guilty redux!

okay, okay. not another guilty post.

aj tabaldo is out of american idol competition, and i am a bit guilty about it. for the record, i am apologizing to mr. tabaldo for not voting for him and not supporting his dream.

tuesday night we watched him. he was good, "nearly very good" even, according to simon cowell. i saw in him the confidence of a good singer and the flexibility. he tackled a nina simone song for crying out loud, and he soared. one of my co-workers admitted voting for about a hundred times and feared that aj was not getting enough votes since all her calls were getting through. my roomie said he voted about 20 times. he asked me if i voted, and i said no. "ang damot mo naman," he quipped.

i was not being "madamot," in fact, i was confident that he was sailing through the next round because he was good and he really delivered and this was, still, a singing competition. there were people (yes, sanjaya, i am looking, no, scratch that, STARING at you) who didn't perform at par last tuesday who deserved the boot. i'm not writing this rant because aj's pinoy or fil-am or mutt with filipino blood. i'm writing this because i honestly believe that he should be in the top 12. or top 14 even. he's steps ahead of sway penala (who, like aj now, got the boot during the second week of competitions).

i usually get attached to the contestants of ai when there are only 12 of them left but since i saw aj deliver an above average performance last week, i thought he was going to make it and that pinoys will have a new sensation. it's been so long since jasmine trias united the pinoys in voting.

oh well. sorry, aj. maybe next year?