will go for TVB8 International New Talent Singing Competition 2010 at last quarter of the year….last year, Yoke from Malaysia won it, so will one of them won this year too? High probability, because our top three here is real good, no joke…they got all the characteristics of STARS! Not only top three, all top five…Ahh, the competition is over, have to wait for season 15 next year…

Ohh, it’s such a long post written here…sorry for that…wow…one post of over 1000 words….record-breaking, but always usual in this blog here…haha…please support by reading too…had been busy lately helping my past lecturer in stage making for a performance of ‘Always in Wonderland’ by Berjaya Group at Sri Hartamas on few days beginning 29^th July 2010…very tiring, it’s a volunteering job without any pay, and we did it till like no-life, have been having sleepless nights these days, we stayed in bungalow, but that is old, and kinda horrific because it seems haunted a bit, so dark, creepy in there, and we met an artist from Astro too, famous emcee for Astro Golden Melody Singing Competition (for old people) called Ling Chung Piao, he is part of the show…God, it’s still holiday for me, and yet, no sleep…really keen on doing it with effort…good…opps, praising myself already….ok….bye….

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