The Little Girl In The Kitchen

I am a known non-cooker in my circle. It's just not my cup of tea. The funny thing about this is that I don't like the cooking part but I enjoy watching cook shows. I have been watching Food Network for as long as I can remember. I love the competition shows, Unwrapped, and Foodography. I think it is in Foodography where I saw this little girl (barely in her teens when she started cooking) who was making some chicken meal with couscous. I thought to myself, "wow, that kid will surely go a long, long way." And mind you, she knows how to deliver her speech with matching hand actions and facial expressions. She can be a great TV personality!

I remembered that Foodography episode shown recently and I decided to look her up in the internet. I found her food blog "The Little Girl In The Kitchen" and she moved her famous blog to Romilly Newman (who is the little girl in the kitchen! She's now 14).

I am amazed by this girl's talent. She has been a guest of some shows and will be a speaker in the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in October. She is really going places now and I won't be surprised to see her very own cook show or published cook book in the bookstores.

Some people really have that passion. It's that passion that I lack and can't force myself to cook. I wish I had even just an iota of it.

I'll still keep watching cook shows and read recipe books hoping that one day, I'll just find myself whipping up a storm of decadent meals in the kitchen. That will certainly be a miracle!

Giuliana and Bill Show

I love watching this reality show from Style Network. I normally catch it in the afternoon when I come home from work around 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. I am not a big fan or reality shows but this is an exemption.

Giuliana is a host in Italian-American TV personality and a host in E! News and married to Bill Rancic, the winner of the first winner of the TV Show - The Apprentice. I like the way this 2 power couple make their marriage work despite of their hectic schedule and differences in opinion and ideals.

There was one episode which I really find amusing. It was about a road trip they wanted to undertake with their friends. They bickered about what kind of vehicle they would use for the road trip. Bill wanted a big RV while Guilana wanted a smaller type of vehicle. Bill had his way without telling Giuliana and he and his picked her up from the studio only to get shocked by the enormity of the RV that Bill rented. The big RV would seriously need some rv repairs although from the outside, it looked clean and okay. Giuliana and her friend even commented about the smell of the RV interiors.

That episode really cracked me up. They are adorable and funny couple, always in disagreement but always making-up in the end.

Thriller on Glee

I love Glee! I missed it so much I kept bugging my husband since morning to download the latest Glee episode. Their episode this week with the rendition of Thriller is so fabulous! The make-up is so realistic you can almost feel their gory presence next to you.

Their plot is very apt and just in time for the Super Bowl. Glee loyalists and football fans are thrilled to have a showcase of football, half-time entertainment and some good cheer.

Glee's cover of the mash-up of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Yeah-Yeah-Yeah's Heads Will Roll will surely be one of the top downloads in the digital music. I know I will download this soon :) 

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Ellen DeGeneres off from Next Idol Judges Panel

I told myself that I would stop watching Americal Idol the moment Paula Abdul stepped out of the door. Unfortunately, I broke my promise but not regularly followed the season. I was still watching the show every now and then because of Ellen DeGeneres. She is just the funniest judge American Idol has ever had. She neutralizes tension amongst the other three judges.

Well, according to sources, she is leaving next season. Her decision was not an easy task but she had to come to the point where she needed to work her schedule out.

I will miss her on the next Idol season and the seasons to follow. I may just as well not watch. It's just not fun anymore.

I Love GLEE!

I am a frustrated singer. I love MUSIC but my love is unrequited. I joined Glee Club during my younger years but my range never suited second voice. I tried practicing at home using our karaoke system but I still go out of tune and murder the lyrics badly. So, I conclude that my relationship with Music has been doomed from the start. Sigh!

Well, my lack of talent in the singing world makes up for my skills in other aspect in the Arts field. However, just because I cannot sing properly does not mean I loathe musical or anything involving singing. I just got hooked watching GLEE. My daydreams are now tuned to watching these bunch of so-called misfits sing their hearts out. Of course, I imagine myself being the lead in the musical in that show. It's free to dream anyway. That's the closest I can get to being a singer ;)

The GLEE show is so great in terms of talent and charisma coming from each star of the show. I love the fact that we can watch it as a family show but with parental guidance of course. There are scenes and sexual innuendos here and there which are not ripe for my daughter. I do not condone that aspect but if you look at what the show has to offer in terms of lessons to learn, making tough choices, valuing friendships and relationships, trust, honesty and smidges of moral, then I can say that the show is loaded. We are not even talking about their vocal prowess yet!

The casts are really talented. Most of them have theatre experience so they are believable in the show because they do all the songs themselves. Wow!

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