Most of us complained a lot of times that Orange Sitara was completely copied from other international famous dance/singing competition…

Well, seems they tried to be original, for once….

Since some weeks they brought a new concept into the competion….

They made the participants sing, dance and even the mentors had to perform live…

And one of them thought:

Why dont we make the musicians sing???

Well, that was a completely foolish idea… at least for me…

Since some weeks, the musicians have been performing live, practically most of them, from the electronic keyboard player, the guitarist to the tabla player (technically known as a tabalti)

The story does not stop here!!!

They have even introduced another extra into this concept:

Why not make the viewers vote for the musicians???

LOL ! Who will want to spend rs10 per sms to vote for them (except the family members and friends of course)…

Surtout dans ene lepok kot p serre ceinture and petrol p monter lol…

No need to tell you how “fabulous” those musicians perform, LIVE !
Hoever, not applicable to all, but still !

Something perhaps the organisers (mbc) might find informative to know, musicians are made to play musical instruments and not all of them know really how to sing, ya, they do sing, but not all of them are  good enough to sing LIVE on a national television channel…

I am was a musician too, some years back, ya lol, i was a tabalti (tabla n dholok player) in religions ceremonies (ya lol! believe it or not, i played in kirtans and bhajans, despite i never believed in god!) lol…
I also play electronic keyboard, but nowadays, i rarely have the time to spend some time playing music, since am blogging lol…
My Dad, and uncle too are musicians, and at times, they even sang & played instruments in weddings, hotels etc, as a hobby/leisure of course!

We are not big singers/musicians(not me definitely), but i dont go live onto tv to show that i can sing when i dont know how to!

However, there are not many musicians who can play their instruments and sing at the same time, except of course, famous superstars singers which Orange Sitara wants to build here in Mauritius it seems lol…

lol, just before blogging, Vicky was telling me that “to ene fan orange sitara twa”.
In fact ya, but not exactly, as i like to watch their show because of their originality, stupidity(sometimes and often lol), copying of international ideas/concepts, importance they give to certain persons,  quality of tv platforms they offer here in Mauritius to promote new talents…

For sure, they do make the best SHOW on tv lol !

So, how do you find this innovative and orginal concept brought forward on our “petit ecran” these days???

Back to University yesterday, this time to ‘chill out’ in The University Of Mauritius End of Academical Year Party 2008.

Early in the morning, i set out for a long drive since i had taken my day off from work to hmm hmm…

Late in the evening, i reached Reduit where i met lots of friends (again) and we took some drinks before we entered the uom permises which was quite well secured with the loads of police officers controlling the access to the Party.

The food court was again in the Basement Parking like the years before…

Unlike last year, I had no coupons to get my dinner, instead i had to pay for the 2 bbq which I took.

Effectively, this year, my sis had done the necessary to get our names in the list of guests for the party since i am not a uom student, not now (again lol, perhaps for my masters now)…

Chill Out Orange Night Party

Btw, the party was held in Raised Plaza and the schedule was as follows

17 30 - 18 30 - Chill Out with Buddha Bar
18 30 - 19 00 - Live Tecktonik Show
19 00 - 22 00 - DanceFloor with DJs Xceed & Yan
SMS Dedication & Games

At 2000hrs, the dance floor was quite ‘empty’

But some 30mins after, lol, it was completely full!

Here is a video of the party….

There was Orange Lucky Draw Coupons being distributed everywhere, which allowed you to enter a draw by filling in your name, tel numbers etc to win gifts at the end of the party…

Damn it!

How many of us did bring a pen during party? LOL !

pssst

You can read the post of the End of Academical Year Party 2007 and the End of Year Party 2006

Chilled out! lol!

This post was initially destined to contain a new soundtrack, from the TV Serial Monk.

But while looking for more info on Monk, i found out that Wikipedia.org was not accessible!

Not even the english version at http://en.wikipedia.org/I tried to ping, but damn it, my command prompt is now working lol !So, i tried to access if from an anonymous proxy ( http://www.hidemyass.com) and the page got loaded

I did not really wanted to hide my ass but only browse using a proxy to check if the site was accessible.

I asked about 5-10 friends to try the link, only one using myT could, and CarrotMadman06 carrotmadman6 who uses ADSL could too… He told me that he too got different complaints that Wikipedia was not opening…

I just called myT (lol! i spent 10mins looking for the myT customer care number since i called them only twice since more than 8months!!!)
I finally got the num from their web site!

I seized the opportunity to ask my internet login and password since i forgot that as well ! haha!

So, after explaining the problem to the customer care agent, and was put on hold for a few mins, he/she(i didnt know if he was a she or she was a he), told me to switch off my livebox and restart it after 5min, as well as the computer before trying again.

Now, am gonna restart and if it doesnt load, i will post this article…

Even if it loads, i will post it too!

But at least, this is the 2nd problem i reported to the customer care since september 2007 i think!

Wow, they are good (for me, everyone have their own internet usage and problems)

LOL !

The results after a restart of livebox/computer after 5 mins:

Page cannot be found! Wikipedia still not accessible!

Can you access it? Or did you encounter the same problem?